Chapter 55: Xie Qingxiao, Who Couldn’t Eat Meat

“Brother Xiao, Sister-in-law!” Zhang Pengfei was excited to see them, before even reaching them, he couldn’t wait to say, “I sold it all! All thirty pounds of braised meat, I sold them all!”

“Really?” Lin Xiangyi pretended to be surprised, in fact, she was a little confident that Zhang Pengfei could sell thirty pounds of braised meat.

Zhang Pengfei looked carefree, but he was actually flexible, as long as he was willing to lower his stance and speak nicely to customers, he would definitely be able to attract them.

“Really!!! I rode my bike through the streets and alleys and sold quite a bit, then I went to the park, many people ate it and said it was delicious, they lined up to buy it.”

“Your sister-in-law’s culinary skills are exceptional, how could it not be delicious?” Xie Qingxiao said.

“Yes!! Your sister-in-law’s skills are really amazing! Not just braised meat, she’s also amazing at other dishes, the braised beef with potatoes today was so delicious!” Zhang Pengfei swallowed, feeling that his brother Xiao had married a wife with such great cooking skills, he was really lucky.

He also had to find a wife with good cooking skills in the future!

“Alright, stop flattering me, I’m getting embarrassed,” Lin Xiangyi said with a smile.

“We’re telling the truth!” Zhang Pengfei said, pulling out a small stack of coins from his pocket, “By the way, Sister-in-law, this is the money I earned today, I took about five pounds of large intestines, earning five yuan. I took twenty-five pounds of duck innards, earning twenty yuan. That’s a total of twenty-five yuan, count it.”

“No need to count,” Lin Xiangyi took it and asked, “Should I give you your commission now or wait until next month and give it to you all together?”

“Give it to me next month, I’m not in a hurry!” Zhang Pengfei said confidently, Xie Qingxiao and Lin Xiangyi trusted him, and he also trusted them very much.

“Alright!” Lin Xiangyi nodded.

After saying goodbye to Zhang Pengfei, Xie Qingxiao and Lin Xiangyi set off on their way home.

Just like last night, Xie’s father and mother had already prepared dinner and were waiting for them to come back. When they learned that they had sold so much braised meat today, they were very happy.

Xie Qingxiao and Lin Xiangyi washed their hands and sat down to eat with them, talking about the interesting things about selling braised meat today while they ate. Of course, they didn’t mention the harrowing incident they had at the train station, lest they worry.

But Xie’s mother still noticed the wound on Lin Xiangyi’s arm, Lin Xiangyi just said that she accidentally cut herself with scissors.

She didn’t know if Xie’s mother believed her, but she didn’t question it, knowing that she had put medicine on it, she told her to be careful when taking a bath tonight and not to get it wet.

Lin Xiangyi readily agreed.

After washing up and returning to the room that night, she sat on the bed, leaning against the headboard, took out a notebook, and began to calculate today’s accounts.

Last night, she had calculated in front of Xie’s father and mother, with the purpose of reassuring them. But in the future, she wouldn’t deliberately calculate in front of Xie’s father and mother anymore.

After a while, Xie Qingxiao came back after washing up, climbed onto the bed, and snuggled up next to her, looking at the contents of her notebook, “Are you done calculating?”

“Yes,” Lin Xiangyi said, “Our turnover today is eighty-five yuan and one cent, excluding costs, the profit is about…fifty-two yuan!” It wouldn’t have been that much, because they had given away some braised meat at the train station this afternoon.

Xie Qingxiao raised an eyebrow, “More than I expected.”

“But this only excludes the cost of the braised meat, it doesn’t include the labor cost,” Lin Xiangyi said, they had paid for all their manpower today, including Zhang Pengfei’s commission, a total of eleven yuan, after calculating, they earned about forty-one yuan.

“That’s not bad either,” Xie Qingxiao said.

Yes, it was indeed not bad, Lin Xiangyi nodded.

And Xie Qingxiao looked down at the notebook in Lin Xiangyi’s hand, not knowing what he was thinking.

Lin Xiangyi didn’t know what he was thinking, so she waved her hand in front of his eyes, he grabbed it and stuffed it into his arms.

Lin Xiangyi pulled, but couldn’t pull it out, so she asked, “What are you thinking about? Did I calculate this wrong?”

