Chapter 18: The Beginning of a Business (Please read on Tuesday)
Although the area of a warehouse is not small, it doesn’t take long just to recover the mouse traps that were once placed by the wall.
The journey back and forth is even longer. It’s already noon when we set off in the morning and come back.
But the good thing is that Brian actually packed lunch for Yang Wendong and others, which saved a lot of money for them.
On the third day after getting the new business, the first thing Yang Wendong did after returning to the dormitory was to visit Su Yiyi, who was still ill: "Yiyi, how are you feeling?"
"It's okay. The medicine you bought seems to be very effective. I'm not dizzy now, but I'm just a little tired." Su Yiyi said with a little smile.
Yang Wendong said: "I brought you food. Eat more so that you can recover faster."
"Okay!" Su Yiyi was very happy, but when she saw After Yang Wendong opened the food, he 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 canteen of the warehouse, there are 4 places. , if you are not here, I will bring it back.”
“It’s so good, there is still meat to eat.” Su Yiyi was full of envy.
They used to not be able to eat meat a few times a year, and even if they had it, they would not be willing to buy much. At most, they could spend a little more money and buy some delicious food during the New Year. Therefore, they looked forward to the New Year very much when they were children.
Yang Wendong put the food he brought back into a bowl at home and said with a smile: "Normally, I am a warehouse company under Ocean Bank. The most profitable business in Hong Kong now is the dock and cargo "
Looking at the history of Hong Kong's development, since the arrival of the British in 1840, Hong Kong has been mainly engaged in re-export trade. It is a bridge between domestic and international countries and is also one of the large transfer stations for Asian goods.
Nowadays, both future industry and real estate have just begun to develop, and they are far inferior to international trade.
Most of the current large companies in Hong Kong have a close relationship with docks and warehouses.
"Well, this rice with braised pork soup is so delicious. Do you want to eat some more?" Su Yiyi asked.
Yang Wendong said with a smile: "I have already eaten, and so have Liming and the others. You eat first, we have things to do in the afternoon."
Su Yiyi asked: "What is it? Go there. Setting up a stall? Or making a mousetrap? ”
Yang Wendong shook his head and said: "No, I'm 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: "In the past, when I didn't go out to work, I also spent some time studying on my own."
This reason is actually full of loopholes, but it can only be explained in this way. Fortunately, he has always been I am doing hard work part-time and there is no stable place to work. This reason cannot be said to be completely untenable.
"Well, I can't write my name well yet." Su Yiyi said with shame.
Yang Wendong said with a smile: "It's okay, I can't write much better, we can just practice together.
Besides, we have to learn to read characters first, and then we can write numbers. The rest Don’t force it first.”
From the experience of the mainland in later generations, it takes several years to learn the most basic character recognition when a person is a teenager with the strongest learning ability. In Hong Kong, it is still traditional Chinese characters, which is even more difficult.
What Yang Wendong needs now is for the people around him to know a few hundred words and the calculations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of normal numbers. No matter how complicated it is, we can only wait until later.
In addition, through the most basic ability to learn characters, you can judge the intelligence potential of each person, which is more important. Even in the national education in many countries, a lot of knowledge that will be useless to ordinary people in the future is taught. This is also the case. Purpose.
"How about I make several dollars a day if I don't set up a stall?" Su Yiyi said with regret in her tone.
Yang Wendong shook his head and said: "You can't make much money there, and there are more and more competitors soon. Our energy is also limited, there is no need to spend it on such things." Mousetraps can also be made. It is big enough that we can even open a factory in the future, but the rat trap is impossible. Its difficulty in transportation means that it can only be sold to vendors and small shops within a kilometer or two of the surrounding area.
Although Yang Wendong has escaped from the most extreme poverty by relying on it, people still have to look forward. What they need to grasp is the direction of rodent control, not a fixed commodity.
Su Yiyi nodded and said: "Okay."
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In the following week, Yang Wendong and others went to the Jordan warehouse to clean up those who were caught in the morning Rats, clean the rat trap, and then proceed with arranging the switch.
And 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 it was no use even if they could afford a light.
As the kerosene lamp hurts the eyes, Yang Wendong just asked everyone to take a rest as soon as possible.
That is to say, they are no longer short of money now and have plans for the future, so they can go to bed early. The other squatters have to turn on the lights in the middle of the night to work and weave. Weaving, just to earn a little salary that can keep oneself from starving to death.
One week later, Jotun warehouse:
Yang Wendong found Brian and showed him the results of this week.
“Oh my god, you caught so many rats!” Brian looked at the densely packed rat corpses in front of him and felt incredible.
Yang Wendong said with a smile: "To be precise, here 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."
< br>If something can be done well, there must be direct evidence. The corpse of a mouse is the physical evidence.
Brian nodded and said: "Awesome. The mouse cages we used before were not so effective. Your mouse trap is really powerful."
Yang Wendong boasted: "To be precise, we know the travel patterns of mice. In fact, we not only use mouse traps, but also some bucket mechanisms to catch mice. The effect is even better than mouse traps or mouse traps." . ”
All his mouse-catching skills came from the Internet in his previous life. Because mice once appeared in his home, he searched a lot of related videos on Douyin for a while.
Just this period of observation and the subsequent practice of killing mice in the house are enough to make him know more in this area than many professionals of this era, especially some weird methods of catching mice.
“Very good.” Brian looked at a Chinese next to him and asked: “How do you feel?”
The Chinese who was asked said: “I asked People on the night shift have definitely noticed that there are a lot fewer rats, but there are still some.”
Brian nodded, looked at Yang Wendong, and said, "Yang Sheng, I think we can talk about the long-term cost issue."
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(End of this chapter)