Chapter 113: The Ninth Day in Jiangcheng, One Person Lost 4,000

"Then sell it for 20! If it's 18, I really won't have to sell anything else." Lu Hongwen slapped his forehead, a sly look on his face, and took out his phone to search. "Just in time, my group chat came in handy today!"

"Okay, you decide." Seeing Lv Hongwen, who was busy fiddling with his phone and had an idea in mind, Zhao Xiaojing readily delegated her authority. "Then I'll trouble you, Boss Lu, to take care of it. I'll treat you to some iced tofu pudding!"

Zhao Xiaojing handed him the freshly made osmanthus wine and ice tofu pudding with a look of satisfaction.

"Thank you, sister! You are so nice!" Lu Hongwen, who was changing the angle to take a photo of the sweet soup, looked up and saw the ice tofu pudding covered with a lot of small ingredients in front of him. He took it with a smile and started eating with a spoon.

After eating this, my eyes widened.

He had been making the sweet soup himself for several days, and thought he had become desensitized and developed resistance after seeing it every day. But after taking this bite, he found out he was wrong.

This ice tofu pudding is truly worthy of its name. It tastes cool, milky and smooth, melts in your mouth, and has a light mellow taste that lingers in your mouth.

Originally, iced tofu pudding is light and refreshing, but it can become bland if you eat too much. However, this bowl is topped with a variety of toppings, giving you a different flavor with every bite.

The soft and sweet ones are honey red beans, the soft and sticky ones are glutinous rice balls, the refreshing and lightly fragrant ones are grass jelly, and the sour and appetizing ones are hawthorns...

"Sister, I originally thought that your craftsmanship was the ceiling, but now I find that there is no ceiling at all!" Lu Hongwen was shocked and praised incoherently while eating the sugar water.

Zhao Xiaojing laughed for a long time, and then took the opportunity to continue demonstrating a few more times. Lu Hongwen held the bowl and ate while listening, asking questions from time to time.

"One more thing. Tomorrow your sister Su and I will start selling pig's trotter rice. I see that you are quite familiar with making sweet soup. How about you set up the stall here by yourself starting tomorrow?

Once we sell out today, we can calculate the average number of units sold over the past five days, and we don’t have to wait a week to calculate.”

After Lu Hongwen finished the syrup in a few mouthfuls, he took Zhao Xiaojing's spoon and began to learn how to make it himself. Zhao Xiaojing stood aside and watched him do it skillfully, and she felt relieved.

"Okay! I can do it. Thank you Sister Jing and Sister Shu! I will bring my classmates to support your pork trotter rice restaurant tomorrow!" Lu Hongwen agreed excitedly.

With the sugar water business booming, the number of servings sold is only going to increase. Calculating only the average number of servings over these five days is actually quite advantageous for him. This means the number of servings will definitely be underestimated, which allows him to make more money and earn a larger commission.

"Sister Jing, I already know how to do it. Please sit down and I'll call you if I have any questions!" Lu Hongwen, who was about to fight alone, was full of energy.

Zhao Xiaojing nodded and smiled without refusing. She took out the notebook and pen she brought with her and sat on the folding stool at the back to start writing and drawing.

Now that they were running a stall as a partnership, accounting had to be kept very clearly. To make accounting easier, even the payment code on the stall was registered using Su Yuchen's old phone number, using Zhifubaohe. It was specifically used for payments to avoid confusion with other expenses from his regular account.

After collecting the payment that day, she and Su Yuchen would reconcile the accounts again after returning home, accounting for both payment codes and the cash. The next day, they would also remember to buy ingredients and materials in detail, paying in advance and then getting reimbursed.

Zhao Xiaojing looked through the records of the number of units sold every day and started to calculate using the calculator on her phone.

Today is the fifth day that Lu Hongwen has set up a stall. He has made about 550 servings of sweet soup, plus the 1,947 servings sold in the first four days, the average is about 500 servings per day, and he finishes his business before 11 o'clock.

However, we have to wait until Lu Hongwen sells out today's quantity, and the calculation will be more accurate based on the actual number of portions.

The total sales of sweet soup during these four days amounted to more than 34,000 yuan. Adding the more than 15,000 yuan sold at the stall before Lu Hongwen came, and deducting the costs of buying materials and ingredients, the total profit was about 23,000 yuan.

Zhao Xiaojing has been in Jiangcheng for 9 days. Before she came, there was a balance of 90,000 yuan in her card. After 9 days, the balance is less than 70,000 yuan.

Although I made more than 23,000 yuan from selling sweet soup, I also spent a lot of money.

The rent for the kitchen and the new stall at the side door is paid for half a year, which means more than 18,000 yuan has been spent. In addition, I bought the pork trotter rice recipe at that time, but the system coins were insufficient, so I spent 10,000 yuan to recharge and buy the recipe. In addition, I bought various tools and ingredients in the kitchen, and the second-hand stall cart I bought yesterday, which cost another 5,000 yuan.

Even so, the refrigerator and dessert cart are all provided by the system, and the rented kitchen has its own natural gas, air conditioner and other items, so there is no need to spend money to buy them.

However, this was a partnership between two people, and the money had to be split in half, which meant that she and Su Yuchen didn't make a penny and each lost more than 4,000 yuan.

Zhao Xiaojing was so upset that she pulled her hair. She didn't think much of it until she calculated it, but once she did, she realized that making money by opening a store was not that easy.

It seems that the main task of opening a store cannot be completed in a short time.

Not to mention that she also wanted to help Su Yuchen find something and a career that she liked to do, and wanted to hire someone to do it so that Su Yuchen could have her own time.

Su Yuchen had previously offered to pay for the dessert cart and the night market stall, splitting the cost with Zhao Xiaojing, but Zhao Xiaojing had refused. After all, Su Yuchen had been out of work and had no income for over two weeks, all while waiting for her. Furthermore, the dessert cart cost nothing, it was just a difficult matter to discuss.

Speaking of the stall, I will be selling pork trotter rice tomorrow, and I have to wait for the coconut jelly boss to deliver the stall tonight.

The owner of the coconut jelly stall is also a tenant of the kitchen's landlord, Chen Huiping. She lives in the same house where Chen Huiping took them to sign the contract. She's said to have been running the stall for about a year. Now that her elderly husband is ill and needs her to return home to take care of him, she's simply sold her stall and rented house in Jiangcheng to avoid the hassle of bringing them back.

When Chen Huiping informed her of her intention to check out in advance, she learned that her stall was also being moved out, so she asked her to find out if anyone wanted to rent the kitchen and warehouse.

The coconut jelly owner was supposed to leave yesterday, but she still had some goods left to sell, so she made an appointment with Zhao Xiaojing and the others to set up the stall for another day. She would sell the stall to them at a discount for the extra day and ask for 2,000 yuan.

Su Yuchen initially thought that 2,000 yuan was a bit expensive for this old stall cart that had been used for more than a year, but Zhao Xiaojing patted her on the shoulder and readily agreed.

This price is actually quite reasonable. Zhao Xiaojing had already asked about it at the market when she was planning to make pork trotter rice, and she was shocked by the question.