Wang Xudong drove his van directly to the largest leather city in Donghai City. In a small storefront in the corner of the leather city, Wang Xudong found Lao Zhang. Lao Zhang was almost sixty years old.
Their fathers are similar in age. At the same time, the two have been business partners and friends for decades. As long as Wang Xudong can remember, all the raw materials for making shoes are bought from their family. The two families have a very good personal relationship. Wang Xudong's father was buried
Lao Zhang was also there at that time.
It only took Wang Xudong half an hour to leave Lao Zhang's store. Then, half a van's worth of raw materials for making shoes were loaded into the car. The price of this half a van of raw materials was close to 100,000 yuan. Because Wang Xudong bought it here.
Nothing is cheap, all are the highest-grade raw materials, and all the leather is 100% genuine animal leather. Lao Zhang has a special characteristic in business, he never sells fakes, he is very honest and speaks the truth.
Wang Xudong drove the van back to the store and unloaded the goods from the van. It was already afternoon.
Wang Xudong was in good health but was very weak. Even if he was just unloading a little of this kind of cargo, he felt a little unable to do it. After unloading the cargo, he was very tired and sat on a chair to rest.
When Wang Xudong was resting, he heard a noise coming from next door. Wang Xudong didn't care. There were only two situations in this street, either it was terribly quiet or it was terribly noisy.
Just when Wang Xudong was sitting there smoking a cigarette and resting, a group of people came to the door of the store. Wang Xudong knew what was going on as soon as he saw the group of people. Another group of gangsters came. He was not unfamiliar with this situation. After so many years
Come on, this street has always been a popular street visited by gangsters.
"Are you the owner of this store?" The gangster at the head held up his bald head with a finger-thick gold necklace hanging around his neck. It was cold now, otherwise this person would have been wearing an undershirt, and there would have been strange tattoos on his arms and back.
Weird tattoos. Nowadays, people in mixed society basically dress like this, just like work uniforms.
Wang Xudong sat there smoking a cigarette, nodded lightly, and said, "Yes, I am the owner of this store. Tell me, what are you doing here?"
A group of about ten people walked in directly. They walked in with bald heads and looked around in the room. Then they kicked here and there with their feet, and then said: "From now on, we will come here to collect the protection fee every month, and the price will be the same."
Same as before, did you hear that?"
Wang Xudong laughed when he heard this and asked: "Protection money? What kind of protection method can you tell me?"
"It's your first day in business, right? You don't understand what protection money means?"
"I really don't understand. To tell you the truth, my father used to open this store. Today is my first day here to open the store."
"Then let me tell you what the protection fee means. The meaning of the protection fee is to protect you and protect this store. If you pay this money every month, you can open a store as you like. If you don't
Hand in hand, I'm sorry, your store and you may be in danger, do you understand?"
"Oh, that's it, that means if I don't pay the money, you will destroy my shop and beat up my people, right?" Wang Xudong asked with his feet raised while smoking a cigarette.
"Yes, you are very accurate."
"Where are you from? I remember that my father used to hand over his services to you, right?"
"The past was before, and the present is now. Let me tell you this. In the past, the boss of Donghai City was called Brother Da Fei. The first people who collected protection fees in this area were Scar's men under Brother Da Fei. But,
Scar is dead and was killed. Have you watched the news these days? Da Fei was killed, and all his men were arrested. Now our brother Long is in charge of Donghai City. This area is
We, Brother Pheasant, are in charge. Do you know that the money you pay now is given to Brother Pheasant? Let me tell you, things have changed now. From now on, prepare the money on time every month. Today is the first time this month.
Bring out the protection money and the first meeting gift, hurry up, we are in a hurry." Baldhead said, kicking over a stool in Wang Xudong's shop.
"That's right, okay, tell me, how much will it cost?"
"Brother Pheasant has made a rule. Your small shop has three hundred yuan a month. In the first month when our brothers come, you must give us some greeting gifts, right? The two hundred greeting gifts are five hundred yuan in total. Hurry up."
"Hey, this industry is so well behaved now. They have started to clearly mark the price, right? OK, five hundred, right? Let's do it. It's almost ten thousand here. Take it." Wang Xudong opened his wallet and took it out.
A large stack of hundred-dollar bills was handed to the bald man.
The bald man and the people behind him were all stunned. He was just a pony boy with a little bit of power. Behind him were a dozen or so younger brothers. Following the new boss, he gained the power to manage these streets.
. Others were given hundreds or hundreds of dollars, and they had to threaten for a few hundred dollars, but this man not only took the initiative to give money, but also gave him 10,000 yuan at a time. How could this not surprise him?
Baldhead took the money away immediately, feeling extremely happy.
"Take the money, five hundred yuan is yours, and the remaining nine thousand five hundred yuan will be given to your old and new brother Da Long. Just tell him that my name is Wang Xudong." Wang Xudong said calmly while smoking a cigarette.
The bald man who was about to put the money into his arms immediately changed his expression when he heard Wang Xudong speak like this. He quickly took out the money and asked Wang Xudong: "You... know Brother Long?"
"It's not your turn to ask this question. You won't be able to see Brother Long even if you are like this. You just need to report this matter to your boss and ask him to tell your Brother Long. Don't say anything else, just tell him.
, my name is Wang Xudong, if you do this well, these ten thousand yuan will be yours, and it will be my reward for you."
"This..." The bald man felt a little unsure when he saw Wang Xudong's appearance. He stood there awkwardly, looking at Wang Xudong and the store carefully, trying to analyze who Wang Xudong was.
"Let's go. Since you have accepted my money, don't disturb my business here. You must behave yourself when you go out. Let's go." Wang Xudong said lightly.
The bald man finally took the people away. Wang Xudong didn't care. He took out the cardboard and started to re-draw the designed shoe pattern on the cardboard according to the dimensions on the wooden shoe last that he had already drawn.
Above, a general diagram was drawn, and then the shoe components were separated and drawn on cardboard in exactly the same proportions. This is a very important step before making shoes. There is a professional term for this.
It's called pattern making or pattern making. To be precise, it means dividing a shoe into several parts and determining the specific size and shape of each part. (To be continued)