Chapter 40: Continued Market Expansion
At Yakou Primary School, Hu Mingchen still found a store willing to buy cards from him to sell.
On the way home from Yakou Village, Hu Mingchen turned a corner and went around Huangni Primary School, where he could not find anyone to work with.
It is really that there is no household at the gate of Huangni Primary School, and those who sell things at the school gate do not come because they do not go to school today.
In any case, so far, in addition to selling himself, Hu Mingchen has also entered the three surrounding primary schools, and he believes that next week's sales should expand under the influence of each other.
In fact, just as Hu Mingchen expected, as soon as he went to school on Monday, Hu Mingchen's card sales showed a blowout sales situation.
During recess, not only the classmates in the class would take the initiative to buy it from Hu Mingchen, but even the students in the next class would come to him.
When school ends at noon, it is even more terrible, Hu Mingchen's small shop will be crowded, not only male classmates will buy it, but even some female classmates will come to buy a few to play.
In various places on campus, classrooms, corridors, playgrounds, and even roadsides, you can see students who win cards in twos and threes.
What should I do if I lose? If I lose, I go to Hu Mingchen's store to buy it, so Hu Mingchen's business is endless.
On Monday, Hu Mingchen sold 2,000 copies, and on Tuesday, Hu Mingchen himself sold more than 2,500 copies, in addition, Chen Dafa from Machang Primary School came and asked Hu Mingchen for 300 copies, and the shopkeeper at Yakou Primary School also came to find Hu Mingchen and bought 280 copies, and Mao Feng carried 200 sheets to his grandmother on Monday and Tuesday.
By Wednesday, Hu Mingchen's sales had climbed again, and the ones he sold plus those taken by the three elementary schools were nearly 4,000 copies together.
Seeing this trend, Hu Mingchen couldn't wait, he once again made a move and called Wang Zhan.
"What? You've already sold almost 10,000 copies? Are you mistaken, how could it be so fast?" Hu Mingchen's sales volume exceeded Wang Zhan's expectations.
Wang Zhan really couldn't understand how the things that had been eliminated in the city could shine again in Hu Mingchen's hands.
"Of course I'm not mistaken, if I'm wrong, I won't ask you to order again. ”
"It's incredible! How many do you want this time? Or 20,000?"
"I'm afraid 20,000 is not enough, 30,000, except for the money I owe you, my money is enough to get 30,000 pieces. Hu Mingchen said comfortably.
"Well, then if you owe me, you can continue to owe it, and I'll prepare 40,000 for you, how about it?"
"That's a good feeling, I'll thank you first, hehe. Hu Mingchen was not hypocritical, and accepted Wang Zhan's help quickly.
Hu Mingchen is doing business now with little capital, and if someone is willing to support him, Hu Mingchen is naturally willing.
"However, I'm afraid these 40,000 tickets won't arrive until Sunday afternoon, will you be able to get them in time?"
"Sunday afternoon, can't it be early?"
"You only call me after work now, I have to contact the manufacturer tomorrow, people have to prepare materials, and they have to ship to me, this time, of course, will be extended. ”
"That's fine, but you have to tell the upstream that the Sunday afternoon to Dug Township will be delivered before the shuttle departs, otherwise I will run out of goods on Monday." In this case, Hu Mingchen can only accept reality.
Hu Mingchen also counted on Sunday to go to a few schools in Fanger Town and find a few more homes. In this way, the only way to do this is to schedule it for Saturday afternoon, or simply take a leave of absence in the morning.
Hu Mingchen has to go to school for half a day on Saturdays, and he went to the city last week to take half a day off.
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"What? Hu Mingchen, you want to ask for leave again? You have been doing business in the class recently, and you have already made the classmates in the class chatter, and you are still asking for leave, how can you study hard like this?" On Friday, Hu Mingchen went to the head teacher Ma Yi to ask for leave, which made Ma Yi frown.
"Teacher Ma, I study hard, my homework is completed on time every day, and I listen carefully in class. ”
"You finish your homework on time, and you don't mess with class anymore, but you are always late during recess, and you always ask for leave, is this considered a good study? I really thought that you have changed a lot now, who knows, but you are not focused on studying, you know how to make money all day long, and you don't care about it?" Ma Yi said with hatred of iron and steel.
During the recess, Hu Mingchen was busy selling cards, and he always waited for others to leave before he could leave, no, he was often late.
He didn't have much time to be late every time, only one or two minutes, two or three minutes, but the impact was very bad. Many teachers have already reacted to Ma Yi, which made Ma Yi want to talk about Hu Mingchen.
