"Buy a car," Jiang Che happily walked to the bedside and touched his daughter's hair, then leaned over and teased his son for a few times before continuing to say to Wei Xuan, "I just met Brother Cai outside, he said that you can buy joint venture cars in places like Guangzhou and Shanghai now, I plan to take people to have a look." The transportation company was officially opened before the New Year, and if nothing unexpected happens, the business this year will definitely increase greatly. It will not do without a car at this time. He has been thinking about this matter for some time, and it happened that he learned the news today. God is really kind to him!
Wei Xuan thought for a moment, "Are you going to buy a truck or a car?"
Jiang Che thought she wanted a car, so he smiled and said, "How about buying a Santana for the family?"
Wei Xuan shook her head. It was not cost-effective to buy a car at this time. Although things were cheap in this era, cars were not cheap at all. The price was not much different from that in a few decades. You have to know that the purchasing power of the same money is much different.
A Santana costs hundreds of thousands of yuan. With that money, she could buy an extra house in Guangzhou. She asked that question purely because she was afraid that Jiang Che would see the car outside and buy it on impulse. After all, she had seen this man's desire for cars.
"You should buy the truck. If you see a house, you can buy it too."
Jiang Che understood what she meant. Compared to cars, his wife still values houses more. This time, he can go to Pengcheng for a tour. If there is a house for sale, he can buy it to fulfill his wife's wish.
The purpose of buying a truck was to expand the transportation company. The first month of the lunar year had not even ended yet, but just after the fifteenth day, Jiang Che could not wait to take the two newly hired drivers to Yangcheng.
This time, he stayed out for more than half a month before coming back.
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As soon as he got home, Wei Xuan urged him to take a shower: "You smell." It's winter, and it's amazing that he can stay like this.
Sister-in-law Liu Ying had returned to work after the Chinese New Year. Knowing that Jiang Che would definitely have something to say to Wei Xuan when he returned, she tactfully took the child to her room, leaving the couple enough space to talk.
Jiang Che did have a lot to say to Wei Xuan, but Wei Xuan didn't give him the chance. As soon as he came into the room after taking a shower, Wei Xuan pushed him to the bed and said, "Go to sleep first, and talk after you wake up."
Looking at the dark circles under his eyes, one could tell that he had suffered a lot outside in the past half month. After Jiang Che fell into a deep sleep, Wei Xuan came out of the house and went into the kitchen to stew the chicken that she had killed that morning.
She had originally planned to braise the chicken for lunch, but now that Jiang Che was back, Wei Xuan still felt that stewing it into soup would be more nutritious.
The chicken has been killed and cleaned, so all you have to do is add water and ginger slices and stew it directly. When the water boils, skim off the foam on the surface. Wei Xuan also threw in a few red dates and wolfberries, turned the heat to the lowest and left it alone.
After serving the millet porridge she had cooked for her son, Wei Xuan went over and knocked on Sister Liu Ying's door.
"Sister-in-law, you feed Yuanlang. I'm going to do some laundry."
The clothes that Jiang Che had taken off were really dirty. No one knew where he got all the mud on them. Wei Xuan was afraid that the washing machine wouldn't be able to wash them clean, so she first poured hot water on them, then rubbed them with her hands before putting them in the washing machine to wash them a second time.
It was already past three in the afternoon when Jiang Che woke up. He was awakened by hunger.
Wei Xuan was doing the accounts in the room. When she saw him wake up, she put down her pen and said, "Go wash your face. I'll go to the kitchen to heat up the food for you."
The rice left for Jiang Che at noon was still warming in the pot. Wei Xuan opened the lid and felt it. She thought the temperature was okay, so she didn't add any more heat. She put the food on the stove and went to check on the chicken soup. The soup had been stewed for several hours. As soon as the lid was opened, the aroma wafted out. When the heat dissipated, Wei Xuan stuck her head in and saw that the chicken had been stewed to pieces. Wei Xuan picked up a spoon and skimmed off half of the fat on the soup before she started to scoop it into the bowl. Just at this moment, Jiang Che walked in, sniffed, and exclaimed, "What a delicious smell."