“No, you didn’t calculate wrong,” Xie Qingxiao said, “I was just thinking, that kid Afei sold thirty pounds today, the cost of his thirty pounds is about eight yuan, he earned twenty-five yuan, so the profit is seventeen yuan, his commission is two cents per pound (changed back to two cents per pound, it feels more reasonable), thirty pounds is six yuan, so we also earned eleven yuan.”

“Yes,” Lin Xiangyi said, of course, this eleven yuan wasn’t pure profit, labor and other costs were also included, but the profit margin was not small.

Xie Qingxiao then looked at Lin Xiangyi, his eyes suddenly lit up, “If that’s the case, if we find more people to go out and sell, wouldn’t we be able to make a fortune?”

Lin Xiangyi raised an eyebrow, this was why she had proposed to give Zhang Pengfei a commission.

If they didn’t develop downstream, they would only work themselves to death. So she had already planned to implement a wholesale model.

This was just her initial idea, she didn’t expect Xie Qingxiao to react so quickly.

He was really smart.

Lin Xiangyi looked at Xie Qingxiao with admiration, “That’s right.”

“You already thought of this?” Xie Qingxiao squeezed her hand, guessing.

It must be, yesterday she discussed Zhang Pengfei’s wages with him, and she took the initiative to propose giving Zhang Pengfei a commission, he thought at the time that she was proposing this because he had a good relationship with Zhang Pengfei.

Lin Xiangyi didn’t deny it, “I did have this idea before.”

This time it was Xie Qingxiao’s turn to look at Lin Xiangyi with admiration.

“But we’re just starting out, we shouldn’t take such a big step, we’ll do it ourselves first,” Lin Xiangyi said, “We’ll talk about it when we find the right people.”

“Okay,” Xie Qingxiao agreed, lowering his head to continue squeezing her hand.

Indeed, they had only started for two days, and they had already hired three people to help with the work, the progress was already very fast.

They had to do it themselves first, understand the market situation, and then consider expanding their business.

Whoosh!

Lin Xiangyi quickly pulled her hand back while he was lost in thought.

“…” Xie Qingxiao looked up at her, his eyes filled with displeasure.

Lin Xiangyi hummed triumphantly, don’t think she didn’t know that he had been squeezing her hand, with the tendency to go down.

She sat up, tidied up her notebook and money, stepped over him, got off the bed, walked to the table, put the notebook and money in the drawer, and said, “We now have a total of one hundred and twenty-three yuan and two cents.”

Xie Qingxiao had basically given all the money he had earned before to Lin Xiangyi as a dowry, when he went to the city with Lin Xiangyi, Xie’s father and mother said that his older brother had gotten married, and they had given two hundred yuan as a dowry, so they also prepared two hundred yuan as a dowry for him.

Because Xie Qingxiao used his own money for the dowry, they didn’t use their money, so they gave it to Xie Qingxiao.

Xie Qingxiao had spent a lot of money on wedding preparations in the days leading up to the wedding, and after Lin Xiangyi moved in, he had eighty yuan left. He gave it to Lin Xiangyi the day after the wedding.

Lin Xiangyi put it in the drawer at the time, as their startup capital for their business.

Excluding the expenses of these few days, plus the earnings of these two days, this was their current savings.

Xie Qingxiao looked up and said, “You’re not going to put that money away?”

Lin Xiangyi: “Why should I put it away? You won’t spend it recklessly.”

Before marriage, she had also thought that she would control the family finances after marriage, because she didn’t trust Xie Qingxiao very much at the time.

But after marriage, she found that Xie Qingxiao was not a spendthrift, and he was also very considerate to her, so she gave up the idea of controlling the finances.

Xie Qingxiao: “Aren’t you afraid that a thief will come and take it all away?”

Lin Xiangyi!!!

“Then I’ll put it away, I’ll leave eighty yuan here as working capital, you can take it directly if you need it, I’ll replenish it when I see it’s missing, if there are any big expenses, you can ask me for it,” Lin Xiangyi said.

“Okay.”

Lin Xiangyi then took the money and looked around the room to see where she could hide it, finally finding a place to hide it, she turned to go to bed, and saw Xie Qingxiao looking at her silently.