Chapter 42 Preparing to Make a Big Fortune
Gu Hua slept soundly through the night and woke up at ten o'clock in the morning. In the living room, Gu Hua was looking at the foreign books they had brought back last night, while Gu Shu was reading the Four Great Classical Novels. His radio was playing a story, and he listened to it while reading the book. Little Gu Le was doing her winter vacation homework.
Gu Yin walked over to the radio, looked through it for a while, and asked, "Do any of your classmates use MP3 players?"
Gu Shu looked up and leaned closer to Gu Yin: "Yes, what's wrong? Do you want to buy me one?"
Gu Yin pushed him away: "Sure, you can have as many as you want later. Let me ask you first, how much did your classmate pay for them? What's the memory capacity?"
Gu Shu was just joking; he would never let his sister spend money. He thought for a moment and said, "There are only two in our class with these. One doesn't have a screen and can store about 30 songs, it costs 110 yuan. The other has a screen, the kind where you can see the lyrics, it can also store about 30 songs, but it costs about 160 yuan. What's up, do you want to buy one?"
These kinds of things are all the rage now. In my past life, when I went out during the Lunar New Year, radios were being sold everywhere for around twenty yuan, and tape recorders that could play cassettes were being sold for fifty or sixty yuan. These were mainly for elementary and middle school students. Few people bought MP3 players. But when she was in high school, MP3 players and MP4 players were everywhere. Those with money would buy cell phones, but the children in Gujia didn't have the extra money to buy these things.
Gu Yin wanted to make a fortune during the holiday. In her previous life, she had lived in S City, near G City, for a period of time and knew that there was an Electronics First Street there, the largest exchange and concentration center for electronic products in the country. Until the year she passed away, it was still the largest distribution center for electronic products in Asia. Power banks that usually cost more than 100 yuan were only a few dozen yuan there, and mobile phones were also very cheap. Many merchants went there to wholesale. Gu Yin wanted to take some money there to purchase goods, such as radios, tape recorders, MP3 players, and MP4 players!
You can buy radios for a few dollars there and sell them for twenty or thirty dollars here. You can sell MP3 players for over a hundred dollars. During the Lunar New Year, kids get lucky money, and if someone doesn't have a radio, they're embarrassed to go out!
With this on her mind, Gu Yin brought it up after dinner when everyone was gathered around the charcoal brazier to warm themselves. After all, she was getting on in years, and it was impossible for her to go out alone. She could go secretly, but she didn't have enough money, so it would be useless for her to go.
Gu Yin started by bringing up the topic: "We're getting ready for the New Year. Is your allowance a little more this year than last year? After all, we're both a year older now."
Gu Shu nodded: "Agreed!"
The old lady placed several sweet potatoes by the charcoal to roast, and asked with a smile, "How many do you want?"
Gu Yin raised her hand: "I want to buy a tape recorder so I can listen to music and English. All my classmates have one, but I don't. I always have to borrow theirs, and I feel embarrassed about it."
Gu Shu immediately chimed in, "I want one too!"
Gu Hua glanced at the two of them and followed suit: "I want one too."
The old lady ignored them and looked at Gu Le: "Ah Le, what about you?"
Gu Le shook his head; he wasn't interested in any of that. "I want to eat something delicious."
Gu Yin patted his head: "We eat all sorts of delicious food during the New Year! So you can ask for a present."
Gu Le's eyes lit up: "Then let's have another delicious dish?"
Everyone laughed. Gu Yin pinched his ear and said, "Okay, I'll give you all of my food so you can eat to your heart's content, okay?"
Gu Le smiled and shook her head: "I won't eat my older sister's food, I'll eat my older brother's!"
Gu Shu's smile vanished: "You brat, I don't even have enough to eat for myself, I won't give you any!"
The old lady scoffed, "If you won't give it to me, then I won't give it to you either."
The radio conversation bypassed the food, and he immediately nodded: "Okay, okay, you can have it all, just give me the soup later!"
Gu Le burst into laughter.
Seeing that the atmosphere had reached this point, Gu Yin directly stated her purpose: "Grandma, I want to go to G Province. Of course, I won't go alone. You can have Mom and Dad come with me!"
