Chapter 159 The business of supplying goods to the eldest and second brothers
After Ye Caiping left Shunkelou, she went to find Pang Jie.
Fat Sister lives in town, not far from where she sets up her stall.
Seeing Ye Caiping coming to visit, Fatty was excited: "Hey, what brings Master Ye here?"
Ye Caiping smiled, walked into the house, and put down two boxes of snacks: "I came to see you today to talk about supply."
Fat Sister said solemnly: "I have wanted to find you for a long time. I used your seasoning packet, but the soup I made was not as good as the one you supply. But people outside use the seasoning packet, and it is cheaper."
"If we use the supplier, we may not be able to compete with the outsiders. So... sister, can you give us a discount?"
Ye Caiping nodded.
If you don't give them concessions, they will no longer want supplies and will use material packets.
In fact, whether they are using the ingredient packages or supplying goods, Ye Caiping will make money.
But she wanted to keep this line, and she planned to give this business to Ye Daquan and Ye Erquan.
"Sure." Ye Caiping agreed.
Fat Sister's eyes lit up and she smiled: "Okay, let's talk in detail."
Finally, the supply discount is half of the original price. In the past, Ye Caiping could earn 300 wen per bucket, but now she earns 180 wen per bucket, which means she has saved 120 wen.
After looking for Fat Sister, Ye Caiping went to two restaurants in the town and three in the county. In the end, only Yingfu Restaurant in the county wanted to continue supplying goods.
Including Shunkelou, there are three in total.
Before going home, Ye Caiping went back to Shunkelou to find Manager Chi and gave him some discounts.
After all, she had already given concessions to the other two companies. If Shunkelou refused, it would be embarrassing if Manager Chi found out.
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In the evening, Ye Caiping called everyone from the first and second rooms to have dinner.
After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, the table was cleared and Ye Caiping said, "I called everyone here today to talk about the delivery."
Wei paused in his action of serving tea. No need to serve it?
Thinking of this, she breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Ye Xiniu's trouble had left four positions vacant in the workshop.
Mrs. Du picked her teeth and thought it was unnecessary to send it.
If you don’t want to send it, then don’t. Isn’t the workshop still short of people anyway? It also costs 30 cents a day to enter the workshop!
Ye Caiping said: "I have my own workshop now, so I can no longer deliver goods to restaurants. But Shunkelou, Pangjie and Yingfu restaurants still want to supply goods."
Mrs. Du and Mrs. Wei looked at each other in bewilderment. That was...
"I mean, let the delivery business be done by you, big brother and second brother. Although the profit margin is high, after deducting the cost, you can still make 180 coins per bucket."
"What? Do it for us?" Du and Wei said almost in unison.
Brother Ye Daquan was also surprised.
Mrs. Du said excitedly, "After deducting the cost of materials, one barrel can earn 180 coins! If we divide it between the two families, which one will have as much as... Yes, 90 coins a day!"
Wei also smiled and said, "90 wen a day. My wife and I only made 60 wen a day before! Now we earn 30 wen more."
Ye Caiping laughed, "It's not 90 cents a day. It's more than one bucket a day. The three families add up the morning, noon and night, a total of 9 buckets."
"Nine, nine barrels?" Mrs. Du took a breath, "Then we can earn..."
"It's 1 liang 6 qian 20 wen a day!" Ye Huaner thought quickly.
"That would be about thirty or forty taels a month?" Wei's voice stuttered.
"48 taels and 6 cents." Huan'er added, "The two families split it equally, each with 24 taels and 3 cents."
Mrs. Du jumped up with joy, and looked at Ye Caiping in disbelief: "Delivering goods... can actually make so much money?"
"Yes!" Ye Caiping nodded with a smile.
Wei was very happy, and now it was more than 24 taels. That little sister gave more than this before, and she didn’t even give any discounts, so it must have been over a hundred taels, right?
"I, I am not dreaming, am I?" Mrs. Du was dizzy, and suddenly said: "Ah - Ye Daquan, are you trying to kill yourself?"
