Chapter 40: Pastry
"Now that it's sold out, let's be honest with them." Yuan Qingdao.
"Alright then, girl, what are you going to sell next?" The man asked.
"I haven't figured it out yet." Yuan Qingdao.
"Girl, my daughter and I need to go home alone to take care of the family, you see that there is nothing to do in the store, can you agree to come down?" The man asked.
"Which of you wants to go back?" Yuan Qing asked.
"I discussed with Daddy, and it was not good for my daughter to stay alone in the store, so I went back." At this time, the girl said.
"When will you leave and when will you be back?" Yuan Qing looked at the girl and said.
"It's almost over the New Year, the store, if the green fruit shop still needs someone to help, you can come to our father and daughter, the things in this shop are also sold out, and I'm idle, so I'm going to go home to see, and it's almost the New Year." The girl said.
"That's fine." Yuan Qing nodded.
Then the girl took her things and left, leaving her father alone in the green fruit shop.
Qingguo shop must not occupy the place and do not do practical things, otherwise it is a waste of resources. Yuan Qing thought so in his mind, this fruit business is like this, it can only be sold for one season, and after this season, it will not be sold.
After sitting idle in Qingguo Shop for a long time, Yuan Qing got up and walked all the way back to Moon Lake Restaurant.
On the shore of the Moon Lake, a wide area, only one restaurant is located in it, and the landscape and buildings are integrated from a distance, and the cold air is bursting, but there is also a bit of the appearance of a cold fairy on the water.
Yuan Qing came to the third floor, pushed the door and entered, and there was a person sitting inside.
Seeing him, she subconsciously swallowed her saliva, licked her lips, organized language in her brain, and said for a moment: "Lord Wang, you are here." ”
Li Chen looked at her with a calm face, which meant that the person who came was not good.
What did I mess with you again? Every time I come here, I have a cold face that doesn't pay for my life, really. Yuan Qing thought like this in his heart, and his attitude towards him was a little lazy, "Lord Wang, you sit down for a while." I'll make you a pot of tea. ”
"This tea is just brewed, can you drink the tea you brewed......?"
Yuan Qing looked at his expressionless face, and instantly became unhappy, what do you mean that there are a lot of ellipses behind the tea I brewed? "Since you have it, then you can drink it." She was lazy to respond. Prepare to turn around and go.
"Where are you going?" Li Chen's voice was a little cold, and he had no emotion.
"Next door." She answered without looking back. Damn, the law is beating me, and I am not allowed to vent in a different place?
"Come here, sit down." He said, his tone harsh.
"Just say something." She couldn't, turned around and sat down like a robot at the table.
"What's the matter with these thirty taels of silver?" Li Chen pointed to the table and asked the thirty taels of silver that Yuan Qing sent to him.
"Oh, these thirty taels of silver are your manuscript fee." Yuan Qing looked at the silver on the table. said lightly, "It's the money I earned from helping you publish a book, you divide it, I divide it, everyone points it, and the last thing you give you is this thirty taels of silver, Lord Wang, you also know that the money you get from this book is not very much, a total of one hundred taels of silver." So the manuscript fee that can be given to you is naturally these thirty taels of silver. "Alas, giving you thirty taels of silver is a lot, and it would be good if others could get two out of ten, and I would add an extra ten percent to you......
"Manuscript fee?" Li Chen said.
"It's wages." Yuan Qingdao.
"I don't need to." He said lightly.
"Lord Wang. Are you sure you don't need to? Yuan Qing asked, but think about it, he is not the kind of person who is short of money, will he be rare for these thirty taels of silver? Lord, I'm just on business, since the book has been sold out. What should be given to you will still be given to you, if you are too little, there is no way, there is not much money to be made. "You don't have to do anything but provide materials, and you can get three tenths, that's it. Labor and management visited you every day for five days, and they had to rack their brains to write books, and I only got three-tenths.
"We haven't said that before."
"Well, this is a must, Lord Wang, you also know that doing business is like this, you must figure it out clearly, and you can do what you have to do." Yuan Qingdao.
"You're just doing business with us?" He looked at the thirty taels of silver on the table, and said in a slightly self-deprecating tone.
"It's really business." Yuan Qing replied leisurely for unknown reasons.
"I don't want to be so clear with you." He said lightly. The implication was that he didn't want to just do business with her.
"How's that going to work? Doing business is meant to be carefully calculated, and if you and I are not clear, this business will not be able to continue in the future. Yuan Qingdao said. Doing business requires clear accounts and clear work, businessmen are generally very shrewd, who treats whom, who doesn't know?
If you want to do it for a long time, you must have a hard and fast rule, and everyone follows it, which is fairer.
"Is there business between me and you?" The man had a calm face, he had promised her to publish a book for himself, he had never thought that they were just doing business.
"The books are all sold......," Yuan Qing muttered, lowering his voice.
