Chapter 142: Moved
Yang Hui waved her hand. "Don't laugh at me. What am I? I can't even compare to you. Who in Yuncheng doesn't know that Manager Shi Xiaoai is a capable person? Your snack shop is well-known."
Shi Xiaoai smiled and said, "I have some luck involved."
Yang Hui looked at her and said, "Why are you being so modest with me? Even if you were lucky, it's only because you have the ability to grasp it. You wouldn't be able to achieve what you have now without some skills."
Shi Xiaoai laughed: "What are we doing, flattering each other?"
Yang Hui also laughed.
Yang Hui took her to the row of houses at the innermost part of the yard, and then shouted into one of the houses, "Uncle, are you free now? Can you do me a favor?"
As he was speaking, a short, skinny old master walked out of the house.
He looked quite old, with wrinkles all over his face, gray hair, and a pair of reading glasses hanging around his neck.
But the old man looked very energetic, wearing a large blue apron with traces of chalk on it.
He patted the chalk dust off his hands, looked at Yang Hui and asked, "You weren't out selling things? Why are you back now?"
Yang Hui pointed at Shi Xiaoai and said, "My friend is here to play with me. Let's go to the inner room and talk."
The old man looked at Shi Xiaoai, nodded at her, and then asked Yang Hui: "What do you want me to do?"
Yang Hui told him about making the sleeves and gestured to him the heights of Mingrui and Mingxi. The old man nodded and turned to go into the house.
Looking at his back, Yang Hui said to Shi Xiaoai, "My cousin doesn't like to talk to outsiders, so don't mind."
"No, no." Shi Xiaoai said quickly.
She went to the room where she lived with Yang Hui.
The room was clean, almost too clean, as there was basically nothing in the room except the essentials.
No matter how you look at it, it looks like a temporary residence and doesn't look like a girl's room at all.
Yang Hui moved a stool for Shi Xiaoai and said a little embarrassedly, "My place is too simple, please don't mind. I'll get you some water."
Shi Xiaoai stopped her and said, "Don't pour it. I'm not thirsty. Let's talk for a while. Otherwise, I'll be leaving soon and I don't know when I'll be free to come back."
After saying that, she looked at Yang Hui with a hint of resentment: "You didn't come to find me. If we hadn't met today, I wouldn't have known you were back!"
Yang Hui lowered her eyes and gave a somewhat awkward smile.
She said, "I won't make up excuses with you anymore. Anyway, I don't want to go to Yunhe Lane right now."
She looked around and said, "I don't really want anyone to know about my current situation."
After hearing her say this, Shi Xiaoai fell silent.
When Yang Hui went to Hai City, she not only sold all the things in her home, but also sold her work position in the textile factory.
It can be said that she ended up penniless after that trip.
She grew up being spoiled by her parents when she was a child. After her parents passed away, the national policies also improved.
All in all, at least in terms of material things, we have not suffered too much injustice.
And now - it is understandable that she doesn't want to go to Yunhe Lane and doesn't want to see her old neighbors.
Shi Xiaoai didn't continue the topic. She asked, "What's going on with you this past year? Didn't you want to stay in Qin City? Why did you come back?"
So Yang Hui told her about her experiences over the past year.
After Yang Hui broke up with Shi Xiaoai, she stayed in Qin City for two days.
Because she was unfamiliar with the place, it was impossible for her to set up a stall to sell clothes.
Then she sold the clothes cheaply to the self-employed people who set up stalls.
Yang Hui has loved dressing up since she was a child, and she worked in a textile factory for several years. If nothing else, her aesthetic taste is definitely online.
Moreover, she understands fabrics and can appreciate the stitching and quality of clothes, so all the clothes she chooses are of high quality and low price, with extremely high cost performance.
The big bag of clothes she brought from Yuecheng was all sold out within one day.
Although the price was a little lower than retail, it was much better than she expected.
After one trip, she made a net profit of three hundred yuan with her three hundred yuan capital.
Yang Hui did not go to find her cousin immediately, but went to Yuecheng again.
This time, apart from the principal, she earned several hundred more.
Yang Hui spent three months running back and forth several times and finally saved up nearly three thousand yuan in hard-earned money.
Only then did she go to find her uncle.
