Chapter 41 Cooperation
It was obviously her daughter who came up with the recipe herself. When Madam Yang said this, Cheng Yingzhen felt guilty. However, she knew that this was to protect her daughter, so she suppressed her guilt and smiled modestly, "I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, Madam."
The young ladies from official families would never cook by themselves. Only families like theirs would let their young ladies go into the kitchen out of necessity. Cheng Yingzhen felt bad because her daughter had suffered with them.
Su Ruojin's eyelids almost jumped when Madam Yang called her "our Ah Jin". Madam Yang was determined to get her!
"What's so funny? We live together, it's the same." Madam Yang smiled. "You want to prepare a dowry for Ah Jin, right? Coincidentally, I also want to prepare a dowry for Ah Rong. These two girls always hang out together, so let's open a small shop and use the money we earn to buy dowries for them. Madam Su, what do you think?"
"This..." Cheng Yingzhen really didn't learn anything when she was a girl in the uncle's mansion. If it weren't for her aunt's close watch on her, she would have been almost crippled by Mrs. Wan. It was already good enough that she could barely live a good life. As for running a shop, she really didn't know anything about it.
He looked towards his daughter unconsciously.
Su Yanli and his wife have no help and have to rely on themselves for everything. Su Yanli has the air of a scholar and is a doctor of the Imperial College, so he is destined not to get involved in business. Cheng Yingzhen's character is gentle and virtuous at best, but timid and cowardly at worst. But they cannot be blamed, as it was their original families that caused their life difficulties.
Su Ruojin's original family was not good either, but she lived in a different era, so she still had the opportunity to learn a lot and the courage to do it.
At this moment, Su Ruojin's brain was analyzing non-stop:
When Mrs. Yang came, she didn't say she wanted to buy out the recipe for pearl milk tea, but she wanted to cooperate. How to cooperate? One company provides the shop, and the other company provides the manpower?
But the Su family didn't have either of these two things, only the recipe for pearl milk tea. She thought that as a neighbor, Mrs. Yang must be aware of the Su family's current situation. However, she still proposed cooperation even though she knew that the Su family could not provide anything except the recipe.
I come here with sincerity!
Thinking of this, Su Ruojin nodded almost imperceptibly towards her mother.
Cheng Yingzhen was still flustered when she saw her daughter nodded in agreement, as if if she opened her mouth, something bad would be waiting for her, as if the sky would fall.
"This..." She was too timid to say anything.
Madam Yang thought that Cheng hadn't heard her sincerity and refused to give in. She smiled and said, "Madam Cheng, don't worry. As long as your family provides the prescription, I will take care of the rest of the shop and the staff. We can split the profits..."
Hearing about the stratification, Su Ruojin's heart was lifted. How much could it be? At this moment, she even had an idea in her heart. Even if Madam Yang said 19 stratification, she would agree. After all, this was just a fast food drink she brought from the modern times. For a seven-year-old girl, she could only keep it in her pocket and not make any money. If she could make some money, even if it was a small amount, it was still money.
Little by little, it adds up to a lot.
Seeing that Madam Cheng was still frowning and refusing to give in, Madam Yang had no choice but to tell her the price she had originally wanted to bargain with. Now that she saw that she didn't care at all, she had to tell her sincere cooperation number: "30% to 70%. If the shop earns 100 taels a month, your family doesn't have to do anything except the recipe, and you can get 30%."
Mrs. Yang's heart is still sincere, and the 70-30 split is also the highest level that Su Ruojin can think of.
She agreed and smiled at her mother.
Cheng Yingzhen had no idea what the share would be, but she could get thirty taels a month, which was three times her husband's salary. How could she disagree? Seeing her daughter smiling at her, she understood that she also agreed, so she nodded and said, "Then do as Madam says."
"Okay, since Mrs. Cheng agrees, then when Dr. Su comes back in the evening, shall we sign the contract?"
Wow, Mrs. Yang is so sensible!
Although playing with Yang Si Niang inevitably requires going in and out of the Yang family, and she also knows that Madam Yang is much more capable than her mother in charge of the household, she did not expect her to be so straightforward. Su Ruojin likes this kind of cooperation.
Su Ruojin smiled and said, "That's settled then."
Madam Yang didn't expect that the one who responded to her was Su Er Niang. She was really a smart kid. However, what a child said didn't count. She looked at Madam Cheng and waited for her answer.
Just take thirty taels like this? Cheng Yingzhen was confused and didn't see that Madam Yang was waiting for her confirmation.
Su Ruojin had no choice but to push her mother and said, "Madam is waiting for your consent?"
"Oh, okay." Cheng Yingzhen agreed.
Su Ruojin was speechless, thinking that if a bad person with intentions came to cheat her mother, he would have probably counted the money for her by now.
In the evening, as soon as Su Yanli came back, Cheng Yingzhen told him about Madam Yang's visit during the day to cooperate on milk tea, and happily told him, "Thirty taels a month!"
Although Su Yanli was not very good at household affairs, it was better than his wife who was almost disabled. He called his daughter over and asked, "What do you think?"
Su Ruojin thought his father was a nerd, but she didn't expect him to ask back, so he was not stupid at all, and grinned.
"Still laughing?" Su Yanli glared at her.
Su Ruojin smiled and sighed, "Dad, I know that although Madam Yang is a concubine's son or daughter, she is no worse than a legitimate daughter of a small family. She is even more capable."
"Knowing this, how dare you take someone's money for free?"
"No matter what Madam Yang is thinking, it's nothing more than one thing. She wants to suffer this loss in order to get other recipes from our family to make money in the future. We have no money and no manpower. Can't we allow others to come to our door with abacus?"
Su Ruojin really doesn't dare to cooperate with people who don't have any benefits! Besides, taro strips and fried chicken are a perfect match, so why not further cooperate?
His daughter was extremely talented in household chores and business, Su Yanli thought, maybe God knew that he and his wife couldn't live a good life, so he gave A Jin to him as a daughter.
The daughter's little abacus was louder than Mrs. Yang's. Su Yanli shook his head and smiled, reaching out to rub his daughter's soft hair, doting, "You!"
Su Ruojin giggled, "Dad, go and draft the contract quickly, Madam Yang will be here soon."
Su Yanli did not disobey his daughter's words. He stood up, took her hand and went to the study.
Cheng Yingzhen looked at the father and daughter from behind, with a happy face, and picked up the child from the cradle, "Let's go and take a look."
Madam Yang came to the Su's house at the appointed time. Doctor Su invited her to his study and showed her the drafted contract. As expected of a doctor from the Imperial College, he could sell even a single contract. The handwriting was really beautiful.
Mrs. Yang almost forgot her business. Yang Si Niang shook her arm to bring her back to her senses: "Then I will press my fingerprints as Dr. Su wrote."
Su Yanli smiled gently and politely: "I'm glad that Madam doesn't feel that she's at a disadvantage."
"No, of course not." Mrs. Yang looked confident and determined about what she was doing.
Su Ruojin thought that Madam Yang should be a strong woman in modern times.
(End of this chapter)
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