Chapter 161

Early morning, Xia Zhi came downstairs and made everyone a simple but delicious breakfast.

After Shenhe and Ganyu finished washing dishes, Xia Zhi suddenly asked: "Zhu Zi, Shenhe, do you know what day it is?"

Shenhe paused, instinctively saying: "Saturday."

Xia Zhi shook his head, hinting: "Today is September 2nd."

Zhu Zi suddenly realized: "Boss, is it payday?"

Xia Zhi smiled and said: "Yes, go get all the money we earned last month."

"Okay!"

Moments later, the shop's tables were filled with shining Mora, quite a spectacular sight.

Miss Chi Yu looked on, surprised: "There's so much?"

Zhu Zi said proudly: "Of course! Our shop sells hundreds of glasses of juice every day! After launching takeout service, sales easily exceed a thousand daily."

Chi Yu couldn't help calculating: "One glass of juice is 100 Mora, a hundred glasses is 10,000 Mora, a thousand glasses is 100,000 Mora. That's daily revenue, so wouldn't that be 3 million Mora monthly?"

Ganyu shook her head: "That's just revenue, we need to deduct juice costs, and Mr. Xia's shop operates five days and rests two, only 22 business days per month."

Chi Yu was amazed: "Even so, monthly revenue of over 2 million Mora is terrifying. When I was Director of Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, our monthly income wasn't this much."

Xia Zhi said: "We can't compare like that, Miss Chi Yu's Liyue was much poorer then... Anyway, I was going to transfer your salaries to your Northland Bank cards, but since Qiqi and Yaoyao don't have accounts, let's just pay in cash. You can deposit it yourselves if you want."

Zhu Zi and Shenhe nodded: "Okay, Boss."

Qiqi also nodded gently.

Xia Zhi continued: "Though our shop hasn't been open a full month, we'll calculate Zhu Zi and Shenhe's pay for a full month. Qiqi and Yaoyao joined later - though Yaoyao hasn't worked half a month, we'll count it as half. Qiqi started part-time last week, so we'll calculate for one week."

Zhu Zi happily said: "Thank you, Boss!"

"So for last month's basic salary, Zhu Zi and Shenhe's contract rate is 10,000 Mora. Though Qiqi is part-time, she comes to help every day, basically like full-time, so her basic salary is also set at 10,000 Mora, calculating to 2,500 Mora for one week. Yaoyao has spear practice in the mornings and can only help in the afternoons, so her basic salary is set at half of yours, 5,000 Mora, calculating to 2,500 Mora for half a month. Does everyone think this is fair?"

"Yes!"

"Next comes the bonuses."

"Eh? Bonuses!?"

"Mm, Chunxiang Pavilion has sales commissions, we should have a similar incentive system - bonuses. I'll evaluate everyone's monthly work performance with three levels: excellent, good, and average, corresponding to bonus rates of 100%, 50%, and 20% of basic salary."

"!"

"Since everyone worked hard last month, I've decided to give everyone excellent ratings."

"!!"

Zhu Zi stared in disbelief: "Then... I'll get 20,000 Mora for last month?"

"Yes... oh right, because last month was very hot, I'm giving everyone a 2,000 Mora heat allowance."

"!!!"

Qiqi also froze - she only worked one week, yet would receive 14,500 Mora.

For her, this was a huge sum.

Her personal cloth pouch couldn't even hold this much money.

"Alright, everyone's wages are calculated, count your share from the table. Shenhe, please help count Yaoyao's portion."

"Mm."

Miss Chi Yu watched everyone counting money eagerly and couldn't help asking: "Mr. Xia... no, Boss, what about me?"

"This is last month's wages, you just joined yesterday, so naturally you don't have a share."

"No, I mean what will my compensation be?"

Xia Zhi thought for a moment and said: "The same as Qiqi's."

Miss Chi Yu silently calculated - if she could get an excellent rating next month, she'd also get 20,000 Mora in wages.

The shop provided room and board, meals were free.

And massages were 500 at the friend price.

Even if she got a massage every night, she'd still have 5,000 Mora left!

Great! Now she could give Hu Tao pocket money! Let her feel some elder's affection!

A smile couldn't help appearing on Chi Yu's face. She turned to Ganyu beside her and asked quietly: "Miss Ganyu, you hold such an important position at Yuehai Pavilion, your monthly salary must be very high, right?"

Ganyu was silent for a moment, then said: "That's confidential information, I can't disclose it."

Miss Chi Yu looked disappointed.

After everyone received their wages, Xia Zhi said: "Keep your wages safe, be careful not to lose them."

"Boss, what about the money on the table?"

"Keep 100,000 Mora for shop expenses, help me take the rest to deposit at Northland Bank."

"Okay!"

"Miss Chi Yu, please help watch the shop later."

"Leave it to me, Boss!"

Everyone left the shop and arrived at Northland Bank.

Manager Andre happened to be in the lobby and walked over warmly: "Secretary Ganyu, Mr. Xia, welcome to Northland Bank. How may I help you?"

Ganyu said coolly: "I'm just accompanying Mr. Xia, I have no business to conduct."

Accompanying?

Hearing this, a flash of surprise crossed Andre's eyes - to have the Qixing's Chief Secretary as an escort, he couldn't help taking Xia Zhi's identity more seriously.

Xia Zhi smiled: "I'm just here to make a deposit."

Andre smiled broadly: "I see, please follow me..."

Andre led everyone inside. Xia Zhi noticed Andre's manner was more respectful compared to when he first opened an account.

As expected of someone who could become manager of such a major bank - excellent people skills.

Xia Zhi handed over the money and bank card to Andre for processing. While waiting for his return, Xia Zhi chatted with everyone while curiously looking around with his god's eye view.

Surprisingly, Xia Zhi saw in an internal room of Northland Bank the strange young man with the gold progress bar whom he had previously encountered on the street.

He sat at a desk, holding some documents, apparently handling some matter.

Xia Zhi glanced at the documents.

Fatui Ambassador Yusupov... Tianshu Star election... bribing Zhiyi... poisoning...

Xia Zhi's expression gradually became strange.

It seemed he had accidentally discovered quite a conspiracy.

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