Li Laifu's voice was loud, and Wang Xiaoliang heard him clearly.
Sister Li went up to greet them, a professional smile plastered across her face.
"Boss, ma'am, you're here."
Only then did Cuihua draw her gaze away from the sign, her smile fading too.
She nodded to Sister Li in acknowledgment.
Li Laifu grunted and headed straight for the checkout without any further pleasantries.
"How did we do today?" Li Laifu stopped in front of the checkout, but his eyes swept over the entire store like a general surveying his territory.
"Business was very good, boss." Sister Li walked over to the register and tapped in numbers and letters. "As of now, today's takings are..."
"18,453 yuan and 26 cents."
Wang Xiaoliang's heart leaped at the figure.
Although he had been busy all day, he had developed a sense of what the register's beeping meant and expected business to be good. But when Sister Li actually announced that figure, precise down to the cent, it still hit him hard.
18,453 yuan!
And that was only the daytime takings! Twelve hours, from seven in the morning to seven in the evening!
The supermarket was open twenty-four hours a day, with another twelve-hour night shift still to come. Business at night might not be as good as during the day, but it couldn't be too bad. There were internet cafés, hotels, and nightclubs nearby, and naturally plenty of young people who slept all day and came out at night.
They were definitely going to break twenty thousand a day!
Wang Xiaoliang's mind raced like an overclocked computer.
Twenty thousand a day meant six hundred thousand a month!
Six hundred thousand in sales!
He had run the numbers in his head before, but he hadn't dared to hope for anything this good.
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