Chapter 10 Chapter 10 Taking stock of the month’s income.

Liu Suqin never had the chance to show off her skills in her previous life, but now she finally got the chance. Under Lin Nanjiang's eager gaze, she rolled out the dough, mixed the meat filling, and her movements were as smooth as flowing water. Soon, she had made a table full of wontons.

Then he boiled water, added the wontons, and prepared the soup base. After the wontons were cooked, they were poured into the seasoning bowl along with the soup. The delicious aroma instantly spread, and Lin Nanjiang excitedly shouted, "It's done! This is the taste!"

As usual, a full bowl of wontons was cooked and sent to Uncle Chen's house, and the borrowed rolling pin was also returned at the same time.

Lin Nanjiang was in charge of running errands, and when he returned, he wasn't empty-handed. He brought a half-plate of white-cut chicken and said happily as soon as he entered the door, "We're in for a treat! Uncle Chen's family is having chicken today, and it's chicken raised by the villagers themselves. Do you want to smell it?"

"It smells good." Liu Suqin didn't think there was anything wrong with exchanging a bowl of wontons for the landlord's half plate of chicken. Isn't that how favors are exchanged? There's give and take.

Besides, they often gave her homemade food, and the landlord didn't always return such expensive gifts. Sometimes she would just give a handful of vegetables grown in her own field, and she didn't feel she was at a disadvantage.

Seeing her husband placing the white-cut chicken in front of her, Liu Suqin said with a smile, "The wontons are not too hot anymore, eat them while they're hot."

Lin Nanjiang ate a large bowl of wontons with the boiled chicken and drank up the soup. Afterwards, he wiped his mouth with a tissue and said, "It's delicious. Let's sell wontons for breakfast from now on. It's definitely better than fried noodles."

Seeing him say that, Liu Suqin also gained a bit more confidence, "Okay, tomorrow I'll buy more green onions and shallots to make scallion oil, and the day after tomorrow morning I'll change to selling wontons."

"You can also buy some dried shrimps. I saw some wontons sold outside put this in."

Liu Suqin nodded and looked at him with a smile, "That's good too. You don't have to stir the wok when cooking wontons, so I don't have to worry about your arms being unable to bear it."

"I've already told you that I'm your man, young and strong. This little bit of work is nothing. You're just worrying about nothing." Lin Nanjiang pretended to complain, but the corners of his mouth were harder to suppress than AK.

Hehe, his wife loves him, which makes him happier than earning a thousand dollars a day.

Since they needed to prepare a large amount of onions and garlic to make scallion oil tomorrow, they definitely wouldn't be able to sell wontons. However, they couldn't miss out on the profit of more than 200 yuan from the breakfast stall, so after purchasing the goods early the next morning, Liu Suqin and Lin Nanjiang immediately prepared to go to the small square to sell fried noodles.

This time the situation was similar to the previous day, with a turnover of more than 350 yuan, but they were not very satisfied.

After returning home and packing up, the couple quickly closed the door and pondered over their account book. "We didn't encounter this kind of thing when we were selling fried noodles at the night market. In the first few days, business was obviously getting better and better. During the busiest period, I couldn't even keep up with the stir-fry. But this time, the breakfast stall is not as good as the first on the second day. Even if it's just a few dollars less, if it accumulates, and it's a little less every day, sooner or later this business will be gone."

Liu Suqin agreed with his point of view. "Yes, this is a signal. It seems that our previous analysis was correct. It's not suitable to sell fried noodles in the morning. The good business these past two days is because they are eating something new. After this novelty wears off, it will definitely be quiet."

Lin Nanjiang concluded, "We can't wait any longer, we'll switch to wontons tomorrow!"

The couple agreed and then discussed the details, such as whether to make the wontons at home before setting up the stall, or to prepare the meat filling and wonton wrappers first and then make and sell them on site?

And pricing and stuff.

The couple's main business principle is to keep a low profile and follow the trend. Small businesses cannot withstand the hustle and bustle, so it is best if people around them do not notice them so that they can make a fortune quietly.

So they quietly changed the breakfast category. The couple didn't try to be special and just followed the market trend in pricing. If other people's bowl of wontons cost four yuan, they would also sell it for four yuan.

It's basically like this, a medium bowl of wontons has twelve, a large bowl has fifteen, and the price is four dollars and fifty cents.

Lin Nanjiang recalled his food tasting yesterday. He'd eaten two large bowls of a small wonton, plus the noodle soup, to barely fill him up. He'd quickly become hungry in the afternoon, which wasn't enough. He quickly added, "The large bowl of wontons isn't very big either. How about we get a bigger portion? Twenty for five yuan, how about that?"

Liu Suqin had no objection to this little matter and agreed to it casually.

However, when he set up the stall the next day, Lin Nanjiang found that his worries were completely unnecessary. Most of the people who came to buy wontons were women and students, who didn't have big appetites to begin with, and in the end, few people ordered the extra-large portions.

This is a good thing. When Liu Suqin went home and counted the money, she found that the two thousand wonton wrappers she had rolled out before leaving the house had all been used up. She had sold about one hundred and fifty wontons, and the turnover was as high as six hundred and fifty!

Their wonton stall specializes in making and selling wontons on the spot, and they prepare the fillings in advance. The couple divides the work on site. Lin Nanjiang is responsible for production, cashiering and packaging, while Liu Suqin only needs to sit by and make wontons.

