Five years of marriage, always separated [1970s]

Although Ye Fan knew very well that being a "smuggler" could make money in recent years, as Wei Jianshe said, things were changing too fast.

For example, Ye Fan was determined to send apples to the north where it was snowing and there was a shortage of fruits and vegetables. If she encountered a blizzard or heavy rain on the way, the train would be stopped and the apples would go bad, and she would lose all her money.

It is also possible that the buyer died unexpectedly or went bankrupt, leaving her with nothing. With so many uncertainties, Ye Fan did not dare to spend all her savings to trade the goods. But she did not honestly offer only 30%.

After Ye Fan had managed the company and had a day off, he and Wei Jianshe split up. Wei Jianshe took Chang Guangrong's childhood friend to Hangzhou to find Su Yuanhang to buy the overstocked goods, while Ye Fan and Zhang Xiaoming went north again. Zhang Xiaoming could speak Russian, and the two of them contacted customers.

Ye Fan did not look for a middleman, but made less money and cooperated with a local company. After the negotiation, the two returned to the capital to rest for a day before preparing to go south.

The day off happened to be the weekend, and Dabao was at home. Seeing his mother packing her luggage after lunch, he couldn't help but sigh: "Boss Ye is busy with all kinds of things, even busier than Commander Geng."

Ye Fan: "Be good, I'll give you a computer for your birthday in two months."

Dabao stood up straight, very excited: "Do you keep your word?"

Ye Fan nodded: "Put it in your bedroom. But don't play it all night and neglect your studies!"

Dabao immediately took his mother's hand and said, "High five as a pledge!"

Ye Fan chuckled: "Take good care of the family. When your father comes back and asks me where I've been, just tell him that I'll go to the army to find him after I'm busy for another month."

"He's ignorant, don't bother with him." Dabao pretended to be mature to amuse Ye Fan.

Ye Fan smiled as he packed his luggage and took his passbook to the bank. The money of Fanhua Company belonged to the company, and Ye Fan did not touch a cent. This time he was moving his personal savings. Ye Fan planned to transfer half of it to the account he usually used for purchasing goods.

Little did she know that as soon as she left, Dabao, who had received the informant fee, called his father's office.

At night, Geng Zhiye drove back by himself. He seemed to be worried that Ye Fan would be too busy and forget about him, so he pestered Ye Fan for half the night. Ye Fan's energy was no match for his, so he fell asleep as soon as he got in the car.

Zhang Xiaoming looked at the shadow in her eyes and shook his head. It’s really not easy for Sister Fan.

Wei Jianshe and Chang Guangrong, childhood friends, have been waiting for her in Hangzhou.

When Ye Fan arrived in Hangzhou, the two of them gave Ye Fan the compiled list of goods and the manufacturer's address. Ye Fan calculated the time - she could take the international train to leave the country as soon as she arrived in the capital, so she took the passbook and went from house to house to collect the goods.

There was a shortage of canned fruit in the north, so she collected the accumulated inventory of several large food factories in Hangzhou over the past two years.

Ye Fan went to the director of Hengshandao Food Factory, Su Duofu, to buy a batch of canned fish. Ye Fan had not planned to buy fish before going north, because the Soviet Union was not short of meat.

After staying there for a few days, the food tasted like pig food, and there were only a few edible things. Ye Fan felt that canned fish would be very popular, so he filled in the contract with canned fish.

The Soviet side believed that canned fish was not easy to sell and offered a low price, but Ye Fan still decided to prepare 20 boxes of each kind, including dace with black beans, fried hairtail, yellow croaker and other flavors, for a total of 100 boxes. If they couldn't be sold, he would give them to employees as New Year's benefits.

Ye Fan also went to the store to check. Towels, toothbrushes and other daily necessities were also expensive. Zhang Xiaoming shouted, "Robbery!" Ye Fan took out half of the money to buy daily necessities. Considering that it was cold there, Ye Fan suggested that Zhang Xiaoming buy a down jacket.

The contract Ye Fan signed with the other party did not specify the specific categories, but only listed the prices of many items. For example, if there were more than a dozen items, it would not be considered a breach of contract if Ye Fan could get half of them. So Ye Fan and his friends could decide what to buy.

Zhang Xiaoming used half of his money to buy a down jacket and the other half to buy a cotton coat.

