Chapter 45: Helping Hands
"Brother Lu, I've done the math for you, in fact, it's very profitable to sell fish balls."
"The purchase price of a fish ball is three cents, a bowl of 7 to 8 pieces, and the cost price does not exceed two yuan and a half."
"Counting disposable plastic bowls, chopsticks, soup stock, and gas bills, the total cost is about four yuan."
"A bowl sells for seven yuan, we can net three yuan, and a hundred bowls are three hundred."
"There is a lot of traffic in the night market, as long as you know how to shout, it is not difficult to sell 100 bowls, so it is 9,000 yuan a month."
"In the second month, we can get two more food trucks to sell in front of the school and other night markets."
"At most, in half a year, we can open our own fish ball shop, and then we can not only sell fish balls, beef brisket noodles, bacon rice, and car noodles can also be sold together."
"When you make money, you will open a second branch, one will become two, two will become four, after the reputation on Hong Kong Island, we will enter Taiwan Island and Fuso, when we have a hundred stores, we will set up our own chain brand, when you will be the chairman, I will be your general manager."
Wang Gangsheng looked happy, and said to Lu Ze beautifully.
Lu Ze looked at Wang Gangsheng again and again: "You are quite knowledgeable, and you also know chain brands, it seems that you have not been in Hong Kong Island in vain these days."
But have you ever thought about it, suppose a person, it takes 20 minutes to eat a bowl of fish balls, you have four tables, you can seat 16 people at a time, and when it is full, you have to take 3 hours to serve 100 people. ”
"There are so many people, how can you be busy alone, why do you have to hire a helper."
"The helper is 80 yuan a day, so at the end of the day, your net profit will be 220."
"You have four tables, and the business is still so hot, how can you add the ten-yuan booth fee to 50, and now you have 170 left."
"When others see you selling fish balls to make money, they also sell them, share your customer flow, and fight a price war with you."
"In order to maintain the flow of people, you either reduce the price or add more fish balls, and it is difficult to maintain the original profit."
"After a month, I take a day off when I am sick, and it is windy and rainy for three or five days."
"At the end of the month, as soon as you settle the account, it will only be four or five thousand yuan, which is more than what you earn at work, and it is difficult to get rich."
Yes!!
Wang Gangsheng's face completely collapsed.
It's like a snowman that melts under the sun.
"The reality is cruel, it's so easy to get rich, isn't everyone a millionaire."
Lu Ze lit a cigarette for himself: "Actually, I don't blame you, you haven't done business, you just talk on paper, of course it's very beautiful." ”
"In fact, unless it is a monopoly business, or you have made a trick, others can't learn it, otherwise as long as you make money, others will inevitably follow suit."
Lu Ze has seen this kind of thing a lot.
There is no technical content in selling fish balls, and there are a few fish ball shops on the street.
Wang Gangsheng thought very well, but it was unrealistic.
Unless she is the protagonist and points to the smooth wind and water characteristic, it is difficult to toss.
After all, Hong Kong Island is not a Yan country, and now Yan Country is poor and white, and there are very few people who can do business.
Hong Kong Island is different, the economy is developed, and there are people doing profitable business.
Unless you find another way, or take advantage of the loopholes in the law, it will not be your turn even if there is a way.
As soon as you started doing it, the capitalists entered the market, using the power of capital and your way to make a lot of money, you run a small business, how to fight with them.
The following day.
Lu Ze continued to lurk with people, waiting for Bai Xiong to slip through the net.
Wang Gangsheng is like a frosted eggplant, he doesn't know the taste of food, and he doesn't know what he's thinking.
It's a pity that at the end of the day, Bai Xiong still didn't show up, and it seems that the trading time has been delayed again.
"It's been a day, it's like losing your soul, what do you think?"
The mall was closed at night, and Lu Ze walked in front with a cart.
"It's nothing, I just feel that the future is dark and I can't find the sun."
Wang Gangsheng said weakly.
When Lu Ze saw her like this, he regretted interrupting her dream a little.
It's not scary to be alive, it's scary to be hopeless.
"Are you going to set up a stall tonight?"
Lu Ze changed the subject: "There are a lot of fish balls left today, enough to cook forty or fifty bowls." ”
"Go, why don't you go, I need money very much."
Wang Gangsheng took the cart and was not polite to Lu Ze.
Lu Ze helped her count the fish balls, and suddenly thought of a question: "You said that you have no relatives on Hong Kong Island and have nowhere to go, so where do you stay at night?" ”
"This..."
Wang Gangsheng was a little embarrassed to speak, and muttered in a low voice: "The phone booth is over." ”
"Sleep in a phone booth!"
Lu Ze looked Wang Gangsheng up and down for a while: "You are so beautiful, and you are not afraid of being harassed?" ”
"Why don't you be afraid, I don't dare to sleep to death when I sleep, and I only dare to sleep in a phone booth with a street lamp next to it, just for fear of meeting bad people."
"But yesterday was okay, I opened a cheap hotel, slept fairly comfortably, and even took a shower."
Wang Gangsheng looked at Lu Ze with a grateful face: "Brother Lu, you are really my nobleman, if I Wang Gangsheng mixes well on Hong Kong Island in the future, I will definitely not forget to repay you." ”
Hehe...
Lu Ze smiled bitterly.
A woman, who has no relatives and no skills, is not easy to make a name for herself on Hong Kong Island.
Looking at Wang Gangsheng in front of him, Lu Ze couldn't help but think of Ah Chang.
When Ah Chang first came to Hong Kong Island a few years ago, she may have had fantasies about Hong Kong Island.
Reality defeated him and made her fall into the dust, and she could only make a living by laughing.
But Ah Chang is lucky to have met a good big brother, Tan Yaowen.
Yao Wenzhen regarded her as his own sister, blessed her, and let her have something to rely on.
Without Tan Yaowen, I'm afraid Ah Chang would still be making pheasants and opening a fruit shop, don't even think about it.
"Brother Lu...
"Don't call me Brother Lu, call me Brother Ze, everyone around me calls me that."
"Brother Ze, I..."
Wang Gangsheng hesitated a little, and said tentatively: "Can I go to live with you, I have no place to live now." ”
"Me?"
Lu Ze frowned slightly.
He has a place to live there, but let Wang Gangsheng move over, I'm afraid Guan Qingqing will be jealous when he finds out.
Hey!!
Lu Ze raised his eyebrows, why did he want Guan Qingqing to know.
Guan Qingqing's family education is strict, and Guan's father doesn't let her stay overnight at all, and he won't go to his rental house easily.
If Wang Gangsheng is only allowed to live for a few days and let her leave after finding a job, there is no need to let Guan Qingqing know.
"Okay, I'm quite big over there, I'll give you the study, and you can add a bed to live in."
"I'll go back and ask you again, I know a friend named Ah Chang, she runs a fruit shop."
"Ask her if she wants someone, if you want to go to her to work, and when it stabilizes, you have other ideas before you talk about anything else."
In the past few days, Wang Gangsheng's situation has been figured out by Lu Ze.
She was smuggled, but she was born on Hong Kong Island and has a Hong Kong Island identity card.
There is no one in my hometown anymore, and I was planning to smuggle myself to Hong Kong Island with my cousin Wei Xiong to join my third aunt, but I was separated from my cousin when I crossed the border.
The third aunt also refused to take her in, she had no relatives on Hong Kong Island, and had been living on the streets for two or three days when she met Lu Ze.
So beautiful.
Is it appropriate for such a miserable girl to let her live on the streets.
There are so many thugs on the street, the devil knows what will be done to her.
A righteous gentleman like Lu Ze, of course, can help if he can.
Don't you sit idly by?