It is not easy to start a business in the first place. In line with the principle of saving everything you can, Yao Yuan originally wanted to go to a trust store to buy some used goods.
Trust shops are actually public pawn shops and flea markets. When the People's Republic of China was founded, pawn shops in the old society were banned, and the public came forward to open trust shops. Their functions are actually similar to those of the old pawn shops.
When ordinary people are in trouble, they will transfer the items at home that can be exchanged for two yuan to a trust store for temporary turnover. Of course, there are also people who directly put the items in the store for consignment.
The trust store not only sells those valuable antiques and antiques, but also sells some electrical appliances such as radios and televisions. In addition, there are also various tables, chairs, benches, and daily necessities for sale. It is almost all-inclusive.
The items in the store are not expensive and the quality is guaranteed.
Therefore, Yao Yuan has always been thinking about going to the trust store. On the one hand, he wants to add some things to his stall, and more importantly, he wants to satisfy his curiosity, or simply, he just wants to get rich. , pick up the missing speculation, and go explore it.
It's now 1993, and the value of antiques, calligraphy and paintings is still seriously underestimated. Calligraphy and paintings by Bai Shi, Zhang Daqian and others can still be found in trust stores. Mahogany furniture, jade and agate are all placed on the shelves for price. And Gu, by the way, there are also those crazy stamps and the gospel of time travellers. In later generations, monkey stamps were once sold to a million-dollar edition. I heard that nowadays a four-party couplet only costs a few yuan, and the price of a full-page monkey stamp is You can get it for only a mere hundred yuan.
I am a cook, and I don’t understand many things. It is best not to touch speculative and unreasonable things such as stocks and lottery tickets. However, it is impossible to take advantage of obvious and easy-to-get advantages like this. occupy.
Make a little money by selling brine and cooking, and then use the little money to buy some good things that can quickly increase in value, and you can win this life!
All luxury cars and villas are within easy reach.
There is no need to worry about anything in a hurry. This is what it means, win by lying down!
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But Yao Yuan's idea of visiting a trust store still didn't come true. When he finished his run the next morning and walked around the morning market, he found that he didn't need to go to a trust store if he wanted to buy something for his stall. Everything you need to set up a stall at the night market can be purchased at the morning market.
And the price is surprisingly cheap.
There is a legend in later generations. It is said that the director of Jiangnan Leather Shoe Factory ran away with his sister-in-law. The workers in the factory took the leather shoes to the market and sold them at low prices for money, and sold them with tears in their eyes! Big discounts.
Everyone takes this incident as a joke, but in this day and age, it seems that this incident is not new and is quite common.
Of course, this does not mean that the directors of other factories also abducted their sisters-in-law, but that many factories were not very efficient and could not pay wages, so they simply gave the products of the factory to workers in exchange for wages.
The workers had no choice but to take these products to the market to sell.
Thermos bottles, washbasins, sweaters, cans, and even tables, chairs and benches, there are so many similar products.
Each of the bowls printed with a certain restaurant was priced at only 20 cents each. They were tied up in a pile of ten straw ropes and placed on the ground without anyone noticing;
They are very good little stools. You can buy two of them for one dollar, which is not worth the price of a bowl of wontons.
I was a little confused for a while, and today’s prices are really confusing.
I didn’t spend more than ten yuan in total and bought a lot of pots and pans with small benches. I feel like my stall can be upgraded to a higher level. At least the bowls are enough and I don’t have to run to the public restroom. Go get water and wash dishes, and no matter how many diners come, you can always have a stool to sit on.
As for going to the trust store to pick up missing items, let's talk about it later. Time is still very long and time passes very slowly. It is not too late to at least wait until you can take out the money in your pocket and count the bills.
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The big brother who sold the stools personally used a cart to deliver all the bits and pieces that Yao Yuan bought downstairs. Looking at the large pile of things in there, Yao Yuan had a headache. It was really inconvenient to live upstairs, even though it was just It’s on the third floor, but it’s quite troublesome to move these things up and down every day.
While I was busy packing my things, I saw Xie Laozhao'er popping out of the door hole of the building: "Where have you been so early in the morning? I can't even find you if I ask for anything! Come home with me quickly, it's urgent!"
Yao Yuan's home lives in the Family Courtyard of the Construction Committee. It is a regular six-story red brick building with a quiet environment shaded by green trees.
Xie Zhenhua's home is right next to the Construction Committee Family Courtyard. The straight-line distance is no more than 500 meters, but the environment is completely different.
The village in the city refers to the living environment of Xie Zhenhua's family. A series of low-rise bungalows are connected by twisting alleys, and there is no planning at all.
Moreover, this area of bungalows is completely incomparable with the old houses in the city. Those old houses have dozens or hundreds of years of history, and their construction has certain regulations and particularities. However, this area was completely built by ordinary people privately. Its characteristic is one word: chaos!
Follow Xie Zhenhua into the dark and deep alley, and arrive at the door of Xie Zhenhua's house in a zigzag manner.
However, Xie Laozhaoer did not enter the house. Instead, he turned around and opened a courtyard door on the opposite side: "How about taking a look at this place?"
