Zhou Mingli calculated the percentages. Everyone calculated their share based on the amount they received. Zhou Mingli paid the largest share, taking 41%, which was quite a lot.
Having resolved the most important issue of dividing the money, Zhou Mingli continued, "This 75,000 is our capital. The food, lodging, and fuel costs along the way are also considered capital. Let's simply set aside 500. The money we need to buy the radio and other things is 74,500."
The majority of their money went to buying radios; the men's and women's clothing was a trial run.
If it sells well, we can order more in the future.
After discussing it, Zhou Mingli and his group decided to use 70,000 yuan to buy a radio and 4,500 yuan to buy clothes.
Then everyone went to look at the car that Cheng Shaojun had gotten.
Cheng Shaojun was quite capable; he directly acquired a double-cab pickup truck-like vehicle.
The car is a bit old. "Can this beat-up car even get to Guang City?" Xu San asked bluntly, blurting out what was on his mind.
"Don't let its dilapidated appearance fool you, it really can be opened!" Cheng Shaojun insisted. "If you don't believe me, you can have... Brother Yu go up and try it!"
Cheng Shaojun didn't know what Brother Yu's name was yet. Hearing Zhou Mingli call him Brother Yu, he simply followed suit.
Brother Yu readily agreed, got into the car, and started the engine.
"The engine sounds a bit off," Brother Yu said after listening carefully. "It will take us several days to get from Beijing to Guang City. The car can't have any problems. It's okay if it looks a bit broken on the outside, but the internal parts must be checked again."
None of them know how to fix cars.
At this moment, Zhou Gou stepped forward and said, "Our unit has soldiers who specialize in repairing vehicles. I'll talk to him and ask him to come and help. You wait here, I'll have him come and repair the vehicles tomorrow!"
After hearing that, Brother Yu had no objections.
After Zhou Mingli and the others finalized the time to go to Guang City, he divided the written material into several copies and gave one copy to each of the people present.
Brother Yu couldn't understand it either, but he knew that Zhou Mingli would never cheat him. He carefully put the paper away, and that was the end of the meeting.
Brother Yu took Zhou Gou to his house so that Zhou Gou could familiarize himself with the place. He would know where to go when he brought people to repair the car the next day.
When Zhou Mingli returned home, he told Jiang Ci about what had happened that day.
This is simply a matter of profit sharing based on investment. Zhou Mingli himself was an industrialist before, so she had nothing to criticize.
"How long will you be gone this time?" she asked him, tucking her hands into the warm quilt on the heated kang bed.
“Just to be on the safe side, it’ll be a month.” Zhou Mingli sat down next to her and mentioned a few cities. “These places are developing rapidly and have many wealthy people. I reckon there’s a shortage of radios, so we’ll stay there and sell them as we go.”
Jiang Ci nodded thoughtfully; this was indeed a good idea.
but……
"There are quite a few people in some places who rob people on the road, so you'd better be careful."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Mingli smiled, leaned close to Jiang Ci's ear, and whispered a few words.
Jiang Ci hissed, "Really?"
"Why would I lie to you?" Zhou Mingli's hand also slipped under the covers and grasped Jiang Ci's, saying, "Brother Yu told me himself."
"I underestimated Brother Yu before. He has a lot of backbone."
“We’ve discussed it and will take turns working the night shift. I didn’t get my driver’s license for nothing a few years ago. I’ll take turns driving with Brother Yu on the road, so we shouldn’t be too slow.”
After everything was packed up, Zhou Mingli, Brother Yu, Xu San, and Cheng Shaojun drove the somewhat dilapidated double-cab minivan away from Beijing.
Jiang Ci helped Erzhu find a school in Beijing, and Sister-in-law Yu's eldest son was also in college. Suddenly, she felt much more relaxed. She didn't have a job, so she would often go to Jiang Ci's place to cook for her and take care of the children.
"This capital city is so much more open-minded than our Zhongmo Town! Look at these young people dressed like that, in floral shirts and jeans..."
On the weekend, Jiang Ci and Sister-in-law Yu sent the children to Dazhu's school so they could spend the day with him, while the two of them went shopping.
The widened road was full of young people wearing floral shirts and jeans. It was winter, so they were wearing cotton-padded coats over their clothes, but they weren't buttoning them up properly. The collars were wide open, revealing the stylish shirts underneath.
The young man had long hair, a cigarette between his fingers, and stretched out his leg, swaggering as he boasted to the people around him, "We men from Beijing are real men, that's it! So generous!"
"Wearing so little, aren't they cold in the middle of winter?!" Aunt Yu stared at the man's jeans and whispered to Jiang Ci, "Xiao Ci, look at what he's wearing, the cuffs of his pants are all over the ground, it doesn't look good!"
Jiang Ci glanced at it, suppressed a laugh, and said, "Sister-in-law, those are bell-bottoms."
"These kinds of pants are all the rage now, and a pair costs several tens of yuan."
"So expensive!" Sister-in-law Yu's eyes widened.
"Young people just like it," Jiang Ci said. "Just like how young people grow their hair long these days, it's a standard feature for artsy young people on campus!"
Sister-in-law Yu didn't understand, and she was deeply shocked.
"With this messy hair, it flies around like an untied broom, how is it attractive?"
Sister-in-law Yu had previously learned to cut hair from her own father and looked down on her current long hair.
She muttered to herself, "I probably can't let Dazhu keep this kind of hair, oh, it looks awful!"
Jiang Ci couldn't help but burst into laughter, "When Dazhu comes back tonight, you can cut his hair even shorter, wouldn't that solve the problem?"
Sister-in-law Yu clapped her hands and exclaimed, "Great!"
They went to the mall again. Sister-in-law Yu bought some fabric, and Jiang Ci was in charge of bargaining. They bought several feet of fabric, and Sister-in-law Yu planned to make some big shorts for her two sons.
Jiangci buys ready-made clothing.
She also persuaded her sister-in-law to buy a dress.
There aren't many fat people these days, and Sister-in-law Yu's face is fairly well-proportioned, though it used to be dark from working in the fields. She chose a color that would make her skin look fairer, and after putting it on, she was tempted, but still declined, saying, "This doesn't look good on me, it doesn't look good on me!"
Jiang Ci looked him up and down and said seriously, "Sister-in-law, when your Erzhu goes to college, you still need to take a family photo."
"ah?"
"Shouldn't you dress nicely for photos? This dress will be useful in many ways. When your son Dazhu gets a girlfriend, will you still wear patched clothes to meet your future daughter-in-law?"
After Jiang Ci said that, Sister Yu's hesitation disappeared, and she gritted her teeth and bought it.
After returning home, Sister-in-law Yu tried it on that evening, looked at herself in the mirror, and felt that she should also learn from Xiao Ci and buy some face cream to make herself whiter.
As for Zhou Mingli and his group...
They had only just left Beijing and had been on the road for less than a day when they encountered a major incident.
They were arrested by the police as part of a human trafficking gang!
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