Jiang Wu called for the decoration team. After reading it, the small contractor quoted 450 for the labor and materials. Lin Yi agreed and Lin Yi didn't need to worry about the rest.
Waited for another two days.
The self-employed business license came out three or four days faster than expected. When Lin Yi went to get the license, he secretly stuffed Section Chief Liu with two packs of cigarettes.
The Industrial and Commercial Bureau is the official management unit of Hanzheng Street, so it is definitely a good idea to have a good relationship with them.
Lin Yi looked at the system.
There are now a total of more than 12,000 yuan in his wallet. He spent 10,000 yuan on improving his physical fitness and another 4,000 yuan on buying a house and decorating it.
Fortunately, during this period, Li Xiangqian and Xiao Wu's watch-selling business was getting better and better. They could earn one or two thousand every day. Later, Ma Dan and a few people joined in. Although the effect was not good in the first few days, it has opened up over the past few days.
Sales, those guys can sell three to five watches each day.
Chen Ding got started quickly, and now he can sell a few bottles every day. Lin Yi's wallet has gradually bulged again in the past few days.
The fastest selling items are still electronic watches. He grabbed more than 800 watches at Linjiayuan Market. Now he has sold more than 300 watches and still has about 500 left.
The quartz watch is also pretty good, selling for thirty or forty yuan.
Mechanical watches are much rarer. In the final analysis, it is determined by the price factor. They are cheap and high-quality. Spending a small amount of money to do big things is people's highest pursuit.
Hanzheng Street is still lively.
The merchants here all saw that the middle storefront was being renovated, and they knew that there would be another business opening. Although they didn't see the boss, they could tell that the boss was ready to do something big.
night,
Lin Yi and Jiang Wu and Li Qianqian ate.
"Tomorrow I plan to go out to buy goods. This time I am going far away. I plan to go to Shenzhen to have a look. That is the window for reform and opening up. If I have a chance, I want to see what is outside the window. The journey is also far this time. The train will take three days.
I estimate I won’t be back for about half a month.”
"These things at home include about 500 yuan of electronic watches, quartz watches, and mechanical watches. We have accounts. You can keep track of how much you sell. There are also a few tape recorders and black and white TVs at home. If you want them, you can
Sell."
Jiang Wu and Li Qianqian couldn't help but nod their heads.
"Jiang Wu is keeping an eye on the decoration of the storefront. We'll open it when I come back."
"Brother Yi, what are we selling?" Jiang Wu asked.
"It depends on the situation, whatever is easy to sell."
...
Lin Yi got on the train.
This time, instead of squeezing into a hard seat, he asked someone to find a connection to buy a sleeper ticket in advance. If he stayed in a hard seat for three days and three nights, he would probably be tired even if he traveled to Shenzhen City.
There are three floors of hard sleepers with bunk beds, and there are six people in a carriage. Lin Yi's ticket was on the top floor, which was a good seat. He threw his backpack on it.
The train is like a small society. People sitting next to each other will chat and ask where they are going and what they are doing.
A middle-aged man chatted with Lin Yi. Lin Yi smiled and said that when he went to Shenzhen City, a fellow villager wrote a letter asking him to go there to work. The middle-aged man said with a well-informed look, "Shenzhen City is under construction now.
It’s definitely much better than farming at home.”
Lin Yi smiled slightly innocently.
The journey is long,
Fortunately, Lin Yi has improved his physique, otherwise he would have suffered from back pain. In the past three days, apart from eating and going to the toilet, Lin Yi spent most of his time reading.
He brought a copy of Water Margin to pass the time on the road.
In later generations, he watched the Water Margin TV series, and also watched hundreds of forums criticizing Water Margin. After reading the original work, he realized that the original work was far more fantasy than the TV series. For example, Gongsun Sheng had a mysterious Taoist skill that could call the wind and rain, and ride the mist and clouds.
.
In fact, if you count,
The four famous works all have a fairy-tale color.
Needless to say, in Journey to the West, in Water Margin, there are thirty-six Tiangang stars and seventy-two earth evil stars descending to the earth, and there are Taoist techniques that can cause wind and rain.
The Dream of Red Mansions has the angora, the waiter Shen Ying, and the fantasy fairy girl.
There are also immortals in the Three Kingdoms such as Zuo Ci, Yu Ji, Nan Hua Lao Xian, Master Zixu, and the three brothers Zhang Jiao who also know Taoism.
...
The train arrives at Guangzhou Station.
Lin Yi got off the car with his bag. The reform and opening up had just begun, and Shenzhen City had been established as a special zone. Not everyone could enter. If you wanted to go there, you needed a letter of introduction and a pass, which Lin Yi didn't have.
In fact, Lin Yi's destination is not Shencheng.
He told the outside world that Shencheng was just an excuse. His real destination was Nansha. This Nansha was not the Nansha Islands, but Nansha County, which was later known as Nansha District.
Panyu and Nansha are the two areas where smuggling is most common. A large market has been formed here. According to later reports, there are tens of thousands of smugglers in the two places, and hundreds of boats are engaged in smuggling every day.
, the value of the goods exceeds 2 million.
It's every day.
This shows how big the market is.
Nansha is located at the mouth of the Pearl River and has natural geographical advantages. Decades ago, Huo Dalao used this channel to transport goods from Hong Kong to the inland. Now this road has become a golden waterway for smugglers.
For these situations,
Lin Yi only had a general understanding, but he didn't know exactly how to find him.
