Super-rich: Spending money is just a job!

As soon as Xiaomeng returned to the Zhiranzhai Museum, she was stopped by the receptionist, Xiao Liu.

It turned out that Manager Teng had something to discuss and asked her to come to his office.

Xiaomeng took the elevator to the third floor of the museum and found the general manager's office.

Through the crack in the half-open office door, she could see that besides Manager Teng, there were other guests in the office.

Xiao Meng knocked on the door, gripped the doorknob, and peeked inside. "Manager Teng, you wanted to see me?"

"Oh, Xiaomeng, you're back? Come in quickly. I found the designer you asked me to find for you."

This is Xiong Zijian, Professor Xiong, who has been collaborating with our museum.

Manager Teng stood up from behind the coffee table and waved enthusiastically to Lin Xiaomeng.

Then he introduced her to the designer, "Teacher Xiong, this is Ms. Lin, whom I just mentioned. She wants to have her everyday clothes custom-made by you."

Miss Lin is very capable. Yesterday, she bought a lot of fabric from us and plans to find a capable designer to customize some clothes.

That's when I thought of you, Teacher Xiong.

Why don't you two talk it over and see if you can collaborate?

Xiong Zijian is a young designer, probably no older than thirty-five. He looks like the kind of pampered, high-earning professional. His hair and skin are in perfect condition, which is enviable.

Xiaomeng quickly walked in and shook hands with the designer. "Hello, Mr. Xiong. I just want to have a few sets of clothes made to my liking."

Since Manager Teng speaks so highly of Teacher Xiong, your skills must be excellent.

"If I want to customize something, how do I begin?"

As she spoke, Xiaomeng opened the box of pastries in her hand and placed it on the coffee table. "These are some pastries that I packed from the restaurant. Let's eat them with tea." After saying that, she sat down on a round chair.

Manager Teng naturally took the snack box. "Hehe, so it's Xifuyuan's pan-fried sachima and char siu pastry. They're usually hard to buy. I'm in for a treat today."

Xiong Zijian carefully observed Lin Xiaomeng's skin tone, hair color, and clothing.

This customer was young, probably in her early twenties, with fair and rosy skin—a cool-toned complexion. Her hair lacked shine, as if it hadn't been to a salon in a long time.

But youth is invincible, metabolism is fast, and figure is both slim and curvy. She has a great foundation; she could probably wear even a burlap sack-style garment well.

Their economic strength should be alright.

The lace sundress the customer is wearing today was bought at a department store. It's a new style this year, and even with the discount, it still costs nearly eight thousand yuan.

Xiong Zijian is an industry insider and could tell the brand and price of the clothes at a glance.

However, Xiaomeng didn't wear much jewelry, only a thin gold bracelet, so it was really impossible to tell much more about her background.

Therefore, Xiong Zijian spoke very politely and first asked Xiaomeng what style of clothing she wanted to customize. Based on Xiaomeng's description, he took out paper and pen on the spot to draw a design.

Then, based on the style of the garment, determine the fabric, color, and cutting method, and decide whether to use draping or conventional cutting.

Manager Teng then took me to see the fabrics that Xiaomeng had bought yesterday, and took out a few pieces that I could use.

We discovered that we didn't have enough material, so we needed to purchase some auxiliary materials, such as lining fabric.

Xiaomeng understood, of course. She told him to use his own judgment and not to worry too much when he needed to purchase more suitable fabrics and accessories. She told him to just include these expenses in the cost list.

Finally, Xiaomeng decided that she needed to have five outfits custom-made: three knee-length dresses for spring and summer, and one short and one long coat.

They are all heavy-duty designs.

The dress is entirely decorated with Suzhou embroidery, and the coat, in addition to Suzhou embroidery, is also adorned with gemstone beads.

Xiong Zijian's design style often involves using watercolor flowers and insects to decorate fabrics.

This style just so happens to be one that Xiaomeng likes.

She glanced at the photos of the clothing the designer had shown her.

