Dress up as a farmer's wife from the Wang family and fight for the best with space

The sofas ordered by the first twenty people were priced at five taels of silver each, with a deposit of two taels and five hundred coins.

The sofas custom-made for the five people at the back cost ten taels of silver each, with a deposit of five taels.

All in all it amounted to seventy-five taels of silver, and that wasn't even counting the other wardrobes, dressing tables and other furniture that the guests had ordered.

After a busy day, by dinner time, the number of people in the shop gradually dwindled.

After seeing off the last guest, Gu Yunxi could finally shake his sore arms.

The Yuan family was extremely excited, especially Yuan Gangzi. He had never seen so much silver before, and when he saw it for the first time, he was completely stunned.

"Sister Yunxi, is this all the money we earned today?" Gangzi said excitedly.

Gu Yunxi looked at his excitement and said with a smile: "Gangzi, you haven't deducted my design fee, the cost of furniture materials, and the wages of your father, your father, Yunle and others."

Hearing this, Gangzi slapped his head and said, "Yes, these are also silver!"

"Let me do the math. The wood we need to make a piece of furniture is all cut from the mountains and is not valuable. But if we don't have time to go to the mountains to cut wood in the future, we can only buy it from others. The wood needed for a sofa will cost about 500 coins."

"The material cost of the cushion is 200 coins. I have to pay my father, grandfather, and Sister Yunle for their wages. And Sister Yunxi, if you sell your design to others, it will definitely be very expensive!"

Gu Yunxi smiled and nodded, saying, "That's true. The material cost of making a sofa alone is about 700 wen, and we also have to take into account the labor cost, transportation cost, etc. In fact, I estimate that the cost is more than one tael of silver."

"So our profit margin, if we sell it for five taels each, is probably only three and a half taels. If we sell it for ten taels each, the profit margin will be quite substantial."

Even though he only made three and a half taels for a sofa, Yuan Gangzi was very happy.

This is the case with the Yuan family father and son and the Yuan family mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. Their family has been doing carpentry for decades, but the money they earn is just enough to barely make ends meet.

Now, thanks to Gu Yunxi, I can actually take on so many orders. If it continues like this in the future, I will definitely make a fortune!

The Yuan family father and son looked at Gu Yunxi with gratitude and said, "Yunxi, there is so much silver, how about you take it first?"

Uncle Yuan knew that Yun Xi must have spent a lot of money when he bought this furniture shop, so he didn't dare to take the money he earned now.

Gu Yunxi smiled and said, "Uncle, don't you also need silver to buy wood? How about this, I'll take fifty taels first, and you can take the rest."

"The most important thing now is that we have taken on so many orders that we are in a hurry to make furniture."

"Think about it, is there any way to speed up the process, find a job or something?"

Uncle Yuan was also very worried. Although he was very happy about so many orders, he was actually a little worried. With so many orders, it would take him and his son no time to complete them.

So, Uncle Yuan thought for a moment and said, "Yunxi, if I were to recruit an apprentice, would it be too late now?"

"We need apprentices, but we also need skilled carpenters because we are in a hurry. In the next few days, more and more people in town will know about our furniture shop, and more and more people will come to order sofas and wardrobes."

Before the previous dozens of orders were completed, new orders came in, and the customers didn’t know when they would receive the new furniture.

This is not a good idea. Gu Yunxi frowned and suggested, "Uncle Yuan, why don't you find some carpenters in the same field and ask them if they are willing to come and help make furniture."

"If we calculate it on a monthly basis and give them three taels of silver per month, there should be people willing to do it."

Uncle Yuan was a little worried when he heard this, and asked, "But, Yunxi, what if they learn our furniture-making techniques?"

Gu Yunxi smiled and said, "Don't worry, the soul of the sofa is not there, but in the cushions."

"Before they come to help, we have to agree and sign a document that tells them not to tell others how to make furniture, and not to make sofas and sell them at will, otherwise we will be held accountable."

"Those who can accept it can come. If they can't accept it, we won't force them. Besides, even if they learn to make sofas, they may not be able to make cushions. Even if they can, they may not be as good as us."

After hearing what Gu Yunxi said, Uncle Yuan nodded slowly and said with a smile, "Okay, then I'll go out and find a carpenter and an apprentice."

Uncle Yuan put away the silver, took Yuan's eldest brother and Gangzi, closed the shop, and hurried to look for a carpenter he knew.

In addition, they returned to the village and posted a notice in the village saying that they were looking for five apprentices.

There is no salary, but apprentices can live and eat at Yuan's house. Such conditions have attracted many people to sign up.

In Jihu Town, Gu Yunxi also asked someone to write a notice to help the Yuan family find carpenters and apprentices.

In one day, Yuan's father and son selected five good apprentices and hired five skilled carpenters to start working at Yuan's house.

Gangzi arranged these people clearly according to the blueprint, and everyone was responsible for what task.

The division of labor is clear and the orders are produced in an orderly manner.

Gangzi was working in the town's furniture shop, accompanying Gu Yunxi in receiving guests. Yuan's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were also helping out in the shop, while Yuan's father and son were busy making furniture for the guests.

With Gangzi in charge of handling all the affairs of the shop, within a few days, the first batch of sofas and wardrobes were ready.

Gu Yunxi asked He Dachun to help transport it to the location specified by the customer, and Gangzi also went to see it.

Transporting, unloading, acceptance and final payment.

Everything went in an orderly manner without any problems, which made the Yuan family feel more confident.

A few days after the shop opened, the old lady Gu from the Gu family looked at the Yuan family next door and saw many people coming in and out, pulling in wood and leaving with goods, and she felt envious and jealous.

All of this should obviously belong to their Gu family. It was all Gu Yunxi's fault for pulling the trigger. If they had agreed to let her second uncle be the manager, maybe they could have helped her family members by now.

A few days ago, she went to the Yuan family and said that she wanted to ask for two places for her nephews and grandnieces from her mother's side, but was rejected by the Yuan family.

When Gu Yunxi came back to see Boss Gu again, Old Lady Gu could no longer bear it and complained to Old Man Gu and got angry at Gu Yunxi.

"You are such a heartless person. I have really raised you in vain. The same goes for those people from the Yuan family. This is not their own business. Why don't they give us two places from the Gu family?"

"Gu Yunxi, I'm telling you, no matter what method you use, you must ask for two places for your cousin. It's not easy for them, you have to help them!"

Gu Yunxi knew clearly that the cousins ​​that Old Lady Gu was referring to were the children and grandsons of her father, Old Gu's eldest uncle.

Gu Yunxi sneered and ignored him. What did Old Lady Gu’s family have to do with her?