Chapter 060 Not Enough Space
"Can you do it?"
"I think it works. Didn't she say that the items were placed between us? If someone comes to ask, we just say a few words. Just now I saw her selling quite easily, and she sold several in a short time."
"Yes, if we can sell a dozen small purses a day, we can get more than 100 yuan a month, and we can buy an extra 10 kilograms of meat at home. How about we agree?"
"Agree. This business can be done. The key point is that it is pure income for us. We don't need to spend money on purchasing goods. This girl seems to be easy to get along with. The sugar water just now was quite sweet."
"Just look at the sugar water. I think this girl is very smart. I want to buy her a five-dollar wallet."
"Why do you think the same as I do? This small wallet is perfect for storing change. You can take it with you when you go out to buy groceries. You don't need to bring another big bag. Just put the wallet in your pocket after buying something."
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Tang Yuan turned around and looked at the two people who were walking back after whispering. He stretched out his hands and said, "I just bought a piece of clothing and a pair of shoes. Here's the money for you."
After giving her the money, she described in detail the styles and prices of the clothes and shoes she sold.
Both of them were surprised: "We didn't tell you the price, how did you know?"
"I remember everything you said when you were chatting and selling things just now," Tang Yuan said with a smile, "and now that you have guests, I don't want to delay your business, so I'll help you sell things."
The two looked at each other, and one of them spoke up: "Then we will help you sell the wallet, but you have to come here twice a day. It's okay when we're here during the day, but we won't take care of it at night. Besides, even if you leave it at our house, we may not be able to keep it safe for you."
"I will come every morning and evening, thank you for your help," Tang Yuan stood up and thanked him. "Don't worry, I will settle the accounts of the bags sold every day. Only by not owing or oweing money can we have a long-term cooperation. Even if I am absent one day, it will not affect your daily business."
After getting the nods from the two, Tang Yuan placed the small wallets he had put out of his bag today on the spread out white cloth one by one, and divided them according to the prices so that both of them could see the prices clearly.
While placing her purse, she exchanged names and general information with the two men.
Just as she heard, the two people's residence was right behind her, and because they grew up together and had a very good relationship, they thought of setting up a stall together, and deliberately put different things on display to avoid business disputes.
As for how to address them, the two did not elaborate, only saying that they could be called "Auntie Li and Auntie Lan".
The market opens at around seven in the morning and lasts until about six in the evening. It is not too dark at this time, so it is a good time to do business. If it is later, the streets of Hong Kong are not very safe and not many people go out, so the market will naturally not be open.
Tang Yuan calculated the time and thought she could still take the bus back at this time. It wouldn't be too dark when she got home, and she wouldn't be going anywhere else during the whole journey, so it shouldn't be dangerous.
It opens earlier in the morning.
She works in the machinery factory mainly in the afternoon and evening, and does not get up too early in the morning. The factory opens at around 7 o'clock, and she has to leave at around 6 o'clock to catch the bus. It is really not a good plan for her to go back and forth just for this.
Thinking of this, she spoke directly: "I will come over this evening. I will put some wallets here in advance, together with Aunt Li and Aunt Lan's goods. There is no need to keep them specially. I have encountered thieves where I live. If the things are stolen by thieves, I will bear all the consequences myself."
"You will bear it yourself?"
"Of course," Tang Yuan nodded, "I will definitely not let you take the risk for me."
"That's good. Just don't blame us if something gets lost," Aunt Li said, speaking in a low voice to Tang Yuan. "It's not safe here either. There are a lot of petty thieves. So we don't dare to bring in too much stuff. We're not afraid of having it in our hands, but we're afraid of it getting stolen."
"Thieves are really despicable. I once encountered a thief who emptied someone's house and removed the windows. He even took away the old newspapers on the wall and tore them all off. He was so hateful." Tang Yuan said seriously.
"So hateful?"
"A bunch of deadbeats, really hateful."
The two sides discussed the hateful thief for a long time until more and more people came to the market and some came to inquire about buying clothes and shoes, and the conversation stopped.
After chatting with Tang Yuan, the two of them became more affectionate towards her and urged her to leave and do other things.
"We have the small wallet business. We will take care of it. We don't have to worry about not having customers."
"Thank you, Aunt Lan, thank you, Aunt Li."
After saying thank you, Tang Yuan walked out of the market with his empty bag on his back. Looking back at the bustling market, he was sure that the wallet business would not be too bad.
In fact, before meeting Aunt Li and Aunt Lan, she was planning to sell wallets by herself, but after meeting them, she chose the current sales method. Although the current sales model will make her earn 50 cents less for each wallet she sells, it will not trap her here.
Instead of staying to sell wallets, she might as well use this time to do something else.
It was earlier than she expected, and it was only a little after nine o'clock. Her wallet was still full, so she did not rush back. Instead, she strolled leisurely on the busy streets of Hong Kong with her empty bag.
Hong Kong had already developed in the 1970s, but compared to its most prosperous era, Hong Kong at that time was still relatively simple.
