Chapter 20: Novelty
After entering Layue, there are more busy things, in the first year of this different world, it was spent at Mother Qian in Qinghua Town, Yan Xiaoyue didn't have to prepare anything, just followed Mother Qian and watched, there were many people in the house this year, but you have to prepare well.
On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, before dawn, Jin Ling boiled the prepared glutinous rice, red dates, lotus seeds, peanuts, red beans, walnut kernels, chestnuts and brown sugar together. After tasting a bowl of fortune, he hurriedly moved a pot to the farm, and now the Zhuangzi recruited six long-term workers to do things, and built a simple adobe house in the Zhuangzi to live, specifically guarding the fruit in the village, I heard that the strawberries have hung fruit, and they can ripen in about ten days, just in time for the year before, they can make a lot of money, and the roses are about to bloom and bones.
Mu Zigui has been so busy lately that his feet have not touched the ground, and the kitchen in the store has never been extinguished. When it comes to the New Year, who can get less New Year's goods? Don't forget that this is an imperial city, and there are many people who lack everything and don't lack money.
Like Yan Xiaoyue, she has been addicted to it in the past few days, and she has bought everything she can use, such as fabrics, dried fruits, dishes, teacups and the like, and moved them to the house when she saw the sky, and finally Jin Hui couldn't look at it before she stopped, "Miss, the things at this time are more expensive than usual by one or two cents, you can't use them for a while and a half when you buy so many things, it's better for us to shop slowly in the future." Yan Xiaoyue stopped her crazy actions and stopped going out.
When I returned to the house, I counted the things I bought, and suddenly thought that there would be no sugar for the New Year? Hurriedly summoned Jin Ling, made nougat with goat milk, sugar, and dried fruits, boiled goat's milk, used almonds to remove the fish, and then slowly boiled with charcoal, stirred while adding sugar, until the goat's milk became thick, added fried walnut kernels, stirred evenly, poured into a wooden frame covered with white gauze, flattened, and waited until the temperature of the sugar cube cooled down and cut into a finger thick sugar cube, this is pure handmade walnut milk candy. Jin Ling tasted a piece, "It's delicious, fragrant and crispy, miss, you can also taste a piece." ”
Yan Xiaoyue took a bite, it was really good, she used milk and walnuts in the space, and the taste was straight and she had nothing to say.
In this way, Yan Xiaoyue took the maids to make candy every day, in addition to walnut toffee, she also made peanut toffee, sesame toffee, and the candy made every day was transported by Xiaoyue alone to "come again", and on the way back, she loaded the flour, peanuts, walnuts, etc. produced in the space, which can make about 120 catties a day, and sell for two taels of silver per catty, and the net income is 240 taels.
Wait until the twentieth day of the lunar month, and the fortune will come to report, and the strawberries are ripe and ready to be picked. Satsuki called the newly-bought coachman and went to the farm, and the maids stayed in the house to make candy. An hour later, Satsuki stood in the greenhouse, excitedly looking at the red strawberries, feeling that the silver was constantly beckoning to her. I picked one and tasted it, although the size is not as good as the one produced in the space, it is also fragrant and sweet, with a perfect shape and beautiful color.
Looking at the neatly arranged fruit basket, Xiao Yue said happily: "Okay, it's done." Fortune, you say, how about we sell this basket for two taels of silver? ”
As soon as the words came out, Zhaocai and several long-term workers were frightened, and Zhaocai said: "Miss, is it too expensive to hold eighteen fruits in such a small basket?" ”
Yan Xiaoyue said indifferently: "This is called rare and expensive, okay?" Anyway, we're not in a hurry, we only have this strawberry, and if we can't sell it, we'll reduce the price. Tell the long-term workers to pick them well, leave the leaves on the strawberries, and light them when they pick them, and don't put them in the basket if they are broken. ”
On the first day, Yan Xiaoyue transported thirty fruit baskets to the store, and placed them in the most conspicuous position in the middle of the store. Now it is good to come again in Beinan City is also a small reputation, all say that the things sold in this store are usually not seen, although the price is a little higher, but everyone will paint a fresh, but I didn't expect that today to take out this small basket of strawberries to cost two taels of silver, as soon as I heard this price, most people turned to other snacks and candies.
