Chapter 360 Business

Lu Yong and Lu Qi blushed and huddled behind the tricycle, not daring to raise their heads.

Huang Xinran ignored them and continued to move forward and shout.

Until someone called her: "Junk collector, I have some old newspapers at home, how much do you want for them?"

"Sister, how many newspapers do you have at home, which is two cents and five cents per pound? It's hard to weigh too few." Huang Xinran said as he stopped the tricycle and walked into the elder sister's yard as if he was familiar with the place.

The elder sister originally thought that the price was too low, but when she heard Huang Xinran say that it was too little, she immediately disagreed: "It's a lot. I saved newspapers for several months and originally planned to use them for wall paper. Now, they are all here, look."

"I'll know once I weigh it."

Huang Xinran quickly tied up the newspapers and put them on the scale. He weighed them quickly: "The total is 16 jin 3 liang 5, so I'll calculate it as 16 jin 4 liang. The total is 41 cents."

"No, no, this is too little! They charge 4 cents a pound for newspapers, how can you get 2.5 cents? You are too mean!"

"Big sister, you see, we come all the way here from thousands of miles away to collect the salt, and then transport it back to the city, and we only make a bag of salt. Even so, we only sell it for 3 cents per pound. Since you opened my business, I won't charge you. It's just 3 cents per pound, which is 49.2 cents. I'll round it up to the nearest dollar, and you can take the 50 cents!"

As Huang Xinran spoke, he took out 50 cents and put it into the elder sister's hand.

The elder sister had more to say, but after seeing the 50 cents in her hand, she thought that it was the hard-earned money of two days, and she was reluctant to return it. She just said that Huang Xinran was black-hearted and that she sold it too cheaply.

Huang Xinran ignored her and just rolled the newspaper and threw it into the back compartment of the tricycle.

Just as I was about to leave, I saw the old plowshare that my elder sister had left at the door: "Would you like to sell that plowshare? It's 2 cents for scrap metal."

"I won't sell it, I won't sell it. You even want my plow? What else don't you want? You have no shame?" The eldest sister was obviously angry and her words were unpleasant to the ear.

Huang Xinran seemed to be unaware of this and spoke very fluently: "I just buy rags, so of course I buy rags. If you don't mind, I'll buy your clothes even if you take them off your body and sell them. I'm just afraid that the price won't suit your taste."

In fact, in the eyes of people who collect rags, there is no rag that cannot be collected.

It’s just the value…it might be a little shabby, and the seller has to pay for it before they’re willing to buy it.

Huang Xinran happily rode his tricycle forward, continuing to shout along the street that he was collecting junk.

Soon, someone else brought out the broken things from home to sell.

Lu Yong and Lu Qi were very nervous at first, but as Huang Xinran collected more and more goods, they felt embarrassed to just stand by and watch, so they also helped out a little, such as helping to carry the goods onto the tricycle. After a while, the two gradually relaxed.

Huang Xinran took the opportunity to let them both shout "Collect the rubbish".

Although the two were used to being watched by everyone, they still couldn't shout at first. It was only after Huang Xinran yelled at them that they forced themselves to shout.

Once there was one, there naturally came two, and slowly, both of them let go.

Huang Xinran shouted along the street for a while, then turned to another road. At noon, they actually went back to the place where they got the tricycle.

The tricycle has already collected a large load of junk of all kinds.

Huang Xinran parked the tricycle and got out, asking the two men to sell the junk to the staff at the scrap collection station, and then rode the tricycle back to where he had parked his tricycle.

"You've been following me around for a while today. Do you have any ideas?"

Huang Xinran took the initiative to ask the two people.

Lu Yong lowered his head and said nothing.

Lu Qi was a bit more courageous. After a morning of adjustment, he thought more: "Auntie Si, do you want us to collect the junk? And then sell it to the junk collection station for money?"

“That’s just one of them.”

Huang Xinran waved to the two of them and asked them to get in the car first. When the car door was half-closed for ventilation, she told them her intention.

"You want to make money with a scale, that's a very good idea. In fact, there are many businesses that can use a scale. For example, selling vegetables, selling fish, selling pork, buying scraps, etc. Many businesses are essentially the same.

However, even if it is the same business, there are different approaches.

Take selling vegetables for example. You can grow vegetables and sell them yourself, which is a low-cost business. You can also buy vegetables from farmers and sell them yourself, which is a business where you can recover the cost of the day you invest, without investing a lot of money. You can also do vegetable wholesale, grow a lot of vegetables and sell them to others. You can also buy vegetables and sell them to others wholesale...

For example, let's take the collection of junk! You can collect junk along the street like I did today, or you can open a junk collection shop and focus on buying and selling junk. You can even collect old books and specialize in selling old books. You can even specialize in collecting iron slag and do the iron slag business, measuring it with train cars...

There are countless ways and methods to do business.

You don't have to worry about where to make money; what you should worry about is which path to take.

There are thousands of roads in this world, but every choice will push you into an unknown future. Therefore, every choice must be made carefully and cautiously!

Think carefully about what you want to do.

Once you have chosen, just tell me!"

This is the purpose of Huang Xinran bringing them out.

Ignoring the two brothers who were lost in thought, Huang Xinran got off the car and returned the tricycle. Then he got back on the car and drove back home.

It was already past one o'clock when we got home.

Then I was busy making lunch.

After finishing the meal, Lu Qi called Huang Xinran and said, "Auntie, what was that iron slag business you mentioned before? Can it make money?"

“…”

I have to say, this kid has a really good taste.

The iron slag business has only just begun to flourish in the past few years.

In the early years, due to the large-scale steel smelting, a lot of iron slag was piled up in many places. This iron slag needed to be processed and refined again before steel could be produced.

People often buy iron slag across counties, cities, or even provinces, and then transport it to another city to sell it.

Because iron slag is very heavy, it is often piled up randomly in the open air.

When people sell, they talk about the number of train cars, how much money each train car costs. It is a job that requires good eyesight. Once you make money, it is often an investment of 1,000 yuan, and you can double it in one go. It is normal to make a net profit of 1,000 to 2,000 yuan.

Of course, as time goes by, as the business becomes more sophisticated, the profits will naturally become smaller.

However, at present, the iron slag business is still a very profitable and easy business.

"The iron slag business requires capital, the more capital the better. At least 1,000 to start, and preferably 3,000 to 5,000 yuan. Otherwise, if you come across a large quantity of goods, will you take it? Or not?"

If I want it, I don’t have the money. If I don’t want it, it’s a pity to give it up.

Maybe it will be bought by someone else in the future. Wouldn’t that upset you?