Chapter 236 The Family Counts Money
Eleven sets of clothes: two pieces for one tael of silver, one piece for two taels of silver, four pieces for three taels of silver, two pieces for five taels of silver, one piece for six taels of silver, and one piece for eight taels of silver.
The clothes alone sold for forty taels of silver.
Of course, this includes the cost of the clothing fabric and labor costs, but even after deducting these, one can still make a net profit of thirty taels of silver.
Thirty taels of silver.
Ruan gasped, "I used to think that jewelry and jade items in silver shops were the only profitable businesses. I never knew that clothes could be so profitable."
Shu Yu thought, this isn't even considered a profit.
Take modern clothing, for example. Even ordinary clothes without any brand names, which aren't high-end or luxury, can easily cost several thousand yuan in a shopping mall.
Now that we're in Jiangyuan County, Shu Yu sets the price based on the cost of the fabric, and doesn't dare to raise it too high.
If she were to take the piece of fabric that Xiang Weinan had given her, make clothes from it, and then embroider exquisite patterns on it, it would be no problem to sell them for over a hundred taels of silver.
Moreover, it took Ruan Shi and Daya more than half a month to make these clothes.
The old woman touched the silver and examined it again and again. After a long while, she said, "What other income do you have?"
Besides selling clothes, Shu Yu also sold eight homemade lipsticks and several boxes of rouge and face powder that she had placed on the stage.
This portion of the income totaled fifteen taels of silver.
Finally, there was the cost of Shu Yu doing Zhiyou's makeup.
She had told Ding Yuehua before that her starting price for makeup was one tael, depending on the situation.
Today, Miss Zhiyou's makeup was relatively simple, and it wasn't a particularly important occasion. In addition, Ding Yuehua gave her a discount on the flyer, so Shuyu accepted three taels of silver.
So the total amount of silver lying on the bed now is fifty-eight taels.
The Lu family members smiled so hard their eyes narrowed.
After a moment of joy, the old lady said, "Alright, our shop has earned fifty-eight taels in four days of opening. After deducting costs, we still have more than forty taels. This is a good start, and we will definitely prosper even more in the future. We must work even harder in the future."
The old lady gave a pep talk, then took out a piece of silver from her silver and handed it to Madam Ruan.
The latter's smiling expression froze, and she looked at the old lady somewhat helplessly, "Mother?"
"Besides Ayu, you deserve the most credit here. You made most of those clothes, so you deserve some compensation for your hard work. Take this and keep it; it'll make it easier to buy something later."
Ruan was stunned, her eyes slightly reddening. "...Mother, I...I don't need to buy anything, we have everything at home."
"Take it if you want. Ah Xiang gets paid for working at our house, there's no reason you shouldn't." The old lady glared at her, annoyed.
Ruan shrank back at the glare and quickly took it.
The old lady was very generous; she gave three taels of silver right away.
Holding the slightly warm pieces of silver, Ruan felt a warm glow in her heart.
The old lady gave Daya another two taels of silver. Daya had already spent a lot of her dowry these past few days buying groceries and other necessities.
The old lady didn't want to shortchange her, so she just stuffed it into her hand.
The old lady took out ten taels of silver from the remaining money bag and stuffed it into Shu Yu's arms.
Shu Yu looked at the silver that was forcibly shoved into her hands, "Milk??"
(End of this chapter)
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