Chapter 21: The Heart Delivered to the Door
Since you have decided to make mooncakes, you naturally have to prepare the ingredients.
The flour is ready-made, and she kept some of the wheat to grind into flour for her own use, but it is not enough to make moon cakes. Lin Xiaoliang thought about it, and decided to mix some flour produced in the space, which can not only improve the taste of the moon cake, but also improve the body slightly.
As for the types of mooncakes, Lin Xiaoliang hesitated to make Cantonese mooncakes, Suzhou-style mooncakes, coconut milk mooncakes and French mooncakes.
Cantonese moon cakes Lin Xiaoliang didn't plan to do it, she has no love for this kind of moon cakes, but now the world still prefers this kind of moon cakes, so for the sake of customer needs, she inevitably has to compromise. As for the flavors, lotus paste, bean paste, fruit, barbecued pork, and ...... Five kernel flavors, in order to make it easier for customers to choose, she inevitably has to make them all.
She plans to distribute Suzhou-style mooncakes to employees or keep them for her own consumption, and the flavors are fresh meat, ham, bean paste and jujube paste. When I made it, I made it into six pounds, and when I just sent it to the employees, I sent a fresh meat moon cake, a ham moon cake, two bean paste moon cakes, and two jujube paste moon cakes, wrapped in beautiful oilskin paper, which was both beautiful and real. Fresh meat mooncakes and ham mooncakes should be made more, Shen Chi and Xiao Nian cakes love to eat, and bean paste mooncakes should also be made more, she likes it herself, and Grandma also likes it, but it can't be too sweet.
Coconut milk mooncakes are Lin Xiaoliang's favorite, and she naturally doesn't want to miss them.
The final French mooncake was for the quadruplets, and she only planned to make strawberry and blueberry flavors, and the others were not suitable for children.
Of course, in addition to Cantonese moon cakes, she also has to put some other moon cakes to sell in the store. It's just that there won't be as many as the former.
When Jiang Xiaomei came over. Lin Xiaoliang is sorting through a pile of wrapping paper and bags.
"What are these?" Curious, she picked up a square, oily paper. A pale shade of gold, with a beautiful character written on the corner "L?L?" logo, very delicate and generous.
"It's wrapping paper and bags that are intended to be used to wrap mooncakes." Lin Xiaoliang explained.
There are several kinds of wrapping paper and packaging bags, one is the oily paper and the same color packaging bag for the welfare of employees, and the other is the gift box packaging, with the outer packaging bag, the inner gift box, and the exquisite iron box and the plastic packaging bag that seals the moon cakes.
Because it is a holiday gift, black and white can no longer be used. In addition to the light gold color that has always been used, Lin Xiaoliang has produced a batch of red packaging series in the processing workshop.
The moon cakes in the gift box Lin Xiaoliang completely imitated the later generations, how tall and tall they were, and even disposable knives and forks.
"You came just in time to help me box the mooncakes." Seeing Jiang Xiaomei standing on the side and looking around, Lin Xiaoliang hurriedly sent her to say.
As she spoke, she dragged out two huge cardboard boxes from behind the sofa, and Jiang Xiaomei looked at it, and it was full of mooncakes packed with plastic wrapping paper.
"So much?" Her eyes widened.
"That's only a third." In addition to Cantonese-style mooncakes, she plans to sell 500 copies, and Su-style mooncakes she only plans to sell 200 copies. Coconut milk mooncakes are sold for only 100 cents, and French mooncakes are sold for only 50 copies.
"How do you pretend this?" Jiang Xiaomei stood next to her and asked.
Lin Xiaoliang opened an empty gift box. While demonstrating, he explained: "You see, there are five depressions in the box, lotus paste moon cakes, bean paste moon cakes, five-kernel moon cakes, fruit moon cakes and barbecued pork moon cakes, one each into the tin box, and then put it in the depression, and then put a set of disposable knives and forks into it, cover the box and put the packaging bag." ”
This is not difficult, Jiang Xiaomei will understand how to do it after reading it once.
The two of them worked hard for a long time before they could make more than 200 boxes of Cantonese moon cake gift boxes.
Lin Xiaoliang asked Jiang Xiaomei to sit down and rest for a while, and he moved the cake gift box for a few months and put it on the shelf, and then thought about it and marked the price.
"Thirty-two dollars a box? So expensive? Jiang Xiaomei glanced at it and suddenly exclaimed.
But after being shocked, she felt that it was not strange that the things in the little good store were now recognized as expensive, and the things were also recognized as good, and the customers were willing to spend their money.
Lin Xiaoliang smiled and didn't explain, holiday goods like this kind of gift box have always been only more expensive and not the most expensive, as long as they are packaged, everything else is secondary, not to mention that the moon cakes she sells are not only one package.
After Jiang Xiaomei, Shen Chi and the three old people in the family also helped her pack the mooncake gift boxes for a few days, and only then did she pack all the gift boxes to be sold.
Cantonese mooncakes cost 32 yuan a box, Suzhou-style mooncakes cost 29 yuan a box, coconut milk mooncakes cost 35 yuan a box, and French mooncakes cost 40 yuan a box.
"Mrs. Shen, do you still have this mooncake gift box?" Another noble lady hurriedly entered the store and asked.
