Chapter Three: Profiteer Li Jiaming (middle)
As long as you make clean money, no amount is too much!
Li Jiaming only took a minute to convince the second aunt, but on a hot day, he rode back and forth for more than 20 miles, making him as hot as a dog, and he barely stuck out his tongue. Li Jiaming, who was sweating profusely, rode a bicycle and just turned onto the river embankment, and the thin dog waiting for the staircase rushed up, and said eagerly: "Brother Jiaming, someone has come to ask about the store again." ”
"Where's my third sister?"
"Sister Xinhua is showing them, let me wait for you here. Jiaming, your cousin's uncle is also there, I don't know if he wants to rent it himself, or if his relatives want to rent it. ”
Hey, the third sister and Mao Tong are too frivolous, and they haven't even figured out who wants to rent.
"Do you know what business they do?"
"I don't know"
has no social experience, Li Jiaming hurriedly threw the car to the fine dog, took out two sweat-stained ten-yuan tickets to him, and ordered in a low voice: "Go buy a bag of 'Baisha King', and then count the people there, buy some popsicles." ”
"Hey", the thin dog got on the bicycle and ran away, Li Jiaming wiped the sweat beads on his forehead and face, and walked through the construction site of the neighbor's house to his own store. But as soon as he turned the scaffolding, Li Jiaming had a headache, and among the few people who were looking at the store with the third sister, there was indeed a third cousin who was smoking, and several of them seemed to be very close relatives.
"Third uncle, why are you here?"
"Jiaming?"
The third cousin, who was drunk and red, smiled when he saw Li Jiaming, and pulled him to introduce a few people next to him, "Shaocai, Shaofu, this is Chuanlin's cub." Jiaming, this is Uncle Shaocai, Uncle Shaofu, this is Jin Gan's brother-in-law, Su Hong. Jin Gan sees that you are good, and wants to rent your store to do business. ”
Oh, Feng Tan's great-grandmother's relatives, Li Jiaming hurriedly said hello to several cousins, cousins, and cousins-in-law. Fortunately, it's okay, it's not that my cousin wants to rent a storefront, so it's much easier to talk. The relatives of my great-grandmother's family are aunts and cousins for my maternal uncle, and they are distant relatives (distant relatives) for myself.
"Sister Su Hong, that shop that sells clothes is yours?"
The fat cousin who was holding a baby in her hand was an outgoing and cheerful woman, although she was much shorter than Li Jiaming, who was already 1.6 meters tall, she touched his head with her chubby hand and quipped: "You guy, I hugged you before, and I came to the countryside to study, and I didn't come to play." If it weren't for Uncle Chengzong's cousin, I wouldn't have known that the genius they were talking about was you. ”
A man's head and a woman's waist cannot be moved casually. Li Jiaming turned his head and broke away from the fat paw, took the popsicles and cigarettes bought by the fine dog and handed them out to everyone, and stuffed the 'White Sand King', who only gave out two or three cigarettes, to the third cousin.
"Third uncle, I don't smoke, I saw that you were also here, so I asked the fine dog to buy it. This is a small dog, do you remember? Uncle Chuanmeng's cub lives next door to us. ”
The 'Baisha King' cigarettes are good cigarettes, and only the leaders in the township can afford to smoke them, and the other cadres only smoke the 'Baisha' cigarettes in hard boxes. The third cousin, who was full of alcohol, took the cigarette given to him by Li Jiaming, greeted the fine dog, smiled on his face, and praised: "Our family still has a conscience and knows how to honor my mother's uncle." Hey, did Chuanlin write a letter and come back?
"Hey, hey, hey, I wrote it, and he said he'd go home for the New Year. Uncle Shaocai, Uncle Shaofu, brother-in-law, Sister Su Hong, I will drink at home during the New Year. ”
Li Jiaming chatted with his third cousin with a smile, and did not forget to invite everyone to his house to drink his father's wedding wine, as if he had forgotten his cousin's intention. Chongxiang is still too small, and the relatives are not doing well, and the price is too high to make people gossip, and the price is low and they lose themselves. Hey, the third cousin is really confused, and this kind of thing is also messed up, don't you see that your own mother and uncle don't show up? Grandma Zeng is long gone, it seems that Uncle Zeng has also passed away for seven or eight years, and how many contacts do my aunt and cousin have besides the New Year?
How can the three peasants or people who have just started a business have Li Jiaming's patience, the short and thin cousin-in-law Jin Gan laughed a few words, pulled him to the side, and said kindly: "Ming Yan, I don't have any money with your sister Su Hong, but I really can't afford to rent a store for four hundred yuan a month." Everyone is related and on the street, so they will definitely help each other. You just tell your brother-in-law a real price, and your brother-in-law can rent it if he can afford it, and he doesn't blame you if he can't afford it, what do you think?"
