"Here!" Li Yuying stuffed the money into her hand and said with a smile, "Don't worry, business has been good these past two months and we've made a lot of money. After paying you back, there's still some left at home, enough for later expenses."
"Is business so good?" Ge Mei was a little curious.
She was there throughout the entire house-buying process. Li Yuying spent four hundred yuan to buy that house. She didn't have enough money at the time, so several people pooled the money together.
Later, Gao Wei came with his child and paid back part of the money, but in the end he still owed Wei Ye about a hundred yuan.
It's almost paid off in just over two months. Even if I don't make a hundred yuan a month, I'll definitely make seventy or eighty.
Her family works hard all year long, but at the end of the year they still don’t get that much money!
She had to admit that she was a little moved.
Everyone present was her family, and they had all helped her a lot. Li Yuying had no intention of hiding anything and nodded, "To be honest, don't underestimate this business because it's tiring and hard, but once you do it, you'll realize how profitable it is."
"Because we don't need tickets for the things we sell, even though the prices are a bit higher, there are still a lot of people buying them. Last year, we rode one bicycle together to the countryside to collect things and sell them together. This year, we rented two bicycles, so we can collect more things in one trip and save a lot of time on the road."
"After we collected the goods, we would carry baskets and walk around the staff families' compounds to sell our goods. We went there so often that many people became acquaintances. Some people whose families had pregnant women would even come to me to place orders three to five days in advance."
"That's how it was. Later on, we didn't have to go door to door that often. We could get most of the goods just from people we knew. We basically went to the factories' staff quarters. After we got to know them, I started looking for them to buy some defective products from the factories. They had plenty of these things, so they were happy to use them as payment."
"We sell the defective goods we buy to fellow villagers when we go to the countryside to collect goods. We don't ask for too much, just to earn enough money for the journey. When the villagers are happy, they leave all their chickens, ducks, eggs and other things for us instead of selling them outside. This way, we don't have to worry about the supply of goods for our orders."
"In fact, in the past two months, many people have followed our lead after seeing how profitable we are. But firstly, we have a head start, and secondly, we have a wide range of products at reasonable prices. Many people still prefer to buy from us, and our business is very good."
After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but give Li Yuying a thumbs up.
high!
They sell goods from the city to the countryside and vice versa, and because the prices are affordable, both sides are satisfied.
You deserve to make money!
"It sounds simple, but if you really do it yourself, you will know how hard it is," said Jian Shu.
Just look at Li Yuying's skin color now, it is completely different from the end of the first half of the semester.
I've become several shades darker, and not only have I become darker, I've also lost a lot of weight. Every day I have to get up early to go to the countryside to buy goods, and then I have to rush back to the city to sell them before most people go to work. After selling a wave of goods, I have to sort out the orders again and then run back to the countryside. Isn't it tiring to go back and forth like this?
Riding a bicycle with just your two legs is much more tiring than driving a car.
If the weather is not favorable and there are thunder and lightning with heavy rain, we still have to continue harvesting in the rain.
The hardships involved are so great that one can't help but retreat just by thinking about it.
Li Yuying smiled and said, "Earning money is hard work, of course." Working on the farm in the countryside was not better than it is now, but the money earned was far less.
The money I earned in these two months alone is almost as much as I earned in several years.
Ge Mei listened thoughtfully.
Although this business is a bit tiring, it does not require much skill. His brothers can actually try it.
Her family also had an advantage: they were originally from the countryside, so they didn't need to collect the goods at first. They could just sell the goods directly. If they could really make money, they could raise more chickens and ducks and order more vegetables, which would save a lot of costs and increase their profits.
At most, raising chickens and ducks is a little troublesome, but there are many people in the family, so one or two people are enough to sell things. Her grandparents can stay at home to raise chickens and ducks and divide the work.
Even though their county town wasn't as big as Beijing, and the family often had to work in the fields and couldn't go to the county town all the time, even if they could go a few times a month, it would still bring in some money for the family.
No one else knew what Ge Mei was thinking. At this moment, a group of people were curious and followed Li Yuying to ask questions.
Wei Ye specifically asked about the price of the items Li Yuying was selling. After hearing the answer, he couldn't help but nod repeatedly. "No wonder so many people are willing to buy from Sister Ying. This is much more cost-effective than going to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy it ourselves with cash coupons. If there was a place selling this near my house, my family would definitely be willing to pay for it."
Zhao Yueling nodded. If she came across it, she would be willing to buy some. Not to mention that she could order in advance. Usually, if she went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy a fish or a chicken, it would depend on luck.
"Sister Ying, are you planning to do this forever?" Jianshu asked.
Li Yuying was stunned, then a little conflicted. "If you ask me, I do want to do this. After all, I have so many old customers and the daily income is stable. But my husband has some other ideas."
Isn't it true that many people work for stability these days? Li Yuying couldn't bear to give up a steady daily income. After all, starting over, no one could be sure of the outcome. Most people are hesitant to take a gamble.
Otherwise, why were there so many people clinging to their iron rice bowls and eventually being laid off when people with annual incomes of 10,000 yuan emerged in large numbers in the 1980s?
"Aren't there more and more people doing this now? My husband feels that he won't be able to make this money for long, so he wants to sell food. There is a man selling sesame cakes near my home. He pushes a cart to the factory every day to sell them. His business is very good, so he is tempted." Thinking of the business of the sesame cake stall, Li Yuying was tempted, but also hesitant.
It seems to be quite profitable, but what if no one is willing to buy it?
Jianshu actually had some admiration for Gao Wei, whom he had only met once. He seemed to have quite a business acumen. Wouldn't something like selling vegetables, which required little technical skill, be short-lived?
They are making money now just because they have taken the lead. When more and more people do this, the market is so small, won’t their share be squeezed out?
If other villagers come out to sell vegetables themselves and engage in a price war with them, how much profit can they still make?
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