Outsider: The Fifth Young Master of the Kang Family

"A-Zu, you don't have to be so sad all day. You can refer to this news."

After the head office announced the dissolution of the Weirui Cantonese branch, it was in fact closed down. A-Zu was also facing unemployment and he was very depressed these days. When Lao Dou was reading the newspaper, he saw a news report that the hotel staff took the initiative to reduce their salaries when the hotel was about to close down, but they worked together to bring the hotel back to life. He used this to encourage A-Zu.

"Although your company has gone bankrupt, your people are still there. If everyone unites and thinks of a solution, there will be hope," said Lao Dou.

"Yeah, there's no need to talk about breaking up all the time." The nanny also encouraged A-Zu.

"Dad is right. Nothing is difficult in this world as long as you are willing to try." Diana hugged Paul and cheered Zu up. "Don't worry about the family. My income is enough to cover the expenses. Just go ahead and do your job."

"I remember there was a song called 'Laid-off Female Workers Don't Cry', and it goes like this." A Yao put down the newspaper, stood up and sang: If the heart is there, the dream is there, it's just a matter of starting over again"

Hearing everyone's encouragement, A Zu regained his confidence. He called everyone back to the company and said, "Comrades, we must unite and persevere to the end. We must not be intimidated by difficulties. We must learn from the spirit of the Long March, from laid-off female workers, and from Tang Monk and his disciples."

He was in the middle of his speech when he was interrupted by the impatient Archie: "Hey, hey, hey, what does this have to do with Tang Seng and his disciples?"

"Why is it okay? If they don't have this kind of perseverance, how can they obtain the true scriptures?" A Zu responded to A Qi, and then continued: "I plan to pool some money together to start a small business. We have customers and resources, so we can definitely make money."

"Pollution?" Kou Shuiwei and Youmei looked at each other. They thought that A Zu would be the one to pay everyone's salary, but he had to collect money? Without a second thought, they both announced that they would not participate and left the company one after another.

"So what do you three think?" A Zu didn't force it. After sending them away, he looked at Miss Tang, A Qi, and A Jun. "Instead of just sitting there and waiting for death, we might as well take the initiative. Anyway, this office lease doesn't expire until August 8th, so there's still half a month left. How about we all try together?"

To A-Zu's surprise, Miss Tang was the first to stand up and agree. "We have nothing left anyway, so what do we have to worry about losing? Let's fight."

Seeing that Miss Tang agreed, Aqi and Ajun also agreed. They quickly reached an agreement that the four of them would pool 10,000 yuan as development funds, and all profits and losses would be shared.

After the funding issue was settled, everyone started discussing what business to start. A-Zu was the first to suggest, "In my opinion, we should start the cosmetics business. As the saying goes, it is easiest to make money from women and the elderly."

"I agree." Ah Jun thought the idea of ​​the cosmetics business was quite good. She said, "Cosmetics in Hong Kong don't have to pay taxes, and they are much cheaper than here. We can make more trips and bring more back to sell and make a profit from the difference."

"I know that, too." Miss Tang said with some worry, "But what if no one wants it when I bring it back?"

After hearing this, A Zu thought about it and came up with an idea: "We can collect deposits, and we will purchase as much as the customer orders." This idea was unanimously agreed by everyone. They quickly went to shopping malls, parks, pedestrian streets and other places to distribute flyers and promote sales.

In less than a week, they each earned an average of 1000 yuan.

"As soon as my friends heard that there were affordable brand-name products for sale, they immediately bought twenty of them," said Jun happily after getting his share of the money.

Everyone was very happy to share the money, but Miss Tang expressed a different opinion, "I suggest that we don't share the money this time. We should use the money to expand our scale and expand our achievements. I think our current method of collecting deposits first, then going to the port city to purchase goods, and finally delivering and collecting money is too long. We did this before because we were afraid that no one would want the goods when we brought them back, but facts tell us that there is no need to worry at all. Our prices are advantageous and there are many people scrambling to buy our goods."

"So what do you mean?" asked A-Zu.

"I think we should divide the work and assign someone to be responsible for purchasing and someone to be responsible for sales, so as to speed up the delivery process. Only in this way can we earn more." Miss Tang said confidently.

Everyone looked at each other and thought this suggestion was a good one. Business was indeed booming this week. In fact, purchasing on behalf of others does have great market potential. Even 20 years later, there will still be a large number of purchasing on behalf of others in Hong Kong.

"Then let's do it." Seeing that no one had any objection, A Zu decided to do it. He couldn't help but boast: "I once said that you have to save yourself to survive. Look at how great I am, a person with both beauty and wisdom."