The courtyard door is low, and Yao Yuan, who is less than 1.8 meters tall, has to lower his head to enter. Xie Zhenhua has broad shoulders and a fat body, so he needs to turn slightly sideways to get into the courtyard door.
Yao Yuan looked at the small courtyard curiously. There were three north rooms at one end of the courtyard. The doors and windows of the house were intact, but they couldn't conceal a sense of dilapidation. Spider webs could be vaguely seen on the windows. Apparently no one had been there for a long time. live.
The small room next to the east wall was even more dilapidated and looked like it was about to collapse.
After taking a rough look at the dilapidated yard, Yao Yuan couldn't help but check with Xie Laozhaoer: "Is this a dilapidated yard? Are you sure it can be used by us?"
Xie Laozhao'er's face was full of pride: "How is it? Is it spacious enough? Isn't it more fun to use this place as a kitchen than in the small kitchen at your house?"
It feels good to be able to rent this three-and-a-half-room house with a small yard of 30 to 40 square meters outside, but the price...
Yao Yuan didn't know how to evaluate it for a while.
This yard belongs to a colleague of Xie Zhenhua's father. Now that he has moved to a newly built residential building in Xizhimen, the yard has been entrusted to Lao Xie to take care of it.
After Xie Zhenhua came home last night, he boasted to his father about his and Yao Yuan's feat of setting up a stall to sell braised pork, and expressed his intention to expand production.
The father was surprisingly supportive of his son's entrepreneurial feat. Without saying a word, he threw the key to the empty yard across the street to Xie Laozhao'er. He only said, "You can do whatever you want, just don't steal other people's houses." .
This house is really dilapidated, it leaks, the yard is not big, and it's overgrown with weeds. If you want to live in it, you'll have to put a lot of effort into cleaning it up, but if it's just used as an operation room, it's perfect. But that's it!
Water and electricity are readily available. With this venue, we only need to add a gas stove and set up a table, and we can start practicing immediately.
"But you can't use someone else's money in vain, right? Do you have to give someone some rent?" Yao Yuan is still a little worried.
"My old man said, if we really make money, don't use other people's houses for nothing, just give us thirty-fifty dollars later." Xie Laozhao'er looked proud.
It seems that his desire to become bigger and stronger has never stopped.
Yao Yuan followed suit and said, "Okay, go back and tell the old man that if we really use this house for a long time, we will pay rent at fifty yuan a month."
"Holy crap! Are you crazy? Fifty? Every month? What my old man means is..." Xie Laozhao'er's eyes widened when he heard the number given by Yao Yuan.
He hasn't even made any money yet, so why does Yao Yuan, his grandson, start spending so much money?
Yao Yuan hurriedly explained: "We only have to use the money to be practical. It's hard to find such a suitable place. Besides, fifty yuan is not much. For us, it means selling more than twenty bowls." It’s about braised food.”
In fact, the price of fifty yuan is quite reasonable. Nowadays, no one likes to live in bungalows, and there are very few private houses available for rent. If you rent a house through the public housing management office, the rent of such a house is only monthly About thirty dollars.
Of course, this is the current price. If it is placed two years later, the price will continue to rise.
Xie Zhenhua's parents are quite strange, and they unconditionally support their son's business of setting up a street stall instead of doing his job.
My dad found a house for me, and my mom, through her work relationship, had already set aside all the ingredients she needed today. She only had to go to the grocery store to pay and get them back at noon.
Yao Yuan and Xie Zhenhua didn't care about anything else and cleaned the house first.
The old man Wang Hongyu also arrived before lunch. When he went to Yao Yuan's house and couldn't find anyone, he took Xiao Hua'er and wandered over to look for him.
Seeing the courtyard that had been cleaned for the first time, Wang Hongyu couldn't help but be happy: "Oh, I'll go! What's going on? Are we really going to let Huan'er go and start training?"
Yao Yuan and Xie Laozhaoer were so busy that they were sweating.
The weather in August is very hot. After the sun comes out, people are still covered in sweat even if they don't move. Both of them are already covered in sweat with sweat running down their necks. When they see Wang Hongyu in a white shirt, blue pants and sneakers, the feeling in her heart is Forget about the hatred.
"Sun thief! Didn't we agree that you would come here early in the morning? Why did you arrive at noon?!" Xie Laozhaoer asked.
Wang Hongyu said confidently: "How did I know you were here? Xiao Hua'er had to practice piano in the morning, so I stayed with her for a while."
Wang Hongyu brought out the little flower, and Yao Yuan was blocked. He could only point at Wang Hongyu with his finger: "Okay, just act like a chicken thief! You'll treat me to lunch later!"
Xiao Hua'er was just about to say a few words to help Wang Hongyu, but when she heard about lunch, she shut her mouth very cleverly.
Xie Zhenhua was full of anger and had no place to vent his anger. He straightened his neck and made a request: "I can't give you an advantage today. I have to eat Yanji cold noodles for lunch! With ice and a big bowl! I have to have a double portion of spicy beef and raw beef." Want two!"
