Courtyard House: Is Xu Damao a childless man? Let me help.

After all, the places where Xu Damao gets his goods may be considered remote rural areas now, but that doesn't mean they will remain remote rural areas in the future. In the future, when Beijing will have three, four, five, and six ring roads, people will be playing the ring toss game more frequently than playing the matryoshka doll game. Where will people be able to sell cheap goods to middlemen like Xu Damao then?

So after Ye Jianchuan approached Xu Damao once and saw that the other party was unyielding, Ye Jianchuan gave up the idea of ​​buying Xu Damao's house.

It's just a small, run-down house in the front yard, isn't it? Anyway, I've already basically got all the other houses, so there are plenty of ways to get these last two rooms later!

So Ye Jianchuan didn't wait for the last two rooms to be purchased; he immediately started renovating the entire courtyard house according to his original plan.

Since it's a renovation, construction noise is inevitable. But these days, there's no such thing as construction disturbing the peace. So you two think you're so great? Then you can live with this noise every day!

It's not just the noise; because of the renovations, all sorts of mud, sand, bricks, cement, and other materials are piled up everywhere in the front and back yards, and the dust is much worse than usual.

As for Ye Jianchuan's family, please, they've made so much money, how could Ye Jianchuan only own one house, a courtyard house?

Not only did Ye Jianchuan buy apartments in Beijing, but he also bought several private villas or large mansions, making it very convenient for him to live wherever he wanted.

As for the courtyard house, Xu Damao did not choose to sell the house for this reason. After all, for Xu Damao, the money from the house was really not much.

So Xu Damao easily chose to move out, but he insisted on keeping the house and refused to sell it!

Anyway, Xu Damao could easily come up with the money to buy a house outside, so he wasn't too affected by this.

Although Xu Damao was not affected too much, Uncle Yi was greatly affected. Because Uncle Yi lived in the middle courtyard, the front and middle courtyards were packed full, making it difficult for Uncle Yi to go in and out every day.

Moreover, Grandpa Yi doesn't have enough money to buy another house outside. That money is all saved for his retirement. If he uses it to buy a house, his retirement will become a problem.

So every day they have to fall asleep amidst all kinds of noise, and they have to endure all kinds of dust pollution, plus it's not very convenient to get in and out every day.

After more than a month of turmoil, Uncle Yi finally couldn't take it anymore and chose to surrender, selling his house to Ye Jianchuan for a price slightly lower than that of Uncle Er's house.

At this point, apart from Xu Damao, Ye Jianchuan had acquired all the houses of the residents in the entire courtyard.

As for Xu Damao's side, Ye Jianchuan initially thought it might require a bit of waiting, but to his surprise, the expansion of Beijing came as quickly as it appeared!

Chapter 311 Xu Damao Offers a House? I, Ye, Don't Want It!

Just as Ye Jianchuan was renovating and decorating most of the remaining rooms in the courtyard house, the notice of the expansion of Beijing came out at some unknown time.

The former rural areas near Beijing have now been transformed into part of Beijing. This expansion has instantly turned the former farmers into city dwellers.

Of course, this expansion plan is not particularly large; it is only the first attempt. However, even so, it has already had a significant impact on Xu Damao.

Because those 'rural areas' that were originally far from Beijing have now become 'suburbs', it will be much easier for them to sell their agricultural products in the future.

Since selling has become easier, why should I sell my goods at a low price to Xu Damao, this middleman?

Even a simple country person could understand this calculation. Less than six months after the expansion, Xu Damao's acquisition began to encounter some trouble.

This change made Xu Damao feel a little anxious, because he could earn several hundred or even a thousand yuan a month from this spot.

If I can't acquire these things in the future, it will be difficult to make that much money again.

However, a very real problem confronted Xu Damao: these 'country folks' are very simple-minded, and everything they do is for money.

I can take this stuff to the city myself and sell it for this price, even if it's a little extra work. Although you're buying it from us, which saves us a lot of effort, rural people don't really value physical labor.

So at most you can only charge a token fee for your trouble, and that's the only way they'll be willing to accept it.

But if that's the case, Xu Damao wouldn't be able to earn hundreds or thousands of yuan a month, let alone two or three hundred. He'd probably have to work incredibly hard to get that much.

So... what if Xu Damao doesn't raise the price he buys from these villagers? That's simple too. If he doesn't raise the price, they won't sell to you! If you want to buy things at that price, you'll have to go to even more remote places.

This method seemed pretty good, and Xu Damao did try it out. Then... the round trip took Xu Damao most of his day. Although the cost of the goods didn't increase, the time cost increased exponentially.

