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Chapter 5: Renting a Beach House and Customizing a Projector [Seeking Collection, Recommendation Tickets]

  "Whatever, other people's affairs are none of my business." Niu Bi thought to himself and was about to leave when he accidentally stepped on a broken tile, making a slight noise.

  "Who?"

  The rustling in the warehouse stopped abruptly. Zhang Hua came out, adjusting his clothes and looking flustered.

  "Niu Bi, wait!" Zhang Hua hastily shouted as he saw Niu Bi leaving.

  "You go on."

  Niu Bi turned around and smiled at Zhang Hua, then left directly.

  Niu Bi remembered that the second day after the incident, Shen Qian resigned. Although Zhang Hua didn't mention anything again, Niu Bi felt that his gaze towards him was cold and sinister.

  I saw something I shouldn't have seen, Zhang Hua thought to himself that he was leaving normally anyway, since his brother was also planning to quit, but you deducting my salary with a guilty conscience is not right.

  If you insist on making trouble, then I can only say sorry.

  On the other end of the phone, Zhang Hua fell silent for a moment. Shen Qian had already resigned, but he wasn't afraid that Niu Bi would expose him?

  After all, everything needs evidence, and the abandoned warehouse didn't have any surveillance cameras. What made Zhang Hua most resentful was that because of being discovered by Niu Bi, Xiao Qianqian proposed breaking up, which made Zhang Hua hate Niu Bi to the bone.

  Niu Bi's repeated absences gave Zhang Hua an opportunity.

  "I don't know what you're talking about! You never asked me for leave, nor did you let anyone pass on the message. 4 days of absenteeism means dismissal according to company rules." Zhang Hua thought to this point and finally made up his mind, secretly thinking: "You little brat, you made me lose my girlfriend, I'll make you bankrupt and jobless!"

  "Zhang Hua, you will regret doing this!"

  Niu Bi's tone turned gloomy and he hung up the phone with a bang.

  He has never been a weak character, and now that he has the Shuttle Gate, he will not compromise with anyone.

  Zhang Hua secretly made his move, he was not going to let him off easily.

  "Hehe."

  Zhang Hua lay on the office chair and stretched his waist, feeling a bit more comfortable in his heart.

  ......

  The cow had just hung up the phone, and the phone rang again.

  "Brother Niu, that Zhang Hua called you again, right? If you're in a bad mood, let's go grab a couple of drinks later, I'll treat!" said Chen Fang, Niu Bi's colleague and close friend.

  "It doesn't matter, I've already found a better job."

  "Really? That's great, let's go out and have a couple of drinks."

  On the other end of the phone, Chen Fang sat on the Simmons bed, picking at his toes and shaking off a layer of fat. He didn't ask anything, according to his understanding, Niu Bi must have lied about finding a job because he was afraid of losing face, and he wouldn't expose him.

  "Maybe some other time, I'm on my way to work now."

  Niu Bi didn't lie, he was on his way to work, but it was going to Shanghai Disneyland for work.

  With initial funding of 180,000 yuan.

  Next, Niu Bi will go to a VHS tape and video player manufacturer to take a look.

  He still remembered how backward the Mei Hua Theatre was.

  Old-fashioned cassette tapes, hand-cranked projectors...

  In reality, VHS tapes and some older film projectors would have been absolutely trendy items in the 1920s-30s Republican era!

  Reality.

  "What a wonderful world, after the flashlight short-circuited, it actually mutated and can communicate with the Shanghai beach world!!" Niu Bi sat on the sofa, staring at the flashlight in his hand, lost in thought.

  Damn it! The person didn't time-travel, but the flashlight did!

  The place where the flashlight shines can open a door leading to another world. Niu Bi feels that this cannot be explained by science at all!

  "The only thing that's not beautiful is that every time the teleportation door appears, it's in someone else's backyard, which is really inconvenient."

