Chapter 22 Inventory of the Dowry
Yao Yanyu cheered up and waited for her nurse Mama Feng, she sent Mama Feng out today to do something big. Mama Feng didn't dare to delay after eating, and immediately came in to reply. Cuiwei cleverly took the little girls out and closed the door herself.
"How's it going?" Yao Yanyu didn't go around and went straight to the point.
"Back to the girl, the slave and the slave man walked through the four shops for the girl in the house today. The shop of that rice grain shop is not big, and it is not even medium compared to the rice grain shop in the capital. However, in this part of the capital, the business of large rice and grain shops is not good. Therefore, although our shop is small, the people who come to the door are poor people, and although the business is trivial, there is a lot of income every day, and there are 100 taels of silver in a month. ”
"Hmm." Yao Yanyu nodded, these nobles in the capital each have their own granges, and their own granges are planted with all kinds of exquisite grains and rice, where do they need to go out to buy food?
Most of the people who need to buy grain to live are those artisans who live at the bottom of the society, these people don't have much money in their hands, and each time they buy rice grain, they only chew it for three or five days.
If you can't do the business of the imperial court when you open a grain and rice shop in the capital, you should keep a low profile and do the business of the common people more steadily. The ancestors of the Yao family were businessmen, and this must have been calculated a long time ago.
"Our silk shop is not small, and all kinds of silk are complete. It's just that there are no top embroiderers, which is a pity. Now there are two or three hundred taels of silver a month, but the embroidery of the opposite house is very good, according to the shopkeeper of the store, people have five or six hundred taels of silver a month is nervous, and the New Year's holidays are even more busy. ”
Yao Yanyu nodded: "That's fine, you can't be too strong in business, it's a big move." ”
"The business of that grocery store is not very good, and it only earns fifty or sixty taels of silver a month, and it is only six hundred taels a year at most. However, the tea house is not bad, because the supply is good, and it makes more money than the silk shop. On weekdays, there are more than 300 taels of silver per month, and the energy saving doubles every year. In this year, there were five or six thousand pieces of silver. ”
Yao Yanyu pointed her chin with her fingers, made a rough calculation, and said, "After a year like this, I can have ...... Seven or eight thousand taels of silver? ”
Mama Feng nodded: "What the girl said is right. ”
"That's pretty good!" Yao Yanyu carefully calculated the accounts in her heart, and the income of 8,000 taels of silver a year can be regarded as a little rich woman, right? Not to mention anything else, I definitely can't use my own food and drink. If you can take it out and make some investment to make the silver regenerate the silver......
Thinking of this, Yao Yanyu couldn't help but sigh, she was not born to do business. In my previous life, I didn't know how to speculate on stocks, but in this life, I traveled to the Great Cloud Dynasty, and I didn't know anything about business.
As a human being in two lives, she is most interested in medical skills. It's okay for her to cure a disease and save someone or something, but if she talks about making money as a businessman, her head swells when she thinks about it. Simply seven or eight thousand taels of silver a year is not less, do your best to keep this bit of industry, and barely live a well-off life in the future, and it is not bad to grow old for a lifetime.
However, Mama Feng immediately shattered her illusion.
"Girl, this silver for a year is indeed worry-free for ordinary people. But you're no better than the average girl. If nothing else, just look at the days of our aunt and grandmother. The slave has already inquired, and the monthly silver for the young grandmother in the Dinghou Mansion is twenty taels per month, and at the end of the year, the Zhuangzi of the Dinghou Mansion will naturally enter the three-room portion, but as far as the slave knows, it is also very limited. The Dinghou Mansion has a large shelf, and the expenses are extremely complicated, and it is true that the eldest princess has her own fiefdom, but the Hou Ye has to be filial every year. The princes and nobles still exchange red and white ceremonies in the palace, which thing is less silver? ”
Mama Feng folded her fingers and gave Yao Yan a careful calculation: "Moreover, each room always has its own expenses, the third master also has to socialize, the eldest aunt and grandmother have to do it left and right, a haode table outside costs thousands of taels of silver, and the salary of a decent dress for an embroiderer is also more than ten or twenty taels." In this way, the dividends of the grain and rice distributed to each room in the public middle school, plus the monthly case of forty taels of silver a month for the two aunts and grandmothers, I am afraid that even the third master's use outside for half a year is not enough. ”
Yao Yanyu gradually made a bitter face, originally thinking that he was a rich man, but he didn't want to be like that at all.
Mama Feng looked at her master's bitter face and chuckled: "So the rest of the ones have to be filled by our aunt and grandmother." Girl, you don't have to worry about these things now, but you will always have to marry someone in the future, and you will always have to take care of these things when you get married. With the current annual income of 8,000 taels of silver, I am afraid that I will not be able to make ends meet when the time comes. ”
Yao Yanyu heard this, flattened her mouth, and asked, "Then you can still laugh?" In the future, I may have to fight the northwest wind. ”
Mama Feng said with a smile: "The girl was in the Governor's Mansion before, and the old lady and the lady planned everything for the girl, so the old slave didn't have to worry about the girl." Now that the girl had left the Governor's Palace, and now that she was in this situation, the old slave had to tell the girl about these troubles in advance. It's just to let the girl know earlier. As for drinking the northwest wind, we don't have to. ”
Yao Yanyu also laughed, drinking the northwest wind was naturally a joke, but this matter also made her have to think about it seriously.
"I know that you and Uncle Feng are both capable, and I have always been impatient to worry about these things. In the future, I will hand over the management of these four shops to you. I only need to look at the account book every three months, and I don't ask any questions about how the shop is run or managed. Then, I will give you 10% of the shop's annual profits, which can be regarded as the pension money you have accumulated. ”
"Oh, that's not going to happen." Mama Feng hurriedly said: "It is natural for a slave to serve his master. The master gives us monthly money and gives us food, which is the grace of the master, and we are greedy again, and we want the dividends of the master's industry, but we don't want the sky to thunder! ”
"That's a fool's errand. I give you a 10% bonus, which also means more work and more rewards. In this way, you are motivated, and I can rest assured. Besides, what is justified? The slave treats the master very well, and the master should also give the slave very good. This is not in vain for the master and servant. Could it be that all the good things in the world are taken by the master, and the slave is waiting for blood and sweat, but he can't get a little good? Yao Yanyu said with a smile: "Such a mean master will not have any good rewards in the future." ”
Mama Feng excused herself left and right, only saying that it was too inappropriate for her husband and wife to take a 10% dividend.
Yao Yanyu still smiled Yan Yan: "If you think it's not suitable, take out twelve points of spirit to pave for me." Wouldn't it be the best of both worlds for me to earn a little more money every year, and to get back the share you took? ”
Mama Feng smiled and went down to show her loyalty: "The girl is generous and benevolent, which is our blessing." Our husband and wife have been loyal to the girl in this life, and there is no second heart. ”