Chapter 13: Exactly 298 Sheets, No More, No Less!
Jiang Tao calculated and calculated, but never expected this boss to be so competitive!
Selling sofas in the market during the day.
And still live-streaming at home at night to sell, right?
“My brother has another one over there that’s the same color and similar in style.”
“It’s just that the condition is a bit worse than this one, but not too much. I’ll take you to see it.”
Li Guiying saw that Jiang Tao genuinely liked this color, so she offered to show him a similar alternative.
“Sister, I’m only set on this one. The first moment I saw it, I fell in love with it.”
“Can you let me have this sofa and find a similar alternative for the person who placed the order?”
“You have so many sofas here, finding a similar one shouldn’t be difficult.”
“You can’t see clearly on the live stream, so a little color difference is normal, don’t you think?”
Jiang Tao didn’t want to give up 30,000 yuan so easily, so he chuckled and tried to negotiate a bit more with Li Guiying.
Li Guiying said, “Brother, it’s not like you say. When we open a store and do business, we value integrity.
If we give customers the wrong product, it will ruin our reputation! How can we do business in the future!”
Jiang Tao hesitated for a moment and said, “How about this, sis? Whatever price you sell this sofa for in the live stream, I’ll add 100 yuan to it!
I really like this sofa and just want to buy it; I don’t like anything else.”
When Li Guiying heard that Jiang Tao was willing to add 100 yuan, she was immediately tempted!
They bought this sofa for 100 yuan and sold it for 400 in the live stream.
With Jiang Tao adding another 100 yuan, they could sell it for 500, doubling the profit!
Li Guiying pretended to be a little hesitant and said, “Alright! I see you really like this sofa, brother.
And since you came so early in the morning, I’ll make an exception and sell it to you!”
“…”
When Jiang Tao saw Li Guiying agree so readily, he suddenly realized he had offered too much!
He should have started by adding 50 yuan to test the waters!
However, thinking about the private money hidden in the sofa, Jiang Tao instantly stopped feeling bad about that 50 yuan!
You need bait to go fishing, right!
Just consider it as using 100 yuan to go fishing!
“Sister, how much is it in total?”
Fearing any further unexpected issues, Jiang Tao quickly took out his mobile phone, ready to pay and settle the bill.
“We sold it for 450 in the live stream last night, and according to what you said, you’ll add another 100, so pay 550!”
Li Guiying said as she reached into her collar and pulled out a double-sided payment code.
“Alright! My wife just likes this kind of sofa, so I’ll accept it!”
Jiang Tao put on a show of reluctantly paying, and with a “ding,” he scanned Li Guiying’s WeChat payment code and quickly paid 550 yuan.
【 WeChat payment received 550 yuan! 】
Hearing the payment notification sound from his phone, Li Guiying’s plump face lit up with joy.
She had a sudden inspiration and made an extra 50 yuan!
“Sis, I’ll take the sofa then. My truck is outside, I’ll go get it.”
“Okay, brother. I’ll help you move it to the entrance.”
“Thank you, sister!”
Each with their own calculations, they lifted the sofa together to the main entrance.
After putting down the sofa, Jiang Tao quickly ran to get his truck from outside the market and brought it to the entrance of shop B25.
Having earned an extra 150 yuan early in the morning, Li Guiying was in a good mood and happily helped Jiang Tao move the sofa onto the truck.
“Thank you, sister. I’ll come back to buy any furniture I need from you in the future.”
“Sure! Come back next time, and I’ll give you a discount no matter what you buy!”
“Goodbye, sister~”
Jiang Tao didn’t waste any more words with Li Guiying, got in the truck, and drove away.
After driving out of the second-hand market, Jiang Tao couldn’t afford to wait for work anymore and drove straight to Xiao Shahe with the sofa.
He drove the truck all the way to the dormitory building where he rented a room, and then carried the sofa upstairs by himself.
This sofa wasn’t solid wood and weighed no more than 100 catties, which was child’s play for Jiang Tao.
After putting the sofa back in the room, Jiang Tao went downstairs first to drive the truck away.
The street near the dormitory building was very narrow, and the truck parked there would block even bicycles and electric scooters, which was too inconvenient.
After parking the truck at the entrance of Xiao Shahe Village, Jiang Tao hurried back towards the dormitory building where he rented his room.
“Oh, Xiao Jiang, not working today?”
As Jiang Tao approached the building, he happened to run into the landlord, who was coming out of his room holding a gourd-like small object.
A squeaking sound came from the gourd, like the chirping of crickets.
Jiang Tao couldn’t appreciate this sound, but some people just liked listening to it to sleep; it was said to have a calming and sleep-inducing effect.
“I have a bit of a stomachache today, so I’ll go to work later. Grandpa, are you going to play with crickets?”
Jiang Tao greeted the landlord with a smile, feeling quite envious of his pleasant life.
“Going to play with Lao Liu and the others. I’m off~”
The landlord waved goodbye to Jiang Tao and strode towards the alley entrance.
“The lives of retired old men in the capital are just so simple and unpretentious~”
Jiang Tao clicked his tongue in amazement, turned, entered his building, and headed straight to his room on the second floor.
Back in his room, he locked the door.
Jiang Tao first felt all over the sofa with his hands, but he didn’t find anything obviously unusual.
However, Jiang Tao was not discouraged.
If it were that obvious, how could it be his turn to find a bargain!
“Could it be sewn into the sofa? It must be!”
Jiang Tao immediately found a pair of scissors from the drawer and started cutting from the back of the sofa, giving the sofa a “major dissection.”
After cutting the back, he cut the bottom. He cut for seven or eight minutes, completely shredding the fabric covering the sofa’s wooden board.
“Got it!”
Just as Jiang Tao was starting to doubt the reliability of the intelligence, the corner of a long, black wallet appeared!
With two more snips,
Jiang Tao reached out and pulled the rectangular black wallet out from the sofa’s interlayer.
“Good heavens, it was hidden deep! I’ve been looking for you for so long!”
He opened the wallet and saw a thick stack of hundred-yuan banknotes inside!
Swallowing nervously, Jiang Tao took out all the money from the wallet and counted it with a rustle.
Exactly 298 bills, 29,800 yuan!
“Subtracting the 550 spent on the sofa, the net profit is 29,350!”
After calculating the accounts, Jiang Tao was once again excited, marveling at the effectiveness of the intelligence system!
If he worked hard today, his daily income would firmly break the 30,000 yuan mark!
Jiang Tao, in his thirty years of life, was earning this much money in a single day for the first time!
He smoked three cigarettes in a row in his rental room, and only then did his excited emotions begin to calm down.
Jiang Tao first put the money back into the wallet and stuffed it into the inner pocket of his down jacket.
Afterwards, he tidied up the sofa, which was in disarray from his cutting, and then went downstairs.
He first drove to an ATM outside an ICBC Bank near the Hongxing Second-hand Furniture Market and deposited the 29,800 cash into his bank card.
After depositing the money, Jiang Tao acted as if nothing had happened and drove back to the Hongxing Second-hand Furniture Market to wait for work.
