Spring Breeze Twenty Years

Chapter 273 Review and Arrangement

Xiao Wei slapped Chen Hui on the head and said, "If you run fast enough, I'll go to Fengtian and beat you up, then we'll break off all ties. You don't believe me? Try me. Get lost. I'm going there after the Lantern Festival, on March 2nd."

Xiao Hong said, "Why don't we let Hong Liang go with Xiao Hui? I just can't put my mind at ease."

Chen Hui said, "Really, there's no need. Tomorrow is the Little New Year. Why bother them? I promise I'll drive slowly. I swear on my son, okay?"

Xiao Wei withdrew his hand and said, "Take good care of your parents. I'll go wish them a Happy New Year on the 2nd. Let's go."

Chen Hui waved his hand, rolled up the car window, and the Kosica slowly drove out of the yard, turned onto the main road, accelerated, and headed towards Fengtian amidst the wind and snow.

Xiao Hong tightened her collar, looked at the intersection, and said, "I'm still a little worried."

Xiao Wei pressed the door shut button and said, "Let's go back inside. He's an old man now, he knows what he's doing." The two walked into the house against the wind. The weather in Longcheng had changed today, with strong winds and heavy snow, and it was much colder than usual.

The two entered the living room, Xiaowei sat down, lit a cigarette, and picked up the phone to call Chen Xiao's home.

After a few rings, the other end answered: "Who is it?" It was Chen Xiao's mother.

Xiao Wei said, "Aunt Chen, this is Zhang Wei. Is Chen Xiao here?"

Chen Xiao's mother said, "Xiao Wei, Zai Zai, I'll call him for you, wait a bit." Then she walked away with her footsteps.

Two minutes later, Chen Xiao answered the phone: "Hey? Xiao Wei?" Judging from his voice, he must have been sleeping just now, no wonder he was so slow.

Xiao Wei said, "Just letting you know, Xiao Hui just left here. He drove himself. Keep an eye on the time, and call me as soon as he gets here. I told him that if he drives too fast, I'll definitely give him a good beating when I get back to Fengtian."

Chen Xiao hummed in agreement and said, "You don't need to cut it. If he drives fast, I'll scratch him to death. When are you guys coming back? Where's Xiao Hong?"

Xiao Wei said, "We're going up on March 2nd. Xiao Hong's parents are here to celebrate the New Year; they're not going back to their hometown this year. Xiao Hong is here." He handed the phone to Xiao Hong, and the two girls started chattering away.

The door creaked open, and Li Gengsheng, covered in snow, crawled in.

Xiao Wei got up and got Li Gengsheng a towel, saying, "What are you doing coming over in this heavy snow? I'll be going over there tonight."

Li Gengsheng wiped his hair and face, dusted off the snowflakes on his body with a towel, and said, "I planned it yesterday. The sooner I hand it over to you, the sooner I can finish it. Otherwise, I'll always have something on my mind." He sat down in the chair and took out the account book from his bag.

Xiao Hong turned her head and glanced at him. Xiao Wei said, "It's okay, let's settle the accounts, you can continue chatting." Xiao Hong ignored him and continued chatting, but her voice became softer.

Li Gengsheng opened the account book and took out a pen, and Xiao Wei also took out a notebook and a pen.

Opening the ledger, Li Gengsheng pointed and said, "I'll explain everything to you one by one. Just write down the total. After that, leave this ledger with you, and I'll replace it with a new one next year. This is the restaurant's ledger. From opening until now, in 75 days, the total income is 243,825 yuan, averaging 3,251 yuan per day. The total expenses are 143,100 yuan, not including the original amount. I don't have any cash, but here are some receipts. Boss, go collect the money." He took out a bundle of white receipts wrapped in plastic bags from his bag and handed them to Xiao Wei.

Xiao Wei wrote down the amount of money in his notebook, took the IOU, and put it aside.

Li Gengsheng flipped through the ledger and pointed, saying, "This is the billiard hall. It's been open for two months, and the revenue is 47,200 yuan. The total expenses are 3,300 yuan. This doesn't include electricity and coal costs. Boss, I don't know how to calculate those two." Xiao Wei wrote down the figures, looked at the ledger, thought for a moment, and said, "Can we calculate the coal cost at 2,000 yuan a month? We'll include the electricity cost; it's not much."

