newbobooks Chapter 515 Earned 1% More Than Last Year
Chapter 515 Earned 1% More Than Last Year
He comforted her, "Mom, don't be afraid. I didn't intend to make my fortune from pine mushrooms. This thing is not a secret. The world is so big, and the North is so big. Sooner or later, it will be discovered somewhere else. We just need to seize this opportunity and make the first profit. With the money, I can do other things. Don't worry. I also said that I want to be the richest man in the world, and I'm not kidding."
Not to mention Li, even the others were shocked and looked at her and asked, "What do you want to do to become the richest man in the world?"
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Even if I can't be the richest man in the world, I can be the second richest man. It's still a secret now, so you guys just wait and see."
Just don’t say it.
Seeing that they couldn't get any answer from the question, Zhou Mai and the others stopped asking.
However, he felt completely relieved now. Although what Li said made sense, who wouldn't feel sad to see such a huge benefit slipping away?
That’s several thousand taels of silver a year! !
Enough for an ordinary farmer in the countryside to spend for more than ten lifetimes!
Before the old man and his companions came back, Zhou Guo immediately collected another wave.
This time Zhou Gu took Zhou Suli to Chengding. Zhou Guo sent all the best players in the team over and asked Wu Jiang to go with them. He had been outside for so long and was the eldest brother of the group, so he had the ability to deal with danger.
He took the goods to Yunzhou.
At the beginning of this year, she must go and meet several shop owners in person.
Shopkeeper Yang was still cheerful despite his bulging belly, but when he saw her dressed differently from usual, he paused, looked her up and down, and exclaimed, "Mrs. Zhou's dress is different from usual. If she walked on the street, I wouldn't dare to recognize her rashly."
It turns out that money makes people rich. In just one year, Tongshen's demeanor has changed dramatically.
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Shopkeeper Yang seems to have gained some weight. I guess it's because his life has been going better and better recently and he's made more money."
Shopkeeper Yang changed the subject with a smile, and made a gesture of invitation with his hand, "I calculated that you would arrive today, and I have prepared the wine and food early in the morning. Madam Zhou, will you give me a favor?"
Zhou Guo waved his folding fan and walked inside. "Since it is Manager Yang's hospitality, I will not refuse it."
At the dinner table, the two did not talk about pine mushrooms, but chatted about other things. After all, the price had been set, but the documents were still waiting for her to sign, so there was no need to say more.
Shopkeeper Yang felt mixed emotions when he heard her talk. She is only ten years old, and there is no telling how powerful she will become when she grows up.
After eating and drinking, she said goodbye to Shopkeeper Yang and took her people to check on her two shops. The big shop had slightly better business, and the small one seemed good too. She stood there for a while and saw two groups of customers come.
They sell steamed buns and dumplings, and thanks to the intersection, business is pretty good.
After this pine mushroom business is over, she will visit several other cities and set up a few shops and houses.
Unfortunately, she never bought any land. The only land she had was scattered plots of one or two acres, or two or three acres sold together, a piece here and a piece there. They were not of much use, and she couldn't even build a farm.
It’s better to set up a shop first.
After this month, she would see if she had enough money and buy a few mountains in the village. There were a few ownerless mountains near the village, which would just belong to her.
When the old man and Wang Fugui came back and told them about the trip and the price increase of Matsutake mushrooms, there were no major setbacks.
The two shopkeepers did not make things too difficult for Zhou Guo. If they did not deliver the goods, even if they relied on Yunzhou's Baoyue Tower to deliver the goods, they would have to spend extra money to hire someone. Besides, if Zhou Guo sold the pine mushrooms to other restaurants, all the extra would be gone.
It went very smoothly.
Since prices have increased across the board, Zhou Guo decided to raise the wages for the villagers as well.
Originally, the price of top-quality products was 40 wen per catty, but now each grade has increased by 10 wen, so a catty is 50 wen.
The villagers came happily to collect their money, but before they even got the money, they heard that the price was going to be raised again. This time it was directly increased by ten cents, so that a pound of the best mushrooms was sold for fifty cents!
Everyone is going crazy, Sheep mushrooms are still 40 cents a pound, and Matsutake mushrooms are sold at 50 cents a pound at home? !
Someone asked: "Zhou Guo, has the price of mushrooms increased this year?"
Zhou Guo did not hide it from them, "Yes, I said that as long as the people outside give me a raise, I will give you a raise."
When they heard it was true, everyone was even happier. In fact, they didn't know that Zhou Guo didn't give them a raise.
"This is more cost-effective than picking them up and selling them ourselves. We originally planned not to sell them next time, but to follow them and take them to the capital to sell them."
"Ah, are you stupid? You carry it out by yourself. You have no car and no one. How much can you carry out with your husband and wife, even if you are a family? It takes three or four days to go back and forth. Think about how much a family can pick up in the mountains in so many days. Three or four hundred kilograms, isn't it more than what you can earn by carrying it out with your family? How come you can't figure this out?"
"Oh, that's right, you're so right, why didn't I figure this out? It's all the fault of the kid's father, he's narrow-minded, jealous of others making more money, and came up with this bad idea, it's really not as good as picking it up in the mountains!"
There were still not many mushrooms this time, only 4,000 kilograms in total. Zhou Guo took all of them away, with Ningping and Kang'an taking half each.
It takes them six or seven days to make a round trip, so Cheng Ding and Yunzhou will collect them slowly.
This year's mushrooms came out late, and the lines were longer than last year's. Although not many were brought down the mountain each time, they were in continuous supply and were sold for almost a month and a half.
So, all in all, I earned more than last year.
After the final calculation, after deducting costs and expenses, I earned almost six this year, which is almost half more than last year!
Li was terrified when she saw the money. She couldn't help but whisper to Zhou Guo, "I really don't feel safe holding this. You should keep it. If you leave it in my room, it will be gone if it is stolen."
Zhou Guo couldn't help laughing, "Mom, look at how nice you always say, that enough money is enough, no need for too much, that this deal can't be done, you say so much, but in the end you are not at ease when I ask you to take the money? You are not at ease with such a small amount, you are going to be the housekeeper of the richest man in the country in the future, what should I do?"
Li hit her lightly, "I'm telling you the truth, our family has almost 8,000 yuan left. When I look at this money, sometimes I feel suffocated and I don't even dare to leave the house."
Zhou Guo nodded, "Okay, I'll divide the money into several parts and hide some here and some there."
After saying that, he looked at Li and said, "But, mother, don't worry. I will spend the money soon anyway. Even though it's a lot of money, it will be spent quickly. It's the same as when you bought jewelry, shops and houses last year, isn't it?"
Li didn't ask her what she was going to do with the money. She waved her hand and said, "It doesn't matter what you do with it, as long as you don't let me manage it. I can manage small amounts of money, but I can't manage so much."