Chapter 20: The new municipal Party secretary
What did earning ten thousand yuan a day mean? Perhaps it was hard to picture, and putting it that way sounded a little abstract. Then, in 1999, what did earning three hundred thousand a month mean? Wouldn't that come to 3.6 million a year? What kind of figure was that for an ordinary family?
On the day school opened, the Su family's branch at No. 3 Middle School took in a total of 11,353.60 yuan from opening until evening self-study ended. Of course, that was only revenue, not net profit. Judging by the estimated margin, the day's net profit was probably around three thousand yuan.
So this branch was not some fantastical gold mine that could earn ten thousand yuan a day. Su Can also remained clearheaded enough to know that this was only the back-to-school rush. Maintaining daily revenue of ten thousand, or three hundred thousand a month, would be far too unrealistic. After all, how much merchandise would this little shop have to sell to reach such an enormous figure? That was almost the turnover of a medium-to-large supermarket in later years.
Thus, Su Can did not get carried away and imagine he had dug up a vault of gold. This was still reality, not a novel.
Sure enough, on the second day, Wang Ming and her mother, who had been too excited to sleep all night, opened early. Although crowds still poured in, business was considerably weaker than on the first day. The second day's revenue totaled only around seven thousand.
On the third day, it dropped to five thousand, then continued to fall sharply.
Finally, after ten days, daily revenue stabilized at around twenty-five hundred to three thousand.
Only then did Wang Ming, Su Can's parents, and the others