Far away in Moscow

Chapter 270
"Okay, I was busy a while ago and didn't take care of it, so I hurried to look for it." Hu Yi took the dollar and clapped it twice in the palm of his hand: "I have money, so I don't need you to pay it for me."

"Okay, okay, don't talk too much, it's hard work recently, this money is a bonus for you." Fu Jiahui raised his chin at him with a half-smile: "Actually, it's not exactly a bonus. You got it Your own booth, you must get the goods from me in the future, right? I am also cultivating customers for myself. It is not cheap to get a box now, so it is considered a sponsor for you."

"What you said is quite reasonable." Hu Yi laughed, and put the money into his arms: "Tomorrow I will find a place to try to become your customer as soon as possible!"

After finishing the work in the box at noon the next day, Hu Yi began to look for a suitable booth, and called Li Baoqing by the way.

Finding a container with a suitable location in the big container market is like picking a house you like in a city. It is not an easy task.

Fortunately, most of the stalls in the market are grouped together according to the scope of business. Hu Yi mainly sells trousers, so he naturally goes to the area where clothing stalls are more concentrated. He called Li Baoqing to help him with the specific location.

"You, this matter should have been done a long time ago. How many opportunities to make money have been delayed? You have to let Jiahui worry about you!" Li Baoqing earned a lot of money in this wave of autumn clothing market, and now He also rented a new box in Astair's warehouse. When the spring breeze was in full swing, the tone of teaching Hu Yi was also much tougher.

"What do you mean, you don't have to spend money to rent a booth?" Hu Yi walked and looked at the rows of boxes on both sides of the road: "Not everyone is as rich and powerful as your boss Li, I can earn 10,000+ rubles a month , I still have to pay the rent, can’t I save more before starting?”

"Don't make excuses, you're just lazy. The profit of selling bulk goods is so high. As long as you set up a stall, you still have to worry about the little money?" Li Baoqing looked up at the sky, and sighed leisurely: "It's because I have limited energy. Don’t come here, or you’ll have already owned the entire stall. It’s exciting to dump the whole package out, but it’s actually not that much money.”

"Hey! Why did Boss Li suddenly become so low-key?" Hu Yi smiled with a cigarette in his mouth: "Since you want to sell bulk goods so much, why don't you just come and work at my stall. For the sake of our friendship for so many years , I am cruel, I will give you... two thousand rubles every month?"

"Go away! Go to hell!" Li Baoqing punched Hu Yi twice, squinted his eyes and muttered: "But, you can sell some goods from me to enrich the variety. Hey! I see you Why don't you just come to Astair and find a box near our boss's booth, so that we can still see each other often."

"No, no, your boss is a little far away from New Sun, which is inconvenient. And Astai's box is too expensive, I can't afford to rent it."

"Then... the seagull area is farther away, you definitely won't go there. The black hair area? Well... it doesn't seem ideal either."

"Nonsense, the black hair area is full of small commodities and Christmas goods, what am I going to do? But the warehouse in the black hair area is relatively cheap, and I can rent a box there to load the goods in the future." Hu Yi has already made up his mind Idea: "As for the booth, it's best to go to Old Sun."

The Old Sun District has a large area, and there are many businessmen engaged in clothing, shoes and hats, including many Chinese bosses.It is connected to New Sun in the north, Astai in the west, and Heimao District in the south, which is indeed more convenient for Hu Yi.

Right now, Old Sun's stalls are in high demand, and the rent in a good location is beyond Hu Yi's affordability.However, the roads here are not as horizontal and vertical as the New Sun, and some areas are not neatly planned, leaving many fragmented spaces unavoidably.

The small space can't accommodate the whole container, but the market management company will not waste any inch of land. They will divide and process the container into appropriate sizes according to local conditions, and fill the corners of the area.

Hu Yi's goal is these so-called small boxes.He and Li Baoqing walked and looked at Old Sun, searched and asked, wandered around for two hours, and finally found a suitable place at the end of a street.

"I think this place is very good. It's not too far from Jiahui's box and the warehouse in Heimao District, which just meets your requirements." Li Baoqing walked around and felt very satisfied: "And there are many Chinese people nearby. , if there is anything we can take care of each other."

"I think it's okay." Hu Yi also caught this place at a glance. Although it is located at the end of the road, it sounds a bit remote, but the roads on the market are like supermarket shelves, and several streets in each area are lined up together. You can continue to visit another street by turning a corner, so the passenger flow is still guaranteed.Besides, he mainly focuses on wholesale, and most of his business is regular customer business. He doesn't need to pay too much attention to the location, and the most important thing is that the price is cheap.

Common stalls and warehouses in the market use [-]-foot containers with a length of about six meters. The packages are stacked along the sides of the container walls, leaving a narrow aisle in the middle.

The bag of fashion trousers is about half a meter high, and it can be stacked with four bags if the box is full, but the top bag is inconvenient to access, so usually there are only three bags in a stack, and the whole box can hold more than 60 bags. package.

