Transmigrated & Triumphant: Defying Destiny's Chosen One-Chapter 480 - 36: Two Peaches Kill Three Warriors_3
And some of the parts inside—
If it’s just selling an empty shell of a tin toy car, it naturally wouldn’t be so troublesome, but it also wouldn’t fetch a decent price.
Chu River’s idea is, the first kind, a car no longer than 20 centimeters, fitted with some simple parts, to create a pull-string mechanism.
It’s the kind where you pull the string, let go, and the car takes off with a whoosh.
There’s also a slightly bigger type, about the size of a water tank, that even a slimmer seven or eight-year-old child can sit in.
This type can’t be powered by the pull-string, using electricity or oil or an engine... there’s no material, the cost is too high.
Chu River thought and thought, decided to. Beneath the high car chassis blocked by four wheels, add two bicycle pedals.
A child sits on it, can’t be electric, can’t run on oil, can’t they pedal by foot?
Above!
She even thought it out, the first phase would be making models of Dongfeng brand small cars.
If they sell well, later on, tanks and big trucks can be added...
This is something you can’t even buy in supply and marketing cooperatives or department stores, it’s indeed a monopoly business!
As for the claim that the size is too big to sell... how could you sell finished products? Of course, sell parts, take them home and assemble them yourself!
That way, it might be a bit heavy, but it would definitely be much smaller in volume, while also opening up another way to play.
Chu River even thought of the assembly instructions, it’s basically just drawing anyway, any of the three kids can trace it. When the older nephew and niece come, there’ll be five kids, five kids doing this assembly line work is more than enough.
Plan successful!
She smugly thought—am I a genius or what?
...
But, even though it’s a toy car, Chu River still seriously considered the details in the design, such as making the car doors openable.
The little car doesn’t have so many requirements for tightness, as long as it can open and close, it doesn’t matter how close-fitting it is.
However, for the larger toy car that can seat a child, each car door has a separate latch installed, so you open the door, sit inside, and then secure the latch.
Isn’t there a ceremony to sitting in a car?
Of course, there is!
And don’t laugh at this latch, nowadays, 99 out of 100 people have never touched a car, let alone a latch, even a big iron padlock doesn’t bother them at all.
As for the car chassis and tires, rubber is hard to come by, and there are no small tires of that size, let alone thinking that a factory would take on such an order.
So everything is custom-made from different types of wood, then wrapped in aluminum or iron sheets.
The opportunistic brother dealing in large volumes of materials would take a long time to gather them, but for now, just making one or two prototypes from Old Zheng’s materials is more than enough.
In Chu River’s personal dictionary, the word "courtesy" doesn’t exist, so she stormed off with the blueprints to Old Zheng’s house.
At worst, she would calculate the value of what she used as problems for Old Zheng to solve. As for doing research...
No way!
Too much work, not fun, and the stuff is outdated.
Really not interested.
...
Little Xuan was studying at home.
This is what makes him different from other children in the nursery—too mature, with an excessively high thirst for knowledge.
But that’s what makes a kid smart.
Chu River squeezed into the workshop Old Zheng had sectioned off with familiarity:
"Little Xuan, I’m going to use some things here!"
Old Zheng never brought confidential research home, and Little Xuan had great trust in Teacher Xiao Chu, so when he saw her dive in to do some research, he actually felt relieved.
—The few food tickets he had managed to exchange were really not enough for Teacher Xiao Chu to squander.
Inside, Chu River was banging away and buzzing, making Little Xuan fidgety.
Little Xuan held his curiosity in check, but eventually, he couldn’t resist his child’s curiosity and went over:
"Teacher Xiao Chu, what are you doing?"
Chu River showed him a complete design drawing on old newspaper:
"Shh! I’m going to make this kind of toy car to sell and make money for food on the sly."
Little Xuan: !!! 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢
In these days, such dealings were a huge crime!
So, Teacher Xiao Chu trusts me that much?
He suddenly felt ashamed of his reluctance to part with the food tickets, and to make up for this feeling, he volunteered: "Then... Teacher Xiao Chu, is there anything I can help with?"
Chu River looked at him, not holding back in the slightest:
"I remember you have beautiful handwriting, right? Come, come, start drawing the pictures, trace several copies, and later you can write all the instructions!"
With this, now there were six kids working!
The speed of making money was going to increase even more!
Chu River was thoroughly satisfied.
