Chapter 2563: Xiao Xiao Down (Twenty-One)

Chapter 2537 Xiao Xiao Down (Twenty-one)

"Can you tell me how you made $100 in an afternoon?" Schiller was still quite concerned about this matter.

It's not even the millennium yet. Making $100 in an afternoon means $200 a day, and $6,000 a month. Even in the United States in the 21st century, this can be considered a high salary. The average salary of an ordinary person is only about $3,000 to $4,000. A family with a monthly income of $10,000 is considered middle class.

"We moved several houses." Raven said while cleaning the refrigerator: "At first, there were only two orders, but because the move was too fast, the orders for the next day were moved to today."

"And because the move was fast and the items were not damaged, each employer gave a tip, which added up to almost 10 dollars."

"Did you move with telekinesis?"

"Of course, my telekinesis can almost lift a building, so it's easy to move some furniture."

Raven was taking out the vegetables in the kitchen and reclassifying them. Schiller also walked over and said, "Have you had dinner?"

"No, I just got home not long ago. Do you know how to cook? I bought frozen noodles from the supermarket. How do I cook it?"

Schiller took out the pot from the cabinet below, took the noodles from Raven's hand and unpacked them, then said: "It seems that your moving company has great prospects."

"Yes, but Waylon thinks we can make more money. Unfortunately, our current car is too small, so we can only move ordinary families, and we can't move slightly larger villas and companies."

"Don't you have enough money to buy a car?"

"Waylon's money is only enough to rent a storefront. Only with a storefront can you open a business to take orders and set up a formal company, but if you rent a house, you won't have enough to buy a car."

Schiller calculated in his mind that Waylon's storefront must be rented in the East District, because the rent there is cheap and the flow of people is extremely large, which is a good place to do small business.

But no matter how cheap the rent is, the storefront will definitely only accept annual rent. Even if the rent is only a few hundred dollars a month, you have to pay at least a few thousand dollars at a time, and you may also need a deposit. This should be the limit of Killer Croc's savings.

If he wants to move a big villa and company, the car he needs cannot be a small van, but a large van. Different from the semi-trailer truck driven by the Joker, the large van is more expensive.

Moreover, the local production of this type of car is not high, and it is difficult to find a good second-hand one. It is easy to have problems if you piece together one, and maintenance will be a big problem at that time. It is better to buy a new car.

It is not impossible to move a semi-trailer, but you still have to buy a fully enclosed car, which is not cheap.

Schiller thought about it and decided to call Killer Croc. He thought that he could use the spare money in his hand to invest, and Killer Croc's moving company would have a bright future.

In addition to the more than 1,000 US dollars paid by Cobblepot before, Schiller still had more than 10,000 US dollars in savings. He took out a few thousand to buy a car for Killer Croc, so that he could share the profits of the moving company, at least not living off the mountain.

Not long after Schiller finished the call, Killer Croc rushed in, carrying a bunch of barbecue, forcing Schiller to turn on the central exhaust system of the house to ensure that the smell would not stay in the house for too long.

Killer Croc was very excited. He did not expect his wish to come true so soon. He put the rental contract and the company application materials on the table and said to Schiller: "Don't worry, professor, I bet this is your most successful investment."

"I heard from the raven that the forgotten bookstore near the turntable was actually opened by two magicians. If you ask me, what kind of bookstore is it? It's tiring and unprofitable. It's better to come and move with me and easily earn a few thousand dollars a month."

Schiller hesitated for a moment, but still said: "Most magicians can't use magic like this. Their magic has a price, and using it to make money is completely... Wait, irony magic doesn't seem to have to pay a price."

Schiller thought that Zatanna's creditors were still locked outside the wall. She was one of the few magicians who didn't have to pay a price, and she was very short of money now. Killer Croc's plan might really work.

After all, the way that Miss Magician made money before was to perform magic on the street. Being a street performer doesn't mean she is self-righteous and looks down on moving companies.

Schiller told Killer Croc this, and Killer Croc didn't even finish his barbecue before he ran out to find Zatanna.

Sure enough, the next morning, Zatanna and Constantine appeared at the door of Schiller's house. Zatanna walked in with a wave of her hand, and Constantine chased after her and shouted.

"Xiao Za! Xiao Za! Listen to me, moving companies are very hard, even if you don't have to work hard, you still have to be exposed to the wind and sun..."

"You damn hypocritical Englishman!!" Zatanna turned around and cursed: "Don't you have to be exposed to the wind and sun when you open a breakfast shop? Don't you have to perform magic on the street? I don't have such low living requirements as you. I want to make more money and move out to live on my own!"

Constantine sighed helplessly. Now he has become a hypocritical young master who doesn't care about worldly things.

Zatanna has a stubborn spirit. She almost never feels sad about the passing of time. Instead, she does whatever she thinks of immediately. She doesn't care whether it's embarrassing, hard work, or whether she can succeed.

On the contrary, Constantine is a person who is sad about the passing of time. Now he is completely immersed in the atmosphere of the misfortune of historians and the happiness of poets. He laments the various changes in the era during the Great Depression, writes a lot of essays and novels, and is preparing to write a memoir of the Great Depression in Gotham.

If these two people are not greedy for each other's looks, they will definitely not be able to live together. But now they have to live together. The worse the situation is, the more obvious the support that a stable emotional relationship can provide. At least two people can live together, one can take care of the inside and the other can take care of the outside, saving each other a lot of energy.

