Dad Li was not too worried about Li Mu's question. He said, "He is not willing to accept money directly from your uncle, but opening a store is also related to your sister's future. Marriage is early in rural areas. In two years, your sister will probably It’s time to talk about your husband’s family. If you are still working as a part-time worker in the town, how can you be respected by others? If your family has a career, you can find a better one with your husband’s family in the future. And your brother, if you want to get married in the future, your hometown We still have to build new houses, and it’s all money.”
As he said that, Dad Li said: "I have thought about it. I can't just say that I will open a store for your uncle, and his self-esteem can't stand it. I want to use your method of tricking your mother and me, and start the investment and preparations first. When I opened it, I told him that I spent money to open a store, but I didn’t have time to take care of it. I asked him for help. I would give him half of the shares. If he didn’t agree, his brother and I would have to lose tens of thousands of dollars. Just leave the words there and see what he does."
Li Mu nodded and smiled. He had indeed used this method to force his parents to submit. He said lightly: It doesn't matter if you don't agree. The loss to our family is hundreds of thousands of dollars. When my parents heard this, Even if there are ten thousand unwillingnesses, you have to be willing.
So, Li Mu asked: "How much investment does it take to open a wholesale department in the town? How is the income? Dad, do you have a general idea?"
Dad Li said: "It only costs about a thousand yuan a month to rent a large storefront of 100 square meters in the town. The wholesale department doesn't need to be renovated. Can't we just put in a counter and a door? They also sell everything. It doesn’t cost much to buy cheap and quick-selling products. Visitors to relatives and friends in rural areas like to bring some small gifts. Cheaper tobacco, alcoholic beverages, snacks and fruits are selling well.”
Li Mu thought for a while and then said: "The threshold is low, and the competition will definitely be high. It may not be easy to do, and the products in the wholesale department are not exclusive, so if you want to do it, you have to be better than others in certain places."
Dad Li frowned: "They all sell the same things, and the ones that are too expensive cannot be sold. What do you think you can do to be better than others?"
Li Mu smiled and said: "I don't understand very well, but I think that instead of just opening a wholesale department with a storefront full of goods like the one in the town, it's better to invest a little more and put a little more effort into decoration. It's more presentable than the wholesale departments in town. It would be best to make it a combination of a small supermarket and a wholesale department. In fact, it's just the floor, walls, top lighting, shelves, and cashiers. It doesn't cost much to build these. , Twenty to thirty thousand is a big deal, but for people doing business in the town, twenty to thirty thousand is higher than their two years’ rent, and their vision and psychology may not be willing to pay this amount of money.”
Li Mu has also been to the wholesale department in the town. In fact, they are all the same. Each one is an ordinary rough shop with a counter, some shelves, and countless cartons of various commodities piled at the door. Other than that, There's nothing else. If you go at night, there will be a dim light bulb hanging in the whole room. It's depressing just looking at it, and you won't have the desire to go in.
In this competitive environment, even if you just lay cheap white floor tiles on the floor, simply scrape the walls white, and then do good lighting, you can be better than other wholesale departments.
Dad Li nodded repeatedly: "I understand. When I get back from Wencheng, I will go back to the town to inspect it. If there is a suitable one, I will rent it first, okay, wife?"
Li's mother had no objection to this and said to the father and son: "It's not easy for Dao Guang to take care of his parents. It's a good thing to help him open a wholesale department. I definitely have no objection."
Dad Li exclaimed in admiration: "My wife understands justice!"
Li Ma smiled slightly, but looked at Li Mu apologetically: "Son, I'll ask you to buy a house in Yanjing. I'm afraid I'll have to wait until after the new year."
Li Mu smiled and waved his hand: "Mom, if there is a way to make money, then use the money to invest. Although it is necessary to stock up on houses, housing prices have not soared in the past few years."
Li Mu is still impressed by the current housing prices. In the next two years, it will take two years for domestic housing prices to really take off. In the next two years, first-tier cities such as Yanjing and Shanghai will have the highest growth in housing prices. That is doubling. If there is a project that can double in two years, it is natural to invest funds in the project. For Li Mu, hoarding houses is just the simplest investment method for lazy people.
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When she heard that Li Mu was back, Li Mu's aunt took her husband and children to visit her home that night. During the time when Li Mu was gone, she vaguely heard that the Li family's opening of the Metersbonwe store was all Li Mu's intention, which made her feel sad. She was very impressed with her nephew. She couldn't help but admire that a nineteen-year-old young man had the courage to let his parents do such a big deal and bet so accurately.
It was also because she knew this that she felt that Li Mu was really in charge of the Li family's business.
My aunt didn't know that Li Mu's parents had decided to become a Semir. She just felt that she had been misled by them all these years and wanted to seize the time to make up for the estranged relationship with her second sister and her family. In addition, she also really wanted to work in Li Mu's store. , my own children's clothing store is no longer very interesting.
Meeting his aunt this time was the first time in Li Mu's memory that he saw her humble aunt. With his mentality in his thirties, he forgave his past behavior in his heart. In front of his aunt and uncle, he treated his family The plan to open Semir was revealed.
