171: Hiring workers: Ginseng transporters!
Xiao Chen chuckled, quickly shook his head, and hid the ink jade behind his back as if guarding his food.
"Your boss is a boss, and you're afraid of losing your boss, but what makes you think I'm not afraid of losing mine? No way. Chen Kai sold this to me, so I'm afraid of losing my boss too!"
A Tao immediately got anxious and hurriedly tried to argue his case.
"That... that's different. My boss needs it urgently, while your boss doesn't. If nothing else, I can sell it and give you a cut."
"Besides, if you lose your boss, you lose your boss—it's not like they're important, right? I can't afford to lose my boss; this is a big client!"
Xiao Chen's mouth twitched. "Are you dreaming? My Sister Li is one of our shop's biggest bosses. Your boss is important, but mine isn't?"
"Are you crazy, or am I? Why would I sell to you instead of my own client??"
"I can even take this opportunity to build a relationship with my client. I have the ink jade that can't be found anywhere else in the market."
A Tao got anxious again. "Oh, why are you so selfish? My boss is so important! Can't your boss wait a bit? What if ink jade imports resume in a couple of days?"
Xiao Chen gave a disdainful laugh, and as he spoke, he prepared to shoo him away.
"Then why don't you wait two days?"
"Who's the selfish one here? You want me to sell to your boss instead of mine? What are you thinking? No wonder Chen Kai wouldn't sell to you!"
With that, he pushed A Tao out of the shop.
...
After heading out and getting into the mercedes-benz gle, Chen Kai drove toward the Rental House. It was getting late, and he needed to wait for the ginseng to arrive the next morning so he could go talk to the ginseng water company.
Once the goods were delivered the next morning, a large-scale plant disease outbreak in ginseng would likely begin by the evening, causing ginseng prices to soar and the supply chain to break.
That would be the day for him to negotiate with the ginseng water company.
Chen Kai thought about this, stepped on the gas, and returned to the Rental House. Once back, he lay on the bed and scrolled through TikTok.
He hadn't been scrolling for long when a message from Tang Yunshu popped up.
【Tang Yunshu: Wow! Brother, you are too amazing!?! maotai liquor shares have fallen even further than before. The financial circle is already up in arms!】
【Even our professor is posting on Moments condemning maotai liquor shares. Wow, they've all lost quite a bit of money.】
【Brother, you're just too amazing. Otherwise, both of us would have lost so much money. Someone who invested a million lost more than half!!】
Chen Kai smiled faintly. "It's fine, I just made a prediction in advance. I didn't expect it to actually be correct."
【I don't care, Brother is just too amazing. Your eye for this is even better than the professor's! Awesome!】
【As expected of my man, so amazing!】
Chen Kai smiled faintly, then checked the time—it was exactly twelve o'clock. He opened the daily intelligence system to check today's intelligence.
【Ding!】
【Today's intelligence refreshed!】
【Today's Intermediate Intelligence refreshed: Before 3:00 PM today, inside the trash can at the East Gate of Nanmen Residential Quarter, there is an iPad case. Inside the lining of the case, there is a Zhongquan Thirty, a currency from the Xin Mang dynasty. A child had been playing with the copper coin and liked to stuff things everywhere, so they stuffed it into the iPad case, forgot to take it out, and then forgot about it. The owner threw the old iPad case into the trash can because they wanted to replace it.】
【Suggested selling price: 49,000 yuan.】
Upon seeing today's intelligence, Chen Kai was immediately delighted.
Finally, it was another chance to Score a Bargain on a copper coin—not some intelligence that required a huge investment or a long cycle.
It had been several days since he received intelligence like this, which had a low cost for Scoring a Bargain and could be handled in a single day.
Kids really love stuffing coins and similar things into very narrow spaces.
They can manage to stuff them in, and they only feel satisfied when they're completely inside, but whether they can get them out is another story. Afterward, they just turn around and go off to play; if they can't get it out, they just leave it.
If they can't get it out, they won't tell you. When you discover it and ask them, they'll guiltily stammer an answer or just pretend they don't know.
Chen Kai rubbed his hands in excitement. It was another currency from the Xin Mang dynasty; currency from this period was quite rare.
Thinking this, he set an alarm. There was quite a lot to do tomorrow. He had to go to the cold storage first and hire people to put the ginseng on the shelves.
He also had to supervise the whole process; it was better to be safe than sorry. If the people he hired secretly did something, he wouldn't be able to detect it—after all, there were over 20,000 ginseng roots.
If a few hundred were missing, he wouldn't be able to tell, but the impact on his profit would be a real loss.
That meant he had to arrive at the Labor Market before 6:00 AM tomorrow to hire people to put the ginseng on the shelves. Once the ginseng was delivered, he would only have six or seven hours to get it all shelved.
Once the ginseng was all shelved, he would have to rush without stopping to the residential quarter to Score a Bargain on the ancient copper coin.
After Scoring a Bargain on the copper coin, he had to go home immediately. This was the second-to-last day before jade imports resumed, which, for him, meant it was the final day. Those Little foreigners would definitely leak the news a day in advance, making it hard for him to sell after that.
After getting the ink jade, he had to go sell it, and only after that could he go to Zheng Liu Chang's place to sell him the copper coin.
With four things to do tomorrow, Chen Kai immediately felt his scalp tingle.
"Forget it, forget it! Things are already like this, so I might as well get some sleep!"
"I have to sleep early to wake up early!"
...
The next morning, Chen Kai woke up early at 5:30 AM; he hadn't slept for many hours at all.
After getting up and washing up, he hurriedly changed his clothes, went downstairs, got into the mercedes-benz gle, and rushed toward the Talent Market.
In less than half an hour, he arrived at the local Talent Market. The market was packed, filled with people waiting to be hired.
There were also many people looking for jobs like painting walls or manual labor.
This time, Chen Kai mainly wanted to hire female workers. Putting ginseng on shelves wasn't strenuous work; it was just like an assembly line in an electronics factory.
Men, on the other hand, tended to be a bit too careless and rushed.
As soon as he parked the car and rolled down the window, a crowd swarmed to the side of his car.
Each of their faces was very plain, and their eyes held impatient anticipation.
"Boss, are you hiring? We can do anything!"
"Boss, do you need a bricklayer? Two hundred a day!"
Seeing this, Chen Kai coughed dryly.
"I'm looking for female workers who are meticulous."
As soon as he said this, many of the Male Workers consciously stepped back, while some female workers with cloths on their heads squeezed toward the front of the car.
"Boss! What kind of work is it? I'm very meticulous!"
"Yes, yes, yes! How many people do you need, Boss?"
Chen Kai smiled faintly. "Putting ginseng on shelves. I need three people."
The main thing was that his car could only seat three people, and the warehouse wasn't large enough to accommodate that many.