A section of this small box has been cut off, and the length is less than four meters by visual inspection. It looks a little smaller than Anna's booth in Liubrino, and it is more than enough to hold more than thirty bags. What's more, there are small boxes of the same size stacked on the second floor. , it is enough for Hu Yi for now.

The monthly rent for half of the stalls on the edge of such an area is [-] rubles, roughly equivalent to [-] U.S. dollars; while the monthly rent for the stalls on the other side of the street on the bustling road is [-] U.S. dollars, which is a huge difference.

Now that you are fancy, you must hurry up and take it down.Hu Yi approached the booth manager and made some kind words, and began to bargain.

There is no room for negotiation on the rental price. What Hu Yi wants to cut is an extra sum of money when renting a booth. People in the market call it a "hat".This name is quite intriguing. The [-] US dollars that Fu Jiahui gave Hu Yi was used to pay for this money.

The so-called "hat", to put it bluntly, is a benefit fee for the manager.When the market was just being reorganized and expanded, in order to attract merchants to settle in, various management companies introduced a series of preferential policies.At that time, there were plenty of stalls in the market. As long as the merchants were willing to come, they could take the boxes and use them at will, and only needed to pay a low monthly rent.

Times have changed, and the market is not as hot as it used to be. Not only are the rents rising every year, but it is not so easy to rent a booth.Some management companies began to sell boxes with clearly marked prices. Although some other companies still did not charge fees in name, the "hats" they asked for in private were from nothing, from small to large, and increased steadily all the way.

The benefit fee is of course divided into lots.Like the popular stall at the other end with a monthly rent of [-] US dollars, the hat money is at least [-] to [-] US dollars.As for the position of leftovers that Hu Yi likes, the manager will ask for eight thousand.

Relying on his proficiency in Russian, Hu Yi talked nonsense with the manager all over the world, based on the principle of saving what he could, and finally took the small box for [-] US dollars.

After paying the money and completing the formalities, Hu Yi stood in front of his booth for a long time.Looking at the simple metal box with an area of ​​about eight square meters in front of him, he smiled and his heart was ups and downs, like the owner who just got the key standing in the rough house, imagining the bright future to his heart's content.

"Congratulations, old Hu." Li Baoqing put his arms around his shoulders seriously: "Congratulations! From now on, you will be a veritable Boss Hu!"

"Thank you, Boss Li!" Hu Yi wanted to tease a few words, but he couldn't control his emotions for a while, and even slightly trembling, he said in an official tone: "From now on... we brothers will help each other, share weal and woe, and work hand in hand in Moscow Make a name for yourself!"

"Fuck? You kid... hehe, did you take the wrong medicine? How can you say such... so..." Li Baoqing straightened his back with a smile: "Does it need to be said? Our future is not a dream! Now Don't think about that, just call your foreign girl to find out the place!"

His own booth has been settled, but Hu Yi still has to work in Fu Jiahui's box most of the time, and Natasha can only take care of the old sun's affairs.

Natasha was more excited than Hu Yi about owning this half of the small box.Since the two met, Natasha has been doing some scattered and trivial work, and now she finally has a stable business place, and her mood can be imagined.

"This is really good! It's great!" Natasha circled around the box, wiped it carefully inside and out, and climbed up the ladder to the second floor to clean it.

"Natasha, don't be so busy." Hu Yi smiled from below: "The box is used to put the package, there is no need to make it so spotless."

"But I really like this place, just like our home." Natasha stood on the second floor and looked at the rows of containers around, happily dipping the sweat on her forehead with the back of her hand: "Anton, these The box looks cold, I want to decorate it warmly, do you like it?"

"Of course no problem, this is our box, you can do whatever you like." Hu Yi raised his head and stretched his arms towards her: "Come on, we are not in a hurry to open the business, first transform it into what you want."

Just do it, Hu Yi discussed a basic plan with Natasha, and then asked Yabalov to help with the work.

The commodity economy in Yabalov's hometown is relatively backward. People there live a life of self-doping and ample food and clothing all year round. He can do some simple carpentry work himself, and there are many skilled craftsmen among his fellow villagers.

Hearing that Boss Anton needs help, Baqia and others are active and willing to work hard.First, they carefully covered the box with simple varnished wood panels to block the wavy metal inner wall; they added a thin hollowed-out carved ceiling on the top of the box, and replaced the original ordinary light bulbs with exquisite shapes and variable colors. A small ceiling lamp, and finally a thick carpet is laid under the feet.

After the interior decoration was completed, although the container that was not very tall was a little shorter, the overall appearance was more than ten times more beautiful than before, which won the praise of the surrounding onlookers.

Hu Yi and Natasha were very satisfied, but Yabarov still felt that the contrast between the internal and external visual effects was too great, and it looked uncoordinated.After muttering with some Bachas for a long time, he brought paint and brushes, and wrote a line of large characters on both sides of the outside of the box in bold printed Russian: "Anton and Natasha's happy house."

(End of this chapter)