Chapter 57: Earned 200,000! (Two Chapters Combined)
On the fourth day after Gu Yin and her family returned from the city, Xiao Shiyi called the Gu family. Gu Yin answered the phone.
The phone was answered, and Xiao Shiyi's excited voice came from the other end: "Is Gu Yin home?"
"That's me." Gu Yin picked up a pen and paper and sat down by the phone to wait.
"Oh my, you're home! What a coincidence! I've been running around looking for people these past few days! Guess how many MP4 players they pre-ordered from me?" Xiao Shiyi couldn't help but laugh after saying that.
There was nothing she could do. She originally thought it was just an advertisement at their school, and because it was a holiday, many students probably didn't know about it, maybe a hundred or so at most.
But to her surprise, when she got home and told her parents about it, they immediately brought in other parents they knew from other schools. They split the profits in half, and in just three days, they had already reached out to five schools!
Hearing her excited voice, Gu Yin said a number: "Five hundred units?"
Xiao Shiyi laughed: "Guess again! Guess as much as you can!"
Gu Yin raised an eyebrow and laughed as well: "1000?"
Xiao Shiyi snorted lightly: "You underestimate me! Let me tell you, it's 2000! For students from five schools! They're all elementary and middle school students; we haven't even gone to the high schools yet! People are still asking about prices! So when you go to pick up the goods tonight, you can take a few more!"
Gu Yin was genuinely surprised when she heard the number. She hadn't expected so many people to buy it; it seemed she had underestimated the spending power of city kids.
"Okay, I'll talk to my dad about it later. Does nobody want the other MP3 players?"
Xiao Shiyi shook her head, then, realizing Gu Yin couldn't see, she raised her voice and said, "It's not that no one's buying, it's just that we're only promoting MP4 players. We just tried it out, and we didn't expect it to work so well. We'll promote other products later! By the way, Gu Yin, we said 200 yuan each before, but we'll sell them for 220. You don't have any objections, do you?!"
The 180 yuan she bought before was a 20 yuan discount from Gu Yin as a friend. Later, when they were negotiating, the price was set at 200 yuan. Gu Yin had previously said that either she would take a 2 yuan commission for each item sold, or Gu Yin would only charge 200 yuan per item. If the price could be raised, she would receive all the additional 200 yuan. It was because of this condition that her parents were so enthusiastic. They didn't dare to say much and asked for 220 yuan per item, making a 20 yuan profit per item.
The same model is now selling for 270 on the market, while they're selling it for 220, which is indeed reasonable.
Gu Yin said indifferently, "Sure, you can handle it yourselves! Just call me if anything happens!"
After hanging up the phone, Gu Yin looked at Gu Shu, who had been standing next to her for a while, and said, "Go and call my dad and the others back. We're going to S City tonight."
Gu Shu held up one finger: "2000 MP4 players? 200 yuan? The cost is 100 yuan, that's a profit of 200,000 yuan!" He got more and more excited as he spoke. He had just made tens of thousands of yuan, and now, just a few days later, he had made another 200,000 yuan! 200,000 yuan! He had never seen so much money in his life! My God, did he find this money on the street?!
Gu Yin shook her head and put his finger down: "Not only that, we need to bring back more, there will be other people who want it later, so why don't you hurry up and call some people?!"
Gu Shu immediately put down his textbook: "Right away!" he said, then got up and ran wildly out the door.
Gu Yin had considered asking Boss Xia to send it over, but the current express delivery wasn't as fast as it used to be. Using traditional express delivery would take five days, which wouldn't be enough. Right now, they only made one yuan, and this kind of thing becomes obsolete too quickly. Their family couldn't keep doing this business forever, so they still had to make the trip themselves. It would take two days to get there and back, or three days at most, which was much faster than express delivery.
Even though Gu Shu had already explained the situation on the way home, Gu Qinglang and Gu Qingming were still slightly agitated when they got back: "Are there really that many?"
Gu Yin nodded: "Really."
Gu Qingming looked at Gu Qinglang: "Then let's pack up now and leave immediately!"