Wei Xuan smiled and said, "You are in luck. Mom brought this chicken specially for you. Come and have a drink."
Jiang Che took the soup she handed over, blew on it, and then stood there and drank the whole bowl of chicken soup.
Wei Xuan pointed at the food on the table and asked, "Do you want to eat here or take it to the main room?"
Jiang Che didn't want to go through the trouble of moving things around, so he found a chair and sat down: "Let's eat here."
He hadn't sat down to have a proper meal for half a month since he went out, so Jiang Che still ate the leftovers with relish.
Wei Xuan watched him eat from the side. After he finished eating, the two of them did not move and started chatting in the kitchen.
"Wife, this trip really opened my eyes. The world outside is changing so fast. I not only went to Guangzhou this time, but also went to Shenzhen. I remember that the last time we went there, it was still shabby. This time, it was only a year and a half later, and there are so many high-rise buildings there." At this point, he became even more excited: "Didn't you ask me to see if there are any houses for sale? There really are, but the building I'm interested in hasn't been built yet. We'll buy it after it's built."
Wei Xuan didn't know if the current house would also be pre-sold, but even if it was, it didn't matter. Pengcheng would definitely accelerate its development in the future. If you have money, why worry about not being able to buy a house? If the houses here are cleared, there will always be the next new one.
Then, Jiang Che talked about how he came back and how he was almost robbed on the way.
Wei Xuan was shocked when she heard this: "Why would they rob you when your car is empty?"
"When they stopped our car, they didn't know it was empty. A dozen people rushed over with knives, which scared us."
Let alone them. Wei Xuan felt very dangerous just by listening to it: "So how was it resolved in the end?"
Jiang Che laughed and said, "They don't care about their lives, so we'll compete with them to see who's more desperate. Fortunately, I told the other two drivers before we set off that if we encounter robbers on the road, we should not stop but speed up and rush through. That's how I saved my life." Jiang Che had no doubt that if they stopped the car, they would be stabbed at least a few times. Can you expect people like this who have their heads tied to their belts to have a conscience and let them go? Impossible!
"This is too scary." Not only was it scary to be robbed, but Jiang Che's behavior was also dangerous: "In the future, your transportation company should not accept orders that are too far away." Let's wait until it is safe on the road.
The two chatted in the kitchen for more than an hour. Finally, Liu Ying came to remind her that Yuanyuan was about to finish school and it would be too late if she didn't go to pick her up. Wei Xuan was surprised that time passed so quickly.
Wei Xuan originally wanted to say that she would go and pick him up, as Jiang Che had just returned and needed to rest for a while. But he insisted on following them, and in the end, they had no choice but to each ride a bicycle out.
Yuanyuan hadn't seen her father for a long time. As soon as she walked out of the school gate, she found that not only her mother came but her father also came to pick her up from school. She was so happy that she wanted to run towards them. Jiang Che quickly caught her and held her up and swung her around for two circles before putting her down. Wei Xuan started chatting with Fang Jing, who came to pick up the little fat boy from school.
Mainly, Fang Jing asked Wei Xuan: "I heard that your sixth store has started to be renovated?" Fang Jing is not like Wei Xuan, who opened a clothing store to make money. She did it purely as a hobby to kill time, so she has not opened any branches so far, and still only has the original store.
Wei Xuan was surprised how she knew this. After all, the sixth store had not been renovated yet, and Wei Xuan had not done any advertising outside.
Perhaps seeing Wei Xuan's confusion, Fang Jing smiled and said, "I passed by there on business some time ago, and happened to run into your third sister who was watching over the decoration."
Oh, so that's how it is. Anyway, it's not something that needs to be hidden, so Wei Xuan said frankly: "Yes, let's decorate first. We will probably have to wait a little longer before opening." Now is the off-season, and Wei Xuan plans to wait until May when the summer clothes are ready before opening.
As for why she is renovating so early, it is purely because she is not so busy now. Not only that store, she is also continuing to look for stores, and they will all open in May.
After Fang Jing got the definite answer from Wei Xuan, even though she herself did not have much ambition, she could not help but envy Wei Xuan in her heart.
How much money do six stores make in a year?
