Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

Chapter 679 The value of luxury goods lies in showing off!
"Wait a minute, you didn't do something shameful with the female fan who took you away, did you?"

After hearing Zhu Lin's question, which was a blow to the soul, if it were Cao Zhiqiang in the past, he would be slightly embarrassed, but he won't be now.

Because he had left the Novice Village a long time ago, his experience level was already comparable to that of an elite monster.

I saw Cao Zhiqiang immediately frowning and sighing, and then said with a look of helplessness and a little speechless:
"Sister Zhu, do you think I am the kind of casual person?
Do you think I would do shameful things with a female fan, um, female fan, whom I’ve only known for a short time? "

"Then who knows." Zhu Lin folded his arms and looked at him sideways, "Maybe you think she is young and beautiful and want to try something new."

Cao Zhiqiang shook his head speechlessly: "Sister Zhu, you understand me. How could I be that superficial person? Even if I was, I wouldn't do it here.

After all, this is a foreign country, I am unfamiliar with the place, and I have no backing, so how can I dare to mess around? "

Upon hearing this, Zhu Lin's expression softened: "Then why has there been no news since you were taken away? Do you know how worried I am about you?"

Cao Zhiqiang smiled: "I knew you were worried about me, so I..."

Speaking of this, Cao Zhiqiang suddenly frowned, and then said with a playful smile: "No, Sister Zhu, it's a long story. You won't just talk to me about this topic at the door? Can we go in and talk? Otherwise, go out You can find a warm place to chat, it’s very cold at the door.”

Seeing Cao Zhiqiang's appearance, Zhu Lin rolled his eyes at him and then stepped aside: "Come in."

Cao Zhiqiang smiled and hurriedly rubbed his hands and entered the door.

This is not what Cao Zhiqiang is pretending, it's really cold outside.

There is no way, Tokyo is close to the sea, the climate is humid, and the humidity in the air is relatively high.

In this environment, it's fine in the summer, but once it's winter, it's really terrible.

Because it is wet and cold here in winter, it is different from the dry and cold climate in the capital area of ​​China. It is somewhat similar to the climate of Jinling, but in terms of body feeling, Tokyo is colder than Jinling.

After all, the latitude of Tokyo is higher than that of Jinling, and the humidity is higher, so it will feel colder in winter.

Relatively speaking, although the domestic capital has a higher latitude, the air humidity is low and it is dry and cold. In addition, everyone likes to wear thick cotton clothes in winter, so from a physical perspective, it feels better than in Tokyo.

After Cao Zhiqiang came to Tokyo, due to environmental factors, he followed the local customs and wore very little. Basically, his top is a cashmere sweater with a jacket outside, and his lower body is usually a pair of velvet jeans or leather pants, plus a pair of velvet leather. boots.

This kind of dress, to be honest, is not frost-resistant.

It’s just that Cao Zhiqiang rarely spends long time outdoors, mostly indoors. Even when he goes out, he usually takes a taxi, so it’s not bad.

But today's weather is extremely cold. Cao Zhiqiang and Yoshinaga Sayuri have done strenuous exercise in succession before, so their resistance has dropped a bit, so naturally they are more afraid of the cold.

Sure enough, not long after Cao Zhiqiang entered the house, he immediately sneezed.

This is a normal phenomenon caused by excessive temperature difference.

No way, who made the room too warm?

"Oops!" Zhu Lin said quickly when he saw Cao Zhiqiang sneezing, "Are you catching a cold? Wait, I will get you toilet paper."

After saying that, Zhu Lin quickly came to the kitchen, picked up a roll of toilet paper, ran over, and kindly tore off a section and handed it to Cao Zhiqiang.

Seeing this roll of toilet paper, Cao Zhiqiang was suddenly stunned.

Well, actually Japan already had toilet paper at this time, but the price of toilet paper was several times more expensive than the toilet paper in rolls.

Therefore, from a cost-effective perspective, toilet paper in rolls is more suitable.

However, from the perspective of convenience, it is better to use paper towels. Therefore, when Cao Zhiqiang lived with Akina Nakamori, he used paper towels every day. This kind of roll paper is usually used for wiping buttocks.

Of course, Cao Zhiqiang also bought a lot of toilet paper in this one-family house, but Zhu Lin and others obviously didn't use it and bought additional rolls of paper.

"Why don't you use paper?" Cao Zhiqiang asked after wiping his nose.

"That one was too expensive." Zhu Lin smiled, "We were a little reluctant to part with it, so we bought another rolling paper. This one is also very useful and cheap."

Cao Zhiqiang nodded and did not explain anything.

After all, it is difficult to change this concept of frugality in a short period of time, so there is no need to force a change.

When her income gets higher and her life gets better in the future, she will naturally change in terms of her food and clothing expenses.

