vrcanaries Chapter 15 Making Money
Chapter 15 Making Money
"These scented soaps you made look very nice, but I still want to see how effective they are at cleaning." Liu Yue didn't lose her rationality because of the exquisite appearance of the scented soaps. After all, she was a businesswoman, and naturally, she had to prioritize profits.
“Of course, you can try it first,” Xiao Qinian replied. She was very confident about this, and besides, it was only right.
Liu Yue immediately had the maid fetch water, and after trying it, she found it to be much better than the previous scented soap.
"It's really nice." Liu Yue looked at her freshly washed hands; they were smooth, glossy, and had a faint floral scent.
"Mr. Liu, last time I said if I made a better scented soap, I would bring it to you, but I didn't know if you would accept it." Xiao Siyue looked at Liu Yue after she finished speaking. Although she was very confident in her soap, she was still a little nervous about doing business for the first time.
“Of course I’ll take it. How much are you willing to pay?” Liu Yue was now truly taking this little girl seriously. She was bold and intelligent, and from the moment she entered the room, she had basically been in charge. The little girl’s father seemed to be just an insignificant person.
However, Liu Yue was mistaken. Xiao Qinian only thought that his daughter had made the soap, so of course she had the right to speak up. Moreover, there was nothing he needed at the moment. If Xiao Siyue needed him in any way, he would speak up.
"Mr. Liu, please name your price," Xiao Siyue directly pushed the question onto Liu Yue.
"Oh? I'm making a bid, aren't you afraid I'll bid too low?" Liu Yue asked, somewhat surprised.
"Of course not, I trust Boss Liu's character, he certainly won't let me suffer a loss." Although Xiao Siyue said this, she already knew what was going on. She knew that the scented soap in Liuyue Pavilion's shop cost 1 tael of silver.
Theirs is relatively better, and they can easily sell it for one and a half taels of silver, or even two taels. However, they don't have any customers. If they were to sell it to Liuyue Pavilion, they would naturally have to do it at a wholesale price, which cannot be too high. After deducting costs and labor, the price of a piece of soap cannot be lower than 800 wen.
"Haha, you little girl are really lovable. Don't call me Boss Liu anymore, just call me Aunt Liu." Liu Yue really liked Xiao Siyue. If the first time it was because of her delicate and cute appearance, then this time it was because she liked her from the bottom of her heart.
"Don't worry, I won't let you suffer a loss. I'll give you one tael of silver for each piece of soap." Liu Yue thought for a moment and realized that the price was reasonable; she wouldn't make a small profit.
"Thank you, Aunt Liu." Xiao Siyue hadn't expected the price to be so much higher than she had budgeted. It seemed like today had been a great day.
"Aunt Liu, we brought a total of 20 bars of soap today, 5 bars of each type." Xiao Siyue took out all the soap bars and placed them on the table.
"Only 20 yuan?" Liu Yue felt it was a bit low; she was confident that this soap would sell well.
We still have 20 yuan at home; we'll bring it over tomorrow.
“Okay, but I want to make it clear that you can’t sell the soap to anyone else, you can only sell it to me,” Liu Yue said, and then had the maid bring over the silver.
“Of course. Let’s write a contract.” Xiao Siyue was thinking the same thing. Liu Yue had given her such a high price. She wasn’t stupid. She might not get that price from other companies, and she would offend Liu Yue. It wouldn’t be worth it. Besides, they couldn’t do much anyway.
The contract was written by Xiao Qinian, and both parties signed and sealed it, making the contract effective.
"Here's twenty taels of silver, please count it." After signing the contract, Liu Yue gave the silver to Xiao Siyue, who then passed it directly to Xiao Qinian.
“No problem, 20 taels is just right.” Liu Yue gave him two 5-tael silver ingots and 10 taels of loose silver.
"Aunt Liu, we'll be going now. You go ahead with your work. We'll bring the rest over tomorrow morning," Xiao Siyue said, and then prepared to leave.
Just as the father and daughter reached the door, several beautiful young girls entered. One of them, a brightly dressed girl of about thirteen or fourteen, said:
"Today is Zhixin's birthday, and I really don't know what kind of gift to give her to celebrate, so I had no choice but to ask my sister to come and help me."
Another girl, a year or two older and dressed in a fresh and elegant style, tapped her forehead and said, "Aren't you two always very close? Don't you know her preferences?"
"Oh dear, sister, you don't know, Zhixin has been getting a lot of pimples on her face lately. She's been in a really bad mood these past few days, and I'm trying to cheer her up by seeing if there's anything special I can give her."
The sounds around me grew fainter and fainter until I could no longer hear them.
"Dad, we made some money today, why don't we go buy some nice things to celebrate?" Xiao Siyue was a little hungry; they hadn't had anything good to eat in a long time. Braised pork ribs, braised pork knuckle, sweet and sour pork tenderloin—ah, just thinking about it made her mouth water.
Seeing his daughter's greedy look, Xiao Qinian laughed and said, "Okay, we'll buy whatever our Yue'er wants to eat."
The two went down the street to Butcher Fan and bought three catties of pork belly for 60 coins, two catties of spare ribs for 30 coins, and a large intestine for 15 coins. The people here don't know how to cook intestines, and the intestines they make are very smelly. Only poor people would buy them to treat themselves. So even though it was a big one, it was only 15 coins.
He then bought a dou of rice for 120 wen and two dou of wheat flour for 216 wen at the grain shop, spending a total of nearly 500 wen.
I also went to the restaurant to tell Uncle Xiao, and bought a jin of liquor there. Liquor is really expensive these days, it costs 300 wen per jin.
Finally, Xiao Qinian looked at Xiao Siyue and bought her two jin of glutinous rice cakes.
After the father and daughter finished shopping, they hurried back. Just as they reached the outskirts of town, they saw Grandpa Liu, who hadn't gone home yet.
"Uncle Liu hasn't gone home yet today?"
"Not yet. I haven't attracted many people yet today. I'm thinking of waiting a bit longer."
"Dad, let's ride in the oxcart." Xiao Siyue quickly pulled her father toward the oxcart. The things they bought weighed several dozen kilograms, and it would be a bit difficult for Xiao Qinian to do it all by himself. He didn't want his father to work so hard.
After loading their belongings into the car, the two of them got in as well.
"Qinian, you bought a lot at the market today!" Grandpa Liu's eyes were full of envy when he saw Xiao Qinian carrying so many things. He knew that Xiao Qinian's family was relatively well-off, but he was still very surprised to see so many things bought at once.
She had always envied the Xiao family, but what she envied most was that Xiao Qinian's children all had access to education. Her family only had one child, Gouwa, who was only ten years old and illiterate. Every day, he followed his parents to work in the fields. He felt so sorry for his child.
"Uncle Liu, are you still waiting for someone?" Xiao Qinian didn't answer and changed the subject. He knew about Uncle Liu's situation, but there was nothing he could do. He would help them as much as he could when their circumstances improved.
"No, let's go."
The oxcart swayed and rattled for a short while before arriving at Xiaojia Village.
After getting off the cart, Xiao Qinian gave Grandpa Liu 6 coins. In fact, Grandpa Liu only needed 2 coins per person to pull the cart, but because they had a lot of things and they took up some space, he gave them 2 more coins.
When she got off the bus, Xiao Siyue took two pieces of glutinous rice cake from her hand and handed them to Grandpa Liu.