Chapter 18: Starting a Business
Chapter 18: Starting a Business (Please read again on Tuesday)
Although the warehouse is not small, it doesn’t take long to retrieve the mousetraps that have been placed against the wall.
The time for the round trip is even longer. If you set out in the morning, it will be noon when you come back.
But the good thing is that Brian actually paid for lunch for Yang Wendong and others, which saved them a lot of money.
On the third day after getting the new business, Yang Wendong returned to the dormitory. The first thing he did was to visit Su Yiyi who was still sick: "Yiyi, how are you feeling?"
"It's okay. The medicine you bought seems to be very effective. I don't feel dizzy anymore, but I feel a little weak." Su Yiyi said with a smile.
Yang Wendong said: "I brought you some food, eat more so you can recover faster."
"Okay!" Su Yiyi was very happy, but after seeing the food Yang Wendong opened, she asked in surprise: "So much meat? Do you want to buy a lunch box?"
Yang Wendong shook his head and said, "No, Brian allowed us to eat in the warehouse cafeteria. There are four places. If you are not here, I will bring you back."
"That's great. There's meat to eat." Su Yiyi was full of envy.
They used to eat meat only a few times a year, and even if they did, they were reluctant to buy much. At most, during the Chinese New Year, they could spend a little more money to buy some delicious food. Therefore, they especially looked forward to the Chinese New Year as children.
Yang Wendong put the food he brought back into the bowl at home and said with a smile, "It's normal. They are the warehouse company under the Ocean Company. The most profitable business in Hong Kong now is the docks and warehouses."
Looking at the development history of Hong Kong, since the British came here in 1840, it has been mainly engaged in re-export trade. It is a bridge between the domestic and international markets, and is also one of the major transit points for Asian goods.
Nowadays, both future industries and real estate have just begun to develop and are far less developed than international trade.
Most of the big companies in Hong Kong today have close ties with docks and warehouses.
"Well, this braised pork soup with rice is really delicious. Do you want to eat some more?" Su Yiyi asked.
Yang Wendong smiled and said, "I've already eaten, and so have Liming and the others. You eat first, we still have things to do in the afternoon."
Su Yiyi asked: "What's going on? Setting up a stall? Or making a mousetrap?"
Yang Wendong shook his head and said, "Neither. I am going to start teaching you some things systematically, especially the most basic reading, counting and writing."
"Oh, okay, but Brother Dong, how do you know how to read?" Su Yiyi asked curiously.
Yang Wendong said: "Before, when I didn't go out to work, I also spent some time learning on my own."
This reason is actually full of loopholes, but it is the only explanation. Fortunately, he has always been doing hard labor part-time and has no stable job, so this reason cannot be said to be completely untenable.
"Well, I can't even write my own name properly now." Su Yiyi said ashamedly.
Yang Wendong smiled and said, “It’s okay, I can’t write much better either, we can just practice together.
Besides, we need to learn to recognize words first, and then write numbers, and the rest is not forced."
According to the experience of the mainland, it takes several years to learn the most basic literacy when one is a teenager, when learning ability is the strongest. Hong Kong still uses traditional Chinese characters, which is even more difficult.
What Yang Wendong needs now is people around him who can recognize a few hundred words and the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of normal numbers. As for anything more complicated, he can only wait until later.
In addition, by learning the most basic literacy skills, we can judge each person's intelligence potential, which is more important. Even in the universal education of many countries, a lot of knowledge that will be useless to ordinary people in the future is taught for this purpose.
"Then if you don't set up a stall, you can still earn several dollars a day?" Su Yiyi said with regret in her tone.
Yang Wendong shook his head and said, "We can't make much money there, and there will be more and more competitors soon. Our energy is limited, and there is no need to spend it on this kind of thing." The mousetrap may be expanded, and even a factory can be opened in the future, but the mousetrap tube is impossible. Its characteristic of being difficult to transport means that it is destined to be sold only to vendors and small shops within a kilometer or two around it.
Although Yang Wendong escaped from the most extreme poverty with the help of it, one must also look forward. What he needs to grasp is the direction of rat extermination, not a fixed commodity.
Su Yiyi nodded and said, "Okay."
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In the following week, Yang Wendong and his colleagues went to the Jordan warehouse in the morning to collect the captured mice, clean the mousetrap, and then continue to arrange the switches.
Every afternoon, Yang Wendong taught a few people some basic knowledge on a small beach not far from the dormitory.
As for the night, there was nothing they could do. There was no electricity in the dormitory, and even if they could afford to buy lights, it would be useless.
Kerosene lamps are harmful to the eyes, so Yang Wendong simply asked everyone to rest early.
In other words, they are not so short of money now and have plans for the future, so they can go to bed early. People in other dormitories have to turn on the lights in the middle of the night, some working, some weaving, just to earn a little salary to keep themselves from starving.
One week later, Jordan warehouse:
Yang Wendong found Brian and showed him the results of this week.
"Oh my God, you caught so many rats!" Brian felt incredible as he looked at the densely packed rat corpses in front of him.
Yang Wendong said with a smile: "To be precise, this is only half of the number we caught. The rats we caught in the first few days were disposed of long ago because we were worried that they would rot."
In order to determine whether something is done well, direct evidence must be left behind, and the dead body of the mouse is the physical evidence.
Brian nodded and said, "Great! The mouse traps we used before weren't so effective. Your mouse trap is really amazing."
Yang Wendong boasted: "To be precise, we know the movement patterns of mice. In fact, we not only use mousetraps, but also some bucket mechanisms to catch mice. The effect is better than mousetraps or mousetraps."
All of his mouse-catching skills came from the Internet in his previous life. Because mice had appeared in his home before, he searched for a lot of related videos on Douyin for a while.
Just this period of observation and the subsequent practice of catching and killing mice in the house were enough to make his knowledge in this area better than many professionals of this era, especially some strange and bizarre mouse-catching methods.
"Very good." Brian looked at a Chinese man next to him and asked, "How do you feel?"
The Chinese person who was asked said: "I asked the people who work the night shift, and they did feel that there were fewer rats, but there are still some."
Brian nodded, looked at Yang Wendong, and said, "Mr. Yang, I think we can talk about the long-term cost issue."
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(End of this chapter)