After throwing the toilet paper he had wiped his nose into the trash can, Cao Zhiqiang suddenly looked around: "Huh? Why are you alone? Where are Lao Xu and Xiao Xu?"

Old Xu was talking about Xu Qingdong, and Xiao Xu was talking about Xu Chun.

Privately, Cao Zhiqiang calls them Lao Xu and Xiao Xu.

Sure enough, after hearing Cao Zhiqiang's doubts, Zhu Lin immediately smiled and said: "Oh, Director Xu loves to move and felt that staying here was too boring, so he went out for a walk. Secretary Xu went with him. After all, Secretary Xu can speak Japanese."

Cao Zhiqiang nodded: "I see."

Indeed, Xu Qingdong is a person who can't sit still, especially when he arrives in the bustling Tokyo, so he naturally wants to take this opportunity to look around.

And to be honest, there was originally no Xu Qingdong on this trip to Tokyo, only Zhu Lin. At least that was the intention of Warner Bros. and Dongbao.

But Cao Zhiqiang felt that it was inappropriate for Zhu Lin to come alone, so he asked Xu Qingdong to come with him.

After all, Xu Qingdong is also the executive director, and not only did he complete most of the filming of the film, but he also organized the film crew. His role cannot be ignored, so it is no problem to ask him to come over.

It's a pity that after Xu Qingdong came, he didn't have much chance to show his face.

Originally, he would also participate in the autograph sales event, but who knew that Cao Zhiqiang would mess it up again.

Fortunately, Xu Qingdong didn't care about this. After all, he came here just to hang out and have fun.

Therefore, Lao Xu's mentality was very upright. Even if no one paid much attention to him after arriving, he still smiled. Moreover, he accepted the "activity funds" given by Cao Zhiqiang and did not refuse anyone who came. He bought and had fun everywhere. Very happy.

Relatively speaking, Zhu Lin is much more conservative and cautious. She usually doesn't go out unless possible, and the "activity funds" given to her are basically not spent.

Even Zhu Lin bought a few clothes and cosmetics, but they were all popular goods at relatively affordable prices.

Of course, in Tokyo, even the so-called popular goods with affordable prices are far higher than in China, much higher.

There is no way. After all, Japan is a developed country, and Tokyo is the most developed urban area in Japan. It is normal for prices to be a little higher.

In fact, current Chinese people don’t actually have much concept of brands.

In other words, since the country has not yet completely emerged from the shadow of material scarcity, most Chinese people do not like to pay more brand premiums. Instead, they pursue cost-effectiveness first, or pursue cheapness and ease of use first, and then brand premiums.At this time, in China, whether it was food or clothing, there was serious homogeneity, and there was basically no concept of fashion.

This is not to say that people do not pursue beauty. The main reason is that they are cash-strapped and lack high-quality and affordable fashion brands.

At the same time, there are no big international brands in the country. Most Chinese people have never heard of famous brands such as Hermès, Chanel, LV, Prada, etc., as well as famous watches such as Rolex and Patek Philippe. Pass.

What really made Chinese people understand those international famous brands was the Satellite TV Chinese Channel under Li Jiacheng's Satellite TV Co., Ltd., and this Satellite TV Co., Ltd. was actually the later Phoenix TV.

Because this satellite TV Chinese station uses satellite broadcasting, not only Xiangjiang can receive the signal, but even the entire Asia, including most parts of mainland China, can receive the satellite signal of this company.

At that time, domestic management of these satellite signals was relatively loose, so many people could receive the signals of Satellite TV Chinese Station and see Satellite TV Chinese Station.

It is through watching the Chinese channel of Satellite TV that Chinese people can not only watch Hong Kong movies and TV series for free, but also see many exquisite advertisements, and get to know many international big names.

It was from that time on that most Chinese people knew the true meaning of luxury goods.

But that had to be after 1991. After all, the Chinese channel of his previous life was only launched in 1991. Before that, due to a series of reasons, the Chinese people knew very little about Xiangjiang, so they just watched it. Several TV series imported from Xiangjiang, such as "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and so on.

Of course, due to the mid-to-late 80s, there was a wave of video hall craze in China, so many young people got a glimpse of the prosperity of Xiangjiang through the video tapes from Xiangjiang, especially the video tapes of modern urban dramas, but after all, that was just a blur. Looking at flowers is not real.

At that time, everyone at most imitated the clothes of the Xiangjiang people in the video, but they had no idea what brand of clothes, jewelry, watches, luxury cars, etc. There is no way to understand.

It is precisely because of information asymmetry that Xiangjiang Apple jeans have become very popular in China and have become so-called brand-name goods.

However, most people at the time didn’t know that the so-called Xiangjiang Apple was nothing more than a copycat of America’s Apple brand cowboys, also known as texwood cowboys.

