allonlinenovel Chapter 124 Let’s get straight to the point
Chapter 124 Let’s get straight to the point
"This rice mill has been bought for nearly eight years and has paid for itself long ago. However, the production team has no money to buy a new one, so the team leader and everyone in the production team treasures this rice mill very much." Liang Liangduo did not hear that Song Cenyue had asked about this on purpose, and thought she was just asking casually out of curiosity, so he told her everything truthfully.
"You've bought it nearly eight years ago, so you must have taken good care of it. Usually, things that are nearly eight years old would be very old, but this rice mill is still about 60% to 70% new!" Song Cenyue praised, thinking that it would be good if he could make a profit. He had to ask more details, such as how many years it would take to make a profit.
I will leave here when I take the college entrance examination, which is three years later. I don’t know if I can make back my investment in three years.
"That's right, I cherish and care for this rice mill as if it were my own son... No, I cherish and care for it even more than my own son!" Liang Duoliang's eyebrows curved when he was praised.
"This rice milling machine has already paid for itself. I heard you say that only private team members who come to mill rice will be charged, and the investment can be recovered by collecting money from them. There are quite a lot of team members coming to mill rice. Can they collect one dollar a day?" Song Cenyue asked.
If I directly ask how many years it will take for the rice mill to pay back, Liang Duoliang might become suspicious, so it’s better to ask in a different way: asking how much the rice mill can earn in a day, and then I’ll know how long it will take to pay back.
If you can earn one dollar a day, you can get your investment back in less than a year, because the rice mill was bought for 283.5 yuan. As long as you can earn an average of one dollar a day, you can get your investment back in 284 days, not even a year.
There are 365 days in a year, minus the Chinese New Year days, when people in rural areas will take a break. No one will come to work to mill rice. Even if there are more than 350 days in a year, a rice milling machine can earn more than 350 yuan a day.
Rice mills are very profitable.
"Not during the off-season. There are peak seasons and off-seasons for rice milling. During the off-season, only three or four households come to mill rice a day. But no matter how off-season it is, there will always be people coming to mill rice. Even during the worst season, there will be one or two households a day...
But during the peak season, there are a lot of people coming here, 20 to 30 people coming here to buy rice every day. When business is at its best, there are 40 to 50 people coming here to buy rice every day. Even people from the production team next door come here...
Although the production team next door also has a rice mill, there are more people there than in our team. During the peak season, there are many people milling rice. If the people in the production team next door have to wait for several days to mill rice, they will think of coming here to mill rice. We don’t have so many people here, so we don’t have to wait so long to mill rice.”
Liang Liangduo still didn't think much about it. He answered Song Cenyue's questions truthfully and revealed a lot of details.
I didn't expect that people from the production team next door would come here to grind rice during the peak season.
According to Liang Liangduo, although business is very bad during the off-season, at the worst time, only one or two families come to buy rice a day, which means they can only earn one or two cents...
But during the peak season, there will be 20 to 30 families coming to mill rice, which means they can earn 2 to 3 yuan. When the crowds are the most, there will be 40 to 50 families coming to mill rice, which means they can earn 4 to 5 yuan.
The more I listened, the more I felt that I had to buy this rice mill. Not only could I use it myself, but I could also make money from others.
I just don't know how many days the peak season usually lasts and how many days the off-season lasts. Judging from the poor harvest at this time and the shortage of food in every household, the off-season will definitely be longer and the peak season will be shorter.
"There are so many people coming to grind rice during the peak season, you must be exhausted! How many days does the peak season usually last? If there are many days, you will have a hard time." Song Cenyue asked what she wanted to know without leaving a trace.
"The peak season usually lasts for more than ten days, almost half a month. I am exhausted every time during that half a month. It is really hard... So don't think my job is easy. My job is not that easy. For example, during the peak season, I have to get up before dawn to watch the rice milling machine until midnight...
Because there are too many people during the peak season, and they are afraid of having to queue if they arrive too late, so they come to thresh rice before daybreak and won’t leave until the rice is threshed, so they have to work until midnight.” Liang Liangduo replied.
The peak season is only half a month, which means you can only earn a few dollars a day in half a month, but if it's better, you can earn fifty dollars in more than half a month during the peak season.
I wonder if the time outside the peak season is the off-season?
Song Cenyue was about to ask, but she was caught off guard by an unexpected voice. "Xiao Song, Xiao Liang, why are you together?"
The captain's voice!
Hearing the voice, Song Cenyue and Liang Liangduo were stunned for a moment, then they looked in the direction of the sound and found Zhang Shengjin standing a few dozen meters away to the south, looking at them curiously.
"We just happened to meet and chatted for a few minutes." Liang Liangduo was a little flustered because of the rice mill, and hurriedly shook his head and shouted.
Even though the rice mill was repaired, he still felt guilty.
Zhang Shengjin frowned slightly, "Just keep talking, why are you shaking your head!" It was so confusing!
Why is Liang Liang so panicked! The rice mill has been repaired, and I promised him that I would not tell the captain that the rice mill was broken. Song Cenyue shook her head in her heart.
"Uncle Captain, good morning... You're a little late this morning!" Song Cenyue walked towards Zhang Shengjin and greeted him with a faint smile on her face.
"Good morning... I got up late today, so I came a little late... But you didn't come early today, but a little late!" Zhang Shengjin nodded and laughed.
Because they met, naturally Zhang Shengjin, Song Cenyue and Liang Liangduo went to the drying yard together.
When they arrived at the drying yard, Zhang Shengjin began to divide the work. Song Cenyue's work today was the same as yesterday.
After Song Cenyue was assigned the work, she did not leave to work immediately like she did yesterday, but stood still. She had something to say to the team leader.
But there are too many people here and the team leader is busy dividing up the work, so it's not good to disturb him. So she wants to wait until the team leader has finished dividing up the work and everyone has left before talking to him.
After Zhang Jinsheng assigned work to everyone, he saw that everyone had left except Song Cenyue, who had been assigned the work a long time ago and had not left yet. A hint of doubt flashed in his eyes.
"Girl, why are you still standing here? Do you have something to tell me alone?" Zhang Shengjin went up to Song Cenyue and asked.
Song Cenyue nodded, "Uncle, I have something I want to ask you, and I want your help."
"What's the matter?" Zhang Shengjin asked curiously.
"I have some spare money, and I thought it would be better to use it to do something. I saw that the production team had a rice mill. Whether it was public grain or the private grain distributed by the team members, the production team relied on this rice mill to grind rice...
I heard that there is also a peak season for rice milling. During the peak season, there will be dozens of people queuing up every day, and it is simply too busy to handle it...
I was thinking that why not I take out some money to buy a rice mill for the team to use. It would be free of charge to mill the public grain rice for the production team. If the team members or people from other production teams came to mill rice, I would charge 10 cents.
This will help the production team, and I can also make some money, which is good for both me and the production team! Uncle, do you think it's okay?" Song Cenyue didn't beat around the bush and went straight to the point.