Chapter 102 Dumbfounded
Zhu Dahai was shocked, "Xiao Fang, what are you thinking?"
College students have passed the exam, why would they want to collect waste? Everything is inferior except studying.
Fang Mingche said: "College students will only be really glorious after graduation. If you pass the exam, you can expect to be glorious in the future. But I can't wait four years to start. My wife, Teacher Gao and I have all been working for a few years. If we go to college, the subsidy will be issued at the highest level. Teacher Gao, tell him how much?"
Teacher Gao smiled bitterly and said, "22.5 yuan. I am the only one in my family who earns money, and my mother still takes medicine. How can this be enough?"
His mother is bedridden, which has dragged Xiao Xie from going out to work. Of course, it is difficult to find a job nowadays. If you want to set up a stall, you must have a way to purchase goods.
But if his mother didn't need someone to take care of her all day, Xiao Xie, who is so diligent, could still go out and think of a way. At least, the food and snacks she cooks taste very good. Not to mention that he is comparable to Old Cui, whose ancestors were chefs, but his cooking is much better than that of the steamed buns shop at the entrance of the alley.
However, there is a patient in his family. Even if Xiao Xie is willing to get up at five in the morning and sleep in the middle of the night, people are reluctant to buy food from his family, for fear of being infected with the disease!
What's more, his mother sometimes can't control herself and will be incontinent. In the middle of the night, Xiao Xie may still be changing her clothes. You can't let the old lady wait until dawn.
Teacher Gao is still very satisfied with his wife. But the hardship of life makes it difficult for him to be complacent as a child of destiny.
Xiao Fang, on the other hand, has no burden at home, and Xiao Lin also has a subsidy. The couple even bought a house, and they are still so motivated. Oh, by the way. They still owe Uncle Gu 2,000. How can they pay it back if they don't do business?
Teacher Gao said to Fang Mingche: "If I had known I would learn from you, I would have sold my teaching job early."
He is not like Uncle Gu, who can sell the two ancestral houses back to treat his son's legs.
He only has one job, which he earned by studying. But if he can get into college while working and directly transfer all kinds of connections to the university, this is impossible.
However, it is estimated that no one will envy Uncle Gu that much. If he didn't have this ancestral inheritance, his family would not be broken up.
Fang Mingche said: "I didn't encourage you, but you were worried about this and that, and you didn't even plan to take the college entrance examination. Now you have a beautiful and hardworking wife, and you have been admitted to the university. Don't be ungrateful!"
Teacher Gao nodded, that's right. If it wasn't Xiao Fang's encouragement, he would still work and take care of his sick mother. He couldn't even wear clean clothes. Sometimes he was too tired and could only deal with it casually. His students said that he was a bit sloppy before he got married.
Zhu Dahai was finally shocked, "Xiao Fang, how did you think of doing the waste collection business?"
In comparison, it is much better to walk the streets as a peddler. Opening a tea stall to make tea for people and being ordered around is nothing.
Fang Mingche said, "I just said that I have no roots. I can't do that kind of business that is profitable and safe. Even if I do it and do it well, can I guarantee it? For this scrap collection, the competition is not too great. At present, it is only competing with the purchasing station. If the price of a pound of scrap increases by two cents, those scavengers will take the initiative to deliver the goods. There will not be any high-ranking officials' children who will take a fancy to it and force me to buy shares."
Well, scavengers have begun to appear now. This is also a way of life. Although the working environment is dirty and messy, and it is easy to get lung diseases. But it is much better than being poor. There are also many blind migrants here.
Don't look down on scrap collection. Although it is a bit dirty, the great industrial development in the 1980s produced many scrap kings! Some people seized the opportunity and made millions a year.
Later, they used this capital to switch to other industries. Moreover, if you are lucky enough to pick up a bargain and get some antiques, just leave them there and wait for them to appreciate in value.
However, he can't identify antiques. This is a matter of specialization. Keep those that look like. Antiques in China are not very valuable nowadays. When the scraps are collected, there is no loss in keeping them there. Even if they are fakes, they should be fakes from decades ago. They are worth some money. No one makes fakes now.
Zhu Dahai said, "The peddler's business."
"Of course I want to do it. But the problem is, that's out of my control."
His uncle asked him to resell the unsalable products once and twice, and he made a lot of money. He must have caught people's attention. Money can attract people's attention. Where there are people, there are gangs! There are so many people in the supply and marketing cooperative, and there must be people who want to steal it.
In June, he told his uncle to focus on the college entrance examination. But it's the end of July, and there is no news of reselling.
Zhu Dahai said, "I'll find a place for you first."
He wanted to back out. Collecting waste is dealing with waste all day long, which is not much cleaner than rummaging through garbage dumps. Moreover, Xiao Fang just emphasized that it was calculated based on the average salary today. It's impossible to have a good thing of five yuan a day. Waste paper that costs a few cents a pound, how can you make money? It's
cheap for those people in the handicraft cooperative. Just because it is a collective enterprise, you can get a big stall. Just picked up Xiao Fang's profitable business for nothing.
Fang Mingche said, "Well, I don't need too many people. If there are too many people, people will report us. For now, only the three of us know about it, so don't tell anyone."
With this, even if Zhu Dahai wanted to back out, he wouldn't tell anyone. He had to leave a way out for himself. If he couldn't find another way to make a living, he would have no choice but to do this. Besides, he wanted to be a peddler. It was not appropriate to offend Fang Mingche at this time
. Zhu Dahai went back first. Teacher Gao asked Fang Mingche, "Aren't you afraid that he will steal your business?"
"He doesn't have so much capital. Even if he rents a tricycle and borrows a scale first. But the rent is inevitable. To contract a large yard, people require at least half a year of payment, at least 200. If he doesn't rent a place and rides a rented tricycle to collect waste, will the people in the yard allow him to pile it up in the open space in the yard?"
Teacher Gao thought about it, "That's definitely not possible. In such a hot day, the smell of waste is very strong. I guess they will all rise up and blast him!"
How can his patient stay with waste and garbage all day long? By then, even if no one from the neighbors has taken the lead for decades, he will take the lead. People follow the crowd, as long as he stands up, others will definitely unite with him.
"That's what I mean. Then he needs the capital to pay the scavengers. He has to clean up the garbage, accumulate a certain amount, and then send it to the purchase place in different categories. One person can't get it all, at least one or two people have to be hired."
Teacher Gao said: "Where is the purchase place?"
"Try to find it. How can everything be ready? How can it be our turn?"
Teacher Gao said: "How about I go and find this?" He really needs money and has to bend over backwards for a few pieces of silver.
(End of this chapter)
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