"Do you really want to sell it in my store?" Zhang Xiangqiao thought she was joking.

"Well, just sell it on consignment in your store, for every ten snowy skin mooncakes sold, aunt, you get a commission of one penny, which will be used as money for you to rent a storefront." Liu Guiyuan didn't want to take advantage of her aunt.

"That's not possible, I'm an elder, how can I take your money, anyway, my store is idle, and it's not difficult to help you consign a few months of cakes." Zhang Xiangqiao saw that her husband did not object, so she said your own plan.

Liu Guiyuan tilted his head and thought about it, and said: "Auntie, I think so, wait until the twelfth or thirteenth day, bring noodles, flour, and sugar from home, steam moon cakes directly from you, and then directly call someone to come here to get the goods." At that time, you will also make some snowy skin mooncakes, you will watch and make the fillings yourself, you will set the price yourself, and you will sell as much as you want to earn, okay? ”

Liu Guiyuan's proposal is equivalent to telling her aunt how to make snowy moon cakes, her current moon cake filling is a home-style filling, so the price is set low, the main focus is on the low-end market, if her aunt can spend some effort on the filling, she will definitely be able to sell it at a good price.

"That's good, it's equivalent to me learning one more craft, Donglai, don't you think?" Zhang Xiangqiao asked her man directly.

"I think it's okay, didn't you collect a lot of rose petals, why don't you make some rose filling, set the price high, and with this snow-white pie crust, you shouldn't worry about selling."

Uncle Wei Donglai thinks long-term, if his daughter-in-law learns the method of ice skin, she will be able to use those flower cakes in the future, which is an additional way to make money.

Since the aunt's family agreed, Liu Guiyuan discussed with the eldest sister, she didn't rush to leave first, she asked someone to try the moon cakes at the door of the store, and she taught her aunt how to make snow skin moon cakes in the back kitchen, anyway, in the aunt's kitchen, there are all kinds of flour, sugar and salt, and it is not worth going home to get now.

Liu Guiyuan learned from the supermarket sales in later generations, set up a table at the door of the store, cut some small pieces of snowy moon cakes, and shouted at others to come to try when people passed by, and gradually, many people gathered in front of his aunt's cake shop.

Liu Guiyuan told everyone about the benefits and disadvantages of snowy moon cakes one by one, some people paid for one or two yuan to taste the taste, and some people came to eat it, and after eating, they clapped their hands and left.

Later, she asked her uncle to go to a shop specializing in cloth curtains, and ordered a long strip of silk with red edges and white background, with four big black characters on it for snowy skin mooncakes, which were propped up with a bamboo pole and hung at the door of the store, so that it could also attract customers.

After three days of publicity, the people in the town gradually knew about the existence of snow skin mooncakes, some people went to Sun Luo's shop to book, some people booked directly in Zhang Xiangqiao's cake shop, and of course, there were some people, they didn't worry about taking money to book, so they planned to wait for the thirteenth and fourteenth days to come and buy them.

In the past three days, in addition to Grandma Luo and Lianzi guarding the door at home, the three sisters of the Liu family have reported to their aunt's cake shop every day, in addition to promoting mooncakes and handwritten orders, they will also wrap more than 100 snowy mooncakes every day for daily consumption.

"Come, get two more mooncakes for my family."

The owner of the shoe shop next to his aunt's pastry shop came to buy cakes with a bowl in his hand, and Liu Huahua asked her when he saw it: "Auntie, didn't you buy four yuan yesterday, and you can't help but put it if you buy more." ”

"Hey, I know this, there is a guest at home, I will buy two more pieces to make up an auspicious number, and ask for a bean paste filling and a pumpkin filling."

The owner of the shoe store handed over the bowl, and Liu Huahua filled two pieces from the back kitchen for her, in order to keep the pattern of the moon cake as much as possible, the moon cake was still placed in the cool water of the well.

Just sold a business, not long after the door ushered in another guest, wearing a green coat and a cloth scarf, walked down from a plain mantle carriage, looking at this posture, it should be for the host to buy moon cakes.

