The Scum Gong Begs Me to Get Back Together, but I Just Want to Get Rich

The MP3 player was originally an electrical appliance. Before Zhang Yang opened his video store, he worked as an employee in the home appliance center in the county. These days, all kinds of electrical appliances were sold in the home appliance center. From his teenage years to early adulthood, he was in charge of selling VCDs and later, he was able to open his video store. Therefore, he had a good relationship with the boss. Due to this experience, he had dealt with many small businesses in the industry and had done a few small partnerships with them from time to time.

Jiang Xiao gradually learned these things when he got along with him.

The market sales he had been looking for a while were actually right next to him, so it didn’t need much effort.

However, when Jiang Xiao told him about selling MP3 players, he was very hesitant.

Zhang Yang had also heard of MP3 players. It was a small gadget, which was more convenient than a large tape recorder that needed to play cassettes to listen to songs. It was fashionable and light, indeed was a good product. However, when Jiang Xiao proposed to him to sell it, he was a little scared.

Zhang Yang was a small businessman. Jiang Xiao had told him to buy at least 100 units and this was only for the first batch. The total capital needed was tens of thousands of yuan. He might not be able to earn so much in a year, thus afraid to lose everything in a blink.

Jiang Xiao had a different mindset though. Doing business had risks when you seek wealth. He needed to be bold when he should be. In his opinion, Zhang Yang was a capable and trustworthy person. However, he might not be able to change his mind for a while, so Jiang Xiao decided to tell him this idea before the Lunar New Year, to give him enough time to think through.

“I will buy some MP3 players of various prices. There will be four to five kinds. After all, customers had to choose. Of course, I will buy more MP3 players with good performance, yet middle in price.” Jiang Xiao told him, “I already calculate it. We can earn about 80 to 120 yuan per unit out of it. I will be responsible for picking up and buying the products to lower the logistic costs to Houlin. You just need to help me find a way to sell them, and we can split the profit 50:50.”

With 100 units for the first batch and two people sharing 50:50 profit with an average of 100 yuan earnings, this means each person could get at least 5,000 yuan in revenue.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yang found that there was a lot of profit at the end of this business.

The 50:50 ratio was proposed by Jiang Xiao. Since it was a cooperation, the money that should be earned by others, should be given to them. Money could never be earned by one person.

More importantly, no matter what, the most basic gesture in business was trust. Jiang Xiao was able to open up his business at school because he was a student at first and started to do it by himself. In the end, he managed to spread his small business to hundreds of people, with competitive quality and price. This gradually strengthened the trust within his customers. Later, he relied on fixed small shelves at the video store, which increased his customer base. That’s why his business was good now.

However, Jiang Xiao would have a hard time gaining a new customer’s trust towards a different product in a short period. If Zhang Yang could mobilize his contacts, he would be able to overcome this.

When Zhang Yang specially came to find Jiang Xiao today, he probably already guessed this point. Now that he had heard about Jiang Xiao’s earnings, he was getting more assured.

If there were benefits to gain from this partnership, it surely could be done.

Zhang Yang finally agreed and nodded. Jiang Xiao was planning to leave tomorrow to buy these MP3 players, so he could come back before the twelfth, just in time for the new semester to start.

ooOOoo

It was getting late now. Although Lin Heyuan had already left, Lin Chengyu couldn’t intervene when Zhang Yang came.

He actually didn’t have time to be jealous at this time, so he just watched quietly from the side.

In his previous life, Lin Chengyu had never seen Jiang Xiao like this. To be exact, he hadn’t noticed that Jiang Xiao was like this.

A high-spirited, thoughtful, trusting, and striking person.

Probably because Jiang Xiao was too submissive in front of him for a long time, he was used to looking down on him and forgot how dazzling he was.

Most people didn’t have the courage and ability to change their circumstances. Jiang Xiao, however, was the opposite. He had a lot of ideas, could accomplish things, and had tenacious abilities. More importantly, he had such a strong appeal. If he hadn’t been picked up by such a person, Lin Chengyu might have been trapped in confusion, not knowing how to live in the future.

Now that he finally saw these, as long as Lin Chengyu looked at him, he couldn’t help but be attracted to Jiang Xiao.

After Zhang Yang and Jiang Xiao made up their minds, Jiang Xiao left with a little daze and light footsteps. This decision was considered very important to him, so it was normal to feel out of sorts for a while.

Jiang Xiao was still fine. There was nothing left to clean up at the stall today, so he proceeded to clean up the trash. However, when he turned around, he saw Lin Chengyu staring at him.

His eyes were a little weird, so Jiang Xiao took a step back and frowned.

Lin Chengyu never look at him like this before, but after his rebirth, he looked at him more, but with such passionate eyes.

Made him want to hurry up and ran.

ooOOoo

The next day, Uncle Ye ended his winter vacation and started to deliver goods again to Liujiang City. Jiang Xiao happened to need it, so the timing was right. He could come back before school started.

He set off in the early morning as he had already discussed the matter of MP3 players with Uncle Ye several times.

Jiang Xiao had bought discs and cassettes in Liujiang before, so he already knew the owner of the video store there. Although the boss’s and Zhang Yang’s businesses were all video stores, it was different from Zhang Yang’s small store. This store in Liujiang covered an area of more than 500 square meters, and provide individual sales and wholesale for their products, so there was a special counter downstairs selling MP3 players and various video recorders.

