After Yan Jiecheng and Yu Li bought the house, they went to the industrial and commercial office to submit various documents and apply for a business license.

Because a business license cannot be obtained in a short time.

The staff issued a certificate to Yan Jiecheng and the others, indicating that the business license was in process.

Then, Yan Jiecheng went to hire masons to decorate and renovate the house.

After all, this house will not only be used as a warehouse and shop in the future, but Yan Jiecheng will also live here.

Now that Yan Jiecheng and the others have opened a store, they can no longer prepare only a hundred pounds of melon seeds each time like before.

At least several thousand kilograms of melon seeds should be prepared! Plus firewood and other things, someone must look after this.

Otherwise, if they don’t know when all the things are stolen, they will be in trouble!

……

Now in Yan Jiecheng's family, the eldest two children have gone to high school.

They usually eat and live in school, and only have the opportunity to go home during holidays.

As for the three younger children who have just entered junior high school, they eat at school at noon and go home for dinner and bed in the evening.

So Yan Jiecheng went to Yan Bugui and the others and said to them: "Dad, if we are not at home when the children come back from school, please let them come over for dinner."

"Don't worry, they won't eat and drink for free, I will pay for the food."

Hearing what Yan Jiecheng said, Yan Bugui asked: "No problem, let them come over to eat!"

He asked again: "Do you have anything to do? You didn't even have time to prepare the children's dinner."

"Usually Yu Li will prepare meals for them, but occasionally it's too late!" Yan Jiecheng said.

"By the way, how is your business?" Yan Bugui asked again.

“It’s okay!”

I have quit my job and am going to open a store to expand my business." Yan Jiecheng said to him.

Hearing Yan Jiecheng's words, Yan Bugui was also surprised. He quickly said: "You have to quit your job and go into business."

"Yes." Yan Jiecheng said.

"Is there something wrong with your brain or something?"

"Otherwise, I will quit my good job and go into business." Yan Bugui said.

After hearing what Yan Bugui said, Yan Jiecheng said that he also understood the thinking of his generation, that is, there is nothing great except good work.

"Okay, I have my own ideas, and you don't need to worry about it anymore," Yan Jiecheng said.

"Then I'll let you do it! You will definitely regret it." Yan Bugui said.

"Don't worry! Even if I pick up rags, I won't regret it."

"Okay, remember what you said, I will go back first." Yan Jiecheng said to Yan Bugui, and then he left.

"I know." Yan Bugui replied.

……

Another month passed, and the house over there was finally renovated according to Yan Jiecheng's requirements.

Then, Yan Jiecheng and Yu Li went to several villages in the countryside and collected thousands of kilograms of melon seeds, as well as firewood for frying melon seeds.

He also paid people in the village to deliver things to the house over there.

In short, after everything was ready, Yan Jiecheng and Yu Li began to officially operate the business.

Yan Jiecheng also made two brands. One said "Red Star Melon Seed Shop" as the store name, and the other wrote "Spice Melon Seeds, Cream Melon Seeds, 50 cents per pound" as the price list.

In this way, after excluding all costs, they can earn 25 cents per pound, which is almost a 50% profit.

Because in this era, everyone’s income is not high. No one often buys melon seeds to eat, so Yan Jiecheng and the others can only sell dozens of kilograms of melon seeds every day.

After Yan Jiecheng thought about it carefully, he said to Li: "Daughter-in-law, how about we hire a few people and let them take melon seeds to sell outside!"

"If we hire people, then we have to pay them wages." Yu Li said hesitantly.

"But we can't make much money now!" Yan Jiecheng said.

"That's right!" Yu Li said.

"If we hire a few people, let them go out and sell melon seeds every day."

"As long as each of them can sell dozens of kilograms, we can make more money." Yan Jiecheng said.

"Okay then! Let's hire a few less people first and try the situation before we talk about it," Yu Li said.

After hearing Yu Li's promise, Yan Jiecheng went to hire people. He first hired 5 people and asked them to sell melon seeds.

As long as they can sell 1,000 kilograms of melon seeds every month, they can receive a salary of 30 yuan.

Then every three months, the salary will be increased by 10 yuan, and it will not end until it reaches 50 yuan.

Of course, if they can sell more melon seeds, Yan Jiecheng will also reward them with some extra money.

If they sell an additional 100 kilograms of melon seeds, Yan Jie will reward them 5 yuan.

As long as they work hard, their wages will be higher than many workers.

Yan Jiecheng and Yu Li are responsible for frying melon seeds every day and no longer do sales work.

……

Stimulated by Yan Jiecheng's high bonus, by the end of the month, at least that person had sold 1,500 kilograms of melon seeds and received a salary of 55 yuan.

The person who sold the most 3,000 kilograms of melon seeds received a full salary of 130 yuan.

Because these wages are already higher than many formal workers, these people are very satisfied with this job.

And they secretly decided to continue working hard next month and try to sell more melon seeds so that they can receive more wages.

In this way, they sold many kilograms of melon seeds in total, and Yan Jiecheng made more than 2,000 yuan this month.

In the past, Yan Jiecheng and Yu Li could earn up to more than 400 yuan a month, but now it is almost five times as much as before.

If Yan Jiecheng can recruit more people and expand his business, he can make more money.

But in order not to cause too much impact, Yan Jiecheng hired two people and stopped hiring others.

Even so, Yan Jiecheng can sell several kilograms of melon seeds every month and earn nearly 3,000 yuan.

Now Yan Jiecheng no longer goes to the countryside to collect melon seeds. Instead, he finds one or two people in each village and asks them to collect the melon seeds and then deliver them to the courtyard.

Although Yan Jiecheng needs to share some profits with these people, he has to do so for the sake of his own business.

……

In this way, people in the courtyard also knew that Yan Jiecheng quit his job and went to sell melon seeds.

Yan Jiecheng only goes back to the courtyard occasionally, and stays in the house here the rest of the time.

Because of the children, Yu Li needs to go back to the courtyard frequently, but she no longer interacts with people in the courtyard.

After a while, Yan Jiecheng earns more money, and he will buy a better courtyard house as Yan Jiecheng's new home.
Chapter completed!