Jinbao said to a few aunts who stood on the edge of the strawberries and refused to go: "Auntie, this thing is a rare thing, let's say strawberries, it is transported from the south water, and they are usually fresh, not to mention that it is this winter, in addition to the frozen fruits outside, where to get fresh ones, you see that the leaves on this pedicle are so green, this is just picked not long ago, our host finally got it, there are no more, today these baskets." ”
"Xiao Er, this fruit is good, it looks festive, but it's too expensive." A lady in a cyan dress next to her said.
"Is it not expensive to be such a rare thing? I don't even want to taste it? You also tasted a piece of it just now, have you ever eaten something like this in this big winter? "Jinbao's sales ability has risen!
Seeing that the person next to her was still hesitating, Xiao Yue walked over and said, "Little second brother, this is really delicious, sell me a basket first, I only have two taels of silver by my side now, you can help me keep a few baskets." After Xiao Yue finished speaking, she broke her fingers and chanted in a voice that everyone could hear, "One basket of ancestors, one basket of mother, one basket of father, one basket of elder brother, one basket of sister Ya" "Little second brother, also help me keep five baskets, such a beautiful and delicious fruit, the ancestor will definitely be happy to see it, maybe he will reward me with my favorite piano." Xiaoyue gave two taels of silver, carried a basket and ran out, and when she went out, she turned around and shouted, "Remember to leave me five baskets." ”
As soon as Xiaoyue left, the lady in Tsing Yi also hurriedly bought a basket, and the rest were bought by three people. In the afternoon, the lady in Tsing Yi came back and bought the rest of the fruit baskets, and the late guests regretted it, and kept telling me before leaving, "Leave me a few baskets tomorrow, or I won't be able to pay the difference." ”
When Muzi returned to them in the evening and talked about it, Jinbao blew Xiaoyue into the sky, Xiaoyue scolded with a smile: "Jinbao, you stinky boy, Miss Ben is not pitiful You said that you didn't persuade anyone for a long time, so she came out to help you, you are good, and you dare to make fun of me, see how I punish you." ”
Jinbao shouted directly, "Miss, you just give me another eighty guts, and the little ones don't dare to make fun of you, didn't I tell my son that you are clever." If it weren't for what you said, those mothers-in-law wouldn't know how much saliva to grind off, but as soon as the young lady made a move, it was done in one sentence. ”
In fact, Xiaoyue has grasped a psychology of consumers, if those mothers-in-law don't want to buy, there is no need to keep grinding, if you want to buy it, you can't make that decision, for fear of being deceived, as soon as Xiaoyue's words came out, those mothers-in-law who looked like people didn't know how to please their masters?
The next day, eighty baskets were shipped, and they were sold out in one morning, and many maids came out to buy them in the afternoon.
On the third day, one hundred and sixty baskets were sold out at noon.
Two hundred baskets on the fourth day, this is the limit calculated by Xiaoyue, but at noon, Mu Zigui hurriedly returned to the house to find Yan Xiaoyue, "Xiaoyue, something happened." ”
"What's wrong?"
"A very strange person came today and ordered a hundred baskets of strawberries. Let us be ready tomorrow hour, and he will come and pick up the goods. ”
"Strange people? What's a strange way? Satsuki was puzzled.
Mu Zigui described: "The age seems to be about thirty, the face is white and beardless, the voice is low, and the grease is smeared. ”
Yan Xiaoyue had a plan when she heard it, "Did he pay the deposit?" ”
Mu Zigui nodded, "I handed over fifty taels." Then he hesitated a little and said, "Xiaoyue, will there be any trouble in this way?" He doesn't look like a normal person. ”
It seems that Zigui has also guessed the identity of that person, after all, it is in the imperial city, and there is still a chance to see the inner servant, but he has not dealt with it, Yan Xiaoyue comforted: "It's okay, it doesn't matter who he is, let's open the door to do business, he pays for us to ship, the silver and goods are exchanged, and we don't care about anything else." But if he comes again tomorrow, he will give him a basket alone and two catties of good snacks. ”
Mu Zigui loosened his brows, "Well, it's good if nothing happens, I'm still careful that there is no stock." "I'm going back to the store again.
In the evening, Xiao Yue went into the space to pick strawberries and put them up, and cut some roses, and will start selling flowers tomorrow. Space now produces far more than it consumes. The rice and flour are all poured into the jar under the pretext of Satsuki when she goes to the kitchen, or some are shipped to the store. The fruit can't be eaten at all, most of them have made preserved fruits, especially cherries, hundreds of trees, red and glamorous hanging a tree, the taste is good but dare not take it out to eat, so Xiaoyue has to use a long time every day to make preserved fruits.