  Niu Bi had once spent 10 coppers to ask a newsboy, and found out that the house where Chuan Shim Men was located belonged to Hatao, a Jewish real estate businessman. It wasn't usually inhabited, so he arranged for servants to clean it up.

  The ox knew that it was always walking by the river, so how could its shoes not get wet?

  If one day I'm caught by the master as a thief, it's all over.

  There's another one, when the projector is returned, storage will be a problem.

  It's impossible to carry a projector and climb over someone else's wall, right?

  "It's essential to rent a house near the garden where the shuttle gate appears. Currently, funds are tight, and we'll consider buying Ha Tong's house later!" Niu Bi made up his mind and immediately entered the Shanghai world, renting a quadrangle house 50 meters away from Ha Tong Garden for 10 taels of silver.

  The lease term is 1 year.

  After finishing all this, Niu Bi returned to reality and boarded the train.

  His next stop is S sea.

  ......

  One day and one night later, Niu Bi rushed to Jiaodian Cultural Communication Co., Ltd. which he had contacted online.

  It's called a company, but it's actually a small workshop factory located in S Haibao Bridge District.

  The one who greeted him was a young man in his mid-twenties, and upon seeing Niu Bi, he hastily stood up and extended his hand. "Hello, I'm Hu Jianyun, the general manager of Jiaodian Company. Our company mainly undertakes the production of projectors, VCD players, video tapes, CDs, etc."

  Niu Jie took the tea handed over by Hu Jianyun, looked around the office and said: "Hello, Mr. Hu, I'm the one who called you a few days ago to inquire about this. Can your company produce those 30s-40s style projectors and matching film reels?"

  "Oh, I remember! Sir, with all due respect, in this electronic technology era, that kind of thing is no longer marketable. Are you sure you want to...?" Hu Jianyun was very puzzled, as he could produce those old-style projectors and video tapes here.

  But that kind of old-fashioned projector tape is estimated that even fools won't buy it, and there's no point in collecting it either.

  A few days ago someone called for consultation and he didn't take it seriously.

  Unexpectedly, the person who was consulted actually rushed over directly.

  Is this guy crazy?

  "Hu, I want an old-fashioned film projector from the 30s or 40s, along with a set of tapes to go with it. If you can do it to my satisfaction, we can talk about the price. This is the deposit." Niu Bi tossed out 5,000 yuan in cash, the bright red bills indicating he wasn't joking.

  Niu Bi knows that the beach drama is between the 1920s and 1930s, so bringing a 30s or 40s film projector over would be totally trendy!

  Seeing the thick wad of cash, Hu Jianyun hastily put it away and said, "It can be done, it can be done, I guarantee your satisfaction!"

  Kidding, it's foolish not to make money when you can!

  "Mr. Niu, you've really come to the right company."

  In the warehouse of Jiaodian Company, Hu Jianyun pointed to three old-fashioned projectors and said, "My grandfather had a hobby of collecting things from the Republic of China period. These three motorized projectors were left behind by him, one of which can still be used with some effort. What do you think?"

  Seeing the old-fashioned motor projector projecting onto the canvas on the wall, Niu Bi was shocked beyond words. The quality of things back then was unparalleled, and it's been so many years, yet it still works!

  "Mr. Niu, how are you feeling?"

  "That's it!"

  Niu Mou stroked the mottled projector and nodded, on the base of which could be faintly seen the words "Made in 1948".

  "That's okay, I'll make a replica according to this model and material for you. How many units do you want?"

  "First, let's make twenty units. Then, the matching video tapes, two hundred of them. Oh, and for the video tapes, I only want those movies from the 30s and 40s that have a film source."

  "Got it!"

  Hu Jianyun hastily nodded. "That's right, this kind of projector has been extinct in the market, and no one else will want it except you. We have some spare parts here, but a small portion needs to be remade with new molds, and the cost incurred will be borne by you."

  "You go ahead and calculate it, how much money."

