Jianghu Chapter 01 - Business is not good
On this day, Cao Xiaoyang in the town opened his shop early as usual.
It's just that business is clearly not what he expected. Seeing his daughter-in-law riding a bicycle to work in a textile factory on the verge of bankruptcy, Cao Xiaoyang really didn't feel good in his heart.
To open this shop, Cao Xiaoyang was thoughtful.
First, start a family on your own; Second, the age and experience are enough.
At first, the business was booming, which made him proud for a while. But it didn't take long for five or six businesses to open on this street in a row to steal business with themselves.
However, for the competition in the industry, Cao Xiaoyang has long expected it. What kind of business is easy to do now, as long as there is money to be made, there will be people who will follow suit. Then peers compete, reducing quality and driving down prices. In the end, everyone closed their doors.
Cao Xiaoyang has been honing in the market for many years, and he has long been prepared for this situation. Before others have even done it, they have adopted a "membership system" to attract customers. And he's more focused on repairing appliances for the town's catering customers.
For example, if someone's air conditioner is broken, they will knock on the door in the middle of the night, and Cao Xiaoyang will immediately go to the door to repair it. Then come back and make meticulous records, for his customers, when the business is not busy, he will take the initiative to go to the door to stroll around to see how other people's business is.
Still take the matter of repairing air conditioners as an example, how long the customer is open a day, and it is estimated that he should add "fluorine" after half a year or a year, he will make a record one by one, and take the initiative to go to the door to serve others when the time comes.
As for the refrigerator, Cao Xiaoyang not only warrants the replacement, but also replaces the parts. Even work on recycling was carried out.
In fact, many restaurants are getting better and better with their business, and the obsolete equipment is not all worn out and unusable. It's just that because of the expansion of the scale, the original refrigerator capacity was not enough. Cao Xiaoyang seized the opportunity to take care of the old refrigerator and sell it to the newly opened customers. The price is very low, but the profit is guaranteed.
Looking at her husband, the business is on the right track. Han Ergouzi's sister felt that her face was shining when she returned to the village, although her husband hadn't driven the car yet, who would dare to say that Cao Xiaoyang was in the Medicine King Valley and was not a person.
However, the good times were short-lived. Although Cao Xiaoyang has accumulated some stable customers, the new situation is not what he expected at all.
First of all, home appliances were originally considered an object, something that cost thousands of dollars. But I don't know when, the price suddenly became so cheap that it couldn't be cheaper.
A very good quality air conditioner, only a thousand dollars. Asking people to spend a few hundred yuan on repairs, not to mention that people are troublesome, and it is not much different from buying a new one.
In addition, merchants selling electrical appliances also provide trade-in services. However, according to Cao Xiaoyang's observation, after the old electrical appliances are recycled, they are basically scrapped and disposed of as scrap.
Some of the appliances that were actually used for less than a year were sold directly to the scrapyard when they went back.
If Cao Xiaoyang's path is followed, these refrigerators can be used for at least five or six years, and if Cao Xiaoyang continues to buy back, then there must be tens of thousands of refrigerators in his current shop.
And these things, after all, people don't buy them to repair them. Cao Xiaoyang himself doesn't want to do that lack of morality, every time he repairs others, he uses better quality parts, and the electrical appliances he repairs will not have problems for at least half a year.
As this goes on, the business is getting weaker and weaker.
Although your customers are very recognizable to your craft, no one will think of you if nothing is broken. Sometimes for two or three days in a row, a large business is useless, so Cao Xiaoyang is even considered to have business experience, and he panics.
Accounting for this little turnover every day, although there is still income, but he knows what awaits him behind. is to survive to the end, follow the trend of all the closure, and his business is actually not big. How can you tell your daughter-in-law this?
In order to expand his business, Cao Xiaoyang and a few friends started a business of providing travel guides to outsiders.
It's the kind that provides all kinds of equipment, food, accommodation.
There are mountains in my hometown, and I don't know how the people in this city thought that so many tourist attractions and historic sites would not go, and more and more people would go to the mountains where no one was. Some spontaneous tourist teams can give more than 10,000 at a time by themselves and a few brothers. But it was very hard, and I took this group of people to the mountains, sometimes for ten days. Fei had to crawl back tired of these people, and each dropped a few pounds of meat before it was over. The strange thing is that these people will also say: cool.
Isn't this man cheap?
