She Only Cares About Cultivation-Chapter 911 - 823: Famine Era 64

After half a year of exploration, the clothing store began to earn profits. Starting from the fourth month, there was a monthly profit of two to three thousand yuan, and if there was a change of seasons, with discounts on old styles and promotions on new styles, the income could exceed five thousand.

Once she started making money, she wanted to involve the family. Naturally, she first approached her little sister, Ye Yu. After many discussions, Ye Yu also went for early retirement. She is four years younger than Ye Huan and is now only 49 years old, still young!

Ye Huan rented a good spot for her at Wangfujing for a small snack shop, guided her for over half a month, focusing mainly on rice noodles, spicy hot pot, stew noodles, hot dry noodles, cold rice noodles, and rice noodles. She was mainly responsible for the seasoning, and later Ji Huzi introduced two sons of his comrades to come and help as waiters, thus Ye’s Snacks started its business not far from Huan·Yan, less than two hundred meters apart.

Ye Huan carefully curated the entire menu for the snack shop, and since she did the snacks, Ye Yu insisted on giving her fifty percent of the profits. However, Ye Huan did not take fifty percent, only thirty percent, and let Ye Yu use the remaining twenty percent to cover necessary expenses like utilities, rent, and worker salaries, ensuring Ye Yu earns at least fifty percent. After all, she’s not involved in daily management, and selling snacks yields thin profit margins; the money earned is hard-earned, so even thirty percent already puts Ye Yu at a disadvantage.

The snack shop has fifty to sixty square meters, which Ye Huan considered for a long time before signing. They wouldn’t lease for ten years, so only a five-year contract was signed.

Five years it is, she believes that with these five years, as long as both families work hard, there will be a qualitative leap.

By the end of 1983, when they returned home for New Year, Third Sister-in-law happens to be 55 and retired, and she was intrigued by the sisters’ business insights.

Especially since Ye Jiazhe has also retired, the kids are attending school, working, and haven’t gotten married yet; the couple is quite idle and also wants to do business with Ye Huan.

Once Ye Huan heard this, she was delighted, "That’s great, let’s bring our parents along too. Anyway, my Courtyard is big enough for our family, and we can help you pick vegetables or something. Why don’t we all move to Beijing? Since no one is there to care for the elderly couple, and slowly find a storefront. If it doesn’t work out, we’ll start with tofu; actually, Third Brother and Third Sister-in-law selling tofu pudding on the streets is not bad at all."

At this time, there was no city management, and if Third Brother used a tricycle to go around selling tofu, along with tofu pudding, the business wouldn’t be bad.

Worried they might oppose, she continued, "This is temporary, once I help you find a storefront, we’ll decide what to sell, alright?"

Third Brother and Third Sister-in-law knew exactly what their sister was worried about. Actually, even selling only tofu and tofu pudding is feasible; after all, this was the first business their family ever did, looking at their parents’ smiling faces, they seemed very satisfied!

"Huanhuan, no need to rush, Third Brother and I can still manage, plus there’s electricity now, we can buy an electric mill. Even selling just tofu, we can make plenty of variations. You’re selling snacks, don’t you also need tofu? If nearby stores need it, we can cooperate, right? So whether or not there’s a store doesn’t really matter, city folks drink soy milk nowadays, just tofu, tofu pudding, tofu skin, and tofu skin, we can make ten kinds of varieties, selling tofu is hard work, but the final product won’t be bad at all."

Third Sister-in-law’s understanding moved Ye Huan deeply; considering the prime location of her Nanluoguxiang dwelling, she agreed promptly.

Thus, on the fifth day of the New Year, they began packing up. Ji Huzi specially found a vehicle, took their luggage, and drove to Beijing.

The second house of Ye Family naturally emptied suddenly.

Ye Huan’s purchased Courtyard, along with reversed house and back room, added up to five or six hundred square meters. A wave of emigration only occurred after the college entrance examination was restored.

Thus, she bought this property for sixty thousand yuan, and many people called her foolish, yet she alone knew whether that was true.

She may not have any money now, but once she earns more, she’s determined to buy more properties; at her age, she can’t stir great waves anymore.

The kids all have formal jobs, and it’s hard to find those to follow in her entrepreneurial footsteps, unless a wife is willing to join her ventures; otherwise, she can only pursue real estate investments.

Dozens of rooms, when Ye Yu’s parents and siblings arrived, they all moved into the reversed house, these were originally servant quarters. In their view, the main house should be reserved for Ye Huan’s family to live in the future. They opted for the reversed house, regardless of the servant issue, what era is this? That’s long past.