Chapter 18 Upfront Costs

Qin Feng has worked in Aqing Building for 2 and a half months, and the total salary he gets is 3,200 yuan. Qin Feng took out 3,000 yuan and regarded it as the capital for his own business. He wrote it down in his notebook, reminding himself to be careful with every penny he spent next.

Since it is a stall, Qin Feng has to have a stall first.

There is a timber market in the urban area of Dongou City, Qin Feng had been there once in his previous life, but he had long forgotten how to get there. After returning home from the eighteenth middle school in the morning, Qin Feng immediately went out after lunch, and when he found the timber market, it was already 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

The timber market is very large, but there are almost no people in sight, even if the door is wide open timber shops, there are few bosses in it, thousands of tons of wood of various shapes and specifications, just placed at random, not afraid of people stealing and not afraid of people robbing. Qin Feng walked for nearly 10 minutes, and finally found a place where there were people, and more than a dozen middle-aged men gathered around a gambling table, shouting happily.

Qin Feng walked to the side and inquired about the location of the carpentry shop, and one of the men immediately stood up and asked Qin Feng, "Young man, what do you want to do?"

"Carts. ”

"Follow me. ”

Qin Feng followed the middle-aged man and walked left and right for five or six minutes, and came to a remote hut, where two young people were working with serious faces, and when they saw the middle-aged man coming back, they raised their heads and said hello: "Master." ”

The middle-aged man nodded, walked to the desk and sat down, he opened the cabinet, took out paper and pen, and said to Qin Feng: "What kind of material do you want to use, and what kind of work do you want to make?"

Qin Feng said: "You can use the most ordinary materials, if you look like it...... I can't say a word or two, so I'll draw it for you. ”

"The table top should be large, with planks on the left and right sides that can be extended and retracted, and the total area that can be expanded should be at least 2 square meters. In the lower left corner of the rectangle, that is, on the side where I want to stand for business, I have to dig out 2 grooves, one of the rectangles is convex, and the bottom is a square, which can put down the gas stove, and the top of the square is a cylindrical shape, the diameter of the cylinder is 10 cm, and the depth is greater than 10 cm and less than 15 cm, I want to put an iron can like a milk powder can here......"

"What is this tin can for?"

"When used in iron pots, I have calculated that this shape of iron pot is the most fuel-efficient and heats up quickly. ”

The carpenter nodded slightly and exclaimed, "It's a bit famous." ”

Qin Feng continued: "The side of this hollow is facing outward, that is, the upper left corner of the car, and there must be a small compartment that can fix the gas tank, and there must be a baffle between the small compartment and the groove, leaving only a small hole for the gas pipe to pass through, and the small compartment must have a small door that must be locked. ”

"Why lock?"

"Just in case, what if someone gets their hands on my gas canister and kills a bunch of people by the time comes?"

"Young man, society is not as dark as you think......"

"Uncle, you just do it. ”

The carpenter was speechless.

"Another groove is made on the edge of this groove, about 5 centimeters deep, 30 centimeters long and 10 centimeters wide. ”

"Put what?"

"Barbecue grill. ”

"In the car, in addition to the gas tank, there are three other partitions, the bottom layer is empty, the middle layer is divided into three small spaces of equal size, and the upper layer is divided into several layers. ”

"How many floors are there?"

"The spacing between each layer is about 5 centimeters, and you can separate several layers as many as you can. ”

"It's for food, isn't it?"

"Yes. Qin Feng nodded, and continued, "On the right side of the desktop, can you add another glass cover to me?"

"Yes, how big?"

"It's about ...... high," Qin Feng gestured with his empty hand, "25 centimeters, the area probably occupies about one-third of the car's desktop." ”

"This third, is it when the planks on both sides stick out or retract?"

Qin Feng thought for a while, changed the design, and said, "The telescopic plank is changed to face the guest." ”

"Then this glass cover can only be installed in a retracted state, otherwise it can't be installed. What is the width of this telescopic plank?"

"15 centimeters. ”

The carpenter nodded and wrote it down in his notebook, "Is there anything else?"

"Other ......" Qin Feng thought for a while, "The handle of the cart is installed on the side of the depression, and the wheels under the cart, install 8 rollers for me." ”

"Why are you pretending so much?"

"Run fast when you're being chased by the chengguan!"

“……”

After a lot of saliva, and so on to explain the details, the carpentry master's book has also written a lot.

The middle-aged carpenter sat down quite energetically, took out his calculator, and tapped for a few minutes.

After a few minutes, he said to Qin Feng: "Young man, you are very particular about this thing, and the charges are not cheap. Even the materials with labor, add up to 1,500 pieces. ”

Qin Feng was quite surprised. At this price, it is almost catching up with the hand-made furniture of the furniture store, but when I think about it, the workmanship of my own cart is not similar to furniture.

"Okay......" Qin Feng nodded.

The carpenter stretched out his hand and said unceremoniously: "The deposit is 500, bring the money, right?"

Qin Feng didn't have much money, so he took out all his belongings with him, took out 5 of them and gave them to the other party, and asked: "It's best to make it within three days, by the way, don't paint it, I'll use it in a hurry." ”

"Three days, then you come over on Sunday afternoon to get it, I'll make this thing myself, even if I stay up late, I'll get you out!" the carpenter assured loudly.

Leaving the carpentry shop, Qin Feng went straight to the stainless steel shop again.

The stainless steel shop is just across the street outside the Qinfengjia community, and the main business content is the window sill - a few years ago, the government in order to meet the fire protection standards, all the closed guardrails in the city were demolished, and after the demolition, half a penny was not lost, and the citizens could only spend their own money to make open guardrails, so these small shops that made guardrails made a fortune, in terms of nature, they were the same as the housing developers in the old city renovation stage.

The owner of the stainless steel shop is obviously several grades higher than the middle-aged carpenter just now in terms of the attainments of stealing customers, the oil pot in the shape of a milk powder can that Qin Feng asked to make, and the grill that is only half the size of a normal barbecue grill, just two simple things, actually asking for 500 when he opens his mouth.

But Qin Feng was helpless, who let there be only such a stainless steel shop within a radius of a few hundred meters around here, so he could only grit his teeth and agree.

Before the business opened, Qin Feng's funds had been spent by two-thirds first, and then, there were still many places to spend money.

Qin Feng made a rough estimate, and when he bought everything, the money that could be left in the end was only five or six hundred at most.

Based on the cost of ingredients of 200 yuan per day, if Qin Feng cannot break even within three days, it means that the capital chain is broken - bankruptcy.

Thinking of this, Qin Feng couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.

This pressure is not ordinary......