When She Stops Being Dramatic novel Chapter 404

Chapter 404: Chapter 146: The Green Tea Female Side Character in a Period Novel (33)

There was never a shortage of pitiful wails from children by the soda stall.

But today, nearly every parent gave in. The kids stood in a neat row against the wall, clutching their sodas, squinting as they took small sips.

Siblings with different flavors would swap to have a taste of each other’s drinks. Their burps went off like a string of firecrackers, making the summer evening feel especially festive and lively.

The goods on the shelves were visibly dwindling; for some items, Zhao Jinming even had to fetch more from the storeroom.

They were busy straight through until nine o’clock, when the crowd of customers outside finally started to thin.

The hospital director and the others had left long ago, but the parents of the three youngsters waited to the side, holding their dinner containers.

Chi Yun’er and the other two were too exhausted to speak. Every muscle ached. They just lowered their heads and shoveled food into their mouths.

The three families were close because their children were good friends, and they all trusted one another’s character.

So, they helped the trio sort through the cash and ration coupons that filled four entire drawers.

Chi Yun’er recalled that because Bian Family Village was a major fruit producer, every household had enough spare cash to start renovating their homes. The village committee even funded road construction, spending a fortune to connect two provincial highways just to improve transportation.

This created a shortcut, and a lot of traffic started passing through Bian Family Village.

Families along the new road began selling the village’s abundant fruit, while others opened general stores, restaurants, or even simple tea stalls.

Without exception, they all made money. This was especially true for the general stores. They might have only sold small items, but back in the eighties and nineties, their daily revenue could easily reach three or four hundred yuan. ’The profit from that had to be at least eighty to a hundred yuan, right?’

Although she was running a promotion today with discounts and free gifts, Chi Yun’er still had a feeling. ’Today’s revenue is going to be impressive!’

The three sets of parents counted with their heads down, truly experiencing what it felt like to count money until your hands cramp. It wasn’t their money, but every last fen and mao had been earned through their children’s hard work. A sense of pride swelled within them as they counted.

When they each finished their pile and tallied up the grand total, they were all stunned.

Everyone knew the commissary had opened at seven and they’d been swamped until just after nine. In just over two hours, a relentless stream of customers spending one, two, three, or five yuan at a time had pushed the total sales to three hundred and seventy yuan—and that didn’t even include the ration coupons!

Chi Yun’er had just finished her meal. She gave her abacus a sharp shake to clear it, pulled over the sales log she and Xu Chengfang had kept, and her fingers began to fly across the beads with a loud CLACK-CLACK-CLACK.

She was so fast that her slender, pale fingers seemed to leave afterimages under the lamplight.

Everyone watched, holding their breath, their hearts pounding with anxiety.

Three hundred and seventy yuan was no small amount. The hospital had given them a total of one thousand yuan in startup capital. They hadn’t spent much of it, having shamelessly acquired their inventory on credit. They wouldn’t have to pay their supplier for this batch of goods until their next order.

To an outsider, it looked like Chi Yun’er had gone wild, ordering whatever caught her eye in large quantities with a wave of her hand, completely ignoring the massive gap in their available funds.

Zhao Jinming and Xu Chengfang clenched their fists. The total cost of their inventory was far, far more than a thousand yuan...

In other words, with the deep discounts Chi Yun’er was offering, the more they sold, the more money they might be losing.

After all, even they had gotten swept up in the excitement when they heard about the promotion, feeling an impulse to buy things whether they needed them or not.

With over three hundred and seventy yuan in sales, and an average purchase of two or three yuan per person, that meant a hundred and fifty or sixty customers had eagerly made purchases the moment the commissary opened.

’Would they have felt that uncontrollable urge if the deals weren’t an absolute steal? Nobody’s a fool!’

So, their sixth sense was screaming at them: they had taken a massive loss today!

Zhao Jinming and Xu Chengfang slumped, bracing themselves for a devastating blow.

But after Chi Yun’er clicked the last bead into place, she looked at the final tally on the abacus and said with a light laugh, "We made a net profit of seventy-three yuan and ninety fen today!"

"What?" Everyone stared, stunned. Seventy-three yuan and ninety fen in two hours?

"Chi... Chi Yun’er, are you sure you didn’t make a mistake? Maybe... maybe you should calculate it again?" Zhao Jinming stammered.

Zhao Jinming chimed in, "Over seventy yuan profit in two hours... does that mean we can make at least two hundred tomorrow? If we run the promotion every day, that’s six thousand yuan of profit in a month?" 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

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