Chapter 051: Earn More Money

Fruits were not grown in large quantities these days, and the supply was small. Tang Yuan just mentioned it in the boiler room and got the price of the fruit at that time.

Not only is the ticket supply limited, but it is also hard to come by. If you are lucky, you can buy it with a ticket, but if you are unlucky, you can't even buy it with a ticket.

The price is not too expensive, the average price is 0.40 yuan per pound. If transportation is difficult, the price may rise to 0.45 yuan per pound.

The machinery factory would occasionally issue fruit coupons, and although you could indeed buy fruit with them, sometimes by the time the fruit was delivered, the fruit in the supply and marketing cooperative had already been sold out before the news reached us. At this time, you had to make use of your connections, because the employees of the supply and marketing cooperative had many relatives and friends, and if the word spread around, they could basically buy up all the fruit.

So being able to buy apples and eat apples was a very prestigious thing at that time.

No wonder Aunt Cao specifically asked her to help find apples.

To determine the price of apples here, Tang Yuan went to Hong Kong and headed straight to the market. The apples here were not limited in supply and were clearly marked with prices: six yuan per pound.

“Do you have a thicker bag?”

"How many pounds do you want?"

"Ten pounds, maybe? I need a thicker bag, in case it breaks when I get home." Tang Yuan pulled the bag at the door. It looked fragile. It could hold two or three pounds without any problem, but it would definitely break if it held ten pounds.

"This one is thicker," the shopkeeper immediately took out a thick big bag, "Take it yourself, the apples in our store are all the best."

"It looks really good." Tang Yuan took the bag, picked out the apples that looked good, and put them into the bag one by one. When the bag was almost full, he picked up the bag and weighed it with his bare hands before handing it to the store owner.

The final weight came out to be 11 pounds, which was about the same as she estimated.

Carrying the apples back, she changed the bag of apples in the game space, took the whole bag of apples out, and went to find Aunt Cao first. The moment she saw the apples, a look of ecstasy flashed in her eyes.

"How many?"

Tang Yuan stretched out a hand.

"Then give me eight kilograms." Aunt Cao went into the house to get a scale, and compared the remaining apples to see how big they were. There were exactly twenty-two complete apples.

There are two to three apples per pound, and the remaining three pounds of apples are all small, exactly nine.

Eight pounds of apples cost four yuan. Tang Yuan collected the money and left directly, avoiding the crowd and heading towards the waste station. Since Aunt Cao needed apples, she guessed that Shen Wenyu should also have some.

Sure enough, the moment he saw the apples, Shen Wenyu was delighted: "These are not easy to buy. Fortunately you can find them. I'll take all the remaining ones you have."

"I want two too," Second Aunt came over, "I haven't had apples in a long time."

"Then we'll split it between us. This is the amount." Shen Wenyu looked at Tang Yuan's hand, and after confirming it, he whispered in Second Aunt's ear. After a while, both of them nodded.

Shen Wenyu directly took out RMB 1.5 and put it in Tang Yuan's hand.

Tang Yuan took out the apples and put them in the bag next to her.

Before leaving, she took away the new sweaters they had knitted.

The new style of sweater is more complicated than before, and it takes time to knit the collar and sleeves. Even with Second Aunt's craftsmanship, she can only knit one piece a day, and it takes three days to knit four complete pieces. But even so, she still earns a lot more money than before.

Originally, there were thirty-one pieces, and the total cost was forty-five yuan. The two of them sped up the process and finished weaving. In two days, they were able to make about five pieces. On average, she earned 112.5 yuan a day.

Now it is fifty-one pieces, and she gets sixty-five yuan for each piece weaved completely. Taking into account the time it takes to weave a piece, Second Aunt gets four pieces in three days, and Shen Wenyu gets one piece a day and a half. The two of them get six pieces in three days, so on average she can get 130 yuan a day.

This is just a rough estimate. In reality, Shen Wenyu's speed is even faster. Although she could only get two sweaters she had knitted when she went to pick them up on the third day, she actually had another one that was half-finished. So, she could earn more from more complex sweaters.

She knitted one sweater at a time. After she took the items and made sure they were all right, she went to Xue Shiqi's handicraft shop and handed the freshly-made sweaters to her.

As soon as she walked into the store, she saw the sweater with pearls hanging on the wall.

"How is it?"

"I saw it right away," Tang Yuan said honestly, "Compared to the sweaters with ordinary weaves, this one is more attractive. But it has so many pearls on it, so it must be expensive, right?"

"Well, I plan to set the price at 1,500 yuan," Xue Shiqi said, "I asked my mom, and this price also includes my design fee, because it uses special pearls, and no one else can imitate it. It would be inappropriate to price it too low."

"Your mom is right, just listen to her," Tang Yuan said, taking out the sweater from the bag, "Look, this is newly knitted."

"Your relative is amazing, she knits so quickly," Xue Shiqi took the sweaters, took a look at them, and then put them on the hanger and hung them on the wall. After all six sweaters were hung, she stepped back and looked at them with satisfaction, "That's great, my store won't be short of sweaters this way, Jiaqi, you can help me make a lot of money, it's really great!"