  Niu Bi thought for a moment, and it was indeed the case. The old-fashioned projector had already lost its appeal in the 21st century, unless someone else also had a flashlight to navigate through the door.

  Niu Bi estimated that later he would still come to buy a projector.

  "I've made a rough calculation, the motorized projector is 550 yuan per unit, the matching video tape is 75 yuan per set, and the customized template fee is 3000 yuan, for a total of 29,000 yuan." Hu Jianyun was indeed a businessman, directly calculating it silently.

  Niu Bi used an X20 calculator to calculate it and nodded his head.

  Jiaodian Cultural Broadcasting Co., Ltd. is simply a shanzhai company that specializes in counterfeiting various video recorders, DVD players and records on the market, and then selling them at low prices.

  However, for Niu Bi, whether it's a knockoff or not is not a big deal.

  Niu Bi seems to have found the right person, Hu Jianyun's grandfather happened to collect old projector templates. Whether there are templates elsewhere is another matter. After paying a deposit of 15,000 yuan, both parties agreed to pick up the goods three days later.

  ......

  "According to S's emphasis on the VHS tape, I wonder how many gold bars this projector and tape can sell!" Niu Bi sat in a restaurant by the Huangpu River, looking at the bright night view outside the window, with great anticipation.

  "This restaurant's signature dish is really good!"

  The cow rubbed its swollen belly, feeling a mix of emotions.

  Having a warm wallet makes all the difference. Thinking back, I used to go to low-end restaurants by the roadside, and going twice a month was already the best I could do.

  Most of the time, stir-fry with vegetable powder is enough for a meal, and occasionally adding an egg is considered a luxury.

  "Thanks to the flashlight, I was able to dodge it!"

  Niu Bi walked along the Huangpu River, thinking to himself, "This thing is my guarantee of rising to power, I must not lose it!"

  Now he sleeps with a flashlight in his arms and looks at it from time to time when walking, for fear of losing it.

  For three days, Niu Bi didn't go anywhere and didn't enter the S Beach World. The hotels here, who knows if there are cameras in the rooms? If the sliding door is captured by a camera, then it's exposed.

  With nothing to do, I used my mobile phone to buy 100 coal oil lighters online, 30 quartz watches for 3-4 yuan each, and some other things, and had them mailed to Xiushui County.

  The total cost was nearly 6,000 to 7,000 yuan.

  ......

  "Mr. Niu, these projectors have all been tested and are working properly, aren't you satisfied?"

  Hu Jianyun pointed at the 20 projectors in the warehouse and two boxes of video tapes, saying to Niu Bi.

  Just now, Niu Bi tried out 20 units of motorized projectors by himself, playing the movie "Yu Guang Qu" shot in the 30s and 40s. The picture was smooth and very good, although it couldn't compare to the audio-visual quality of modern times, but it was a big improvement compared to those hand-cranked ones that would stop every now and then at the Mei Hua theater.

  Niubie believes that if S Beach World is released, it will definitely trigger a film storm.

  "Satisfied, satisfied, if it's good, I'll come again next time." Niu Bi said with a nod, feeling very satisfied in his heart.

  Pack immediately and send by SF Express.

  Niu Bi was preparing to take a plane back to Xiushui County.

  He decided to open a convenience store in his own house despite the flashlight passing through the door.

  ......

  "Cloud brother, you said this person spent tens of thousands of yuan to buy so many useless antiques, what's the point?"

  The beautiful secretary looked at Niu Bi's departing figure and asked in confusion, "He can't be an idiot, does he have a problem with his brain?"

  "I thought so too at first, but I found that he spoke clearly and logically. He must have had some unknown use for buying a projector!" Hu Jianyun also felt strange about Niu Bi's behavior. If it was just for decoration, it would be enough to get a model, no need to spend tens of thousands.

  However, Hu Jianyun was welcoming in his heart, who doesn't make money if they can?

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