Chapter 4 Nuggets Opportunity
The next day, Shen Chong was in a daze and was woken up by the ringing of the phone.
"Hello?"
"Mr. Shen? Not at home? A loud voice came from the phone, and he asked like a cannonball, "There is a buyer who wants to see the house, is it convenient now?" â
"Okay, you can bring it here."
Putting down the phone, Shen Chong turned over and sat up, only to feel dry mouth and dizziness.
It's not a hangover, I didn't drink a few sips of wine last night, mainly because I didn't sleep well, I first drew a design picture until midnight, and after lying in bed, my brain was like boiling hot water, turning over all kinds of strange thoughts, no way, who let the information content obtained yesterday a little big...... I couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning, and I tossed until dawn, and then I fell asleep half-asleep and half-awake.
Psychologically no...... It seems that it is important to learn more from Li Kaiyuan and maintain a good mood.
Thinking too much, with the expansion of the scope of communication, in the future, maybe every day you can encounter ten or eight messages containing great opportunities, if every time it is like last night, let alone thirty years, three months will be nervous breakdown, three years will be dead.
Looking at the time, it was already more than ten o'clock, Shen Chong hurriedly took a shower, cleared his mind, and then walked into the study, put away the letters and drawings that had not yet been sent, and then heard a knock on the door.
There are three buyers to see the house, a small couple, and a mother-in-law, which is standard for buying a house.
"Na, look, how good this apartment is, look here, the kitchen is clean, there is no oil smoke on the wall, the same as the new house, and here, look, you can see Furen Street from here, the distance is just right, it is convenient to buy things, and it is not noisy......"
Shen Chong let them in, stood aside by himself, and let the intermediary take the buyers to visit, and introduced them in a frenzy.
After a while, the man also came over and pulled out a pack of cigarettes.
"Thanks, won't smoke." In his previous life, Shen Chong was full of cigarettes and alcohol, but after crossing over, his addiction to smoking seemed to be gone, and he just quit.
"It's a nice house." The man was wearing glasses, and he put away his cigarette and asked, "Why do you want to sell it?" â
"My parents died, and I still have to go to school." Shen Chong took out the excuse that he had prepared a long time ago, "HKU, the tuition fee is too expensive, and it can't be sold if you don't sell it." â
"A top student at HKU." The man expressed his admiration -- The University of Hong Kong is a product of the British colonial policy, and most of the high-level staff of the Hong Kong government have graduated from the University, and it is known as a training base for civil servants, and it has a special status in the hearts of Hong Kong people.
"Excuse me, I'll ask." The man with glasses hesitated for a moment, then asked, "You... How did your parents die? â
"I was in a car accident and was hit in Causeway Bay." Shen Chong explained that buying a second-hand house is understandable that it is very taboo to have unfortunate things in the family.
"Oh." The man with glasses didn't seem to be very good at words, so he held back for a while, said "Condolences and change", and then walked back and whispered a few words to his wife and mother-in-law.
After a while, the man with glasses came over again, Shen Chong felt that there was a drama - accompanying a woman to buy a house is a more uncomfortable thing than accompanying a woman to go shopping, looking at his relaxed appearance now, it is estimated that the two women are quite satisfied with this house, and it is probably settled.
"My name is Wen Renjie." The man with glasses introduces himself.
"Shen Chong." After shaking hands casually, Shen Chong said, "The surname Wenren is quite rare. â
"You are the first to know that my surname is Wenren, and others think my surname is Wen." The man with glasses was surprised at first, and then quickly relieved, "There are so many books in the study, and your parents are intellectuals, right?" â
"Sort of." Shen Chong smiled, he was actually playing a web game, and he knew this compound surname when he took a random name......
Shen Chong and Wen Renjie chatted nonsense, and didn't notice a Lori figure flashing at the door.
The house is not big, only 78 square meters in total, and the two women turned around three or four times, and they were also optimistic, so they sat down to talk about the price.
After arguing for a while, Shen Chong half-pushed and half-agreed to give away all the furniture and electrical appliances, finalized the transaction price of 450,000 yuan, initialed the agreement, and then made an appointment for the time to go through the house transfer procedures.
As soon as the buyer left, Li Kaiyuan came to the door, her face was flushed, she was slightly short of breath, obviously she heard the news and hurried over, followed by a small tail.
As soon as they met, she asked loudly: "Ah Chong, what are you selling the house for?" â
Before Shen Chong could explain, she said like a cannon: "You can tell me if you are short of money, although my family is not rich, there is always money for you to go to school, how can you sell the house left by your parents!" â
Shen Chong's heart was moved, Li Kaiyuan was really good to him.
"Sister Yuan Yuan, you misunderstood, I didn't sell my house because I was short of money for studying."
"What's that for?"
Shen Chong beckoned Li Kaiyuan into the study, took out the design drawings he drew last night, and said, "This is the toy drawing I designed, Sister Yuanyuan, you are an expert, help me see how much it costs to do this?" â
"The toys you designed?" Li Kaiyuan glanced at the drawings casually, frowned and asked, "You sold the house and went into the toy business?" â
"yes."
"Nonsense, you nerd, what kind of business!" Li Kaiyuan roared loudly, and Li Tianbao grimaced at Shen Chong on the side-it was the first time that my sister taught Brother Chong so loudly.
"Isn't this Sister Yuanyuan?" Shen Chong said with a dead smile: "Sister Yuanyuan, don't you want to resign, resign and start this toy business with me." â
"You're a ghost." Li Kaiyuan was laughed and cried by Shen Chong, and said weakly: "I haven't resigned yet." â
"Quit, Aunt Liu, I'll help you." Shen Chong looked indifferent, "Help me see how much it costs to do this first." â
Seeing what Shen Chong said, Li Kaiyuan had no choice but to pick up the drawings, looked at them carefully, asked Shen Chong a few more questions, calculated silently for a while, and said: "The material is not worth a few dollars, aBs plastic is very cheap, mainly labor costs, your toy, the structure is a bit complicated, and it has to be assembled manually." â
"And how much do you estimate the cost?"
