Siheyuan: Bringing Warehouses to 1959

The neon lights of Victoria Harbour shine brightly late at night, highlighting the uniqueness of this city.

Lin Fusheng drove quietly while laughing triumphantly: "Brother, did you see that just now? Those bumpkins' eyes popped out, as if they had seen a peerless beauty."

Among the five people, besides Zeng Wangcai, the one who changed the most is Lin Fusheng.

This change does not refer to a change in personality or any other bad changes, but rather to positive changes in thinking, acceptance of environmental changes, etc.

After this period of baptism and training, Lin Fusheng is no longer much different from the locals, and the military traits on him have faded a lot.

He had just been following Zeng Wangcai and watching the conversation between Zeng Wangcai and Li Jiacheng. He was sensitive to the inherent problems of people like Li Jiacheng, so he found a workaround and used a car to save face.

"Fusheng, you've done a good job!" Zeng Wangcai leaned back comfortably and said slowly, "You will be the manager of our grocery store in the future. Learn how to do business slowly. We can't be soldiers anymore, but we can still do business well. Xiaobao and the others are not suitable for this. You have to work harder. When we succeed in this deal, you can bring your parents over..."

"Thank you, big brother, but..." Lin Fusheng scratched his head with one hand and said awkwardly, "My dad is stubborn and I'm afraid he doesn't want to leave the village. It's okay for him to come and play, but it's definitely not okay for him to stay here."

This situation was common among the five of them, including Zeng Wangcai, Zeng Youqian and his wife, Zeng Youhuo and his wife, and grandma. Every one of them refused to come and live here permanently.

Zhang Xiuzhi contacted their families, visited them secretly, gave them money and things so that their families would not worry, and asked for their opinions, but the answers were surprisingly consistent.

Zeng Wangcai originally thought that since Lin Fusheng was a Hujian, his family members should have different ideas, but they still refused.

He was preparing for two years later, but it seemed that it was no longer possible. However, he also felt that apart from his own family, the situations of the three families of Yutie were relatively simple and they should not become targets of the storm.

"Okay, let's talk about it later!" Zeng Wangcai nodded, "Tomorrow you and Xiaobao go find Linghua and ask Linghua to send some people. We have to get to work and open the business as soon as possible."

"No problem bro, what are you going to do with the grocery store?"

"We're going to do it in a big way! We're going to clear out the first, second, third and fourth floors, knock down the walls, and create a one-stop shopping supermarket..."

The grocery store that Zeng Wangcai usually talks about is naturally not the kind of old-fashioned counter, but an open supermarket.

He now has less than 20,000 yuan in his hand, which is almost enough for the decoration without counting the order that Ajuan is about to give.

He had to earn the money for the first ship as soon as possible. Although he didn't know the exact cost, he estimated that it would cost several hundred thousand US dollars.

This is no small sum.

Once you earn the money for the first ship, you don’t have to worry about the rest. The difference will naturally cover the rest.

That’s right, Zeng Wangcai planned to turn providing raw materials to garment factories into a business.

"Brother, if it's the supermarket you're talking about, we don't have enough staff." After understanding Zeng Wangcai's supermarket model, Lin Fusheng immediately stepped into the role of a manager, "There will definitely be people who steal things, and there are also people who collect money and put goods on the shelves. Where do these people come from?"

"Stupid, there are plenty of people over at Linghua!" Zeng Wangcai said in a teaching tone, "Being a junior is actually also working. Our salary is higher than others, especially higher than being a junior. Are you still worried about not having enough people? Just don't let them touch the core things. You have to grasp this point. Calculate the goods you need in advance and tell me. I will find a special time to replenish the warehouse.

"There are many benefits to being a store clerk. If you train a few more loss prevention people, patrols, and safekeeping, you can solve most of the theft problems."

......

Since everyone else is working, Zeng Wangcai naturally cannot sit idle. In fact, what he does cannot be done by others.

He has to design how the supermarket should be decorated.

In fact, the design is not difficult. The difficult part is what to sell to make the place crowded, thereby generating traffic and attracting big customers.

First, we designed the standard configuration of supermarkets in the future, including entrances, exits and trolleys. Apart from the concept of the future, there is nothing else. We can just pick up the goods directly from the space.

Then there’s the goods on the first floor!

The first floor must be used by everyone on a daily basis, and is a necessity in everyone’s life, so...selling vegetables, or to put it nicely, fresh produce.

Chicken, duck, fish, beef, mutton, aquatic products, and then frozen products.

These things are good, no packaging, no production date.

As for other seasonings and dry goods, those with marked packaging should not be bought.

On the second floor, there are clothes, shoes, socks, and daily necessities. On the third floor, there are hardware stores...

It’s the only way to arrange it. There are too many goods in the space and it’s impossible to display them all.

After the design was completed, the process of decoration was endless. Zeng Wangcai did not hire a decoration company because there was no need to do so. It would just be a bare bones affair.

This work was done in more than a week with the help of the younger brother sent by Linghua.

Behind it are facilities such as shelves and then the stocking of goods.

The last job is training, which is to train those hooligans into employees. Each of them comes out with a strong work atmosphere instead of a social one, which is not easy.

Linghua sent his trusted subordinate, the one who pretended to be dead, Ayang, to help Xiaobao intimidate the thugs, and then Lin Fusheng, who had already been trained, acted as the teacher.

After all this was done, a month had passed.

From the beginning to the end of the renovation, the residents near Temple Street had no idea who had bought the teahouse they often visited and what it would be used for. They just felt that it would be inconvenient to have morning tea without the teahouse.

Other than that, their lives went on as usual.

But today, the residents near Temple Street discovered something new...

"Dear neighbors, our store will open in three days!"

"Our store mainly sells: fresh seafood, chicken, duck, fish, meat, daily necessities, hardware and general merchandise..."

"In short, we have everything you need in life, at affordable prices and with good quality."

"Three days before the opening, our store will offer a big sale. All customers who come to our store, no matter who they are or whether they sell anything or not, will receive five free eggs. That's right, they are free. If you shop, no matter how much you buy, you will receive five more free eggs..."

Lin Fusheng personally held a big loudspeaker and stood behind the tricycle shouting, while Xiaobao pedaled slowly.

Behind the tricycle, there were people who had become supermarket employees. Each of them was holding up a billboard with shame on it. The billboard had the store's address, opening hours and other information written on it.

Jiangdao is a developed and diversified city. At this time, all kinds of advertisements have emerged in Jiangdao, but no one has ever seen this kind of advertisement.

I'm giving you eggs for free, just asking if you want them!

Facts have proved that all people in the world are the same. No one is superior and noble for no reason. When faced with free things, no one can resist the temptation.

"Wow, what a big deal!" Ah Shui was notified early, and came with his colleagues to patrol with red envelopes to prevent any accidents. He said to Ah Juan and Ah Mei who came to watch, "Brother Cai, will you lose money by doing this? There are so many people, and it's free. Do you have so many eggs to give away?"

Ajuan couldn't understand it either, because Zeng Wangcai's business plan was so different from hers.

But Ajuan believed that Zeng Wangcai had his reasons for doing so, so she decided to inform her brother-in-law and come over to take a look.