Chapter 24: Starting a company together
Fu Chenan was a little surprised: "You can eat here?"
Xiao Yingchun grinned: "What's the difficulty?"
Xiao Yingchun directly heated up two boxes of self-heating rice.
Fish-flavored shredded pork rice, beef and bamboo shoot rice, twice-cooked pork rice, Taiwanese braised pork rice. Xiao Yingchun guessed that Fu Chenan had a big appetite and directly made four servings.
Fu Chenan watched Xiao Yingchun pour cold water directly into the box, then throw a small bag in, put the dry and cold food on top and cover it.
Soon, hot steam came out of it.
After a while, Xiao Yingchun opened the box, and a hot and fragrant meal was ready.
"Try it." Xiao Yingchun happily pushed one of the servings over.
Fu Chenan hesitantly picked up the spoon and tasted it.
The next second, Fu Chenan's eyes widened. He glanced at Xiao Yingchun, and seeing her smiling and nodding face, he couldn't hold back any longer and ate up a clean portion of rice.
When he finished and looked up, he found that Xiao Yingchun had only taken two or three bites of her own.
Xiao Yingchun pointed to the other two portions and said, "These are all prepared for you."
Fu Chenan didn't hesitate and ate up the other two portions in a flash.
After finishing their meal, the two people sat on a small stool and chatted, one holding a Coke and the other holding boiled water.
"Why does this heat up when you put cold water in it?"
"Have you ever seen lime poured into water?"
Fu Chenan understood, but a new question arose: "Why did the rice cook so quickly?"
"It was already cooked, but it was dehydrated before. Now it heats up quickly when you heat it up again."
"I don't think this dish is dry. Why is it packed like this? How long can it keep like this?"
"This can be kept for more than six months. It's vacuum-packed, there's no air inside, and there may be preservatives..."
"What are preservatives?"
"..."
Fu Chenan's questions came one after another. Xiao Yingchun tried her best to answer, and if she couldn't, she would search on Baidu.
By the time Xiao Yingchun came to her senses, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening.
Xiao Yingchun looked at Fu Chenan: "It's late. Why don't you go back first? Come back tomorrow if you need anything else?"
Fu Chenan suddenly realized and stood up to say goodbye: "Then I'll leave first."
He said he was leaving, but his eyes were looking around, obviously reluctant to leave.
Seeing the shelves fully stocked again, Fu Chenan cleared out everything, including the self-heating rice, and packed up everything to take away.
Fu Chenan offered to pay, but Xiao Yingchun said it wasn't necessary: he'd already given her too much, and he felt embarrassed to ask for more.
Fu Chenan, however, looked at Xiao Yingchun seriously and said, "If it's not enough, just let me know. I won't let you get away with it."
Xiao Yingchun nodded. This business, built on mutual trust and high profits, was simply delightful.
Especially since the customer was so handsome, even sitting and talking with him was a delight to the eyes.
By eliminating the middleman's profit margin, Xiao Yingchun had saved quite a bit of money after shipping several truckloads of goods. She calculated that the goods had cost her over 2.8 million yuan, and after adding the money for the truck, she still had quite a bit left.
Reassured, she slept soundly.
Unexpectedly, when she woke up the next morning, she saw a message from Dai Hengxin, saying he had something to discuss with her and asking if she was free that morning.
It turned out that Dai Hengxin had discussed Xiao Yingchun's situation with Dai Wangnian after returning home the previous day.
The two agreed that Xiao Yingchun might have been someone else's white glove.
Otherwise, how could the daughter of an ordinary store owner, who had only been working for a year, suddenly have so many good things in her hands?
Guessing that Xiao Yingchun still had many good things in his hands, they were itching to get them.
But they were also afraid that the things in Xiao Yingchun's hands were not legitimate, and if he went to jail, it would implicate them.
Dai Hengxin wanted to show his hand.
Xiao Yingchun would naturally not refuse Dai Hengxin's invitation.
When it came to selling antiques, she only had Dai Hengxin as her contact.
After agreeing on a time and place, Xiao Yingchun arrived at KFC in advance.
There were not many people in KFC in the morning, and the two found an empty corner to sit down. Dai Hengxin lowered his voice and expressed his concerns.
"You should have a lot of things to sell, right?"
Xiao Yingchun thought: she only had more than 200,000 in cash, and if she wanted to continue supplying Fu Chenan, she would definitely need to sell gold and silver ingots or other things.
So Xiao Yingchun nodded.
Dai Hengxin glanced around and whispered, thievingly, "Selling these things in large quantities domestically is going to cause problems over time."
"The relevant authorities will come and ask you where all this stuff came from. Can you explain it clearly?"
Xiao Yingchun: "..."
Of course not.
Her expression grew serious. "You're not buying them anymore?"
Dai Hengxin waved his hand. "It's definitely okay for a while, but if you keep selling them like this, I'm a little worried."
Xiao Yingchun thought for a moment: Dai Hengxin wouldn't come to her just to refuse a deal. What was he really thinking?
Meeting Xiao Yingchun's clearly puzzled look, Dai Hengxin finally expressed his thoughts: "What I mean is, why don't we partner up and open an art auction company..."
Dai Hengxin explained at length, saying that an auction company could help Xiao Yingchun sell the items without risk.
Of course, there was another option: selling these items overseas.
But how would they get out of the country? Smuggling them
out?
That would be illegal.
After hearing Dai Hengxin's words, Xiao Yingchun felt as if a whole new door had been opened: Yes, these things can be exported!
Others can't, but I can.
Because I have a space-time supermarket system that can store all the antiques and cultural relics...
But Dai Hengxin can also start a company together.
Xiao Yingchun thought about it and said seriously: "First, I don't know how to manage a company, and second, I don't know how such a company should be run. If we cooperate, how should we cooperate?"
When Dai Hengxin heard Xiao Yingchun's willingness, he was immediately delighted: "I'll take care of it, you just need to provide the materials."
Then he talked about the profit sharing.
Dai Hengxin's idea was simple: "Apart from the commission that should be paid to the auction company according to convention, all the proceeds from the auction will be yours."
It was like: Xiao Yingchun's antiques were only provided by ordinary outsiders, and the same amount should be given to outsiders, so give Xiao Yingchun the same amount.
"As for the auction company's dividends, they will be divided according to our subsequent profits and our respective shares."
But Dai Hengxin proposed a new idea: "If I want to expand the company, my foundation is not enough. I need to bring people in."
"It's not about getting them to pay, but about their circle and the backing behind them."
Xiao Yingchun nodded: "Okay. But the person must be reliable."
"That's no problem..."
(End of this chapter)