Chapter 032.1: Carrying Goods [1]
Author: He Feng Yang
Translator: HeXie
Editor: Larkspur
Chapter 032.1: Carrying Goods [1]
By the time Wu Ye got home, Pang Zhi had already delivered the goods he wanted. There were several boxes packed full with things worth several hundreds of jin. Originally, Pang Zhi wanted to have a proper chat with Wu Ye, but at the time, he was not around. And while he was waiting in his house, the company called and said that there’s a matter that he needed to deal with personally.
Since the fall of the Wu family, Pang Zhi’s life was not as smooth as before. Under the instigation of those mistresses and illegitimate children, his old man began to blame him for not having eyes and nose all day long.
Since Pang Zhi was a smooth and meticulous guy, he managed to make people think that there were no problems. However, he had to live with his tail tucked between his legs. So, when he received the call, he didn’t dare to stay any longer. Several times, he had not given in to Father Wu’s persuasion to stay back, and left the house after receiving the payment for the things at the cost price.
Wu Ye checked the goods one by one, noting that almost everything had the basic info printed, like the product names, place of production, and the manufacturer’s details on the packaging. The small candy wrappers too had a list of ingredients printed on them.
Sweets and chocolates were still alright. It’s not that difficult to repackage it. But, what about goods like compressed biscuits, snickers, and whole milk powder? When these goods were un-packaged, they were easy to get moldy. These goods were real luxuries in Lan Cheng, so the sales turnover rate for these things was definitely not as fast as the rate they were going to get musty.
What should we do?
Looking at his son’s anxious face, Father Wu’s heart was worried. He took a look at the goods, looking at it over and over again, before an idea struck him. “Look at how foolish you are! Don’t you know how to buy a vacuum packaging machine?”
At that, Wu Ye incessantly nodded his head. “This method is a good one. Hua Peng should have a whole range of those. I should ask him to help me get a good one.”
Hua Peng’s family’s foreign trade business was very big. Thus, everything was in a mess, and there was indeed a wide range of products available to them. So, at noon, when Hua Peng got Wu Ye’s call, he sent over someone to deliver an imported vacuum packaging machine to the latter’s that very afternoon.
The delivery man not only helped install it, but also taught them how to operate the machine. Furthermore, he also brought several boxes of plastic bags of different specifications for Wu Ye.
The vacuum packaging machine that Hua Peng bought for Wu Ye had complete features and was easy to operate. The only problem was the fact that it took a lot of time and energy disassembling and reassembling the goods. Wu Ye was only able to do it for more than 100 packets of compressed biscuits before he started to holler in grief.
“Old man, why don’t we just open a food processing factory? Wait, no. Just a small workshop is enough. As long as someone can do these things for us.” As Wu Ye spoke, the more sensible, he thought, his idea was.
Besides, he had to stay in the world of zombies for at least a year. He couldn’t do it like this all the time. Not to mention only having three products for a long time would make people in that world suspicious, even their neighbors, upstairs and downstairs, would be wondering.
Furthermore, the gold, diamond, jade, and other precious stones he’d brought back from the zombie’s world must have a proper platform for some of it to be openly sold, right?
Father Wu took one pack of compressed biscuits and proceeded to open it. However, he accidentally broke a corner of the compressed biscuit. For a moment, he was silent before he spoke out. “I have never been in this industry. And, everyone has their own secret recipe for their good food. Furthermore, the crux of the matter is the fact that our name has been blackened. Who would we sell our products to?”
“I’ll take some and sell it over there. I’ll give the rest to Pang Zhi for free, for promotion purposes.”
“Nonsense, if the products are not good, even if you give it to others for free, they won’t want them. Are you trying to muck up the business’ reputation?”
Father Wu’s ability to create his own business from scratch didn’t only depend on his unique vision and past opportunities, but also on excellent quality he delivered. And, in the past, those points enabled Father Wu to have a firm foothold in the business circle. So, Father Wu, who had been long since used to preparing products of good quality, before it’s launch in the market, didn’t think highly of Wu Ye’s idea of muddling along.
Second Young Master Wu went on prattling his rotten idea aloud, “If worse comes to worst, we’ll spend some money to get headhunters ‘obtain’ some recipes for us. If not, we’ll have them poach some core-talent for us. Anyway, we aren’t planning to make it a large factory either.”
“The more you speak, the more unreliable your idea becomes.” Father Wu glared at him. “Who will sell good recipes to others? Do you think those you can poach with just money can be the company’s backbone? You can’t keep them if they’re truly the backbone.”