"Please don't disturb me, I need to recite." Zhou Xiang picked up the Ideological and Moral Education textbook and pretended to recite it.

Zhou Yu grabbed her book and said, "Can you lend me the money?"

"Where do I get the money?" Zhou Xiang asked with his eyes wide open.

"You, wouldn't you become rich if you told fortunes for others?" Zhou Yu's eyes suddenly lit up as he thought of his sister's abilities.

"It's okay if others don't believe it. Fortune tellers are all old men with long beards. If I do this, people will just say I'm a liar." Zhou Xiang wanted to take his book back.

"That's impossible. If you calculated correctly, people won't call you a liar." Zhou Yu relied on his height and raised the book in his hand.

"How can I be right every time? When fortune telling, I have to tell you half and keep the other half. If you are not a family member, I will not tell you the whole story!" Zhou Xiang began to deceive him.

"Sister, just think of this as helping me, and I will repay you. The fifteenth is the day after tomorrow, and the market during the daytime is very lively. You can go and sit there for the whole morning. If you don't make any money, I won't bother you, okay?" Zhou Yu's eyes were full of pleading.

"Then tell me how you will repay me, and I'll consider whether I should show up in public for your capital."

Since my second sister in this life doesn't plan to work and I don't want to reveal my background, my mother naturally doesn't have the money to find a job for her. Besides, since my second sister doesn't have a formal job, Zhang Lian won't keep pestering her, right?

"I, I, I make some money, how about you give me a share? You pay, I work, and after we get the money, we split it fifty-fifty."

Zhou Xiang frowned, "I'm going to pay the money and give the advice, and you just put in the work, and I'll take half? What boss would agree to the same income for the employee and the boss? Besides, if you don't put in the work and end up losing money, who will be blamed?"

Zhou Yu scratched his head, not knowing what to do.

"I'll provide you with the capital," said Old Lady Liu on the side. "Second brother, I'll provide the capital, you'll do the work, and Fourth brother will provide the ideas. You and I will take three parts, and Fourth brother will take four parts."

"Okay, okay," Zhou Yu said happily, almost throwing the book in his hand away. "Sister, tell me quickly, what should I do?"

"I don't want a share. You can work with Old Lady Liu. As for what? Anything is fine. All food, especially breakfast, is very profitable. Even the fried dough sticks in the morning can make a lot of money if they sell them all morning."

"But, but I can't."

"The key is that you don't have the manpower. You can't do these things alone."

"Then tell me what I can do alone."

"Selling vegetables is very profitable for middlemen. They have to go to a fixed place in the county town to exchange vegetables at one or two o'clock every day. Selling clothes is even more profitable, but the capital is large. They go to Ermalu in the city to buy goods. Xia Cuilan buys goods from Ermalu."

"Who is Xia Cuilan?"

Zhou Yu asked a question, causing Old Lady Liu to look at Zhou Xiang as well.

"Zhou Ming's wife, Old Man Zhou's third daughter-in-law, your third aunt."

"It's not yours?" Zhou Yu rolled his eyes at his sister. Why go around in such a big circle?

"I'd rather not! Old Zhou treated our family and my eldest brother like that. I'd rather have nothing to do with him and his family!"

Zhou Yu returned the book to his sister and went to discuss with Old Lady Liu what to do, after all, her investor also ran a small business.

Zhou Xiang dozed off while reciting his lessons, not paying attention to the whispers of the two people next to him.

Zhou Yu took the initiative to cook dinner. When Zhou's mother came home from get off work to eat, she didn't see any changes.

At night, Zhou Yu went to sleep on the cool bed without his sister telling him.

The next day, during breakfast, Zhou Yu said that she and Old Lady Liu were going to the Second Road in the city to get goods to sell.

Mother Zhou was so frightened that she almost dropped the bowl, "Mom, are you going to accompany the second child to suffer together?"

"Why not? I'm still young, your mom, and I can still do something great."

Cough cough cough cough, Zhou Xiang was not frightened by his second sister, but was frightened by Old Lady Liu's bold words. A sixty-year-old old lady who had been retired for several years said that she was still young and could do something. How could Boss Zhou, who had retired at the age of fifty in his second life and lived out his life, feel about this?

Zhou Xiang looked at Old Lady Liu while coughing, and saw the hope and vitality in Old Lady Liu's eyes. Was she planning to help her son, who was about to return, to build a career?

After hearing what her mother said, Zhou's mother no longer dared to object and let her do whatever she wanted!

After breakfast, the old man and the child set off, and Zhou wanted to continue reciting.

In the evening, an old man and a child came back with bags full of stuff. Zhou Xiang was stunned. "How did you two bring back so many bags? Besides, no one is buying winter clothes. Spring clothes will be on the market in the blink of an eye, and summer clothes will be on the shelves soon. What are you carrying?"

"We have everything!" Zhou Yu collapsed on the bed. "It's bargains. I bought them at bargain prices, and they delivered them to me. I went to Huai County to get a cart, and to the market town to get my dad. My dad even got a cart."

"How do you sweep? By piece or by pile?"

Zhou Yu grumbled and swiftly climbed up from the net-shaped bed. "Can we still buy it in piles?"

"Yes!" Zhou Xiang nodded vigorously. "If you really want to sell this kind of cheap leftover goods in the future, go directly to the factory. The factory's warehouses sell them one by one, and they are very cheap."

"Where to find it?" Zhou Yu's eyes sparkled.

"Zhejiang Province, Shanghai City, Flower City, why don't you chat more with the people when you buy goods? With your big mouth, do you still want to do business?"

"It's too far! I don't have the money." Zhou Yu's eyes dimmed.

"Then ask these wholesalers for inventory. Sell by the lot, not by the piece. Selling by the piece is too much of a loss. If you have even one left, you'll lose money. If you sell by the lot, you'll make a profit on every single one you sell."

"Okay! I'll take this as experience. You gave me some tips and suggestions, so I'll understand next time."

Zhou Yu began to sort the goods. Zhou Xiang took a look and saw that they were all gray. He shook his head and reminded him, "Next time, get something with brighter colors. Sell this time's goods as soon as you can make a little profit. What matters is the speed of shipment, small profits but quick turnover. Otherwise, if there are too many backlogs, people will be reluctant to buy them."

Zhou Yu paused. "These range from one to four yuan. How much should they cost?"

"Put the four-dollar items on the shelves separately, saying they're of better quality and style, and sell them for eight. Sell the rest together, and take your pick for six. After half the items are sold, if they're no longer selling, lower the price to five. After another half is sold, go back to four. Four is the lowest price and can't be lowered any further. If the eight-dollar items don't sell, mix them together and raise the price back to six. Take your pick."

Zhou Yu sat on the pile of clothes and wondered what his sister's logic was.

Old Lady Liu clapped her hands and said, "This is a good idea. It's more convenient than asking prices and bargaining for each item, and it will also easily trigger a buying frenzy."

Zhou Yu raised his mosquito-repellent eyes and looked at Old Lady Liu, wondering why he didn't understand?

"Alright! Let's do it," Old Lady Liu decided. "Second brother, go get some plastic sheeting and spread the food on it. Fourth brother, where's a good place to set up the stall?"

"On the walls on both sides of the food station's main entrance, the slogans on the north side are more conspicuous than those on the south side."

"Okay! Second brother, prepare the nails and ropes. Ask your dad to go to the slogan wall and hammer in the nails and ropes. Also, buy twenty clothes hangers."

After a while, Zhou Yu received two orders.