Gu Yin stopped them: "No rush. I heard from Xiao Shiyi that they will go out to sell again this afternoon. You should have dinner first and then go. You can buy train tickets and sleep on the train. You can stay overnight when you arrive there tomorrow afternoon. I will call Boss Xia at nine o'clock the day after tomorrow to confirm how much goods are needed this time."
It's inconvenient to go there, so they'd rather sell as much as possible, otherwise it's too much trouble to go back and forth.
Gu Qingming agreed to Gu Yin's suggestion. When the old lady and the others returned and heard the news, they immediately killed another chicken and started preparing dinner at three o'clock in the afternoon.
This time, Gu Yin won't go; the three of them—Gu Qinglang, his brother, and Gu Shu—will be enough.
After finishing their meal, the three of them took a shower. The old lady boiled more than a dozen eggs for them to take on the road. She originally wanted to make steamed buns, but it was so cold that they would get cold in no time, so there was no need to make them.
After Gu Hua fell asleep that night, Gu Yin went into the library, took out her senior year books, and 001 flew to her head to look at them for a while.
"Your speed is pretty good. Are you planning to skip a grade?"
Gu Yin was surprised that 001 had guessed it. Yes, she planned to take the high school entrance exam with Gu Hua, and their goal was the key high school in the city, Jiang City High School!
"Yes, how did you guess?" Gu Yin reached out and touched the fluffy 001. To be honest, it felt pretty good. She thought about it and rubbed it a few more times until 001 got angry like a pufferfish, and then she let go of it embarrassedly.
001 rubbed his face and stood on Gu Yin's head: "Because your current mode is the same as when my master was doing missions in a certain small world. He kept accelerating his learning and then kept skipping levels."
Even after hearing 001 mention her master countless times, Gu Yin still couldn't imagine what kind of person she was. Powerful was certain; a top student? A researcher? A female general? A politician? Or perhaps, a queen? Probably none of those. Her ultimate goal was probably godhood. Judging from 001's words, the divine messenger was likely just a stepping stone for her; becoming the supreme god was her ultimate objective. She was truly someone to admire and envy!
“I’m already starting to show my talent. If I don’t speed things up, I might not be able to leave this small mountain village by the time they realize what’s happening. Our fate might even be worse than in my previous life. And setting the battlefield on my home turf is too disadvantageous for me.”
There are too many people she cares about back home. If things get out of hand here, Gu Yin won't be able to take care of them all. But if she goes to Beijing, she'll be alone, with Gu Shu and Gu Hua at most. The three of them will be able to manage.
Upon hearing this, 001 patted her head with its plump wings and comforted her, "Don't worry too much, I'm here for you."
Gu Yin laughed. Yes, she was never alone; she still had 001! With that thought, she quickly immersed herself back into the sea of knowledge from her junior high school days.
The next day, the village's collective fishpond was to be drained. At this time, the water was drained to catch fish, which would be sold to the villagers at a low price. The money would be used to build up the village. This had always been the case. However, it seemed that the only construction project in the village before was a public toilet, and nothing else.
Li Genzi is gone, Li Dashan is imprisoned, and the position of Party Secretary has not yet been filled. Li Dashan used to be in charge of this fishpond, but now only Li Sen can take over.
Early in the morning, a crowd gathered around the fishpond. Opening the fishpond required setting off firecrackers. Li Sen lit the firecrackers and, afterward, looked at everyone: "This year, we won't sell these fish to the village yet. I have two options. One is to distribute the fish directly! Not by household, but by headcount! One fish per person initially. Families with more members will get smaller fish, and those with fewer members will get larger fish. We can decide what to do with the rest later. Alternatively, we can take them all to town to sell, and then split the profits equally! Which do you prefer?"
After some discussion, the people around them all chose the first option.
"Fish is cheaper than meat, and we wouldn't get much if we sold it. Let's just divide the fish directly, so we can make preserved fish and have more dishes for the New Year! Otherwise, the money we get won't even be enough to buy a few pounds of meat!"
"Yes, let's choose fish!"