Previously, the store could operate for 300 hours a month, but now it can only operate for 200 hours a month, or even less.

Moreover, since the goods are picked up by car, the cost of fuel is also a different cost. As a result, although the money earned from picking up goods in the original places is indeed slightly more, it only increases from one or two hundred to about three hundred yuan.

Compared to Xu Damao's previous income, this was nothing. In addition, because he was driving farther, the chances of the car breaking down also increased.

Although it earns more per month than in the previous place, it also carries the risk of malfunctions.

If the truck breaks down on the way there, that's not so bad, since it's empty. The real problem is if it breaks down after the goods are loaded. Putting aside the issue of keeping the food fresh, it will definitely cost much more to get someone to tow the fully loaded truck away than if it were empty.

Faced with so many difficulties, Xu Damao decisively began to back down and wanted to open a different shop instead.

However, opening a different type of store requires both substantial capital and a wide network of contacts.

After much deliberation, Xu Damao finally approached Ye Jianchuan and agreed to "give" him the house in his courtyard house.

As for Ye Jianchuan, he needed to provide some assistance. Indeed, Xu Damao was also considering opening a small shop. After all, this was actually easier than other things, and as long as the right approach was found, the money he could earn would be more than the previous grocery store.

So Xu Damao figured that since Ye Jianchuan wanted the house so much, he could use it as a bargaining chip to get Ye Jianchuan's help.

After all, Ye Jianchuan and Uncle San's family were just good neighbors, yet Ye Jianchuan was able to generously lend a helping hand and help Uncle San's family earn so much money.

This time, I really went all out, giving Ye Jianchuan a house as a gift. Surely Ye Jianchuan wouldn't be so stingy with such terms, right?

许大茂的算盘倒是打得叮当响，但是叶建川的出牌方式却也让他有点摸不着头脑，因为叶建川居然出乎意料的选择了『内，部/群』:9.8"0'2？0"5。8'5,6绝。

就只差自己的这一间房子，整个四合院就能够全都归叶建川了，叶建川居然还『内，部/群』:9.8"0'2？0"5。8'5,6绝了？

Actually, there was a reason why Ye Jianchuan was so determined. Although Ye Jianchuan did want to get the house, Xu Damao's actions seemed more like using the house as leverage to force him to help him.

This feeling made Ye Jianchuan very uncomfortable. Putting everything else aside, Xu Damao was already my 'enemy,' and you want to use something I want to blackmail me? To make me make money for you? How could that be possible!

If I really agree this time, won't other people follow suit? How will I dare to casually express my interest in anything (Liao Nuo Zhao) in the future?

So even if it's just to save face or prove a point, Ye Jianchuan would never agree to Xu Damao's proposal!

Since Ye Jianchuan's path was blocked, Xu Damao had no choice but to think of other ways. Soon, Xu Damao came up with another idea: opening a restaurant!

However, the restaurant he was thinking of opening was not a traditional restaurant, but a relatively simple fast food restaurant, or a boxed lunch restaurant.

These kinds of restaurants have relatively lower requirements for the dishes, so as long as you can find someone who can cook large batches of food to stir-fry, there shouldn't be any problems.

Of course, such a store is destined to only follow the path of low profit and high volume, so if Xu Damao wants to make money from this, he still needs to figure out his 'sales channels'.

Chapter 312 Low Profit, High Volume? Xu Damao Says He Wants It All

If this problem were left to someone else, it might actually be quite difficult, but for Xu Damao, it's not a problem at all, because he really does have the connections in this area.

Although he had been in prison, which severed many of his previous connections after his release, Xu Damao was a master of flattery. So, he quickly rebuilt his network by using his sycophancy.

Although these relationships have been unconnected for some time, as long as one shows the proper 'etiquette,' even the slightest affection can instantly transform into acquaintances.

Xu Damao, by doing a little networking and giving some gifts, successfully found a former leader at the machine repair factory. This leader was later transferred to the urban construction department, and the urban construction job was quite lucrative when the city was expanding outwards.

After all, as various places expand outwards, they all need to carry out certain repairs and maintenance, so there are countless construction sites everywhere!

Xu Damao was eyeing the meals of the workers on these construction sites. If he could secure the boxed meal business for a few of these sites, his boxed meal shop would have no shortage of customers.

With just 300 yuan, Xu Damao quickly gave up his grain and oil grocery store and started a boxed lunch fast food restaurant business.

As for chefs... the previous wave of opening restaurants has basically passed. Some restaurants have indeed been very successful and have good business, but many others have eventually closed down for various reasons.

