Ye Cheng

Because Ye Cheng and the others still had to go to class, they couldn't stay in the hospital for long, so they went back by car on Sunday afternoon.This time, Ye Cheng and the others had no more savings, and only a few hundred yuan left in the card, which was just enough to pay Ye Ping's tuition for one semester. Under the premise of not moving the deposit.

Although it was said that he could go to the city to sell balloons during the summer vacation, Ye Cheng was a little nervous. What if there were more people selling balloons in the summer?What if a better toy comes along and kids don't like balloons anymore?All kinds of uncertainties made Ye Cheng unable to wait for summer. He wanted to go out to make money now, but he and Lu Mingyuan had to attend classes every day. If they wanted to make money, they could only do so in the town and nearby villages.

Ye Ping was also quite worried. Recently, every night when Ye Cheng and the others went back, Ye Ping was still up. She played with those duck eggs all day long, counting them, but no matter how many times she counted, there would be more duck eggs out of thin air. , besides, duck eggs are not worth much now.

Ye Cheng discussed with Lu Mingyuan that they had to find something to do. It was no longer possible to mend shoes and sell duck eggs, and the money they earned was not enough to spend. They had to find something else to do.Their town is no better than City C, not to mention a playground, not even a decent park, trying to sell balloons in their town is not going to work, unless it’s a day like Children’s Day or Valentine’s Day, maybe you can do some business , Other times, children want to have fifty cents in their pockets, and they are more willing to buy some snacks to satisfy their cravings.

The primary school in their town is still a bit big, unlike the village primary school where Ye Cheng and the others studied in the past, there was only one class for each grade, and the primary school in the town had six or seven classes for each grade, and the number of people in each class was large. There are a lot of them. Generally, a class has more than 60 to [-] students. There are also individual classes with more than [-] students. When you walk into the classroom, you can see that it is densely packed with children.At that time, there were five grades in primary school, and with the newly added preschool classes, the number of students in this school was quite considerable.

Ye Cheng wanted to do business for these children. When they were in City C, they also went to the gates of several elementary schools. There were always many vendors in those places, selling food and play, and all kinds of things. Yes, many children go to school early every day, and then linger in front of those stalls until class time, and then linger in that area after class, and come home very late.

Although the consumption ability of primary school students is not very strong, but their desire to consume is strong, and there are so many people, each of them pays fifty cents, which is enough for Ye Cheng and the others to make a lot of money, but the problem is how? Let them pay?

There are also a few vendors at the gate of the elementary school in Ye Cheng's town, but the varieties are relatively single, and they are all snacks and toys made by some small workshops, like the popcorn, cotton candy and ice cream in the city. I saw someone put a refrigerator in front of their house and sell some popsicles for fifty cents, which is considered quite high-end.

Ice cream is a very fresh thing, especially the kind that is freshly made from a beautiful ice cream machine, but I also know that Ye Cheng and the others simply cannot afford such an expensive machine now.Popcorn is also good, but it’s a pity that like ice cream, you need to buy a machine. During the winter vacation, Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan saw a super-large and luxurious popcorn machine at the entrance of the newly built movie theater in City C. I heard that it was from country M. How much does it cost to import?

The rest is cotton candy. When they were selling balloons at the entrance of the playground, they saw someone pushing a small cart made of welded metal, carrying a gas tank, adding a spoonful of white sugar into a silver-white prototype container, Stepping on one side of the foot, drawing with a stick in the hand, after a while, a big and white marshmallow is ready. The cost of white sugar is very low, and a small spoonful can make a big marshmallow. A solid deal.

However, Ye Cheng and the others didn't know where to buy the cotton candy-making machine. It was difficult for those who were not familiar with this kind of out-of-the-way tools to find the way, especially at that time when the information was not very developed.

Lu Mingyuan heard that some people would advertise online to sell things, but the computer room of the school only allowed them to practice typing at most, and did not pull the network cable at all, so the two of them had to leave school at noon on Saturday with the boys in the class After that, I sneaked to the Internet cafe, which was banned at that time.

That year, Ye Cheng and the others did not have a formal Internet cafe in their town. Their so-called Internet cafes were some shrewd people who bought a dozen or twenty computers and put them in their homes. , commonly known as black Internet cafes.

This kind of black Internet cafe doesn't care if you are an adult or not. Ye Cheng paid ten yuan as a deposit, and Lu Mingyuan and Lu Mingyuan went to the same computer. It was the first time they went online, and they didn't know many things.The computer class in their school was the same as if they hadn’t. Every time they had to touch the computer under the nose of the teacher, the computer teacher asked them to open "My Computer" on the desktop, and then they took chalk and talked on the blackboard for a long time, followed by Usually, there is no difference in class in the classroom. The class is over without touching the mouse a few times. A group of children are confused and don't understand anything.

Now they are suddenly asked to touch the computer by themselves, and they touch it casually, and they are in trouble. They don't even know how to turn it on. Fortunately, the classmates who came with him are all veterans. If you don't understand, you can ask.

Double-click Internet Explorer on the desktop, and the page that pops up is blank. There are two English words on the address bar: about:blank. It's really embarrassing to speak again, the squad leader should save some face.

So the two of them groped silently, clicked and clicked the mouse, but there was no change in the page, and a word didn't pop up. Later, Ye Cheng directly typed two words in the address bar, and the search engine finally found it. It started to work. At that time, Du Niang hadn't become popular yet, and Google was the most widely used. Ye Cheng and the others didn't pick it up. They were thankful that they could jump out of the page.

