Chapter 105 Redemption Ratio

Selling 100 jin of tea leaves makes 800 yuan.

I sold hair bands and small wallets for three hours and earned 110 yuan, which is equivalent to 500 yuan.

In this comparison, tea definitely makes more money, but she still has time.

The bus arrived at the station, and Tang Yuan woke up from a nap. It was seven o'clock in the evening, which was exactly ten o'clock in the morning in China. It was the time of the day when the sun was at its brightest, so it was a good time for him to go out and sell tea.

With this calculation, she can take care of business under different aliases at the same time.

However, this time when she went out, she went to the bank first and exchanged more than 1,000 Hong Kong dollars for 200 US dollars, intending to rent a fixed stall.

When she passed by a canteen, she went in and bought a few packs of imported cigarettes, intending to take them to the market there as a favor. Cigarettes and alcohol are hard currencies all over the world, and she didn't ask for extra care from the other party after she did the favor. She just hoped that she could do business there peacefully.

The rent is two hundred dollars a month, and she can make it back if she can earn seven more dollars a day.

Fixed stalls have good locations and large traffic. Seven yuan means one or two small wallets or seven hair bands. Sometimes, one customer alone can buy all these things.

If you can earn more money and gain stability, why not do it?

After a busy day at noon, it was lunch break time, so she went back to her residence. When she came out, she pushed a bicycle filled with coffee and tea bags, passed by the security booth, and gave a pack of cigarettes to the security guard.

The security guard was a little embarrassed: "I can't help you at all."

"You've worked hard guarding this building, and that's what you deserve," Tang Yuan said with a smile, "and you helped me before, so you're welcome."

"Thank you very much."

Tang Yuan talked to him for a while, and then rode away on his bicycle.

Many times, although she delivered things to the security guard, they basically didn't chat for too long. The reason why she kept delivering cigarettes was that she hoped he wouldn't think she was ungrateful. After all, as long as she rented a house here, she would always be transporting things back and forth, and she would always need the security guard to watch over her for a while.

If she only delivered it when needed, the security guard might be dissatisfied.

Cigarettes are not expensive anyway, and sending a pack every once in a while doesn’t cost much.

Riding a bicycle to the entrance of the coffee shop, Xue Shiqi was currently entertaining customers in her own sweater shop. After winter, the shop had restocked with new woolen ornaments. Customers who had accumulated over the year would come in from time to time, bringing a significant increase in customer traffic to the sweater shop.

As for making money, Xue Shiqi now not only makes money from the sweater shop and coffee shop, she also takes on the design work from Xue's mother. It is said that she gets a commission for every piece of clothing that is sold.

With this extra money, Xue Shiqi can stay here with greater peace of mind. Every time Xue's mother comes over, she will discuss current fashion trends with her and guide her step by step towards becoming a designer. The goals of the mother and daughter are now completely consistent.

Tang Yuan unloaded the coffee beans and tea leaves from his bicycle, walked into the coffee shop to package them and replenish the shelves.

"You've been so busy lately."

"Yes, I have a lot to do recently," Tang Yuan finished restocking the shelves, stood up and looked back, "Making money is like this, I always have to be busy from time to time, I still need you to look after the store, come here more often after I'm done with this."

After this wave of tea season, the amount of tea will decrease in summer and autumn, and she will have more time then.

The main reason was that the salary she paid in the coffee shop was not high, and sometimes she still felt embarrassed to let Xue Shiqi do the work, and always thought that she could share as much as she could.

But in reality, even when it was not the tea season, she didn't come here very often, and it was mainly Xue Shiqi who received the guests.

"It's okay, just do your thing," Xue Shiqi knew Tang Yuan's situation. She had to make money to live on her own. "You don't have to come here to take care of the shelves when you're busy. I'll do it when I'm free."

"It's okay, it's not much."

Tang Yuan chatted with her for a while, then left the coffee shop. Taking advantage of the afternoon free time, he bought a large bag of tea to sell at the market, and also delivered today's small wallet.

Now she sent the purse not once a day, but once every three days. She had worked with Aunt Li and Aunt Lan for a while, and they trusted each other, so she could leave the purse there without any worries.

Actually, she had originally thought about sending some hair bands over as well, but the quantity of hair bands is indeed not much. Yun Province is very busy at the moment, and only more than 200 hair bands can be sent up every day. Zheng Man sells 100 hair bands. Now she goes to Country M and can sell dozens of them at a time. In this way, the two of them can consume most of them and then send them to Aunt Li and Aunt Lan. Once this batch of tea is sold out, there will not be enough for Zheng Man alone, and she is afraid that there will be a shortage of stock.

After selling tea in the afternoon, she still went to the warehouse to hand over the business to Zheng Man.

After a busy day, I got up early the next morning, took the bus to the market, and reserved a fixed stall with the market staff.

The three-hour sales on this day were indeed better than the day before, with the sales reaching US$150, which is 750 Hong Kong dollars when converted five times.

