You are unlucky and I am tough

Chapter 216: Lying Down and Counting Money

The next day, the second round of the college entrance examination began.

After the exam, one has to wait another ten days for the results to be announced. This is also the most difficult time for students in the city.

Cheng Zhengyi and Wei Qinglang borrowed a carriage and calculated the time to go to the examination hall to pick up a few children taking the exam. Cheng Laoxiucai's family also sent a carriage to take Cheng Wanpeng back to the village.

Cheng Wanpeng didn't want to go back, but was told that the courtyard he rented in the city had been returned by his grandfather. He then made a fuss, saying that he had a party in the evening and wanted to stay in the inn for a few days before going back.

Two days after the college entrance examination, Cheng Shuang and Wei Qinglang personally sent their two younger brothers back to the private school early in the morning. After paying the tuition for the next month, they went to Fu Ya Zhai to do the month-end settlement.

Cheng Pan also came along, bringing the account books to do the settlement with the accountant of Fu Ya Zhai.

Qin Suyue took out the orders received in the past few days. A few days ago, Boss He sent someone back to continue placing orders, but they did not go to Fu Yazhai in the village. They thought the two sides were together.

After Qin Suyue received the order, she asked someone to deliver it to Chengjia Village. Then Cheng Shuang wrote her a letter, saying that if there were other merchants from other places who wanted to take the goods, they could also take it over.

With Fu Ya Zhai's fame and the recent popularity of its soaps, as soon as the news of the availability of goods spread, people began to come to the store one after another, and the company received orders worth nearly 20,000 yuan in the past few days.

Qin Suyue stopped because she was worried that the workshop would not be able to produce enough. With only 20,000 yuan, the delivery time was already scheduled until the end of the month.

Cheng Shuang and Wei Qinglang gathered together to look at the orders. Qin Suyue poured tea for them and asked with a smile, "How is it? Can these workshops be supplied? Do we have enough manpower?"

"Manpower isn't a problem. We can hire more if we're short." Cheng Shuang took a sip from her teacup. "But these are all merchants from other places. There's still a lot of room for growth in the Dongzhou market. Selling only in the capital is too limited."

Qin Suyue smiled and said, "I've thought about this. My Qin family has many servants, and I plan to arrange for them to open shops in the county towns below. You don't have to worry about the manpower and shop space. You just need to supply me with goods."

During this period, the popularity of soap has reached a new climax because of the floral-scented soap. Such good things are no longer exclusive to the rich, and Qin Suyue sees unlimited possibilities.

Moreover, all the rich daughters and ladies in the city loved her very much, which made her even more famous in the circle. Various banquet invitations were sent to her every day, but she was too busy to attend them.

Wei Qinglang carefully flipped through the order in his hand and said, "From now on, we can control the supply volume to foreign merchants within 20,000 yuan per month, and use this supply volume to ensure stable and long-term delivery to foreign markets.

Although the soap business is making money faster than we expected, we can’t just blindly expand production and market share. More haste, less speed. A safe approach is most important.”

Qin Suyue nodded in agreement, "Mr. Wei is right. Safe and sound business is the most important thing."

After Cheng Pan finished settling the accounts, he and the accountant of Fu Ya Zhai came to the tea room with the account books and banknotes.

In the whole month of March, the shop sold a total of 21,000 pieces of soap, including 9,000 pieces of unscented soap, 6,000 pieces of shampoo soap, and 6,000 pieces of floral soap, with a total income of 15,300 taels.

According to the profit-sharing settlement, Cheng Shuang and his team's unscented soap accounted for three parts, totaling 3,150 taels, and the shampoo soap and floral soap were divided equally, totaling 5,400 taels, for a total of 8,550 taels, and Fu Ya Zhai got 6,350 taels.

After listening to Cheng Pan's report, Cheng Shuang took the silver bills in a box and counted them. She thought to herself that this business was indeed very profitable. Based on this profit, she estimated that she could earn 20,000 taels next month.

Even if the soap craze is over and no longer so popular, I can probably still maintain an income of nearly 10,000 taels per month. It's like counting money while lying down. It's so cool.

