Chapter 80 Making Money in Silence

After chatting with Xue Shiqi, Tang Yuan rode his bicycle back to his residence. At the door, he deliberately greeted the security guard to let him know that he had a bicycle.

Although the bicycle is parked at the door and locked, it is generally fine, but it is better for the security guard to notice it than for someone to ride it away in broad daylight one day.

The security guard was also curious as to why she hadn't been traveling back and forth for the past month, so he asked her one more question.

Tang Yuan said that there was another place, but when there were other things later, she would move them here. She also pointed to the bicycle next to her and introduced that it was a reward for the work she had done during this period.

"That's good. Although your job is unstable, at least there are rewards. You can ride a bicycle, which will be convenient for you to travel back and forth in the future," the security guard said, and promised Tang Yuan, "I will help you keep an eye on the bicycle. If you don't see it, it's fine. But if you do see it, you can't let anyone ride away from me."

"Thank you." Tang Yuan thanked him and gave the security guard a cigarette as usual. Then he parked his bike inside and locked it with a padlock.

After parking her bike, she immediately returned to her residence to take stock of her income from selling tea.

The high income from tea has kept her very busy in the past two months. She knows that she has made money and has a rough estimate in her mind, but she doesn't know how much she has made.

Back in the game space, she opened the paper box that held the tea money and began to count the bills one by one.

After counting everything, she finally understood what it meant to "work a season and rest for half a year."

She sold tea leaves in the past two months, and the total amount in this box is 64,500 yuan. She also took some money during this period, but the money was definitely in her hands.

On average, she could earn more than 6,000 yuan a month from this business alone. This salary level would not be considered bad even in the mainland a few decades later, let alone in Hong Kong which had not yet developed in the 1970s.

She will not pay taxes in Hong Kong for the time being. Given the current situation in Hong Kong, she doesn't know who will get the money she pays, and it is also not easy for her to keep her business openly.

Instead of having extra income, it would be better to exchange more RMB and continue to look for suitable projects in the mainland and hand them over to those people who are in financial difficulties.

After counting the tea money, she counted the money from several other businesses.

April and May are the strawberry season, so after she started making tea, she stopped delivering strawberries and no longer had any income from that.

The monthly income from the purses is around 3,000 to 4,000 yuan, and the monthly income from the handicraft shop, including the embroidered purses, is around 5,000 to 6,000 yuan. Together, the two bring her nearly 10,000 yuan a month.

Plus the remaining savings from before.

After Tang Yuan counted the last sum of money, he recorded the account in a notebook, not including the change. The final deposit was: 95,000 yuan.

Rounding it off, I have saved enough money to buy half a house.

She tapped the notebook with satisfaction, put the account book aside, looked up at the several large boxes stacked in the wooden house, stood up, took a large empty bag, and transferred the small wallet out of the large box.

The reason why she did not immediately deny the idea of ​​continuing her rag business when she saw the security guard just now was because she still needed to dump the small purses out. Without bringing in anything, there was no way to move out anything.

The cloth bag was very big, and she filled it with small wallets, probably more than a hundred of them.

Then she took out one thousand yuan from a paper box, put it in the inside pocket of her clothes, and walked out of the game space carrying the bag.

This time when she went downstairs, she tied the bag directly to the back seat of her bicycle and rode to the nearby market.

Today is the day for the transaction she and Zheng Man had agreed upon.

This month, Zheng Man has been helping her exchange RMB. The two meet every few days, and Zheng Man brings her one or two hundred RMB almost every time. So far, she has exchanged more than one thousand RMB for her, which is more than five thousand Hong Kong dollars when converted into Hong Kong dollars.

But she had already exchanged several times, and what she got in exchange for these two times was not much, only less than 100 yuan each time.

"Jiaqi."

"Hey," Tang Yuan stopped his bike and pointed to a secluded place not far away, "Let's go there and talk."

"Okay," Zheng Man walked over quickly, and after the two walked side by side, she took the initiative to say, "We didn't get much this time, and we didn't have any RMB on hand, so we only got 80 yuan."

"It doesn't matter. You've already exchanged a lot for me." Tang Yuan first took out 400 yuan, exchanged it with Zheng Man, put the RMB away, and took the initiative to say, "Come over today. I have another business to cooperate with you."

Zheng Man saw the bag on Tang Yuan's bicycle: "This?"

"Yes," Tang Yuan untied the bag, put it on the ground, opened the bag and showed it to her, "Here is the small wallet, take a look, I'll give you the price of three, five and ten yuan, you can take it out and sell it, you can make as much money as you sell, it's up to you, the extra money is yours."

"How much of it belongs to me?" Zheng Man was surprised.

"Well, but it shouldn't be set too high," Tang Yuan explained the general situation. "I let people sell it in XX market, and I set this price. But if you go around, you can set it a little higher. Before, you made money by picking up scraps, so it was easy to get into disputes with people. The main reason is that your scope was fixed, which easily triggered the interests of a few people. If you run around for this business, it's not easy to get in line with a certain group of people."

"That's right," Zheng Man nodded, squatted down to look at the wallet in the bag, took out a few from it, and easily distinguished the prices of different styles. She nodded affirmatively, "This business is promising. I can run it for you."

"Are you sure? If you accept it, you will have to travel a lot in the future."

