Chapter 12 Money-Making Business
This meal in Chinatown cost Lip more than 100 yuan, nearly half of the small coffers he had saved during this time, enough for the daily expenses of the Gallagher family for a week.
But looking at the happy expressions on Debbie and Carl's faces, and touching their ironed stomachs, Lip thinks it's worth the money!
Lip ordered too many things, and the three of them, plus Liam, couldn't finish it, and the rest was not wasted, they all packed it up and took it away.
When ordering, Debbie and Carl were amazed to hear Lip communicate with the restaurant waiter in fluent Chinese; during the meal, they were even more surprised to see Lip skillfully use chopsticks.
After coming out of the restaurant, Debbie couldn't help but ask, "Lip, why didn't I know you learned Chinese so well?"
"Haha, there's so much more you don't know!" Lip rubbed Debbie's head, and instead of explaining to her, he changed the subject, "I promise, how about bringing you to eat Chinese food once a month in the future?"
"Great!" Debbie and Carl cheered in unison, and today's Cantonese morning tea completely conquered their stomachs.
Lip brought them over this time, just so that they could be a testimony and prove that their Chinese skills are good, and too many don't want to and don't need to let them know.
After another walk around Chinatown, Lip handed Liam to Debbie and told her to go to the library across the street for a while, and Carl went to business.
On the surface, the peaceful and peaceful Chinatown is not as peaceful as it seems on the surface, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and the Chinese gang@gang is an important part of the American gang@gang, and the key areas of the Chinese gang@gang activities are in Chinatowns everywhere.
Chinatown is safe during the day, but at night, it's just as dangerous as Chicago's other lower-middle-class neighborhoods.
It is unrealistic for a person like Lip to make his first pot of gold without taking some risks, and the method he came up with to make quick money, as long as it is operated properly, the danger is not high.
Lip came to Chinatown to find, and it is not a Chinese black @ gang, since it is a black @ gang, there is no one who is easy to get along with, and Lip has a bright future, and he doesn't want to have anything to do with the black @ gang unless he has to.
He was looking for a travel agency.
It is not easy for individuals to carry a large number of electronic products, but if they are replaced by a tour group of more than a dozen or dozens of people, and each group member helps to bring one or two mobile phones, the originally very difficult problem can be easily solved.
Even if a tour group can only bring back ten iPhone 4s, each phone can only earn $400, and that trip can also earn $4,000.
Of course, this income can't all go to Lip, although he came up with this idea, but he can only take a small percentage of the profit.
Lip is not greedy, as long as he can earn fifty dollars for a mobile phone, he is satisfied.
If he can do it, he can make at least $1,000 a month by walking two regiments, which is a lot of income for the Gallagher family, who only has $500 a month's daily living expenses.
After a few months of doing this, Lip saved a few thousand dollars, and he was able to barely make his first pot of gold.
Lip didn't go to those regular travel agencies, but found a gangster on the street, and in his mouth, he asked for the phone number of the black tour guide whose English name was Jim and his surname was Zhao, and called him.
"Who is this?" the phone rang out, and a Chinese-accented English rang over.
"This is lip, Is that Jim?"
"Yes, is there anything wrong with you?" asked Jim.
"Are you a guide, there's a job looking for you!" replied Lip.
"Yes, yes, what's the job?" said Jim, who was interested when he heard that he had a job.
"I can't tell you on the phone, so let's meet and talk? I'm here at the Chinatown Library. Lip said.
"Okay, no problem, I'm nearby, give me five minutes!" said Jim.
"OK, see you later!" Lip hung up.
After waiting in place for a while, a Chinese with black hair and yellow skin, about thirty years old, came over, and Lipu Young greeted him with his hand, "Jim?Jim Zhao!"
"Yes, are you Lip?" Jim walked over and shook Lip's hand, looking at Lip's still immature face, and then at Carl, who was only ten years old standing next to him, and couldn't help but wonder what kind of work he had introduced to him.
"Shall we go to the café across from him and sit down and talk?" Lip said with a smile, ignoring the distrust in his eyes.
"Okay, this way, please!" Now that we're here, we have to hear what is going on, and Jim didn't refuse Lip's invitation.
Lip took Carl and Jim into the teahouse across the street, found a booth in the corner and sat down, and didn't order any tea, only ordered three cups of boiled water.
Lip took a sip of water to moisten his throat before leaning over to Jim, who was sitting opposite, and said, "I have a business, I don't know if you're interested." ”
"As long as I can make money, I'm interested!" Jim's serious profession is a black tour guide, but his background is actually very complicated, otherwise he wouldn't be so open in Chinatown.
"Do you have a way to bring something to China with a tour group?" asked Lip first.
"You can't bring anything illegal!" replied Jim.
"It's not poison @ products, big @ hemp, it's electronic products, mobile phones!" Lip said.
"There is no problem with this, but the amount should not be too large, the main reason is that it is not easy to get out. Jim said.
"You know Apple's new phone, the iPhone 4, released this year?" asked Lip.
"Of course I do, I've heard it's pretty good, and I'm trying to figure out how to make one!" replied Jim.
"And do you know how much it costs?" asked Lip.
"Well, it seems to have two versions, memory 16G and 32G, the price of 16G is 499 yuan, and the price of 32G is 599 yuan. "Jim really knows.
"Yes, do you know how these two versions of the iPhone 4 are priced in China? Not the official price, but the black market price!" asked Lip again.
"This ...... I haven't paid attention, I don't know!" said Jim.
"As far as I know, now in Chinese mainland, only the black iPhone 4 is already on sale, the official price of 16G is 4999 yuan, 32G is 5999 yuan, but because the shipment is very small, the average person can't buy it at all, the current black market price, 16G at least 6000 yuan, 32G should have 8000 yuan, white is more expensive!" Lip said.
"Really?" Jim was shocked!
He is a Chinese, although he has been smuggled to the United States for more than ten years, and he does not have many contacts with China, but it is impossible that there is no pure American who knows China better!