She made a lot of money from just one store last year, not to mention that Wei Xuan's business was much better than hers, so she made even more money. But she couldn't work as hard as Wei Xuan. She still preferred her current situation, leaving the store to her employees to take care of. She only needed to go around from time to time, which didn't require much effort and she could still make some money.
It seems that Wei Xuan was right not to open a store with her. The two of them had different definitions of opening a clothing store from the very beginning.
The two exchanged a few words of greeting, and Wei Xuan invited the fat boy to visit her home during the holidays before waving goodbye to them.
After they walked away, Yuanyuan said to Wei Xuan, "Mom, my deskmate is coming to our house this weekend. She said she wants to bring her sister to visit my brother."
"Okay, Mom will prepare delicious food for you so that you can entertain your classmates." This was the first time Yuanyuan brought friends home, and Wei Xuan took it very seriously.
Children definitely like sweets, so Wei Xuan planned to use the small oven built in the yard to bake some honey and milk cakes for the children.
This oven was built by Jiang Che under the direction of Wei Xuan. Yuan Lang must have started to grow teeth some time ago, and he always wanted to put everything he saw in his mouth and chew it. Wei Xuan thought it was unhygienic, so she wanted to bake some cookies for him to grind his teeth, so she asked Jiang Che to build a small oven in the corner of the yard.
I had baked teething biscuits once before and never used them again, but they came in handy this time. The honey cake was quite simple, and Wei Xuan even added a few cut red dates to the mixed cake batter before putting it in the oven to bake.
Taking advantage of this time, Wei Xuan went to the kitchen to marinate the chicken. She originally wanted to make grilled chicken wings, but there was no place that specialized in selling chicken wings. Wei Xuan had to take out a whole chicken to grill. She deliberately chose a half-grown chicken, thinking that the chicken would not be too dry.
After putting the seasonings in place, Wei Xuan went outside to see how the cake was baking. It was her first time baking a cake and she was afraid that she could not control the temperature well, so she opened the door to check several times during the baking process. It was not until the fourth time that the cake was finally ready to be taken out of the oven.
The next step is to put the chicken in and continue roasting. Roasting a chicken is simpler than roasting a cake. You just need to turn it over from time to time to make sure both sides are roasted.
When the aroma of roasted chicken wafted out of the yard, Jiang Che just came back for lunch. Now the transportation company has added two more vehicles and two drivers. The original second-hand car has been completely retired. Jiang Che will only drive it out when he is too busy, so Jiang Che has time to come back for lunch recently.
Sister-in-law Liu Ying was cooking in the kitchen, Yuanyuan was looking after her brother in the house, and when Wei Xuan saw Jiang Che coming back, she sent him to bring the two children to the main room to prepare for dinner.
Yuanyuan's little classmate came in the afternoon. Fortunately, the roast chicken was still hot in the oven. Wei Xuan cut it and brought it out for them. She also prepared some extra fruits and drinks. Then she left Sister Liu Ying with the children to play with them, and she went out to the store.
Wei Xuan first went to several clothing stores and grain stores. After her reorganization, the employees of the two stores are now more motivated at work. After seeing this, Wei Xuan went to the braised meat store with satisfaction.
She has been busy looking for stores to open clothing stores recently, but of course she has not forgotten the braised meat store and the grain store. She plans to open a braised meat store next to each grain store, but before she had focused on finding storefronts for these two stores in small connected storefronts, so she had never found a suitable one, but now she has understood.
Is it possible not to limit our thinking? Small stores have their advantages, and large stores have their advantages!
Isn't it just two small stores connected by a big store? Although this is a bit troublesome, it can also make it clear at a glance that the two stores belong to one.
The braised meat shop is managed by Sister Jiang. Wei Xuan came here mainly to take a look at the account book. She found that since the braised meat shop was separated from the grain store, the daily sales have increased a lot. Of course, this is also due to the increase in quantity. In the past, some customers reported that her braised meat would be out of stock if they came too late, but this was only a small part. Most of the reason was that it looked more formal. In the past, it was sold in the grain store, and passers-by could not find out at first that they still had braised meat for sale. With a store, everyone can see it more intuitively, oh, it turns out there is a braised meat shop here, and those who want to eat it will naturally come to buy it.