"The cost of materials is very low, about two yuan." Li Kaiyuan was angry and disdainful, "The key is the labor cost, this thing has never been done, who knows how much time it takes to assemble one, how to calculate the cost?" What a nerd, not business material at all! â
Shen Chong touched his nose and smiled awkwardly, a little anxious and embarrassed.
"Brother Chong, what's this toy called?" Li Tianbao leaned on the chair and looked at the design drawings over and over, "It looks so complicated, it should be fun." â
"This is called the Rubik's Cube, the Magic Cube, referred to as the Rubik's Cube."
"Rubik's Cube?" Li Kaiyuan stared at Shen Chong and dissuaded: "The name is weird." Ah Chong, why do you want to make this thing, now the business is not easy to do, and the risk is very high. â
"Sister Yuan Yuan, if I sue you, this toy contains a lot of mathematical knowledge, can exercise the brain, improve intelligence, open imagination, exercise memory, and is simple and easy to use, very fun, can be entertaining, has a lot of benefits for children's growth, the price is not expensive, will you buy one for Tianbao?"
"If there is such a toy, of course I will buy it." Li Kaiyuan did not hesitate, and then asked rhetorically: "Speaking of the sky, your Rubik's Cube is so magical?" â
"Of course!" Shen Chong's answer was straightforward and confident.
Of course I was confident!
Rubik's Cube is the best educational toy that has stood the test of time and has been popular in the world for more than 30 years since the Ming Dynasty.
In his previous life, Shen Chong was particularly obsessed with the Rubik's Cube for a while, and in order to play well, he checked a lot of information, and when he graduated from college, his thesis was about the Rubik's Cube, and he knew it well.
There are different types of Rubik's cubes, such as second-order Rubik's cubes, third-order Rubik's cubes, fourth-order Rubik's cubes, fifth-order Rubik's cubes, etc., among which the second-order Rubik's cubes appeared very early, but they were too simple and not popular.
In 1974, Professor Rubik Airne of the Budapest School of Architecture in Hungary learned about the third-order Rubik's Cube in order to help students understand the composition and structure of space cubes.
The first batch of third-order Rubik's cubes were sold in toy stores in Budapest in 1977, due to the Cold War, the Western world did not know anything about this thing, in 1978, at an international conference of mathematicians held in Helsinki, Finland, Hungarian mathematicians introduced the Rubik's Cube to the experts and scholars attending the meeting, only a few people in the Western world knew about the existence of this toy, but it did not attract widespread attention.
In 1979, the owner of a toy company in the United Kingdom went on a business trip to Hungary, and now has a third-order Rubik's Cube, such as a treasure, so he cooperated with Rubik and took the Rubik's Cube to participate in the International Toy Fair held at the beginning of 198o, causing a sensation, the Rubik's Cube quickly swept the world, in just two years, the genuine Rubik's Cube alone has sold more than 2oo thousand, and the number of pirated copies is several times that of the genuine version, by the mid-8o, nearly 1o billion people in the world have played the Rubik's Cube.
The Rubik's Cube has low cost and low requirements for start-up capital, as long as it is operated properly, it will soon be able to sweep the world and bring rolling financial resources, which is an excellent choice for digging the first pot of gold.
What's even better is that Rubik only applied for a domestic patent in Hungary, not an international patent, and in 1979, the Rubik's Cube had already passed the international patent protection period, and there was no problem with the ZĂ i patent at all in the production and manufacture of the Rubik's Cube.
What Shen Chong is doing now is to grab a time gap with the British toy company and take the lead in the market before they show the Rubik's Cube.
Shen Chong remembered that the British toy company was extremely shameless, after the Rubik's Cube, in order to monopolize the interests, he tried every means to exploit the loopholes of the law and applied for the "Rubik's Cube Copyright" for Professor Rubik.
Yet paradoxically, the toy company succeeded.
Since then, the third-order Rubik's cube has become Rubik's exclusive business, and he is the only one in the world who can produce the third-order Rubik's cube......
If Shen Chong preemptively occupies the Rubik's Cube market and cuts off the path of the British greedy small company from the root, there should be no more "Rubik's Cube copyright" from now on, and it will benefit the majority of Rubik's Cube lovers in the future.
Moreover, in this era, the dissemination of information is limited, and there is the Cold War Iron Curtain, and when Rubic wants to find fault with Shen Chong's Rubik's Cube, Shen Chong has already made a lot of money, and even if he finds fault, Shen Chong is not afraid, the Rubik's Cube design he drew is a version that has been improved by many masters in later generations, the structure is stronger, and the slide is smoother, and Rubik's third-order Rubik's cube structure is not the same, and Rubik competes in the market, and it is completely worthy of him.
"Bragging!"
Shen Chong's self-confidence didn't seem to be convincing, Li Tianbao didn't hesitate to give him a big white eye, and Li Kaiyuan's eyes flashed thoughtfully.
"Little girl...... will be trick-or-treating. Shen Chong rubbed Li Tianbao's head, groaned slightly, and said, "The drawings don't look convincing, so let's do it, Uncle Li is not at home?" Ask him to make a sample out of wood, and you'll know that what I'm saying is true. â
"Okay." Li Kaiyuan stood up, rolled up the drawings, and said, "Let's go, go to the Yindu Theater to find my father now." â
Li Tang used to be a props supervisor in the Great Wall Film Company, with a pair of skillful hands, as long as there are drawings, anything can be done, and it should be no difficult for him to make a few Rubik's Cube samples.
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