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After selling all 210 popsicles, I earned a total of RMB 8.40. After deducting the wholesale cost of RMB 4.2, I finally made a profit of RMB 4.2.
After setting up the stall for more than two hours, he earned more than four yuan. Zhou Yun could hardly believe his ears. You know, nowadays an ordinary worker in a state-owned factory earns about thirty or forty yuan a month, which works out to more than one yuan a day. How could he earn three or four days' salary just by selling popsicles?
Liang Baozhen tried it out today and finally figured it out. There is indeed a market for selling popsicles in the summer. The price of a popsicle is usually just a few cents, which is affordable for everyone. In addition, the weather is hot, so it is really hard to resist seeing a popsicle in front of you.
Today she observed the sales speed of seven kinds of popsicles. The best-selling ones were red bean and red fruit popsicles, followed by milk popsicles, which were the most popular among children. Fruit-flavored ones were also usually preferred by younger children.
With the experience of the first day, she can buy more popsicles to sell tomorrow.
There is no other cost for the profit of RMB 4.2 today. The popsicle boxes were made by Xu Shengjie, and the wholesale sales were also done by his family. The only cost is wholesale ice cream, which is indeed more convenient and simpler than selling roasted nuts and big bowls of tea. After all, one of them has to fry the nuts and the other has to boil the tea.
However, Liang Baozhen was not a black-hearted businessman. She immediately gave Xiaowei and Xiaoya 1 cent each as "salary", which made them very happy.
They each had a double-stick popsicle today and got a dime, which was really a great deal.
The next day, the three of them set out again. This time they went earlier. With experience, Liang Baozhen bought 600 popsicles at a time and filled the popsicle box. Fortunately, Xu Shengjie deliberately made the popsicle box bigger when he made it, otherwise it would not have been able to fit all the popsicles.
However, Xu Shengwei still had to go to the Children's Palace for training. He took a leave yesterday afternoon, and today he would go to the Children's Palace after helping to get the popsicles. Liang Baozhen thought that she and Xiaoya could go alone, so that he wouldn't have to run back and forth. Xu Shengwei disagreed. He was a man and had to go along to help.
"Sister-in-law, I'm leaving first."
Liang Baozhen gave him a popsicle to eat on the way, and she and Xiaoya each took one popsicle and started eating.
With yesterday's experience, the two of them spent four hours selling 600 popsicles today, and then pushed the empty popsicle cart back home.
Zhou Yun saw the two people coming back home. Liang Baozhen and Xu Shengya were both sweating on their foreheads. It was really hot. Zhou Yun had boiled some herbal medicine to clear away heat in advance. It was just right to drink it now. One bowl for each person, which could clear away heat and quench thirst.
"You will suffer if you go out, so don't go." Their faces were all sunburned and covered with sweat, which made Zhou Yun feel distressed.
Liang Baozhen herself didn't care. Seeing her sister-in-law's rosy face, she really didn't plan to let Xiaoya go with her for a long time. High school students should still focus on their studies. Even when they are not studying, they should go out and play with their friends.
She had already made up her mind that once she had gotten familiar with the job and settled down in a few days, she would call her elder sister Liang Baoying to come along and do it together.
"Grandma, Xiaoya will only stay with me for a few days. You don't have to go later. I'm fine. I have the energy to make money."
She opened the small wooden box with her earnings, turned it over and poured it onto the square table, all the money flew out. More money came out today, which made Zhou Yun check again and again whether the door was tightly closed. What would happen if outsiders saw it?
Because most popsicles are only a few cents each, and when a lot of people buy popsicles, I get a lot of money, so there are so many on the table that I can't even count them.
Shanshan looked at the money on the table and her eyes lit up. There must be good stuff with so much money.
The little hand slowly reached over, and just as it was about to touch the money, it was stopped by its mother.
"Shanshan, you can't touch it. I don't know how many people have touched this money. It has bacteria. And you like to suck your fingers. You will have a stomachache soon." Liang Baozhen asked her grandmother to hold Shanshan's hands while she and Xiaoya took the time to count the money.
Today we received fifty banana-flavored and fifty orange-flavored popsicles each, one hundred and fifty of the best-selling red bean and red fruit popsicles each, one hundred Iraqi date popsicles, and the rest were fifty milk and cream popsicles each.
Logically, the sale price should have been twenty-four yuan, but the two counted the money twice and found only twenty-three yuan and ninety-four cents, a shortfall of six cents.
"Sister-in-law, why are there six points missing?"
"With so many people, I'm afraid some will be missed." In the afternoon when the weather was the hottest, there were too many people buying popsicles. Many people put their money on the popsicle cart and took the popsicles from the open cart. There were too many people for them to take care of. "It's okay. Let's be careful later."
"Twenty-three yuan?" Zhou Yun held Shanshan in his arms and looked at the pile of money on the table in shock. This was nearly a month's salary for a worker. According to his granddaughter-in-law, he could earn half of it. That meant he earned nearly twelve yuan today?
"Baozhen, this is too much!" Zhou Yun was surprised and scared. "Will you get arrested for making so much money from selling popsicles?"
Liang Baozhen comforted her and told her that the subdistrict office still supports the educated youth who have returned to the city to start businesses selling big bowls of tea. "Now they don't care much about these things. There is also a vendor selling roasted nuts next to us, and the business is also good."
Times are changing, and there are indeed too many opportunities. Liang Baozhen has deeply experienced this during her visit over the past two days. Now is really an era where you can make money just by bending over, as the book says.
Liang Baozhen was selling popsicles in Beijing to make money, while Xu Shengjie and his comrade Jiang Huai were also searching for a way out in Guangdong.
