The New Year is approaching, and Zhao Yong's company will start its annual holiday on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month.
His main business in the second half of this year will be in construction materials. The construction site has been suspended, and freight has also stopped. Everything will have to wait until next year to be re-arranged.
New Year's goods from all over the country are in place. Now walking on the street, there are vendors selling New Year's goods, fruits, tobacco, alcohol, candies, couplets and firecrackers. In addition, the New Year's songs played by the vendors through loudspeakers make it very lively.
Zhao Yong took an unprecedented nap, and when he woke up, he found that Nuan Wen's wife had left, and he was the only one left at home.
The recycling station is still open, and Li Manjun plans to open it until the 28th and then close it, and wait until the 8th day of the new year to open.
The store has been busy checking accounts and clearing inventory these two days, which is quite eventful.
Li Manjun settled this month's salary to Yao Zhaowen in advance. The salary is 220 yuan, the New Year's subsidy is 80 yuan, plus a bonus of 500 yuan, for a total of 800 yuan.
"Is there any bonus?" Yao Zhaowen looked at the few blue bills he took out of the envelope in surprise. He thought it would be great to have a New Year's subsidy, but he didn't expect that the boss also gave him more than two months of bonuses.
Li Manjun said with a smile: "Let's work harder next year and strive to get more bonuses."
Thinking of getting a bonus, Yao Zhaowen was full of fighting spirit, "Thank you boss, I will definitely work hard next year!"
Li Manjun also smiled, and the two discussed the current status of the three rival recycling stations.
"If they had calculated the accounts years ago, they would have found that they now have a large backlog of high-priced goods. If they want to reduce costs, they can only grit their teeth and sell them all at a loss." Yao Zhaowen said with a smirk.
Their Lvman is operating well, but the other side earns at most 3,000 yuan less per month.
But they couldn't accept high-priced goods here, so the three stores across the street had to charge more than 15,000 yuan in goods. After three months of stockpiling, one family had nearly 50,000 yuan.
This does not include the costs caused by the price war in the past three months. I am afraid it is more than that.
We are all small businesses, and we don’t have much capital to consume. Each one is losing money and accumulating so much inventory that it is enough for them to drink a pot.
Li Manjun got himself a cup of hot water and took a sip while listening to Yao Zhaowen's words. There was no happy smile on his face, only indifference.
Yao Zhaowen asked strangely: "Boss, they are about to explode, why are you unhappy?"
"The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and it will be difficult for everyone to celebrate the New Year like this." Although she said this, she did not feel that she had done anything wrong.
The other party made the first move, and she and Yao Zhaowen just happened to know how to settle accounts and escaped.
If it had been anyone else, a good store would have been destroyed by those three.
Without customers, there is no income, and the recycling station will close sooner or later.
Yao Zhaowen is also a little worried, "What if they continue to insist on a price war with us after the year?"
There are always people who lose their minds and risk everything. If the other party discovers their plan, they may jump over the wall in a panic.
Li Manjun was not worried, and waved his hand to Yao Zhaowen, "Don't worry, they won't do it. It's not like the family has a mine and the money is burning."
Yao Zhaowen nodded, feeling really itchy. He put on his cotton coat with great interest and went to the door of the opposite store to check out the situation.
Li Manjun told him to be careful while riding and ate roasted sweet potatoes while waiting for Yao Zhaowen to come back.
He went for nearly two hours before coming back. As soon as he came back, he laughed three times and said, "Boss, they started fighting among themselves!"
Li Manjun raised his eyebrows, patted the dust on his hands, put down the roasted sweet potatoes and curiously asked him what was going on.
It turned out that the goods were cleared at the end of the year, and when the three companies reconciled their accounts, they discovered that they had been losing money continuously for the past three months, and the money in their hands had shrunk by more than 10,000.
After carefully checking the account books, they discovered that at the beginning, middle, and end of each month, a large number of goods were suddenly delivered. Originally, they thought it was second-hand dealers making money from the price difference.
But now that the three bosses were sitting together and talking about this, they discovered that each company suddenly had large quantities of goods delivered at these three fixed times every month, and then they realized that something was wrong.
It was these extra goods that caused them to lose money every month without paying attention.
Naturally, these goods were collected by Li Manjun at a price two cents lower than the other party's every month. She suppressed this and delivered them to the other party three times a month.
Since the prices at the beginning, middle and end are sequentially superimposed, her costs are always kept within a balance, and she can still earn rent, water, electricity and employee wages.
Now that the three families sat together and made a total calculation, they immediately concluded that it was Luman's fault.
The three of them later realized that this young woman was different from those small bosses in the past.
One person just wants to stop doing this. If he keeps doing it, everyone will lose money together. What’s the point?
The leader disagreed, and wanted to unite the three companies and do it for another two months to completely squeeze out Luman.
However, there were different opinions in the team, and the three of them could never talk together.
One said that as long as the leader was responsible for the losses, he would follow suit.
One said that he had given up and quit, and if he continued like this, his mother-in-law would not be allowed to go back during the Chinese New Year.
The three of them started to quarrel while they were talking.
Yao Zhaowen didn't find out anything about the two recycling stations he went to before. When he walked to the third one, he found that the three owners were standing in front of the store arguing and even making moves. The neighbors came to persuade them, and the crowd was almost overwhelmed.
We're going to call the police. It's such a big fuss.
He was standing outside the crowd watching the play, and accidentally got so fascinated that he came back late.
Li Manjun thought that the three of them would quarrel over this, but he didn't expect that they would take action. It seems that the losses of the three families have exceeded their expected range, which is why their emotions are so out of control.
Secretly saying something cool, Li Manjun smiled and said to Yao Zhaowen: "It will close the day after tomorrow. If it opens after the New Year, the recycling price will still be the same as before."
Yao Zhaowen nodded: "I know, I see they are not willing to continue burning money this time."
Li Manjun glanced at the clock on the wall. It was past four o'clock and said, "Let's get off work early today. Anyway, all the remaining goods have been cleared away."
Yao Zhaowen responded with a sigh. After getting off work early, he could still go home and have dinner with his parents. When he was full, he could come back to look at the store in the evening.
And now that there is nothing in the yard, there is no need to worry about being stolen or robbed. Good things happen one after another.
Looking at the 800 yuan year-end salary in his pocket, Yao Zhaowen asked Li Manjun: "Boss, let me ask you something."
"What's the matter? Tell me." Li Manjun packed her bag, slung it over her shoulder and stood at the door waiting for Yao Zhaowen to finish speaking and leave.
But she found that the young man suddenly became nervous and asked her hesitantly: "Well, what do you think you girls like?"
Li Manjun said "Huh?", a little confused, and asked what girls like?
"Are you going to give me a New Year's gift?" she asked in surprise.
"No!" Yao Zhaowen answered simply and neatly, and Li Manjun twitched the corner of her mouth slightly. She was just being sentimental.