With a dark face, he slammed the door and walked out, and she was still sitting at the table, not knowing where to swing her gaze.
Li Chen walked out of the restaurant, and his eyes, which were difficult to have waves in the past, were full of anger at this moment. This damn Yuan Qing, what do you mean by sending thirty taels of silver? Want to put the relationship aside? Did I promise you for the thirty taels of silver? The more she thought about it, the more angry she became, what did she think of him? Is it a money-making tool?
I have to say that even if he is a prince with a cold face all day long, it is difficult for him to be provoked, but today, he was angered by Yuan Qing's actions......
But someone in the Moon Lake Restaurant felt aggrieved, looking at the thirty taels of silver he returned on the table, Damn, what's wrong with me giving you the salary. Is it worth it for you to return it to the face of labor and management? Yuan Qing also has words of suffering, and his grievances are infinite.
This ice cube face is really elusive.
Others are happy to receive their salaries, but he, with a cold face, didn't say anything, and even personally returned the money to me, the "boss", with a look on his face...... Damn, labor and management will never help you publish books in the future.
The thirty taels of silver, which you have returned yourself, do not give it in vain. Thinking of this, Yuan Qing took the money as a matter of course.
Both sides seem to have a point......
After another day, after Yuan Qing finished writing an orange weekly report, he walked from the Moon Lake Restaurant to the Qingguo Shop.
Half an hour's journey, she walked neither fast nor slow. Yuan Qing has observed these streets, what shops are on the streets, what things are sold, she generally has a spectrum in her heart.
The analysis came and went, and finally she decided to sell pastries at the green fruit shop first. In this era, there were only dim sum made of rice flour, but there were no confectionery. Pastries have yet to be invented.
Pastry is a food product. It is made of flour or rice flour, sugar, oil, eggs, dairy products, etc. as the main raw materials, with various auxiliary materials, fillings and seasonings, initially shaped, and then processed by steaming, roasting, frying, frying, etc. There are a variety of pastries, and there are about 3,000 kinds of fancy varieties. Mooncakes, cakes, shortbreads, etc. are all pastries.
Well, just sell pastries. Yuan Qing nodded, and walked into the green fruit shop.
After discussing the offer to sell pastries with a few people in the shop, it was unanimously approved, although there were only three people.
The biggest difference between making pastries and making snacks is that dim sum is whole flour, and pastry is flour and eggs. Eggs are needed to make pastries.
That's how the cake came about.
Now that you've decided to sell pastries, you'll need to master the various ways to make pastries.
In Yuan Qing's previous life, she was a businessman, and there were not many opportunities to cook, and she had been specially trained in making pastries for a while, although her level was not very high, but she could eat it. Let's improve slowly.
I bought flour, eggs, sugar, these three ingredients, and then cleaned my hands and sleeves and began to make pastries.
This method is very simple, first, knead the flour, add sugar, water, and eggs and stir; Second, after stirring for 10 minutes, bring the basin to the brazier, burn the fire on the brazier, and put a basin of cold water on the lower end of the brazier, which is the steamer; Thirdly, after 15 minutes, pour out the brazier and cold water and keep it clean so that the pastry does not get contaminated: fourth, then go to bake.
The most important thing in making pastry is the above four steps. The rest is up to your personal preference. You can eat whatever you want.
Yuan Qing had also been trained in this area before, and the pastries she made were naturally not too bad, and in terms of appearance, she still needed to add oil, and there was room for improvement in taste. Maybe in a day or two, the green fruit shop will be able to officially sell pastries.
In this era, people never knew that there was such a thing as a cake except for eating dim sum, such as osmanthus cake, horseshoe cake, plum blossom cake or something. Therefore, three days later, everyone who bought the pastry at the green fruit shop and ate it was full of praise for the cake.
After being busy, it can be regarded as a gain, Yuan Qing watched the pastries of the Qingguo shop being eaten by people, and he was also relieved in his heart.
In the past few days, Yuan Qing has stayed in her rented cottage every day to make pastries, busy in the dark, her feet do not touch the ground, and now she is not happy to see the results.
She made pastries alone, she must not be busy, for this reason, they invited a few people, a few ingenious women, to make pastries, this kind of delicate work, men generally can't do it, so Qingguo Shop invited women, big and small, all voluntary.
Yuan Qing taught them all the methods of making pastries, and then they had to be busy.
Yuan Qing has been busy for so long, she can finally rest well, she looked up to the sky and sighed lightly, there is no endless road, there are always more ways than problems, just like this time, the green fruit shop has no fruit products to sell, so what should the green fruit shop sell? The solution is always hidden in people's minds, maybe you think about it for several years, it won't come out, but you don't want it to be, it will run out inexplicably...... Maybe that's just a fate.
Some people can't think of death if they want to, and some people understand a little, and you can assert that you are smart and stupid? To be continued