The old lady paused for a moment, then asked, "What are you doing over there? Is there another competition?"
Gu Yin shook her head: "Grandma, do you know how much a radio the size of a thumb costs on the street during the Chinese New Year?"
The old lady shook her head; she didn't understand these things.
"20 yuan!" Gu Hua replied. She had gone to see it during the Spring Festival in previous years, and she had heard that some people in the village bought it.
Gu Yin nodded: "But in G province, the wholesale price of this thing is only five or six yuan. Those larger tape recorders sell for fifty or sixty yuan on the street, but the wholesale price there is around twenty! My brother's classmate bought an MP3 player for over a hundred yuan, but there it's only fifty or sixty yuan! Think about it, if we go there to buy goods, 500 units would cost 2,500 yuan, but if we sell them for 20 yuan each, that's ten thousand yuan! You can imagine how big the profit is! Mom, are you in?"
The old lady thought about the price her granddaughter mentioned, did some calculations herself, and then she became restless, her heart pounding: "How did you know? You know, and so do others. Why don't they go? Even if they bring it back, can they sell it?"
Gu Yin looked at Gu Hua: "Do you think it can be sold?"
Gu Hua nodded excitedly: "Sure! Our school has several thousand students, and the middle school next door has several thousand more, plus many elementary school students! I'm not sure about MP3 players, but that radio that costs around twenty yuan will definitely work! Seriously, before, during, and after the New Year, I saw that there weren't enough of these in town! And it's not just for one year; it's been like this every year!"
Gu Yin looked at the old lady: "I heard a shopping mall owner say this in the library, and I also know from reading magazines that there is indeed such a place in G Province! Others probably don't know, maybe only the owners of those big shopping malls know, but they sell it for a high price. If we buy it back, we can sell it for a dozen yuan or so, and we don't have to pay rent! As long as we know the route, we can definitely bring it back."
The old lady was tempted. Her second son's family had been to other provinces before, but they hadn't been back since they were scammed. Some people from the village worked there, and she had heard that the certificates issued there were much better than here, and there must be more good things there. Her granddaughter was so smart, she couldn't be joking.
"Let me think about it first."
Seeing that she was interested, Gu Yin guessed that she probably wanted to discuss it with the old man, so she nodded: "Then if you want to hurry, Grandma, you can sell it before the New Year!"
"I know, I know, let me think about it!" After saying that, he got up and went into the house.
Seeing the old lady enter the house, Li Mengxin turned to her bold daughter and said, "What nonsense are you talking about? Look how scared your grandma is. She definitely won't be able to sleep tonight."
Gu Shu was stunned, but remembering what A Yin had said, he was also very excited, not to mention the old lady.
"Auntie, Grandma wasn't scared at all. She couldn't sleep at night because she was thinking about all that money coming into her pocket. She was so excited she couldn't sleep!" After saying that, she reached out and massaged Gu Yin's shoulders: "Sister, dear sister, good sister, if you go, can I take you with me?! I can be a laborer! I can carry things! I can even be a bodyguard! Taking me is definitely worth it!"
Gu Yin laughed at his fawning manner: "I can't decide. You go talk to Grandma."
Gu Shu agreed and went straight into the house to make a scene with the old lady.
The old lady didn't fall asleep until dawn, and she dreamed that they carried bags of money into the house! She was so happy that she killed several chickens to celebrate, but then she woke up when she heard a knock on the door.
When her family saw that she hadn't woken up so late, they thought something was wrong, so Gu Yin came over and knocked on the door.
After the old lady got up, she didn't go out to do anything. Later at noon, she made a phone call, and Gu Shu wanted to go in but was kicked out.
She didn't come out until more than half an hour later.
Seeing the old lady's lips curl up, Gu Yin thought to herself that it must have worked!
Sure enough, the old lady looked at Gu Yin and said, "When your father and uncle come back from their jobs tonight, talk to them properly."
Gu Shu jumped up: "It's done?! Me too! Grandma, I can carry things! I can also be a bodyguard to protect my sister! I'm going too!"
The old lady rolled her eyes: "You should ask your dad later!"
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