This is what people say, businessmen must first lower their stature, don't always talk about kinship and the like. If it weren't for the fact that he didn't know about the business profits of the past few years, that everyone would not be able to afford it, and that he was afraid that he would have a bad reputation for being greedy for money in his old nest, Li Jiaming, who was well versed in all kinds of business skills, had countless ways to raise the rent of the shop and maximize his own interests.
What I didn't expect was that the chubby cousin really didn't understand etiquette, and he actually put up his cousin's shelf and coaxed Li Jiaming as a child.
"Ming Yan, in the past, the wooden shed was only 50 yuan a month, but now even if the price rises, it can't rise so fiercely? Otherwise, my cousin pays 180 yuan a month, what do you think? 180 yuan is a lot, and now it's only 8 yuan a day for small jobs. ”
This cousin is really interesting, really coaxing herself as a pawn?
Li Jiaming is not interested in talking nonsense with these two couples, although it is necessary to be careful about doing business, but he must also be informed and interesting, if the tenant is of such quality, I don't know how troublesome it will be when the rent is increased in the future? Although he wants to make a good name in front of the villagers, he has no reason to suffer and let others get cheap.
'Hey, hey, hey', Li Jiaming laughed a few times, and deliberately lowered his voice: "Brother-in-law, Sister Su Hong, you don't think that I opened this price, and I can be the master of a little boy, right? ”
Oh, I see, several adults nodded again and again, and they didn't embarrass Li Jiaming, a junior. Also, although this guy is famous, he is only a half-big guy after all, which round will he be in charge of such a big matter?
But this cousin Su Hong really didn't know how long that brain grew, so she actually went to the street to do business, and she did quite well, she saw Li Jiaming's face was green, and pulled him and whispered: "Mingya, you tell your cousin the truth, how much is the rent of this store?
Hehehe, this is really brainless, Li Jiaming, who had no choice but to take her, scratched his head, and pretended to be sincere: "Cousin, in fact, I think it's not worth it for you to rent here, it's better to rent a little bit." Chongxiang Street is so big, how far can it go? Besides, my second uncle can earn tens of thousands of yuan by doing a project, and he offers 400 yuan, can you still tell him more than 100 yuan?
If you want me to say, you wait another two or three months, and when everyone's houses are ready, and there are more shops on the street, the price will naturally drop. ”
Li Jiaming said everything in order, and the expression on his face was sincere enough, which made several adults really embarrassed. The shop rent of 400 yuan is indeed too expensive, which is eight times more than the previous shop rent, although the brick house is much stronger than the wooden shed, and the area is two or three times larger than the previous wooden shed, but the business will not also rise seven or eight times!
Besides, who would be disgusted with a lot of money, even if there were idle storefronts on the street in the future, and the wind of 400 yuan had already been released here, who would easily let go and say that 178 yuan was coming? The National Day is coming, and if you can't rent a suitable storefront, and the street is full of scaffolding and can't set up stalls, isn't it that you can't make money?
It's a pity that Li Jiaming's third sister is too tender, and when she saw that her younger brother didn't even agree to one hundred and eighteen, she was a little nervous, which made the shrewd Jin Gan's brother-in-law notice something wrong.
"Mingya, my brother-in-law and your cousin worked outside for a few years, so they opened a small shop, and it is not easy to make money. In this way, my brother-in-law will give two hundred, and I really can't add more. How many new clothes can you put in a year, and if the big ones are worn out, they will be worn by the small ones?
Li Jiaming saw the nervousness of the third sister in the corner of his eyes, and smiled bitterly in his heart, so he had to make a look at the more clever thin dog, suggesting that he immediately went to ask the second aunt at home to raise the price again, but his face was as sincere as he was.
"Cousin, I'm just a little girl, how dare I call the shots about these things? I just live here, help my second uncle and second aunt watch the point, if you really want to rent here, you might as well go and discuss with my second aunt." ”
"I'm not talking about this, you can't be the master of your second uncle's storefront, you can't be the master of your own family?
Hehe, this is a bit too much, a favor is a favor, and business is a business, not to mention that everyone is not a very close relative.
Li Jiaming really didn't want to rent it to someone like her, but because of the third cousin's affection, he had to lie helplessly with a smile.
"Cousin, I can't do this.
Let me tell you the truth, you see, my third uncle's row of storefronts and houses, the storefronts are for my third sister and Manmei to study, and the house is for the eldest sister and second sister to marry.
Our row says that it belongs to my family, but in fact, the storefront and house here and here were all made by my father (father) borrowed money from my second uncle, and the shop and house in the middle were given to me by my second uncle. But which of these is my master?"
Li Jiaming's initiative to shake the ** made several adults curious, but after being curious, they also believed his statement.
Oh, Li Chuanmin has no children under his knees, so he must have told his younger brother that he would give this nephew who can read and have a conscience half of the house (succession), and give them a pension in the future. Since it is a house, it is reasonable to borrow money and give a house, but how can a cub who has no family property? To put it this way, although the brick houses of these three storefronts are all owned by Li Jiaming's family, this matter is indeed not something that he can say and a half, and it is Li Chuanmin and the two of them who can have the final say.
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