Grandma Gu also chose fish. It just so happens that it hasn't rained recently and the wind has picked up. Tomorrow, they'll slaughter a pig, and then they can make preserved meat. They'll also make all the fish at the same time. She was originally planning to go and buy some, but since the village is distributing them, it saves her the trouble of making another trip.
The water dried up quickly. The fishpond was always watched over, so it wasn't very dirty. Apart from the silt and jumping fish, there wasn't much trash at the bottom of the pond.
The men had already prepared fishing nets, while the women and children followed behind, carrying buckets to collect clams, snails, and any fish that had escaped the nets.
Gu Le and Gu Hua had already followed Grandma Gu downstairs, but Gu Yin didn't go down. Firstly, she didn't like joining in the fun, and secondly, she remembered that she would get her period next semester. In her previous life, no adults had told her what to do, so she didn't understand anything. Sometimes, in the cold weather, she would take cold showers, which caused her to experience severe menstrual pain every month. Later, when she became a star, she tried to treat it for filming, but it didn't help much. The pain was too unbearable. Now it was the dead of winter, and the water was very cold. She dared not go down.
Gu Yin had just tried to persuade the women in her family, but none of them listened. She couldn't do anything about it, so she went home to make brown sugar ginger tea so they could drink it when they came back.
After making ginger soup, Gu Yin started brainstorming ideas for her new book. She had already written 150,000 words for her previous book and still had 50,000 words in reserve. Now she was brainstorming ideas for her new book, which she would pick up after finishing it. The previous book didn't do very well because it was a new style and the readers weren't very engaged. Based on the current performance, she might only get 1,000 yuan by the time it was finished.
She simply couldn't write a domineering CEO romance novel, but a sweet love story should be no problem. Even though Gu Yin had never been in one, she had seen and acted in quite a few.
"How about we write a story of mutual redemption? A bright and well-behaved female lawyer who comes from a dilapidated apartment building in an urban village versus her neighbor who makes a living by collecting garbage and is a future real estate tycoon? 001, what do you think of the character settings for the female and male leads?"
001 took flight: "Great! Write some angst in the beginning, then make it sweeter later, and I guarantee readers will both love and hate you!"
Gu Yin nodded: "Okay, I'll think about the copy and come up with an outline first."
Gu Yin finished writing the outline only after Gu Hua returned home in the afternoon.
"Have you finished catching the fish?"
Gu Hua nodded: "There are still some small fish left, I'll come back and get a basket to collect snails and clams!"
Gu Yin stood up: "I've boiled some water and ginger tea. Would you like to wash up or have a bowl?"
Gu Hua looked at herself, covered in mud from head to toe, including her face and head, and laughed: "I'll wash it all off when I get back. Let's go collect the river clams first."
Gu Yin got up, closed the kitchen door, and followed Gu Hua toward the fishpond.
When they arrived at the fishpond, the fish hadn't been separated yet. Gu Yin went up and looked at the temporary pool made of plastic and bricks. It was teeming with fish, some weighing over ten pounds and others five or six pounds! She hadn't expected them to be so fat!
Walking over to the old lady and her family, I saw that their buckets were already full of fish. There were ten people in their family, and they shared ten small fish. There was also a pile of snails and clams on the ground.
"Don't we have to hand over the snails and clams?" Gu Yin asked the old lady.
The old lady smiled and shook her head: "No need! There's not much meat in these things, whoever finds them keeps them! After we're done, you guys hurry up and take the fish back. I'll wait here and see if anyone else comes to claim their share! The fish this year are really plump! Five or six pounds each is just right, and it's not a hassle to cure them! Let's cook some fish tonight to try! I also caught a few blackfish! We'll make soup with them tonight!"
After saying that, she took the basket, quickly packed the things, and then let them carry them home while she continued to squat there.
After returning home and putting the fish away, Gu Yin went to the kitchen and ladled out a bowl of ginger tea: "I'll take this bowl to Grandma to warm her up. You all drink this and take a shower first. I'll add more water when I get back! Don't catch a cold!"
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