Chapter 549: Chapter 185: 80s Drama Queen Forced into Business to Become a Top Student (20)

The airbag was soft and set a safe distance from the wooden bridge, so the women weren’t in any real danger. After crawling off with their backs hunched, they rejoined the crowd and started cheering for their friends.

Every player who got shaken off the bridge was still buzzing with excitement, frustrated they hadn’t performed better, and forced to watch as someone less skilled than them walked away with a two-yuan prize.

They couldn’t resist pulling out more money to play again...

Of course, while the adults had their games, there was also a large, wide wooden swing for the children to play on.

From pitch-pot and dart-throwing to selling fried ice cream, Sheng Leyun had only provided her friends with the ideas for making money. Her friends, using their own ingenuity, connections, and capital, had set up their own stalls, each one so popular it was enough to make anyone jealous.

They had been busy all day, their voices hoarse from shouting, but their eyes were still sparkling with an insatiable excitement.

"Once we pack up, let’s go count how much we made, okay?"

Sheng Leyun was dedicated to cultivating their business acumen, their sensitivity to numbers, their control over profits, and all other related aspects.

’She was secretly waiting for them to grow up. With so many friends, some were bound to go into business. When that time came, she could set aside some money or offer a few profitable ideas and shamelessly invest in their ventures.’

’She wouldn’t need a large stake. Just receiving a few dividends each year would be enough to make her comfortable life even cozier!’

’To secure a long-term, effortless income, wasn’t it worth putting in the effort to train them now?’

As a result, the friends went about their work methodically. From the very beginning of the planning process, they carefully recorded every step, including cost investments and risk analysis, making sure their accounts and procedures were clear at a glance.

After packing up their stalls, they were too preoccupied to eat a proper meal, so they just bought some meat buns and returned to the courtyard house. This time, the old lady came with them.

They first scarfed down their buns and drank some powdered milk, then paired off at tables to start counting their money.

In truth, people had already started preparing for the New Year since the Laba Festival, but the New Year celebration in its truest sense ran from the Little New Year to the Lantern Festival.

The market’s peak popularity was concentrated within these twenty-odd days.

The bustling, shoulder-to-shoulder crowds were a magnificent sight rarely seen in later eras, and it was enough to keep the more novel stalls in a constant state of selling.

For example, the old lady had been spinning cotton candy all day, even having to restock her supplies twice, so busy she didn’t have a moment to drink water. Meanwhile, Sheng Leyun’s stall had three to five players at it at any given moment...

Such insane customer traffic would naturally lead to extremely handsome profits!

Sheng Leyun’s costs included the stall fee, various materials, and tools. Her initial investment wasn’t large to begin with, and she had barely encountered any players skilled enough to clean her out. When amortized over every customer, her costs came down to just twenty or thirty cents per person.

Moreover, she still had over half her materials left, which meant that tomorrow’s business would be almost pure profit!

Who could have imagined she would get three to four hundred customers in a single day, with over sixty percent of them buying the "one yuan for three baskets" wooden ring package.

Even the customers who only spent fifty cents didn’t cause her to lose money.

In other words, her total revenue for the day was over 320 yuan, of which more than 200 yuan was profit!

Tsk tsk, and this was only the first day. Even if her sales were halved on the following days, she would still be earning what most people made in a month of hard labor.

Sheng Leyun had actually anticipated this outcome, so she wasn’t particularly surprised or amazed. She calmly took out half the money and pushed it toward Gong Zicheng.

Gong Zicheng didn’t refuse, but he only took five ten-yuan bills from the pile. He smiled and said, "I just wrote couplets all day. I didn’t do any of the thinking or attract any customers, so just a labor fee is enough."

"Besides, what company pays a fifty-yuan daily wage like Yunyun does?" he added teasingly.

Sheng Leyun didn’t insist and simply smiled, moving over to help the old lady count her earnings.

The old lady was in the food business. Her prices were low, so she relied on volume, meaning her costs and profits were almost evenly split.

However, the biggest cost for cotton candy was the machine. Since they had assembled it themselves, it was much cheaper, so her profit margin was significantly higher—more than two-thirds, in fact.

Although making cotton candy was easy, simultaneously working the foot pedal while pouring sugar, spinning the floss, and shaping it became quite taxing after a while.

Sheng Leyun and the old lady switched jobs about every hour.

The cotton candy stall was never idle. The two of them became increasingly skilled, taking less than a minute to make a regular cotton candy and only two to three minutes for a shaped one.

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