It’s a pity that there are no suitable stores near the other grain stores, otherwise she could buy them all and open a braised meat shop.
After walking around, Yuanyuan's deskmate was gone, and the kid from Yuanlang had fallen asleep. Only Yuanyuan was still very energetic and kept talking to Wei Xuan: "Mom, the cake you baked for us today was so delicious, and the roast chicken was also delicious. My brother is drooling because of it."
As soon as Wei Xuan saw her expression, she knew that she must have done something bad, so she patted her lightly and said, "Are you bullying your brother again?"
"I didn't," she really didn't. She just put the roast chicken in front of her brother's nose so that he could smell it. Aunt Liu Ying said that he couldn't eat it, but it wasn't because she was stingy and didn't want to give it to him.
Wei Xuan knew that she was just joking at best and would not really bully Yuan Lang, so she didn't bother with the truth of her words.
After parking the bike, Wei Xuan held her daughter's hand and walked inside while asking, "Did you eat all the roast chicken?"
"Hehe," Yuanyuan smiled shyly, "I've eaten half of the cake, and there's still a big drumstick left from the roast chicken. I'll leave it for you and dad."
That’s good. Wei Xuan was really worried that they would all eat it, which would upset their stomachs!
But then he thought again, Sister Liu Ying would definitely be watching them.
"Thank you very much. Remember that your father and I didn't leave any for your Aunt Liu Ying?"
Yuanyuan looked up and answered, "I asked Aunt Liuying to eat with us."
"So good," Wei Xuan rubbed her hair: "You've been playing for the whole afternoon, go to the room and do your homework. We'll have dinner after Dad comes back." However, Wei Xuan estimated that she would not be able to eat anything in the evening.
Sure enough, in the evening, she was seen sitting at the dinner table, picking at the rice in a disjointed manner, and could not eat a single bite for a long time. Wei Xuan felt miserable watching her, so she said, "If you don't want to eat, don't eat it. Save it for your dad."
Jiang Che looked up when he heard this: "What's wrong? Are you not liking the food?"
"You ate too much this afternoon, so you can eat her bowl to avoid waste." Jiang Che certainly would not dislike his daughter's leftovers. He immediately took the bowl in front of Yuanyuan and transferred all the rice in it into his own bowl.
After dinner, Sister Liu Ying went to wash the dishes, Jiang Che looked after the children, and Wei Xuan lay on the table in the main room and started to count the accounts.
After Sister Liu Ying finished washing the dishes and came out to give the children from Yuanlang a bath, Wei Xuan rubbed her neck and raised her head.
Section 111
Jiang Che saw it and walked over to give her a pinch: "Does it hurt?"
"Sour." Wei Xuan closed her eyes and enjoyed it for a while before saying, "I want to open a factory."
Jiang Che paused his hand, leaned over and looked at Wei Xuan in confusion, "You want to open a factory? What factory? Why would you have such an idea? We have already built a big business, how can we have the energy to manage another factory?" These were all Jiang Che's real thoughts. He really felt that the two of them had enough things on hand.
Wei Xuan took Jiang Che's hand that was on her shoulder and asked him to sit opposite her before saying, "This is not a sudden idea. I have had this idea for a long time. I want to open a food factory to produce the cakes we sold before." This time, Wei Xuan was not going to open a store to distribute the cakes herself. She wanted to find sales staff and have them sell the products in the factory all over the country.
In Wei Xuan's opinion, opening a clothing store can only be considered as making quick money. It does not require any technical skills and anyone who wants to open one can do so. The reason for making money now is only because there is a gap in the market. She plans to withdraw in the future when the market is saturated and profits become thinner.
The grain store follows the strategy of small profits but quick turnover. Even if Wei Xuan develops it into a small supermarket in the future, she can only make small money and waste energy, so there is no great future.
The braised meat shop can go the franchise route. As long as word of mouth has built up, Wei Xuan can entrust the business to franchisees outside Beijing. However, this is all a matter for the future, and how to do it specifically depends on future developments.
