Chapter 27 Wealth touches people's hearts
The total population of Lanfang Country is only 80,000, and there are more than 60,000 people living on the main island, with nearly 10,000 fishermen and 1,000 powered fishing boats.
Generally speaking, it takes more than 20 barrels to fill up a fishing boat for every 100 tons of tonnage.
Therefore, the shipload of diesel fuel that Long Wu and Chen Lila came back was out in the morning when it was two ringgit per barrel cheaper than other goods.
Those fishing boat owners and sailors don't even need special loading and unloading equipment, a barrel of oil with barrels is nearly 130 pounds, and one person can carry it, and it can be paid off on the spot. (Fishermen buy oil directly with their families' standard empty oil drums.) It's like when the post-80s generation was a child, he took an empty beer bottle, added wine money, and went to the commissary to buy beer. This way, you don't have to wait for the oil to be refueled and then come back to empty the barrel)
This scene makes people have to sigh: these poor fishermen have really good physical fitness.
"Each barrel of oil is 82 reams, a total of 82,000 reams, all paid. Tomorrow I can finally give the captain an explanation. Long Wu and Chen Li each counted the money, and their hearts were a little more steady.
However, Chen Li was careful and thought of more questions, so she pondered whether to deposit the money into Gu Kun's account, or go to Gu's house, give it to Gu Pan for safekeeping, and let Gu Pan issue a receipt.
The couple was discussing, but there were a few visitors on the dock who jumped on the boat very familiarly.
Hearing this, Long Wu hurriedly went over to check, only to find that it was his old club Liu Min and Wang Han, as well as the other two sailors brought by Liu Min.
"Brother Liu, it's been good lately. We're going to sea again this afternoon. Long Wu didn't know how to face his original employer, and his speech was rather blunt.
Liu Min is not a thick-skinned person, he was forced by his wife to build the Great Wall at a friend's house just now, so he just said politely: "Then you guys are really hard." ”
Wang Han on the side secretly hated her husband's incompetence, so she immediately took over the conversation and comforted her side by side: "That is, it's much harder than when I went to sea with our family." There are only two of you in a boat, and half of the people are missing, and the time is still so rushed.
Long Wu, you can be regarded as a good hand, don't work too hard, you have to be with the boss who is sympathetic......"
Long Wu has always looked at this shrewd and mean former boss lady very unpleasantly. Although Wang Han spoke vaguely, he could also hear the provocative meaning in it, so he buzzed back:
"Boss, I know that you and Brother Liu treat people well, but there is something I was about to tell you - didn't you allow Boss Gu to hire us and the couple for three months. I discussed it with Xiaoli for half a month, and decided that after the expiration, I won't come back to you, we want to keep working with Boss Gu. ”
Wang Han was so angry when he heard this.
She saw that others had made a lot of money from her family's boat today, and they came to explore the way. Who knew that Long Wu was so faceless, and directly said that he would not mix with her in the future.
So what excuse do you use to coerce the other party to confide?
Wang Han was unwilling, and said with a gun and a stick: "You have signed a labor contract with our family, and we don't know who to hire when we are sad.
Chen Li on the side was afraid of stiff words, so she hurriedly played a round in the middle: "Boss, we are not against you." We know the rules of the sailor's employment. It's really wrong for us to terminate the contract with you and cause you trouble with someone.
But the lease is already three months, and now there are 70 days left, so we can tell you in advance, which should minimize your losses. It's a big deal, let's take out a month's salary from the original time with you, put wine and cigarettes, and match it, it's sincere enough. ”
Leaving before the employment expires is indeed a bit flawed. Chen Li didn't want to leave a handle or a bad reputation, and now that their husband and wife were with Gu Kun, they had a great future, so she decided to take out a budget of 500 reams to accompany her personal relationship, in exchange for their husband and wife's freedom, and completely and perfectly terminated the contract with Liu Min's family.
"Aren't these two people short of money? They actually said that they would pay a few hundred orders for themselves to make a gift, and they had to mess with Gu Kun? How much benefit did Gu Kun give them? How much money does this have to be?" Wang Han made up for it, and couldn't help but gasp.
Fortunately, she reacted quickly, and after seeing that it was impossible to succeed in threatening to lose money, she immediately took advantage of the opportunity to completely tear her face just now, and rounded the words back:
"Xiao Chen, you are serious, since you are sincere, you can still be mean, you can't be mean? ”
Wang Han actually brought the original labor contract of Long Wu and the others with him (although the original intention of bringing it was to threaten it at any time), and also brought paper and pencils, and then generously terminated the contract on the spot.
She changed her face and softened so quickly, Long Wu suddenly felt that she couldn't use her strength, as if she wanted to scare someone but punched the cotton.
Wang Han said a few good words about the detour of the field, and even after supporting the other employees, he gave some small gifts to Long Chen and the others, only saying that they received them during the Chinese New Year, and they couldn't finish eating them at home.