There was also Pierre Cardin, which was popular in the 90s and [-]s. It was the suit brand that Xu Damao showed off in front of Silly Pillar after he started doing business. In fact, in developed countries such as Europe, the United States, and Japan, it was just a small and unpopular brand.

It’s just that the founder of Pierre Cardin was very visionary, came to China early to develop, and held the first large-scale international fashion show in Beijing after the reopening.

After that, he took advantage of the situation and opened a Pierre Cardin store in Beijing, specializing in selling high-end men's clothing of the Pierre Cardin brand. From then on, people in China thought that this brand was great and were proud to wear Pierre Cardin.

By the way, as for Mr. Pierre Cardin, in this world, so far, the so-called first domestic fashion show has not been held in Beijing.

Let alone fashion shows, in this world, it is hard to say whether Mr. Pierre Cardin has come to China to discuss business cooperation with garment factories.

However, if nothing changes, Mr. Pierre Cardin will most likely cooperate with the country to build a garment factory and hold fashion shows. It will be a matter of time.

The reason why I say this is because Pierre Cardin's job is a fashion designer, and he did appear in the capital at this time and invested and did business in the capital.

It's just that Mr. Pierre Cardin's first business after coming to the capital was not his old business, but opening a restaurant.

Yes, Mr. Pierre Cardin opened a Western restaurant called Maxim Restaurant in Beijing in July this year, and it was officially opened to the public at the end of September this year.

In other words, Pierre Cardin has begun to tentatively invest in the mainland, but he is more cautious and did not start a fashion clothing brand immediately.

In fact, Pierre Cardin is right to be cautious. After all, the country has just opened up, and many changes in concepts need to come little by little.

In addition to the change in concepts, Chinese people in 1983 were also generally poor. Most people could not afford high-end brand products, or even if they could afford them, they would not buy them because they felt they were not cost-effective.

In short, in the final analysis, it means too little knowledge!

Precisely because most Chinese people have little knowledge and little money in their pockets, even if big-name clothing does enter the country, it can only operate at a loss at this time.

Even though there are already many fashionable clothes that are refurbished from foreign foreign garbage and are very popular at this time, the cost of those clothes is low.

How high is the cost of big-name clothing? How many Chinese people can afford it? In other words, even if they can afford it, who dares to wear it?Even if you do wear it out, who would know what you are wearing?
What is the real value of brand-name goods and luxury goods?

Is it true that the material and workmanship are good?
wrong!
The real value of brand-name goods and luxury goods is that everyone knows that you are expensive, and then after you wear it, everyone will recognize it and know that you are wearing very expensive clothes. This way you can be different and show off implicitly.

To put it bluntly, the value of luxury goods lies in showing off!
If you are wearing a very expensive brand of goods, but no one knows the brand of goods you are wearing, does not know that the brand of goods you are wearing is very expensive, and will not cast envious, jealous and hateful eyes on you, then you are There's no way to show off.

If you can't show off, you will naturally lose the pleasure of showing off.

This is called flirting with the blind, which is a waste of effort.

In the same way, although Zhu Lin is already considered a person with a good income in China, due to the general environment, even if her income is a little higher than that of ordinary people, it is still limited and not outrageously high.

At the same time, due to limited information channels, even Zhu Lin, a senior intellectual, only knows a few domestic brands.

For example, things like Shanghai Women's Cream, Palace Lantern Almond Honey, and Pechoin.

Even the later domestic high-quality bee flower shampoo did not appear at this time.

In fact, Zhu Lin can know Pechoin, Palace Lantern Almond Honey, and Shanghai Women's Cream, which is already very good.

At this time, many people in the country have never even heard of the name Pechoin, let alone used it.

In this case, if you tell him about Shiseido, Maybelline, or L'Oreal, the other person will just look confused.

In fact, for the Chinese people at this time, you don’t need to tell them about any real international brands. As long as you bring a foreign-flavored brand, they will feel that it is awesome, and then as long as the price is right, they will buy it like crazy.

Therefore, before 2000, various fake foreign brands were very popular in China, and business was booming, and many of them even became bigger and stronger.

For example, James Bond and Mousse are all experts in this field.

Of course, most fake foreign brands have overturned later, and there are still very few that can truly transform successfully.

From this perspective, it may still be very difficult for Zhu Lin to realize the value of luxury goods at this time.

But never mind.

Zhu Lin doesn’t understand big international brands, but we do.

And it doesn’t matter if Zhu Lin doesn’t know the brand value, as long as he knows the price.

As long as you take her to buy expensive luxuries, you'll be right.

Anyway, I just took the opportunity to make money.

She has benefited and gained more knowledge, and I will definitely not lose. Everyone can get what they want.

Win-win!

(End of this chapter)