Back home, Xu Heping wanted to leave to play with the village children, but Xu An stopped him.
Xu An took out a small cloth bag containing the money he had earned from selling boxed lunches, a total of two hundred and forty yuan, not a penny less.
The cost of each boxed meal is six yuan, and the profit is two yuan per boxed meal. The net profit of thirty boxed meals is only sixty yuan.
When Xu Heping saw the numbers Xu An had calculated, his eyes widened in disbelief.
He thought he could make at least half the profit, but after deducting the costs, he only made a quarter of the profit. With labor costs added, he really only made a meager living.
Xu An was quite content; sixty yuan wasn't a small amount, enough to cover the income from the vegetable garden at its peak yield.
He took out eighteen yuan from the stack of profits and handed it to Xu Heping: "You've helped a lot from beginning to end, and you even contributed your tricycle. Consider it as you contributing your person and tools as shares, and I'll give you 30%."
Xu Heping pushed the money back.
"You know my family. My parents are a bit stingy with me, but they will give me money if I need to do something worthwhile. I don't need that little bit of money."
Xu An's expression turned serious, and he was about to speak when Xu Heping spoke first.
"So, it's that old trick of keeping clear accounts even between close brothers, huh? Fine, then consider this my reinvestment of the profits. Wait until you give me a thousand dollars at once, then I'll take my share, okay?"
"OK."
Xu An took the money back, but made a note of it in the ledger.
"I'll come find you again tomorrow morning." Seeing that Xu An was no longer going to talk about it, Xu Heping waved his hand and left.
Grandma Xu listened to the commotion coming from the courtyard outside while inside the house. When she heard that the two had actually made a profit and earned sixty yuan, her expression became somewhat complicated.
She agreed to let Xu An skip university if he could earn 20,000 yuan because she felt that the requirement was too high and Xu An could not possibly meet it.
College graduates from the village who work in the city only earn two or three thousand yuan a month. Twenty thousand yuan in two and a half months is equivalent to a monthly salary of seven or eight thousand yuan. How could a kid who just graduated from high school possibly earn that much money?
Sixty yuan a day isn't a small amount, but it's still a long way from twenty thousand yuan. The money I earn will be just enough for my living expenses during university.
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