Chapter 37 The most suitable occupation
"The world is in a hurry, but for a few taels of broken silver, these few taels of broken silver have cut off the arms of life."
I have been going down the mountain for more than half a year. This sentence can basically be summarized as my summary of the lives of people at the foot of the mountain. In the past six months, I have not seen much happiness or wantonness. I have seen more of rush and panic. I have been busy for life, and I am as busy as I care about it. I am busy every day.
Of course, now starting, I am about to fall into this kind of haste because I don’t have these few pieces of silver.
I spent a week studying the jobs I could find in society, almost without exception. The common point is that I have a long time, high intensity, and low salary, which made me, who had been free and unacceptable for more than ten years.
If I do these tasks, I will not be able to practice and I will not have time to investigate the truth about my master. Even if someone comes to me with the Heavenly Master Order, I will probably not be able to leave, so I can only give up these tasks.
I also thought about using Taoist art to make money, but I gave up this idea faster. My master told me that if the level of cultivation is not enough, if you use Taoist art to make a living, it is most likely to get involved in cause and effect. At that time, the five disadvantages and three shortcomings will come, and there will be no way back.
The five disadvantages and three disadvantages are terrible, especially when I haven’t chosen my life path well. If the cause and effect of the five disadvantages and three disadvantages appears, it will undoubtedly cut off my retreat, so I can only give up.
"Young man, there are not many young people now entering the factory. Not only can they make a lot of money, but they are also depressed. If you want to be more stable, then learn a technique. If you don't want to be stable, then go to set up a stall. You don't know that many big guys start with setting up a stall. If you do a good job in setting up a stall, you make more money than my boss."
In a noodle shop I often went to, the boss saw me holding a few job advertisements and said to me. His words immediately made me lit up and I remembered the prosperity of the surrounding night markets.
"Can stall really work?"
"Why can't it be? I know several stalls, and they all rely on this to support their families. They have already bought a house and a car when they are doing well. Don't underestimate the stalls. There are many rich people."
When the boss heard my question, he immediately laughed. Is there anyone still questioning the income from setting up a stall? Didn’t you see it happening online? Someone who sells pancakes and fruits has a monthly income of tens of thousands of yuan, which is much higher than the salary paid by college students.
"Then boss, what kind of stall do you think I'm suitable for setting up?"
I thought about it and asked, and I suddenly realized that setting up a stall is indeed very suitable for me.
First of all, I come and go freely. This is my own business. When I encounter something, I can’t think of a stall, but I won’t leave a stall. Secondly, I can choose to set up a night stall. In this way, I won’t delay my practice during the day. At most, I just need to get a little early in the evening class. As for my income, I didn’t think much about it, as long as it’s enough for my living expenses.
"I don't know what stall you are suitable for, but you really want to set up a stall. I suggest you make noodles, build a cart, and build a stove. The noodles are purchased from me. At night, you just wait for the noodles to be sold below. Even with the materials and craftsmanship, I will charge you 10,000 yuan, and I will guarantee that you will not suffer any losses."
The boss glanced at me and said leisurely, as if he could immediately get rich after listening to him.
I laughed and shook my head. Although I have little social experience, I am not a fool. I don’t mention the technical content of this noodles. Who eats hot noodles outside when the weather is hot? Only in winter can there be a little people.
Practice has revealed true knowledge. That night, he appeared in the night market near the community again. Since he wanted to make a living here, he naturally had to become familiar with the environment.
I wandered around several times and silently made a statistics in my mind. There were a wide range of stalls in the night market, including those selling clothes and toys, some selling food, and daily necessities, at least dozens or hundreds of them. However, in my opinion, the food-selling business is the best.
Whether it is pancakes, fruits, roujiamo, barbecue stalls, or those braised stalls, there are many people. After I looked around for a while, I saw many people buying them.
"Food is the most important thing for the people, and the ancients did not deceive me."
I made up my mind and I would also come to sell food, but I haven't considered what to sell food yet.
With this question, I consulted a stall owner who looked quite young. The stall owner looked up at me and said, "Brother, the layman watches the fun, the expert sees the tricks, don't you see that there are many people in this night market and there are many stalls, and there are still some people who make money and others lose money."
Look at what stalls are in the night market, just say you can cook food, seven barbecue stalls, five braised meat, three pancakes, four fried chicken and burgers, and seven or eight cold rice. If you want to make something on the market, you have to ensure that your skills are of a certain level and don’t exceed these, but at least it can’t be too different, otherwise you will be eliminated by the market.”
"Brother, do you mean to sell things that are not on the market?"
