"Money comes easy during the New Year, ten yuan a day." Ji Shuyuan replied. He actually stumbled upon this gig selling stuffed toys by chance.
"So tell me, how much do you think the person who hired you to sell toys makes in a day?" Xu Nian'an asked again.
Ji Shuyuan was silent for a while before answering, "We sold 51 toys today. Each one sells for three yuan, so that's 153 yuan total. The cost price is two yuan per toy, so the profit per toy is one yuan. Selling 51, that's 51 yuan earned."
"Your math is spot on." Xu Nianhua wasn't bad at math, but he didn't like crunching these numbers.
Especially since they did the same calculations before the New Year; now it just gives him a headache.
"Actually, if you're in Ningbei, you can get these toys for just over one yuan each. If you buy in bulk, the price drops even more." Xu Nian'an had been to the wholesale market—he'd seen more and more stuff, liked to ask about prices, and got a rough sense of things.
