Upon hearing that business was booming, Lin Jinyue prepared to go to the shop to reconcile the accounts.

Lin Jinyue specifically chose a literate woman to look after the shop, but she had seen their account books before, which were written in a mess and were incomprehensible to her.

Lin Jinyue then taught them a method for keeping accounts: divide a piece of paper in half, write the entries on the left and the exit entries on the right.

This makes it much easier to calculate.

The income over the past few days has been considerable, but the expenses have been modest. The bulk of the income comes from the shop's rent of three taels of silver, while the daily cost of ingredients is not high, at only three hundred coins.

They pick their own fruit and only buy it if they really need more. The octopus isn't expensive either.

There are also occasional small expenses for buying firewood every few days.

Their shop uses a lot of firewood, but each expense is very small; the firewood needed for three to five days only costs twenty coins.

Lin Jinyue found the current prices quite perplexing.

While anything that's expensive to buy is outrageously pricey, manual labor like this can be done for extremely low prices.

Lin Jinyue quickly calculated that the shop was making a daily income of thirty taels of silver, and that was pure profit!

Lin Jinyue hadn't expected the business to be so booming.

Moreover, this doesn't even include the business of selling stir-fried snails, which already amounts to this much in a month.

Lin Jinyue then asked the manager here, Wang Cuiju.

Wang Cuiju was the only literate woman.

Lin Jinyue asked, "Have any customers complained about anything these past few days?"

Wang Cuiju then said, "There's nothing wrong with the taste. If there's anything they're not satisfied with, it's probably that the young masters and ladies complained about the lack of private rooms, saying it was inconvenient."

Lin Jinyue looked up and saw that there were indeed many young masters and ladies dressed in fine clothes who didn't even have seats and were standing in the shop scooping shaved ice with spoons.

I'm afraid we won't be able to find private rooms anytime soon.

Otherwise, there won't be enough seats.

She doesn't have the money to rent a restaurant right now.

Lin Jinyue noticed many unfamiliar faces and asked curiously, "Why are there so many unfamiliar faces here lately?"

Wang Cuiju said with a smile, "Er Ya, you don't know yet, do you? A lot of people from other places have come here. They all came from far away because they heard that the food is delicious."

Lin Jinyue was genuinely taken aback.

Is her shop really that famous?

Just then, I heard a familiar voice: "Oh, Yueyue, is it really you guys?"

Lin Jinyue looked up and saw that it was none other than Master Hu, whom they had met in Yunsong County before!

She was somewhat incredulous: "Huh, what are you doing in Shawan County?"

Uncle Hu came with his wife.

Madam Hu smiled when she saw Lin Jinyue: "My husband and I went to Guangcheng, but we heard that Shawan County has a lot of delicious food. Since the prefectural city is not far from here, we came to take a look."

Uncle Hu said with a smile, "I told you it might be them, but you didn't believe me."

Lin Jinyue quickly asked Wang Cuiju and the others to bring out some delicious food.

Lin Jinyue smiled and said, "If you're not busy, you can come with me to the village. I'll have my dad cook something delicious for you. The shop has just opened, and we haven't had time to prepare anything yet."

Seeing the bustling crowd, Uncle Hu knew the food must taste good.

At this moment, people familiar with Lin Jinyue also arrived, each with a resentful look in their eyes:

"I was wondering why things weren't selling well lately. Turns out a lot of people from out of town have come. Young shopkeeper, you'd better open more shops soon! And you're even limiting the quantity of these iced drinks!"

"Exactly! When has my Boss Jin ever been to a shop like this? They don't even have private rooms. This limited edition makes it impossible for me to have money to burn!"

Lin Jinyue replied as always, "Wait a little longer, it will all come eventually."

As for how long it will take, I don't know.

Lin Jinyue smiled and said to everyone, "I have important friends to entertain today, so we can talk about the private room later."

Lin Jinyue wanted to leave, but the others wouldn't let her.

Jin Ye, a burly man, blocked the doorway: "Hey little shopkeeper, you've been nowhere to be seen for ten days or half a month. When are you going to see me again?"

"Young shopkeeper, what kind of business is this? You're not even going to the shop, aren't you afraid..."

The person was thinking, "Aren't you afraid your employees won't work?"

But they really couldn't find anything wrong with it.

Lin Jinyue couldn't help but laugh as she listened to their conversation: "We'll open a new shop after we finish reconciling the accounts at the end of the month."

Only then did the crowd let her go.

Lin Jinyue is not afraid that if the boss doesn't care, the employees won't work.

These uncles and aunts are all shareholders of this shop, and they get the lion's share of the profits. How could they not work hard?

Lin Jinyue simply didn't want to get involved in too many things, which is why she taught her skills to others and just sat back and collected her share of the profits.

Master Hu also felt that Lin Jinyue was a carefree young girl.

But having witnessed Lin Jinyue's intelligence, he knew that she must have considered all of these things.

Lin Jinyue asked with a smile, "How long do you plan to stay in Shawan County?"

Uncle Hu said, "I'll stay for two or three days. I'll go and see how your village is doing now. I didn't expect you to be able to open a shop so quickly."

Lin Jinyue: "We have to thank you for the thirty taels you gave us back then."

No one knows what methods Master Hu used to exchange those nearly invalid banknotes for silver, but after she came to Shawan County, people only recognized silver and not banknotes.

Lin Jinyue came with her father.

Her father was originally shopping at the market, but when he saw Uncle Hu and the others arrive, he quickly went to buy meat, saying that he would make roast meat later.

Lin Shucheng returned shortly afterward.

They took a boat back to Yunhe Village together.

When Uncle Hu arrived in the village, he was completely stunned.

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