Chapter 200: A Letter from Home
For the past two months, Lian'er has lived in Xia Yan's house, and Yan has taken the whole family to work together to help Lian'er prepare for all matters related to marriage.
Xiaohu was going to get married, and the whole village was excited.
A few days ago, I didn't even see the shadow of my daughter-in-law, I didn't have any news at all, and I was going to marry my daughter-in-law in the blink of an eye, how could I not surprise them.
What's more, she is still married to the goddaughter of the Yan family, how can she not be envied.
Many of the young men who have become relatives have some regrets, they have always thought that the Yan family only has a daughter like Xia Yan, although they want to climb the high branches, but they also know that they are not worthy of her at all.
didn't expect the Yan family to have an unmarried goddaughter, why didn't he know it earlier?
This is one of the only two single guys left in the village, and when he marries his daughter-in-law, Xia Huai will be left alone in the village.
So the people of Bianxi Village were interested, on the one hand, they were preparing a congratulatory gift for Xiaohu's marriage, and on the other hand, they kept asking when Xia Huai would get married, so that they could introduce the girl to the only single guy in the village.
The entire Bianxi Village is busy with Xiaohu's marriage, but Xia Yan, who is far away in Qin County, doesn't know everything that happened in the village.
The hot summer is over, and the number of people who come to buy shaved ice is decreasing, but almond tofu is still in short supply.
But compared to before, there are many fewer customers coming to Sweet Island, and she no longer needs to be in front of the counter all the time.
Xia Yan, who was idle, finally made time to launch a new product.
In order to adapt to the cool autumn, Xia Yan removed all the shaved ice that was only available in summer from the shelves and replaced it with warm milk tea and sweet tangerine tea.
Along with these two drinks, Sweet Island adds several kinds of cut cakes and different flavors of doughnuts.
As soon as these things were launched, they immediately became popular all over the city.
Compared with the cold shaved ice and the beauty-oriented almond tofu, these new products have a much wider audience.
Although the shaved ice relieves the heat, the elderly and children do not dare to eat more, so that the young people who often queue up outside Sweet Island are all young people.
Since the launch of the cake and doughnut, most of the space outside Sweet Island has been occupied by the children of Qin County.
There are not many children who don't like sweets, let alone in this era when sugar is more expensive than food, it is simply a very happy thing to be able to eat a few bites of sweets.
The important thing is that these things called donuts and cakes are more delicious than ordinary sugar, and even the most expensive dim sum in Ruyi Zhai can't compare to their taste.
When it comes to which cake or doughnut is the best, different children have different opinions.
There are those who only like fruit cakes such as strawberries and mangoes, there are children who like chocolate cakes with a rich and heavy taste, and there are children who are addicted to the unique taste of donuts and can't help themselves, and they can't help but eat these kinds of doughnuts every day.
No matter how naughty and headache-inducing these children are at home, they all change from bear children to good babies in Sweet Island.
Surrounded by a group of cute children all day long, Xia Yan was happy and decided to make something more to satisfy the children's appetite.
After thinking about it, Xia Yan decided to make her favorite thing to eat as a child: cookies.
Unlike cakes and doughnuts, cookies are crispy in the mouth, have a mellow aftertaste, and have a strong milky flavor that lingers in the mouth.
Cakes are not convenient to take, and doughnuts are not suitable for long-term storage, these two desserts must be eaten immediately after buying, but cookies are different, not only can be easily taken home, but also can be kept for some time, and when you don't have time to go to Sweet Island, you can also eat some cravings.
Therefore, whether you like cookies or not, customers will buy some to prepare at home, which is not only convenient for themselves and their families, but also a good choice to greet guests.
The women and children were satisfied, but the men and the guests who couldn't eat anything too sweet or couldn't bite the biscuits were very unhappy.
There was no way, Xia Yan could only come up with her unique skill: making bread.
Whether it is a sweet and fluffy pineapple bun or a salty and fragrant meat floss bread, or a delicate and cute croissant all appeared on the counter of Sweet Island, and even the biscuits, Xia Yan made some salty ones.
This is very similar to steamed buns but full of different foods, which is very popular with men, women and children in Qin County, coupled with its convenient take-out attributes, many people have become loyal customers of bread.
In the end, because there were too many things to make, Xia Yan could only build a row of cabinets and put the desserts that had just been made and had no time to sell them inside.
Looking at the rows of desserts displayed in the wooden cabinet covered by a thin layer of sand as a curtain, Xia Yan could only sigh helplessly.
She only hated that there was no transparent glass in this world, and she couldn't let these desserts be completely displayed in front of the guests.
Thinking of the desserts displayed on the glass counter on the earth, coupled with the just right lighting, Xia Yan couldn't help but drool, if only she could get a few glass cabinets.
