Chapter 49: Splitting the Money

Yan Ning shook her head: "No rush. Let's wait and see for a while. If we put out too much, others will get tired of seeing it and might not buy it."

Selling slowly also allows for hunger marketing.

Yan Ning and Yan Ze went to have dinner. This time they went to Dongxing Lou, and Yan Ning wanted to poach the chef again.

Just then, someone walked over to their table, and a man wearing moon-white robes knocked on their table.

Yan Ning looked at him; his appearance was average.

Yan Ning asked: "Do you need something from us?"

The man introduced himself: "I am Yan Liang, from the Yan Family of Haicheng. Your Glass Jewelry is very good, and I would like to buy more to transport elsewhere."

Yan Ning shook her head: "We can't make that much for now. Let's talk about it later."

Yan Ning was not familiar with Yan Liang, and she didn't even know if there were people from the Crown Prince or the Third Prince in Haicheng. She didn't want to invite trouble, so it was better to be cautious.

Yan Liang sighed and handed a Jade Tablet to Yan Ning: "If you want to cooperate in the future, you can take this Jade Tablet to the Yan Mansion to find me."

This time Yan Ning did not refuse, only saying: "Very well. If the production volume is high enough, I will contact you."

Yan Ze carried a sack of silver on his back and took a boat home. No one would have guessed that the dusty sack was filled with silver.

It was unknown how many taels of silver this was, but it was very, very heavy.

Moreover, the silver in this sack was not all of it. Because there was too much silver, Yan Ning had put the vast majority into the Trading Space, specifically using a new warehouse to store the money she earned.

Yan Ze carried a large bag and Yan Ning carried a small bag of silver, and together they returned to Chaoyang Village.

As soon as they got home, Yan Ning waved at the group: "Qian Shifu, come over quickly, and Xie too. We are splitting the money."

Yan Ning's method of splitting money was simple and crude: several thousand taels of silver were divided into four portions, and everyone took one thousand taels of silver.

Yan Ning explained: "I know some people did more exquisite work and should get more money, but I brought the silver back today before I had time to look at the ledger. We will split it equally this time. On the last day of the month, when the Manager calculates the money, we will make up for any shortfall. As for any excess, there is no need to return it; we will just take a little less next month."

Everyone was quite happy. Before they earned money, Wu Dashi and the others truly didn't dare to believe they could actually be given ten percent of the silver.

Wu Dashi did the most work, and the dangling hairpins and hairpins he made in the previous half-month were also more ornate and sold for a high price. When the accounts were settled at the end of the month, he would certainly be the one who earned the most among the three craftsmen.

Wu Dashi felt a bit dazed. Previously, when he worked at the silver shop, even with his exquisite skills, his highest monthly wage was two hundred taels, and the lowest was only fifty.

As a result, after coming to Yan Ning's side, they stuffed him with so much money for just half a month of work!

One thousand taels!

If he could get one thousand taels every month, wouldn't he soon be wealthy enough to rival a nation?

Wu Dashi had already decided where in Haicheng he would buy a residence.

Seeing them clutching the silver, unwilling to let go, Yan Ning knocked on the table: "We have another urgent matter. It is indeed inconvenient for so many of you to be squeezed into one room, but I have had two rows of houses built in the back, ten rooms in total."

"There are wooden beds inside, and you can move in right away. The environment isn't particularly good, but it's much better than being squeezed together. If you want a private residence, you can hire people to build a house, but you must cover the costs yourselves."

Xie Luyan had been living at Yan Ning's house and felt a bit embarrassed. He had long wanted to move out and build a house, but they had basically no money left after their journey to Lingnan, and the things in their home were mostly bought for them by Yan Ze.

Now that Xie Luyan had so much money in his hands, his first priority was to build a house.

Building a house with a small courtyard was not expensive. Buying twenty or thirty taels worth of bricks and tiles, spending a few taels of silver to hire people to build a building with a courtyard, and adding another dozen or so taels to hire someone to dig a well—it cost less than fifty taels to build a residence. Of course, they wanted to live in a residence.

Yan Ning handed the aphrodisiac for wild beasts that Qian Ruofang had made to her father. Just in time, Yan Ze also began to draw weapon blueprints.

Unfortunately, the trading partner this time was in a Primitive Tribe and had no mobile phones or computers, so he could only draw diagrams for them.

Yan Ze drew two methods for making Crossbows and prepared to write them a method for making Gunpowder. After finishing everything, he said to Yan Ning: "Daughter, cover for me in a moment; I'm going into the Trading Space first."

Yan Ning closed all the doors and windows.

Yan Ze entered the Trading Space and prepared everything: "Do you see if these are enough?"

The leader of the Primitive Tribe took a look, and his eyes lit up: "Many thanks, many thanks."

Yan Ze gave blueprints instead of weapons, which meant that once he had the blueprints, he could make many of them, and there was also a piece of paper inside detailing how to make an Explosive Package.

The leader of the Primitive Tribe took out the things Yan Ze needed: "Here are some Seed varieties. I didn't know which ones you needed, so I brought you some of each."

The Seed varieties were contained in individual Glass jars with names pasted on them.

One look at these Glass jars showed they were not things the Primitive Tribe could make; they were likely traded by the other party from other planes.

Besides the Seed varieties, he also prepared several pieces of wild beast meat for Yan Ze, the kind that was already cut.

Yan Ze thought to himself that this person was quite thoughtful.

The leader of the Primitive Tribe handed over a large package: "These are things grown by our tribe; you should like them too."

Yan Ze opened it and saw that it was full of fruit.

Watermelons, grapes, dragon fruit, strawberries...

He didn't know if they could be grown in Lingnan.

At this moment, the leader of the Primitive Tribe said to him: "I have to close the trade. Every time I open it, money is deducted from me. The longer the trading time, the more money is deducted."

Yan Ze was stunned. So, other people had to pay to trade.

Fortunately, he didn't have to pay, so rounding it up, he had earned a large sum again.

Yan Ze moved the various processed wild beast meats out, and Yan Ning immediately put them into the Cold Fresh Warehouse.

After the meat was sorted and put away, Yan Ze saw the teeth of the wild beasts at the bottom. There were two huge ones that looked like ivory; if they were taken out to be sold, they could fetch a lot of money.

Yan Ze looked closely: "That's not right. They don't look like elephant tusks; they look like mammoth tusks. They aren't that valuable, but things carved from them are quite good. Later, we'll find someone with good knife skills to carve them into ornaments."

The Cold Fresh Warehouse was even more amazing than Yan Ning had imagined. Although it was only one hundred square meters, no matter what meat or vegetables were put inside, they would not spoil. There were no bacteria inside, and it was zero-degree preservation; even if they were left for forty or fifty years, it would be no problem.

Yan Ze continued to pull things out. As soon as he took them out, there were dozens of watermelons, and there were quite a few other fruits as well. Yan Ning could finally eat the iced watermelon she had been longing for.

However, she couldn't be impatient; it had to be chilled properly, and she would wait until night to eat it secretly.

It wasn't that Yan Ning was stingy, but there were no watermelons in the vicinity, and Yan Ning was worried that if others saw them, they would be suspicious.

Subsequently, Yan Ning's gaze fell on these Seed varieties. There were many vegetables, and her favorites were the watermelon seeds and Corn seeds.

The watermelons given by the leader of the Primitive Tribe looked big and sweet; the quality should be quite good.

What surprised Yan Ning was that they even had Corn and Sweet Potato.

Yan Ning said to her father: "We must hurry and plant these seeds."

Yan Ze asked with some uncertainty: "That land... can it really be farmed?"