After saying that, she turned around and gave Tang Yuan a big hug: "Thank you!"

"I should be the one to thank you. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have had the chance to get such a good order," Tang Yuan smiled and patted her on the back. "Our cooperation is a win-win situation."

"Yes, it's a win-win situation," Xue Shiqi nodded immediately, "You can help me knit sweaters. My store is always short of sweaters. You don't know that it took me more than three days to knit that sweater. If you ask me to do it alone, it will take me more than half a month to knit so many sweaters."

"As long as you still need it, I'm willing to help." Tang Yuan replied with a smile.

How could she turn down a job that finally provided her with a stable income? Not only was she willing to do it, but Shen Wenyu and her second aunt were also very happy about it. They both wished they could knit sweaters every day.

After Gao Xing finished speaking, Tang Yuan took the next batch of wool and patterns for sweaters, the quantity was still ten pieces.

Anyway, she can come here every day. If she takes too much at once, she will worry about the settlement problem. If she takes it in batches, even if Xue Shiqi regrets it in the end, her loss will not be big.

Not long after she left with the yarn and patterns, a car slowly drove up to the door of the craft shop.

Xue Shiqi was still standing in the store. When she heard the voice, she immediately leaned over and said, "Mommy!"

Mother Xue got out of the car and heard her daughter's obviously excited voice. She smiled and asked her, "Why are you so happy today?"

"Mommy, come and have a look," Xue Shiqi went out, pulled Xue's mom into the store, and opened her arms to show, "This is what my store looks like, all of which are designed by me. Don't they look good?"

Mother Xue looked up and was a little surprised to see the sweaters hanging on the wall. This was the first time she saw so many sweaters hanging in a girls' store. Although Xue Shiqi had asked someone to help her knit sweaters before, those people didn't stay for long.

Xue Shiqi was the only one knitting sweaters. At her speed, she could only knit a dozen or so a month. Almost every time she hung up a sweater, it would be bought soon, leaving an empty store with only basic sweaters.

“Does it look good?”

"It looks good," Xue's mother nodded, looking at the sweater with pearls, "but the sweater my daughter knits is still the best looking."

"Although the other sweaters were not knitted by me, they were also designed by me. They were all knitted according to the patterns I designed. Don't they all look good?" Xue Shiqi pouted.

"Yes, they all look good, but my daughter takes her time to produce fine work," Xue's mother said with a smile, "From now on, you can do delicate work like this, and leave the rest to others. Are the people who help you knit sweaters stable?"

Mother Xue has always felt that it is not worthwhile for her daughter to knit a sweater for three days and only earn one or two hundred yuan. Now that there are more "expensive" sweaters, she naturally hopes that her daughter can knit expensive ones, so that the three days she spent will be worth it.

"Stable," Xue Shiqi nodded, "She just left before you came, Mommy, and she said she's willing to keep weaving in the future."

"That's the best way," Xue's mother nodded, and after thinking for a moment, she said, "If she feels reluctant later, you can give her some more money, so you can feel more at ease."

"I know, don't worry, Mommy, I will build a good relationship with her." Xue Shiqi smiled.

Just then, a guest came in.

"There are quite a few sweaters today."

"Yes, they are all designed by me."

The customer looked up, looked around, and pointed at one of the items: "Take this down so I can see it."

After a while, the customer left and Xue Shiqi had two hundred yuan in her hand.

"Would you like to treat me to an ice cream?" Mother Xue looked at her daughter with a smile.

"Okay!" Xue Shiqi agreed immediately, quickly left the store, and went to buy an ice drink not far away.

Mother Xue stood in the store and looked at the sweaters hanging on the wall again. From a mother's perspective, she naturally thought that her daughter's sweaters were the best, but the quality of these sweaters was also very high, and there was no trace of dirt on the clothes. This alone proved that the person who cooperated with her daughter this time was very reliable.

You have to know that the sweaters knitted by the person Xue Shiqi hired before would have some marks on them. Although they can be washed off, it always gives the customers a bad impression.

With this batch of sweaters, my daughter can spend more time on the sweaters she is interested in instead of spending all her time rushing to buy them, which will help her interest last longer.

When Xue Shiqi came back, her mother said directly: "Shiqi, Mommy asked someone to find some fashion magazines from abroad. You can read more and learn more. How about designing clothes for Mommy's clothing brand in the future?"

After saying that, she looked at Xue Shiqi, hoping that she would not get another reply of "I don't have time".

The reply did not disappoint her. Xue Shiqi agreed immediately and said, "I also want to learn more about foreign design. I want to design more sweater styles. But mommy, I also want a camera. I want to take pictures of all the sweaters I knit and make a picture album. Is that okay?"

"Okay, your dad is going abroad on a business trip, let him bring one back for you." said Mother Xue.

"Okay, thank you, Mommy," Xue Shiqi happily hugged Mommy Xue.