Chapter 131 Must Do
"Fortunately, it's not far from here."
"Yes, there are tricycles that can transport goods, and it is easy to deliver the goods back."
"Also tell other villages to send the tea to the warehouse. But the warehouse is a bit far away. What if someone goes in and changes the items?"
"Find a few old people who can't do anything and have them take turns going down the mountain to watch over the crops. Our village has a lot of tea this year, and the old people can't do much at home, so they are just right to watch over the crops in the warehouse. They will be paid six work points a day."
"That's a good idea. Let's do it then!"
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The "warehouse" in Yunnan Province was changed, and Tang Yuan found out the next day. In addition to the note, there was also a key placed in the shed. It was the key to the new warehouse. Apart from her, the other key was in the hands of the village chief.
Tea leaves need to be fried, and many villagers do it at night. Originally, they would fry them overnight and send them to the top of the mountain the next day. But now that the location has been changed, they will fry them at night and send them to the new warehouse the next morning.
The elderly man who will be looking after the warehouse will also be sent there, stay in the warehouse for a day, and then brought back in the evening.
Tang Yuan estimated the amount of tea, the old woman's condition, and the time she would need to go up and down the mountain, and set a tea collection interval of every three days. This way, the old woman could sleep directly in the warehouse at night and did not need to ride a tricycle back and forth every day.
And once every three days can also "reduce risks."
There would be trucks coming to the town to collect food, but it was almost an occasional occurrence. She went to collect it once every three days, which was better than once a day.
There are thirty days in a month, and she only needs to go down ten times to collect all the tea leaves.
During these three days, she found an opportunity to quietly follow the person delivering the tea to the location of the warehouse, and also determined the way to the town.
The news was passed down, and from the news sent back by the village chief, it could be seen that people in several villages did not believe that the business could be completed, but Tang Yuan did not care. He just went down the mountain on the confirmed date, the third day after the appointment.
Xiaomei is a lunatic. When she appears in front of everyone, she usually has disheveled hair and looks crazy. Halfway through her walk, she tied her hair up, put on a coat, and revealed her face.
The road was easier to walk on, so she took out her bicycle from the game space and rode it towards the town.
For her, the most convenient way is for the villagers to deliver the tea to the mountain. However, as the amount of tea increases, it is impossible to keep the location unchanged, and finding a warehouse at the foot of the mountain is a must.
But she didn't expect the village chief to act so quickly. In just a few days, he not only found the warehouse, but also found that there was quite a lot of space in the warehouse.
It was getting dark and the roadside gradually became deserted. She pushed her bicycle towards the warehouse in the moonlight.
There was no one in the warehouse tonight. She opened the door with the key, and after entering, she took the key from the inside to lock the door. With a flashlight in her hand, she confirmed the quantity of tea bag by bag, and then put the amount in a special money bag, one amount for each family. There were also small wallets in the big money bag with names written on them, which were used specifically to store money.
Of course, the other villages received a unified amount of money, and after giving them the money, they were allowed to take it home and divide it among themselves.
Fortunately, there is no time difference between here and Hong Kong.
Also at night, there was no one in the warehouse on the Xiangjiang side. Tang Yuan used the game space as a "passageway", taking a bag here and putting a bag there. Before long, bag after bag of tea appeared in the gradually empty Xiangjiang warehouse.
She is not afraid of making mistakes in the "inflow and outflow" here.
After all, while she was secretly transferring the tea in, she was also openly transferring the clothes delivered during the day to Country M.
The last batch of goods worth 300,000 Hong Kong dollars was finally "added" to 600,000 Hong Kong dollars by her. The profit also doubled from a normal batch of 300,000 Hong Kong dollars to 600,000 Hong Kong dollars.
What’s important is that the procurement method for this batch of goods is completely “legal and formal”. Anyway, other people only need to see her purchasing and selling goods. As for how much goods were sold and how much money was earned, there is no way for the two sides to communicate no matter what. The extra money will naturally go into her pocket.
Now that the previous batch of goods has just been sold out, this batch of goods has arrived at a port not far from Country M and will be unloaded in a few days. Not only her, but Mona is also looking forward to the arrival of this batch of goods.
But this time, Tang Yuan will not let Mona know the number of containers.
After all, she is the one who knows exactly how much goods there are. If one day she suddenly feels like going to Hong Kong to purchase and transport the goods herself regardless of the risks, wouldn't Tang Yuan be exposed?
Now, while she hasn't made up her mind and is unwilling to take the risk, she just hides the number of containers so that she won't be able to check even if she wants to.
As long as there are no specific numbers, even if she remembers it at any time, Tang Yuan can say that the goods in her hands are not all from Hong Kong, and some of them are from Country M.
