Chapter 79 All Cleared
"Give me five kilograms." "I want eight kilograms." "Give me ten kilograms."
The sales volume of old tea was quite large. After seeing the first person coming with a bag, Tang Yuan patted his head and went to the market to buy a plastic bag. He has been using plastic bags to pack tea ever since.
This can save a lot of time.
In addition, she also bought a bicycle, and riding back and forth was much faster than walking. In most of the day, she made several trips back and forth and sold more than 800 kilograms of tea leaves.
Even if these old teas were only sold for one yuan per pound, she could still earn more than 800 yuan, which is equivalent to a month's salary for some Hong Kong people.
In the evening, she had to deliver small wallets and sell young tea. She did not go back to her residence, but directly took the goods from the warehouse. When she left, she took her "temporary residence" with her.
The "temporary residence" can be moved, which is equivalent to her having a portable space. Originally, she did not have a place to put it out of sight, so the "temporary residence" has always been fixed. Now with this warehouse, at least in this month, she can move goods at will.
The tea season lasts only one month at most, and she takes this time to sell off the huge amount of old tea and some young tea. The few young tea leaves left are then returned to the warehouse and she only needs to transport them back and forth to the rented house.
The bus near the warehouse could not go directly to the big market, so she took another bus, carrying tea and a large backpack full of small wallets, and arrived at the big market a little later than usual.
After selling 50 kilograms of tea leaves, she earned more than 1,200 yuan just from selling tea leaves today.
For the next few days, she kept walking around the warehouse.
Part of the time I collected rags, part of the time I sold tea, and part of the time I brought back "empty bags".
She was not worried about too many scraps of cloth piling up, but mainly because there were too many garment factories nearby and they could not handle the amount of tea she collected every day.
She had no idea what was going on with the villagers, but even though it was the sowing season, the amount of tea leaves could still be maintained at 500 to 600 kilograms per day, and sometimes even soared to more than 1,000 kilograms. This fact still made her a little overwhelmed.
They had no choice but to go back to their old ways, using bags inflated with air to pretend they were full of goods, and then transporting them back to the warehouse one trip at a time.
Fortunately, she has her own bicycle now, so it is easier to disguise herself by tying it to the bicycle. If she had used a rickshaw, people would definitely notice that the weight was wrong.
Maybe because she moved back and forth too frequently, someone nearby actually noticed her movements.
Another time, Tang Yuan heard it.
"Back and forth, I don't know what the hell they're doing."
"Yeah, I don't know how much money I can make."
"No matter how much money we earn, after deducting the rent, it won't be much more. These scraps of cloth don't earn us money, so what use are they to take back? People who specialize in this kind of business don't want to bother with it."
"Yes, my daughter works in a garment factory. She sold a batch of scraps of cloth the day before yesterday. Everyone in the factory was very happy. They were useless and they didn't take up space if they were sold."
"I bet you that this guy will run away after renting this place for one month."
"I can't bet on rent either."
"Why don't you change it? We're betting the same thing. How do we bet?"
"I don't care. I'm sure it won't last more than a month. If I change to another place, I'm sure to lose. That would be so boring."
"Let's gamble on some melon seeds."
"No bet, no bet."
Tang Yuan listened to the whole conversation and knew that the people around her were aware of her situation, so she turned around and returned to the warehouse.
She had not originally planned to rent the place for too long. As long as she could survive the tea harvest season, she would not have to spend two thousand dollars to rent a warehouse in the future. Two thousand dollars was not a small amount of money. Her old tea was only one dollar per pound, so she would have to sell two thousand pounds to make back the money.
However, although the quantity of old tea is large, the purchase price is not expensive. Even if 1,000 kilograms of tea are delivered a day, it only costs ten yuan. You only need to prepare 300 yuan a month to support it.
The spring ploughing season did have some impact on the tea production. After soaring to more than 1,000 kilograms in a few days, it hovered around 500 to 600 kilograms the rest of the time.
Tang Yuan found several markets near the warehouse and stayed in each market for several days. He was able to sell seven or eight hundred kilograms of tea almost every day, and soon used up all the stock accumulated during this period.
After that, she hardly stocked up any goods. She sold whatever kilograms the villagers gave her.
In addition to the tea sold in the big market in the evening, the stock of young tea is also being consumed bit by bit.
After more than half a month, the amount of old tea sent by the villagers has been decreasing, from 500 to 600 kilograms per day to 100 to 200 kilograms, almost coinciding with the time when young tea is purchased.
As the amount of tea leaves decreased, she naturally had less time to sell tea in the market, so she simply spent more time making wallets.
Over the past two months, Aunt Wei has been embroidering one piece of cloth a day on average, and she has been making them into wallets and selling them in Xue Shiqi's shop, with prices ranging from a few dozen to one or two hundred yuan.
