134: filial piety

Of course, a total revenue of 820,000 is the most ideal scenario.

No matter how well the sunscreen clothing sells, there will inevitably be some losses in the end, and some sizes won't sell out completely.

"Let's just assume 20% of the profit gets lost in the end; the total profit will still be 650,000, and I'll get 360,000, which is still quite good."

Ye Su briefly explained the sunscreen clothing purchase to his business partner.

"The wholesale price is 30, and we're selling each for 79. That means as long as we sell half, we'll break even, right?"

After calculating the break-even point, Chen Xinyi felt relieved.

She had already started blindly trusting Ye Su, convinced that [Ye Su Selection] would definitely not fail to sell even half of the sunscreen clothing by the end.

"Why are you only thinking about breaking even? Can you have some ambition?"

"I'm just a woman, what do I need ambition for?"

Chen Xinyi said this righteously, then wrapped her arm around Ye Su's and pulled him along to find the next street scene for photos.

And while Ye Su was being tortured into acting as a photographer.

Ye Xin, who had been sent 1,000 kilometers away from home by him, had already arranged a truck to transport the sunscreen clothing back to Guying City. After that, he packed a large suitcase full of samples and took a flight back home first.

Guying City didn't have an airport, so after getting off the plane, Ye Xin had to hire a car from the neighboring city to get home.

After making do with the meal Su Wan had left for him, Ye Xin hurried to contact a short-term warehouse so there would be a place to store the sunscreen clothing when it arrived.

Fortunately, after selling out the face masks a few days ago, the Little Red Book online shop had improved. Ye Xin had also opened a Douyin shop and hired two people to help with customer service and packing orders.

For now, the three of them could handle the workload. They would wait until the 6.18 sale started to see if they needed to hire two extra temporary workers.

Troublesome as it was, when he thought about how he could get over 200,000 if the sunscreen clothing actually sold out, Ye Xin felt full of energy again and continued working on listing the products.

From this, it was clear that making money from this piece of intelligence wasn't an easy task.

If it weren't for Ye Xin's help, Ye Su would really just be staring blankly at the intel, unable to use it to make money.

...

"Spend 200,000 to upgrade Sunday's Tier 2 intelligence to Tier 3 intelligence."

After finishing his cardio in the evening and resting for a bit, Ye Su took advantage of the time Chen Xinyi was showering to spend a huge sum of money and upgrade another piece of intelligence to Tier 3.

[Upgrade successful!]

[00:19:12 remaining until the next intelligence refresh. Please wait patiently, Host.]

"Nineteen minutes left until the intel refreshes. No, I need to save some time."

With a mind free of distractions, solely focused on finishing his shower before the intel refreshed to handle any sudden information, Ye Su turned the bathroom doorknob.

"What are you doing? Get out!"

"It's getting late. Let's finish washing up early so we can rest."

Then, after the "time-saving" shower, it was already past twelve o'clock.

After generously spending 99 yuan to coax the resentful-looking Chen Xinyi to sleep, Ye Su finally opened the system.

[Today's Intelligence (Tier 3): Old Lady Dong from Unit 902, Building 7, Shengfeng Residential Complex, passed away at home eight days ago. After the 'first seven' passed, her daughter-in-law began clearing out all the old lady's miscellaneous items, intending to rent out the apartment. Among the cleared items, there is a mid-Qing Dynasty huanghuali official's vanity box, worth approximately 150,000.]

[Note: Old Lady Dong's daughter-in-law has already arranged for a waste collector to come to the residential complex entrance at 9:00 AM tomorrow to collect the miscellaneous items.]

"Spent 200,000, and got 150,000 back in one go. Brother System is still pretty reliable."

"Tsk tsk tsk, throwing away a 150,000 huanghuali official's vanity box as junk—she really lives up to the name of a spendthrift woman."

"The old lady's 'first seven' just passed, and she's already in such a rush to rent out the apartment. She deserves this financial loss."

[hidden easter egg (Attribute Reward): Upon successfully obtaining the [Mid-Qing Dynasty Huanghuali Official's Vanity Box], the Host can receive a reward of three points in [physique].]

"Even [physique] attributes can be rewarded?" Ye Su lifted the quilt and looked down at his stomach: "Things long divided must unite, and things long united must divide. It seems my abdominal muscles, which have been 'united' for so many years, are finally about to 'divide'."

The intelligence reminded him that the waste collector would be going to the residential complex at nine tomorrow morning to collect the items. Seeing that it was late, Ye Su set an alarm and pulled the quilt back over to sleep.

...

Ding ding— The next morning at 7:30 AM, the alarm went off on time. Ye Su woke up instantly and quickly pressed the alarm off.

"Why did you set an alarm on the weekend?"

He had originally wanted to let Chen Xinyi sleep a bit longer, but after the alarm went off, it woke her up at the same time.

"I have to go out this morning. If you want to sleep, just keep sleeping."

"What time is it?"

"7:30."

"Ah!"

Thanks to the seven hours of deep sleep provided by the [Sleep Aid Service], Chen Xinyi felt quite refreshed after waking up.

But hearing that on such a great weekend, she still had to get up at 7:30 just like on a regular day, Chen Xinyi still let out an exaggerated wail.

"Go wherever you want, I'm going to doze off for a bit more."

Although she said she wanted to doze off a bit more, when Ye Su came out of the bathroom, he was greeted by Chen Xinyi, who had already gotten up and was sitting on the sofa, looking at him with a resentful expression.

Apparently, she had no sleepiness at all after getting up, so she couldn't doze off even if she wanted to.

Ye Su felt sorry for disturbing her sleep, so he could only pick up his car keys and slip away.

After heading out, he first bought a portion of rice noodle rolls and a cup of soy milk, then drove to the corner next to the Shengfeng Residential Complex. He ate his breakfast in the car while waiting for the other party to move the miscellaneous items out.

...

While Ye Su was eating breakfast, inside Unit 902, Building 7 of the residential complex, a middle-aged auntie was clearing various miscellaneous items into cardboard boxes, muttering to herself.

"Old hag, you occupied the house alone for so many years, causing me to lose out on hundreds of thousands in rent, and that was bad enough, but now you even died in the house. How unlucky!"

"You didn't even know enough to go die somewhere else. If you had, after renovating, this could have served as a wedding house for A-Wei when he gets married. Now, look at this—someone died in the house. When A-Wei gets married, we'll have to sell the house and buy a new one. You're such a burden to your neighbors even in death!"

As she threw things one by one into the cardboard boxes, the middle-aged woman's resentment grew heavier:

"Living alone, yet she made the house look like a trash can!"

"What is this? An inkstone? She couldn't even read a few big characters. I doubt she knew how to write even if you gave her a ballpoint pen, yet she tried to act cultured and kept an inkstone at home!"

"And what is this box? It looks just like the ones they use in TV dramas to hold severed heads. How unlucky!"

The middle-aged woman had incredible stamina, and her mouth didn't stop until she had piled all the miscellaneous items into three large cardboard boxes.

Looking around and seeing that her mother-in-law's belongings had all been cleared out, a victorious smile appeared on the woman's face:

"When she was alive, she was like a miser, guarding against us couple our whole lives. Now that she's dead, the house is still going to end up in our hands!"

"Three bedrooms and a living room, it can rent for over 3,000 a month. Plus, we can let the tenants wash away the bad luck of a dead person. It's killing two birds with one stone!"

Taking the hand truck she borrowed from the property management office, the auntie piled some of the miscellaneous items onto it and dragged them to the entrance of the residential complex.