Chapter 33 Selling Fried Ghosts
"Is this little lady selling food? It smells good. ”
Finally, the first person to eat crabs came.
Li Qing smiled, and that smile made people feel like a spring breeze. Jiang went to buy a paper bag, and separated it with a straw paper bag to avoid the oil from getting on his hands.
"This is a new kind of food, vegetarian fried, very fragrant, very delicious." As he spoke, Li Qing took out a basin of fried dough sticks cut into small pieces from the basket on the side, handed it to the man, and motioned for him to taste a piece.
That person is not polite, it is a novelty, and I heard that it is fried in vegetarian oil, looking at the golden appearance of the whole body, there must be a lot of wasted oil.
Take a sip, and your lips and teeth will be fragrant. God, why is it so delicious? The man wanted to eat another piece, but unfortunately Li Qing had already put the basin away.
There were people around.
The man was stunned and asked, "What is this thing called?" How did you sell it?"
Li Qingdao said: "The name of this thing is fried ghosts, which means fried ghosts, as for the price...... One for five copper plates. Li Qing still smiled, but as soon as the people around him heard the price, most of them dispersed.
That's too expensive, isn't it?
A pork stuffed bun sells for two copper plates. What kind of fried ghost is this, he actually sells five copper plates at a sky-high price, grabbing money!
"So expensive?" The man chuckled visibly.
"Presumably the guest officer has also tasted it, this fried ghost is absolutely fried in vegetarian oil, one hundred and forty copper coins a pound of vegetarian oil, and the fried ghost here uses no less than three catties of oil, not counting wheat flour and eggs, and we can't reduce the price due to the high cost." Li Qing is serious nonsense.
When everyone heard this, they immediately hissed.
Although the grass market is set up next to the wharf, it is not very wealthy, and there are not many rich people. When I heard that such a little thing actually fried three catties of oil, I was immediately full of curiosity about this thing. However, if you don't buy one of the five copper plates, you will at least eat a few copper plates of oil.
Helpless, this thing is really fragrant, it's oily.
Li Qing brought out the basin again. This time more than one person tasted it, and one pot was quickly wiped out.
Now everyone tasted the sweetness and was ruthless.
"I'll buy two, and that's ten copper coins." The person who tasted it immediately threw out the money and asked Li Qing to pack it.
"I want one."
"Three roots."
Fortunately, Jiang came back, and so many people came at once, and she couldn't handle it alone.
Li Qing hurriedly began to load fritters, and Jiang was responsible for collecting the money.
After some scrambling, he finally sent away this group of guests, and Li Qing's fritters were almost sold. It was originally a trial sale, and it didn't blow up much. It seems that churros are really popular.
Li Qing originally thought that it would take a lot of money to sell it for the first time, but he didn't expect the people of Tianqi to be so powerful, and he didn't see the stinginess of five copper plates and one fritters, so he gritted his teeth and bought it.
The trial sale was very successful, and Li Qing planned to take the next step, which was to be fried and sold. This is the correct way to open the fritters.
As everyone knows, what those people are crazy about is not that the fritters are delicious, but that they eat oil. At first glance, the fried ghost is different from the baked cake, which is all soaked in oil. Don't think that everyone can afford to eat oil, many people are still eating tung oil at home or cooking vegetables directly in an empty pot, and then squeeze some oil into it, and eat it.
So it's no wonder that such fried snacks are not popular, who dares to waste oil like this these days?
Seeing that there were still more than a dozen fritters left, Li Qing didn't sell them anymore, she said to Jiang: "Mother, let's find a stall, fry it here, and sell it while frying." ”
"This ...... Don't you have to carry the pot? Jiang hesitated, not only the pot, but also the stove and the board, which was really troublesome, especially to prevent things from being stolen. So Li Qing's idea is really not feasible.
"No, it's too expensive to make another pot." Jiang vetoed it.
Li Qing thought about it and felt that it was too.
In just a moment, a big man with a basket of vegetables on his back came over and asked, "What is this big lady?" It's like frying. ”
"This is a fried ghost, a snack that my daughter-in-law came up with, it tastes fragrant and crispy, and the guest officer can taste it." Jiang brought the basin to the big man, and the big man took out a free hand, picked up a piece and ate it, and thought it was very good, so he asked the price. After a moment's hesitation, he decided to buy the rest of the fried ghost.
Apparently this was a big customer, and Li Qing packed the rest for him, sealed it in two layers, and put it in the basket he was carrying.
"Hey~ It's you, the lady who sold lettuce last time." The big man was surprised at first, and then laughed twice.
Li Qing didn't think of this person at first, but after recalling it carefully, the two of them overlapped and said with a smile: "The guest officer's business is prosperous. ”
"Ahem, thanks to the little lady's auspicious words, I am the owner of the restaurant next to the dock, and people call me to close Daxuan." Guan Dalang introduced himself.
Jiang Shi glanced at it, it seems that the signs of this Guan Dalang are not quite right, but it is not out of line. Her daughter-in-law still believes it. I only heard Li Qing say: "The concubine's surname is Li, and her husband's surname is Jiang, this is my mother-in-law." Li Qing said while holding Jiang's arm.
The big man's eyes seemed to dim, but the smile was still there.
"Aunt Jiang."
"Guan Xiang Gong'an." Jiang also replied politely.
"My restaurant is on the edge of the dock, welcome two of you to come to my restaurant for dinner, it's not early, the kid will leave." Guan Dalang hugged his things and said goodbye.
There are also a lot of pick-up goods in the grass market, which are sold by people from ten miles and eight towns. After paying the so-called booth fee for a copper plate, Li Qing and Jiang put away their things, carried a basket on their backs, and prepared to go to the grass market.
Most of them sell their own things, some sell brooms, eggs, hats, and candy sellers...... And so on, full of folk atmosphere, which is completely unfound in modern times.
Li Qing took a deep breath, such a small day is very leisurely, small hidden in the wild, big hidden in the city. Li Qing, who had never done a small business before, is about to start working as a person like a seller to support his family.
After returning home, Li Qing and Jiang counted today's harvest, and originally made the first transaction under the banner of capital preservation, so they cut it for everyone to taste.
Today, a total of five fritters were given away for free, that is, 25 copper coins. There were five hundred and twenty-five copper coins in the basket containing the copper coins, which means that one hundred and five were sold. The cost was about two hundred copper coins, and three hundred and twenty-five copper coins were earned.
The two looked at each other and smiled, and the family had another income, and the days would get better and better.
Li Qing tried his best to control the frying and waste less, so as to achieve the maximum profit at the least cost, of course, the labor cost cannot be calculated. The method of fritters is very simple, although no one can imitate it in a short time, but it cannot underestimate the creativity of the ancient people, otherwise it will not be sold in breakfast shops all over the street.
After someone came out, Li Qing planned to make something else.
In the afternoon, Yun Ji went home, and Li Qing examined his homework in the courtyard.