Chapter 10: Current Status of the Mahogany Furniture Industry
The next day, Saturday.
The sky was gray, and there was no clear sky yesterday.
Seeing this damn weather, Li Yang planned not to go to Chongyang Island today, at this time, Chongyang Island must be very windy and waves, and there is only one tent on the island, and there is no place to stay.
"Boom... Boom... Boom..."
Hearing the knock on the door, Li Yang got up from the bed, feeling a little strange in his heart.
It's only 6 o'clock now, and my mother usually eats breakfast at about half past seven, is it early today?
With doubts, Li Yang opened the door, and a longing shadow appeared in his field of vision.
"Brother!"
With a slight cry, the slender figure poured directly into Li Yang's arms, hugging Li Yang almost out of breath.
"Little sister, I'm not talking about you, you're about to go to college, and you love to cry just as much as you did when you were a child."
Li Yang couldn't laugh or cry.
"Brother, you don't know how much I've missed you in the past three years, I thought you were going to be locked up in prison for the rest of your life."
Li Yue broke away from Li Yang's arms, and the pear blossom choked with rain.
Li Yue's facial features are exquisite, she is a beauty embryo when she is young, and her well-proportioned and slender figure cannot be covered up by an ordinary school uniform, and she looks pure and lovely without heavy makeup or light makeup.
"Okay, don't cry, aren't you coming out now, by the way, aren't you at school, why did you come back so early today?"
Li Yang didn't want to mention the past again, so he changed the topic.
"Stupid, it's Saturday!" Li Yue looked at Li Yang's stunned appearance, and suddenly burst into tears and laughed, and said: "Two days ago, my mother called and said that I wanted to come back the day you came back, but the head teacher said that the college entrance examination was about to be, and he didn't let me ask for leave. ”
"You, hurry up and take advantage of the last time to sprint and strive to get into a good university, don't be like my brother and me, you can't even go to college."
Li Yang encouraged.
"Brother, look at what you said, your college entrance examination results were the top of our Puyang City, if it weren't for that bad woman, my brother might have become a big man by now..."
Li Yue muttered quietly, looking at Li Yang's gradually gloomy expression, and when he learned that he had said the wrong thing, he quickly covered his mouth.
Li Yang was silent.
In the summer of 6 years ago, he became the champion of Puyang City with a score of 678 points in the college entrance examination.
And when he was in high spirits and ready to tell the good news to the one he loved the most, hoping to get praise from her, the reality gave him a painful blow.
As you might think, he was betrayed and was a man in his 30s.
Li Yang, who heard the news, felt that the sky was about to fall, and he suppressed his reason angrily, and he brought a fruit knife to lurk around the man, resulting in his life!
Since then, Li Yang has begun an endless life of fugitives.
From a role model for his neighbors to a notorious murderer.
There is a way, put down the butcher knife and become a Buddha on the ground, Li Yang did not choose the Buddha road, but became a demon.
He became a martial arts genius cultivated by the Mingyang Society, and in just three years, he rose to prominence, overwhelmed everyone, and quickly became the third giant in the association, the real ruler!
Looking back now, Li Yang couldn't help but sigh.
"Brother?"
Li Yue shouted cautiously.
"I'm fine." Li Yang shook his head and said with a smile: "Mom knows that you came back so early, breakfast must be ready, let's eat breakfast." ”。
"Okay."
Li Yue's two white little hands grabbed Li Yang's wrists and said obediently
After eating breakfast, Li Yang drove alone to Xianyou Craft City, a mahogany furniture processing factory opened by his uncle.
The furniture factory is located in the same place as the furniture sales office, and is divided into two buildings.
The storefront near the road is richly decorated, with four glass doors stacked on top of each other, and you can see a variety of mahogany furniture and crafts displayed outside the door.
There are many types of small pieces, including Buddha beads, wooden bowls, tea trays, chess, dim sum boxes, pen holders, jade ruyi, etc.
There are relatively few large items, such as large statues, antique wooden beds, wooden cabinets, tables and chairs...
Mahogany processing plants are generally located at the back of the storefront, on the one hand, for the convenience of supply, and on the other hand, because of the more wood dust generated during the processing process, which will affect the street environment.
Puyang City is the country's largest mahogany furniture producer, sitting on 80% of the country's market share, there are more people in this industry, and the money is relatively fast.