Tang Yuan was thinking a lot, but Mona was completely unaware of it. She was just looking forward to the new goods that would arrive so that she could use them to make money.
In just a few hours, Tang Yuan moved out all the goods that had been stored in the warehouse for three days. When he left, he deliberately left behind several large bags of rags for the villagers to take back.
This also indicates that future transactions, whether it is tea or hair bands, will be transferred here.
After dealing with all this, she did not go back to the mountain, but directly set up a "temporary residence" in a hidden corner not far from the warehouse and returned to the game space.
She had almost finished dealing with everything on the mountain.
The stocks of grain, rags, and miscellaneous goods, except those stored in the warehouses in Hong Kong, are all in the large warehouses in Country M.
The large warehouse is not far from the port and is located in a relatively safe area. For this purpose, Tang Yuan spent a lot of extra money. However, the warehouse can store a large amount of supplies and can also stack goods, so it is worthwhile even if it costs more.
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"Village chief."
"Have they all been moved away?" The village chief walked into the warehouse and saw a bag in the corner. "Those should be rags. Take them back to the mountain later and don't let outsiders know."
Someone carried out the rag bag, and another person took the bag of money and walked up to the village chief: "These are from other villages."
"Give it to Granny Wu, and let her pass it on when someone comes," the village chief said, looking at the empty warehouse with a sigh of relief, "This is good, people can move faster."
"Yes, we were worried at first because we were afraid that the man wouldn't be able to find a place to move the tea leaves. We also didn't know if we could move all the tea leaves. Now we don't have to worry about that anymore."
"Yes," the village chief nodded with a smile, "Take the money back and divide it up. When you go out tomorrow, take out all the hair ties you made these days. Since that person has moved to a new place, the hair ties we put in the shed should still be there."
"Okay, but I don't know how that person sells tea. I've never heard of it."
"Don't ask so many questions."
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"Are you here?"
"Not yet. I've been watching."
"It's already this late, why hasn't he come yet? I don't know if he wants it or not. What if he doesn't want it?"
"What can I do? I can just drink it myself. I picked it somewhere else and it didn't cost me any money."
"Oh, I don't know if it will work. Let's go up like this..."
"Why are they the only ones who make money... Here they come, are they back?"
"You're really back? Really! How is it? Is it okay?"
The man who came back with a wooden cart shouted loudly. Facing the people waiting at the entrance of the village, he suddenly smiled and immediately handed over the bag on his shoulder: "It's all here."
"What is this?"
"Stupid! It must be money!"
"I'll do it, I'll divide it."
"Hurry up and divide it. After that, I will go up the mountain to pick tea leaves. There are still a lot of tea leaves on our mountain. If we don't pick them now, they will grow big and be worthless."
"Well, big tea people also want it, but the price is cheaper."
"We'll talk about it later. Now I'll pick the tea leaves. Oh, oh, is this my share of the money? This is really beautiful money."
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"So many? When were they delivered?"
Early in the morning in Hong Kong, Zheng Man led people to open the warehouse door. She was surprised to see the warehouse full of tea leaves, but she quickly calmed down. After all, this was not the first time this had happened.
"Jia Qi said that transporting once a day was too troublesome, so she changed it to once every three days. It happens that this batch can be sold in three or four days without any problem." Zheng Man walked into the warehouse and took a bag of tea from a pile of tea on the left.
Weigh it on the scale, put it on the right side, and sign the book hidden in the warehouse.
I brought down six bags of tea in total and recorded them all.
This was the agreement between her and Tang Yuan. Every time they took a bag of tea, they had to record the weight. This way, when they came back from selling it, they could calculate the price based on the weight of the tea.
Before, the two of them settled their bill once a day, but now, sometimes Zheng Man comes on time in the evening, and if she doesn't see Tang Yuan, she knows that she has something to do, so they wait until the next day or the day after tomorrow to settle the bill together.
After recording the weight, Zheng Man and the people who came with her moved the tea leaves to the tricycle at the door, then locked the warehouse door and rode away on the tricycle.
About ten minutes' tricycle ride from the warehouse, there were already several people waiting there on bicycles.
The tricycle stopped, and several people quietly took away their own bags of tea and went to sell them in various places in Hong Kong. The wider the area, the faster they could sell the tea.
"Thank you for your hard work."
"It's not hard. If it weren't for you, it would be hard for us to get a foothold here," one of the people on the other side said. "When we came here, our biggest concerns were about daily life and getting a foothold. You have given us a better way to go."
"It's my honor to be able to help you." Zheng Man said seriously.
The two sides looked at each other, with determination in each other's eyes.
Whether they are selling tea or food, their purpose has never been to make money, but even so, they need to live here, and now that they can make a living by selling tea and food, they can concentrate more on doing what they should do.
There are always some things at home and abroad that need to be done by someone.