kingnovel Chapter 482: Raise Your Price
Chapter 482: Raise Your Price
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Counting the money I made from selling the method, I made a total of this amount on this trip!"
He stretched out his right hand to give a palm.
The old man was silent and sighed, thinking that he had worked hard all his life and had only saved this amount of money in his old age. But this girl made it all back in one trip by selling mushrooms. Why should he continue to be a bodyguard? He could just follow her and sell mushrooms.
Zhou Guo also took a cup of tea, drank it slowly, and said, "Shopkeeper Qin raised my price. The worst quality mushrooms can now be sold for 150 coins per catty, so I decided to raise their prices as well. Shopkeeper Qin eats the meat and I drink the soup, and I have to let the villagers lick the bottom of the pot. The price of mushrooms per catty has increased by 5 coins! Wu Jiang and his group will also increase their prices by 100 coins each!"
The old man nodded.
Zhou Guo looked at him and said, "I have to give Master a raise, too."
Then he took out the fifty taels he had prepared and gave them to him. "Master, I gave most of the money I earned to my family. I still have a hundred taels left. We will split it in half, fifty for you and fifty for me. We will split it equally."
The old man shook his head and said, "Why do I need the money? There is no place to use it. Besides, your mother gives me two taels every month. You can keep the money yourself."
Zhou Guo said, "Of course I don't have any. I buy tea, wine and beef. At the very least, I give red envelopes to the younger generations from time to time. Take it. If I run out of money later, I will still count on you to borrow some. Besides, you have made such a great effort this time. We all have money. How can you not have any? Take it."
No matter what you say, you have to put it in his hands. If you make money, you have to share it with someone, otherwise the joy of making money will be halved!
The old man took a look at her and put it away, "Okay, then I'll take it."
Glancing at the bag in front of her, he said, "Actually, I think that little golden ingot is quite pretty. How about you give it to me too?"
Zhou Guo subconsciously covered it up, "Haha, that small gold ingot is only two taels, and this silver is fifty taels, what do you want it for?"
Then he ran away.
The old man put a few silver ingots into his arms, his beard twitching, thinking that his little apprentice could support the family.
Li put the silver ingots into a large clay jar, pried up a brick from the corner of the room, and buried the jar. There were small pieces of silver and large silver coins in it. It might be full soon.
Not long after, the villagers came to the door with pine mushrooms.
As more and more people came, Zhou Guo said loudly: "My dear uncles and aunts, the mushrooms I sold to Chengding are more expensive than in Yunzhou, so I decided to raise the price for you all this time. The price per kilogram of mushrooms will increase by five cents!"
Before everyone cheered, she continued, "That is to say, the best quality mushrooms are now charged 40 cents per pound, the middle ones are charged 30 cents, and the worst ones are 25 cents per pound!"
After a moment's silence, the crowd suddenly exploded with a loud bang.
I didn't expect that I could raise the price for them, five more cents per catty, so thirty catties would be one hundred and fifty cents!
In all their lives, they had never seen anyone offering to raise the price for their goods. They immediately became enthusiastic and shouted, "If we can sell better in the future, will you raise the price for us?"
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Of course, as long as the buyers give me a price increase, I will give you a price increase. Because we need a lot of mushrooms this time, there is no limit on how many kilograms you sell. We will buy as many as you have at home!"
This statement caused a greater reaction than the previous statement about raising the price. After all, the price increase was only 150 cents for 30 kilograms!
But it’s a different story if you collect more. Even the cheapest family here has 50 to 60 kilograms of goods, and even if they collect all of them at 25 cents per kilogram, that’s still more than 40 cents per kilogram for 30 kilograms. They can earn several strings of cash this time.
At that moment, many people turned around and left the yard, going back to carry mushrooms. If they had known that they would collect as much as they had at home, they would have gone up the mountain with the whole family.
The Zhou family was short of manpower, so Zhou Chengwang Fugui and his group came to help, as well as the Chen family.
Li returned the remaining money that night.
Chen was holding so much money at the time, and looked stunned, "What is this for?"
Li smiled and explained, "We are two families, and we are not related. How can I make money from you? Guoguo from my family also said that you are the same as her uncle Fugui and uncle Cheng. You are all family. I will not make money from you. I will just help you sell the goods, and I will return the money to you without a penny less after the sales."
Chen didn't say anything for a long while, and then she said, "How can that be possible? No, no, no, I can't let the child work so hard and end up with nothing. I'm already a grown-up, how can I take advantage of her? Even if she doesn't say it, I know that this journey is dangerous. The child didn't tell us what happened outside. He didn't eat enough and didn't sleep well. He has to earn some money."
As he spoke, he took out a large portion of the money, not knowing how much it was, and said, "Give this to her. Let her use it to buy some delicious food."
Li declined, "You should take what is given to you. How can you give it back? Besides, it's not just you. Her aunt Qian and several uncles all wanted to give her money, but she didn't take any of it. How can you take yours? Take it quickly. Didn't you say you were going to renovate the house in two years? Aren't you going to build a better one?"
Chen didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and pretended to hit her, "You just know how to poke my heart, and poke wherever it itches. Fine, I won't be polite to you. By the way, we will go and help with the mushroom harvest tomorrow."
Li smiled and said, "That's the best. It's settled then."
Seeing the Chen family busying around, the villagers couldn't help but whisper in each other's ears, "You think the Chen family is so close to the Li family? Will the price they charge be different from ours? Maybe it's much higher than ours."
"What are you talking about? Aren't they all the same? Wasn't it also 30 kilograms last time? I saw her husband come to collect the money. It's the same."
"Bah, you are so naive. You act like this on the surface, but do you know what's going on inside? Aren't these all for show? No, I'll go and ask them later to see how much money they were given to make them work so hard. The whole family came to help. I don't believe that there is no trick."
"Hey, calm down. The price you charge is different from ours. You don't even make a penny from them. What can you do? The relationship between the two families is good. Can you let them not make money from you? Take a break. Things are good now. You can earn a few strings of cash in a few days. Isn't it what you dreamed of before? Now it's true. Are you not satisfied?"
Zhou Guo was completely unaware of the turbulent situation below.
She was so busy that she didn't even have time to drink water. If she drank too much water, she had to go to the toilet. At the end of the day, her throat was almost dry from talking.
The group worked from morning till afternoon, almost time for dinner, when all the work was done.