The people in the lane used to go all the way to Guangdong to buy goods themselves. Now Wang Yue was shipping in large quantities directly, which was a very good thing for the vendors.
After all, buying directly from Hong Kong and Taiwan and arranging the transport themselves cut out the middlemen in Guangdong, who would otherwise take a share of the profits. Wang Yue could also make more money this way.
There was another, more important point: at the time, small-scale shipments weren't necessarily safe.
Of course, reselling goods without the proper legal paperwork wasn't allowed, so Li Yiming and Song Xiangyang had their retired parents apply for two business licenses.
Once Li Yiming's father got his license, he opened a window in the courtyard of their home and started selling goods through it.
Song Xiangyang's father, meanwhile, moved into a large compound and put up a simple shelter to store the goods.
After Wang Yue shipped the goods over, they went straight to Song Xiangyang's father's warehouse. From there, he followed the proper procedures to sell them to distributors. As for the business near the Cotton Mill, that was naturally handled by Li Yiming.
The goods were all in short supply, so business was booming. In less than a year, by the time Wang Yue started his first year of high school, the money he had had already multiplied several times over.
Li Yiming and Song Xiangyang had also become millionaires.
Wang Yue, however, kept a low profile. Though he had plenty of money, he carried on just as before, as if money were nothing more than an external thing.
Song Xiangyang and Li Yiming had initially been so excited that they were practically floating. Miraculously, their excitement soon settled, and they went back to work as