Journey 1995:Non-Stop

Chapter 178 Cultivating the Third Son
For the third son, his start was nothing short of a dream.

When he got off the sleeper car and got into a taxi with Yan Hui, he felt that Jianye was really something else.
Like his cousin, Yan Hui immediately took his third son to visit the Yangtze River Bridge, allowing him to appreciate the great achievements of his predecessors.

The third brother was not as brave as Yan Hui. It was his first time traveling so far, and when he saw the towering bridge piers, he felt a little scared and stood still, backing away.

"I'll take you to rent a place in a bit. You can live here by yourself most of the time, and I'll stay here too when I come back. But you need to keep the room clean," Yan Hui instructed.

"Okay, okay. My nursing school is very clean." The third brother felt a little hesitant. He paused for a moment, then looked at Yan Hui, "Let's go, let's find a place to eat something."

"Let's go." Yan Hui hailed another taxi and took the third brother to Zhonghua Gate.

Renting a place nearby wasn't difficult; Yan Hui managed to do it in just half a day, renting a place very similar to his cousin's for 450 yuan a month.

After settling the third son into his accommodation, Yan Hui called home to let them know, and then took the third son to the market.

The third brother has a higher level of education than Yan Hui, having graduated from a vocational high school. He is also quite good at math. Yan Hui mainly needs the third brother to help with bookkeeping and act as an accountant.

Previously, at the village clinic, the third brother also did the bookkeeping work. Now, with Yan Hui, it's just that the amount is a little bit larger.

"You mean, each batch of goods is worth over 20? 20?" The third brother followed Yan Hui, listening the whole way, and felt his understanding was changing again. "How did you make so much money?"

"I risked my life. I was in Northeast China, and someone had a gun to my head, but I didn't utter a sound," Yan Hui boasted.

That's how people are; they suffer terribly when they encounter difficulties, but once they overcome them, they seem incredibly awesome.

"You did that?! My God, you still dared to go to Northeast China?!" Of course, the third brother believed Yan Hui's words. If he hadn't risked his life, how could he have earned so much money so quickly?
“Of course I’ll go, that’s where I make my fortune,” Yan Hui said with a smile. “But that was at the beginning. Now that I’m there, nobody dares to mess with me.”

"That's awesome!" The third brother was still in awe all day.

"The process of the timber business is mainly that I ship the goods from Northeast China, and then the customers here pay. It's actually very simple. Especially your job here, there are two main points: one is to help me receive the goods, and the other is to keep the accounts clear." Yan Hui began to explain in detail.

Bringing the third child out of the village is both difficult and easy, depending on how you look at it.

The tasks Yan Hui assigned to his third brother were not complicated; they mainly involved accounting and client liaison. As for finding clients, Yan Hui didn't need his third brother to do that.

He gave his pager to his third son and rented a better-located shop, where he had a "Great Ambitions" company sign made.

The company's new address is about 40 square meters, with two rooms inside. It's been renovated and no longer looks like the dilapidated place it used to be.

After choosing a location and tidying up the company, Yan Hui went to the telecommunications bureau to apply for a telephone number.

Telephones are much cheaper than cell phones. Lao San will be staying here often from now on. If customers come, he should call Yan Hui.

As for Yan Hui himself, after returning this time, he basically stopped going to the forest farm except to select timber. He would spend a lot of time at the station, so the cell phone signal would be good. Lao San followed Yan Hui, experiencing the entire process of receiving and unloading goods, meeting many clients, having five or six meals, and personally operating the company account several times, finally gaining a thorough understanding of these matters.

In the past few days, when he had free time, Yan Hui went to visit Su Jin a few times and went bowling twice. Su Jin still has four months until the college entrance examination, and Yan Hui knows that this is not easy. He made a promise with Su Jin that they would hang out more often after the exam, and that she should focus on studying in the meantime. Su Jin readily agreed.

After the Lantern Festival, my cousin finally returned. Yan Hui treated my cousin to a meal and hoped that he could take care of Lao San more often when he had time.

My cousin finally stood up for himself after returning from the Chinese New Year this year, managing to scrape together 40,000 yuan in cash to pick up Yan Hui's freight train!
After dinner, Yan Hui and his cousin talked about business alone. Yan Hui also asked a question he had always wanted to ask: "Brother, I've always had a question: why don't we see white pine trees in the Jianye market?"

Yan Hui had always wanted to ask this question, but he never had the chance, because the larch business was enough for him. Now, however, things are different. If he wants to further expand his business, white pine would be a much better option.

When Yan Hui was in Fengtian, the first type of wood he came into contact with was white pine, and he became very familiar with this type of wood.

Larch is a type of wood that everyone is familiar with. It has high density, high hardness, toughness, and corrosion resistance, and its advantages are very significant.

When Yan Hui worked at his fourth uncle's processing plant, his favorite tree was the larch because of its high hardness. The saw blade only needed to be loaded and unloaded every hour or so, allowing him to rest more frequently. If he were sawing white pine, Yan Hui probably wouldn't be able to rest for three consecutive hours.

This illustrates one of the advantages of white pine: it is easy to process. White pine has straight grain, uniform texture, good gluing properties and nail-holding power. In addition, white pine has strong staining ability, making it suitable for surface treatment and secondary processing.

Of course, there is one more crucial issue here: white pine is cheaper, more than 20% cheaper than larch.

Jianye's market doesn't necessarily only need high-strength, high-density timber like larch. White pine should also have a market, but Yan Hui has never seen or shipped any white pine.

“I’m not entirely sure either. Since I came to Jianye, larch and red pine have been the most commonly used trees here, as well as white pine. You’ll have to ask people who have sold them before. It’s impossible that no one has sold them before; if no one is selling them now, something must be wrong,” my cousin explained.

"Then who should I ask?"

"Just ask Lao Lü. He's been in the market for a long time and knows a lot."

"it is good."

Before his cousin returned, Yan Hui didn't know who to ask about this matter, so he kept putting it off. He was a well-known boss in the market, and it would seem unprofessional for him to ask around about it.

Fortunately, Yan Hui was close to Brother Lü, and after finding Brother Lü, he finally got the answer to his question.

The humidity and temperature in Jianye are too high.

Several years ago, some timber merchants shipped white pine planks and timber to Jianye, but after arriving in Jianye, they found that many of the timbers had broken during transportation. Some that didn't break broke again when they were accidentally twisted during unloading.

No businessman can afford such losses, so no one has been involved with white pine for the past few years.

(End of this chapter)