In other words, this part alone can bring Tang Yuan an income of two thousand yuan per month.
Aunt Li and Aunt Lan's ordinary wallet business is particularly stable because there are many people going to the market. On average, they sell thirty to forty wallets a day. Not all of them are new customers. Some of them have a collecting habit and will buy one to take home as long as a new pattern of wallet comes out.
But even so, several large boxes of wallets were piled up in Tangyuan without anyone noticing.
Fortunately, almost all the rags were kept in the house on the hilltop. The wallets were piled in the corner of her wooden house, and they could be stacked up in boxes, so they didn't take up much space.
The one-month lease for the warehouse was about to end, so she wrote a note to the villagers in advance to tell them when the purchase would end.
When I was writing, I thought of what the villagers had asked me before, and wrote on the note, "If you think there is something suitable to sell, you can bring it up when the season comes. After the tea purchase is completed, I will come up again after a period of time."
Even if she didn't, she wouldn't be at a loss, after all, the tea business alone had made her wallet full in the past two months.
As the message on the note spread, the villagers' efficiency in picking tea leaves suddenly increased, and finally soared again. Tang Yuan also took this opportunity to run to a nearby garment factory and stocked up a batch of higher-quality rags.
Then, before the warehouse lease expires, the rags are moved to the house on the hilltop and all the tea is sold.
On the last day of the lease, she found the landlord, let him see the empty warehouse with his own eyes, returned the keys to the landlord, settled all the bills, and left on the bicycle she had bought.
Not long after she left, she heard discussions behind her.
"It's really just one month."
"They said her rag business wouldn't last long. It turned out to be true. If she could do it, why would all those rags be piled up in her factory?"
"I just didn't expect to leave so quickly, just leave as soon as I said I would."
"Why not leave? The warehouse lease has expired."
"Too."
Tang Yuan didn't know what people were talking about her, but she felt somewhat relieved when she rode her bike to the busy main road.
She had taken some risks this time by renting a warehouse to do business. Even if she had covered it up, if she ran into someone who was unscrupulous, it would not end well. But now that she had given up the warehouse and her residence was far away from here, she could rest assured from now on.
Far is really far.
Normally it’s fine when I take the bus, but this time I was riding my bike and I kept thinking “why hasn’t arrived yet” the whole way.
The season was over and the weather was getting hot. The highest temperature in Hong Kong reached over 20 degrees. It was so hot after riding for a while that she had to spend money to sit in a nearby ice house for a while. Only after she cooled down did she continue riding her bike back.
On the way back, I passed by Xue Shiqi's handicraft shop, so I parked my bike and was about to go in when I saw a customer coming out with a bag in his hand.
Xue Shiqi saw her and immediately waved at her: "Jiaqi, are you going cycling today?"
"I went out for a while," Tang Yuan walked to the door and looked at the situation inside the handicraft shop. "Now it can be considered a store. It's different from the previous time when I came and didn't see anything inside."
"The customers also said that they have more things to choose from now, and the things are good, mainly because you delivered them on time," Xue Shiqi said with a smile, "The wallets you sent are selling especially well. There are still some small ornaments left, but the wallets have been sold out."
Tang Yuan took a closer look and indeed did not see the small wallet. He was very happy and said, "Then this business can be done."
"My mom also said that this business is good, mainly because it is not seasonal," Xue Shiqi saw Tang Yuan standing at the door, moved a stool for her to sit on, and sat down to chat with her, "Purses like this can be made now and in winter, unlike knitting sweaters, which can only be done in winter. I used to have a lot of free time in the summer, but this summer I have to stay in the store."
"It's your own store, you can do whatever you like." Tang Yuan always felt that Xue Shiqi opened this store for fun and might close it one day.
But whether it is a sweater or a wallet, these things will still generate business in the future. If Xue Shiqi doesn't do it, she can sell them somewhere else.
The two chatted for a while, and Xue Shiqi got up and went behind the counter, and took out a large blanket: "Is it beautiful? I knitted it!"
"It looks good," Tang Yuan looked at the blanket carefully. "It must be very comfortable to use this blanket in winter. It feels soft and warm underfoot!"
"That's what I thought, too. I want to sell blankets in the store," Xue Shiqi put the blanket on herself and shook it, "This way, we can have more business in the store."
Tang Yuan smiled and gave a thumbs up: "Your idea is very good. You can make a lot of different blankets. You don't have to step on them. You can also make them into capes and put them on the sofa. It will be very comfortable when you lie down."
"Yes, there are so many styles to make!" Xue Shiqi jumped on the spot excitedly, then walked out of the counter and hugged her with open arms, "You are really amazing. You have given me so many inspirations. I am so lucky to have a friend like you!"
"I'm also happy to have a friend like you." Tang Yuan said with a smile.