Of course, in addition to local sales, the fastest and most effective way to sell on behalf of others is to sell to acquaintances. A Zu found his second sister-in-law who was having lunch at a tea restaurant that day and said, "Don't you like shopping in Hong Kong City? Don't you like the SK2 brand? Now you can buy it without going to Hong Kong City, and the price is cheaper than going to Hong Kong City." "Really?" The second sister-in-law frowned and asked doubtfully.

"Let me tell you, people like you who are in your forties will look scary if you don't dress up. It doesn't matter who you buy from. You can get a better deal by buying from me." A-Zu said with a smile.

"Tsk! It's better to spend money on supplements than to spend money on cosmetics." The second sister-in-law found an excuse to reject A Zu. But A Zu was unwilling to accept it, "These are two different things. The food you eat will be excreted after a round in the stomach. You don't know that the second brother often said to me that you are getting old very fast recently."

A-Zu originally wanted to move the second brother out to stimulate the second sister-in-law to buy it, but although it stimulated her, it did not stimulate the desire to buy, but only stimulated anger, "What do you mean old? He dares to complain about my old age? Kang Qi Zong is so bold, right? Wait until I go find him and ask him clearly." After saying that, she didn't even eat her meal, and went straight to the office upstairs.

A-Zu was about to leave the tea restaurant with a disappointed look on his face when he was stopped by A-Jiao, "Fourth Master, is that SK thing you mentioned really that effective?"

"You want to buy it?" This time, it was really a case of planting flowers with great care but they didn't bloom, and planting willows by accident led to a forest of trees. It was all easy to get. "It's absolutely true. My Grandpa would never lie to anyone but his own people, right?"

Ah Jiao nodded. As far as she knew Ah Zu, he would not dare to lie to his second sister-in-law. So she said generously, "Is it cheaper than buying it in Hong Kong? If so, I will buy ten."

"Ten? Do you have that much money?" asked A-Zu.

Gillian waved her hands and said with a smile: "It's nothing. If you want to be beautiful and young, it doesn't matter if you spend some money." A-Zu nodded, "Okay, then you pay the deposit. The deposit is..."

Before she could finish, Gillian interrupted and said, "No need for a deposit, are you afraid that the chicken will be lost? I want ten and if I can't use them all, I will give them to others, haha."

Previously, A-Zu and his friends had decided not to take a deposit and would buy the goods first before selling them. However, A-Zu did not have ten of them, so he said he wanted a deposit. When he heard A-Jiao say that, he said without a second thought, "Okay, I'll give it to you tomorrow."

The next day at noon, A-Zu came to the tea restaurant with ten SK2 bottles that had just arrived and found A-Jiao. "How is it? Our service is fast, right? Pay me, Sister Jiao, haha." A-Zu said with a smile. After A-Jiao took the goods, she took out the money she had prepared and handed it to A-Zu.

"Jiao Jie, you gave me the wrong amount." A Zu counted and found only 130 yuan, so he stopped Jiao Jie who was going to cook and said, "One stick is yuan, sticks is yuan."

"Three thousand?" Gillian was shocked. "You said it's cheaper than Hong Kong City. Is three thousand cheap?"

"I mean, it's cheaper here than if you go to Hong Kong. If you go to Hong Kong, the retail price of this brand is at least 2 yuan per stick." A Zu pointed at the ten SK100 sticks and said, "I bought them at wholesale plus internal discounts to get this price. One stick is already yuan cheaper. Isn't it cheap?"

"I don't want it." Gillian returned the item to Zu and took the money from Zu's hand, "You didn't tell me clearly that it was 3,000 yuan. If I knew it was so expensive, I wouldn't buy it even if you killed me."

Not only is Gillian's business not going well, but the sales of other products are also poor. Previously, their business was booming mainly because of orders from relatives and friends, and the effect of ground promotion was actually very poor. Now that acquaintances have patronized the store more or less, ground promotion alone can't buy many orders.

"If we can't sell these boxes of stuff, we'll definitely lose money." Miss Tang said angrily as she looked at the pile of cosmetics in the office.

As the saying goes, good fortune never comes alone, and misfortune never comes alone. Just when everyone was at a loss as to how to increase sales, the property manager walked into the office and said, "Pay the rent, pay the rent. Today is the 16th, are you still going to rent it?"

"Ah? Is it already the 16th today?" A-Zu was so worried these days that he didn't even notice the exact date. "Pay the money. If you still want to rent it, pay now. If you don't want to renew the lease, move out today." The property management didn't argue with A-Zu and gave him a choice directly.

A-Zu exchanged glances with everyone, sighed and said, "Our company is out of money. Sorry, we will move out today." The property management nodded, turned around and left.

"I don't need to explain the situation. Our company has reached the end of its rope." After the property manager left, A Zu turned around and said to everyone, "I don't want to let you down. I decided to sell these cosmetics at half price. All the physical goods and electrical appliances in the company will also be sold at a low price. If the money is not enough to make up for the loss this time, I will be responsible for making up for everyone." (End of this chapter)