Beauty Comprehensive 1999

Chapter 11 Refreshing Spell

Because the high-end fashion that originally sold hundreds or hundreds of pounds in the store, once it enters the second-hand store, it will be sold at a diving price of one-tenth or even one-twentieth of the original price, while the price of some ordinary second-hand clothes The price is so cheap that foreigners can't believe it.

In addition to these, there are a lot of leftovers and old clothes that are not easy to sell. They will be exported to third world countries abroad in the form of foreign garbage. This not only saves the cost of garbage disposal, but also earns some shipping fees. Why not for what?

Therefore, the second-hand clothing industry has become a complete and systematic industry in the Federation.

After all, he is not the kind of nobleman who doesn’t want to eat minced meat. Xie Zihao can also understand this. If ordinary working families don’t go to supermarkets to snap up discounted cheap clothes, if they want to dress as decently as possible when going to work and attending certain occasions , then you can only go to second-hand stores to pick up second-hand clothes that look brand new.

Because the new formal clothes are really not cheap to sell in the Commonwealth, they can easily cost one or two hundred pounds a set, and sometimes just a decent set of clothes can take up more than half of a person's monthly income.

And they also need to pay various headaches such as mortgages, property taxes, car loans, insurance, family medical insurance, taxes, accounting fees, lawyer fees, water and electricity fees, and communication fees every month.

Even if some companies will reimburse you for communication expenses, transportation expenses, etc., the remaining bills are overwhelming for most people.

Therefore, saving a little in life has become a traditional habit developed by the lower-class citizens of the Federation for nearly a hundred years.

And it’s not just the poor who buy second-hand items, even wealthy middle-class families occasionally choose some good-looking, well-functioning electrical appliances, machinery and other products to buy and use, or buy second-hand art to decorate their homes.

Because compared to buying new ones, the difference in price can save them a lot of money. The saved money is enough for them to buy some luxury goods, pay for their children's study classes, or go on vacation with the whole family. Spent.

Except for the real wealthy class or people with cleanliness, wearing second-hand clothes in the Federation does not make you feel ashamed, because more people wear them and it becomes normal.

"Sure enough, what the news broadcast said is true. Everyone in the imperialists is living in dire straits!"

I said something self-deprecating in my heart.

In these circumstances, for Xie Zihao, who currently belongs to the middle class, but has just graduated and has no job, of course he understands the sufferings of the people better than those high-ranking rich people.

The reason for saying this is because he has just graduated from university and has not yet found a suitable job. All his income depends on his family's rent.

But the income of the previous few years minus the living and academic expenses, the monthly balance is only salary or even worse than salary, and although he has graduated after time travel, because of the cost of cultivation, he not only does not feel relaxed, but the burden is even heavier .

Therefore, although he is not so well-off, he has not yet fallen to the point of going to second-hand stores to grab clothes with others, but he doesn't mind going to second-hand stalls to find some useful things to go back.

After all, who can resist the fun of Taobao?

The small celadon smoker he had prepared for his eldest son, Itachi, was something he found at a flea market in Chinatown.

In Los Angeles Chinatown, there is a flea market every weekend and Sunday. In the early days, various shop owners in Chinatown led the organization.

The Chinatown here is not the Chinatown city where Xie Zihao lived, but the old Chinatown in downtown Los Angeles. It has now developed into one of the famous scenic spots and commercial streets in Los Angeles, second only to the Avenue of Stars in Hollywood.In the words of later generations, it is a place where many foreigners check in with Internet celebrities.

It's just that with the departure of the old immigrants, most of the place has been commercialized, rather than the authentic Tang community.

With the enthusiastic participation of small businesses, hawkers and residents, the weekend flea market in Los Angeles Chinatown has become a local regular business program.

Xie Zihao came here today, in addition to buying the spices that he didn't have much on hand, but also because today is the weekend, to visit the flea market here.

Of course, he didn't come here to sell second-hand clothes and daily necessities, but he wanted to trade some valuable items, so as to see if he could pick up something.

As a child in the Tangren District, he was influenced by the Tangren cultural circle since he was a child. He fell in love with antiques and cultural relics. He was admitted to the unpopular major of archeology and cultural relics restoration in university.

Treasure hunting in flea markets and antique shops is already his biggest hobby in his spare time. Of course, he has limited funds and can’t afford to play with expensive things. Most of the time, he just spends a dozen or twenty pounds on some gadgets. Well, the most expensive one I bought in the past two years was only an antique clock of two hundred pounds.

All of these were also inherited by Xie Zihao, but he also enjoyed the process of searching for treasures, after all, the act of picking up leaks was already a well-worn familiar plot in the novels he had read.

As a time traveler, he is naturally very interested in this kind of thing.In addition, after learning about the existence of the extraordinary world, he wanted to find out if he could find any serious leaks, which gave him a reason to come here.

Don’t think that Western countries don’t have the kind of lovers who go shopping for antiques all day long and always think about picking up leaks. In fact, there are no fewer such people abroad than Tang people. You can know by looking at the sweaty but enthusiastic foreigners around. .

So without even thinking about it, Xie Zihao added another cooling spell "cooling down" to himself, and then he applied a little cooling oil on the middle of his nose with great experience. Dive headlong into this modest flea market.

This Cooling Curse is one of the heretical little spells passed down by the Xie family to cool down the temperature.It's a bad trick.

Although in the previous life it was nothing more than side tricks and a method of self-hypnosis for inner comfort, it basically had no effect.But now this world has supernatural powers, so even a little trick can go a long way.

Of course, Xie Zihao also understands that the Cooling Curse is just a folk trick. It is impossible to change the surrounding environment to lower the temperature. It is just an act of deceiving one's body, which can temporarily increase one's tolerance to the surrounding environment.

It's a bit similar to the endurance environment spell in the DND series of game settings.

It's just that the latter is to increase resistance, and Xie Zihao knows that this trick is just to deceive his own perception.

"Fortunately, the weather is not too hot now. If the temperature can cause obvious negative effects on the body, such as an environment above [-] degrees Celsius, people will not be able to withstand the high temperature and suffer from heat stroke. Then my set The trick is gone."

But with the addition of superhuman physique, this cooling spell can still make him feel more comfortable in the hot weather environment.It's a useful little trick.

As soon as he entered the range of the crowd, he could only feel the radiation of the heat wave, mixed with the foreigners who smelled heavily of sweat, Xie Zihao was almost overwhelmed by a strong mixed smell.

Fortunately, he was very foresight, the smell of cooling oil covered up a lot of the mixed smell, so that he, who was a bit of a clean freak, would not faint on the spot.

It’s not that he is exaggerating too much, but that on a sunny morning in June in Jinzhou, the temperature of 33 degrees Celsius will make people’s sweat transpiration, like a steamer, and the smell of the crowd, mostly foreigners, can be imagined.

(End of this chapter)