After gradually figuring out the way, Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan started wandering around the Internet.There was no Taobao at that time, but Excellence did exist. Through the postal network, it was quite popular in some schools, but they only sold books and discs, and probably not the cotton candy machine.

The two of them wandered around the Internet, entered the cotton candy machine, and clicked to open it one by one. After searching for a long time, they finally found a website for making small machinery. They said it was a website, but it was actually just a page with no links. There are a few, and the pictures are too small to see clearly. The main products are aimed at small businessmen, including cotton candy machines.

Ye Cheng and the others took out a pen and paper, copied down a phone number and payment account number on the web page, then stood up and returned the computer, greeted the classmates next to them, and the two of them came out of the Internet cafe, just in time to see the phone number on the opposite side. There was a public phone in a small shop, so I passed by.

"Hello, who are you looking for?" It was a woman with a rough voice who answered the phone.

"Hello, do you sell cotton candy machines here?" Ye Cheng was a little worried that he had made a mistake.

"What, you guys want to buy a cotton candy machine, wait a minute." The woman, Ye Cheng, asked the cotton candy machine. I heard her yelling: "His dad! Phone! Buying a cotton candy machine!"

"Come here." A man's voice came from far to near, and then he answered the phone: "Hello."

"Hello, we'd like to buy a cotton candy machine."

"Oh, this is also the first time for me to do business like this. In the past, I was either a regular customer or came to buy. You transfer the money to my account, and after I confirm it, I will send you the machine. Do you think it will work?" ?”

"How much is a cotton candy machine?" Ye Cheng asked.

"It's not expensive, three hundred and five, but I'll charge you almost four hundred after including the shipping fee. By the way, where are you?"

Ye Cheng said the address, and then asked, "How do I send it?"

"Go for logistics, but it's definitely not available in your town. I'll ask in a while and see if I haven't arrived in your county. If not, you have to go to the city to pick up the goods yourself. Do you think it's okay?" The man was a little embarrassed to say.

"Can't you send it from the post office?" If you take the post, you can go directly to their town. In this way, it will not only save trouble, but also save a lot of travel expenses.

"No, there are a few old customers who often get goods from me. We have asked the post office a long time ago. It is useless to say anything good. They don't accept this kind of package. Young man, if you think it's not worth it , let’s add it up again, anyway, it’s not expensive to buy from me, and many people get goods from me, and the price will double.”

"Okay, I'll transfer money to your account right away, is it convenient for you to check?" Doing business always requires some capital, if you are timid, you can't do anything.

"Convenience and convenience. There is a cash machine in front of my house. I'll check it later. Let's call again later. I'm quite far from your place. The shipping fee may not be cheap. In this case, I will charge 50 yuan first. Don’t care if there is less, okay?”

"Well, okay." Ye Cheng nodded and agreed. It's not that he is not worried about being cheated out of money, but since he was a child, he has been constantly running around for his life, and he has not less contact with strangers. Whether the other party is a good person or a bad person, In addition to the necessary judgment, sometimes you have to take a little risk to trust people you don't know.

The post office was still open on Saturdays, but Ye Cheng and the others couldn't go to the counter to transfer money because they didn't have ID cards yet. Fortunately, there was an ATM machine, and they could just insert the card to transfer money.

After the money transfer, Ye Cheng didn't rush to make a phone call, but walked around the neighborhood with Lu Mingyuan. They were busy every day, and it had been a long time since they had walked around the town. Unknowingly, the streets had already There are so many shops, those selling clothes and accessories, and those shops seem to be doing good business.

Ye Cheng went into a jewelry store, looked at the prices of those earrings and the like, and couldn't help but click his tongue. He remembered that he was in the wholesale market in City C, and saw those people taking these things in whole packages, and the price was a little lower. It's not high. I didn't expect that when I came to their town, the price of some things suddenly increased by more than ten times. It seems that the money for these accessories is quite easy to earn.However, this kind of business also has disadvantages, that is, it is easy to hoard goods, and you have to go out to buy goods regularly, even setting up a stall is quite troublesome, let's make cotton candy, Ye Cheng thought.

About an hour later, when Ye Cheng called again, he said that the money had been received. He was currently building a wooden frame for the cotton candy machine, and he would go out on a tricycle to deliver the goods in a while, and then asked for their contact number. Ye Cheng reported the new phone number of his second aunt who sells butchers in the village. That second aunt is shrewd, and she can't let others use the phone for nothing. Usually, if someone wants to call by phone, they will call according to the town's phone number. The public phone is charged, and if a call comes in from outside, it will cost one yuan to answer each one.

Once the money was transferred, Ye Cheng and the others only had about 100 yuan left in their cards. Adding in Ye Cheng's 500 yuan, the total was only 500 yuan. What can [-] yuan do?They may have to go to the city to pick up the goods after a while, and the fare will be quite a lot this time around.

Ye Cheng didn't tell Cai Jinzhi about buying the cotton candy machine, and told Ye Ping not to talk about it, Lu Mingyuan wouldn't talk too much anyway.The current situation of their family is not good. Although the children are worried, they are not as serious as the old man. Cai Jinzhi is old, and if he pretends to be troubled, he will not be able to sleep easily.