Chapter 120: Heading South
The next day, we first went to the library, because I wanted to find the kind of business yellow pages first, which contains the names of many different manufacturers, the types of products they produce, and their contact information. It's really the emperor who paid off, and finally let me find it, and I also found a few copies, which are from the last few years.
After finding it, we started to go to the supermarket again, and I asked Xiao Xia to take notes and learn from other people's business models. Look at how clothes are on sale, put summer clothes on sale in winter, and put winter clothes on sale in summer, speed up the renewal of clothing types, and speed up the flow of funds. The first two months before the expiration of food must be treated at a special price, otherwise it will become expired food, which is a crime. When all goods, no matter what kind of goods they are, once there is a long-term unsalable situation, they must be dealt with at a special price, which is a law, so that more novel products can come in and speed up the circulation of goods.
We visited several large supermarkets before we shifted our focus to finding manufacturers. So, we found a lot of relevant manufacturers through the Yellow Pages, most of which are in Shenzhen and Zhuhai, so we planned to visit them in person.
We first went to Shenzhen, where we visited three electrical appliance factories and three daily necessities manufacturers, and both sides signed some contracts. Later, we went to Zhuhai again, found three garment factories and three food factories, and also signed some contracts, and negotiated the price and payment method. But these bosses are all very, and they all praise my girlfriend Xiao Xia for her beauty, but how do they know that she likes to do that kind of exercise with me very much, and regardless of the venue, and we secretly did it once in the bathroom of their factory.
Among them, the owner of a garment factory, Mr. Zeng, is very good at dealing with people, and before signing the contract, he took us everywhere to play, went to the beach by the sea to play, and even went to the customs clearance to Macau to play.
Remembering that I was going to Macau before the start of the World Cup next year, I asked him: "Mr. Zeng, how do you get to Macau from here?" ”
"What, Boss Chen, do you want to go over and play?" Mr. Zeng said to me.
"yes, I want to have a good time." I replied to him.
"There are two ways to go in the past, one is to apply for a passport and visa according to the formal procedures, but the time is too long, and it will not work without ten days and a half months; There is also smuggling, which is short in time but risky. ”
"It seems that I should go through the regular channels! How do you bring the money over? I asked him again.
"It's best not to bring a lot of cash, it's not allowed, unless you have a strong relationship. If the amount is large, it is better to bring a check, and it is the kind of check that can be cashed there, and I know that there is a bank here that can handle it. However, you can not use RMB over there, generally the local Austrian dollar, Hong Kong dollar, and US dollar, and the US dollar is the most versatile, so before you go, you had better exchange RMB for US dollars and then for checks. He explained them to me one by one.
"Thank you, I'll go back next year! I'll be sure to ask you for help when the time comes. I replied to him.
"It's my pleasure to be willing to help you." He said to me politely.
"It's not too early, so let's go back and sign the contract!" I reciprocated to him.
"Okay, okay. We'll go back right away. With that, he drove us to his factory.
After signing the contract, he invited me and Xiao Xia to have a big meal before letting us go back to the hotel. The next day, Xiao Xia and I went to the beach for another day, because it was not fun for someone to follow. The two of us went alone, Xiao Xia and I also did a few exercises on the beach, and we enjoyed the blue sky and blue sea very much.
When we left, we still had a lot of aftertastes. Sitting on the bus, looking at the dense and distant traffic, these strange and familiar scenes, I remembered the situation in the previous life, I came here to work for more than ten years, experienced all kinds of ups and downs, tasted all the flavors of the world, sighed in my heart, remembered that 8 will experience such a story in the future? Probably not!
In fact, there is nothing wrong with tasting these hardships, at least I have learned a lot of principles of being a person and doing things; At least I know a lot of things that don't come easily; At least we have learned to cherish; At least we've grown. As tear-jerking as our story is, it resonates.
At this time, I remembered Li Chunbo's song "Who Can Tell Me": The years that I once made a difficult choice and broke my dreams will never fade in my memory......
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