Li Gengsheng thought for a moment and said, "Actually, we don't need that much. All five houses over there are burning coal together, so the coal cost will be less than 10,000 yuan. Five or six thousand yuan should be enough."

Xiao Wei said, "Then let's calculate the coal cost as 1,500 yuan, and forget about everything else, just the wages, okay?"

Li Gengsheng nodded and said, "That works, but this way our summer expenses will be lower. You don't even need to factor in electricity bills and taxes; besides wages, there will be no other expenses in the summer." Xiao Wei thought for a moment and said, "Alright, let's do it this way. It's not worth trying to gain such a small advantage."

Li Gengsheng flipped through a few more pages of the ledger and said, "This is the income from the karaoke bar and the dance hall. I've combined them. They were open for a total of fifty-six days, with an income of 31,725 ​​yuan and expenses of 3,800 yuan. Boss, the karaoke bar doesn't make any money either. It's been almost two months and we've only made less than 6,000 yuan, while the expenses are already 1,000 yuan. And that doesn't even include the cost of coal and electricity."

Xiao Wei made sure he had the numbers down, then laughed and said, "This thing takes a while to run, so it'll be fine once it's started. Besides, if we don't make money, we don't make money. The house doesn't cost anything, so we can just treat it as our own fun. You can take your family out to play tonight, all you need to do is sign the internal papers."

Li Gengsheng said, "My family definitely can't go, and they can't sing or perform opera either. There's only about four thousand yuan left in the savings account, and we owe a total of forty thousand yuan. They should be coming to collect the money in the next few days. Boss, you need to hurry up and get the money back."

Xiao Wei closed his notebook and said, "Okay, I'll go collect the payment tomorrow."

Li Gengsheng packed his bag, stood up, and said, "Well, boss, I'm going back now. When does our holiday start?"

Xiao Wei thought for a moment and said, "Let's have a break on the 28th, until the 8th of the new year. We'll go back to work on the 9th, so you'll have ten days off, okay?"

Li Gengsheng said, "Isn't that all up to you? I'll just go back and let you know. Anyway, I have nothing to do on my holiday."

Xiao Wei stood up to see Li Gengsheng off, saying, "If you're bored staying at home with nothing to do, come over here and have some fun. There are lots of people here."

Li Gengsheng nodded and said, "Okay, I'll come and wish you a Happy New Year afterwards. Do you have any red envelopes?"

Xiao Wei kicked Li Gengsheng in the butt, Li Gengsheng dodged and laughed, then pushed open the door and left.

After seeing Li Gengsheng out of the courtyard, Xiao Wei returned to the living room.

Xiao Hong had finished her phone call and was sitting there looking at the ledger. She glanced at him and asked, "How much money did we make?"

Xiao Wei sat down and said, "Not much, it's only been open for a few days, about two months." He opened his notebook and looked at the numbers.

Xiao Hong flipped through the ledger for a while, then closed it and said, "So, when you calculate it this way, we've made 200,000! That's still not enough!"

Xiao Wei laughed and said, "What about our investment? We've invested a total of 160,000 to 170,000 yuan. And we still have to share the profits with everyone. It's all yours, isn't it?"

Xiao Hong said, "This hasn't been accounted for yet. Isn't there still money left over from this part?"

Xiao Wei said, "Let's do the math with Sister Shang tomorrow. We don't have much money here. We need to cover the expenses of these people. We've only been selling the goods for a few days. It would be good if we didn't lose money."

Xiao Hong said, "I think we need to set up a finance department here. Sister Shang can handle production; can we really manage to leave everything to her?"

Xiao Wei said, "It's just a temporary arrangement for a few days. We'll definitely need to set up a finance department after the New Year. Actually, I wanted Li Gengsheng to manage both ends. I trust his personality to handle money, but I'm worried he won't be able to manage it all, especially since it's so far away." He reached out and tucked Xiao Hong's hair behind her ear.

Xiao Hong said, "Actually, it's easy to handle over there. Most restaurants use IOUs, and there's a fixed amount for buying groceries, so they don't pay cash. Even if Li Gengsheng were to settle accounts at the billiards hall, karaoke bar, or dance hall, it would still be managed by Huang Laowu and a few others. So I think it would be perfectly fine to let Li Gengsheng work here and just collect money over there at night."

(End of this chapter)