It is said that two different people can sleep in the same bed. Liu Suqin and Lin Nanjiang are both honest people. Even if she is reborn, she will try her best to learn to be smart and capable in order to make money, but she will never become a real profiteer.

The couple racked their brains to try to make more money, but they could only think of the stupid method of bargaining when purchasing goods and reducing costs as much as possible. They never thought of replacing raw materials with cheap and inferior ones, or even cutting corners.

So, when the honest Liu Suqin made wontons, she could only make about 350 wontons from one pound of pork. But when the more astute lady boss took over, she could easily make 400 to 500 wontons from one pound of meat.

You can earn more that way.

However, even with Liu Suqin's wrapping method, the purchase cost required for the breakfast stall is still no more than 100 yuan. Although the turnover is far less than that of the late-night fried noodle stall, the difference in net income is not that big.

As long as the breakfast stall has enough goods in stock, it is easy for the profit to catch up with that of the midnight snack stall.

This is truly a win-win situation!

Liu Suqin counted the money happily and discussed with Lin Nanjiang, "We closed the stall early today, so it's obviously not enough to sell. Let's prepare 200 servings tomorrow."

Lin Nanjiang rubbed his hands excitedly, "Wouldn't that mean I could make seven or eight hundred tomorrow morning? My God, robbing a bank can't be that easy.

In this way, the two were dazzled by the huge profits and started a crazy money-making mode day and night, working day and night, and never feeling tired despite all the hard work.

Before we knew it, the golden month of October had passed quietly.

When they worked in the factory before, their motivation for going to work every day was to look forward to the boss’s wife paying their wages on the first day. But now that they have become small bosses themselves, Liu Suqin and Lin Nanjiang can’t even make it to the next month.

On the evening of the 31st, the two couldn't wait to start calculating the monthly bills.

You wouldn't know until you do the math, and you'll be shocked. They started trying to set up a stall to do business from October 2nd to the 31st, rain or shine, without missing a single day. In just 30 days, they made a net profit of 41,080 yuan.

There was a total of 42,000 yuan in the passbook under Liu Suqin's name alone, and they had nearly 5,000 yuan in cash on hand. That means that with their previous savings, the couple's total net worth is close to 50,000 yuan.

Fifty thousand yuan! That was their total salary for five years at the factory. They didn’t expect that they could earn it back in just one month by setting up a stall.

Even though Liu Suqin and Lin Nanjiang wanted to count their money eight hundred times every day when they returned home and knew every penny they earned, when all their savings and cash were turned out and placed in front of them, the couple still felt dazed for a moment, as if it was unreal, between a dream and reality.

Lin Nanjiang, in particular, had never seen so much money in his life. He was still looking for his wife to confirm, "Is this true? Do we really have nearly 50,000?"

When he asked this, Liu Suqin suddenly remembered something and said firmly, "Yes, I heard that the price of gold has increased this year. Including the jewelry we bought before the wedding, we already have more than 50,000 yuan in our hands."

After receiving his wife's affirmation, Lin Nanjiang, although he had not yet fully digested the reality, regained some sense of reality and reflexively continued, "That's great, wife, you like gold jewelry. We will buy you more when we make money this year."

"No, no, no." This was the 1990s. If you have money, why buy jewelry? Wouldn't it be better to buy a house?

Liu Suqin rejected her husband's unreliable proposal without a second thought, and happily calculated, "We just started learning to set up a stall this month, and we only made a little over 40,000 yuan. Next month, if we work harder, we should be able to make 40,000 to 50,000 yuan. By the time we close the stall and take a break before the New Year, we should be able to get around 100,000 yuan..."

Lin Nanjiang suddenly got excited and blurted out, "If we can get a hundred thousand, we can go back home and build a big house!"

After saying that, he couldn't help but grin and laugh out loud, but he never expected to be glared at by his wife.

"You're dreaming." Liu Suqin believed his nonsense in her previous life and devoted herself to saving money to build a house in her hometown. Finally, when her son was born, they had saved up 80,000 yuan. They prepared a residential plot and started construction. In the end, all their savings over the years were invested in this house.

After all, they are just building a house in the countryside, and the cost of steel bars, cement and workers is not cheap at all, and may even be more expensive.

Liu Suqin later found out from chatting with others that at that time, if they went to the county to buy the newest commercial housing, a smaller one would only cost about 100,000 yuan. However, when their son was admitted to university, they finally remembered to buy a house in the county. At that time, the housing price had risen to 7,000 or 8,000 yuan per square meter.

The house she built at great expense in her hometown could not be sold except for the one she lived in.

Whenever Liu Suqin brought up this past life, she felt a little breathless, blaming herself and her husband for their shortsightedness and their willingness to endure hardship. If she had known she'd eventually have to buy a house in the county, why didn't she buy one right away? That way, maybe she'd have enough money to buy one for her daughter later.

Even if you only pay a down payment and let your daughter pay the mortgage herself, you won't be accused of favoring boys over girls.

So Liu Suqin learned her lesson and would never go back to her hometown to build a house early in this life.

However, she was only angry for a moment. Lin Nanjiang had behaved well in his life, so seeing his confused and innocent look, as if he didn't know what he had said wrong, Liu Suqin softened her tone and spoke to him gently, "Didn't we agree that our family would work hard in Shenzhen? Why do you suddenly want to go back and build a house? Do you think you've made enough money and can go back to your hometown to farm?"

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