"Mom, this is a really good thing that can make money." Ji Shuqin said with a sense of grievance while rubbing his head. He turned on the radio, and it was broadcasting the news.
Cai Jianhong looked on with amazement. Although her family had never been poor, they had never owned a radio before. How could such a small box produce sound?
Though curious, Cai Jianhong didn’t hold back her skepticism. She glared and asked, "How can this make money?"
"Sell it," Ji Shuqin replied as though it were obvious.
After saying this, the conversation naturally turned to Xu Nian’an and Xu Nianhua. He recounted everything about how he had met them, and then, how they had helped him resolve his issues.
Ji Lin and Cai Jianhong exchanged a look. Ji Lin said with emotion, "Nian’an and Nianhua have really done well for themselves. Medical University and Beining University are both prestigious institutions."
The younger sister had also seen her fortunes reverse for the better. When they met Ji Ying during the New Year, she had undergone tremendous changes and was surely living a better life day by day.
"You mean to say Xu Nian’an opened a boutique near the Medical University, and this little box can make twenty yuan each?" Cai Jianhong eyed the radio—twenty yuan each, wouldn’t ten of them make two hundred?
"So how much stock did you bring back with you this time to Yangcheng?" Cai Jianhong looked at Ji Shuqin eagerly. If this gadget could make so much money, why bother working in a factory at all!
The fervent gaze from Cai Jianhong made Ji Shuqin feel uncomfortable to the core.
Ji Shuqin involuntarily shrank back a little as he said, "Mom, this time I got some goods and wholesaled ten to Nian’an, making a hundred yuan, and I have fifteen left. I’m planning to sell them in a few days."
"Didn’t you say it makes twenty each?" Cai Jianhong furrowed her brows instinctively.
"Mom, if it weren’t for Nian’an, I wouldn’t have been able to sort out that two hundred yuan matter. Besides, I wouldn’t have dared to go to Yangcheng without Nian’an’s encouragement. This time I brought samples and next time I get goods, it will just be stocking up for Nian’an as well, but the majority I will sell myself," Ji Shuqin explained, indicating that in the future he would essentially be wholesaling to Xu Nian’an.
As long as he had a lot of stock, it wouldn’t be a problem to give Xu Nian’an a discount.
"But you’re making ten yuan less on each one, and you still need to get more stock from Yangcheng," Cai Jianhong complained, the thought of losing ten yuan on each unit pained her heart.
"Mom, why don’t you think about it. Nian’an is selling them, not using them for himself. If the cost price is too high and the radios don’t sell, then they’ll just be dead stock," Ji Shuqin felt his mother didn’t make a fair point. He was more than happy to supply all his goods to Xu Nian’an.
But Xu Nian’an had mentioned that his profit margin was small due to the low wholesale price and had advised him to sell the remaining radios near schools or in areas with high foot traffic—near department stores where there were a lot of wealthy people. By selling the remaining units, he could make at least four hundred yuan on his trip to Yangcheng!
One trip to Yangcheng and accumulating four hundred yuan, such a good opportunity—would he have been able to do it without Nian’an’s help?
"Shuqin is right, without Nian’an, your son would have been beaten to a pulp," Ji Lin naturally spoke in favor of his own family. Xu Nian’an was his sister’s son, after all; it was impossible for him to harm his own son, wasn’t it?
His sister had always been kind-hearted and good-natured. Despite having been poor before, now that their days were getting better, wouldn’t she want to help her older brother out?
Ji Lin looked sternly at Ji Shuqin and said, "Shuqin, if you dare to borrow money at high interest rates again, I’ll break your legs!"