67: Conscience or money?

Hearing Ye Su say that, Chen Xinyi finally understood. When Ye Su saw the brand and the channel agent fall out, he had already planned how to make money from this news.

"No wonder everyone online says that people from your area are born to do business. Now I know why."

"How about it? Interested in playing a hand with us?"

"How much money do you plan to invest?"

"Let's invest a hundred thousand yuan first, and then we'll see the situation next week to add more."

According to the intelligence, the premium for the facial masks could reach 67% of the official price later, and the rising gold price was making Ye Su feel uneasy.

So he also planned to clear out his gold futures next week depending on the situation, and then take out a portion of the money to continue hoarding facial masks, striving to earn a bit more with this information.

Chen Xinyi clicked her tongue, "Truly a young master from a rich family, talking in six figures right off the bat."

"What rich young master? All my money is earned by my diligent hands and my extraordinary mind, okay?"

"Ah, yes, yes, yes." Chen Xinyi spoke sarcastically, but in her heart, she truly agreed with Ye Su's invisible bragging.

Ye Su had already easily earned over a hundred thousand yuan in front of her from the stone-wrapped jade and the layered painting.

So, saying that the hundred thousand yuan for hoarding facial masks was earned by his own ability was indeed not wrong at all.

"Then I'll also invest a hundred thousand yuan and hoard goods with you. When the time comes, let your brother help with sales, and I'll give him twenty percent of the profit as a dividend, is that okay?"

After having her eyes opened twice by Ye Su, Chen Xinyi also realized that there was no future in working for others. She had to seize opportunities and use money to make money to escape the fate of a beast of burden.

She didn't have the business acumen, but Ye Su did.

Choice is more important than effort, and who you walk with is more important than where you are going.

Ye Su was smarter than her. Instead of blindly trying hard herself, she might as well choose to follow Ye Su.

"Alright, but let's be clear first, I'll be in charge of the selling price. Don't be impatient and sell them off as soon as they go up by a hundred or eighty yuan per piece."

Ye Su knew that after the continuous rise in gold prices, Chen Xinyi's fifty thousand yuan gold fund had been completely liquidated.

This conservative approach made Ye Su feel it was very necessary to lay down the law beforehand, to avoid disputes later due to disagreements.

"Okay, I trust you."

"Mhm." Only after receiving Chen Xinyi's assurance did Ye Su feel relieved: "I'll say hello to my brother first."

Chen Xinyi was still a little worried: "What if, I mean what if, the brand and the channel agent reconcile? What will we do with the stock we're holding?"

"What else can we do? Of course, it's a seven-day no-questions-asked return," Ye Su said righteously:

"I don't have a wholesale channel; to hoard goods, I can only order from their official flagship channels.

According to my estimation, whether the brand and the channel agent go to court or reconcile, the result will be known in the next few days.

The seven-day no-questions-asked return period only starts counting from the day after signing for the delivery, plus express delivery will take at least two or three days, so we'll have a ten-day buffer period.

If the brand and the channel agent still haven't made a final decision after ten days, we can just return the goods."

Chen Xinyi stared at Ye Su with contempt: "Your heart is really dark! You're treating merchants like enemies. Doesn't your conscience hurt?"

"I also want to be a good person, but the problem is, in this society, good people don't make money," Ye Su retorted, "If it were you, between conscience and making money, what would you choose?"

"That goes without saying, I'd definitely choose to make money."

"Hehe."

Ye Su gave the just-righteous Chen Xinyi a middle finger, then sent a message to Ye Xin.

[Are you there?]

[Brother: How much do you need?]

Uh...

What do you take your little brother for? Do I only ask for money when I look for you?

Ye Su felt his character was greatly insulted!

[I'm not asking for money...]

[My friend and I are collaborating, planning to hoard a batch of facial masks. The express delivery will be sent to your warehouse. Once they're out of stock and the masks' price goes up, we'll list them on your online store for sale. We'll split the profits 80-20. I wanted to see if you have any issues with that.]

[Brother: Hoarding facial masks, waiting for them to go out of stock and then raise prices. What makes you think they'll go out of stock, and how do you guarantee the price will go up after they're out of stock?]

[There's an element of gambling involved for us too. If it were 100% guaranteed to go out of stock and then increase in price, it definitely wouldn't be our turn to hoard them.]

Ye Su forwarded several articles about the brand to Ye Xin.

After a long pause, Ye Xin finally replied.

[Brother: There's profit in risk. If that's the case, it's certainly worth a gamble.]

[Brother: How much stock do you plan to hoard?]

[We'll hoard two hundred thousand worth these two days, and then next week we'll see the situation and might continue to hoard more.]

[I estimate the price of this facial mask could rise to 499, so earning over a hundred or two hundred thousand isn't a problem.]

[Brother: Two hundred thousand? Where did you get so much money?]

Ye Su briefly fabricated how he had accumulated some funds by taking on project outsourcing orders during this period, and also by withdrawing a dinosaur-numbered RMB note from an ATM.

He then explained to Ye Xin how he had made a sum of money last month through gold futures, using a combination of loans and his existing funds.

After explaining, Ye Su also sent Ye Xin the photo of the dinosaur note and the screenshot of his last gold futures liquidation, letting him know that all his money came from legitimate sources.

Ye Su believed that his older brother would definitely help him report the money-making process to their family, which would save him the trouble of explaining it himself later.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the screen, Ye Xin's eyes widened in shock upon learning that Ye Su not only had incredible luck, getting a 100-yuan note worth seventeen thousand from an ATM, but also boldly invested in gold futures, earning him another sum, and seeing the several pictures Ye Su sent.

Good heavens, in just one month, from doing outsourcing projects to having explosive luck, and then riding the wave of gold prices, he must have earned about seventy thousand yuan!

He had been in the e-commerce industry for a few years, and his online store's turnover was starting to increase month by month, but in front of his younger brother's achievements in just one month, he still felt as green as a new recruit!

[Brother: If you hoard so much stock, what if the facial masks don't go up in price later? Won't you be stuck with them?]

[We can return them with no questions asked within seven days, and we'll buy shipping insurance. At that time, we'll need your help to send the express packages.]

[Brother: I hope my shop never has customers like you...]

[What do you say? Can you help us out with this? If this goes smoothly, we could both earn tens of thousands of yuan.]

Ye Su had minimized the risks, so Ye Xin naturally had no reason to refuse.

[Brother: Alright, I have space here. I'll send you the warehouse address in a bit.]

[Okay]

Upon receiving Ye Xin's shipping address, Ye Su forwarded it to Chen Xinyi.

The official price of the facial mask was 298 yuan per piece. Ye Su and Chen Xinyi cooperated, each ordering 340 pieces from different channels, spending 101,320 yuan each.

"340 pieces, if each piece really goes up by two hundred yuan..."

Chen Xinyi furiously pressed buttons on her phone calculator: "I could get fifty-four thousand!"

The numbers on the calculator made Chen Xinyi's eyes almost sparkle like little stars.