The first step in the book is to start selling tofu

After tasting the bean curd balls, everyone took their lunch home contentedly to enjoy the warm moment.

In the blink of an eye, the only people left in the shop were Madam Zhou, her young child, and Zhou Daniu, who was concentrating on picking beans.

Madam Zhou looked around and found that everyone else had disappeared, and a trace of doubt arose in her heart.

After a little thought, she decided to go to Zhou Daniu to ask.

The reason why she didn't choose to ask Lin Zhi was because Lin Zhi was concentrating on writing something at the moment, and Madam Zhou was too embarrassed to go up and disturb her.

Zhou Daniu has a kind and gentle personality. He patiently explained to Mrs. Zhou:

"It's break time now. Everyone can take the food home and eat with their families. After dinner, come back to work."

Zhou Daniu showed a very friendly and enthusiastic attitude towards the new colleague.

"Didn't the employer mention these things to you when you came for the interview?" Zhou Daniu looked puzzled.

Madam Zhou shook her head slightly, indicating that she didn't know.

Maybe Lin Zhi was careless at that time and forgot to tell her about this.

Seeing that Madam Zhou really knew nothing about this, Zhou Daniu further explained:

"During this free time before the official start of work, you can do whatever you want, as long as you can come back on time."

"Thank you so much, Brother Zhou!" Madam Zhou thanked him sincerely.

Knowing that this time was specially reserved for rest, Madam Zhou boldly went to rest for a while.

After all, she was really tired, having been running around all morning.

There is still a good half day left. If I don’t take a good rest to restore my energy, it will be difficult to cope with the subsequent work tasks.

However, at the same time, Lin Zhi was unable to rest as peacefully as Madam Zhou.

The reason is simple, she hasn't figured out her income and expenditure for last month!

Because she was so busy writing novels, she completely forgot about such an important matter as filling out the report.

But fortunately, she is her own boss, otherwise, she would definitely be severely criticized.

Looking at the income from the previous month, the profit from the cooperation with Fumanlou alone was more than two hundred taels of silver.

But the corresponding expenditure was almost two hundred taels. Calculated in this way, the net profit for the whole month was only fifteen taels.

Moreover, the fifteen taels of silver had to be deducted from the two brothers' tuition fees and the cost of purchasing stationery such as pens, ink, paper and inkstone. In the end, only five taels of silver were left.

In comparison, the situation last month was slightly better.

Since she no longer needed to buy ingredients for making braised food, she saved one hundred taels of silver.

In addition, she successfully signed a contract for a new product with Fumanlou, and thus earned an additional 150 taels of income.

Not only that, the stall also added new items such as rice noodle rolls and white porridge, and even added the previously unused skewers back to the menu.

With these changes alone, the stall's revenue increased by a full twenty taels of silver!

However, as revenues grew, so did expenses.

In addition to fixed expenses, she just bought a shop last month, and it cost about 120 taels of silver to handle all the related procedures.

Next came the renovation of the store, which cost nearly twenty taels.

In other words, before taxes were deducted this month, I earned about one hundred and thirty taels.

It seems that his own stall is indeed quite profitable.

only……

She gave a large portion of the profits from her cooperation with Fumanlou to the three little ones, that is, all the money earned from tofu and soy products was given to them.

The income from that part was about 153 taels. Calculated in this way, her actual income this month turned out to be negative.

He owed twenty-three taels of silver.

Lin Zhi stared at the big number for a long time and sighed.

A long way to go!

"Boom boom boom!"

There was an abrupt knock on the door, interrupting Lin Zhi's spreading dejection.

She raised her head in confusion, looked at the four unfamiliar figures at the door, and spoke hesitantly:

"You are……"

It has been more than two months since the store opened, and it is rare for visitors to be so presumptuous. Lin Zhi couldn't help but feel alert.

The old woman standing in the front spoke first:

"Excuse me, young lady, we are here to accompany this young man to respond to the job recruitment." She said while pointing to the young man behind her.

Then, another old man followed suit:

"Yes, I also accompanied him to the job interview."

Lin Zhi originally wanted to politely decline, saying that the store had already stopped recruiting.

However, the image of Madam Zhou who was so busy this morning that she had almost no time to rest suddenly emerged in her mind, and the words of rejection that came to her lips were finally swallowed back by her.

After a moment of silence, Lin Zhi nodded helplessly and said softly:

"Well, please come in and talk. This way, please, take a seat and wait for a moment."

After saying that, she stood up and led the four people to the other side of the shop.

The four people followed Lin Zhi closely with nervous and apprehensive expressions.

After entering the room and sitting down, Lin Zhi raised his head, looked at the two people in front of him with sharp eyes, and asked directly:

"Can the two of you on trial introduce yourselves?"

She secretly wondered in her heart, seeing that these two people were not young at all, why did they need to be accompanied by their parents for a job trial?

The two people who came to apply for the job looked at each other, and then shook their heads at Lin Zhi.

Lin Zhi couldn't help but frown when he saw this, and became even more confused. What did this shaking of the head mean?

At this time, the old woman broke the silence first and explained to Lin Zhi:

"This is my son, his name is Zhao Mu, he...was born unable to speak."

When talking about her son's condition, the old woman was obviously a little depressed:

"But he is strong and has plenty of strength. I heard that you are recruiting workers here, so I thought of bringing him here to try my luck and see if I can find a suitable job."

After listening to the old woman's words, Lin Zhi suddenly understood the whole story.

No wonder parents are needed to accompany their children to the interview.

"What about you? What's your situation?" Lin Zhi asked another interviewee.

When the interviewee was looked at by Lin Zhi, his body began to tremble involuntarily and his face turned pale. He was so nervous that he stretched out his fingers and pulled hard at the corner of the clothes of the old man who was standing next to him and bringing him over.

Seeing this, the old man immediately came to his senses and hurriedly explained to Lin Zhi:

"This is my son, named Zhao Tu. He is also a mute like the previous child. I brought him here today to see if there is anything suitable for him to do here so that he can support himself."

Lin Zhi was very surprised after hearing this: "Are you a family?"

She thought to herself, both of them have the surname Zhao, one is Zhao Mu and the other is Zhao Tu, and judging by the names, they do look like names given by the same family.

Is there really some special relationship between them?