Weren't those two incidents with the "bang genie" incident good examples? Since many restaurants have closed down, the chefs in those restaurants have naturally lost their jobs.

So hiring a chef isn't as difficult as it was two years ago. I wonder if Bang Geng would regret it so much if he knew this.

Regardless, Xu Damao has successfully started another business, and he still harbors resentment because Ye Jianchuan did not agree to his previous "proposal".

So after his store opened, Xu Damao went back to the courtyard house to "celebrate" it. Well, actually, he just set off some firecrackers in the courtyard house and left a pile of firecracker paper on the ground to annoy Ye Jianchuan.

After all, in Xu Damao's view, he had already begged him in such a 'low-profile' manner, and he still refused. Fine! Since he refused, he would show him what kind of 'unexpected' situations would occur when he did not have complete control of the courtyard house.

However, Xu Damao had no idea that his seemingly impulsive and momentary act would bring disaster upon his fast food restaurant!

Because soon Xu Damao's fast food business will be opening near Ye Jianchuan, and since you've already provoked Ye Jianchuan like this, Ye Jianchuan will naturally need to respond to you when he has the chance.

Indeed, since Xu Damao came up with a way to outsource boxed lunches to various construction sites and successfully made a lot of money this way, what would happen if Xu Damao's "business" happened to collide with Ye Jianchuan's industry, which was expanding and putting into production on a large scale?

Yes, Xu Damao's luck was just that awkward. He had only provoked Ye Jianchuan for a short time before falling into Ye Jianchuan's hands.

Actually, it was quite a coincidence, because after Ye Jianchuan's various charity activities some time ago, he had acquired a lot of 'technology'.

Therefore, Ye Jianchuan has recently begun to invest heavily in various fields, from novelty items in the food industry to high-tech products such as televisions, pagers, and even engines.

If it's just the food industry, then it's easy to handle. We can just move it into the existing instant noodle and biscuit factory, expand it, and add a few production lines, and that's it.

However, because it also deals with many other industrial products, the number and size of the new factories that need to be built are relatively large.

Xu Damao's boxed rice shop was assigned to one of Ye Jianchuan's factories by his superiors.

At first, Ye Jianchuan was naturally not very clear about this matter, but just because Ye Jianchuan was not clear about it did not mean that others were not clear about it either!

Soon, the eldest son of the Sha Zhu family, who had already started working for Ye Jianchuan, came over to complain to Ye Jianchuan.

When Ye Jianchuan saw this, he realized that building the factory had actually generated revenue for Xu Damao. This wouldn't do!

So he immediately signaled to his men to lead the way and let the workers cause some trouble.

To be fair, Ye Jianchuan's approach was actually a lucky accident. For things like boxed lunches, the taste isn't that important; the quantity is more crucial. So, the cost of boxed lunches isn't actually that low.

So how do you make money from boxed meals? The answer is simple: low profit margins and high volume!

However, there is a limit to the principle of "small profits but quick turnover". Xu Damao's small, run-down shop only has so much production capacity. At most, he can only earn a little over two thousand yuan a month.

For the first few months, Xu Damao was quite satisfied with his income, but as time went on, after working honestly for a while, he felt increasingly cheated.

As the saying goes, no merchant is honest. Xu Damao gradually discovered that many of his "colleagues" used cheap vegetables to make boxed lunches. Not only were the vegetables cheap and not particularly fresh, but the oil they used was also not good quality.

In addition, by tampering with disposable lunch boxes and chopsticks, and by adjusting the proportions of food and vegetables, the monthly profit can more than double, let alone more than two thousand yuan!

Of course, most of Xu Damao's colleagues only use one or two of the above-mentioned 'methods'.

But Xu Damao is so clever! So quick-witted! So wicked! He just waved his hand and declared, "I, Xu Damao, am the epitome of all things!"

And then... the oil was bad, the vegetables were bad, even the chopsticks in the lunchbox were bad, and when I got the food, it was a lunchbox with more rice than vegetables, and that's how it came out of the oven.

Chapter 313 A Backstab from a Witty Teammate: Xu Damao Nearly Goes to Jail

Will the workers be happy with Xu Damao's approach? Well, actually, for the workers, the difference isn't that significant. Although the food might be a bit worse, they're paid more for working for Ye Jianchuan.

So at first, none of the workers complained about Xu Damao's "tricks". Everyone thought the boss was trying to make up for the extra wages by changing the food allowance.

The workers were quite happy to accept this kind of compensation. After all, they came out to work and naturally hoped to earn more money for their families. As for themselves? As long as they were full, that was enough. Whether the food was good or not was not something they cared about.