Chapter 231 Making money

A month later, at Li Shengli's home in the courtyard, after his three children had gone to bed at night, Li Shengli made a thorough calculation of the month's cash flow for the first time.

The rent for the house has been paid, and the salaries of the four employees have been distributed. Li Shengli raised everyone's salary. In the first month, he gave each of the four people 100 yuan, and also gave each of them a red envelope of 20 yuan. After deducting all costs, excluding Li Shengli's salary, the net profit of this store is about 4,000 yuan a month.

Looking at the piles of banknotes of different denominations on the table, Han Qiuyun's eyes widened, and she looked at Li Shengli sitting on the armchair he had bought from the trust store before.

Before this, some people who knew them said that Li Shengli and Han Qiuyun had some capitalist ideas. As more and more people said this, Han Qiuyun always felt unhappy.

However, after seeing his cash flow for this month, Han Qiuyun didn't care at all what others said. What a joke! This was 4,000 yuan in the 1980s, and Han Qiuyun's current salary was only more than 40 yuan.

"Shengli, we have to deposit this money in the bank." Han Qiuyun finally calmed herself down, but she still didn't dare to look at the money on the table. It was really a bit scary.

Li Shengli sat on the armchair and looked at Han Qiuyun with a slightly smug smile. What's the point of keeping the money in the bank? Money should be taken out for circulation, used for buying things and spending things.

"I'm talking to you." Han Qiuyun looked at Li Shengli's smug expression and twisted her body in dissatisfaction.

"Why deposit it in the bank?" Li Shengli stretched out his hand and held Han Qiuyun in his arms.

Han Qiuyun patted Li Shengli shyly and struggled slightly, but still did not get out of Li Shengli's arms.

"Let's consider whether we should buy a house first." Li Shengli touched the stubble on his chin and thought for a while. Li Shengli always wanted to move out of this compound first. There were too many intrigues in the whole compound.

Moreover, there will always be people who are jealous of Lee Seung-ri for making so much money.

In fact, Li Shengli is not in a hurry to buy a house. The housing prices here will not rise for the time being. However, large-scale hiring is not allowed now, so Li Shengli has no place to spend the money.

"Then put the money away first. It scares me to see all this money on the table." Han Qiuyun shivered. With so much money at home, she was afraid that it would be lost or damaged.

"That's right." Li Shengli agreed readily and patted Han Qiuyun to signal him to get up from him. Li Shengli took out a few old newspapers from the cabinet, wrote down the hotel's expenses for the past week, carefully wrapped up the remaining stacks of money, and put them at the bottom of the large wooden box where clothes were placed.

The money was placed at the bottom of the large wooden box, and old clothes were used to press it down. The box was then closed and locked. Now, from the outside, no one would know that there was so much money in the box.

Not to mention Li Shengli's income, the four people hired by Li Shengli also received their first month's salary and returned home. What happened in each family was similar.

"Why do you pay so much salary?"

"That's nothing. The boss makes much more money."

"It's a pity that you only pay the money but don't issue receipts."

"What else do you want? The salary is higher than that of the eighth-level workers in the factory. Even if you eat high-priced grain, it is still higher than the salary of ordinary workers." "Then you have to work hard. Your work is simple. What if others hear that you earn so much and replace you?"

"Yeah, why didn't I think of that?"

The four of them decided at the same time to stick to the amount of their wages. Even though everyone in the yard said that they had no future and could not find a job, they felt embarrassed to work as employees for individual business owners, but what they got was theirs, and it would not hurt them if others said a few words.

Another month passed, and time quickly came to June. The business of Li Shengli's restaurant became better. The people in the courtyard looked at Li Shengli's restaurant with people coming and going and people queuing outside, and couldn't help showing jealous expressions on their faces.

The weather became hotter in June. As Li Shengli watched the weather getting gradually warmer, he decided to renovate his restaurant a little bit.

It was just a simple renovation and there was no need to close the business. At night, Li Shengli first asked someone to turn on a ventilation fan on the wall, and then installed a ceiling fan on the ceiling of the restaurant.

Li Shengli spent a lot of money to buy a refrigerator, and then got a large amount of soda from the Arctic Ocean Soda Factory. In the summer, in the hot weather, it was such a pleasant thing to drink a bottle of iced Arctic Ocean soda.

With a refrigerator, Lee Seung-ri made some fruit popsicles and cream popsicles. Lee Seung-ri had seen many marketing methods. Although there were a lot of people at that time and no promotional methods were needed, Lee Seung-ri would still try his best to distribute free popsicles to the people waiting in the back to relieve the heat.

"Shengli, your restaurant is doing so well, when can you treat everyone in the compound to a meal?"

Early in the morning of that day, Li Shengli was preparing to go to the vegetable market to buy vegetables. Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui happened to make an appointment to go out for a walk. Yan Bugui couldn't help feeling jealous when he saw Li Shengli.

As the most calculating uncle in the whole hospital, Yan Bugui once carefully calculated the accounts for the restaurant opened by Li Shengli. Because he didn't know the purchase price of the things Li Shengli bought, Yan Bugui tried to calculate it as high as possible. Even with this calculation, Li Shengli had to earn two to three thousand yuan a month.

"Any time is fine. Our restaurant never refuses anyone, as long as you pay." Li Shengli looked at Yan Bugui with contempt. He had refused them before, so how could they have the nerve to come up and ask him to treat them now?

"You!" Liu Haizhong paused, still preparing to set up his stall in the yard and act like an old man.

"Stop talking so much, Master Liu. There aren't any uncles anymore in this courtyard." Li Shengli looked at the three of them with disdain. What era is this now? And they are still acting like the bosses here.

"Li Shengli, how can you talk like that? We are all your elders." Yi Zhonghai scolded Li Shengli with a stern face.

"Stop, stop." Li Shengli quickly waved his hand to signal Yi Zhonghai to stop talking. "I don't have elders like you. If you want to be my elder, you can go downstairs and pay homage to my father first."

This made the three of them so angry that they couldn't even speak clearly.

"It was said before that the people who spoke the harshest to me were you, Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui." Li Shengli looked down at Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui with contempt. When he just resigned, these two people joined the group of nagging old ladies in the yard in saying bad things about him. Now that they see that he has made money, they ask him to treat them. What are they thinking?

And why did Yi Zhonghai come to join in the fun? Could it be that he was planning to support me in my old age? Yes, I have made a lot of money now, which is more than enough to support the whole compound.

(End of this chapter)