Qin Suyue also clicked on the silver bills in another box. After confirming that they were correct, the first settlement of the cooperation between the two parties was successfully completed.

"How about it, sister? Do you want to have dinner together?" Qin Suyue asked after handing the box to the maid behind her.

She was really grateful to these two people. If they hadn't appeared, she would still be worrying about the shop's business every day.

"Let's do it another day." Cheng Shuang also closed the box. "I've got the money, and I have to go back and pay the workers in the workshop."

Qin Suyue said, "Okay, you must come someday. I'll take you to the flower viewing banquet, and sister Pan'er will come too."

The peach and apricot blossoms were in full bloom right now, and the rich young ladies in the city who had nothing to do all day were holding flower viewing banquets one after another. She didn't like to go much, but if she brought Cheng Shuang with her, she could go and have some fun.

Cheng Shuang smiled and said, "Let's talk about it later. There is a beautiful peach blossom forest in our village. Sister Qin can come and visit if you are interested."

This means rejection, and Qin Suyue can understand it. They live in the village and probably don't like the city people's way of doing things.

She smiled and said, "I should find time to visit you. I can also check out the workshop."

"Then I'll wait for Sister Qin to come."

Qin Suyue personally sent the person downstairs and stood at the door of the store to wave goodbye to the carriage.

Her personal maid, Guizhi, stood behind her worriedly, "Miss, the Second Master has set his sights on Soap. What if they really find a way to snatch the cooperation away from us?

Madam Wei refuses to eat, doesn't want to go to the flower viewing, and doesn't seem to want to have a close relationship with her. What else can we do?"

"I don't know." Qin Suyue looked at the carriage going away. "Maybe we are worrying too much. They are not the kind of people who forget their principles when they see profit. There is no need to deliberately try to please them."

Guizhi sighed and said, I hope so.

The people in the second house were really going too far. Since Fu Ya Zhai was built with the money from the old man, they said that it was the Qin family's property and should be returned to the Qin family. They tried every means to force the young lady to get married.

In order to prevent the young lady from fulfilling the bet, no one knows what he will do.

In the carriage, Cheng Shuang and Cheng Pan sat together and counted the banknotes again, not for any other reason, but because they liked the feeling of counting money.

Cheng Shuang was already thinking about what to do with the money. First, a viewing pavilion could be built on the other side of the Yunxi Mountain waterfall pool, and then some flowers and fruit trees could be planted, and the road could also be repaired.

She had been to the top of the mountain once. It was quite flat. If they repaired it and built two pavilions and an observation deck, and transplanted some flowers, plants and trees there, the view would be quite nice.

After it's repaired, you can climb up to enjoy the scenery, have a barbecue in the wild, etc. It's so pleasant just thinking about it.

Wei Qinglang had long known that Cheng Shuang wanted to create the scenery of Yunxi Mountain. Looking at her greedy face, he couldn't help but chuckle.

After counting the money, Cheng Shuang took out a silver note worth one hundred taels and put it in Cheng Pan's hand.

"Sister, what are you doing?" Cheng Pan looked at the banknote in his hand in confusion.

"Your wages."

"I don't need it." Cheng Pan was startled and quickly returned the banknote. "It's enough for me to spend five taels of silver every month. You don't need to pay me wages."

Cheng Shuang looked at Wei Qinglang, who shrugged, indicating that it was up to him, then leaned back and yawned.

"Okay." Cheng Shuang put the banknote away and said, "I'll save it for you as a dowry."

"Sister, what are you talking about? I'm only fourteen." Cheng Pan lowered his head in embarrassment, "I haven't thought about it yet."

"I'm just kidding." Cheng Shuang reached out and pinched her cheek. "Whether you want to or not, no one will force you. If you don't meet someone you like, just stay with me."

The carriage did not leave the city directly, but went to a money shop, exchanged twenty taels of silver and twenty thousand copper coins, and bought a box from the money shop to put the money in.

You can directly top up money into Cheng Shuang's mall, and take it out in copper coins, but Cheng Pan is with her, and it's impossible for her to produce so many copper coins out of thin air without going there first.

It was noon when we returned to the village, and everyone in the soap workshop was still busy.