Then, she couldn't wait to hint at making a wish, knocking on the side and asking about the way to make a fortune this time:
"Long Wu, where did you buy this batch of diesel? It won't come from Brunei? But there is no oil refinery in Brunei, and the crude oil is shipped to the Shell factory in Labuan for refining. ”
"Don't guess, it's not Brunei, oh no, it's me who doesn't know. Long Wu was almost tricked, but fortunately, he immediately changed his words from "not" to "I don't know".
Because if you answer "no" to every question of right and wrong, the other party can narrow the scope of the lock by elimination, or it is safer to answer that you don't know.
Coupled with the impression that Long Wu has always given Wang Han as an honest person, such a change of words is very confusing, maybe Wang Han thinks that she is not well-informed and does not know that a new oil refinery has been put into operation in Brunei.
Wang Han was unwilling: "This business is not small, where is there so much money to buy goods? You have been at sea for almost 20 days, and we are also worried, not that we are afraid that something will happen to my family's ship, or that you and the eldest nephew of the Gu family will not be in any danger." There is no one to take care of this vast sea......"
Wang Han said, suggesting that she could give Long Wu and Chen Li five thousand reams, cash, and buy some useful wealth information.
"Sister-in-law, don't say it, although my Long Wu is not eloquent, I know what you mean. To tell the truth, Boss Gu's ability, my trip to sea this time is also an eye-opener, I have never seen such a capable and courageous person in my life, he is really a big dealer.
I also swore a poisonous oath, if half of the sentence is leaked, my whole family will not die well, so if you die of this heart, I will not say it if I am killed, this is the unique way of wealth discovered by Boss Gu. ”
Long Wu's eloquence is not good, but there is also a wonderful use of bad eloquence if he is not eloquent. As long as the major things of right and wrong can be seen clearly, people with stupid mouths are the most direct to provoke people.
Wang Han was ashamed and angry, and forcibly tried again, and even hinted that the benefit fee could be increased to 10,000 reams, as long as the information was really worth the price, and it was guaranteed that only God knew it, and God didn't know that it would not be leaked.
As a result, he directly provoked Long Wu and drove her away on the spot.
After Wang Han got off the boat, Chen Li thought about it and immediately discussed with Long Wu: "You can't stay here for a long time, let's go to Kuching quickly and wait for the boss to meet." It seems that the boss also underestimated the allure of this financial road to people. In case Sister Wang is not the only one who is targeted, but also provokes other powerful people, maybe we will not be able to leave. ”
"Why can't they go? They will still use force? We have not done illegal business, and we have all completed the charter procedures and given enough money. "Long Wu still doesn't believe it.
Chen Li complained: "It's really torn face, it's not easy to leave a rented boat? You haven't heard that Uncle Lin's family just found a reason for 'bad condition' and temporarily detained it for inspection! Boss Gu was so generous to us, he didn't let us knock rust and repair paint along the way, and it was all the handle when we were caught." ”
Although Chen Lei's education level is not high, he still has the knowledge and experience of the poor. It's like if you're a wage earner and you've seen a lot of insidious charter wives, then you'll also know a lot of legal knowledge.
If a tenant who normally pays rent and deposit is told by the charter wife that "you have damaged my house, the loss may exceed the deposit", and the tenant takes a full set of photos before renting the house, then it is still legally possible for a third party to intervene and temporarily force the lease to be terminated.
In the dry sailor industry, if you meet a mean boss, there will always be endless rust and endless paint, because the ship comes and goes in the wind and waves, and there must be some wear and tear one day.
Gu Kun didn't let Long Wu and them do it because he didn't have enough manpower, but he just planned to completely overhaul it at one time when the three-month lease period was about to expire, and then return the boat to Liu Min.
But these problems, when encountering more serious people, are all hidden dangers of being detained by people with excuses.
Long Wu thought about it like this, and suddenly felt that what his wife said was really reasonable.
He said decisively: "Without further ado, then you can drive the ship away at once, no matter what, you can't stay in the harbor, drive five nautical miles to the east, and then wait for me, I will catch up with me in a dinghy." ”
Chen Li: "What are you doing? Let's go together." ”
Long Wu shook his head: "Since you said that this trade route is popular, we can't just leave." If the monk can't run away from the temple, Miss Gu is still studying in school, if we and Boss Gu run away, what if the others go to find Miss Gu's trouble?
I will find a way to take Miss Gu out and go together. See the boss at night and let the boss decide. I'd rather do it more, it's not a big deal, just let Miss Gu run for nothing, tired for a night, it's safe, be careful. ”
Chen Li thought about it and agreed to Long Wu's plan.
She knew that although her husband had no brains in business, he had always had a very sensitive and wild sense of smell in terms of safety instincts. After all these years at sea, he was always sensitive to all kinds of dangers.