Chapter 180 Empty Nesters

“Dad, why are you so persistent in helping them?”

Yang Ju looked at her father with some confusion. She remembered that ever since she could recall, her father had gone to help the elderly in those villages every year.

“You don’t understand. Some things, once you start doing them, you get used to them.”

Yang Xingguo sighed. He grew up in Liuhe Village. His parents died unexpectedly, and he was raised by his grandmother. later, his grandmother also passed away from illness.

He was the only one left in the family. He was young at the time and had no ability to earn money; he grew up eating from many households.

later, when he started a family and earned money, he wanted to repay the villagers who had helped him.

Initially, he just bought some gifts for visits during New Year and other festivals.

But as time went by, those villagers who were originally young and strong and had helped him also gradually grew old.

However, at this time, he saw the various aspects of society, the warmth and coldness of human nature.

As the villagers gradually aged, some filial children who had the means had already taken their elderly parents away. Those who didn't have the means would also regularly send their parents some living expenses.

Since there were filial children, there were also unfilial children.

Some of those children left home for several years and never returned. They never called or showed any concern.

At first, he thought those children might have had an accident outside, but after investigation, those children simply didn't want to go back and visit their parents, thinking their parents were a burden.

There was an even more excessive incident: he personally saw several children, in front of the elderly, rummaging through and taking out the money the elderly had saved for many years.

Then they divided the money.

The ridiculous thing was that they even started arguing because of an uneven distribution of money.

Those people argued red-faced in front of the elderly, completely disregarding the elderly's feelings.

He stepped forward to intervene, but was directly driven out, being told that it was a family matter and outsiders should not interfere.

Of course, there were also elderly people who no longer had children, becoming lonely elderly.

And he also changed from simply visiting at first to providing financial assistance now.

From one Liuhe Village, it expanded to several surrounding villages.

Sometimes.

He also asked himself if it wouldn't be better to spend the money he was donating on himself or his family.

So many people neglected these empty-nest elderly; why should he be the one to do this?

But whenever he saw those elderly people who couldn't bear to throw away even a bowl of spoiled porridge, he couldn't bring himself to stop.

And so,

He has persisted year after year until now.

Yang Ju listened to her father's answer and pouted.

If he didn't want to talk about it, then so be it.

Huh!

What are these two large trucks for?

Yang Xingguo parked his small truck at the entrance of Liuhe Village and immediately saw the two large trucks ahead.

And those two large trucks were filled with rice and flour.

What's going on?

Yang Xingguo got out of the car in confusion. Seeing that there was still a driver in the large truck, he walked over.

He came to the truck window and greeted.

“Hello, master, may I ask what these two trucks of rice and flour are for?”

The driver in the truck was smoking and scrolling through short videos of The Handmaiden when he suddenly heard someone call out. He turned his head to look.

“Who are you?!”

“Ah, I’m here to help those empty-nest elderly.”

Yang Xingguo replied with a smile.

“What a coincidence. These two trucks of supplies are also for assisting those empty-nest elderly. But I'm just a driver; the main person has already entered the village.”

After the driver replied, he no longer paid attention to Yang Xingguo and continued scrolling through short videos.

Yang Xingguo was stunned when he heard the driver’s reply.

He didn't expect that the supplies in this truck were also for assisting those empty-nest elderly.

In all these years, it was the first time he had seen other people come to provide assistance.

He was a bit surprised, but if these two trucks of supplies were truly all donated to those empty-nest elderly, then this winter, these elderly people could have a good year.

“Dad, what’s the situation?”

Yang Ju saw her father walk back and stepped forward to ask.

“The driver said he’s also here to assist the empty-nest elderly. Let’s go into the village and see.”

As Yang Xingguo spoke, he led Yang Ju into the village.

……………

Business Department,

Wu Yu, Cai Jing, and Luo Yuan were discussing today's live broadcast.

After getting Assistant Shen's approval yesterday, he quickly registered as a merchant. Because the Clothing Factory's various procedures were very complete, the platform had already approved it this morning.

Today, they could attach the shopping cart to their live broadcast.

He wondered how many clothes they could sell in today's live broadcast.

Wu Yu thought with some apprehension.

Soon,

It was the scheduled live broadcast time.

Wu Yu brought the live broadcast equipment and, with Cai Jing and Luo Yuan, came to the workshop.

As before, they first live-streamed a tour of the workshop environment. After the number of viewers increased, they began the clothing display.

“Brothers, today the streamer has enabled the shopping cart. If you like any of the clothes displayed later, you can purchase them in the shopping cart.”

Wu Yu said to the people in the live broadcast room, and then began today's clothing display.

Indeed, as the clothing display began, people started inquiring about the prices of the clothes.

He gave a simple reminder,

Not long after, he noticed that the shopping cart had already started showing signs of purchases.

Two hours later,

Wu Yu once again turned off the live broadcast in front of the dog kennel.

Because he wanted to sell more clothes, he live-streamed for an extra hour.

After turning off the live broadcast room, he quickly entered the store to check the sales revenue from this live broadcast.

“How was it?”

Cai Jing and Luo Yuan looked at Wu Yu with anticipation.

Wu Yu took a quick look, then showed the two of them the store's turnover on his phone.

Over 4300.

This turnover was not much, because with the pricing of those clothes, this turnover of over 4300 only meant that just over 10 pieces of clothing were sold.

Live-streaming for two hours and only selling a dozen or so pieces of clothing was clearly very little.

Cai Jing and Luo Yuan also showed disappointment after seeing the turnover.

They thought there would be at least tens of thousands in turnover, but they didn't expect it to be so little.

“This turnover is a bit low.”

Luo Yuan said softly.

Cai Jing thought for a moment and said seriously.

“I think the low turnover is also partly related to our live broadcast. After all, we are not professional live-streaming sales streamers, so it’s hard to motivate the purchasing enthusiasm of the people in the live broadcast room.”

Wu Yu seemed to ponder Cai Jing’s words; he had also thought of this issue.

However, if they wanted to recruit professional streamers for live sales, they would face two problems.

First, could Assistant Shen approve the recruitment of professional streamers?

Second, if it was approved, should they create a new live broadcast account, or should they use Li Shen's current live broadcast account?

If they used Li Shen's live broadcast account, then when Li Shen returned, he would not have an account to promote the company through live broadcasts.

So, for the account issue, he needed to ask Li Shen for his opinion.