Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The longer she lived in the capital, the more she understood it.
Gu Qingyao had discovered that tis had not progressed as rapidly as she imagined they would.
She had lived in the capital for a long ti in her previous life, but she did not really understand what was happening there at that ti. In her previous life, she had lived first in her hotown, then after she moved to the capital, she had shut herself in for a long ti, just staying ho and avoiding others.
When Mo Beihan had ti, he would bring her out, but they always went away to have fun. She did not really understand how the capital was developing.
She knew the general trend of how the era developed, but she was only just realizing how poor the current economy was.
With the Gu family’s background, the Qiao family’s support and the Mo family’s adoration, plus her many years overseas, she had witnessed what prosperity looked like. She had plenty of money and excellent foresight. To her, money was insignificant.
But the longer she lived there, the more she realized that the capital was not prospering at this ti.
Even the suburbs of the capital were no different from the villages. The farrs still led very hard lives and barely had enough to eat.
She had always remained within an environnt where everything was the best and had not realized many things.
As realization dawned, she began to change her business structure. That was why she had earlier suggested that her older cousin in the Qiao family design clothes that were targeted at the general population as the main consurs.
At the ti, China had difficulty supporting any endeavors that required huge expenditure. But small businesses were doing very well because there was very little competition.
She suddenly thought of Gu Fangting and Jiang Xun. The two young people had begun with an ordinary little restaurant, and they were doing very well. Every ti she saw them, they were wearing content smiles.
Their eyes were filled with hope for the future.
By contrast, she was struggling with sothing on the level of Jin Jiang Restaurant.
If the capital developed in later years, this city could support five or six branches of Jin Jiang Restaurant. The consurs in the capital could afford it. But now, a single restaurant was enough.
Rather, it was the smaller restaurants that were crowded.
She thought about the huge quantities of goods in her interspace. She would have to find a way to move them.
***
Gu Qingyao looked for three days before she found a shop space that she wanted.
The space was quite small, only 400 square ters in area. Gu Qingyao wanted to start a small supermarket. This size was really too small for a supermarket.
The space was not on the main streets of the capital, but on a side street which was cheaper. The shop space had a fairly good location on that street. Gu Qingyao had studied the traffic flow there. This place was relatively crowded.
So she spent 160,000 yuan and bought it.
To Gu Qingyao, spending 160,000 yuan on a 400-square-ter shop space was like buying cabbages.
Then she thought of current salaries. Ordinary people worked so hard to farm the land, and after a year’s hard work, a family could only earn about 180 yuan. Most people with jobs earned a salary of about 40 to 60 yuan. To them, 160,000 yuan was a vast sum.
She suddenly thought of a phrase that beca common in later years.
As the price of houses rose, many people said that if they had known, they would have bought when prices were cheaper.. So many and so many years ago, prices were only 1,000 or 2,000 yuan per square ter. Who knew that it would rise to tens of thousands in later years?
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