Back to 1979: Sending the Educated Youth’s Wife Back to the City

Chapter 102 Jaw-dropping
Zhu Dahai was shocked. "Xiao Fang, what are you thinking?"

How can a college student who has passed the college entrance examination want to collect waste? All other things are inferior except studying.

Fang Mingche said, "College students only become truly successful after graduation. If you pass the exam, you can expect to be successful in the future. But I can't wait four years to start. My wife, Teacher Gao and I have all been working for a few years. If we go to college, the subsidy will be issued according to the highest level. Teacher Gao, tell him how much it is?"

Teacher Gao smiled bitterly and said, "22 yuan. I am the only one who earns money in my family, and my mother needs medicine. How can this be enough?"

His mother was ill in bed, so Xiao Xie couldn't go out to work. Of course, it's hard to find a job nowadays. If you want to set up a stall, you have to have a way to buy goods.

But if his mother didn't need someone to take care of her all day, Xiao Xie could still go out and think of a solution. At least, the food and snacks she cooked tasted very good. Not to mention that she was as good as Lao Cui, whose ancestors were chefs, but her cooking skills were much better than the steamed bun shop at the entrance of the alley.

However, there was a patient in his family. Even if Xiao Xie was willing to get up at five in the morning and sleep at midnight, people would still avoid buying food from his family, fearing that it would be infected with disease!
What's more, his mother sometimes can't control herself and will be incontinent. In the middle of the night, Xiao Xie might still be changing her clothes. We can't let the old lady wait until dawn.

Teacher Gao was very satisfied with his wife, but his difficult life made it difficult for him to be as proud as a child of destiny.

Xiao Fang, on the other hand, has no burden on his family, and Xiao Lin also has a subsidy. The couple even bought a house, and they are still so motivated. Oh, by the way. They still owe Uncle Gu 2000. How can they afford it if they don't do business?
Teacher Gao said to Fang Mingche: "If I had known I could learn from you, I would have sold my teaching job a long time ago."

He is not like Uncle Gu, who sold his two ancestral houses in order to treat his son's legs.

He only has one job, which he earned by studying. But if he was admitted to a university while working, it would be impossible to directly transfer all his connections to the university.

However, I guess no one envied Grandpa Gu that much. If he hadn't had this ancestral inheritance, his family wouldn't have been ruined.

Fang Mingche said, "I'm not encouraging you, but you've been worrying about this and that, and you're not even planning on taking the college entrance exam. Now you have a pretty and hardworking wife, and you've been admitted to university. Don't be ungrateful!"

Teacher Gao nodded. That's right. It wasn't Xiao Fang who encouraged him. He was still working and taking care of his sick mother. He couldn't even wear clean clothes. Sometimes he was too tired and could only make do with whatever he wanted. His students said that he was a bit sloppy before he got married.

Zhu Dahai was finally over his shock. "Xiao Fang, why did you think of doing the waste collection business?"

By comparison, it was much better to be a peddler walking the streets. Opening a tea stall and making tea for people, being ordered around was nothing.

Fang Mingche said, "I just said that I have no roots or foundation. I have no chance to do that kind of profitable and safe business. Even if I did it and did it well, can I guarantee it? For this waste collection, the competition won't be too great. Currently, I'm competing with the collection stations. If the price of a pound of waste increases by two cents, those scavengers will take the initiative to deliver the goods. There won't be any high-ranking official's children who will take a fancy to it and force themselves to buy shares."

Well, now there are scavengers. This is also a way of making a living. Although the working environment is dirty and messy, and it is easy to get lung diseases, it is much better than being poor. There are also many migrant workers here.

Don't look down on scrap collectors. Although it's a bit dirty, the great industrial development in the 1980s produced many scrap kings! Some people seized the opportunity and made millions a year.

Later, I used this capital to switch to other industries. Moreover, if I am lucky enough to find a bargain, I will get some antiques and wait for them to appreciate in value.

However, he didn't know how to identify antiques. This is a matter of expertise. Just keep the ones that look like antiques. Antiques in China are not worth much nowadays. If you take them back as scraps, you won't lose money by just leaving them there. Even if they are fakes, they should be fakes from decades ago. They are worth a little bit, and no one makes fakes now. Zhu Dahai said, "The peddler's business."

"Of course I want to do it. But the problem is, that's out of my control."

His uncle had asked him to sell the unsalable goods once or twice and made a huge profit from the difference, which must have caught people's attention. Money can attract people's attention, and where there are people, there are gangs! There are so many people in the supply and marketing cooperative, there must be people who want to steal it.

In June, he told his uncle that he should focus on the college entrance examination. But it was already the end of July, and there was no news about speculation.

Zhu Dahai said: "Let me find a place for you first."

He was a bit tempted to back out. Collecting waste means dealing with waste all day long, which is not much cleaner than rummaging through garbage dumps. Moreover, Xiao Fang just emphasized that the calculation is based on the current average salary. It is impossible to make five yuan a day. How can you make money with waste paper that costs a few cents per pound?

The Cheap Handicraft Cooperative was a group of people. Just because it was a collective enterprise, they could get a big stall. They just picked up such a profitable business as Xiao Fang for nothing.

Fang Mingche said, "Well, I don't need too many people. If there are too many people, people will report us later. Right now, only the three of us know about it, so don't tell anyone else."

With this, even if Zhu Dahai wanted to back out, he would not tell anyone. He had to leave a way out for himself. If he couldn't find another way to make a living, he would have no choice but to do this. Besides, he wanted to be a peddler. It was not appropriate to offend Fang Mingche at this time.

Zhu Dahai went back first. Teacher Gao asked Fang Mingche, "Aren't you afraid that he will steal your business?"

"He doesn't have that much capital. Even if he rents a tricycle, he can borrow a scale first. But he can't avoid paying rent. To contract a large yard, the landlord requires at least half a year of payment, at least 200 yuan. If he doesn't rent a place and rides a rented tricycle to collect waste, will the people in the yard allow him to pile up waste in the open space?"

Teacher Gao thought about it and said, "That's definitely not possible. It's so hot, and the smell of waste is very strong. I think everyone will rise up and blast it!"

How could his patient live with waste and garbage all day? Even if no one in the neighborhood took the lead for decades, he would take the lead. People follow the crowd, and as long as he stood up, others would definitely join him in the united front.

"That's right. Then he needs the money to pay the scavengers. He has to clean up the scavengers, accumulate a certain amount, and then sort them into different categories and send them to the purchasing place. One person can't do it all, so he needs to hire at least one or two people."

Teacher Gao asked, "Where is the place where the acquisition is done?"

"Try to find it. How can everything be ready? Then can it be our turn?"

Teacher Gao said, "How about I go look for it?" He was really short of money and had to bow down for a few pieces of silver.

(End of this chapter)