Ah, if Ding Jiajia doesn't want it, then so be it. There are quite a few girls in the village who are about her age. She could give it to Aunt Li's little daughter, Li Tiantian, or Xu's eldest daughter, Xu Ting... But then she felt a little sorry for them and thought that if she were to give it to them, she could just buy cloth flowers. That would only cost nine coins, which would save her a lot of money.
She's just a country girl, she hasn't seen much of the world, so she'd probably jump for joy when she receives the fabric flowers, she'd be so happy she wouldn't know what to do.
Li Tiantian and Xu Ting were overjoyed to receive the fabric flowers, repeatedly stroking and examining them, and even trying them on in their hair.
However, this joy comes from two things: firstly, they bought things they liked, and secondly, and most importantly, they bought them with money they earned themselves!
They weren't given to them by others, nor did they ask their parents for them; they bought them with their own hard-earned money.
They have sixty coins a month, which they can use as they please without having to ask anyone's opinion. They can even buy hair accessories that they used to think were out of reach, and they don't even think they are as expensive as they imagined.
After all, sixty coins can buy six of them and there's still some left over!
They had heard about Fan Erzhu's intention to send Jiajia silk flowers, and they completely understood why Jiajia didn't like them!
Don't even mention Jiajia not liking them; they don't like them either. They can earn their own money to buy flowers, so why accept flowers from people they don't like?
Shuiqing successfully delivered the velvet flower and also helped Jiajia get rid of some unwanted romantic advances. Feeling relieved, she returned to her room.
As soon as I entered the room, I saw Fan Jin's dark, moist eyes looking over, followed by a low, gentle voice: "Shuiqing, this is the money I earned from selling medicinal herbs. Please count it."
The gleaming silver coins were revealed inside the cloth bag, and Shui Qing felt even better. She didn't count them, but instead asked directly, "How much is it in total?"
"Nine hundred and fifteen taels." After saying that, Fan Jin went on to explain in detail how much he had earned for each of the medicinal herbs.
Finally, he added: "Uncle Ding said that the tangerine peel is too young to fetch a good price. If we're not in a hurry to use the money, we can sell a small portion of the remaining peel and store most of it. When the market improves, the price will rise even higher."
Uncle Ding said he wouldn't sell at all, and that it was fine to keep them all on hand, but that would be riskier.
After all, if the storage is faulty, you'll lose everything.
Shui Qing pondered for a moment, then looked up and asked, "I think we're not short of money. Besides the labor costs, there's not much cost to the dried tangerine peel, so we might as well store it all. Anyway, the other two medicinal herbs are more than enough to make ends meet."
The world will remain chaotic for a few more years. Once things stabilize, the economy will improve significantly, and people will naturally be more willing to spend money on things when they are prosperous and wealthy.
Fan Jin smiled faintly and gave a soft "hmm".
Shui Qing was calculating the income and expenditure of the herbal medicine shop in her mind.
The monthly income was over nine hundred taels of silver. In the first month, everyone was a novice and the efficiency was not very high. After it stabilized, the monthly income could be maintained at least between eight hundred and one thousand taels. The wages of the workers in the herbal medicine workshop were twenty-one taels of silver a month, and lunch was provided. The monthly food cost was about two taels of silver.
Besides that, there was the money spent on bricks and tiles for building the herbal medicine shop at the beginning. The labor cost was offset by wages, so no money was spent. The bricks, tiles, lime, coarse bricks, and bluestone cost a total of forty or fifty taels of silver, which was nothing compared to the more than nine hundred taels. Moreover, this was a one-time investment, and there were no such costs incurred every month afterward.
The first batch of medicinal herbs sold for 915 taels, which was a good start, and Shuiqing was very satisfied with the income.
If the business is profitable and the employees have worked hard, then of course they should be rewarded. But rewarding employees can't just be a matter of saying thank you; it has to be something tangible.
"It's getting colder and colder. How about we make winter clothes for the people at the herbal medicine shop? Cotton clothes, with cotton stuffed between two layers of cotton, so we can make two sets for easy washing."
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