Most of the things sold on the market are relatively affordable, but they already have the feel of the mainland in the late 1990s.
Passing by a stall selling books and newsagents, she bought two latest fashion magazines. Even though she didn't have enough connections to sell "high-end clothing" yet, it would always be a good idea to read more fashion magazines.
She walked around until noon, then went into a roast duck restaurant and bought two servings of roast duck. She packed them up and brought them back to the market, giving them to Aunt Li and Aunt Lan.
The gifts were delivered and the two of them also brought her good news.
In the two hours after she left in the morning, more than a dozen small wallets were sold at the stall. Including the ones she sold, the total number was more than twenty, and this was just the harvest for the morning.
"In the evening, there will be a lot of people coming here to buy vegetables, and business will pick up then."
"We asked you to treat us to roast duck, but we should treat you, and you've already treated us to sweet soup today, how can you do that?"
After all, if we calculate this way, we can sell about 50 a day, and divide it equally between the two of us, so each of us can get 12.5 yuan a day, which is 375 yuan a month.
Even though this amount of money is not much, at that time, the salary of ordinary workers was generally only more than 1,000 yuan, and 375 yuan was half a month's salary. What's more, this was just a part-time job and they earned it by the way, so the two were naturally happy.
Tang Yuan was also happy. She hoped that the two of them would sell as much as possible so that she could earn more.
"I should still treat you. I'll have to trouble Aunt Li and Aunt Lan later," Tang Yuan pushed the roast duck that the two of them had pushed back to him, "Since we're working together for a long time, I won't always send gifts."
"That's a deal, don't send me any more next time," Aunt Li took the roast duck, "By the way, come over in the evening and bring some extra wallets. Business will be good tomorrow morning, so we have to catch up with the good business in the morning."
"Then I'll come back in the evening." Tang Yuan agreed and put the wallet back on the white cloth.
This time when she left the market, she did not go back immediately. Instead, she bought some paper and pen nearby and, sitting on the bus back, wrote down the number and price of the wallets she had put down in the morning.
Finally, write the date on top.
She believed Aunt Li and Aunt Lan, but she believed more in the information recorded on paper.
Today she brought a total of fifty wallets, five ten-yuan wallets, twenty-five five-yuan wallets, and twenty three-yuan wallets. Before returning to the stall just now, she roughly counted them and found that she didn't sell any ten-yuan wallets, but she sold some five-yuan and three-yuan wallets.
Based on the average selling price of four yuan, minus the fifty cents profit, she makes three and a half yuan for each small purse. If she sells fifty purses a day, she can earn 175 yuan.
5250 yuan a month.
She should stock up on more rags!
It seems like it’s time to find a bigger place to live, otherwise I’ll have nowhere to put my stuff.
After all the calculations, Tang Yuan has a place to live, Wen Jiaqi has a place to live, but Xiaofang has nowhere to live. Xiaofang needs a real place to live, instead of staying in a "temporary residence" outdoors all the time.
Xiaofang has no place to live, it's really pitiful.
She thought it was a good idea, so she took advantage of her free time in the afternoon to go out for a walk and try to ask about accommodation, but ended up disappointed.
It's not an identity problem. The game space can help solve the identity problem, including all the documents. The main problem is that there is no place to live, and there is no large space she wants.
Especially this year, educated youth have been trying to return to the city one after another. Although they all have jobs, even the machinery factory does not have enough space to accommodate so many people.
There was no other choice; these educated youth who returned to the city had to live together with their families.
Because of this reason, many families are looking forward to moving to a bigger house, and some people have even begun to notice houses that have not been lived in for many years and are gradually becoming dilapidated.
Although these houses are old and dilapidated, they are large enough and we can fix the leaks, which is better than squeezing the whole family into a small space.
This included the shabby little house that she and Sun Dong and Sun Feng had always used as their trading place.
And there is a tendency that the small shabby house will be claimed by someone else.
After confirming the news, Tang Yuan waited outside the dilapidated house early in the morning when the next trading day arrived. She stopped Sun Dong who was sneaking in cautiously and changed the trading location to another deserted alley not far from her current temporary residence.
The transaction between the two people was not long, and since they couldn't go to the broken house now, it would not be a big problem to temporarily put it in the alley.
After all, the black market had become a fixed market before, and people would only catch sick pigs when they appeared. In most cases, people would turn a blind eye.
The two of them were just doing a one-sided transaction, and there was no one watching Sun Dong from behind during this period, so there wouldn't be any major problems for a while.
But the trading problem here was solved, but her problem of hoarding rags was not solved.
Jeans and shirts are timeless and will continue to have a large enough market size from now to the next few decades. If she can stock up enough scraps of cloth now, she can do business longer.
Moreover, the price of scraps of cloth was cheap at that time, and the more she stocked up, the more she earned.
Hong Kong is so big that her stall can be set up in more places.
What's more, there is the mainland after reform and opening up. The mainland market at that time will be a huge blue ocean. This time will not be long, just wait another two or three years.
So the question is, where can she find a large "warehouse"?
Spend money on rent?
Or... open another random vest?