Beside her, Yu Jiajie suddenly smiled, "Manager Huang, it doesn’t really matter if it’s not called Renxin Hall. We can call it Ren De Hall or Ren Kang Hall. It’s just a na, isn’t it?"
Manager Huang pondered for a mont, "That’s true."
He then asked, "By the way, what happened to the employees from your shop?"
Yun Jiao said, "They are looking for work too. If you need them, I can contact them for you."
Manager Huang nodded repeatedly, "Alright, I want all the employees from your shop as long as they are willing to co."
Manager Huang seed to be in a hurry and wanted to draft the contract with Yun Jiao right away.
Yun Jiao had no choice but to say, "Even if we write the contract now, we can only leave on the second day of December."
This was the date Mrs. Chen had picked from the lunar calendar, an auspicious day for traveling.
Manager Huang thought for a mont, "That doesn’t really affect things."
"The main thing is, your counter and dicine cabinets are quite damaged. I need to hire a carpenter to fix them, and I need to stock up on dicinal herbs. It’ll take at least half a month, so your staying doesn’t matter."
"If it works for you, we can just exchange the silver and write the contract."
Manager Huang had it all figured out. Once the shop was taken over, he would change the sign to Renxin Hall. It would still sound like Renxin Hall, and at first glance, it would still be Renxin Hall. If the employees stayed, even better. Wouldn’t it still be Renxin Hall then?
He was eager to start making money!
Yun Jiao thought about it, and decided to sell it.
The shop wasn’t in a particularly good location anyway, and given the economic developnt level of the tis, property values were unlikely to rise significantly. Leaving the shop here with no one to manage it for her wouldn’t be worthwhile. It was better to have the silver in hand.
Silver, unlike paper currency, doesn’t depreciate.
Yun Jiao had Ah Tie call a broker, who helped draft a contract.
Yun Jiao didn’t accept silver notes and went with Manager Huang to the Money Shop to get the cash.
She also exchanged all the silver notes she had on hand for gold, incurring a sizable transaction fee.
Keep in mind, these Money Shops were privately run. Frankly, Yun Jiao didn’t fully trust them, but holding onto the gold felt secure.
Lin Shuo and Ah Hu helped carry the box of gold into her room.
Once they had left, Yun Jiao moved the gold into the dicine storage room one trip at a ti.
She counted it all and realized she now had around seven thousand taels of gold and over twenty thousand taels of silver.
Pretty close to achieving financial independence.
The compensation for the herbal shop was sixty thousand taels of silver, which was exchanged for six thousand taels of gold.
The thousand taels of gold awarded by the Prince Mansion, which she only used two ingots to make jewelry for Mrs. Chen, using only a few dozen taels, leaving the rest untouched.
The money from selling ginseng totaled over ten thousand taels, and the pharmacy, after almost a year of operation, earned another ten thousand taels of silver.
It wasn’t that the pharmacy was exceptionally profitable. Mostly her dicinal ingredients were mostly free, which was why the profits were high.
After leaving the dicinal storage, Yun Jiao thought for a mont and called Ah Tie into the main hall.
She handed him his contract of sale, "This contract, one day you should find a broker to go with you to the governnt office to annul it. From now on, you’ll be a free citizen."
Then Yun Jiao took out a pouch of silver, "This is your salary, which I have been saving for you. I added so extra to it; altogether it’s fifteen taels of silver. Keep it well."
Ah Tie looked terrified, refusing to accept either the contract of sale or the silver, "Master, you bought . For the rest of my life, I should be with you."
"I don’t want the silver, and I don’t want the contract. I just want to stay with you and have a al to eat."
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