What about this business, Cao Xiaoyang once watched the news broadcast and saw a spontaneous group of donkey friends, who had an accident while crossing the river while exploring, and a person died. I don't think it will last. I'm afraid that it won't be long before the mountain is almost ruined, and no one comes. Otherwise, you have to go to the more dangerous, inaccessible old woods.
Cao Xiaoyang was afraid when he thought about it. Everyone knows which is more important, life or money.
When my wife came back in the evening, as soon as she entered the courtyard gate, she said to Han Ergouzi: Do you know who I saw today?
Woman, if you want to ask you that, you don't have to say anything, just wait and listen. She asks this to tell you, take your ears and listen. Actually, I'm not asking you, and I don't care if you want to hear it or not.
You just don't want to hear it, she'll still say it. So, Cao Xiaoyang went over and took the bicycle from his wife's hand and waited for her to continue. Han Ergouzi's sister said mysteriously: Sanbao and Li Zhilan.
Cao Xiaoyang listened, and didn't react, but just promised: Yes, this town is not very big, isn't it every day?
Han Ergou's sister saw that her husband didn't react, so she added: People make cars. Seeing that Cao Xiaoyang was just pushing the car to the wall, he said in an accentuated tone: It's BMW. I heard that it will cost more than 300,000 yuan. Hey, did you hear that?
Of course Cao Xiaoyang heard it, and he heard it really. It's just that he didn't bother to say anything, so he went back to the house on his own.
Han Ergouzi's sister complained: Cao Xiaoyang, you~. Hmph~ You don't love me more and more now. However, she immediately reflected that how could a man be tight about his wife and say that other men were strong. So, I went to cook by myself.
Cao Xiaoyang returned to the house, but his wife's words just now were still swirling in his mind. He didn't understand, why did you say that the gap between this person was so big, and the people who could be counted as successful in the village back then were himself and Wang Jin. Who would have thought that in the past few years, people have driven hundreds of thousands of cars, and they are themselves. The more I thought about it, the more panicked I became. Suddenly, I saw the snake tongs made by myself in the corner of the wall. remembered that Han Ergouzi said that Wang Jin's illness has been cured in the past few days.
Speaking of Wang Jin, it was a few months ago.
I heard Han Ergouzi come to the town and say: Wang Jin is sick, I don't know why. They didn't know it was all about the Moon Bay conversation that night.
Han Ergouzi: Wang Jin's illness is not light, and he hasn't seen anyone for more than ten days.
I should have gone out. Later, he saw his dog in the yard.
Han Ergou went to his house to see Wang Jin, but Wang just didn't let him in, saying that he was very sick, except for his uncle and Uncle Wang in the village who came a few times. I never saw anyone.
First, Cao Xiaoyangshu was busy with the business at that time, and secondly, when he heard that Wang Jin was sick, the breeding matter, Cao Xiaoyang decided to put it aside for the time being. I didn't expect it to be more than three months.
A few days ago, Han Ergouzi came to the town to buy things, and by the way, he came to see his sister. Cao Xiaoyang saw that Han Ergouzi was carrying a lot of medicinal materials.
Han Ergouzi gave him a few words, as if Wang Jin came to find Ergouzi and asked him to help buy it. At that time, I also asked him if Wang Jin's illness was better. What Han Ergou said, I forgot. It seems to mean that the illness on the body should be cured and the complexion is good. However, people seem to have changed. I don't know what was going on in his mind. Even the Wang family said that the child was sick and had a high fever, and he was afraid that his brain was burned.
At this moment, I thought of Wang Jin. Cao Xiaoyang thought about finishing dinner in the evening, so he simply went back to the village to have a look. Calling his brother, strangely, both of their phones were turned off. So I called Han Ergouzi, and Han Ergouzi on the other side seemed to be busy with something in his hands. Cao Xiaoyang thought about it, and went back to the village in the evening to ask if Wang Jin was next door. Han Ergouzi suddenly said on the other side, someone is coming to the house, and he will hang up after calling him in a while. If you call again, it's turned off, maybe the phone is out of battery.
It happened that my wife was calling for dinner outside, so she came out to eat. At the dinner table, Cao Xiaoyang told his wife to go back to the village in a while. The second dog's sister knew that her husband was stimulated by what she said just now, and she was a little reluctant to go, so she naturally didn't stop it.
But it was dark. Ergouzi's phone didn't come either. Seeing that it's ten o'clock, I can't go back, so I can only change the day. But this has never happened before. Cao Xiaoyang had a premonition in his heart that something was going to happen!