"Brother, it's you again. I've learned a new trick." Ye Lao San gave Ye Lao Da a thumbs up.

"Okay, stop talking nonsense, just wait for the shopkeeper to come find you.

“I’m going back first, it will be a little later when Sunny goes to bed.

"Okay, I'll come find you tomorrow morning." Ye Lao San said, looking around the room he had lived in for so long and sighing, "I can finally go home. Although the food and accommodation here are worse than at home, I don't know why, but I just can't sleep as soundly as on the kang at home."

"Of course. As the saying goes, a home is worse than any other." Boss Ye nodded and said, "Okay, let's go."

After sending Boss Ye away, Third Brother Ye slapped his forehead and reacted: "Good fellow, didn't Big Brother call me a dog?"

As soon as Boss Ye left, the shopkeeper came looking for him.

"Come on, let's go inside and talk." The shopkeeper came in and sat down, took out an account book from his pocket and opened it to talk about business, "Let's do the math...

"Look, here's the silver for wood, paint, labor, and so on, and here's..."

Every account is recorded clearly in the shopkeeper's account book.

Ye Laosan couldn't read, but the numbers behind each item made him secretly shocked.

It turns out that wood is so expensive!

It turns out that the paint Wang Ge uses on building blocks is so expensive, several times the price of ordinary paint...

He was distracted for a moment, and then he heard the shopkeeper say, "After deducting all expenses, we gave away four sets of building blocks and sold twenty-one sets.

"The building blocks are sold for thirty-six taels of silver per set, so the total revenue is seven hundred and fifty-six taels.

"Each box of building blocks costs around ten taels, so let's take that as ten taels. That leaves a net profit of five hundred and forty-six taels..."

"How much? More than five hundred taels?" Ye Lao San was distracted and thought he had misheard.

The shopkeeper thought that Ye Laosan was not satisfied with the money, and hurriedly explained: After all, these are building blocks, and the price cannot be set too high.

"And the four sets of building blocks I gave away were also bought by my young master at cost price..."

"No, no." Ye Lao San waved his hands repeatedly, "I know about the boxes of building blocks that were given away. Without them, the business wouldn't be so good later. This part of the money must be included in the cost. How can I let Young Master Qin bear it!"

As Ye Laosan said this, he urged the shopkeeper to recalculate the costs and profits.

"If we convert the four boxes of building blocks we gave away into the building blocks at cost..." the shopkeeper fiddled with the abacus in his hand and said, "that would be five hundred and six taels.

"In this way, a 10% profit is 50 taels and 6 coins.

"My young master gets 20%, which is one hundred and one taels and two cents.

"You take 80 percent, which makes a total of 404.8 taels. Is that correct now?"

At this moment, Ye Laosan only felt his ears buzzing and could hardly hear what the shopkeeper said next.

I just made some building blocks, but I made so much money?

Isn't it too easy to make money from the rich people in Beijing?

Or why not just come to Beijing to develop...

However, Ye Laosan quickly regained his composure.

Not just anyone can make it in the capital.

The reason why JiMu can make so much money this time is thanks to Qingtian's matchmaking, and secondly, it is thanks to the help of Young Master Qin.

Not only did he help design Western patterns, he also found someone to teach him how to make the building block boxes we have today.

Not to mention the four boxes of building blocks that were given away, three of them were given to the sons and daughters of high-ranking officials and nobles, and the other one was sent to the palace.

Although the profit share was 20% for Young Master Qin and 80% for him, Ye Lao San knew in his heart that Young Master Qin had contributed at least 80% to the success of selling this box of building blocks at such a high price.

If he had come to Beijing on his own initiative to work, let alone making so much money, it would be good if he didn't lose money.

After thinking this through, Ye Laosan's mind, which had been initially overwhelmed by the huge sum of money, suddenly became clear.

The shopkeeper was actually also paying attention to Ye Laosan's situation.

Normally, it would be difficult for a country carpenter not to be overwhelmed if he suddenly learned that he had made so much money.

In this line of work, the shopkeeper has seen the most people accidentally discovering antiques or picking up valuable items for very little money and then selling them on.

Not to mention hundreds of taels of silver, even being able to sell a few dozen taels of silver can easily change a person's temperament, and countless people will go straight to casinos and brothels when they go out.

So when the shopkeeper saw that Ye Laosan had woken him up so quickly, he couldn't help but admire him in his heart.

The shopkeeper has been interacting with the young master these days and feels that he has a pretty good eye for people. The brothers of the Ye family are all honest and decent people without any ulterior motives.

"Brother Ye, do you want this money in silver or should I have someone exchange it for banknotes tomorrow?"

Ye Lao San thought for a moment and said, "If it's convenient for you, just give me some silver directly. It would be better if there is some loose change. I still need to settle a bill with Wang Ge. I will go to the bank to exchange the silver notes myself tomorrow."

The shopkeeper smiled and said, "Okay, I also thought you might want real gold and silver, so I didn't rush to ask someone to exchange it for silver.

"After all, this is the first time I've made so much money, so I definitely want to feel how it feels to touch so much silver with my own hands. I know that feeling all too well.

“When I was first assigned to this shop as the shopkeeper, Western goods were hard to come by in the capital.

"You don't know, back then, before the shop even opened, it was already crowded with people wanting to buy things.

"Everyone was holding silver in their hands, eager to throw it in as soon as we opened the door!

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