A month or two ago, Xiong Zijian made several sample garments for an exhibition, and Xiaomeng liked the patterns and color combinations on them. So she agreed to let the designer use similar patterns on her custom-made clothes.

In addition, Xiaomeng provided the main fabric for the custom-made clothes herself, especially the embroidery patterns, which she had to find an embroiderer at the museum to customize.

The designer is only responsible for making the paper patterns for the clothes, and then the museum will embroider on Xiaomeng's fabric according to the paper patterns provided by the designer.

After the embroidery is completed, the fabric is sent to the designer's studio, where a professional tailor cuts and sews it.

Finally, skilled artisans in the designer's studio will iron and bead the garments for a final touch of decoration.

During the production process, these clothes will be delivered to Xiaomeng for one or two fittings to adjust the details.

This is to ensure that the clothes fit Xiaomeng's figure perfectly and present the best wearing effect.

The entire production process will take about a year, or even longer.

The embroidery work alone takes as long as six months.

Anyone who lacks even a little patience will find it impossible to wear such custom-made clothes.

Of course, such custom-made clothes are quite expensive, but the designer's fee isn't too high.

The designer made it clear that his design fee was 5000 yuan per set.

However, embroidery is very expensive.

The price of an outfit's embroidery is determined by its complexity.

The pattern customized by Xiaomeng was embroidered using Suzhou embroidery, which is considered to be of medium difficulty.

As a result, the cost of embroidery for one set of clothes reached 30 yuan.

Five sets of clothes would cost 150 million.

The tailor's fee includes the cost of pattern making and the labor fee of a senior tailor. Each outfit costs approximately 5000 to 8000.

The bulk of the expense for this custom-made clothing was the cost of the silk fabric and embroidery.

Xiaomeng bought the fabric yesterday.

Xiaomeng paid the design fee in one lump sum. The total design fee for the five outfits was 25,000 yuan. Xiong Zijian was fully entrusted with the design and supervision of the entire production process to ensure quality.

Then another 31,000 was paid for the tailor and accessories.

They then paid the museum an advance payment of 800,000 yuan for the embroidery, and agreed that the remaining 700,000 yuan would be paid after the work was completed.

After swiping her card, Xiaomeng looked at her task panel and saw that she was still a few thousand yuan short. Today's spending had already reached the million-yuan target. She silently complained to herself, "These custom-made high-end clothes are really not something ordinary families can afford."

Even ordinary wealthy people would probably find it difficult to afford.

Even families with an annual income of millions cannot afford it.

Such luxury goods, worthy of being exclusively supplied to the ancient imperial family, are truly extravagant.

I never expected that I could spend millions of dollars in a transaction without even blinking. My mindset is all messed up; it's like money no longer matters.

In order to maintain her mindset as an ordinary person, Xiaomeng opened the orange shopping app on her phone.

I bought a bunch of random things.

I have five pounds of those ugly, high-altitude apples from a farm, priced at 9.9 yuan per pound.

I'd like to buy a box of dried persimmons that college students are selling through livestreaming to help farmers.

There are handmade velvet flower hairpins and hair clips made by hairpin makers, which are considered intangible cultural heritage items. I'd also like to support a few of them.

I'd like to get a couple of pairs of classic domestically produced sports sandals and slippers...

After spending several thousand yuan, I ended up buying a huge amount of stuff, dozens of packages.

It includes a wide range of high-quality, affordable products for all aspects of life, including clothing, food, housing, and transportation.

That's more like it. A few thousand dollars can actually buy a lot of things that can make the lives of ordinary people better.

Xiaomeng felt like an ordinary person again.

What story should I write about today? The young man I met today was quite handsome, and his family background must be very good.

By the way, the receptionist, Ms. Liu, looks like a delicate, innocent girl.

Let's use these two as templates to write a romantic story about an ancient nobleman and a young lady from a humble family.

So, what kind of obstacle would be best to set up between them? Hehe...