Like the local young people in their teens and twenties, the family will give two choices, one is to study, twenty to learn some craftsman carving techniques, engaged in the production of antique furniture, which is also the reason why my father proposed to let Li Yang go to the bigger uncle to learn the craft.
At the door of the uncle's store, Li Yang called the uncle.
After a few minutes, the uncle walked out of the store and greeted Li Yang.
"Uncle."
Li Yang said with a smile.
"Xiaoyang, I heard your father say that you came out of prison two days ago, and I will still be suspicious, but now I finally see the real person."
Uncle patted Li Yang's shoulder and said with a smile.
"Blame me for being busy with something a few days ago and not being able to visit my uncle earlier."
Li Yang said with a light smile on his face.
"It's inconvenient to tell the uncle what method you used to get out so quickly, don't fool the uncle with the matter of commutation, from life imprisonment to three years in prison, this span is absolutely impossible unless it is a national amnesty."
Uncle squinted with a glint in his eyes.
"My previous deeds, even if my uncle doesn't know a thing or two, there are some things that can't be done by normal means, but I didn't mess around in the previous years, as long as it's not a death penalty, it's not a difficult thing else."
Li Yang said indifferently.
"Okay, good, worthy of my Li Xiangyang's nephew." The uncle laughed and handed a cigarette to Li Yang: "Let's go, let's go in and talk." ”
Walking into the store, Li Yang suddenly felt the aroma of mahogany in the whole room, and the smell was refreshing, and there was no astringency.
"Sit, your sister sent me two catties of fourth-generation Dahongpao tea from Wuyi Mountain, and I will brew it for you to taste, more than three thousand yuan per catty."
Uncle sits in front of a delicate mahogany tea tray carved from the stems of a tree, and he is skilled in making tea.
Hujian Province is a large tea-producing province, with a long history of tea culture, and every household is equipped with tea utensils, once relatives and friends come to visit, or talk about business, it is inevitable to taste tea.
Li Yang took a sip of the big red robe tea brewed by the uncle, at first he just felt seven points of astringency, a slight tea fragrance, and a little bitter, but the next moment it was bitter and sweet, and the mouth was full of tea sweetness and aftertaste, Li Yang suddenly had the idea of wanting to plant tea on Chongyang Island.
"In recent years, there has been a strong demand for mahogany furniture, and the uncle wants to make a lot of money, right?"
Li Yang said.
"If it had been in previous years, it would have been true, but in recent years, the mahogany business has not been very easy."
Uncle smiled bitterly.
"Is the market saturated?"
Li Yang couldn't help asking.
In my impression, the mahogany furniture industry can be described as incomparably beautiful, and the country has held several craft exhibitions for this purpose, which is obviously vigorously supporting.
"It's not always saturated, it's related to the above policy." Uncle shook his head: "Isn't it a great fight against corrupt officials in the past two years, not only flies, but also how many national vice-level officials have been planted, our industry produces high-end luxury goods, and generally rich people or officials can afford it, do you think how many ordinary people will spend tens of thousands of yuan to buy a tea tray, and tens of millions to buy a set of furniture?" ”
Li Yang nodded slightly.
That's true.
Without these main buying forces, the decline of the mahogany furniture industry is inevitable.
"During this period of time, the profit has dropped by more than eighty percent compared to before, and I can only barely make ends meet, and now countless factories are closing down every day, uncle, this is not bad."
Uncle shook his head.
"Uncle, why don't you try online sales, many people buy things directly online now."
Li Yang proposed.
"We're different from anything else." Uncle said helplessly: "For example, the same tea tray, in addition to the labor costs, the cost of ordinary longan tree material processing is hundreds of yuan, expensive like small leaf red sandalwood, one can not get down at all without hundreds of thousands, but after the two kinds of wood are processed and coated, they look much different from the appearance, it is not easy to distinguish, there are many people who have been miserable by bad merchants before, and now few people are willing to buy mahogany furniture online, usually come to the physical store to buy." ”
"What can be sold on the Internet now is only small pieces such as Buddha beads, and I can't make much money."
It's really a hard to read scripture in every industry.
Li Yang sighed in his heart, sure enough, business is not something that everyone can do, but... Who allowed himself to have purple liquid?
With this thing, any difficulty can be solved!