"I ordered eighty pieces of snow skin moon cakes on behalf of the head of the family, twenty pieces each for sesame, jam, bean paste, and pumpkin fillings, and then twenty pieces of flower moon cakes and twenty pieces of salted meat moon cakes, let's take them away, how much is the total?"

Liu Huaanhua thought for a while, she was not diligent in reading but was still good at arithmetic, and immediately quoted: "Home-style snowy skin moon cakes, eighty yuan for a total of 320 yuan, the deposit is 32 yuan first, each flower moon cake is seven yuan, the salted meat moon cake is eight yuan per piece, and 400 yuan is paid in cash." Little brother, you can just give me 432 Wen. ”

Then he quickly walked to the back sill of the door, and shouted to the back: "Auntie, eldest sister, twenty pieces of flower moon cakes, twenty pieces of salted meat moon cakes, take them away, longan, you come to write down the account." ”

Two crisp voices sounded one after another, Zhang Xiangqiao and Liu Hongjube took the filling from the stove, one wrapped with flower filling, the other wrapped with salted meat filling, this filling and pie crust were prepared a little bit in order to keep fresh.

There is a low table in the corner of the courtyard, Liu Guiyuan is lying on it to settle the accounts, she is vertical, using Arabic numerals, mainly counting the number of moon cakes ordered so far, and then it is good to allocate manpower.

Hearing the second sister call her, Liu Guiyuan drew a circle to mark the calculated number, then took out the account book from under a few pieces of white linen paper, walked quickly to the storefront, and asked the Tsing Yi guests with a smile:

"Where is your house, and when will you pick up moon cakes, I'll write it down here."

"I live in Goldfish Lane, my surname is Wang, and I came to pick up the cake on the thirteenth day, don't remember it."

"You can't be wrong." Liu Guiyuan lowered her head and wrote down that the pen she used was not a brush, but a homemade charcoal pen, and she wrote very fast, and at the same time did not forget to remind her second sister: "Second sister, give him two moon cakes for every 100." ”

"Oooh, I almost forgot." Liu Huahua pointed to the colorful moon cake samples on the counter and said: "Let's do a discount in the cake shop, buy 50 get one free, buy 100 get two free, little brother, look at the two moon cakes sent, what do you want to fill?" ”

When the little brother in Tsing Yi heard this, he couldn't help grinning and said, "Is there such a good thing? Then I want a bean paste, a sesame seed, by the way, I want to make it fresh, don't put it on the top. ”

Liu Huahua said: "Little brother, don't worry, the counter is full of samples, don't sell it, just look at it, I'll go to the back kitchen to get what you want." ”

After a while, the little brother in Tsing Yi paid the money, carried two packs of moon cakes and two separate moon cakes and left, and Liu Guiyuan took another account book from under the counter and wrote down the four hundred and thirty-two wen on it.

Liu Guiyuan looked at the handwriting on the ledger, and then looked at Liu Huaan, who was counting the broken silver on the side, and couldn't help sighing: "Second sister, you have written all four characters and divided the family, can you use dim sum?" ”

Liu Huahua disagreed, put the broken silver in the money box, and said: "Oh, the store is so busy, how can you have time to write so carefully, you can recognize it." ”

As he was talking, my uncle-in-law came in a mule cart, and when he got out of the car, he said: "I have taken back the orders from the two foot shops, and there are two orders for flower fillings and salted meat fillings, each of which costs 300 pieces, and I will ask for them early tomorrow morning, and I heard that they are going to hold a banquet." ”

Wei Donglai was very happy in his heart, originally he and Xiangqiao moved to the town, just to recuperate their bodies, and to do some small business by the way, thinking that they couldn't sit on the mountain and eat empty, if they could earn back the money for renting a house, it would be better.

Originally opened for half a month, the business in the store was average, since a few nieces came here to sell snowy skin mooncakes, he and the fragrant cake shop came more and more customers, a considerable number of them, all named to buy flower mooncakes and salted meat mooncakes, these two fillings are not cheap.

