Chapter 49: Poor and humiliating

After running the market for a while, Zhang Yunqi took over more and more convenience stores, now totaling 27. Gradually, he felt a little overwhelmed.

The cost of producing a Tetris handheld game console is not low. Those small shops and convenience stores are all small businesses. In addition, the store owners have just started making handheld game consoles and do not have enough confidence in the market. In order to reduce risks, dealers generally purchase five or ten units at a time. The smaller the purchase quantity, the more deliveries are made. Zhang Yunqi goes to school every day while delivering goods to five or six stores, and occasionally has to go to the market. You can imagine how hard it is.

In fact, being a little tired is not a big deal, as he can make money. The key is that he doesn't have enough time. Every afternoon after school, he rides his broken bicycle to deliver goods to every household in Jiangchuan City. He often works until late at night and can't even have a hot meal. In turn, the dealers have to stay up late waiting for him, and complain to him every day that he comes too late and asks to deliver the goods during the day.

Zhang Yunqi knew that this was not a solution and he had to find someone to deliver the goods to him.

The first person he thought of was Wang Guibing.

But it was quickly rejected.

Wang Guibing has already mastered the purchase channels. If we give him the sales channels, once he gets familiar with the dealers, he can kick me out and start his own business at any time. As the old saying goes, you should not have the intention to harm others, but you must be on guard against others. So far, Wang Guibing's performance is not bad, but not so good that he is completely defenseless.

After eliminating Wang Guibing, Zhang Yunqi found that no one around him was suitable for this job. He thought about it for a long time and finally thought of his eldest sister Zhang Qiulan.

The eldest sister doesn't have a job, so she doesn't have much to do at home taking care of the children and doing housework. Besides, her nephew is more than five months old, so he can be taken care of by his mother-in-law.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yunqi prepared to go to his eldest sister's house.

After finishing the last self-study class on Friday, Zhang Yun got up and pushed out his 28-bar bicycle from the school carport. He had just sat on it when a figure came over. He turned around and saw it was Zhao Han.

Zhao Han said: "Where are you going?"

Zhang Yunqi said: "My sister's home, Longjingyuan Canning Factory."

Zhao Han said: "That's just on the way. My home is in Maqiaotou. I was planning to take the bus. Now you can give me a ride."

After saying that, without waiting for Zhang Yunqi's consent, Zhao Han sat directly on the back seat of Zhang Yunqi's car. Zhang Yunqi was a little uncomfortable with Zhao Han's increasingly enthusiastic and unrestrained energy, and said with a smile: "I'm not from Jiangchuan City, so I don't know where Maqiaotou is."

Zhao Han said: "You are so stupid, just drive straight and I will show you the way."

Zhang Yunqi said, "Okay then."

He rode his bicycle out of the school gate and passed through the streets and alleys of Jiangchuan City. On the way, Zhao Han waved her hands from time to time to show Zhang Yunqi the way. Every time she waved her arms, Zhang Yunqi could clearly feel his back rubbing against her tall chest.

Amidst the constant friction, Zhang Yunqi had been thinking about a problem in his mind: some of Zhao Han's behaviors had exceeded the boundaries of a good friend, and he usually paid too much attention to him.

Zhang Yunqi knew clearly what this meant and the possible consequences.

After arriving at Maqiaotou, Zhang Yunqi waited for Zhao Han to get off the car and ran directly to the compound of the Longjingyuan Canning Factory. It was already past seven o'clock when he arrived at his eldest sister Zhang Qiulan's house.

My brother-in-law Niu Fen was away on the night shift, and my eldest sister Zhang Qiulan and my mother-in-law were at home. When Zhang Yunqi walked in, he clearly felt that the atmosphere was a bit depressing. From time to time, curses could be heard from the bedroom where my father-in-law lived, which was particularly unpleasant.

Zhang Yunqi asked his elder sister: "What's wrong?"

Zhang Qiulan said: "There is no good food tonight and it's not tasty." After Zhang Yunqi sat down, he asked a few more questions before he figured out what was going on.

His father-in-law was paralyzed on one side of his body due to an accident at work six years ago, and has been bedridden ever since. Years of being bedridden and living in a lonely environment have caused him to have a very bad temper, and he would start swearing if anything at home didn't go his way.

There was no food at home tonight. My mother-in-law made a bowl of potato soup and asked my eldest sister to bring it to my father-in-law. My father-in-law took two bites and found it unpalatable. He threw the bowl away and kept scolding my eldest sister and mother-in-law for dozens of minutes before he stopped.

After all, it's poverty that makes you humble.

Of course, this was his eldest sister's family affair, and as a child, he had no right to speak. Looking at his sister's calm and numb expression, Zhang Yunqi felt uncomfortable and said, "Sister, are you interested in delivering the goods for me?"

Zhang Qiulan was feeding her son rice porridge and didn't respond: "Delivery, what delivery?"

Zhang Yunqi explained, "This is what happened. I'm working on a Tetris handheld game console. You know this, but I'm just an agent. I buy the goods from the manufacturer and sell them to dealers in Jiangchuan City. Currently, there are 27 stores selling my goods, all near the major middle schools in Jiangchuan City."

Zhang Qiulan probably understood what he said and asked, "Brother, how is your business going?"

Zhang Yunqi put a peanut in his mouth and said, "Business is pretty good. I have to deliver goods every day, but I have to go to class and don't have time, so I want you to deliver goods for me. It's not tiring, two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon, more than four hours a day."

Zhang Qiulan said, "What's there to ask? I'll get up early every day and do the housework. I'll help you deliver the goods in the morning, and you can just let his grandmother take care of your nephew."

Zhang Yunqi said, "How about this, sister, I'll give you one yuan commission for each handheld device sold, and your salary will be paid monthly."

When the mother-in-law, who was making tea, heard that there was a salary payment, she said, "Yunqi, how many of these can you buy in a day?"

Zhang Yunqi said: "The Jiangchuan market has just started and is not mature enough. Most potential consumers don't know about this product. Now we can buy more than 40 units a day, but with the steady growth in sales, I estimate that it will not be a problem to sell 60 units a day next month, and in the next six months, sales will only increase."

The mother-in-law immediately started to calculate in her mind. With a commission of two yuan, even if she sold at least 40 units a day, she would still earn 1200 yuan, which is a full yuan a month.

Thinking of this, her head felt dizzy.

Her son’s salary for half a year is only this much!
After a long while, the mother-in-law said with a smile: "It's good to be educated. You have brains and ideas. Yunqi, you are so young, but you can make a lot of money."

Zhang Qiulan was also surprised: "Brother, your business is so profitable?"

Zhang Yunqi smiled and said, "It's OK. The main reason is that the national policy is good now. Most of these small businesses can make money."

In fact, this has nothing to do with how much or how little he earns. He gives dividends to his elder sister simply because he works hard to make money so that his family can live a good life.

If he was just a deliveryman, Zhang Yunqi could only pay him ten yuan a day, which was the most he could do. But she was his sister, her family was in financial difficulty, and she had a difficult father-in-law. If he, her brother from her mother's family, didn't fight for her and help her, life would be really hard for her.

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PS I wrote until 3am and I am so tired. Please collect, recommend and reward me. I didn't read this chapter carefully, so it must be very rough, but I can't bear it. I have to get up early for work tomorrow. I will revise it when the time comes. Please forgive me for the poor writing of this chapter. I will revise it later.

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