It was already six in the afternoon when they got home.
Song Yanxi was busy in the kitchen preparing the New Year's Eve dinner; everyone would still eat together in the evening.
Xiao Anan, hugging her small tablet, walked with a pace that ignored everyone around her.
With the tablet in hand, and games to play, it was useless for anyone to call her.
As for Chen Pingsheng, he took his newly bought laptop to the room, plugged in the network cable, and booted it up directly.
All the way there, he had actually been thinking about a problem.
Based on his current income, without counting the random multiplier from his cheat, he would basically earn between 250,000 and 300,000 a year.
Selling durian on the street plus doing various odd jobs, that was the upper limit.
If the random multiplier was added, taking an average value, he could earn roughly between 1.2 million and 1.5 million a year.
This income, even in Beijing, a city full of talented people, was definitely not low.
Definitely high-income earners.
Chen Pingsheng felt it wasn't enough; if he wanted to buy a two-hundred-square-meter house within six months.
A full payment for a house within the Third Ring Road would be around six million, and a 30% down payment would require 1.8 million.
His current savings are just over 300,000, which means he still needs to save 1.5 million within these six months.
This was undoubtedly very stressful, as durian wouldn't sell as well after the New Year.
He also couldn't earn eighty or ninety thousand in ten days like he did during the New Year.
It seems he still needs to find more other money-making opportunities.
If he really bought a big house, he also wanted to bring his Xiao Mei and parents from home to live in Beijing.
He checked online and found that almost all the big shots were saying the era of mobile internet had arrived.
The best business was to get into other people's phones.
This principle wasn't hard to understand, but the key was that he simply didn't have the capability.
The current internet giants BAT were fighting tooth and nail to capture the mobile terminal market.
They would invest tens or even hundreds of billions at the drop of a hat.
The emergence of any new trend like food delivery or shared bikes was a capital feast.
They offered crazy subsidies to grab market share.
These were not things he could currently participate in; he had to wait and see where the opportunities were.
After checking for a while and finding the laptop quite easy to use, Chen Pingsheng came out to make dumplings.
Anyway, let's get through this New Year first.
After eating the New Year's Eve dinner, everyone watched the Spring Festival Gala together.
In 2012, Yang Mi rose to top-tier fame with "Gong".
Liu Shi Shi also successfully created her classic drama "Scarlet Heart".
Closely following was Tiffany Tang; three of the '85 flowers' had already taken their place.
The one with the strongest acting skills was currently still living in a cheap rental with them, eating the simplest and warmest New Year's Eve dinner.
On the first day of the New Year, Chen Pingsheng didn't go anywhere and just stayed home to watch TV with his wife and child.
Where they were from, you couldn't go out on the first day, and you couldn't sweep the garbage out of the house, as it would affect the year's wealth.
On the second day, under the warm winter sun, he and Zhang Tao rode the tricycle together to sell durian.
When he came home after a day of selling, his income had indeed dropped significantly; business was much worse after the New Year.
However, the net income was still just under a thousand.
During the day, Song Yanxi took Xiao Anan to visit the Forbidden City. They had just bought a new car, and the little one hadn't been there before, so they took advantage of the less crowded holiday period to go play.
The little one was extremely excited and kept pulling him to talk as soon as they got home.
"Husband, why did I hear from people in the courtyard that the new large fruit supermarket is being transferred?"
Not far from them was an old residential area with about two to three thousand households. Because there were so many residents, the storefronts in the community were very sought after.
The new fruit store was a typical example of not lacking money; they directly took four of the best storefronts, knocked down the walls, and specialized in selling fruit.
When it first opened, Chen Pingsheng often heard the small fruit vendors say that the investment couldn't be less than a million.
He didn't expect that in less than three months, there would be news that it was closing down.
This was actually not strange at all. In the years Chen Pingsheng had been selling durian, he had seen many outsiders who thought selling fruit was highly profitable.
Many people rushed in without understanding anything.
And then ran out empty-handed.
He had actually gone to see the new store when it opened; the decoration was indeed the best around here.
The investor was most likely a second-generation rich kid, whose family had some money, but not a huge amount.
"You already know? It seems they really can't keep it going."
Song Yanxi made him a cup of hot tea. Since her Husband went to earn money on the second day of the New Year, she naturally had to fulfill her duties as a wife when he returned home.
However, she still had some other ideas.
"Husband, what do you think of that location? Do you think we could manage it well?"
After so many years of marriage, he knew what his wife was thinking just by the way she moved.
Now that she said this, Chen Pingsheng naturally understood that she had an idea.
After thinking for a moment, he said, "That location is naturally not a problem. Look at how much foot traffic there was when it first opened. The reason they couldn't keep it going for just three months, I think, is mainly because the Boss didn't know the business, and also wasn't very dedicated. He didn't even pick out the spoiled fruit in his store, which really affected the customer experience. After a while, no one would want to go there anymore."
Song Yanxi gritted her teeth: "Then, Husband, what do you think about us taking it over?"
"How did you suddenly become so bold?"
Chen Pingsheng was surprised: "That store invested at least over a million. Just the transfer fee cost over 300,000, plus decoration and cold storage. If we want to take it over, it definitely won't work without five or six hundred thousand."
"I just think you have the ability to do it well."
Song Yanxi held his hand and said, "Others may not understand you, but I do. If it weren't for marriage holding you back all these years, you would have started your own business long ago. Now that there's such a good opportunity, we should at least give it a try."
"Besides, haven't you been in the fruit business for three or four years? If we want to start a business, there's nothing more suitable than opening a fruit supermarket."
That was true.
It must be said, Chen Pingsheng was indeed very tempted by his wife's suggestion.
Most people like him who sell fruit eventually go on to open fruit stores.
Or they do wholesale.
Wholesale is out of the question; you can't even get started without a few million.
So a fruit supermarket became the first choice.
Don't think he couldn't come up with five or six hundred thousand on his own; borrowing a hundred thousand from Zhang Tao and others would be easy.
If he had his wife's support for this, he could really do it.
Chen Pingsheng said, "Wife, if I lose money on this, let alone buying a house in six months, your Audi might even have to be sold."
"Sell it then."
Song Yanxi said firmly, "Husband, you're turning thirty this year. For the first ten years, you helped your family build a house, and then you had to shelter our mother and daughter from wind and rain. Now it's time for you to fight for yourself. Anyway, if we lose money, I'll sell the car and go with you to pedal the tricycle and sell durian on the street."
Since his wife had said this, if he still hesitated, it would be too unmanly.
The key was that he himself was also very interested.