"Okay, let's sort out the order and see how many mooncakes we will make today and tomorrow." Liu Guiyuan proposed.

Wei Donglai drove the mule cart to the backyard, and he and Liu Guiyuan calculated the account, Wei Donglai can't write, but he knows the words one to ten and ten hundred thousand, so it is not a problem to look at the order and count the number.

"Ah, I'm going to make 1,200 mooncakes today, it's afternoon, I have to hurry up and prepare." Zhang Xiangqiao listened to her man's report, but her face was anxious, but her heart was happy.

"It's okay, this kind of mooncake is easy to make, as long as it is steamed in advance, it will be wrapped quickly." Wei Dong came to comfort his wife, turned his head and went to the yard to chop firewood.

The eldest sister Liu Hongjube rubbed her somewhat sour neck and said to her two younger sisters: "I can't imagine that I can sell so many mooncakes in one day." ”

Liu Huaanhua agreed, Liu Guiyuan thought in his heart, where is this, Qinghe Town has a total population of more than 40,000 people, not counting outsiders, as long as each person buys a moon cake, this amount and the corresponding income are very huge.

However, the gap between the rich and the poor in Qinghe Town is actually quite large, and the people in the town can buy a moon cake per person on average, like some poor families in their countryside, many farmers make their own moon cakes, and they are the kind of dough cakes without filling, this kind of people cannot be counted.

"Look at this posture, thirteen to sixteen, we have to be busy, eldest sister, second sister, you have to be prepared."

Liu Guiyuan leaned on her second sister and reminded her with a smile that she would not have time to make cakes at that time, and she and her uncle would have to sell cakes in front of them to collect money, so they didn't know if they could be busy.

……

The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming in a blink of an eye, Qinghe Town is like a cake shop, there is a long queue in front of the small door, Wei Donglai and Liu Guiyuan are standing in front of the counter to collect money and sell cakes, turn around to take cakes for a while, and count the money for a while.

When encountering a guest who came to pick up moon cakes, Liu Guiyuan had to open the account book, page by page, fortunately, the accounts were all recorded by herself, and it was quick to find, and after confirmation, Liu Guiyuan read it out sentence by sentence, and his uncle Wei Donglai read it according to her, taking cakes and wrapping cakes on the shelves, and handing them to the guests.

She and her uncle are quick to see and talk quickly, and they can be quite busy, but what is really busy is the back kitchen, which is not big, crowded with Grandma Luo, aunt and two sisters, Liu Guiyuan also called Gu's mother and daughter to help, but they thought the kitchen was too crowded, so they simply moved a table and stood in the yard to make cakes.

On the 13th day of August, Liu Guiyuan calculated that he would be too busy at 14 or 15, so he went to Liu Jindi's house to ask if he could go to the town to help during the three days of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and promised to give double wages.

If you look for someone else for this matter, people probably won't agree, but it's no problem to find Gu's, his man Liu Daquan is outside all year round, she is not a reunion at home with her two children, and she can't go to her parents' house for the Mid-Autumn Festival, she can only spend it at home, it's better to earn some money to spend.

So Gu simply took over the job, led his daughter Jin Di and son Jin Bao, and buried himself in the kitchen, of course, Liu Jinbao is not a laborer, he is purely here to play, occasionally helping to run errands.

I was busy until the afternoon of August 16, when there was no one in front of the cake shop, Liu Guiyuan waved his hand and said to everyone who was busy: "It's not for sale, let's close the door and count the money and settle the accounts, and divide the money and go home for the holidays." ”

Most people have fast money, Liu Guiyuan's side is faster to settle accounts, she has previously closed the accounts, plus the new accounts of the past three days, all added together, a total of 83 24 yuan and 9 cents, deducting one due cost, net profit 45 27 cents and 3 cents.

Among them, my aunt's family made a profit of 23 taels and 5 cents, and her family made a profit of 22 25 cents and 8 cents, a Mid-Autumn Festival, from the first day of August to August 16, and earned 22 taels in half a month, this money is really happy!