Before Yang Hui left, she had rehearsed her plan many times in her mind, thinking about how to persuade her uncle to come out of retirement.
Her intention was to bring her cousin out, and then the two of them would open a sewing shop together, where they could make their own clothes and sell them.
After running around for a few months, she had a good grasp of popular styles and customers' preferences. Moreover, she had worked in a textile factory for so many years, so even if she left, she still had some connections.
Yang Hui felt that with her cousin's support, this business could be successful.
Yang Hui went to her cousin's house with the mentality of fighting to the end, but what she didn't expect was that her cousin was living alone in a collapsing mud house at the very edge of the village.
People are sick and dying, but no one cares.
After Yang Hui found the man, she didn't even bother asking any questions and immediately found a car to take him to the hospital. She stayed with him in the hospital for a whole week and spent several hundred dollars to save the old man.
And during this week, no one visited the old man.
Later she found out that her cousin's children had distanced themselves from him during the movement.
In their words, we have never enjoyed any happiness with you in the past, so don't drag us down in the future.
Yang Hui was so angry after hearing this!
Because she had heard her parents say countless times that her cousin was a very domineering man. He had been frugal since he was an apprentice and was eager to send every penny he had back home.
He stayed in Hai City for many years, rarely returned home, and did not take care of his children at home.
But every penny his family spends is saved by him from his own pocket. It is really heartbreaking to hear that I have never enjoyed any happiness with him.
After my cousin was discharged from the hospital, Yang Hui did not let him go back.
She originally wanted to open a shop in Qin City, but she couldn't find a suitable place. She also didn't have any connections there.
After the two of them discussed it, they simply returned to Yuncheng.
"I was lucky. I originally wanted to rent a small house here for my uncle and nephew to live in, and then rent a stall in the market in front to start a business. But I couldn't find a small house, so I saw this big yard, and then I rented it without hesitation."
Yang Hui said with a proud look on her face, "I really made the right decision to rent this yard. The office was in a hurry to move the factory, so they didn't even bother to figure out the right rent for this house. In the end, I rented such a large yard, and the total cost, including rent and deposit, was only two hundred! The rent is only one hundred and fifty yuan a year."
"Wow, this is really a good deal." Shi Xiaoai exclaimed.
"That's right." Yang Hui was delighted by the compliment. "Don't be fooled by the fact that my yard doesn't look eye-catching. In fact, it can accommodate a lot of things. We now have six workshops, with more than a hundred people working every day, but you can't see it from the outside.
Moreover, half of the houses in this alley are now rented to people working in the market, so the traffic is not even noticeable.
If I had rented a house somewhere else, I would have noticed it a long time ago.”
"I see, you have quite a few workers. With so many people working, where does all the goods go? Is it just the stall in the market?"
Shi Xiaoai and Yang Hui were already familiar with each other, so they spoke without too many reservations.
Yang Hui did not hide it from her: "Our goods are basically shipped out of town. I deliver them to the counties and towns below. They are not sold in Yuncheng very often.
The main reason is that we only have one textile factory as our source of fabric, and the materials are still far behind those in Yuecheng. We can’t compete with them in the high-end market, so we’re going to focus on the low-end market and be an affordable brand.”
Shi Xiaoai nodded.
No matter what market it is, being cutting-edge and specialized will definitely be profitable.
Moreover, when serving the markets in the counties and towns below, the requirements for workers are lower, and the costs of labor and materials are also lower, which will save a lot of capital.
Shi Xiaoai had to admit that Yang Hui made the right move.
"You recruited so many workers. How did you go about the procedures? Wasn't there anyone checking?" Shi Xiaoai asked again.
I have been concerned about this question since I entered the door, and now I finally asked it.
Yang Hui winked at her and said, "Don't talk nonsense. How could I hire workers? I'm not hiring! These are all shareholders of our factory, the owners of the factory. They all get dividends like me. I'm not a capitalist, how could I dare to hire people!"
Yang Hui told Shi Xiaoai that all the people she recruited would sign an agreement before they started working, and they would all invest in the factory by selling sewing machines, making them small shareholders in the factory.
After that, their salaries and bonuses were all referred to as dividends.
Even if you stop doing it in the future, it can be called divestment.
