"Your older brother wouldn't lie to you, really—"

Yan Xia laughed and scolded.

"Jinfu and Guihua can come with me tomorrow. Xiaohe, you stay at home. Lamei and Jinlu are the most mischievous. I'm worried about them. You keep an eye on them so they don't run around."

Jin Fu can run errands for her, and Gui Hua can help make cakes.

The shop is small, and it gets crowded if too many people go there.

Moreover, some time ago, Yan Xia discovered that Jin Lu was always secretly heading to the mountains.

Xiaohe staying at home is a good opportunity to keep an eye on them.

"Yes, Mother, I understand. Lamei and Jinlu are actually very well-behaved. But don't worry, Mother, I will take good care of them. It just so happens that my skills are not as good as Guihua's, so I can stay at home and do some embroidery."

Xiaohe spoke well of her sister-in-law and brother-in-law.

Although they are about the same age, Xiaohe has matured a lot.

"Oh, right, Lamei, when you go to Aishan tomorrow afternoon, remember to pick some roses to bring back in your basket. Mother needs them every day."

One pot can bake 30 pieces.

If we can sell 10 pots a day.

That's 300 flower cakes.

A basket of roses can make about two hundred yuan.

Adding the other two flavors should be enough.

And it's certain that we won't be able to sell that many.

After all, the price reflects its value, and its reputation isn't as great as Yishangpin's.

There was a lot of leftover filling today, so Yan Xia stored it all away to use tomorrow.

There are still too few dendrobium flowers and lilies.

Yan Xia plans to go back to the mountain to find some more tomorrow.

If you can't find it, then you can only sell roses.

There are only 50 pieces of fresh dendrobium flower and lily filling in stock.

Once they're sold out, that's it.

Back in her room that evening, she looked through the book again.

Looking for new products.

A long time passed.

Yan Xia finally found something she could do.

【Peach shortbread!】

Although it says that cornstarch and baking soda are needed.

However, cornstarch and alkaline water can be used as substitutes.

The spice shops here sell cornstarch, and she can make her own lye water.

The remaining eggs, sugar, lard, sesame seeds, and flour are all readily available.

Yan Xia had not yet found peach shortbread in the pastry shops here.

Perhaps because it's a fictional story, many of the foods don't match up with historical records.

But it just so happened that it benefited her.

Feeling relieved, Yan Xia closed the book, tossed it back into her spatial storage, and went to sleep peacefully.

Day and night alternate.

As dawn broke, Yan Xia and her children were already on an oxcart heading to Shuangqiao Town.

Now Zhao Dali is like her personal driver.

Every morning he would take her to town, and then he would wait until the afternoon to bring Yan Xia back.

Yan Xia felt that this was a waste of Zhao Dali's time, so she planned to have him come back first.

But Zhao Dali refused. Yan Xia gave him 10 coins every day, and in just a few days, his family's life improved a lot. The children had eaten meat twice during this period.

Seeing the child's smiling face, Zhao Dali was willing to wait until nightfall.

Anyway, there are plenty of people to do the work at home, it's just those two acres of land.

Two people are enough.

I couldn't persuade him otherwise.

Yan Xia was too lazy to say anything more.

Zhao Dali was honest and upright, and he kept his mouth shut. Yan Xia never hid anything from him, including opening a shop.

If business was good at the shop, she would give Zhao Dali an extra five coins every day.

This was already a huge loss for her.

Early morning.

The group arrived at the shop entrance.

Because I got up so early, most of the surrounding shops were still closed.

Yan Xia bids farewell to Zhao Dali.

She entered the shop with her two children, instructed Jin Fu to hang up the signboard, and then she and Guihua began baking fresh flower cakes.

It was still early, and the people living in the town were just starting to eat breakfast. Some were sitting at the stalls eating plain noodles, while others were grabbing two steamed buns and hurrying off to work.

All sorts of people walked through the alley.

Without exception, they all lingered outside Yan Xia's shop for a while.

The flower cakes smelled so good.

Soon, three batches of pancakes came out of the oven. Yan Xia carried 90 pancakes to the shop's table and picked out five to cut into smaller portions.

"Guihua, watch the stove, don't burn it. Your mother and brother are going to the door to attract customers."

Yan Xia gave Guihua a command.

Then she put the samples on a plate and pulled Jin Fu to stand at the door.

"Today is the first day of business. I'll teach you how to attract customers. Learn from me. Now go and light the firecrackers."

"Yes, Mother."

Jin Fu obediently took out a tinderbox.

Pick up the bamboo pole leaning against the door, find the fuse of the firecracker, bring the tinder close, and the firecracker will ignite instantly.

The crackling sound drew everyone's attention.

It's around 10 a.m. now.

There were many people on the street.

"Look everyone, look! Our unique flower cakes, the only ones of their kind in Shuangqiao Town, are freshly baked! Can you smell that aroma? That's right, these are our flower cakes, guaranteed to be unlike anything you've ever seen or tasted before. Today is our first day of business, so we're having a special event: free samples!"

Yan Xia's loud voice echoed in the alley.

Many people gathered at her shop.

"Free? Does that mean it's free? Really?"

"Oh my, so the fragrance I smelled this morning was from these flower cakes! I thought it was some pastry shop making pastries, which made me so distracted while I was selling vegetables all morning."

"It smells so good! What is a flower cake? Is it a cake made of flowers? Can you eat this? I've never seen anyone eat flowers before."

"Let me have some! Wasn't it supposed to be free? Where is it?"

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