The reason why Wei Xuan wanted to open a food factory was very simple. The first reason was that she felt that she had the skill and it would be a pity to let it go to waste. The second reason was that since God had sent her to such a good era, she also hoped to make a career. If she let go of this opportunity, she was afraid that she would regret it in the future.
A career is different from simply making money. For example, if she simply bought goods and opened a store, copying this fool model, she would definitely make money, but that would be the limit. But if she was bolder, she would open a clothing factory, transform from a retailer to a supplier, and establish her own clothing brand, making it bigger and stronger. That would be a successful career.
This is Wei Xuan’s idea now. She wants to open a food factory and create her own brand.
In fact, she had originally thought about opening a clothing factory. After all, things related to food are more troublesome, and clothing factories are much safer. In addition, she already has a ready-made clothing store, and the clothes produced in the factory can be sold directly. But after much thought, she finally decided to give up this idea.
Opening a factory is not that easy. Although she has a good vision and is very sensitive to the styles in the store, this is different from asking her to design a piece of clothing out of thin air. She has not learned these things and has no connections to help her. She should not make things difficult for herself.
If Jiang Che hadn't listened to Wei Xuan's analysis today, he wouldn't have known that she had such long-term ideas. He was silent for two seconds and said to Wei Xuan: "I support you, just go ahead and do it. There aren't many things to do at the transportation company right now, so I can help you share more of the store's work."
Didn't he start a transportation company because he thought it had a future? Wei Xuan always supported him. Now that she has something she wants to do, Jiang Che will definitely not hold her back.
Wei Xuan laughed: "You don't have to worry about the store's affairs, just take care of your transportation company. I can still take care of several stores now." The clothing store is run by Jiang Sanjie and Zhang Daya, the grain store is run by Wang Xiaomei, and there is only one braised meat store for the time being, and it is still run by Jiang Dajie, so she doesn't have to worry about it at all, so she is really quite free now.
Since she was planning to open a factory, she must first sort out the affairs in the store. Otherwise, she would be alone and wouldn’t have the energy even if she wanted to!
"Anyway, don't force yourself. If you're too busy, just tell me."
"Yes, I will." Husband and wife are one, and Wei Xuan will not be polite to him if there is really something.
After getting Jiang Che's approval about the factory opening, Wei Xuan decided to take action. She wanted to make preparations while it was still the off-season after the Chinese New Year. Otherwise, by May, several stores would be opening one after another, and she would be too busy to handle everything.
If you want to open a factory, the first step is to have a factory of your own. There are two ways to choose now. The first is to buy land and build it yourself, and the second is to contract an old factory that is about to go out of business.
Both of these have their pros and cons, it depends on what Wei Xuan chooses.
Wei Xuan plans to do two things at once. In fact, even in this era, it is not easy to buy land in Beijing. It depends on the city planning. You can't just buy it if you want to.
Anyway, Wei Xuan ran around for several days but couldn't find a suitable place. As for contracting someone else's factory, it was even more difficult. Those old hands who had worked in state-owned factories for their entire lives were more cunning than lotus root holes. In the end, either they couldn't agree on the price, or they wanted Wei Xuan to take over the old employees of the factory as well.
How could Wei Xuan agree to this? She opened the factory to make money. If she took in all those employees, what would they do if they brought the old habits of the state-owned factory into her factory? Wei Xuan didn't want to get involved in these troubles, but if she did, it would not be so easy to get rid of them.
What's even more shameful is that they actually wanted to introduce Wei Xuan's funds and technology to run the factory with them. The plan sounded good, but Wei Xuan was not stupid enough to be fooled by them.
If they were really that capable and good at business, how could they have turned a good factory into such a half-dead state?
Wei Xuan is a businessman, not a philanthropist, and he will not use his own money to save a factory that is doomed to go bankrupt just because of their complaints.
Seeing Wei Xuan coming back dejected again, Jiang Che knew that today was another fruitless day. He poured a glass of water and handed it to her to comfort her, saying, "Take your time. This is not an easy task."
"I know, I'm just tired." Wei Xuan was not discouraged. Besides, she was not busy with this matter all the time. She had bought a lot of things in clothing stores and grain stores in the past few days. At least it showed that she had been running around Beijing during this period of time and it was not without gain.
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