Reborn in the Millennium: Building a Fortune from Fishing

Chapter 118 Modified Car Business

"Dahe, is this the car you modified?" He was buying cigarettes after trying out the car above Limin Supermarket, and everyone asked him as soon as they saw him.

"Yeah, it took over a month. It was so troublesome."

"How much is it? Help me get one." Uncle Liu stopped playing cards and was obviously very greedy for this three-wheeled vehicle.

"Yeah, get me one for cheaper."

Other people around also spoke up, saying that this car is really practical in the countryside.

Big tricycles are expensive and fuel-consuming, and this small tricycle is just what they like.

It can be used to go to town to transport fertilizers and buy things, and it is also enough to visit relatives. The truck bed can seat at least four or five people, making it a perfect means of transportation.

"Haha, this thing is not cheap." Qin Dahe shook his head and took the Double Happiness cigarette handed to him by Mr. Huang and lit it.

Take a deep breath and slowly exhale the smoke.

"You at least have to build a motorcycle yourself. As long as the engine and the main front parts are working, it's fine. Then you have to buy parts and weld the truck bed. The whole process will take at least thirty hours of work, and that's assuming all the parts are available."

He had explained all these things, and he understood that everyone wanted to buy this motorcycle tricycle, but if he charged too much, people would think he was being ruthless, so it would be better to give them notice in advance.

"It's easy to tell for motorcycles, but how about the others?"

"Uncle Huang, do you want to get one?" Qin Dahe raised his eyebrows. He remembered that Uncle Huang's family had a motorcycle, and the boy in the family was driving it.

"Make one. Your sister-in-law doesn't want your brother to ride a motorcycle every day. She says it's too dangerous. I'll just cut it in half and let you ride a tricycle. It will be more convenient for me to purchase goods." Grandpa Huang explained the reason. He already has a grandson, and he also wants his son to stop being so reckless.

Qin Dahe nodded. Riding a motorcycle is the most dangerous means of driving, no doubt about it.

They can't even compete with tanks on the battlefield, because the accident rate can reach almost 90%, and a tank can't be damaged by %.

As far as he knew, among his friends and colleagues who had motorcycles, almost everyone had fallen off once or more. Those who later rode motorcycles to film videos had accidents one after another.

"The material cost is 400. I can write a list and you can buy it yourself. The labor cost is calculated based on four days, yuan." This was calculated based on his broken motorcycle.

A good motorcycle certainly doesn't require so many accessories. As for the labor cost of one hundred yuan a day, no one present questioned it.

Anyone who has seen him working in the yard knows that Qin Dahe's skills are definitely worth the price.

"Okay, I'll send the car to you later. You can get it in four days, right?" Mr. Huang made up his mind and nodded in agreement.

Qin Dahe smiled bitterly. The working hours were more than thirty hours. If he bought the spare parts himself, he could indeed make some money, but the time was too tight. Maybe there were other businesses.

"I can't guarantee that. There's another tricycle that needs to have its carriage extended tomorrow. I can only say I'll try to speed it up for you. Is that okay with you?"

Someone called his house and asked him to extend the carriage of the tricycle. He guessed that it was a delivery vehicle. The longer the carriage, the more it could carry, and the more money he could make.

However, extending the carriage is not something that can be done casually. The weight counterweight issue must also be considered. He will wait and see when the car arrives.

Mr. Huang nodded and counted out 800 to him on the spot. How generous.

His small supermarket usually makes an average of a hundred yuan a day, but during festivals and holidays, he can make one or two thousand yuan a day from selling gift packages, firecrackers, and paper money for burning during the New Year. Naturally, he is rich.

The others knew the price, so they stopped asking and just pondered it.

It costs at least a thousand dollars to buy a broken second-hand motorcycle, and it also depends on your luck. Many people are reluctant to sell their motorcycles even if they are broken.

Forget about buying a new motorcycle. Motorcycles that cost four or five thousand are considered the cheapest.

If you receive a second-hand item in the future, just contact Qin Dahe directly. It’s useless to say anything now.

"Let's go." After saying goodbye, he got on the tricycle again.

After returning, he told Erhu and the others the news.

"You can help me in the afternoon and get paid." He raised the eight big blue banknotes in his hand.

He can make a lot of money from this, and by outsourcing some of the work to Erhu, he can save some time.

"Really? Can we join in too?"

"We make money when welding the truck bed, but you guys don't get paid much anyway." He chuckled, this was considered capital exploitation.

Repairing things in the countryside is much more comfortable than running a factory in later generations. The payment was made before the car arrived. If he had met such a customer when he was doing machining in his previous life, he would have woken up laughing in his dreams.

Erhu and the others didn't care about his teasing. Making money was secondary. The key was to learn the skills.