"What's the big deal? According to what you said, this business is safer," Zheng Man said, squatting on the ground and looking up at Tang Yuan. "If you run around everywhere, I'm afraid you'll have to worry. It will be much better if I go. Even if someone causes trouble, I can run away quickly. Besides, this business makes money and can support my sister."

Tang Yuan didn't know what was going on with Zheng Man's sister, but since Zheng Man could make money now, she could naturally solve her sister's problems by herself.

"Since you've agreed, let's talk about the specifics," Tang Yuan took out a new notebook, "Here is the detailed list and price of this batch of goods. We can meet every day or every two days, depending on your sales situation. I'll give you the goods and settle the bill. I've also prepared a book for you, so you can record it so we can check it out later."

Zheng Man tilted her head and looked at the contents on Tang Yuan's notebook, her eyes fixed on the final price.

She pointed at the price and said, "Don't bother. I'll pay you directly every time you bring in the goods. It's more convenient this way. I won't have to count the goods sold every day."

In fact, Tang Yuan also thought this was appropriate, but this was the deal she had with Aunt Li and Aunt Lan, and Zheng Man looked like she was short of money, so she said this.

Since Zheng Man had taken the initiative to suggest this form of cooperation was possible, she naturally had no problem with it.

However, she still gave Zheng Man a way out: "If there are wallets that cannot be sold, you can return them to me and I will refund you according to the above price, okay?"

"What's wrong with that?" Zheng Man smiled. "If I don't agree to something that's good for me, wouldn't that be stupid?"

After saying that, she immediately took out the money, counted it according to the prices on the notebook, and put it in Tang Yuan's hand.

After putting the money in, she asked again: "If someone wants to exchange RMB for HKD in the future, would you still be willing to accept it?"

"Yes," Tang Yuan nodded, "Exchange them if you find any. I'll take them no matter how many there are."

With the value of the RMB today, a family in the mainland can only save a few hundred yuan, which is considered good. But how much money can people who sneak into Hong Kong have in their pockets?

Although this year's tea season has passed, there is still next year's. She will certainly not do this business for just one year to make money. In this case, she will have to prepare at least two to three thousand yuan before the start of next year's tea season.

Zheng Man looked at her again and nodded quickly: "Okay, I'll help you watch it."

"Excuse me," Tang Yuan said, looking at the bags at their feet and touching her, "Come on, I'll buy you a bicycle."

"You'll buy it for me?" Zheng Man was suspicious. "Actually, I can just take the bus."

"That's definitely because bicycles are more convenient. Just consider it as an advance reward to you for our cooperation." Tang Yuan reached out to pick up the bag at his feet, but Zheng Man picked it up easily first.

The two looked at each other, and Zheng Man smiled and said, "Since you said that, I won't be polite to you. I will follow you from now on."

"Okay." Tang Yuan nodded with a smile and pushed his bicycle into the market.

It didn't take long to choose a suitable bicycle according to Zheng Man's height.

Without waiting for Tang Yuan to speak, she tied the bag in her hand to the back seat of the bicycle and then said to her: "I will go to sell today, and I will meet here tomorrow. Then I will look at today's sales situation and we will discuss the quantity of goods you will give me next."

Tang Yuan: “No problem.”

The two walked out of the market. Zheng Man couldn't wait to sell her wallet, so Tang Yuan didn't say much to her and pushed his bicycle to the nearby garment factory.

After not coming back for a month, the nearby garment factory had stockpiled a new batch of rags, which were the extra rags left after the workers in the factory sold them at a low price.

The rags were light in weight, so she tied four bags of them to her bicycle and pushed it back to her residence.

Although she spent a lot of money on the bicycle, at least it saved her the money she had to rent a rickshaw every time she bought rags. With this calculation, it wouldn't take long for her to save enough money to buy the bicycle.

When she returned to her residence, she saw someone talking to the security guard at the door of the security room.

After she appeared, the two people who were talking looked at her from time to time, as if they were talking about her.

Tang Yuan pretended not to know. When she got closer, she asked the security guard to keep an eye on the car and the rags for her as usual. She let her carry four bags of rags upstairs first and then come down to get the remaining two bags.

"Can you make money buying so many rags?" the person who spoke to the security guard asked her.

"You can make some money," Tang Yuan nodded. "The bigger the volume, the more money you can make."

It cannot be said that there will be no loss. There is no one in this world who will keep doing business at a loss for no reason.

She glanced at the other person and said nothing more. She took down the bag of rags and placed it at the door of the security room. She pushed her bicycle inside, parked the bike, took the rags off the bike, and carried them upstairs.

When she came down again, the person who had just chatted with the security guard had already left, but there were traces of footprints on the two bags left behind.

"Who is it? Fortunately there are only rags in it. If it was something else, wouldn't it have been kicked to pieces?" Tang Yuan complained with a frown.

"What? He kicked your things?" The security guard came over to see, and also saw the footprints. "Really... I was wondering what he was doing just now, kicking other people's things, what was he doing, you... I will pay attention next time."

The security guard felt a little embarrassed because he smoked quite a lot of cigarettes.

"It's okay, it's just some scraps of cloth, no big deal," Tang Yuan shook his head, "It's just that guy, I don't think he's very handsome."

"I won't talk to him anymore," the security guard said immediately. "I will pay attention next time. Don't worry."

"I believe you. It's not a big deal. I'll go upstairs first." Tang Yuan nodded to the security guard and went upstairs carrying two bags of rags.

When she went upstairs, she reminded herself to be more careful and just make money quietly.