…

"yawn--"

"Xiaoyuan, did you not sleep well last night?"

"No, I slept well," but segmented sleep is a bit useless, Tang Yuan said silently in his heart, "Auntie Qian, where were you talking about just now?"

"Your father, I'm afraid he won't be able to come back." Aunt Qian looked helpless.

"Hmm?" Tang Yuan looked up in confusion, "Didn't you say a few days ago that you were planning to come back?"

Tang Jianguo had been making a fuss for several months, and by the time the freshmen had started school for the first half of the semester, he suddenly came to his senses and stopped complaining about the replacement of his admission letter. He said he felt relieved and planned to return to work at the machinery factory.

She was busy during this period and did not go to meet him. She thought that even if Tang Jianguo came back, he would not be able to accomplish anything big without the trust of the factory leaders.

Why did you suddenly change your mind now?

Aunt Qian covered her mouth and whispered to her, "I heard that he thinks he is still very good at studying and wants to continue to take the college entrance examination. Now, there is another opportunity in July. This time, the factory has issued an order, saying that if he doesn't come back, he will not be given the position."

There was a glimmer of joy in Tang Yuan's eyes.

Unexpectedly, if she didn't help this time, Tang Jianguo would fall into the pit himself.

Although the job in the factory is not a stable job in the future, at least in the next few years, the job in the factory is still popular. Besides, if Tang Jianguo keeps thinking about the college entrance examination, he will ruin himself sooner or later.

Even though she didn't know why Tang Jianguo made this decision, she still thought it was a good idea for him to have this idea.

"Is he really good at studying..." Tang Yuan hesitated and asked in a tone that was neither a question nor a comment.

"Who knows? You don't know, and I don't know either. Maybe he's great, maybe not," Aunt Qian's tone was particularly meaningful. "But the factory has said that this batch of college students will definitely be assigned good jobs. Maybe it's better than his job in the machinery factory. If he can pass the exam, that's great. If not, then it's all in vain..."

Perhaps she just remembered who was in front of her as she was talking, and Aunt Qian’s voice suddenly stopped.

Tang Yuan held back his laughter and could only pretend to be ignorant.

Aunt Qian couldn't hold it in any longer, so she went to tell the others in the stove room about it. Tang Yuan also lowered his head and continued to "immerse" himself in the book.

As soon as she lowered her head, she felt the urge to fall asleep.

He squinted his eyes, then suddenly remembered something and raised his head abruptly.

No, why does she take the bus back and forth? She travels two hours back and forth every day, and sleeps on an uncomfortable bus. Even if she falls asleep, the quality of her sleep will not be very good.

The point is that she doesn't live there officially, she can carry her "temporary residence" with her!

Just like Xiaofang before, she could place her temporary residence in an empty alley. Wouldn't she be able to go out wherever she wanted? In this way, wouldn't she be able to sleep an extra hour every day and save two hours of commuting time every day?

Thinking of this, she reached out and rubbed her waist.

No wonder she felt uncomfortable these two days. Riding in a car really consumes a person's physical strength. Even if she is in good physical condition, she can't waste time in the car.

How could she be so stupid?

After deciding to move, she took her "temporary residence" with her when she went out to catch the bus the next morning. After getting off the bus, she immediately found a deserted place nearby and set up her "temporary residence" there.

Only later did they start selling hair bands and small wallets in the square.

Because she didn't need to catch the bus, she didn't have to rush when she finished work in the evening. Instead, she slowly saw off waves of customers who needed to catch the bus. After there were fewer people in the square, she carried her bag to her "temporary residence."

As the journey back home was shortened by an hour, she felt much more relaxed and slept comfortably in bed for two hours.

From that day on, her daily business went smoothly. She treated the business in the country with time difference as morning business. She got up at six in the morning, worked until nine, and came back to rest for two hours.

At 11 o'clock, Tang Yuan went to the cafeteria to have a meal, and then went to the boiler room to work.

Then she could do it from afternoon till evening.

With this work schedule, she doesn't even have to go to bed early at night. She can still follow her original schedule. After all, after finishing her business in Country M, she can still come back and sleep for two hours.

That means there is a time difference, otherwise it means she doesn't get up until eight o'clock every morning.

It was the same intermittent sleep time, but now she didn't need to catch the bus back and forth. She felt comfortable again, no longer showing the sluggish look she had when she first started doing the jet lag business.

At the same time, her business reputation in Country M gradually grew. In addition to returning customers, nearby residents would also come specifically to buy things from her stall.

Even if she still only does business three hours a day, she can still make two hundred yuan a day.

Converted into Hong Kong dollars, it is one thousand Hong Kong dollars.

The exchange rate of USD to RMB is 1 to 1.5.

Tang Yuan saw the exchange rate in a newspaper and realized that the exchange rate of US dollars to RMB was much lower than she had imagined. However, at that time, apart from the official, there was almost no private exchange, and only a very small number of people were eligible for exchange.

She remembers the time when China was short of foreign vocabulary, which was in the 1980s.