Chapter 36: Chinese New Year
Back at home, Zhao Changfeng told his parents about Lin Dongfeng's suggestion. The two briefly discussed it, and felt that this matter was doable, so they agreed. Especially my mother, I had to go to the 7447 market to find the management office to rent a stall. Father hurriedly smiled and stopped, seeing that the Chinese New Year is coming, there are a few left-behind personnel in the management office, where do you have any intention to negotiate with you about renting out a stall? It's not too late to go after the New Year.
Although she couldn't rent a stall immediately, her mother's interest was undiminished, and she sat down and thought about how to do business for the New Year: since it was a long-term business, she couldn't be short-sighted and just focus on the little interests in front of her. The price of the item should be slightly cheaper, so that it can attract regular customers to come back for more. We can't just stare at these customers who come to the market, we must have a strategic vision and take the initiative to target the whole Shanyang City. She could guard the stalls in the market, and her father would run a number of restaurants and hotels all over the city, where dry goods were in high demand. Especially in those high-end restaurants, high-grade raw materials are used for cooking, and as long as our dry goods are of good quality, they will definitely not worry about sales.
Zhao Changfeng couldn't help but burst out laughing when he heard his mother say the word "strategy", obviously he was just opening a dry goods store, and listening to his mother use this word, it seemed that he was going to do some great business......
With a plan for their future life, my father and mother no longer see the feeling of being at a loss when the factory first closed, and they are now in high spirits, and their whole body seems to be full of energy, and the family is filled with a joyful atmosphere.
After buying enough New Year's goods, I moved the briquette stove to the yard, my father set up an oil pot and began to fry croquettes, fried soybean, fried chicken nuggets, fried hairtail, fried tofu, and my mother cooked meat and steamed buns in the kitchen.
Zhao Changfeng didn't know anything about this, so naturally he didn't help much. However, he did not use this time to run around with his classmates as in previous years, but hid at home and thought about problems.
Zhao Changfeng found that what he studied in college was a bit off. Although Zhao Changfeng majored in finance, in addition to his major, his favorite study is the political field, and compared with boring and useless economic data analysis, Zhao Changfeng feels that how to grasp the psychological changes between people in the agency is more challenging. But after this family change, Zhao Changfeng suddenly found that he lacked a lot in the business field. When his parents lost their jobs, Zhao Changfeng's first thought was to support himself through work-study, but he didn't think of making a suggestion to his parents to do something to change the family's embarrassment. If it weren't for Lin Dongfeng, I'm afraid Zhao Changfeng would still be thinking about how to find a part-time job to earn a pitiful living expenses!
At the beginning, Zhao Changfeng's first thought was the question of conditions. Because the family conditions are not easy and there is no capital, it is naturally impossible to think about how to do business. Later, Zhao Changfeng found out that this was purely a matter of concept. If he had this idea of doing business, then nothing would have been a problem. If you don't have the capital, you can borrow a little from relatives and friends, not to mention a lot, you can always borrow three or two thousand yuan, right? Even if you can't borrow it, you still have a little savings at home, and you can come up with a thousand or eight hundred yuan, right? Well, there is more money and more money, and less money and less money. Since Lin Dongfeng has a warehouse in Zhongzhou City, it means that the goods he exchanged from Russia must also be wholesaled in Zhongzhou. So as long as Zhao Changfeng goes to the market to find it, even if he doesn't know Lin Dongfeng, he can find the Russian black fungus wholesaled by Lin Dongfeng or other people. Of course, the price of black fungus may not be as cheap as what Lin Dongfeng gives him now, but it will always leave him some profit margin, right? You can't make five yuan a catty, but you can always make two or three yuan of profit, right? The cost is small, it is nothing more than two more trips and more freight. So as long as the parents can eat hard, they can earn seven or eight hundred yuan a month selling dry goods in the market, right? Will they still worry about their future lives?
Zhao Changfeng knew that both of his parents were ordinary workers, and they had no other skills, but they could endure hardships. The reason why I was at a loss during that time was that I couldn't find a way to live? My parents have been workers all my life, and I don't know much about it, and I don't know what to do to make money even if I want to do business. But Zhao Changfeng is a college student, and he has studied in college for two and a half years, why doesn't he even have this knowledge? Haven't you ever thought of a way for your parents to make money?
Zhao Changfeng reflected deeply, and felt that his knowledge structure was indeed very problematic, and it seemed that he should study business in addition to politics, and only in this way would he have one more way to solve problems in the future.
Thinking about this, Zhao Changfeng immediately went to Xinhua Bookstore to buy some books on economic management and began to make up for it, and now there is still a year and a half before he graduates from college, as long as he works hard now, Zhao Changfeng believes that he still has some basic areas in the business field thoroughly.
The year passed quietly in Zhao Changfeng's crazy reading.
On the eighth day of the first lunar month, after the seven-day Spring Festival holiday, people began to officially go to work. Zhao Changfeng's father brought some snacks to the 7447 market management office to discuss the matter of renting a stall. Just after the New Year, people were in a good mood, and Zhao Changfeng's father brought gifts again, so the negotiation with the market management office was quite smooth. There was almost no waste of words, and Zhao Changfeng's father rented a stall in the northeast corner at a price of 80 yuan a month.
Back at the family home, when the workers of the Red Star Machinery Factory heard that Zhao Changfeng's father had rented a two-meter-long stall in the 7447 market at a price of 80 yuan a month, they couldn't help but be surprised, and they all said that Zhao Changfeng's father was crazy! You know, at that time, 80 yuan was a big number, and you could rent a good house in the center of Shanyang City. But Zhao Changfeng's father is now renting a two-meter-long bare cement platform, isn't this something that only a madman can do?
Of course, there are also people who have seen Zhao Changfeng's parents selling black fungus in the market a few days before the Chinese New Year, and know that they have made some money. But isn't that just in time for the Chinese New Year? Oh, is it said that every day is the New Year, and every day there is money falling from the sky for you to pick up?
Zhao Changfeng's parents just couldn't hear people's cynicism, and they didn't bother to explain anything. The water is not deep, and only those who have gone down the river know it. What qualifications do those who stand on the shore have to say that the water is deep and shallow? Whether renting a stall makes money or not, Zhao Changfeng's parents naturally know it. Although they had only sold the black fungus for three days, they were already qualified enough to comment on the depth of the river.
After the booth was negotiated, Zhao Changfeng immediately called Lin Dongfeng from a public phone. Lin Dongfeng's warehouse still had some goods in stock, and he picked a few and sent them to Zhao Changfeng, so that Zhao Changfeng's father could sell them in the stall first. As for the large quantities of goods, they will return to Suifenhe in a few days, and they will send them directly from Suifenhe when the time comes.
Zhao Changfeng thanked him again.
In the afternoon of the same day, Lin Dongfeng's goods were piggybacked on by long-distance bus. Zhao Changfeng's father borrowed a tricycle to pick up the goods at the bus station, and he couldn't stop laughing all the way - this is all money.
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, his mother got up early to cook a big bowl of Lantern Festival for Zhao Changfeng, and after Zhao Changfeng ate it beautifully, he said goodbye to his parents with a smile and took the train back to school to report.
At this moment, Zhao Changfeng was in a very happy mood, and he didn't know that a crisis was quietly coming to him.
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