"Coconut milk mooncakes and French mooncakes are gone, and there are still more than a dozen boxes of Cantonese mooncakes and Suzhou-style mooncakes left." Lin Xiaoliang replied with a smile.
She didn't expect that the coconut milk mooncakes and French mooncakes, which were not well-known at this time, would sell out so well in just three or five days.
It is also her negligence, forgetting the famous brand effect, the gift shop now has a reputation, even if customers have not heard of coconut milk moon cakes and French moon cakes, but these two kinds of moon cakes are higher than Cantonese moon cakes and Su style moon cakes, under curiosity, naturally want to buy back to taste. Anyway, the customers who come to this store are basically not short of these dozens of dollars.
This kind of business of eating, Lin Xiaoliang doesn't like to do it for a long time, wine and fruit drinks that can be stored for a long time and sold at a high price are not counted, such as moon cakes and fruits have a short shelf life, and because they are snacks, it is troublesome. First, she can't sell it at a high price, and it costs a lot of effort, and secondly, this kind of food consumes a lot of food, and there is more traffic in the store, so she has no leisure.
But like this kind of seasonal gifts, she doesn't mind doing it, anyway, the time is short, so she should make extra money. And when you open a store, you always have to cater to the tastes of your customers, and it has a festive atmosphere.
"Why didn't you make zongzi and salted duck eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival?" Hearing her say this, Han Shouzhen was curious.
"The salted duck eggs are pickled, and the duck eggs in the Zhuangzi are used, and the zongzi are also wrapped, but there are not many duck eggs in the Zhuangzi, and there is no glutinous rice, and I don't want to go out to buy it again. The point is that it will be just in time for my friend to get married, and I can't care about it. "In the final analysis, selling these in the store is just a passing for Lin Xiaoliang, the key is that he wants to eat and is interested.
In her previous life, even if she was alone, she didn't miss any of those holiday foods, and she made them every year.
"Then you can give me some next year, these things will not be made, in previous years, the family bought them, and they are not as delicious as you make." Han Shouzhen said politely.
"Cheng, anyway, I will definitely do more in the future." In previous years, she didn't think about giving some to relatives and friends, but later she thought it was too much trouble.
Han Shouzhen just took the time to sit in the store for a while, and it didn't take long for something to happen at the farm, so she could only leave in a hurry.
Until the mooncake gift box in the store was sold out, many people came to inquire, and they were disappointed after learning that there was no more.
Despite this, Lin Xiaoliang didn't plan to make more mooncakes next year, firstly, it was rare and expensive, and secondly, she was not willing to spend that effort.
Since the first batch of rice was harvested, the cooperation between the farm and the army canteen has officially begun, and Lin Xiaoliang did not take advantage of Shen Chi's relationship, everything came according to the usual practice. Looking at the other party's attitude after half a year of trading, I also know that the army is still very satisfied with what the farm has sent.
Lin Xiaoliang originally wanted to maintain a stable supply relationship with the troops, after all, it was more trouble-free, although he earned less, but he lost a sales link, and he also saved a lot of effort.
However, because of the proximity to the compound, some picky housewives in it preferred the freshness of the farm and wanted to buy it, but Lin Xiaoliang saw that there were few people who came, so he allowed Han Shouzhen to sell some to them.
At this point, the Heart Garden is on the right track.
And Lin Xiao's days are still so leisurely, although the more and more noisy quadruplets occasionally make her distressed, but every time she sees them playing and screaming in the farm, her heart can't stop being soft.
Looking at them, she couldn't help but think, compared to the eldest son, the other children seem to be luckier, although the little rice cake also has a close relationship with Fa Xiao, but how can it compare to Sisi They came to this world together, blood is connected, eating and playing together, growing up together?
"Auntie." Just thinking about it, he suddenly heard a voice, Lin Xiaoliang looked up, and said with some surprise: "Ping'an, why are you here?" ”
Xu Ji pursed his lips and hesitated: "I have something I want to ask my little aunt's opinion." ”
Seeing the hesitation and struggle in his eyes, Lin Xiaoyan pulled him to the sofa and sat down, and then asked, "Did you encounter anything?" She was surprised that this child would encounter something confused, but she was even more surprised that he would come to her instead of Han Shouzhen.
"I ...... Meet someone. Xu Ji licked his tongue and said a little nervously: "A person who is willing to donate his heart to me." ”
"What!?" Lin Xiaoliang was shocked, you know, because of the doctor's prediction that he would live no more than 18 years old, Han Shouzhen didn't know how much suffering he had over the years, and his relatives and friends also helped him find a suitable heart, but because the national situation at this time was still relatively conservative, most people were reluctant to donate their hearts, even if the parties were willing, their relatives were strongly opposed, and as a result, after so many years, the heart suitable for transplantation to Ping An was still not found.
"It's true." Seeing her surprised look, Xu Ji calmed down and said, "A cousin of my classmate was sentenced to prison for manslaughter, and he told us that we had some ...... Curious about the prison, I begged him to take us to the prison. ”
He seemed a little embarrassed by his childish behavior, blushed and continued: "I met a condemned prisoner there who was willing to donate his heart to me after death. ”
After a pause, he said, "But there are conditions." (To be continued......) R12 )