Chapter 74 Seizing Business Opportunities
"Yes, I just got off yesterday." Su Jiaojiao put the melon seeds and peanuts on the dining table in the hall and rubbed her hands. "I came to see you."
The hotel lobby was still quite cold.
Even with a cotton curtain hanging at the door, it couldn't keep out the cold wind from outside.
"I've been so busy these past two days that I didn't have time to look for you." Liu Ying chuckled, invited the others to come over and eat melon seeds, and introduced Su Jiaojiao to them one by one, "This is my old classmate Su Jiaojiao."
"Then you guys have a good chat." Among these people were young girls and chefs in their thirties and forties. Everyone was very kind. They came over, grabbed a handful of melon seeds, and continued to clean up while laughing.
"How's it going? Is it all right?" Su Jiaojiao asked her. The restaurant was new, clean and tidy, and the environment was pretty good. Liu Ying spit out sunflower seed shells and shook her head, saying, "It's just so-so. We just rarely receive cash. Most of the customers who come to eat here have business dealings with the company. You owe me, I owe you. They come to eat, they all sign, and then after a while, we have to go out with the meal bill to collect the money."
"So that's how it is." Su Jiaojiao understood as soon as she heard it. This meant that this restaurant would have a lot of bad debts and dead debts. Many restaurants were dragged down like this.
"We have to go out and collect our wages ourselves," Liu Ying sighed. "We might as well be selling film at the Hualian Department Store!"
"Fortunately, they provide food and accommodation, and also pay for social security." Su Jiaojiao comforted her.
"You're still the best at comforting me." Liu Ying's mood instantly brightened, and her eyes fell on the down jacket she was wearing. "Is this the down jacket you bought at the Mocheng Clothing Wholesale Market?"
"This one isn't, it was given to me by the vendor." Su Jiaojiao touched the down jacket on her body. She was very satisfied with it, especially the two large pockets that could hold a lot of things. "But it's almost the same. It's just that this batch of down jackets isn't selling well in the snack street."
"Your snack street is just a vegetable market. You won't be able to sell your down jackets there." Liu Ying thought about it and had an idea. "Oh, right? You can sell them at the seed supply company next to our restaurant. The seed supply company has two offices, where they keep some soybean and corn seeds. The one at the door is empty. I'll tell my cousin's husband and you can use the one at the door."
"Take me to see it." Su Jiaojiao was very tempted. Wujiaohua Company was not far from the department store. Opposite it was a cadre training school and diagonally across from it was a vocational secondary school. The market audience was very good.
As Liu Ying said, this seed material company actually consisted of two offices. The inner one was filled with piles of corn and soybean seeds, while the outer office had only two desks and no office staff.
"It's empty anyway, are you coming?" Liu Ying asked her.
"Come on." Su Jiaojiao immediately made the decision and asked, "How do you calculate the rent?"
"What rent?" Liu Ying said nonchalantly, "This seed supply company won't be operational until next spring. You'll need it for two months at most. Why would you want rent? My cousin's husband has his office at the decorating company next door. Just go and tell him."
"That won't work. It's business as usual. I have to pay the rent. Wait a minute, I'm going to buy two bottles of wine." Su Jiaojiao immediately went to the store across the street and bought two bottles of the local famous wine Langyatai Liquor. Then she and Liu Ying went to talk to Fan Jianhua about it. Seeing that Su Jiaojiao had brought him two bottles of good wine, Fan Jianhua smiled and said, "Xiao Su, you're too polite. My two offices are temporarily vacant. You can use them."
"Manager Fan, I'll only need one." Su Jiaojiao couldn't use two rooms with all those down jackets. "How much is the rent?"
"My two offices are empty anyway, why should I charge rent?" Fan Jianhua, a car mechanic who had transformed himself into the general manager of a subsidiary of Wujiaohua, looked very impressive in his black suit and purple tie, sitting in a luxurious leather chair. He was very pleased with the title of "Manager Fan". With a wave of his hand, he said to Liu Ying, "I'll leave this matter to you. Just move those soybean and corn seeds to the warehouse."
Su Jiaojiao was not idle either, so she and Liu Ying carried the five or six bags of corn and soybeans into the warehouse of Wujiaohua Restaurant. The warehouse was not big, with two aluminum alloy shelves against the wall, on which were placed several bags of flour and rice, as well as various beans, cooking panels, cutting boards and other kitchen utensils.
The corn and soybeans they brought in were placed on the bottom layer, about half a meter from the ground.
The back kitchen of Wujiaohua Hotel is separated from the private rooms in the lobby. There is a small courtyard in front of the kitchen. There are several small compartments in the courtyard, including a warehouse, a steaming room, a noodle room, and two KTV rooms. Next to the small courtyard is the family compound of Wujiaohua Company. The exit is a round arch, which is connected to the back door of the seed material company and the decoration company.
Liu Ying went to the kitchen and found a few heads of garlic, stuffed them into bags, saying that it could prevent insect bites.
Next to the warehouse was the cooking room of the Wujiaohua Restaurant. Two electric steamers were emitting steaming hot air, and the aroma of steamed buns filled the air. Liu Ying whispered, "Let's come over later to eat some buns. They're pure meat and so delicious."
"I'm not an employee of your Wujiaohua Company. I'm not eating here." Su Jiaojiao didn't want to take advantage of this. "Besides, I have to pay the rent, otherwise I wouldn't come here."
Most of the tertiary industries in Jiao County have not developed.
Most of these subsidiaries went bankrupt after almost three years, and liquidation was very troublesome. She didn't want to be criticized for this.
"You're such a stubborn person." Liu Ying understood Su Jiaojiao's temper best. "If you feel bad about it, I'll tell my cousin's husband that you can eat with us at the staff meals and pay one month's rent. Anyway, you'll start school after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month next year, so it won't take more than two months."
"Okay, then we'll rent it for a month first. Forget about the employee meals, I won't eat with you guys." Su Jiaojiao thought so too. After the New Year, her down jackets would be hard to sell. For the remaining ones, she would either ask Liu Wenzhi to transfer them or sell them slowly in the snack street. Anyway, she would not sell them here at the cost of rent.
The two went to talk to Fan Jianhua about this matter.
Fan Jianhua did not refuse and called the finance department over to issue the invoice. He charged her a total of two hundred yuan for one month's rent. His two seed supply offices were facing the street and it was indeed not a good look if they were empty. It would be better to rent them out so that he could have an explanation if the superiors asked about it.
After renting the house, Liu Ying rode the tricycle used to buy food at the restaurant to go to the snack street to pick up her goods. "Don't worry about selling your goods here. The old man at the door is from our village. I'll tell him to come over to your place more often in the evening."
"Then I'll leave this to you." Su Jiaojiao was riding a bicycle in front. There was still snow on the side of the road. She rode carefully in the middle of the road and had to give way when she met a vehicle occasionally. Liu Ying was very good at riding a tricycle. The tricycle was more stable than a bicycle frame. In a few seconds, she jumped in front of Su Jiaojiao and arrived at the snack street before her.
When Chen Guilan heard that Su Jiaojiao had spent two hundred yuan to rent a house downtown just to sell these down jackets, she felt very distressed: "Didn't you say you could sell goods at Shuangzhu Park? Why are you spending money to rent a house again?"
All she sold today were leftover goods.
Although I didn't sell a single down jacket, there was no need to spend money to rent a house.
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