They took a train for two days and one night to reach Guangdong City. The main problem for the two of them to come to Guangdong City this time was introduction letters. Xu Shengjie asked the deputy director Wu Bingnian for help, saying that he wanted to go to Guangdong City to visit relatives. For some reason, he always felt that Wu Bingnian was very good to his family. This time he was just trying his luck, but he didn't expect it to work out.
Jiang Huai asked the street office to issue the letter of introduction, saying that he wanted to get medicine for his daughter-in-law at the Guangdong Hospital. His daughter-in-law has always suffered from gout. He told people that only Hong Kong has the special medicine, and now it can only be bought in Guangdong in the whole country.
The two of them took a lot of effort to come to Yue City, and they were shocked by the scene in front of them as soon as they got off the train.
The development of Guangdong is truly amazing. If Beijing only has a few stalls doing business here and there, Guangdong has almost every street corner full of them.
There are people selling all kinds of cakes, snacks, and roasted nuts on the street, people selling assembled radios and recorders, people selling clothing fabrics, people selling homemade silk, knitting sweaters, and making sets, people repairing shoes, watches, and bicycles...everything is available.
The sounds of hawking and asking for prices never ceased.
"Look at this, isn't it scary?" Jiang Huai heard about it from his comrades in the south, and then he thought of coming to take a look and look for opportunities.
Xu Shengjie nodded, "Indeed, I didn't expect it to develop to this point."
You know, I was in Beijing a few days ago, and I was still using coupons to buy things there. But a few days later when I came here, all kinds of small vendors were already selling all kinds of things.
The two of them didn't rush to get to the point. They first went around one by one in the first three days to see what was selling well and what was not. However, nowadays, when you need a ticket to buy everything, there should be nothing that is not selling well.
Among all the stalls, those selling food and clothes are the most popular.
Food is the most important thing for people. People always think about filling their stomachs. If they don’t have enough food for a day, they won’t have the energy to do anything. However, selling food is more tiring. Anyone can set up a stall with their own cooking skills.
In comparison, selling clothes is easier and more convenient, as long as you can sell clothes made of fashionable and good fabrics.
It is not like more than ten years ago when there was famine and food was scarce. Who would care about what to wear? Now, anyone with a stable income, especially factory workers, school teachers, and office employees, has a higher demand for clothing.
Xu Shengjie saw a mother bringing her daughter who was about to get married to buy clothes. The family did not have enough cloth coupons, and a year's cloth coupons could only buy one set of clothes at most. But now, they can buy clothes directly with money at the clothing stall, and the styles are very fashionable, said to be more fashionable than those in department stores.
There is a clothes stall owner on Songshan Road in Guangdong City. His surname is Wu and everyone calls him Wu Er. He is 28 years old and still unmarried. He found a way to sell wholesale clothes two months ago and has now earned thousands of dollars.
However, this man was not good-looking. He sold fashionable clothes but was not dressed very well himself. His black trousers were worn out from being washed, and his trouser pockets were bulging with money. A hand was approaching.
"Look at this fabric and this style. It's less than thirty-five dollars in the department store. I'll take your last name." He was excitedly haggling over the price with the customer and didn't notice that there was a thief staring at him.
"What are you doing?" Xu Shengjie grabbed the thief's wrist and twisted his hands behind his back. He heard the teenage boy scream in pain.
“Ahhhhh that hurts!”
"What's going on?" Wu Er turned around and couldn't figure out what was going on.
Jiang Huai went up to him and warned him, "This thief is trying to steal your money, comrade, look at how bulging your trouser pockets are."
Wu Er looked down and saw that most of his money had been taken out. He looked at the thief and started to curse, "You even stole from your grandfather, didn't you?"
"I was wrong, I was wrong!" The thief looked to be only sixteen or seventeen years old. When he felt Xu Shengjie loosen his grip, he immediately knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, crying and snotting. He talked about the hardship of being poor at home and having no food to eat, which forced him to take this path.
Wu Er looked at the child and said it with a serious look, not knowing whether it was true or not, so he immediately taught him a lesson, "No matter how difficult it is, you can't be a thief..."
Xu Shengjie glanced at the crowd of onlookers around him, and his eyes stayed on two young men who were tightly wrapped and had messy eyes. The two men just stared at the thief on the ground, and turned away the next second.
"Okay, get up." Xu Shengjie looked at the young man with sadness in his eyes, but did not expose him.
"Thank you, big brother. Thank you all, big brothers." The thief bowed in thanks and was about to run away when he was stopped by Xu Shengjie.
"Brother?"
"Let's go to the police station first." Xu Shengjie didn't want to hear the reasons behind it. This kid, who was about the same age as Xiaowei, had already gone astray. If he was released today, he would probably steal from others again tomorrow. He didn't have the time to discipline him, so he decided to let the police comrades educate him.
"No, brother, please let me go! I won't steal anymore, I definitely won't steal anymore!" Who can stay calm when talking about going to the police station?
"You are not very old, we are just giving you some ideological education, what are you afraid of?" Xu Shengjie looked at him with sharp eyes like an eagle, and spoke in a deep and powerful voice, hitting the ears of this young thief again and again.
Seeing that being soft-hearted didn't work, he decided to just run away, trying to escape when no one was paying attention.
As a result, Xu Shengjie was faster than him. He took a step forward and knocked him to the ground with a sweep of his legs.
Wu Er didn't expect to see such a good show when he came out to sell clothes today! Seeing this brave man who came down from the sky and took the little thief to the police station, he continued to sell clothes after seeing the excitement. Because the scene of catching the thief just now attracted many people to watch, he took the opportunity to howl a few times, and his business was actually better than usual!
When closing the stall, he happily packed up everything and prepared to go out for dinner, but someone patted his shoulder.
Looking back, I saw that the brave man who had just caught the thief was back again.
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