Chapter 42: Selling Baked Cakes

"Uncle Li, this is the final payment. Ye Yunshu took out a small purse and gave five taels of silver to Li Ping.

Li Ping looked at the silver and took it with a smile, "Thank you, thank you." ”

The Li family's workshop is not doing well now, and most of the customers have been robbed by the workshop in the west of the city.

Ye Yunshu was actually looking for the Zhou family's workshop in the west of the city at the beginning, but the asking price was too high, ten taels of silver, an oven, and it was not a precious thing, the lion of the Zhou family's workshop opened his mouth, Ye Yunshu turned around and left.

Later, he found the Li family's workshop and asked for six taels of silver, including the wooden barrel iron plate and pliers outside, the price was fair, and Ye Yunshu immediately paid a deposit of one or two silver.

"Uncle Li, let's talk first. Ye Yunshu's face was serious, "You can't do this oven outside for half a year." ”

Even though Liu can imitate her recipe for baking cakes, without this oven, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice.

After all, her oven is the only one of its kind!

The reason why Ye Yunshu knows the structure of the oven is because he worked part-time in the off-campus food city when he was in college, selling baked cakes, and he stayed with the oven for three hours a week, four days a week, for a full semester, can you remember?

Of course, she can't draw the pattern, at most she can make a description, and Xiao Mingting is naturally responsible for this kind of thing.

"That's nature. Li Ping nodded again and again, "This drawing is yours from Ye Xiaoniang, we just help make it, Ye Xiaoniang rest assured." ”

When Li Ping got the drawings, he felt novel, and offered to make an oven for free and add twenty taels of silver to buy this drawing, but Ye Yunshu did not agree, saying that the drawings could be given to him, but there were conditions.

After discussing, he set up a document, which clearly wrote that this oven Li family workshop can not be sold to the outside world within half a year, if it is sold to the outside world, the Li family workshop needs to compensate Ye Yunshu one hundred taels of silver, if not, the drawings of the oven Ye Yunshu will be given to the Li family workshop for free after half a year.

One hundred silver is a lot, especially now that the business of the Li family's workshop is not good, this is eight or nine months' gross income.

Li Ping doesn't want to lose money, it's only half a year, why not do a white drawing?

Asked the people from the workshop to put the oven on the ox cart, Ye Yunshu went back to the dock to pick up Ye Zhengwen, and the family drove the ox cart back to Taoshui Village.

Today is Xiao Mingting driving, Ye Zhengwen is sitting behind, touching the wooden barrel outside the oven, with a blank face, "Shu'er, what are you?"

"Oven. Ye Yunshu explained with a smile, "Let's take a day off tomorrow and start selling baked cakes the day after tomorrow." ”

"Selling roasted cakes?" Ye Zhengwen frowned, "What are the roasted cakes?

"This oven is used to make the pancakes, I'll make them once tomorrow, and my dad will know if he tastes them. We still have to make bean paste buns, those rich people in the county have been buying them at our house, and there is still an input of twenty or thirty yuan every day, and we can't lose it. ”

Flies and mosquitoes are also meat, although the business of buns is not good now, but it adds up to a lot, and it can be about one or two silver a month.

Ye Zhengwen nodded in agreement, and asked again, "Do you only make bean paste buns?"

"And siu mai, that's all. ”

The Ye family's steamed bun business is mainly from these two sources, such as meat buns and steamed dumplings, which don't sell very well, so I won't take the time to get them.

Ye Zhengwen bowed, looking at the oven in front of him but felt a little flustered, why did he change his business in just a month.

"Shu'er, how did you come up with this baked cake?" Ye Zhengwen wondered, how could his daughter have so many ideas.

Ye Yunshu smiled and was generous, "Dad, this baked cake is not my original, Xiao Mingting said that there are many people eating in the north." ”

Ye Zhengwen turned his head and turned his inquiring gaze to Xiao Mingting.

Xiao Mingting nodded, "Yes." ”

There are baked cakes in the north, but it is not the same as what Ye Yunshu described to him, and even the oven is not what it looks like in front of him.

Seeing Xiao Mingting nodded, Ye Zhengwen stopped asking.

The world is so big, he has been to Lizhou Mansion as far as he goes, although Xiao Mingting is young, he has followed Brother Xiao to the north and south since he was a child, and he has seen a lot more than himself.

When she returned home, Chen Yunniang was still very surprised.

"Why is it so early today?"

Ye Zhengwen told Liu's bun stall about stealing business, and Chen Yunniang couldn't help frowning and sighing, "What can I do about this, should we also reduce the price?"

"No price reduction. Ye Zhengwen replied, and then pointed to the oven on the oxcart and said, "Shu'er said that we will change to make baked cakes, and in the future, bean paste buns and roasted wheat will only be made for the rich and noble families in the county." ”

"Baked cakes?" Chen Yunniang thought for a while and asked, "Is it the Hu cake from the Northland?"

Chen Yunniang received court training at a young age and knew a lot.

"Does Yun Niang know?" Ye Zhengwen was a little surprised, and then felt that his face was hot, and he and Yun Zhong didn't know about it in this family.

"Yes. Chen Yunniang nodded, "When I was a child, my father brought it back from the capital, but ......" Chen Yunniang frowned slightly, "I don't like to eat it very much." ”

Lizhou eats more rice, brown rice, corn, and noodles or gnocchi soup when eating pasta, and I don't like dry foods like Hu Cake very much.

"Mother, I did something different. Ye Yunshu stepped forward with a smile, "Xiao Mingting and I have studied and improved it, and it is guaranteed to be delicious." ”

"Good. Chen Yunniang nodded, she was still very relieved about her daughter's craftsmanship.

Ye Yunshu has liked to make food since he was a child, he always has strange ideas in his head, and he has made a lot of attempts when he was a child, some are delicious and some are not delicious.

"But did you do it alone?" Chen Yunniang was a little worried.

"Yes. Ye Yunshu nodded, "I will adjust the filling of the baked cake at home, and when I get there, I will knead the flour, which is almost the same as before." ”

Chen Yunniang was still worried, "Why don't my mother help you, my mother's health is good now, and when I was pregnant with you and Erlang, I was also doing farm work in the field, so it doesn't matter if I was pregnant with this little thing." ”

Ye Yunshu shook his head, "Mother, there are a lot of people on the dock, and there are second-rate children, so don't go, just take care of the chicks at home." ”

Ye Yunshu said, afraid that Chen Yunniang would do embroidery again, so he said again, "I'll get two more piglets when I go back?"

Chen Yunniang waved her hand again and again, "Our family can't support it now." ”

Except for Chen Yunniang and Erlang, they are all doing business at the dock, the piglets were fine when they were young, but when they get older, Chen Yunniang's belly is also bigger, who can take care of them?

Ye Yunshu thought about it, and then gave up this idea.

"Shu'er, let my mother make the bean paste buns and siu mai. Chen Yunniang still wanted to help, "You also said, only for the rich and noble, the amount is not much, you prepare the ingredients, your mother will knead the dough, and you can make some time to do something else." ”

Chen Yunniang felt sorry for her daughter, Ye Zhengwen and Xiao Mingting were not able to help in cooking, and her daughter had to cook so much food by herself, and it was hard work.

Ye Yunshu knew that she was upset not to let Chen Yunniang do something, so she nodded, "Okay, but mother, I'll do the kneading of the dough, and you will be responsible for the bag." ”

Seeing that her daughter agreed, Chen Yunniang also smiled and responded.