"Teacher Ma, I don't want to do that, my family is not so poor. My dad was injured in an accident at work, and my mom borrowed a lot of money and had to take care of my dad, if I ...... If I don't find a way to make money, let alone study, my family will probably starve to death. Mr. Ma, I know that you have taken good care of me, and I thank you very much for that, but ...... If I didn't make money, I wouldn't be able to read at all. In order to get Ma Yi's understanding and support, Hu Mingchen had to play the sad card against her.
"Something happened to your dad?"
"yes, it's been a while and my parents aren't home...... Now don't say that my father's follow-up medical expenses have not been settled, even the family can't open the pot, and everything that should be sold has been sold. I really have no way out, Mr. Ma, although I sometimes be late, but I really didn't fall behind in the class. Every day when I go home, I do my homework and review my homework carefully. It's only on Saturdays and Sundays that I have time to buy some goods, I'm just doing a small business, otherwise, next semester, my sisters and I won't have tuition at all, please understand. The more Hu Mingchen spoke, the more desolate he became, and his tears were almost coming down.
Hu Mingchen is not completely pretending, although his words have exaggerated elements in them, but touching the scene, thinking of the situation at home, Hu Mingchen is really sad.
After listening to Hu Mingchen's words, Ma Yi fell silent, a little unsure of what to say.
After half a ring, Ma Yicai looked up at Hu Mingchen: "I can approve it to you for tomorrow morning's holiday, but next Monday's test, you have to ensure that you are in the top three, I am talking about the top three in the grade, not the top three in the class, can you do it?"
Since Hu Mingchen's family is so difficult, Ma Yi has no reason to completely stop Hu Mingchen's "reasonable" behavior, but, as the head teacher, he doesn't want to see such a good seedling destroyed, so she must exert enough pressure on Hu Mingchen at the same time.
"No problem, Mr. Ma, if I can't do this, I won't ask you for leave in the future. Hu Mingchen immediately patted his chest happily and promised.
Getting such a sentence from Ma Yi is equivalent to getting her immunity, as long as her grades do not decline, then I believe that in the future, even if it is a little out of line, Mr. Ma is very likely to turn a blind eye in business.
In primary and secondary schools, the power of the class teacher is very great, even if it is a naughty student, you can not be afraid of other teachers, but there is almost no one who is not afraid of the class teacher, it is really the head teacher who has the power of life and death in his hands.
In fact, during this time, Hu Mingchen caused trouble not only to Ma Yi and in the class, but also to those small traders outside the school.
The amount of pocket money that students can bring to school every day is an almost fixed value, and this money is spent on three things: buying food, stationery, and gadgets.
Stationery supplies are generally not saved, homework books run out or pencils run out, you have to buy it, this can't be avoided.
That volatility is on the side of buying to eat and shopping to play. If everyone used the money to buy something to eat, there would be no money to buy Hu Mingchen's small card gadgets.
On the other hand, if people would rather buy things to play than buy things to eat, then those vendors who sell snacks will be affected and affected.
It just so happened that during this time, Hu Mingchen's business was extremely hot, and many students would buy cards instead of buying food with all their pocket money, which caused the business of vendors selling snacks at the school gate to drop sharply.
The most typical thing is that the sales of fried potatoes have dropped by at least 40% this week, where did the money go? Of course, it went to Hu Mingchen's purse.
So, now Hu Mingchen is the most unpopular person with those hawkers at the school gate, people don't say it, but in their hearts they hate him to death. At noon, sometimes Hu Mingchen wanted to buy something to eat at the school gate, but he would suffer from white eyes.
Hu Mingchen's snatching of people and money is almost equivalent to the hatred of killing his father and wife.
Even so, what can Hu Mingchen do? Can he stop doing business for the sake of those people and give up his legitimate rights and interests? That is absolutely impossible, each doing his own thing, and relying on his own ability.
Besides, even if Hu Mingchen doesn't do it, won't anyone else do it either?
After getting Ma Yi's leave, early Saturday morning, Hu Mingchen got up earlier than usual, he didn't tell Hu Yandie and Hu Yujiao that he had taken leave on Saturday, and the two of them also thought that Hu Mingchen went to school early to do business, in fact, Hu Mingchen went to the primary school by the bridge in Fanger Town to do sales.
Hu Mingchen's business didn't work out on Saturday morning, but he did good.
Since all primary schools are still in class, Hu Mingchen can find someone as soon as he goes, and the hundreds of cards he carries are also sold out in the morning.
Seeing that Hu Mingchen's card is selling well, there are people in Fanger Town, whether it is Daqiaobian Primary School, Banpo Primary School or Fanger Town Central Primary School, who have reached cooperation with Hu Mingchen very smoothly.
Hu Mingchen only sells 100 tickets at the entrance of each primary school during recess, and the remaining 50 tickets are given to sellers at the school gate.