After hearing the news, my aunt was excited and worried.
She saw the ability and value displayed by Aunt Li Mu in the Metersbonwe store, and also knew that her income was now so high that it was scary. It was impossible not to be envious. She originally wanted to go to her. Let's start with this. Unexpectedly, Li Mu suddenly said that he wanted to open another store, which ignited her hope of becoming a store manager. However, when she thought about how she was mean to her second brother-in-law in the past, she was afraid that she would not get this opportunity.
There were many things that Li's father and Li's mother couldn't tell his aunt directly, but Li Mu didn't care, so he told his aunt his requirements for the store manager. The implication was that he would not exclude his aunt from being the store manager, but the only The requirement is that you have to meet the requirements.
Although my junior suddenly became like a leader, my aunt didn't care at all. She kept promising that she would work hard to meet the store manager's requirements, and her attitude was very sincere.
This is enough.
Li Mu is not a solitary eater, neither is Li’s father and Li’s mother. When a small family becomes rich, it is their duty to help the members of the big family get better and better. This is what relatives should do. No one in this big family thought of this before. , Now it seems that this responsibility has to be shouldered by his parents, which is also a good thing for them. Li Mu knows that they don't really value money.
I gave my aunt a not entirely sure answer, and the rest will depend on her performance and ability.
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After returning from Li Mu, Chen Wan became a seventeen- or eighteen-year-old girl in her heart.
She would lie in bed at night and roll around thinking about Li Mu, and then she would hold her cell phone and wait for Li Mu to send her a message. If he couldn't come, she would say to her cell phone: "Bad boy, come back after a long time, no?" Do you know how to contact my sister? Even if you ask me out for a late-night snack? "
Haizhou people love to eat, especially late-night snacks. From March to the end of November, food stalls and barbecue stalls are in peak season at night. Maybe she is hungry, or maybe she wants to see Li Mu. Chen Wan always hopes in her heart Li Muhui suddenly sent him a message asking him to go out to eat.
After waiting impatiently for a long time, the sheets were wrinkled by her rolling back and forth, but there was still no movement from Li Mu.
So Chen Wan angrily sent a text message to Li Mu, muttering: "This bad boy... doesn't take the initiative to do anything..."
At this time, Li Mu was lying on the bed with his laptop on his stomach browsing Tieba. He was excited about the rapid development of Tieba. Suddenly, he received a message on his phone. It was Chen Wan: "Oh, let's go for supper together?"
Li Mu replied smoothly: "You go out so late, and your uncle and aunt don't care about you?"
"They are not in Jiangcheng, they are all in Jinling. I am the only one who came back. I am hungry and want to eat barbecue. Will you go?"
Li Mu looked at the time. It was five minutes to twelve o'clock, but it was a good time to have a midnight snack, so he replied: "Are you driving to pick me up?"
Chen Wan got up from the bed excitedly, and replied while changing clothes: "Pack up, sister will be here soon!"
Although Chen Wan is from Haizhou, she went to Jinling in high school, and her university is in Shanghai, so she has almost no friends in Haizhou. The most important thing is that her father's business focus is slowly transitioning to Jinling. As for now, the family rarely returns to Haizhou.
There was only one reason why Chen Wan had to come back, and that was Li Mu. Apart from him, Chen Wan could not think of any other reason that could attract her to come back.
Chen Wan quickly drove to the gate of Li Mu's community. Li Mu quietly went out and got into Chen Wan's Audi car.
Twenty meat skewers, a dozen oysters and a cup of draft beer, Chen Wan ate the meat skewers leisurely, while Li Mu focused on the oysters. Haizhou is a coastal city, but the urban area is still dozens of kilometers away from the sea. The following Jintai County is a coastal county with a lot of seafood farming, so local seafood is cheap and fresh.
The oysters grilled with garlic vermicelli were so delicious. Li Mu took his chopsticks and almost took one bite at a time. He ate two and drank a sip of beer. After a while, he had eaten most of the dozen oysters by himself.
"Boss, have the other dozen oysters been roasted?"
Seeing that they were almost finished, Li Mu hurriedly asked the boss.
"Come on, come on, a few minutes!"
"Don't bake it too long, bring it over now!"
Oysters can also be eaten raw, and Li Mu basically can't stop eating them once his appetite is whetted.
Chen Wan was so happy: "You look like you are fighting. Do you like eating oysters so much?"
"Delicious, great tonic, and aphrodisiac."
"Pfft!" Chen Wan curled her lips and said, "How can you be so strong for a little brat like you!"
Li Mu chuckled and did not answer, but asked Chen Wan: "How many won't you eat?"
"I don't want to eat it, and I don't need aphrodisiacs."
Li Mu raised his eyebrows and was about to make a joke when he saw Chen Wan look serious and said: "I have decided to sign up as an intern at CCTV and Yanjing TV. If I pass, I can go to your city."
Li Mu choked on his beer, coughed and asked, "Really?"
(End of chapter)