Rebirth Counterattack with Space
Chapter 178 - 170: Wild Ideas

Chapter 178: Chapter 170: Wild Ideas

"You’re just bragging. The mere thought of only achieving 30% effectiveness saps my confidence. I’m really worried that if the goods don’t sell and your aunt really loses her job at the textile factory because of this, wouldn’t she be devastated?"

Xia Yuan felt uncertain after much thought, and she couldn’t understand why her daughter wanted to reduce its effectiveness when there was clearly a better option.

"You should ask your older sister herself, she might be willing," Lu Aiguo, seeing his daughter calm and composed, inexplicably felt that this venture had a good chance of success, "Even if it really doesn’t work out, there’s still the potato chip business. Your sister’s salary won’t be affected either way."

"How could ’Blossom Face’ possibly fail? It has much more potential than the potato chip business, and it will be sold all over the world in the future." Lu Yun started with a nod and a big smile for her father, but upon hearing the rest, her smile instantly turned into an eye roll,

"There’s no wealth without trade. I believe Auntie will make the right decision."

Given the current situation where Aunt and Uncle’s combined monthly wages were less than a hundred yuan, building a house put them deep in debt, and throughout the process, they didn’t dare hire help for any grueling tasks, instead taking on the work themselves. She had seen this and was anxious for them.

In this life, unlike her previous one, she was an orphan and had received great kindness from her aunt and uncle, so when she started making money later on, she was generous in buying them property, a car, hiring people to take care of them... Aunt and Uncle naturally accepted it easily without resistance.

But now everything was different. What excuse could she use to do the same for them again?

Even when her two cousins visited a few more times than usual for a mere lunch, Aunt and Uncle already felt indebted to them, and Aunt insisted on giving her mother room and board money.

If things continued like this, when the gap between the two families grew, Aunt might start to feel that she was taking advantage of them in every respect and prefer to keep her distance from them.

"I think the appropriate saying is ’no trade without trickery.’ You’re so young, yet you’re the biggest little con artist," Xia Yuan glared at Lu Yun without any good humor, "Although business does bring in money, not many people respect it. On the other hand, your aunt and uncle are both workers, and many are envious of that."

After a moment of reflection, Xia Yuan continued, "Never mind, I’ll just tell your aunt the truth. But since you already have an idea, how should we go about selling the goods? Set up a stall? Or open a store? And how should we settle accounts with your aunt?"

"We can’t sell at a stall, let’s apply for a license and open a store."

Recently, more and more people had been applying for business licenses to open stores.

"Look for a shop on Shun’an Street, no matter the cost, it would be best if we could buy several. We’ll carve out ’Blossom Face’ as a separate business, leaving Aunt in charge. Initially, we’ll guarantee a salary of sixty yuan and then reward her based on how much she sells each month. At the end of the year, she’ll get ten percent of the profit from the shops she manages as a year-end bonus."

Lu Yun spoke seriously; this would be a safe bet for Aunt, enough to ease her worries and let her willingly give up her current job, which seemed okay at the moment.

"Actually, if possible, I would like for Aunt and Uncle to go sell ’Blossom Face’ further south. Although we are in a southern city here, the extent of economic reform and opening up is still far less than the Special Economic Zones. Only by going there will they have more opportunities to sell more goods and earn more money."

Lu Yun intentionally sighed like this in front of her mother.

Her mother was sure to treat these words as a "joke" and share them with her aunt, which was a great opportunity. Courage in people is cultivated through practice. She truly hoped her aunt and uncle would have enough guts. Who knows, maybe her two cousins could also join the ranks of the "second generation rich" in the future.

"...If they really go to S City, what about your two cousins?" Xia Yuan asked, her mouth hanging open for a while before she finally uttered the sentence.

"They’ll stay at our place, just in time for when we’ll have a couple of ’child laborers’ to help take care of my little brother. Plus, grandma is going to come over in a few months, and it’ll be bustling with more people. After all, it’s just about making up one or two more rooms," Lu Yun replied with a giggle.

"Child laborers? Keep dreaming. Your aunt and uncle will laugh at you if they don’t," Xia Yuan shook her head in resignation and smiled wryly, thinking her daughter was too fanciful.

The next day, as arranged, Xia Na came over, and after listening to Xia Yuan—who had left out the detail that the ’Blossom Face’ cream was developed by Lu Yun and told everything else she could—it didn’t turn out to be the joke she was expecting.

Instead, she said earnestly to Xia Yuan, "Actually, Gu Tianming and I have been considering for a while now that at least one of us should leave the factory to start a small business. What Xiaoyun suggested fits right in with our plans."

Xia Na hesitated for a moment, glancing at Xia Yuan’s belly, "But if both of us were to leave the factory, I’d need to discuss it with Gu Tianming again. Just in case, I mean if we decide to move to S City, could you really manage looking after Gu Feng and Gu Meng if they stayed with you?"

"Are you serious?" Xia Yuan was very surprised, "The three yuan iron-box ones only have 30% of the effectiveness."

"Thirty percent is enough. You probably haven’t used the products outside; they don’t even have that much. I was actually worried that being too effective might not be a good thing. Now that I know there are three different ones with varying effects, I’m reassured," Xia Na replied with a smile, feeling genuinely envious of her sister. Selling a bottle of moisturizing cream for ninety-nine, she gave her several bottles at a time without blinking an eye. It was evident that her sister and brother-in-law had indeed made a lot of money.

"...Are the ones outside really that bad?" Xia Yuan asked again, still stunned, as she hadn’t actually tried any of those skincare creams.

"Would I lie to you? In the future, both Gu Tianming and I might be relying on you and Lu Aiguo for a meal," Xia Na joked, "It’d conveniently solve any issues if we return our current twenty-square-meter place back to the factory."

"What are you talking about?" Xia Yuan gave her sister a reproachful look, "Did something happen?"

"My in-laws found out we built a new house and now they want to take over our twenty-square-meter space," Xia Na said with a wry smile.

"This time, building the house really opened my eyes to their true colors. When Gu Tianming went to borrow money and came back empty-handed, that was one thing, but it was another to come back with a belly full of anger. His elder brother and sister-in-law clearly had money, but they refused to lend it to us. They even proposed buying it, offering five thousand to let us build the house up to three floors, then using three thousand of that to buy two whole floors from us. And my mother-in-law, with her attitude as if we were taking advantage of them, kept on persuading us at the side," Xia Na explained.