The stall owner's words made me feel refreshed. I took it for granted. I didn't expect that there were so many other things to set up a stall.
"That's sure, you can survive if you don't have one in the market. First, set up a few months, accumulate some regular customers, and then you can take a little bit of other things. Not everyone can set up a stall, but it depends on your flexibility. Brother, if you really have an idea, let's add a friend and I'll bring you into a stall group. There are stall owners and some do wholesales. The supply of goods is complete, and the price is lower than that of the vegetable market."
"Thank you, brother, add a friend"
I immediately became interested and added the stall owner's WeChat. Then he pulled me into a stall group. There were many people in it, with hundreds of people. Many people were browsing messages, basically wholesale, such as daily necessities, similar to those in binary stores, with extremely low prices and pots and pans.
However, it was because of the many types that made me a little difficult. I really didn’t know which one would be better to choose.
I couldn't make up my mind, so I found the young stall owner just now. After some greetings, I knew that his name was Xu Lin. Xu Lin had been setting up a stall here for three years. He sold braised pork, and his parents also set up a stall, but the family of three was divided into three markets.
"Brother, if you really can't choose, you can listen to my opinion and sell ice powder."
“What is ice powder?”
"Ice noodles are a snack, also called jelly. It originated from Sichuan and Shu. It is quite popular. There is only one night market here. The market is OK. Then you will put it next to me. We will complement each other. The braised ingredients I made are Sichuan flavors. Many of the diners who come to buy are Sichuan people. The business will not be bad at that time, and it will be enough to support yourself."
"Thank you, Brother Xu, I'll make this jelly."
I was immediately overjoyed and thought Xu Lin had a good idea, so I will make this jelly from now on.
Xu Lin asked me to go to him the next day. Although the jelly is not very skilled, I have to learn it. The key is that there are still jelly materials that need to be purchased, so he can introduce it to me.
That night, I went to buy some barbecue. When Xu Lin was not very busy, he invited him to have barbecue. We talked a lot. When Xu Lin knew that I was a practitioner, there was a huge difference and felt that I didn’t need to make money. After all, no master is full of food and has many ways to make money. This was also evaded by my lack of skill in learning.
The next morning, I went to find him according to the address given by Xu Lin. Xu Lin lived in the urban village opposite my community. The rent there was much cheaper. For the same three-bedroom apartment, I now have a rent of at least 2,000 yuan per month, and the urban village only costs about 1,000 yuan. There is a place in the urban village to stop carts for them to use for braised materials, which is very convenient.
Xu Lin introduced me to a fellow villager who made jelly. His fellow villager sold jelly in the urban village area, and we had no business conflicts with each other.
During the day, it was when they were stocking up. I also saw the process of making jelly. The process of making jelly is not difficult. It mainly uses ice powder to make slurry, put it in the refrigerator to refrigerate, and then boil some brown sugar water, mint water, and the main ingredients of jelly are ready.
Of course, the key to whether jelly is delicious lies in the seasonings. Common seasonings include taro balls, crushed peanuts, raisins, sesame, etc. More than ten kinds, and these things make a delicious bowl of jelly.
I paid 800 yuan for the tuition fee. Xu Lin's fellow villager taught me step by step how to make it, especially the production of seasonings, which is the key to technology, how to cook taro balls, how long should ice powder be refrigerated, etc. These are all summaries of experience. It's okay not to learn and explore it yourself, but I don't have that time.
There is another advantage of paying the tuition fee, that is, all these materials can be taken from him, and it will not be expensive for me. Even if all the materials are purchased from him, I will do nothing myself, and I will leave me a little profit.
After studying for a day, I have learned the basic operations. As for how it tastes, I still don’t know. That’s what I’ll accumulate over time, and it depends on water grinding skills.
Xu Lin helped me get tools such as carts and basins, and brought me a stall certificate to apply for. Yes, stalls must be managed. The stall rent is 200 yuan, the sanitation fee is 100 yuan per month, and it can be placed from the evening to the morning. It will not be chased by the urban management. Most people will honestly apply for this certificate.
After one operation, I looked at my pocket and only about 300 yuan was left. Fortunately, I collected Luo Xiaoqian's 10,000 yuan, otherwise I would not even be able to set up a stall.
"The world is in a hurry, but it's just a few taels of silver. It's very good. In three days, I will officially start my life in the stall."
After a busy day, I returned home and I could start setting up stalls in three days. But what I didn’t expect was that setting up stalls was not as easy as I thought, because the cause and effect in me broke out.
Chapter completed!