Beauty Comprehensive 1999

Chapter 11 Cooling Curse

Because high-end fashion that originally sold for hundreds or hundreds of eagle pounds in stores, once it flows into second-hand stores, it will be sold at a diving price of one-tenth or even one-twentieth of the original price, while some ordinary second-hand clothes

The price is so cheap that foreigners can’t believe it.

In addition to these, there are also a lot of leftover and old clothes that are not easy to sell, which will be exported to third world countries abroad as foreign garbage. This not only saves the cost of garbage disposal, but also earns some freight. Why not

Why?

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

After all, he is not the kind of aristocratic son who just eats meat. Xie Zihao can also understand this. If ordinary working-class families do not go to the supermarket to buy cheap clothes on sale, but want to dress as decently as possible when going to work and attending certain occasions.

, then you can only go to a second-hand store to choose second-hand clothes that look newer.

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

And they also need to pay monthly mortgages, property taxes, car loans, insurance, family medical insurance, taxes, accounting fees, lawyer fees, water and electricity bills, communication fees and various other troublesome bills.

Even if the company will reimburse some of the expenses such as communication expenses and transportation expenses, the remaining bills will be overwhelming for most people.

Therefore, saving some money in life has become a traditional habit developed by the lower-class citizens of the Federation in the past hundred years.

And it’s not just the poor who buy second-hand items. Even wealthy middle-class families will occasionally choose some electrical appliances, machinery and other products that look good and have good functions to buy and use them, or buy second-hand works of art to decorate their homes.

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

Spent.

Except for the really wealthy class or people with mysophobia, wearing second-hand clothes will not make you feel ashamed in the Federation, because so many people wear them, it becomes normal.

"Sure enough, everything said in the news broadcast is true. Everyone under imperialism is living in dire straits!"

I said something mockingly to myself.

Under these circumstances, for Xie Zihao, who currently belongs to the middle class but has just graduated and has no job, he certainly understands the sufferings of the people better than those wealthy people who are above and beyond.

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

But after deducting the expenses of life and studies from his income in the past few years, the monthly balance was temporarily only salary or even less than salary income. Although he graduated after time travel, because of the expenses for cultivation, not only was he not relaxed, but he was even more burdened.

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Therefore, although he is not so rich, he has not fallen to the point of going to second-hand stores to grab clothes with others, but he does not mind going to second-hand stalls to buy some useful things to take home.

After all, who can resist the fun of Taobao?

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

In Chinatown, Los Angeles, a flea market is held every weekend and Sunday. In the early days, various shop owners in Chinatown took the lead in organizing it.

The Chinatown here is not the Chinatown city where Xie Zihao lives, but the old Chinatown in downtown Los Angeles. It has now developed into one of the famous attractions and commercial streets in Los Angeles, and its popularity is second only to Hollywood's Avenue of Stars. In the words of later generations. It is said to be a popular check-in place for many outsiders.

It's just that with the migration of old immigrants, this area has become mostly commercialized, rather than a truly authentic Tang community.

With the enthusiastic participation of vendors and residents, the Los Angeles Chinatown Weekend Flea Market has now become a regular local business event.

Xie Zihao came here today not only to buy the few spices he had on hand, but also because today is the weekend, so he wanted to visit the flea market here.

Of course, he didn't come here to sell second-hand clothes and daily necessities, but to exchange for some valuable items and see if he could find any.

As a child of the Tang Dynasty, I have been influenced by the cultural circles of the Tang Dynasty since I was a child. I fell in love with antiques and cultural relics, and I got admitted to the unpopular major of archeology and cultural relic restoration in college.

Hunting for treasures in flea markets and antique shops is his biggest hobby in his spare time. Of course, he has limited funds and can't afford anything expensive. Most of the time he just spends ten or twenty pounds on some gadgets. , the most expensive thing I bought in the past two years was an antique clock of 200 pounds.

All this was inherited by Xie Zihao, but he also enjoyed the process of searching for treasure. After all, the act of picking up treasure was already a 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 also wanted to find out if he could find any big leaks, which gave him the opportunity to come here. reason.

Don’t think that Western countries don’t have the kind of enthusiasts who spend all day shopping for antiques and always want to pick up missing items. In fact, there are no fewer such people abroad than the Tang people. Just look at the sweaty but enthusiastic foreigners around you. .

So without thinking about it, Xie Zihao applied another cooling charm to "cool down" on himself. Then he very experiencedly lit a little cooling oil on the philtrum under his nose. After feeling the cold and stimulating aroma going straight to his nostrils, Xie Zihao Dive into this small flea market.

This cooling spell is one of the little tricks inherited by the Xie family to cool down. It is an unfashionable trick.

Although in the previous life it was just side tricks, self-hypnosis and psychological comfort, it basically had no effect. But now there is extraordinary power in this world, so even a small trick can have a big effect.

Of course, Xie Zihao also understands that the cooling spell 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 own body, which can temporarily increase one's ability to tolerate the surrounding environment.

It is somewhat similar to the environmental endurance 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 yet. If the temperature is the kind of temperature that can have a significant negative impact on the body, such as an environment above 40 degrees Celsius, people will be unable to bear the high temperature and suffer from heat stroke. Then what I mean

The trick won’t work anymore.”

But with the addition of Superman's physique, this cooling spell can still make him feel more comfortable in hot weather. It is a very practical little trick.

As soon as he entered the crowd, he felt only heat waves radiating, and mixed in among the foreigners who exuded a strong smell of sweat. Xie Zihao was almost knocked over by a strong mixed smell.

Fortunately, he was very foresight, and the smell of cooling oil covered up a lot of the mixed odor, so that he, who was a bit obsessed with germs, would not faint on the spot.

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

(End of chapter)