Chapter 253: Doing Good Depends on the Recipient
Chapter 253 Doing Good Deeds to the Right People
Mengyu took out ten thousand yuan from her bag: "Captain Uncle, I have prepared the startup capital."
Captain Ding did not expect that Mengyu would actually carry ten thousand yuan with her.
Captain Ding put on a serious face: "Where did you get this money from?"
That’s ten thousand yuan indeed, no wonder the bag she was carrying was so big!
"Captain Uncle, don’t worry, the money comes from a legitimate source." Mengyu explained how she found a blue and white porcelain bowl when she was picking through trash, considered it valuable, and last time took it to Beijing and sold it for fifty-five thousand yuan.
Mengyu shook her head: "Captain, just tell me, are we doing this or not?"
"Yes!" Captain Ding was very decisive: "Why not?" He felt happy for her when he heard that Mengyu could even find treasures while picking through trash.
In fact, prior to this, when the production team was in operation, Captain Ding had planned to set up a brick factory after noticing the high profits in brick manufacturing, but this year there was a directive on the division of production responsibilities to individual households, and he couldn’t proceed with the plan.
But Mengyu was right, if the production team couldn’t do it, private individuals could!
Captain Ding gestured emphatically: "This is your money for investment, I’ll work for you! I promise to make money for you!"
Mengyu smiled bitterly; she had come back to repay Captain Ding, not to exploit him.
"Captain, this is the money I lend you to set up the factory, not for investment!"
Captain Ding widened his eyes: "What did you say? You lend the money, and I get the profit? Mengyu, what do you take your Captain Uncle for?"
Captain Ding insisted on considering it Mengyu’s investment. In the end, the two agreed that the brick factory would belong to both of them. Mengyu was just responsible for the investment, and Captain Ding took care of the management.
At first, Captain Ding only agreed to take ten percent of the profits as his wage, but Mengyu insisted on a fifty-fifty split. Finally, after a long debate, Captain Ding agreed to a forty-sixty split, with him taking forty, and Mengyu sixty.
"An investment of ten thousand yuan is a bit small. Since you have fifty thousand, invest fifty thousand yuan, and keep five thousand yuan for your studies."
After signing the contract, Mengyu handed the ten thousand yuan in cash to Captain Ding, and then the two went to the bank in town to open an account. Mengyu deposited the remaining forty thousand into the account and handed all control over to Captain Ding.
Captain Ding was very grateful for her trust: "Rest assured, I will make the brick factory successful and not let you down."
Indeed, just manage a brick factory; As for tiles, in the future everyone would be building flat-roofed houses, tiles would not have much use, better to just run a brick factory.
In fact, in her previous life, Captain Ding had also set up a brick factory, but that was a few years later.
But because he had once helped Mengyu, he was seen as a thorn in Huaiyu’s side.
At that time, Huaiyu falsely acknowledged Mengyu’s birth mother as her own, and had plenty of money and people at her disposal. Under her suppression, the bricks made by Captain Ding’s factory could not be sold, leading to the factory’s closure and a complete financial loss,
This was rare in the eighties when almost every brick factory was profitable amid the construction boom.
She believed that in this life, without Huaiyu’s interference and with the road she had paved for him, he would surely carve out his own piece of the world.
What she didn’t expect was that with the brick factory as a starting point, Captain Ding’s vision broadened more and more.
Later, he felt that it was better to use the bricks himself than supply them to others. So, five years later, he rallied the villagers and set up a construction company, and ten years later, he established a real estate company.
What moved Mengyu the most was that he said his startup capital was provided by Mengyu; without her, there would be no today for him. Therefore, whatever he did, he never forgot to involve Mengyu. As a result, without doing much, Mengyu became a major shareholder of the real estate company, becoming a super-rich individual.
This was also beyond Mengyu’s expectations — oftentimes, good deeds do reap good rewards, it all depends on choosing the right people.
So, doing good deeds also means doing them for good people. Doing good deeds for the righteous surely brings good karma, while doing good for the wrong ones, you deserve to be laughed at.