Chang Guangrong's childhood friend originally wanted to take a ride with Ye Fan. When choosing products, he was overwhelmed. Even if Ye Fan gave him a list, he didn't know what to buy specifically, so he discussed with Ye Fan, and Ye Fan helped him choose. He wanted 70% of the profits, and Ye Fan and the other two would each get 10%.

Zhang Xiaoming and Wei Jianshe had no objection, so Ye Fan called the capital and asked Yu Xiaojiu to help her prepare fresh apples and pears.

After calculating the time, when Ye Fan's goods arrived in the capital, the people from Yujia Village delivered the stored fruits.

At the end of November in the Gregorian calendar, the four returned to China and went to Ye Fan's house to settle the accounts the next day. Even though they were mentally prepared, after Ye Fan deducted all expenses, including a small amount of tariffs, the net profit reached an astonishing six times.

If Ye Fan's canned goods were not sold at a low price, the net profit would be even higher. The most profitable ones are, of course, fresh apples and pears. Chang Guangrong, a childhood friend, was once worried that it was too cold there and no one would buy them. However, even the management of the trading company, who had plenty of food and drink, couldn't help but drool when they saw the juicy apples, not to mention the ordinary citizens.

Chang Guangrong's childhood friend gave him Ye Fan and the others' share, and he also got tens of thousands of dollars. He pinched himself to make sure he wasn't dreaming, but he still couldn't believe it, "Why is it so much? Sister Ye, did you add an extra zero?"

Ye Fan's expression was calm: "A lot?"

Wei Jianshe exclaimed: "Not much yet?"

Ye Fan shook his head: "We work more on our own. But it's also dangerous. We will definitely be bullied in a foreign country. Asking for tips is a small matter. They may rob us when they see our money."

Zhang Xiaoming: "Why are there so many people going there? I think half of the people on the train are there to trade goods.

Ye Fanxin said, half is not enough, in two or three years the whole train will be filled with traders and goods.

"Although it's a dangerous trip, the profit is too high. If you take the goods and sell them yourself, you can make at least this much." Ye Fan gestured with an "eight", "If you're lucky, you can make ten times as much. Xiao Ming, take two thousand yuan worth of goods with you, and you can buy two houses when you come back. Do you want to do it?"

Chang Guangrong's childhood friend said without hesitation: "They would do it even if it meant risking their lives. Those who 'use the back door' or 'get the ticket' don't know that once they are investigated, not only they will go to jail, but also the person who accepted the bribe, and maybe the whole family will go to jail, and they don't restrain themselves."

It was this man who had helped Ye Fan investigate the families of the two female comrades. His name was Jin Dazhi, and he was very cautious. During this trip, when chatting with Ye Fan, he lamented that many people in the circle laughed at him for being timid. If they knew that he dared to be an international trader, they would probably be shocked.

Ye Fan nodded: "That's right. Usually, one times the profit is enough to make people take risks, let alone seven, eight or even ten times."

Zhang Xiaoming: "Will someone really rob you?"

Ye Fan suddenly thought of a TV show he had watched in his previous life, which seemed to be about robbery on the train: "Yes! Think about it, in the past, people didn't have much money and no one would pick up things on the street. Now, aren't there people who are robbing people on the street? These people think that ordinary citizens don't have much money, so they will definitely target us."

Wei Jianshe: "We are fine. There are railway police on the train. There will be people to pick us up when we get there."

Ye Fan: "But the police will come down at the border, and there will be no police for the rest of the journey. There are still a few days left for this journey, how can we get through it?"

Wei Jianshe was shocked: "No police in the second half?"

Ye Fan shook his head: "There are no Soviet police."

Wei Jianshe suddenly felt scared: "Sister Ye, if you stand by the river too often, your shoes will get wet. We can't do this for long."

Ye Fan was surprised that they could still be so clear-headed after making a lot of money. She thought about it carefully for a moment: "We do it once a season. We usually use our connections to buy goods. We set up a few stores in Xiushui Market as company offices and warehouses, and sell them to traders who value money over their lives."

Jin Dazhi agreed: "It's more stable this way."

Ye Fan: "Then will you still go when we go out again later?"