The owner of the video store in Liujiang was called Lin Zhiyuan. He was a hearty man from Rongxian County. The first time Jiang Xiao did business with him was because they were fellow villagers who met one another after traveling thousands of miles here to do business.

“I also came out of the house at your age.” Lin Zhiyuan patted his shoulder. “So, just call me Yuan-ge!”

When he took Jiang Xiao to look at the MP3 players a few months ago, he really didn’t expect that this little brother had already raised so much money to buy the goods.

Jiang Xiao had spoken on the phone with him several times. Before this, every time he came to buy goods, he would take the time to ask him about the products. Now that he was actually buying them, he had to be more cautious.

“I just bought a batch here some time ago,” Lin Zhiyuan said to him, “They are still more than half a year old, a little outdated here in Liujiang, but they are still brand new. This pile over here though, was bought by me a year ago. Foreign brands are expensive, so they are out of stock now. If you are interested, you can take a few back first to see if you can sell them. I also have a few display items here, so I can sell them to you at a cheaper price. After all, these things are relatively new, it’s just that when customers come, we have to use a few products to give a demonstration, otherwise people may not be willing to pay so much money.”

What Lin Zhiyuan recommended mostly were the new local products that sold for 499 yuan. If you bought it from him, the price would be 320 yuan per item. In total, Jiang Xiao spent more than 35,000 yuan at his store. For the more expensive ones, he also bought some other types. The cheapest product cost 180 yuan and he could sell them for 300 yuan, which was still profitable. He also took two foreign brands, which were the most expensive ones among them.

This time, Jiang Xiao didn’t need to go back with such big bags, a school bag was enough. After returning from Liujiang, it was already four o’clock on the last day of school registration, so Jiang Xiao hurried to submit his winter vacation homework and paid his tuition fee. Afterward, he handed over some MP3 players to Zhang Yang on the way home.

“That is everything. I have written the purchase price and the average selling price here. Our profit for each unit should be around 100 yuan. You should take care of this,” Jiang Xiao said, “I’m going to school tomorrow, so I’ll leave it to you, ge.”

He paid all the money for the goods and also went to pick them up. It was agreed earlier that Zhang Yang could sell them and then share the money. Anyone with discerning eyes knew that Jiang Xiao was at greater risk, so of course Zhang Yang knew it too.

“Don’t worry,” Zhang Yang’s face with decadent literary feelings was serious at once, “I will definitely not let you lose money.”

Except for Zhang Yang, Jiang Xiao kept five products for himself.

Some of his existing customer base could still afford it, so they could ask him if they wanted it.

Another good thing was that Lin Chengyu had gone back.

Although Jiang Xiao received a new schoolbag from him early in the morning, on the first day of school, with exercise sets for various subjects, it didn’t affect Jiang Xiao’s mood.

At the beginning of the new semester, he would be at the same table as Lin Heyuan. With him here, what exercise sets he couldn’t get?

ooOOoo

On the first day of school, Class 1 of Senior Year was immersed in a wonderful atmosphere. The students looked back frequently as if they suffered from a sore neck.

The seats in Houlin No. 3 Middle School were basically arranged according to height. Of course, some restless students would avoid being placed near the podium, however, they were placed there intentionally, so the teachers could watch them. Lin Heyuan and Jiang Xiao were both tall, so they sit in the last row.

Both of them were so good-looking, so everyone felt motivated to study.

Their looks had different styles but sitting together, it was a particularly eye-catching sight.

Jiang Xiao previously also stayed in Class 1 with good grades for a while before, so many students here knew him and some of them came up to say hello. Jiang Xiao also still recognized them.

This is the last semester of the third year of middle school. After half a semester of studying, Jiang Xiao found that he was a bit lacking in science subjects. He had a good memory, thus his liberal arts subjects were better. In the beginning, he was a bit weak in English, but he had memorized so many words, so he had made up for it.

Lin Heyuan also found out about this. During the evening self-study session, he picked out some chemistry and physics papers for Jiang Xiao to do. Sometimes he couldn’t understand, so he would ask him a few words in a low voice. It was already a tacit understanding between them.

But Lin Chengyu, who heard such news in Liujiang, wasn’t so happy.

Jiang Xiao’s move to Class 1 was approved by the teaching director and he didn’t publicize it much. Jiang Xiao also naturally wouldn’t tell him about it, so Lin Chengyu didn’t know about it until this happened.

They’re deskmates now? Being close every day, facing each other day and night, could this be all right?!

Even he and Jiang Xiao had never been at the same desk!

Lin Chengyu felt that his brain was going to explode.

In the beginning, he thought about letting Jiang Xiao come to Liujiang and study at Huayang International School. He wanted the two of them to sit at the same desk. Although he was one year younger than Jiang Xiao, thus one grade lower, he felt that it wouldn’t be difficult to skip a grade. Who knew that in the end Lin Heyuan stepped in and took away this idea!

Yue Cheng looked at him from the side, feeling as if Lin Chengyu was going to kill Lin Heyuan in the next second and desperate to snatch Jiang Xiao back, just by seeing his expression.

“Calm down,” he poured a glass of water and reminded him again, “Calm down.”

Facing such facts, how could Lin Chengyu calm down?

His wife was about to be robbed, could anyone calm down?