In desperation, Xia Yan could only put a sample of each dessert on the counter for guests to choose.
For Xia Yan, the absence of a glass counter made her feel imperfect, but the people of Qin County didn't care about this.
After all, the sudden appearance of so many fresh snacks that they have never heard of or seen is enough to make them crazy, so how can they calculate where these things are placed?
Anyway, no matter what kind of dessert it is, it will be sold out when it comes out of the oven, and there is no chance to put them on the cabinet at all.
Even the samples on the counter were remembered by the guests, if it weren't for Xia Yan's pursuit of perfection, the full counter would have been empty long ago.
Sweet Island has launched new products one after another, which can make the restaurants and dim sum shops in Qinxian County suffer from seedlings.
In the past, although the business of Sweet Island was also very hot, it only sold shaved ice and almond tofu, which could only relieve the heat and beauty, but could not be eaten as a meal, even if you ate a few servings, you would still be hungry.
But which of these cakes, bread and biscuits can not be eaten as a meal?
Those guests can also be regarded as eating the desserts of Sweet Island, early in the morning hungry to go to the door of Sweet Island to wait for the door to open, and then buy a cup of hot milk tea or milk, add a few bread, snort, and a breakfast is solved.
When it's time for lunch, go buy some cakes and doughnuts, and pair them with a cup of sweet and sour tangerine tea, and spend a comfortable lunch on Sweet Island.
Dinner is better solved, you don't even have to go to the sweet island to queue, get some biscuits, bread at home, with a bowl of porridge or soy milk, it is also a unique flavor.
Although customers don't eat like this three times a day, it still affects the business of other shops.
Because of the love of these customers for Sweet Island, the number of customers in other shops has plummeted by at least one-third.
The only good thing is that Sweet Island does not sell breakfast, and there are still a large number of customers who can't stand the hunger and choose to solve the breakfast problem elsewhere.
If it weren't for this, I'm afraid that most of the people in Qin County would choose to go to Sweet Island for breakfast.
For many years, whenever they recalled that Xia Yan set up a breakfast stall at the entrance of Huichun Street, they couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
If she had insisted on opening the breakfast stall back then, I am afraid that all the restaurants and restaurants in Qin County would no longer sell breakfast now.
Fortunately, they can't help but be greedy for the hot business on Sweet Island.
It's not that no one wants to imitate Sweet Island to make these desserts, but no matter how much they research, there is no way to know how these things are made.
To say that bread is quite similar to steamed buns, it should be the easiest thing to make these desserts, but the result is that they are disappointed.
No matter which restaurant chef makes, the steamed buns made are all steamed buns with sugar and eggs, which look quite similar to bread, but the taste is thousands of miles away, far from being reached.
As for the bread and doughnuts, they were even more confused, how to make the white and fluffy cream? What is the fruit on the cake, how come it has never been seen? And what is the crunchy layer that covers the doughnut? And what is that black thing called chocolate?
After researching it around, they realized that for them, only bread was hopeful. So, all the chefs put their minds on bread again.
But after they have carefully studied the bread, they have only one idea, who can tell them what the unique oily taste of these breads is?
Of course, Xia Yan knew that they had put a lot of effort into it, but she wouldn't tell them that it was butter that she had worked so hard to make.
Even when Fu Duozhi came to inquire, Xia Yan smiled mysteriously, but didn't tell him anything.
After asking many times to no avail, Fu Duozhi could only give up, watching the business of Sweet Island get bigger and bigger.
Because there were too many customers, the previous shop couldn't accommodate so many people.
In desperation, Xia Yan opened up the two empty shops next to him and added twenty tables to facilitate Sweet Island to receive more guests at the same time.
Xia Yan was busy with the shop, but Mu Fan was still as chic as ever, going out regularly every day, and when he came back, he was extremely satisfied.
Although Xia Yan didn't feel good in his heart whenever he saw such a Mu Fan, he could only sigh that the power of true love was really great, for Lian'er, he was able to run out for several months without stopping, just to spend more time with Lian'er.
But what she can't figure out is that since she likes Lian'er so much, she has to see her every day, isn't it good to move directly to live with her, why do you want to stay in the sweet island and not leave?
Doubts are doubts, but Xia Yan can't find time to think about it carefully, and she doesn't want to think about it either.
Time flies, seeing that it is winter, the weather is so cold that people don't want to stretch out their hands, and there are fewer guests on Sweet Island than before, Xia Yan, who has long been busy, bought a few more people who signed a deed of sale and a confidentiality agreement, taught them how to make desserts, and let them stay in the shop to be a special dessert master, and Xia Yan, who had been busy for several months, was finally able to take a break.
Only then did she remember that someone had brought a letter from Bianxi Village a few days ago, and when she opened the letter and saw its contents, she couldn't help but be stunned.