Then Li Yao took out another thing. I saw a long cake three inches long and two inches wide placed on a white porcelain plate with jade lace, divided into ten equal pieces.

The thing was crystal clear, bright and dripping, with a touch of bright color in the red, it looked like red beads, but it was lumpy. Isn't this hawthorn cake or what?

"What is this?" It was still the merchant who sold the bean sprouts to the county seat, he stood up and bent down curiously to study it closer.

"It's hawthorn cake, try it." Li Yao smiled and took a small plate to divide the hawthorn cake to the people who bought it. Her hometown is rich in hawthorn, and when she was a child, her grandmother made pea yellow and hawthorn cakes for her. At that time, her grandmother often took her to the market or the school gate to sell these to earn some dimes, which is a memory that she will never forget in her childhood.

It's not very technical to make, but it's not sold locally. At home, she said that she had read a book before, and she had done it after trying it, and the family couldn't hold her accountable. Anyway, it's not the first time she's made dim sum.

Zhao Dazhuang felt that he was eating and eating cakes at Li Yao's house today, but he was very interesting.

He rubbed his hands, shook his hand and excused himself: "The third girl's family usually cooks some fresh food and sends it to my house." The sugar gourd made in the past two days, and the red ...... in the mountains No, it's ...... Mountain...... Hawthorn cake has been sent to my house twice, and I won't eat it.

This thing is sweet and sour, but it is satisfying! My son came back from the camp and said that his mouth was tasteless and he didn't want to eat, so his mother gave him this cake as you said, and he said it was quite tasty, and he ate it. ”

Hearing him say this, Li Yao's smile widened. didn't think about it, before she could speak, the neighbor had already invisibly helped her do this sales work, so it would be easy for her to introduce it again.

At this time, she said to Zhao Dazhuang and the others: "You're welcome, selling things, you have to be familiar with this thing, know what it is, this is easy to sell, isn't it?" I gave you this hawthorn cake because your family is my neighbor, and that is the neighborhood. But this time, I wanted to sell something, so I asked everyone to taste it, and then decided whether to take it or not. Don't refuse, if you do, everyone else will be embarrassed to taste it. ”

"Hey, if you don't eat, I'm welcome! It's rare that this Li San girl can afford it, and let us try this thing, I can't help it, try it first......" A little man picked up the hawthorn cake generously and took a small bite. The cake is not big, and if you eat it urgently, you can't taste it.

Aunt Wang's son, Feng Erniu is not a merchant after all, he doesn't often deal with people, he is also very restrained, and he doesn't talk much. The little man ate it, and he looked at the people around him, smiled honestly, and ate it too. In the past two days, the Korean merchant has been selling this thing in the tunzi, he knows it, but he hasn't eaten it yet.

Seeing that everyone else was tasting it, Li Yao said to Zhao Dazhuang: "That's right, Uncle Zhao don't be polite to me." ”

Then she introduced: "This thing can be used on weekdays when you either can't eat, or you can eat after eating, so you can use it to strengthen your stomach and eliminate food, and to regulate your qi." If you are pregnant with a child, you should eat less hawthorn, I think the locals also know how much, and it is effortless to ask such a sentence when you sell it. But it's a good thing. If you are visiting relatives and friends, weigh one or two catties, which can be regarded as a snack, and you can get it. ”

The little merchant finished eating his own in two or three bites, and Li Yao handed him a wet cotton towel to wipe his hands.

He wiped his hands, blinked and said, "Well, the girl should tell me a price." "Just sell it as one or two pieces of maltose, or sell it as a pound or two of small snacks, he understands what Li Yao said.

"Not much, thirteen wen a catty, a catty can be divided into thirty pieces, fifty pieces and so on. You can buy the goods, and you can sell them at small prices like sugar melons. "Hawthorn has no roots, she will make an extra five cents on the sugar money and firewood money for boiling hawthorn, otherwise this hawthorn will not be able to deal with it, and she can't sell this thing cheaply, otherwise it will not be rare. What's more, in order to make this thing these days, the family and neighbors have come to help, and they have to have some labor money for these people.

Although he hesitated, Feng Erniu still mustered up the courage to ask what he should ask: "Girl, forgive me, I want to ask...... I want to ask how many hawthorn cakes can be sold every day in the past two days? ”

There is nothing that can't be said, Li Yao said with a smile: "My cousin and Noble drove the ox cart and turned the three tunzi near Changxingling. There are five tuns around here, and there are still two tunzi that I haven't gotten to. The children and some girls in the tunzi are bought for two or four or five yuan, but there are also families who buy half of the catties. We sell it for fifteen yuan, and we sell it for one pound and one tael. It can sell twenty or thirty catties a day. It's just starting to sell ......."

According to the few, the 200 households in this tunzi are not necessarily poor, in fact, 30 catties is conservative. Not to mention the people in the local villages, those people have more money than them.

Twenty catties a day are sold for fifteen wen, that is, forty wen is paid. It may take a bit of work to walk, but it's better than sitting at home. After all, the county seat is not big, and today's short-term jobs are not so easy to find. Thinking so, Feng Erniu made a decision and conservatively sold twenty catties.

Everyone else has their own strongholds. This thing can also be held for three months, so they all entered and tried to sell it. The little man and the merchant of the Yue family in the county town each took fifty catties. There was also a merchant who took thirty pounds. Zhao Dazhuang took thirty catties.

In this half a day's work, one hundred and eighty catties were shipped, and nearly one tael of silver was paid for nine dollars.

These people have recently purchased goods, and when they hear the rumors in the future, people from the county will also come to buy goods. Hawthorn can also be sold at these times, it is better than selling it to pharmacies, and a pound of hawthorn is only three dollars...... Hawthorn can also be used in medicine, and although this medicine is not precious locally, pharmacies always like to collect it at a cheap price. Naturally, the locals know it. After Li Yao's family picked up the hawthorn for a few days, the hawthorn was gone, and it was bought as medicine by the locals.

After sending off the people who bought the goods, Li Jimin called Li Yao into the house: "If you want to open a restaurant, I won't stop you, I think you also have this skill." As you said, this place is so remote that there is not even a market, and those soldiers in the barracks who can have two dollars in their hands are willing to eat and drink and go to the restaurant every few days. ”

Last night, she talked to her grandfather about her thoughts, and her grandfather said that she would consider it, and today she sold all the hawthorn cakes she had boiled in the past two days, so she couldn't help but call her in to talk.

Li Yao's eyebrows and eyes crooked, and he thanked his grandfather and said, "Hmm...... In this case, I still have to trouble my grandfather to invite the Chen clerk to come, and I will make a banquet to entertain him, so that he can make a place for me in Tunzikou. ”

"I took this to heart, and the house was finished in these two days. After the completion of the banquet, you will also have to entertain acquaintances, and you can make a table of noodles for Chen Wenwen and Shi Qianhu that day. I invited both of them that day! Prince Kang and Lu Baihu in Tunzi have to be accompanied. ”

"Well, okay, grandfather, I'm not in a hurry for the next day or two."

"If you want to build a house and prepare some things to open a restaurant, do you have enough money?" Li Jimin was worried about his granddaughter.

Yesterday's chapter was written, but it didn't work...... (To be continued.) )