"Chenchen, I thought you were going to make a kite out of paper, but I didn't expect you to use Dacron."
"If you're going to do it, do it well so you can still have fun later."
As he spoke, Du Chen finally finished chopping all the bamboo.
"Second brother, come here, I have something to tell you."
Comrade Lao Du saw that Du Chen had finished his work and asked him to come over to discuss the scooter.
"Wait a minute, Dad. I'll be right back with my brother."
Du Chen first talked to Du Bin about how to draw the dragonfly and the size of the dragonfly. After making the arrangements, he came to Comrade Lao Du.
"Dad, what's wrong?"
"Son, I went to ask today, and they said they need to import a thousand pieces of steel plates to make the pedals of that scooter. Do you think we can sell so many of them?"
Comrade Lao Du feels that scooters can make money, but the quantity is too large, and Lao Du is afraid that he can't control it.
"A thousand yuan? That's a lot, Dad. How much did it cost to buy it?"
Du Chen thought for a moment and said.
"Five dollars, and the steel tube wheels will cost more than ten dollars in total. They said it would be around twenty dollars in total."
"After all the calculations, it would be around thirty yuan, which is still a bit high."
After hearing what Du Chen said, Comrade Lao Du suddenly felt embarrassed. The cost was about 30 yuan, so it would have to be sold for 70 or 80 yuan. The average monthly salary for people nowadays was about 500 yuan, so it was estimated that people would not be willing to buy too much.
"What should we do then?"
Du Chen thought about it and felt that he was overthinking it. Now is not like the future, when everything can be bought online. It is still inconvenient to buy accessories and raw materials now.
"Dad, why don't we just do it by hand and let Uncle Wang do it slowly!"
Du Chen still didn't want to give up the meat that was right in front of him, so he discussed it with Comrade Lao Du.
"How many should we make? It's troublesome to cut them one by one."
"Make a reservation and pay the deposit! Once you pay the deposit, we'll do it!"
After much thought, Du Chen decided that this method was the most suitable at the moment.
"Is this okay?"
Comrade Lao Du had never heard of this method.
"Dad, this is the only way to make money right now. We're still underdeveloped here, and there are too few factories!"
Du Chen sighed, and this situation continued for the next few decades: he had ideas and abilities, but no stage to display them.
Du Chen suddenly thought of something and asked Comrade Lao Du.
"Dad, how old is your comrade-in-arms Uncle Geng Xinbo's child? Is it a boy or a girl?"
"Why are you asking him? The letter says he has two children. The eldest is a son, and the second is a daughter. The daughter is about your age, right?"
Although Comrade Lao Du was surprised, he still told Du Chen what he knew.
"Dad, let's make a scooter and send it to Uncle Geng. One reason is to give it to Uncle Geng's daughter to play with. The other reason is that Guangzhou is a coastal city with a lot of toy factories. I'll ask Uncle Geng if there are any factories that can make it and how much it would cost if they could."
"Chenchen, you're smarter than a monkey when it comes to getting hairy!"
Comrade Lao Du couldn't help but sigh.
"Tsk, Dad, is the monkey as smart as me?"
Du Chen was not ashamed of it, but proud of it.
"Okay then, let's try it as you said!"
Comrade Lao Du had no other good ideas. He could only do as Du Chen said. It would only cost a few hundred dollars, which he could still afford.
"Then I'll go to the city again when I have time. I'll buy some more steel pipes and small wheels. The repair shop doesn't have that many."
"Okay, Dad, please buy it when you have time. I'll have my brother draw a poster to let everyone know that pre-orders are available and see how many we can sell."
"Okay! Then go play with your brothers!"
Comrade Lao Du said something and drove to the repair shop again. He planned to let Wang Dongliang cut the pedals when he had time.
"Brother, how's the kite painting going?"
"Here, look for yourself!"
Without even raising his head, Du Bin gestured to Du Chen to look at it himself.
Since he started drawing illustrations, Du Bin seemed to have opened the door to another world, and he really became obsessed with painting.
Du Chen is also planning to look for some drawing books recently. He wants Du Bin to try drawing a four-frame comic. Whether he succeeds or not, he can just treat it as a hobby.
Du Chen looked towards the counter and saw that the outline of the dragonfly had been drawn. Du Bin was now drawing a butterfly for Gu Yue. Ding Miaomiao, standing next to him, had a worried look on her face. It was obvious that she was worried about how to make the butterfly kite.
Seeing this, Du Chen did not bother Du Bin and went into the inner room to look for his mother, who was chatting with her younger sister Ren Suping about family matters.
"Mom, please do me a favor!"
"What's wrong? What happened?"
"Mom, my brother drew a kite for me. Could you please cut it out for me and trim the edges, or they'll fly off."
When Du Chen's mother heard what Du Chen said, she went straight to the counter outside to see what was going on.
Du Chen's mother took a look and took the drawn dragonfly away, ready to do as Du Chen said. Du Chen saw that his mother was busy, so he took out a candle from the counter and prepared to use fire to roast the bamboo strips to shape them.
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Du Chen was busy until around five in the afternoon, and finally finished his kite.
"Brother, your kite is done! That's awesome!"
Gu Yue looked at Du Chen's dragonfly kite and said enviously, "She and Ding Miaomiao had only made half of the kite. Their hands-on skills were really poor."
"Chenchen, shall we go out and give it a try?"
Ding Miaomiao had wanted to hide for a long time, and now that Du Chen's kite was ready, she finally had a reason to hide.
"Sister Miaomiao, there's no wind now!"
Du Chen looked outside the store. The weather was still hot and there was no wind. How could the kite fly?
"Du Chen, let me do it! I'll lead the way! Let's give it a try first."
Liu Yi, who came here to play this afternoon, couldn't wait to try flying the kite, and even offered to run and try it himself.
"Whatever you want, but I don't think it will fly."
Liu Yi didn't feel hot or tired, and Du Chen didn't care either. He just considered it as helping Liu Yi lose weight.
"Okay, okay, Liu Yi, let's go out and give it a try!"
Gu Yue and Ding Miaomiao were very happy that Liu Yi took the initiative to leave the station, and the three of them went out with the kite.
Du Bin was also drawing the scooter poster that Du Chen asked him to draw. The weather was so hot that he didn't want to go out to bask in the sun.
"Liu Yi, I'll hold the kite for you from behind, and you run ahead!"
"Okay, Gu Yue, when I say let go, you let go!"
"OK!"
Liu Yi and Gu Yue discussed it and prepared for the first test flight.
"one
two
three
put!"
As soon as Liu Yi finished speaking, Gu Yue decisively let go.
As a result, Liu Yi had just run out, and the kite had just flown up a little bit, then it spun around and plunged to the ground.
Liu Yi and Gu Yue were not discouraged. They thought that it might be because they did not cooperate well, so they prepared for a second test flight.
"one
two
three
put!"
The result was the same as the first time, the kite spun around and then stuck to the ground.
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