PDLP Chapter 36 Public Opinion Reversal
Chapter 36 Public Opinion Reversal
This special interview, planned by Lin Mu, was successfully published in the Hangzhou Evening News, taking up a large page.
Meanwhile, thanks to Taobao's resource allocation, this report was also reposted on the Sina News homepage.
At Lu Xiuxiu's home.
Lu Xiuxiu is a vocational school graduate who went to work for GG Marketing Company after graduation.
She has a habit of going to nightclubs for drinks on weekdays, and she has noticed that in recent months, a fashion trend has emerged in nightclubs, with urban fashionistas loving to wear shiny and beautiful stockings.
Lu Xiuxiu noticed this aesthetic trend but didn't intend to buy it. She was an artsy type and felt that these sparkly stockings were too dazzling and didn't match her style.
Coincidentally, she has a habit of reading the news. A few days ago, she came across a news article on the homepage of Sohu News, which reported on a group of singers who had been arrested, and the photos showed them all wearing these kinds of shiny stockings.
This discovery drastically changed Lu Xiuxiu's impression of fluorescent stockings, causing her to subconsciously equate them with "prostitution".
Not only her, but Lu Xiuxiu also noticed that her close friends who used to wear these kinds of stockings gradually stopped wearing them and switched back to ordinary stockings—presumably, they didn't want to be looked at with strange eyes.
Even today, while Lu Xiuxiu was browsing the news during her work break, she saw a headline on Sina's portal website: "Small stockings break into a big market: Hangzhou textile factories break through against the trend by helping Taobao e-commerce."
This special report unexpectedly takes the perspective of textile factory workers, telling how this job changed their fate, how a humane and nearly bankrupt textile factory achieved a breakthrough against the odds with the help of the Internet and e-commerce, and also tells the story of a post-90s girl who earned her first pot of gold through e-commerce.
Because it was during working hours, the stolen time was truly her own, and Lu Xiuxiu read it all without missing a single word.
After reading it, she couldn't help but empathize with these workers, develop a good impression of the textile factory and Taobao, and feel deeply moved by the country's development.
She was born in the late 80s, so she can barely be considered a post-90s generation. She has witnessed firsthand the tremendous changes in her hometown and her own living standards.
You have to understand, she was also a small-town girl from the countryside. She never dreamed that she could become a white-collar worker in the city, own a computer, and eat whatever she wanted, to her heart's content, until she felt like throwing up.
At the same time, this report also changed her perception of pearlescent stockings: it turns out that these stockings are quite nice, and she had misunderstood them before.
Like a knife, some people use it to cut vegetables, while others use it to do evil; it all depends on the user.
A factory that is so humane, capable of changing the fate of workers, and carries countless hopes must produce good stockings. Lu Xiuxiu even considered placing an order to try out a pair of these "warm" stockings.
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Meanwhile, at Guo Xiaomei's home.
Guo Xiaomei has been feeling down lately. At the last dorm social gathering, she attracted a handsome guy with her pearlescent stockings, and their relationship was progressing smoothly.
Not long after, Sohu News suddenly popped up a news article about a crackdown on prostitution. The incident itself wasn't a big deal, but the problem was that the singers arrested in the photos were all wearing rhinestone stockings and fluorescent stockings.
This made Guo Xiaomei feel that the way people looked at her had changed.
To make matters worse, during summer vacation, she went out with her friends wearing pearlescent stockings. When she returned home, her father caught her and berated her for being "shameless," leading to a huge argument between them. From then on, Guo Xiaomei refused to speak to her father unless he apologized.
She couldn't understand: these stockings were of good quality, but because they were pretty, they were unfortunately worn by some disreputable women. Did that mean the people wearing them were also unclean? Just like a kitchen knife, some people use it to cut vegetables, and some people use it to kill people. You can't blame the knife itself, can you?
Even though she couldn't figure it out, Guo Xiaomei decided to stop wearing and buying pearlescent stockings; there was no need to make things difficult for herself.
That day, she was browsing news websites at home when a news article suddenly caught her attention: the accompanying picture showed a beautiful urban woman holding pearlescent stockings and introducing something to the camera. The headline was "10-Year-Old Factory + Novice Seller: Taobao Becomes a Fast Track for the Transformation of Traditional Manufacturing Industry".
Out of curiosity, Guo Xiaomei clicked on the link and carefully read the feature interview.
The narratives told from the perspective of the workers in the interviews made her feel very close to them—this kind of narrative is something that Chinese children have seen since childhood, it's almost engraved in their DNA, and they never get tired of it.
Seeing the last page of the feature article, which described how a novice Taobao seller born in the 90s earned 5000 yuan a month by distributing pearlescent stockings, Guo Xiaomei had an idea: why not try opening a store on Taobao herself?
Anyway, the news said that recently opening a store on Taobao doesn't even require a deposit. Being able to earn money to support yourself is better than asking your family for help, and the cost isn't high. You can just test the waters with a few pairs of stockings first.
Just then, there was a knock at the door, and a man's voice rang out: "Daughter, come out and eat, it'll get cold if you don't eat soon."
Hmph. Guo Xiaomei remained silent, still sulking.
A father's helpless voice came from the doorway: "Dad was wrong. Come out and have some food first."
Guo Xiaomei rubbed her stomach; she was indeed hungry. Actually, she wasn't really that angry with her father. She knew their argument stemmed from different perspectives, and she still loved him. It was just that her pride as a girl prevented her from letting go of her pride.
She blinked, looked at the news on the computer, and suddenly had a brilliant idea: she would show this report to her father and maybe persuade him to support her opening an online store for fun.
With a click, she turned the doorknob and opened the door.
The elderly father gave a helpless, wry smile: "Has Xiaomei finally calmed down?"
Guo Xiaomei said, "Dad, come and take a look at this news." She pulled her father to the computer and made him read the entire feature report.
After reading it, the old father stroked his chin and said, "This report is quite interesting. Oh, I see. That news about the crackdown on prostitution might have been deliberately released by someone to smear this factory. That news must have seriously affected their business, so they hired reporters to do this special feature to mitigate the negative impact. What a clever tactic!"
Guo Xiaomei was taken aback. She had just been watching the spectacle and hadn't considered it from this perspective at all. She pressed her advantage and asked, "Dad, do you think it's okay for me to open a Taobao store?"
The old father was taken aback for a moment, then said, "Sure, as long as you don't ask me for money, you can use your own little savings to do whatever you want."
Guo Xiaomei grew up pampered, and her private stash may contain tens of thousands of yuan, more than her father's personal stash.
He thought to himself that it would be a good thing for his daughter to experience some hardship and get some exposure to society.
Guo Xiaomei was secretly pleased: E-commerce sounds so cool. Even if it fails, it can still be a topic of conversation with her friends.