He was not in a hurry,
We walked around the streets of Nansha County twice and finally stayed at a private hotel. "Boss, please get a room."
"Shared room or single room?" the boss asked.
"single."
The boss took out the key plate and took Lin Yi upstairs. The hotel conditions were very simple, with a wooden bed and a table. There was a kettle on the table and a lamp, but there was nothing else.
There is no air-conditioned TV that comes standard in later generations.
bathroom,
Go outside by yourself.
And this is already the best room, priced at one dollar or two a day.
"Boss, I want to ask something." Lin Yi stopped the boss who was about to go down.
"What's the matter~!"
The boss said in broken Mandarin.
Lin Yi took out a cigarette and handed one over, "Boss, I'm here to purchase goods. It's my first time here and I'm not familiar with the road. Can you give me directions?"
As he spoke, he took out a lighter and lit it for the boss.
The boss took a sip, wiped a handful of Mediterranean on his head, and looked at Lin Yi. He had seen many situations like this when outsiders came to buy goods and couldn't figure out the way.
"What do you want to buy?"
"Electronic watch, sunglasses." Lin Yida said.
"I can help you introduce a person, and you can get the goods from him." The boss also gets a commission for introducing customers to the owner of the goods.
Just like if you go to a city and ask a taxi driver which KTV is the best for bathing, there is a high probability that he will take you to a familiar place.
Lin Yi shook his head.
"I want to visit the island and make my own selections. Do you have a way?" Lin Yi doesn't want to be a fat sheep. The second-hand goods sold to him must be at a markup, and the quality may not be good. He wants to go to the market to buy the goods himself.
.
The boss looked at Lin Yi carefully.
Xin said that this young man seems to be quite knowledgeable and knows how to get to the island.
There are countless islands in Nansha, which are blocked by waterways and provide natural protection for smuggling. The goods brought back by smuggling ships are basically placed on the islands. Over time, these islands form markets.
"It's not easy to take you to the island. Most people are not allowed to go to the island." The boss shook his head.
"I won't let your busy work go in vain," Lin Yi said.
"Do you have ID?"
The boss suddenly asked.
"I didn't bring my ID. By the way, I have a train ticket, do you think it's okay?" Lin Yi wouldn't show the other party any ID stupidly, and it's not a legitimate business.
The boss just wanted to prove that Lin Yi was from out of town. He took the train ticket and looked at it. He was from Jiangcheng. He was relieved.
"100 yuan, pay 50 yuan as introduction fee first, I'll tell you how to find someone to take you to the island, and you can pay the remaining 50 yuan." The boss said.
Lin Yi pretended to think for a while, "Okay."
"Take out a wad of money from your pocket, about two to three hundred, count out 5 big unity cards and give them to the boss." The boss took the money with satisfaction.
"Take a rest and I'll write to you tomorrow."
Lin Yi went downstairs to find a restaurant to have a meal without wandering around. There were no entertainment projects in this era, and the security was also very chaotic. After the meal, he went back to the hotel room to read. Now reading has become his biggest hobby, even more so than going to school.
Always diligent.
Nothing happened in the morning.
At around two o'clock in the afternoon, there was a knock on the door.
Lin Yi immediately stood up and opened the door. After the boss entered the room, he said: "I have contacted you. We will set off at 4 o'clock tomorrow morning and land on the island at 7 o'clock. The ferry ticket is 30."
Lin Yi nodded in agreement.
He continued to read in the hotel and went to bed at about 8 o'clock in the evening. Lin Yi woke up at about 2 o'clock in the morning, and he found that there was noise in more than just his room in the corridor.
It's past three o'clock,
The boss came and knocked on the door to call for someone. He was not the only one to follow him downstairs. There were five of them in total. They looked at each other and no one said anything. They followed the boss to a small pier. There was a fishing boat waiting here. There were already six or seven people on the boat.
, after Lin Yi and the others boarded the boat, the fishing boat started and sailed out of the pier.
Four o'clock in the morning is the darkest hour of the day.
There are still stars in the sky.
The fishing boat traveled for about two or three hours, and the sky was already bright. Lin Yi was not familiar with this place and couldn't tell where it was. Finally, it stopped by an island.
"Get off the boat, I'll take you there." The boat boss shouted.
Everyone got off the boat.
After walking a few miles, I found that I came to a fishing village. The fishing village was not big. There was only one main street. There were stalls at some entrances with some goods on them, such as electronic watches, umbrellas, sunglasses, video recorders, cameras... and so on.
All.
There are even bicycles and motorcycles displayed at the door.
Chuanlao Dadao: "Any goods placed at the door means that you have them at home. You can go into the house and buy from the owner at will. But there is a rule. You cannot return it after you buy it. You can't say you bought the goods here after you paid and left."
When I saw a cheap one, I ran back to return it.”
Lin Yi understood,
Whether you can buy cheaper goods depends on your ability.
"The boat will return at four in the afternoon. Watch the time carefully. There are restaurants on the island but no hotels. If you can't catch the boat, you can sleep on the street."
After the boat boss finished speaking, everyone rushed into the fishing village carrying large and small bags.
Lin Yi walked to a stall with electronic watches. He was most familiar with electronic watches and planned to compare the prices here with those in Weizhou. After comparing, he would know whether this place was a scam.
He picked up a watch and asked: "Boss, how much does this watch cost?"
"10 yuan."
"Where's the bulk purchase?"
"How many?"
"100 yuan."
"That can be reduced to 8 yuan for you."
Lin Yi now felt confident that things here were indeed cheaper than in Weizhou.