Chapter 14 The First Bowl of Gold (please read it later)
With a high ranking on the list, Yang Wendong actually doesn’t care much about how many he can sell in a day when setting up a stall.
Anyway, it’s just a stall. You can come back anytime you want. The most important task at the moment is to produce the mousetrap that Elena wants.
After much consideration, Yang Wendong still found three more people from the dormitory to help with the work.
The first is to be able to increase the speed a little bit, and the second is to learn more. Once you become proficient in it, you can also increase your production capacity.
On the fourth day, a thousand mouse traps were completed, which were too many, so seven people walked towards the destination with 14 bamboo baskets.
The government department where Elena works is called the Municipal Committee. Yang Wendong also asked some people before and knew that the management of this department is very complicated.
They can all intervene in the environment, public works, logistics and transportation, churches, social welfare, etc. Yang Wendong also understood why Elena and others were able to influence the police and promoted the establishment of the Hawker Management Team. .
"What do you do?" The guard at the door of the government department immediately stopped Yang Wendong and others when he saw them.
"Brother, we are here to find Ms. Elena." After Yang Wendong finished speaking, he immediately handed over Elena's business card and an opened pack of cigarettes.
The doorman glanced at the business card, opened the cigarette case, saw the banknotes inside, and then said: "Well, okay, I will inform you, but you can't stop at the door and wait on the roadside for a while."
"Okay." Yang Wendong agreed quickly, and he must be cautious here.
In this era, although the triads are very chaotic and seem arrogant, the British are the ones who really control Hong Kong.
After the guard walked in, Yang Wendong and others stayed on the roadside. After waiting for a long time, Elena came over under the leadership of the guard.
"Ms. Elena, those are the people." The guard changed his previous arrogant expression and said very flatteringly.
"OK." Elena ignored the doorman, then walked towards Yang Wendong and asked, "Is everything ready?"
"Yes." Yang Wendong nodded.
Elina looked at the bamboo basket on the ground again and asked: "Are these not assembled? Do they need to be assembled separately?"
"Yes." Yang Wendong nodded and said: " 1,000 pieces is too much. The assembled mousetrap takes up a lot of space. , there is no way to transport it.”
This is the disadvantage of the mousetrap. In terms of weight, the one made of bamboo is much lighter than the mousetrap or mousetrap made of iron, but the space is limited. It is larger, especially since it requires additional mechanisms to be installed outside the bamboo tube, which takes up more space.
"Yeah, that's right. Once it's installed, it's not convenient for me to send it to those warehouses." Elena thought about it and thought it made sense.
The last time she brought back 20, Yang Wendong tied them up and just carried the rope. Now there are 1,000, which is a completely different order of magnitude.
Yang Wendong asked again: "How far will these mousetraps be sent?"
"It's not very far, about 1 mile, but the direction is different." Irene. Na seemed to be a little stumped. Sending these things over would be troublesome for her.
Yang Wendong saw Elena's difficulty at a glance, so he said: "Ms. Elena, why not just let us send her there."
"You guys send it over? Our deal doesn't include this." Elena asked in surprise.
Yang Wendong smiled and said: "It's okay, just treat it as a free gift. There is a saying in Western society that the customer is God. I am happy to help customers solve their problems."
"Well, okay "Elena thought for a while and said, "It's 10 o'clock, let's send the first one to you first, and I'll treat you to dinner at noon." Yang Wendong smiled and agreed.
For Elena, the cost of finding someone to send her there may be high, but for Yang Wendong and others, it only lasts a day.
The most important thing for ordinary poor people in Hong Kong is time. In many cases, this group has no concept of labor costs. It would be great to be given a good lunch.
In Hong Kong society, many families now have couples who work together and cannot support the family. It is normal for children to start working as child laborers at the age of seven or eight.
Elena is already old, so naturally it is impossible for her to walk there like Yang Wendong and others. She called a rickshaw, followed by several young men carrying poles.
More than ten minutes later, we arrived at the first warehouse. We were greeted by a British guy about 40 years old. The two of them also communicated in English in front of Yang Wendong and others.
Yang Wendong can also understand some English, but not very well. He was not an English major in his previous life. The English level of a normal college student is still far from normal communication.
If there is a chance in the future, he must also learn English. This is the basis for doing well in Hong Kong...
After a while, Elena said: "Yang Sheng, this is from Jordan Warehouse Brian, the person in charge, said that he would like to ask you to put the things in the warehouse after installing them."
"Shall we put them there?" Yang Wendong asked curiously. , Generally speaking, this kind of warehouse should not allow outsiders to enter.
Elina said: "Recently, there have been more shipments from the port, and the surrounding warehouses are also full. All warehouses are very busy. They don't have so much time to arrange for people to do it. These things."
"Oh, that's it, okay, we have no problem." Yang Wendong nodded quickly.
He also probably knew that in Hong Kong in the late 1950s, Hong Kong's trade was very large, and its own industry was also developing, which would most likely lead to a liquidation of the terminal.
"Okay." After Elena finished speaking, she chatted with the foreigner in the warehouse for a while, and then said to Yang Wendong: "Yang Sheng, I will take you to the other three warehouses first and deliver the goods first. , and then we need to go back to settle the payment.
As for the placement in the warehouse, you can come back and Mr. Brian will settle the expenses with you separately.”
< br>"Okay, I'm very happy." Yang Wendong said with a smile. It would be good to expand one more business. Anyway, there is no shortage of time for waiting for others, and it is also the least valuable.
Subsequently, Yang Wendong and others followed Elena and sent things to the other three warehouses, and basically negotiated the same new business as before.
In the last warehouse, Elena also arranged for Yang Wendong and others to eat in this warehouse. This was also the most sumptuous meal Yang Wendong had since traveling through time: there was a lot of meat, and he could eat whatever he wanted.
Going back to the municipal committee headquarters, Elena gave Yang Wendong a check for 300 yuan. This was the most money Yang Wendong had ever earned since time travel.
It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the first bowl of gold.
Of course, the money is not all his, he still has to pay wages.
"Ms. Elena, this is a little bit of my thoughts." Yang Wendong took out a notebook alone and handed it to Elena.
"You're not the first person to do this, but it's really unnecessary." Elena smiled and glanced at the banknotes in the book, then handed it to Yang Wendong: "Do you remember my original request? Can you do it in the future? If you help more poor people, you will be thanking me.”
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