Qin Dahe is very serious in teaching. As long as they follow and help with the work, they can feel that they have learned something new.

This kind of vehicle modification is also a profitable skill. That's why Erhu's father was willing to give him old yellow wine.

He even talked about this during lunch. The hourly wage was 400 yuan, and with the accessories he could make nearly 500 yuan.

"Next time you can lower the labor cost and add more money for accessories." I think this is the best way. She thinks charging people 100 yuan a day is a bit too much.

However, both the father and the son objected at the same time, believing that making a few hundred or tens of dollars profit from accessories was within a reasonable range. If you sold accessories worth three hundred dollars for five hundred dollars, you would lose all face if something went wrong.

"Anyway, my hourly rate is about this now. If I lower it, anyone can come to me."

"It's not good to find you, I'm making money."

Qin Dahe did not make any excuses. Why should he work so hard when he could make some easy money? His skills were the result of twenty years of accumulation. How could they be so cheap?

If he charges more for the hourly wages, those people will think that the products he makes are of better quality.

There are some small fish on the table today, and they are cooked quite well, but I’m tired of eating them every day lately.

"Mom, why don't you kill some ducks and marinate them with wine lees? I want to eat duck with wine lees." He looked at the god in charge of food.

"That's too much trouble. I'll braise it for you." The mother frowned. Wine lees duck was too much trouble. She might not make it once a year. Her son had made a lot of money welding recently, so she was willing to cook meat.

But killing ducks is troublesome in itself, and they have to be pickled when the weather is cold, which makes your hands very cold.

"If you don't want braised ones, pickle two for me. I'll give a bowl to Yanyan's father to drink with. He said it tasted good last time." It was all nonsense. The old carpenter never said this, but Qin Dahe was greedy now and could only use excuses.

Seeing Qin Dahe moving out of his father-in-law's house, Qin's mother had to agree. Now marriage is the most important event in the family.

"I knew you were a good cook, mom." Qin Dahe chuckled, there was another delicious food.

The local dishes of his hometown are his favorite. When he was in Jinling and Jiuzi in his previous life, he often found some authentic Wuwei local cuisine restaurants to eat these dishes.

There are many local delicacies such as stinky tofu, stinky dried tofu, fermented lees duck, fermented lees fish, etc., which are popular among outsiders. However, people in their forties like these local dishes.

These local restaurants are of high quality. It is common to spend two to three thousand yuan on a table with some river seafood, which is enough for entertaining guests.

In the afternoon, the couple drove out on a boat to collect bran. Today they contacted a big seller. Three companies in Xinba combined to sell 10,000 kilograms of bran, so they needed two people to go.

If you calculate based on a one-cent reduction on purchase and a two-cent increase on sales, you can make three hundred yuan from these ten thousand kilograms.

This shows the advantage of sailing. Not only can it be done in one trip, but the transportation cost is also low.

You can't carry so much on a tricycle. If the center of gravity is unstable, it will easily overturn on dirt and gravel roads in the countryside.

Mr. Huang delivered the motorcycle. Qin Dahe knew at a glance that it was another car that was at least ten years old, otherwise he wouldn't have been so willing to modify it.

Erhu and his companions went to buy a lot of angle steel. Qin Dahe had given them instructions this morning. Today they were to weld the truck bed and fenders, and Qin Dahe also had them make some small accessories.

I just need to draw the blueprints and write down the data needed for the parts, and then I can focus on cutting the motorcycle. Although the motorcycle is old, most of the parts are good.

Qin Dahe was reluctant to cut some things, so he slowly unloaded them. These things might be useful in the future.

Most car repairmen are like this. As time goes by, the warehouse is full of this kind of junk.

The wheel hub of Mr. Huang's motorcycle was intact. He carefully took it off and looked very happy, as he had saved another wheel hub.

You just need to lengthen the transmission chain, and you don’t need to buy many accessories specifically.

On the other side, the two men began to weld the truck bed with ease. The size was exactly the same as the previous two trucks, and they just drew it according to the previous drawing.

Use angle steel to support the bottom, drill holes, and weld. If you encounter any problems, just ask Qin Dahe and you will get detailed instructions.

"Tiedan, don't rush when welding. You had this problem last time when you welded the tricycle. The iron sheet is very thin, and it will be welded through if you are not careful." Qin Dahe was giving instructions while holding a teacup.

It's very comfortable to take a sip of tea from time to time.

There are a lot of parts missing now, and I have nothing to do after disassembling the motorcycle. I have been working on these two for a long time and still haven’t finished them.

"I know. I'll try my best." Tiedan said in a muffled voice.

At this time, the silly kid came with a bucket of crucian carp seeds.