Now Zatanna is in charge of the external affairs of the bookstore and the breakfast shop, but the bookstore has few customers, and the breakfast shop is only busy for a while in the morning. The income can only be said to be barely enough to make a living. Zatanna feels that she can use this afternoon time to get another job.

Originally, she thought she could go to the streets to perform magic, but the expected income was very low. After all, everyone was having a hard time, so who would have the time to watch magic?

Now Killer Croc has provided a new idea. Zatanna can use the afternoon to help them move. She doesn't even need telekinesis. She only needs to say a sentence to turn all the furniture into the car. The whole moving process only takes five seconds - raise your hands, chant a spell, get in the car and leave.

Even if Waylon comes to take orders, they can get a car to do it alone, just open a coffee shop in the morning, Constantine will drive in the afternoon, and Zatanna will be responsible for moving. Why can't they go to more than a dozen houses in an afternoon? Isn't it easy to get 200 US dollars?

Killer Croc also thought so. Now with Schiller's funds, he can buy a big car, but this small car has not been bought for a long time and is in good condition. If it is sold like this or rented to others, it would be a waste. It is better to hire two employees to drive, and he can also collect commissions.

The two sides hit it off immediately, and only Constantine had some complaints, but soon his surprise that Schiller had also invested in this business was greater than his sadness.

"What's going on? You don't have money?!" Constantine looked at Schiller in disbelief and said, "Are you serious? You want to invest in a moving company."

"What's the problem? At least I'm richer than you."

"But I thought you didn't need money... Well, I don't have much money, but it's always been like this, I'm used to it." Constantine sat on the sofa and said, "There are also ways to live as a wanderer, right?"

Obviously, Constantine is the kind of person who can make a living with art and ideas. As for the quality of life, he doesn't care at all. If he can live, he lives, and if he can't live, he can die.

After he quit all those bad habits, the cost of living he needs is shockingly low. He just needs a house to live in and a meal to eat. He is even very satisfied with the current status of opening a store.

But unfortunately, Zatanna is a normal person. She is full of crisis and feels that this will definitely not work. There are fewer and fewer customers in the bookstore. Everyone is reading e-books on their mobile phones. Sooner or later, the bookstore will not be able to sell any books. She has to prepare early.

Zatanna is also full of difficult sutras. In the past, her family was a magic family. Not only did they have no worries about food and drink, but they also had a noble status. As the most capable heir of this family, if her father had not disappeared, her mission would have been to lead the family to create glory again.

But unfortunately, the previous wave of vampire events consumed the magic world, and she was also betrayed by her family and almost died in this incident. Since then, she has no family.

But fortunately, she has been traveling around the world to find her father for so many years, and has also worked a lot of short-term jobs. She is not the kind of young lady who can't endure hardships.

After determining the basic plan, several people performed their duties. Schiller took the rental contract and company contract left by Killer Croc to find Harvey and asked him to help review the contract. Killer Croc took Raven to see the car, and Zatanna took Constantine to decorate the facade of the newly opened company.

Schiller took a morning off. Fortunately, he only had one class this morning, so he didn't fall behind much.

After finishing the general matters, the parties signed the contract, and had a meal in the new storefront, when Schiller arrived at the school in the afternoon, he heard that the new principal had arrived and was in a meeting.

It was definitely too late to attend the meeting now, so Schiller could only wait for the results in the office. Soon, a new trend in school management came out, mainly including the following points.

It is necessary to ensure the virtuous cycle of the sports college, that is, to train to win the invitational tournament and earn tickets. No matter how much money is spent on the invitation, the invitational tournament must be played.

Then there is the issue of salary reduction. The new principal rejected the previous decision to reduce salary by 30%, and the new salary reduction plan is to reduce salary by 10%. If the project team he is in still fails to achieve self-profit after three months, it will be changed to a 30% reduction.

When Schiller heard this, he knew that the new president was planning to let each professor be self-reliant. But it was also normal. The new campus has been moved, and it is surrounded by major factories and industrial bases. Various brand-new laboratories are waiting to cooperate with Gotham University's top talents. If they don't find a way to earn funds now, when will they?

Due to the special nature of literature and social sciences, the new president stipulated that the personal income of professors and students in such project groups should also be counted as profit. For example, publishing articles, novels, and even psychological counseling are all considered profit.

Once these regulations came out, most professors breathed a sigh of relief. The school moved here because many professors had signed contracts with the laboratories here and were continuously producing, so they moved closer. It was no problem to make a profit within three months, and finally they didn't have to be reduced in salary.

It can be seen that the new president's management level is not bad. He knows that the most important job at this stage is to appease the faculty and staff. Otherwise, in order to make up for the salary deduction, everyone will think about other things outside the school, and the teaching level will only decline again and again, which will be a complete vicious cycle.

Out of curiosity, Schiller planned to meet the new president, but before he could call, the new president came to him first.

After the knock on the door, a tall, thin, bald man in a suit opened the office door. He had a pale complexion and wore round-framed gold-rimmed glasses. He was a very common image of a management talent.

He walked up to Shiller and shook his hand enthusiastically, saying, "Thaddeus Shivana, PhD in Economics and Business Administration, Finance, Statistics, Master's degree at Columbia University, and you are my schoolmate."

Shiller paused, shook his hand and said, "It's an honor to meet you, President Shivana, please take a seat."

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