"Hey, didn't you say you were dreaming? Let me wake you up."
After Ye Daquan finished speaking, he and Ye Erquan looked at Ye Caiping with gratitude.
24 taels is nothing to the little girl, but to them, it is a huge sum of money!
For farmers like them, anyone who can earn one or two taels of silver a month is already the envy of people in the surrounding area.
Now they can earn 24 taels a month!
Old Mrs. Ye and Old Man Ye also looked at Ye Caiping with emotion and satisfaction.
After the excitement, Wei asked, "Then how do we deliver the goods?"
In the past, because there was too much cargo, two ox carts were used. Now there are only nine barrels a day, and only one or two barrels are delivered at a time, so less than two ox carts are needed.
Moreover, Ye Bajin and Ye Sanquan are still resting. They also delivered goods before.
Ye Caiping said, "There is not much cargo now, so we can just use an ox cart. As for Ba Jin and San Quan, I will arrange for them to work in the workshop."
Mrs. Du said, "Then the ox cart...can we borrow yours, little sister? We can pay for the rent of the ox every month."
Ye Caiping said, "I have two cows here. We can take turns pulling the goods, so that they won't be too tired. As for renting the cows, you don't need to pay. But I have one request. You have to herd and feed the cows for me. I have something to do, so the eldest brother and the second brother have to be my drivers."
"No problem." Ye Daquan agreed immediately. "It doesn't matter what you ask for. This is what we should do."
These two cows have always been taken care of by the Ye Daquan brothers.
Even though they didn't have to deliver goods and took vacations for a while, Ye Daquan and Erquan would take turns to take care of them.
"It's settled then." Ye Caiping nodded with a smile.
Mrs. Du and Ye Daquan looked at each other, and Mrs. Du hesitated and said, "Well... Actually, we have something else we want to ask you tonight..."
"Sister-in-law, please tell me."
"We've thought about it. Isn't Xiuxiu already married? Maybe she'll get pregnant in a few months."
Hu Xiuxiu and Ye Yong had been sitting quietly in the back. After hearing this, their faces turned red.
"If you're pregnant, you have to wait a year... The rainy season is coming soon. The current house is leaking and I don't want my grandson to live in such a house. What I mean is that we want to build a house as soon as possible, and make it a blue brick one, haha! So I want to borrow 30 taels from you."
"I originally thought that with an income of two taels per month, we could pay it off in one or two years. Now my younger sister has given us this business, and we can earn 24 taels per month, so we don't have to worry about the future."
Thinking of this, Mrs. Du’s face was almost blooming with smiles.
"Sure." Ye Caiping said with a smile, "If you want to build it, build it bigger. I'll lend you 40 taels!"
Mrs. Du was pleasantly surprised: "Thank you, little sister."
Wei frowned, "Building a house is a good thing, but you want to build it on the original land, right?"
"Of course." Old Lady Ye said anxiously, "That's our ancestral home! We must build it on the original site."
Wei said: "Then my elder brother and his wife have to move out first..."
Ye Daquan looked at Ye Caiping with hope.
Ye Caiping smiled: "Then brother and sister-in-law can move to my house first. When the house is built, we can move back."
"Hey!" Ye Daquan responded excitedly.
"Brother, you can move to my house." Ye Erquan said.
"Get lost! I'm staying at my younger sister's house!" Ye Daquan glared at him. "I've been crowded enough with you guys in the old house. I finally have some free time, but you're crowding in with me again! Isn't my younger sister's big house nicer?"
"Nonsense!" Ye Erquan was annoyed, "My house has two more wing rooms than the old house, and the rooms are bigger, so we can live in a spacious room."
"I won't live in your house anyway!"
Ye Caiping, Old Man Ye and others couldn't help laughing when they saw the two brothers bickering.
Old Man Ye frowned and said, "The old house and the vegetable plot are only four acres, which is a bit small."
Now that I have some spare money, of course I want to build a bigger one.
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