Chapter 415: Another Year of Spring Festival Couplets
"Mingming is also a sister, so why can only Qin Xiangnuan use brother Qin Xiangyang’s money and not Qin Xiangmei?"
"But, she seems to have forgotten something. Since they are both sisters, why does Qin Pengfei buy things for her and never bought a thread for Qin Xiangnuan or treated Qin Xiangnuan to a bowl of noodles?"
And with the Chinese New Year approaching, the Spring Festival couplets have always been a major expense for their family. Not to mention the money made from selling them, it is customary to give these couplets as gifts. Although not much money is involved, the couplets represent happiness and festivity, embodying the idea that the value of a gift lies in the thought behind it, not the price tag.
Qin Xiangnuan had long started preparing for the New Year’s gifts.
She had printed the bags in advance and designed several styles of red envelopes, ranging from cartoonish ones to traditional lucky designs. Aside from colorful characters, some envelopes featured cute cartoon tigers, a coveted design among many.
In addition, Qin Xiangnuan had been busy in the system for several months now, particularly since the start of winter. At that time, Qin Xiangmei was around, and she hardly had the energy to do anything else, consumed by thoughts of Qin Xiangmei. Every time she saw her face, she felt sick.
Finally, now that the troublemaker had left, Qin Xiangnuan could focus on preparing to sell Spring Festival couplets.
The system unlocked numerous traditional ethnic fabrics for her, which she remembered would not become popular until twenty years later. They were vibrant and saturated in color. She decided to make ’small year tigers,’ both big and small, using these fabrics, which turned out to be bursting with festive cheer and joy.
She made the largest ’year tiger’ plush toy about one and a half meters tall and over two meters long. It was stuffed with plenty of down cotton and intended for advertising. Afterwards, she would give it to Jian Zhiqin, whose zodiac sign was the tiger—he had mentioned wanting a large tiger just a few days earlier. If it weren’t for a random thought that popped into Jian Zhiqin’s head, Qin Xiangnuan might never have realized that such ’fortune tigers’ would become a thing to sell.
These were all handmade and embroidered by her. In terms of value, she felt it exceeded the set price. However, the spirit of the New Year was all about happiness, and her main product was the Spring Festival couplets. These toys were just an experiment to test the waters. If successful, she believed there would be more business opportunities in the future.
To save time, she made the outer parts herself and then stuffed them with polypropylene cotton, commonly known as toy cotton, hollow cotton, or stuffing cotton, made from polypropylene staple fiber. It came in two varieties: ordinary and hollow. This material is known for good resilience, a smooth feel, low price, and excellent insulation. It is widely used in stuffing toys, garments, bedding, and cotton spray industries.
The system offered this at one Gold Coin for a pile. Regardless of whether it was cost-effective, it saved her a lot of time. What’s more, the polypropylene cotton from the system was odorless, clean, and of superior quality.