Chapter 1318: Final - Ending Three
Mo Yan spent four to five days straightening out the winery’s accounts for the past ten months, and after deducting the costs of brewing, packaging, and labor, the net profit reached 135,000 taels. She only got a 30% share of the profit, but that still amounted to over 40,000 taels.
Earning 40,000 taels in a month was nearly equal to the Mo Family’s total income over the past two years. So much silver—no one would likely believe it if they heard, yet it was absolutely true and not inflated by any means.
One-fifth of the winery’s inventory was depleted in a month, leaving the remaining four-fifths that Mo Yan planned to sell off slowly. The income in the following months would certainly not be as much, but making ten thousand tael silver a month would be no problem.
Once this batch of wine was completely sold, the net profit would be 160,000 taels, an astoundingly large sum. Come next spring, when the orchard was abloom, the winery would host various flower-viewing and tea parties. With some additional merchandise, the income was expected to be quite substantial.
"What’s the use, no matter how substantial it is? The bulk of the winery’s earnings are taken by that Yan surname kid!" Xue tuanzi lay atop the pile of glistening silver, feeling exceedingly sour at heart, still unable to get over the fact that the majority of the silver went to Yan Junyu.
In its view, the winery was Mo Yan’s brainchild; she was the one bustling about during the construction and the one responsible for creating the exquisite wine. Yan Junyu had only invested several hundred thousand taels of silver and didn’t deserve to take away seventy percent of the profits.
"That was the agreement from the start. Besides, without him, we wouldn’t be able to make this much silver now!" Mo Yan, seeing Xue tuanzi obviously treat silver like dirt yet still unhappy about the split, couldn’t help but laugh. "Giving him so much silver, we’re not at a loss. We need his support to penetrate the entire Great Chu market. In the future, we can make even more silver for you to count and play with every day."
When she built the winery, she had no idea she would be appointed as County Lord and end up with a high-status husband. Had she known, she surely would have postponed the winery construction for two years, eliminating the need to partner with Junyu.
It wasn’t that she regretted the partnership or the division of silver—it was just that the winery was built with so much of her hard work that she had hoped it would belong solely to her.