After taking a train for nearly 20 hours, we arrived in Donghai City in the early morning of the next day.

After getting off the train, Shen Xiaobei rested for a few hours in a hotel near the station, then went out for breakfast, and then called a taxi to go straight to Wang Yishan's barber shop.

"Shanshan Barber Shop!"

As expected, it is a store opened by a capitalist lady. The store is quite large and the location looks quite prosperous.

After Shen Xiaobei got off the car, he stood at the door and looked around for a while before going in.

"Shanshan!"

"Xiaobei, you're finally here!"

It is a great pleasure to have friends coming from afar.

As soon as Wang Yishan saw Shen Xiaobei, she excitedly gave her a big hug.

After the two of them exchanged pleasantries for a while, Wang Yishan introduced her barber shop to Shen Xiaobei. There were three people in her shop, a master, a worker, and her, the boss.

She doesn't have to go on stage when she is not busy, she only goes on stage when she is busy.

However, the business has been good since the shop opened, and she basically has to cut and perm her customers' hair every day.

Perming hair is very popular now, and there are many women who come to get their hair permed every day.

After staying in the barber shop for a while, Wang Yishan explained to the two shop assistants, and then took Shen Xiaobei for a stroll on the street.

The streets of Donghai City are very busy, with various individual stalls in the streets and alleys, selling snacks, repairing shoes, umbrellas, bicycles, and mending clothes.

Wang Yishan told Shen Xiaobei that before the Chinese New Year, there were not so many individual stalls on the street.

It was after the New Year that the individual employment policy was relaxed, and many self-employed individuals and street vendors appeared. The streets seemed more lively, and buying things was much more convenient than before.

After the two walked several streets, Wang Yishan took Shen Xiaobei to a cafe.

After choosing a seat by the window facing the street in the cafe, they ordered two cups of coffee and two plates of snacks, and continued to chat slowly.

Knowing that Shen Xiaobei's Qingshan magazine had good sales and could make a four-digit net profit every month, Wang Yishan admired her very much.

"Xiaobei, you really have a business mind! If I were you, if I could already make a lot of money writing books, I definitely wouldn't think about opening a magazine to earn a second income."

"Writing a book and publishing a magazine are actually the same approach. The only difference is that in one case I write the books and others sell them to me, while in the other case I collect the works of others and then make them into a magazine, which I then sell."

"It's all about writing and selling. As long as you can get these two links through, it's the same thing."

"You say it's easy, but I know it's not that easy to actually do it. Most people don't have the courage to do it!"

"Take my barber shop. Honestly, if you hadn't inspired me, even if I had the money, I wouldn't have had the guts to open one. I'd probably still be sitting in the military compound, just getting by every day."

"Shanshan, since you've already had the guts to open a barber shop, do you want to expand it a little bit?"

"Can we expand it a little bit? My shop is already twice the size of a regular barber shop. Besides, other people usually work alone, but I've hired two people. Isn't it big enough?"

"With the boss and three other people in the shop, how can you call it big? You really have no ambition! It's a shame your family is a capitalist!"

Shen Xiaobei took a sip of coffee, looked at Wang Yishan, and teased her with a smile.

"Hey, you stinky woman, you always mock me! My family was a capitalist, but that was my grandfather's generation. By my father's generation, it was almost a hollow shell. I was just embarrassed to tell you."

"My family does have some assets, but they're all antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and real estate. My father treats these as his lifeblood. He wouldn't sell them unless it was absolutely necessary."

"So, as a capitalist lady, I won't starve if I don't make money, but I don't have so much money that I can squander it at will!"

"Who told you to squander it? On the contrary, I told you to continue to open source it."

"Continue to open source? How? I opened a barber shop, isn't that open source?"

"A barber shop only has one source. Can't you use your brain, draw inferences from one example, and open a few more sources?"

"How do I open more sources?"

Wang Yishan has had no worries about food and clothing since childhood, so she is not very good at business and making money.

For her, being able to open a store by herself is a rare and fulfilling thing.

"Donghai City is so big and has so many people, all men and boys need a haircut almost every month. Even the most unsophisticated people should get their hair cut at least once every two months."

"Also, there are so many women in Donghai City, and they are so fashionable. There is a huge demand for women to cut their hair, perm their hair, and do their hair."

"Think about it, how many customers can you serve in a single day with just your barber shop? Have you ever thought about opening a few more and turning it into a chain?"

"On the streets we just walked through, I only saw one barber shop. Those streets are so densely populated, but there are so few barber shops. This shows that barber shops are very popular right now."

"Barbering relies on skill to make money. Apart from rent and labor costs, the other costs of opening a barber shop are very low. As long as the location is good and the skills and service are acceptable, you can definitely make a profit from every shop you open."

Shen Xiaobei analyzed it with Wang Yishan and said confidently.

"Xiaobei, you're really quick-witted. You just arrived in Donghai today, and you've already analyzed the Donghai barber market in such detail? I really admire you!"

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