"Brother, pick the good ones." He handed over the bucket.

Qin Dahe was touched by this. The kid had given him hundreds of crucian carp seeds, and he would send them over as soon as he could get more.

"Thanks." He poured it into the small pond without even looking at it.

Since the kid said he had picked them all, there definitely wouldn't be any hybrid crucian carp. This brother would never cheat him.

"Not busy?"

The boy shook his head. Without carpentry work and land, he could finally take a breath.

It turns out that more than one acre of land was turned over and over whenever I had free time, just hoping to grow more crops.

"That's perfect. Let's go and cover the ground in front."

I collected some yesterday, so there definitely won’t be much stock today, but the fish won’t die.

Sang Biao and Fei Fei at home love to eat fish, so he throws two fish to them whenever he has time.

Sang Biao is better. This little guy can catch mice by himself when he is just a little bit old. Feifei is really useless. He broke his leg the last time he climbed up the attic of his new house. It's so embarrassing.

"Kid, are there many small fish over there?" He guessed that the kid should be collecting the nets this afternoon because he has become braver.

"many."

"From now on, I'll give you all the small fish. If you have time, come with me to the town to sell the small fish. Just give me the crucian carp and melon seeds."

This is Hanwa'er's unique way to make money. Anyway, he is not planning to sell miscellaneous fish. He can't even hold a finger-sized ground tiger steadily, let alone kill it.

The silly kid quickly nodded in agreement. Even if his elder brother didn't give him the miscellaneous fish, he would still send these crucian carp and melon seeds over here.

Qin Dahe thought about it and simply packed up the five traps and put them in a bag.

"I'm giving you these five traps as well. From now on, I'll rely on you to deliver the crucian carp seeds in my pond to me."

"Ah."

A smile appeared on the boy's face. He was happy to be able to help his elder brother. He must catch more wild crucian carp in the future.

Qin Dahe also smiled and patted his shoulder.

"If you have more goods in the future, please tell me and go sell them with me in the morning. It won't interfere with your carpentry training."

The vegetable market opens very early. If you are quick, you can sell the fish and return with the car before eight o'clock.

There is little work in winter, and the carpenter workshop will not start taking orders and working until spring.

Now if the kid goes fishing and shrimping on his own, he can make money faster.

It's just that life is a little inconvenient. There's no one to help me eat or wash clothes when I have to, and I can see that others have become much more slovenly.

It turns out that when grandma was still alive, even if the baby's clothes were a little tattered, they were still neat.

"Go back home and do the laundry, clean up the house, and you can live well on your own. When you make enough money, you can get married. Do you hear me?"

"Ah."

The boy's face became silent again. He missed his grandma.

It's so hard to be alone. No one cooks for you or washes dishes for you. No one talks to you. You don't even know what to do when you go home at night.

He knew that his clothes were dirty, but he didn't wash them because he thought they were still wearable. Why should a person be so particular about it?

Qin Dahe sighed, what a silly brother.

When they returned, Erhu and his partner had already welded the truck bed and were busy cutting the parts.

He was reluctant to use stainless steel, so most of the materials were a combination of iron sheets and angle steel, and some places were even filled with wood.

The service life of this kind of old motorcycle converted into a three-wheeled vehicle is not long, so there is no need to make the cargo box too nice.

Qin Dahe went into the house and called his brother-in-law, asking him if he could still get the shock-absorbing spring.

"Yes, the price I gave you last time was pretty good. I got it from a motorcycle repair shop in the county."

"Please buy me four more springs. Someone came to me to modify his car again. He wanted to modify it to the same one as he saw today." Qin Dahe said with a smile.

"Okay, is the car modified?"

"The tricycle was just modified today. Come and pick it up when you are free."

"That's it?" My brother-in-law was immediately happy when he heard it. "Then I'll get it tomorrow."

With a motor tricycle, he can go out for a walk during the day and then go back to look after the store. It is so boring to stay in the store every day.

His family has money to buy a motorcycle, but it's too expensive, and his wife and father won't let him ride one. Riding a three-wheeled motorcycle should be fine.

After hanging up the phone, Qin Dahe began to prepare dinner.

The couple are out busy today, so he has to prepare the rice in advance, otherwise they will beat him when they come back.

My mother had already prepared the dishes when she left at noon. He just had to cook and buy some braised duck.

If he waits for his mother to come back and cook, he won't be able to do it because he is not cut out for it.

Cooking rice is the easiest, just make sure the water covers the rice by a small amount.

The small section here is the front part of the index finger, which is more or less the same, and the rice will turn out similarly.

After thinking about it, he threw two pieces of sweet potatoes on top, so that the cooked rice would have a sweet braised taste.

(End of this chapter)