The 80s were the heyday of video game arcades, and it was definitely fashionable for teenagers to spend three or five dollars to play a few popular arcade games in the arcade.

Baicheng is a third-tier city, and most of the existing video game halls in the urban area are simple shops with two or three arcade machines in the streets and alleys, and there are only a handful of mid-range game halls with five or six arcade machines, and large game halls with more than ten arcade machines are unheard of.

As a well-informed traverser, Geng Wenyang is of course a big ticket to do it. He originally wanted to get thirty or fifty machines and open the largest game hall in the province, so as to use it as a gimmick to attract customers.

It's a pity that Baicheng is a relatively conservative medium-sized city, and if he really does this, he will definitely attract the attention of all sides, thus causing unnecessary trouble.

So in line with the principle of making a lot of money in a low-key manner, he decided to open a quasi-large game hall with ten arcade machines to test the water, and then decide how to develop in the future according to the business situation.

Opening a video game arthore requires a series of tedious tasks such as site selection, machine purchase, recruitment, and formalities. Geng Wenyang had already planned for this, he took a fancy to a private house with a small courtyard on the street of Caojia Street, and planned to buy it and renovate it as a place to open a game hall.

Caojia Street is located in a residential area, surrounded by a number of primary and secondary schools, so there is probably no problem in opening a video game arcade.

In the late eighties, working-class housing was still divided by the welfare of enterprises or units. The house assigned to the employee only has the right to live in, but has no ownership, so it cannot be bought or sold. Only the private houses of local residents have the house capital, which can be transferred through sale and purchase.

Geng Wenyang's fancy of the three street-facing houses is a private house surnamed Liu, in addition to the street-facing house, it also has a small courtyard, toilets, kitchens and other supporting living facilities.

The owner of the house, named Liu Aiguo, is an ordinary worker in the maintenance workshop of Baicheng Weaving Factory No. 3. At the end of last year, the No. 3 Weaving Factory built a number of new welfare units in the western suburbs, and allocated the housing to workers who met the conditions before the Spring Festival.

Liu Aiguo has worked in the No. 3 Weaving Factory for more than ten years, and his own conditions have long met the qualifications for welfare subdivision. It's just that because he has his own house, he is not a houseless household and cannot participate in the distribution of social housing.

The welfare house built by the unit is a building with water, electricity and toilets, which is far more comfortable than living in the old house. In order to be able to get a new house, Liu Aiguo secretly gave a gift to the leader in charge of logistics, and finally got his wish and got a brand-new welfare unit under the pretext that the old house had been sold.

But after all, the paper could not contain the fire, and the workers who were squeezed down by him from the list of subdivisions quickly inquired about his old house and did not sell it, and immediately sued the factory in righteous indignation.

The leader in charge of logistics was afraid of being implicated, so he privately urged him to quickly deal with the affairs of the old house. In desperation, Liu Aiguo reluctantly cut his love and planned to sell the old house left by his ancestors.

It's just that now people with units are waiting for free housing for welfare, who will spend a lot of money to buy a house?

What's more, the area of his family's three adobe houses is about seventy or eighty square meters, and according to the estimate of 100 yuan per square meter, it must be a small 10,000 yuan. Except for the southerners who came to the city to buy and sell small goods, who in the local area was willing to spend such a large sum of money to buy his dilapidated old house.

Therefore, although Liu Aiguo asked people to sell it everywhere, the house was never sold.

Geng Wenyang inquired about the situation of the householder and the house, but he did not have enough money in his hand to buy real estate, so he could only wait until he had made enough money from the treasury bills before making a calculation.

Hopefully, by that time, Liu Aiguo's house has not been sold.

A few days later, on Sunday, Geng Wenyang brought Xin Xudong, Du Chengdong and others to tell them in detail about his plans.

Xin Xudong said: "Lao Geng, why are you getting some treasury bills?" That thing doesn't make money, it's like waste paper and no one wants it. ”

Sun Hao said kindly: "What Xudong said is right, my parents pay treasury bills as wages in the factory, and they can only throw them in a drawer to eat ashes when they are brought back." It is said that it will expire in five years, and prices have risen so fast, and I don't know what it will be like in five years. ”

Geng Wenyang couldn't say it clearly, so he had to say: "I have my own usefulness for this, so don't ask." ”

He then added: "When you receive the treasury bills, the price that comes to me is seventy-five dollars. That is to say, no matter what the purchase price is, I will give you seventy-five. ”

"Besides......" he added, "I will give you ten dollars a week for running errands, what do you think?" ”

Xin Xudong and the others didn't expect such a good thing, and they excitedly rubbed their hands and said, "Oops! Lao Geng, you are too generous, give us back the money. We're buddies, shouldn't we be supposed to help? ”

"Two different things." Geng Wenyang said with a smile: "I will give each of you 1,000 yuan to make a book, and settle it on Monday, starting from today." ”

"Okay!" Xin Xudong first said: "You give me the money, and I'll run now." ”

Geng Wenyang advised: "Guys, I repeat, you must not accept it from relatives and friends, and you must go to a strange street and alley far away. ”

"I understand." Xin Xudong said indifferently: "Aren't you just afraid that others will know?" Don't worry, we'll be careful. ”

After explaining the precautions, Geng Wenyang stopped talking nonsense. I have already delivered the money to the door, and whether I can get it in the end depends on the will and creation of Xin Xudong and others.

Geng Wenyang's purchase price was 75 yuan in cash for every 100 yuan of treasury bills, and if Xin Xudong and others had collected 70 yuan, then they would have earned 5 yuan for every 100 yuan of treasury bills.

According to this extrapolation, for every 1,000 yuan of Treasury bills purchased, you can get a price difference of 50 yuan, and the more Treasury bills you buy, the more income you will accumulate from the price difference.

Thinking about this truth, Xin Xudong and the others immediately came to their senses.

Xin Xudong is a temporary worker, and his monthly income is only thirty or forty yuan. Du Chengdong and others are still students and have no source of income. Now that they have dozens of dollars to earn, the four of them are full of energy and want to earn a few more.

Within two days, Xin Xudong first came to the door, took out a wad of treasury bills from his trouser pocket and said, "Lao Geng, I received one thousand fourteen, you can order it." ”

Geng Wenyang didn't expect him to move so fast, and he completed the acquisition task of 1,000 yuan in less than three days, and said with some surprise: "Xudong, where did you collect it?" How can it be so fast? ”

"Hehe...... Xin Xudong said with a smile: "Our factory is next to the steel window factory dormitory in the east, and I think their employees should have a lot of treasury bills. I went to inquire, and it turned out to be true. Their workers there were anxious to exchange treasury bills for money, and the asking price was low. ”

Xin Xudong said that there are 500 or 600 workers in the steel window factory, and if each worker is calculated according to 100 yuan of treasury bills, the total amount will be more than 50,000 or 60,000 yuan.

At least 50,000 or 60,000 yuan in Treasury bills, this is really a huge treasure to be discovered.

Geng Wenyang admired: "Okay, Xudong! You're nimble enough. ”

Xin Xudong scratched his head and said humbly: "Didn't I want to buy it for you quickly?" ”

1,400 yuan in treasury bills, calculated at 7.5 percent, Geng Wenyang gave him 1,050 yuan.

Xin Xudong looked at the banknote in his hand and was puzzled: "Lao Geng, you gave the capital, why do you want to give it to me?" ”

Geng Wenyang was amused by him, and couldn't help grinning: "I said Xudong, do you really not understand, or do you deliberately pretend to be stupid?" If I don't give you money, how can you collect it again? ”

"Oh! What a thing! Xin Xudong said: "I forgot to collect it......"