Jin Dazhi: "I will go if I have time. However, Guangrong has acquired a piece of land in the northwest and said it will build a factory and dormitory after the new year. I may not have time."

Ye Fan said: "The matter of the garment factory is important."

"Yes, it's safer to start my own clothing business." Jin Dazhi always felt that the US dollars in his hand looked like bubbles, and he didn't feel at ease holding them in his palms.

Ye Fan glanced around and said, "I have sent all my family members away, so don't make a fuss when you get home."

The three of them shook their heads.

Ye Fan smiled.

Wei Jianshe said seriously, "Sister Ye, if you didn't say anything, we wouldn't dare to make a fuss. If my sister-in-law knew that I made tens of thousands of dollars in one trip, I could choose any apartment in the city. If she didn't force me to take them with me, she would have to leave my parents to serve me."

Zhang Xiaoming: "If my father knew, my mother would know too. If my mother knew, it would mean Xiaojun and Wang Aihe would know, and my peaceful days would be over."

Jin Dazhi didn't have such concerns: "It's okay if Guangrong knows, but I'm afraid that outsiders will know. They will definitely ask me to treat them to a meal. Sister Ye, think about it, a meal costs thousands, plus foreign wine costs tens of thousands, how many meals can I have with this little money." Wei Jianshe asked him to wait: "What kind of meal costs thousands? Bear paws, deer tails, abalone, shark's fin, and fish maw?"

Jin Dazhi nodded.

Wei Jianshe opened his mouth in shock: "You, you high-ranking officials' children all eat so well?"

"It's them, not me." Jin Dazhi said.

Ye Fan gave a few school bags with money to the students: "These are what Dabao and Erbao used before, you don't have to pay them back. I'll put them in the bank tomorrow."

Zhang Xiaoming: "Is the money saved and not going out this year?"

Ye Fan: "We need to buy another batch of goods to sell at the end of the year. However, your family has enough money, so you don't need to use the money you earn this time."

Several people still have savings at home and really don't need this money.

Zhang Xiaoming and Jin Dazhi had a rare tacit understanding and did not tell their families how much they had earned. As a result, Dong Ying thought that they had not earned much and was afraid that Zhang Xiaoming would be sad if he mentioned it, so she did not dare to ask more.

Ye Fan took a few days off at home and used the funds from the trading company to open a few stores in Xiushui Market. Ye Fan planned to use the company's funds to purchase more goods after his own goods were sold out.

Zhang Xiaoming is the legal person of the company. Ye Fan asked him if he wanted to hire someone to look after the store after he completed the formalities. Zhang Xiaoming refused: "I told Xiaoying that from now on, I will be here and she will be in the store, just like I am out at work."

"That's fine. Your eldest child can usually take care of the younger one. When the little one goes to kindergarten next year, Dong Ying can pick her up after closing the store. If she sells less, you can make up for it here."

Zhang Xiaoming: "Fortunately, there are still shops on this street. In two years, it might be impossible to rent one."

Ye Fan: "Actually, we should have done it two years earlier."

Zhang Xiaoming laughed: "How can it be possible to be ahead of others in everything? Sister Ye, don't put too much pressure on yourself."

Ye Fan was just saying this casually: "I've been looking at stores these days and I found some vacancies. Although the location is not good, with more people in the future, you can make money no matter where you are. I'll ask my relatives if they want to rent a few stores."

"What about asking Han Dawei?"

Ye Fan shook his head: "He is more cautious than you. I asked him to go to my mother-in-law's house to get tea, and I promised that he would not lose money before he went. Don't even think about going out of town to buy tea frequently."

"Should we wholesale some low-end clothing in the future?"

Ye Fan nodded: "Leave one store for the cheaper ones."

Zhang Xiaoming probably knew how to run a business. He locked the shop door and the two of them went back to their homes.

Ye Fan rested at home for a few days, went to the university to bring some delicious food to his children, visited the company and then went to the army.

The company employees were not panicked after not seeing Ye Fan for a long time, probably because they knew that both the office and the dormitory had been bought by Ye Fan - the monk can run away but the temple cannot, so they just did what they had to do during this time.

During this period, the head of the R&D team also selected four people to work on several small software projects that Ye Fan's partners had taken on. In fact, it was the four people who took the initiative to bring it up.