Anyway, no matter what, they cannot admit that they are workers in their factory.
At this time, the government has just introduced recruitment standards for self-employed individuals. In any case, self-employed individuals are now absolutely not allowed to employ more than five people. This is a red line that no one can cross.
Shi Xiaoai's idea was to register the company under the name of the office, while Yang Hui adopted the method of collective factory operation.
No matter what method is used, I have finally avoided this problem and can develop better.
After Yang Hui explained her own situation, she also asked Shi Xiaoai a few questions. The main point was that the place where she lived was too far away from Yunhe Lane.
There is no chance of meeting each other under normal circumstances.
Shi Xiaoai told her that she was looking for a good supply of grain and oil.
Yang Hui thought for a moment and said, "Since you can't find a suitable factory, why don't you find a way to build one yourself? Since you're planning to open your own grain store anyway, and you won't have to worry about sales, wouldn't it be easier to build a factory yourself?"
Shi Xiaoai quickly waved her hands: "I don't want to build a grain store. What kind of place can I build? It's a small shop, a small shop!"
Yang Hui rolled her eyes. "I was just saying that. And if you really open an oil processing plant, you can also supply it to the grain store. As long as the quality is good, they won't refuse to buy it."
Shi Xiaoai was moved by what she said.
To be honest, she had never thought about it before, mainly because no one in her family had ever run a factory before, so this was a blank for her.
No experience at all.
But after Yang Hui made this suggestion, she suddenly felt that it seemed really feasible?
During this period, Xiao Ai has been running around the market and visiting many nearby brigades and communes.
She knew that Yuncheng had no shortage of either food or oil, but what it lacked were processing plants.
Because the government has not invested in this area before, Yuncheng does not have large-scale food raw material processing plants. The oil presses are all run by each village or commune, and they are very small in scale and do not look like real ones.
But if we really build a large and professional one, we can actually supply the fuel.
And she has no worries about sales.
If there are no problems with supply and sales, why not build a factory?
She thought about it carefully, then shook her head.
"No, no, building an oil processing plant would cost a lot of money, and I don't have the budget for it right now."
"You can build a factory first, and then open a small shop after the oil is processed! Once the oil is really fried, will you still worry about selling it? Even if you don't open a small shop, the supply will definitely not meet the demand."
Yang Hui patted Shi Xiaoai's shoulder and said, "Listen to me. Now we need to focus on construction. Only by doing construction can we make big money! And, believe it or not, the city will definitely approve of you doing this kind of basic construction that benefits people's livelihood. Maybe they can even give you some preferential policies or something."
Xiao Ai's heart was moved again when Yang Hui said this.
She had already started thinking about how to investigate the market, but unexpectedly Yang Hui added fuel to the fire.
Yang Hui said, "Don't tell me, I suddenly thought of someone who can definitely help you with this!"
Shi Xiaoai looked up: "Who is it?"
Yang Hui: "One of our female workers here doesn't like to talk, but she's actually the director of the city's agricultural machinery factory. I only found out about this the other day when I heard them chatting.
The agricultural machinery factory in our city should produce oil presses, right? Even if it doesn't, it doesn't matter. They are all part of the same system, so there must be a connection.
She's off work today, so let's talk about tomorrow. When she starts working, I'll ask her if she can get you two machines at a lower price."
Shi Xiaoai was simply shocked.
She looked at Yang Hui in disbelief: "You're so good! Even the daughter of the director of the machinery factory came to work for you? You're really amazing."
Yang Hui snorted, "Is the daughter of the director of a machinery factory so impressive? Didn't she still have to go to the countryside as an educated youth? And wouldn't she still be unable to find a job if she returned to the city?"
She has three brothers! Even if her father is very capable, he can’t arrange jobs for four children. What will happen if she doesn’t go out to work?
"Then this doesn't sound like she's valued at home? Does she even have a say?"
Yang Hui said confidently, "Of course I can. Her parents have already let their daughter go to the countryside and left their son behind. How can I not help with this little favor?
Besides, we're just asking around. If it doesn't work, we can think of other ways. It doesn't mean we can't live without someone."
Shi Xiaoai also nodded: "Don't make things difficult for them. Just help ask. It's not certain whether we can set up this oil press factory. I need to take a look."
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