Chapter 191: 190. Old House Auction (Ambiguous Alliance+5)

After sitting down, Hans shouted: "Allah Akbar, two spicy fried rice with chicken, two kebabs, and a plate of fried lamb balls."

A man with a big beard and a white cap turned his head and repeated in broken English: "Chicken fried rice is spicy, what about kebabs?"

"hot!"

"Okay, hot!" The man turned around and began to work with two children of obvious Middle Eastern descent.

Hans said: "The fried rice and barbecue here are very authentic. The fried lamb meatballs are charred on the outside and tender on the inside. Believe me, you will be tempted by the delicious food later."

Li Du smiled and said, "I'm looking forward to it."

The reason why this night market is so prosperous is that small vendors can evade taxes. After all, the people from the tax bureau are off work at this point.

For many vendors, the saved taxes can improve their lives very well, so slowly, more and more merchants come here to participate in the night market.

Li Du asked: "Is it just because people from the tax bureau don't work at this point? I don't think so. If the tax bureau wants to investigate these tax evaders, they will probably be willing to stay up all night."

Hans said: "This market has existed for a long time. It has existed since the end of World War II. At that time, it was a place for the poor to barter. Everyone bartered to avoid paying taxes."

"Later, there were fewer and fewer people in the old school, and everyone was still used to using money for transactions, but the tax bureau has gotten used to not collecting taxes here, and it has formed a small tax-free zone."

At this time, the fried lamb meatballs were brought up. A plate of lamb meatballs was pinched small and fried until golden brown. Cheese, salad dressing, tomato sauce, chili powder, cumin powder and other condiments were placed around the plate.

Li Du dipped it in chili powder and tasted it. Except for the outer skin, the mutton inside was very tender and fragrant.

Looking at the market with people coming and going, he asked while eating meat: "It seems to be a mess here. Aren't the police worried that some people are engaging in some illegal transactions here?"

"You mean unique products, right?"

"right."

Hans said: "This is another reason why the market has survived until now, that is, all merchants have to sign a contract at the beginning of entering, and the contract states that if there is something bad that threatens the existence of the bazaar, all merchants must come forward to deal with it." struggle."

Li Du suddenly said: "That is to say, if there are independent dealers or underground casinos here, all the dealers have to drive them away?"

"right."

As Hans said, he picked up a skewer of roasted lamb, and the mutton fat was still sizzling. He opened his mouth and tore off a large piece of meat, and then grinned his teeth hotly: "Excellent!"

Li Du was still curious: "Our hometown has a slang saying that a snake can't do without a head. If no one leads them, will the vendors take the initiative to fight against these evil forces?"

"Of course, this is a tradition here, and everyone responds to it." Hans became impatient, "Why do you care about this? Eat honestly."

Li Du said: "Of course I want to take care of it, I have an idea, buddy."

Hans frantically licked the skewers, and asked in his spare time: "What do you think?"

Li Du said: "Every time we participate in an auction, we always get a pile of garbage. Disposing of garbage every time is a headache, so why don't we set up a similar flea market?"

Hans blinked blankly and said, "I don't understand."

Li Du said: "What I mean is, we can find an open space, and then pile up the garbage and second-hand goods we get each time."

"That way, if someone is interested in our second-hand stuff, he can take it for free, but he also has to take the rubbish with the second-hand stuff."

Hans looked at him strangely, and said, "Then why don't we sell those second-hand goods and use the money we earn to dispose of the garbage?"

Li Du said: "First, our second-hand goods may not be sold in time; second, the money is too little to be worth the trouble; third, this can become a channel for us to connect with the second-hand goods market."

In the future, those who are most interested in their second-hand goods must be the treasure hunters in the second-hand goods market. If they deal with them enough, then Li Du and Hans will enter this industry.

There is also the most important reason he didn't say, because Hans might laugh at him, that is, he has an ambition: to control a second-hand auction market!

Every time he participates in a warehouse auction, he will get the most valuable items. These items can fetch higher prices at the auction, but it is unrealistic to send them to a regular auction.

So, junk auctions gave him inspiration.

Hans didn't think much about it, and he's not a hardworking person either. After hearing Li Du's words, he nodded and said, "Okay brother, I'm convinced by you, so let's do this."

Although he is lazy, if there is a work assigned in his hand, Hans will try his best to finish it as soon as possible.

For example, after returning home, Li Du said that they had to find a warehouse to participate in the auction, and Hans immediately went to the computer to check the information.

Li Du was deeply puzzled by this. He felt that this guy had a very contradictory personality. On the one hand, he was lazy, but on the other hand, he seemed to be very responsible and diligent.

Hannah explained to him: "My brother is a Virgo, this guy has obsessive-compulsive disorder, if the work is not done, he can't eat or sleep well."

Li Du laughed and said: "Then I will arrange more work for him in the future."

Hans, who was checking something in front of the computer, pointed back at him and said, "Don't force me to kill you!"

Ah Meow understood his threat, and she showed her sharp claws and yelled at him: "Show your sword, scumbag!"

Crispy Noodles doesn't know what's going on, but recently it is trying to ease the relationship and grow friendship with Meow. Seeing Meow showing its paws to Hans, it also opens its mouth to show its teeth.

Hans threw a piece of salmon, and then killed the threat in the cradle, and the two furry children ran to grab the piece of salmon.

After sitting in front of the computer for a while, and making a few more phone calls, Hans said, "There is a business coming, and I will take you to see a new storage auction model."

"Similar to a book auction?"

"Yes, the old house auction." Hans said.

Li Du asked in astonishment: "Old house auction? Are we going to buy a house?"

Hans laughed loudly and said, "Of course not! The old house auction means that some people want to move or demolish the house. In short, they don't want the furniture at home, so they will conduct a general auction."

"During this auction, we can walk around the house and stay for a minute at most. We can browse the living room, kitchen, and bedroom, but we can all see it, but it is the same as the storage auction rules, and we are not allowed to touch these things."

"Then, like a storage auction, the auctioneer bids, and we bid based on what we see, and whoever pays the most gets what's in it."

Li Du said: "It's the same as the storage auction. You have to take away everything inside and clean it up, right?"

Hans snapped his fingers, pointed at him and said, "You're right, it's the material for this business."

The old house auction this time was held in a town below Flagstaff City. The organizer was a real estate developer. They bought the land and planned to develop it into a country house.

Before construction can start, they have to knock down the houses on the surface, and needless to say, the knocked down houses and their contents create a lot of rubbish.

Garbage disposal in American garbage dumps is divided into different grades. The garbage formed by the brick walls and steel bars of the house itself belongs to the second-grade garbage, and the garbage formed by mixing furniture, household appliances and other daily necessities is the third-grade garbage.

It is more expensive to dispose of third-class garbage than second-class garbage, so I want to use the old house auction method to dispose of the things in the house, so that I can earn money from treasure hunters and save garbage disposal fees, killing two birds with one stone.