Ye Fan reported for duty at the company, and the team leader told her about the matter. Ye Fan nodded to indicate that she understood, and the matter was now clear.

After Ye Fan left, this year's new employee whispered to the old employee: "The team leader acted first and asked later, and the senior sister wasn't angry?"

The old employee shook his head: "She doesn't have time to care about such a small matter. Who knows where she's been making money recently."

"Aren't you curious?"

Old employee: "I'm curious about how much money she made. Didn't she say before that the city reserved a piece of land for the company? Leaving it for her doesn't mean giving it to her, it can be sold to her. The money our company made this year should be enough to buy that piece of land, but it may not be enough to build a house. No matter how much she makes, it will only fill the company's gaps."

The new employee was surprised: "Are you saying that my senior sister is running a wholesale business to support us?"

The old employee nodded and said, "Not at the beginning. At the beginning, my senior sister had money to pay us wages, so we thought of doing this business. But our business has not produced any results in half a year, and my senior sister doesn't want us to live frugally, so we can only find ways to make money ourselves."

The newcomer asked quietly, "Doesn't Sister Ye come from a good family?

"A high birth rate doesn't mean she's rich. Unless her father gets money from the country. But her father is an old revolutionary. The older generation is frugal and upright, so it's unlikely that they'll dig into socialism. Although Sister Ye doesn't lack for food and drink, her family doesn't have that much money to support us." The old employee patted the younger brother on the shoulder and said, "Work hard! The company's business is good, and you'll get a lot of bonuses."

Because there are so many people, there are now three office areas, two bedrooms and a living room. The old employee pointed to the neighbor next to him and said, "The first few seniors who worked with my sister will get dividends this year, and they can at least buy half a house."

The newcomer held up a finger.

The old employee who would not receive dividends until next year nodded and said in an envious tone, "Ten thousand."

The newcomer inhales.

As far as he knows, the annual salary of his senior who went abroad last year was about the same. Although foreign currency is more valuable, if you earn and spend foreign currency, you may not be able to save 10,000 RMB in a year.

Since you can do it in China, why go abroad? If you are curious about what it is like abroad, just go there for a few days during the Chinese New Year holiday.

The new guy whispered, "I have a senior brother who is one year older than me. He left last year. I heard that his annual salary this year is this much. Of course, it's in foreign currency. Doesn't he know that my senior sister is giving him so much?"

Old employee: "When I first joined the company, there wasn't that much. The few seniors who worked with my sister at the beginning only received dividends this year."

"What about later?"

“Every year.”

"That's it. It's worth it even if I work for five years and get dividends in the future."

The old employee once wanted to go abroad, but before he could tell Ye Fan about it, Ye Fan bought two courtyard houses. The others moved out, and he occupied a room downstairs alone, living comfortably. He also learned from the two courtyard houses that the company was doing very well, so he was reluctant to leave.

Ye Fan did not disappoint him. Although he did not receive any dividends, he received several thousand yuan in bonuses last year. With the salary he saved and his family giving him a little extra, he now also owns a house.

Although the house was too shabby to be lived in, he was a foreigner who had a house within four years of graduation, so what was there to complain about? None of his seniors, whether they were working abroad or in public institutions, had their own houses yet.

The old employee smiled and said, "Senior Sister likes people like you."

"Then how much bonus can I get this year as a newcomer?"

Old employee: "Aren't you helping my senior sister to improve a small game? When you sell it, I will definitely give you a bonus." He paused, "Including the year-end bonus, at least one thousand. I mean this year, don't ask me to make up for it if there is not so much later."

The newcomer smirked and shook his head.

Ye Fan did plan to give a bonus to the newcomers. For example, in addition to the salary and dividends, Ye Fan would also give the R&D team leader a bonus.

Everyone knows this.

If someone wants to get a bigger bonus, they can work overtime at night. But most people don't have a partner, and if one person eats well, the whole family will not be hungry, so they are too lazy to move after dinner.

This job is very brain-intensive, and Ye Fan does not force overtime, so many people have wanted to leave several times in recent years, but they all stayed in the end because the working environment is comfortable.

Geng Zhiye heard that Ye Fan's company only brought in money but never spent money, and he joked, "No wonder my two little ghosts have the temperament of Pixiu."

(End of this chapter)