Arc 2The Shop Opens
Shen Moxi and Song Qi renovated and opened their clothing shop, drawing customers with promotions and Shen Moxi’s designs. As the store gained a foothold, Shen Moxi pursued costume work and began arranging new business opportunities through scarce goods and valuable embroidered works.
- Shen Moxi and Song Qi prepared their shop, furnished its rooms, arranged the displays, and painted a hidden storeroom door beneath a landscape mural.
- Shen Moxi and Song Qi opened the shop with a firecracker ceremony, and customers streamed in to buy clothes and enter the prize draw.
- Sun Xibai asked Shen Moxi to design costumes for her performing arts troupe, and Shen Moxi created two outfits that the performers praised and ordered in their measurements.
- Shen Moxi expanded the shop’s offerings with new fashion designs, arranged a speaker to play music, and shared the shop’s promotion with the troupe.
- Shen Moxi sold Zhang Yongcai scarce milk powder and cooked for her family while the clothing shop stayed busy.
- Shen Moxi showed Song Qi an embroidered Great Wall picture and planned to take embroidered works to prospective buyers.
- Shen Moxi proposed partnering with Shen Tao to resell scarce goods through the supply and marketing cooperative, and he agreed to introduce her to its boss.
- Shen Moxi helped a woman and her daughter choose outfits, then bought larger bulbs for Song Qi to install beside the shop sign.