CHAPTER 237: CHAPTER 237: MAKING MONEY

It was stuffed full inside, with silver notes, silver ingots, and quite a few scattered copper coins.

"This... Why do we have so much silver?" Mrs. Jiang’s eyes widened in disbelief.

Erhu smiled smugly, "Isn’t it all thanks to the membership recharge scheme our little sister came up with? Today, many of the customers who came to eat also recharged for membership, so most of this silver is from their recharges."

Of course, today’s earnings were not small either, especially since it was the opening day and they offered many discounts to attract customers. Once prices return to normal in a few days, we might earn even more.

Erhu was thinking this but overlooked the fact that the large discounts today were the reason so many people came to eat. Once the hype over hotpot dies down and the discounts end, there might not be as many customers coming to eat.

Mrs. Jiang had already started counting the silver. She couldn’t recognize the denominations of the silver notes, but she was quite skilled at counting the copper coins.

Gu Nian was the only one who could read and understand the silver notes, but Dahu was afraid she might count wrong, so he asked her to report the denominations while he counted the money.

After the entire calculation, it amounted to seven thousand taels of silver.

Not to mention others, even Gu Nian, a young lady who was wealthy from childhood in her past life, was shocked.

After going through the account books, Gu Nian’s excitement subsided a little.

Because, out of these seven thousand taels, Nan Jin Yu alone recharged two thousand taels, and most surprisingly, Zheng Shaochen also recharged one thousand taels!

What on earth was he thinking? Could he really have been won over by just one hotpot meal?

After removing these, four thousand taels of profit had over three thousand two hundred taels from membership recharge, yet a profit of eight hundred taels was also quite considerable.

Of course, after deducting labor and costs, the net income for today was over six hundred taels.

In a small place like Qingshan Town, this was truly a huge sum of money.

At the very least, they had already earned back half the silver they spent buying and renovating the restaurant in just one day.

"Oh my, if we could earn this much silver every day, it’d be worth it even if we worked ourselves to death!" Mrs. Jiang said with a smile.

Lin Sanshui was also happy but couldn’t help dampening her enthusiasm, "You have quite the imagination. The reason we earned so much today was that it was our opening day, and hotpot is something new people haven’t seen before. Most came in out of curiosity. In a couple of days, when people’s interest fades, business will definitely slow down."

"Even if business slows, we can still earn quite a bit. I’m already very satisfied with this. If we could earn 600 taels every day, just think of how much silver that would be!" Mrs. Jiang could hardly imagine.

Also, this includes several thousand taels from people recharging their membership, which counts as money we’ve already pocketed.

"But do you think we should find a few more people to help out? When there are too many customers, it seems like we’re short-handed, and there are quite a few orders for barbecue. The people preparing skewers can’t keep up."

"Then tomorrow, ask around in the village to see if there are any nimble women willing to come help. If there are, find a couple more."

"And the meatballs from our uncles’ side, we also need to increase the supply. The meatballs we had stored over these two days all sold out today, and there will be none left to sell tomorrow." Erhu urged, "Oh, and there were some customers asking if we sell those meatballs individually. They want to buy them and cook at home."