"Oh! It really is you?"
As soon as she finished speaking, the eldest sister's eyes suddenly lit up.
Ye Yun: "?"
"Oh my! I'm a long-time customer of yours! I only tried your mung bean cake once when I went back to my parents' home. I couldn't find the taste of your mung bean cake anywhere in the city after that. Now that you've opened a shop in the city, that's great!" The older sister changed the subject and laughed heartily.
Ye Yun: "..."
Oh, I see.
Judging from her posture just now, anyone who didn't know better would have thought they came together to cause trouble.
What a coincidence!
Without wasting any words, Ye Yun called out to Tian Xiaohui inside, "Xiaohui, we've run into a regular customer! Give this lady a few pieces of mung bean cake for free!"
Tian Xiaohui quickly responded.
"Oh, no, no! We're here to buy mung bean cakes. You're already losing money by offering half price, I can't let you lose even more, can I?" the older woman said with a smile, declining the offer.
Tian Xiaohui worked quickly and efficiently, already packing a bag of mung bean cakes and handing it to Ye Yun.
Ye Yun stuffed the mung bean cake into her older sister's hand and said with a smile, "Big sister, thank you for supporting my business. Today is my first day doing business in the city, so please take it!"
"Thank you, thank you..."
The eldest sister was overjoyed and shouted to the customers who came to buy mung bean cakes, "You've made the right choice buying her mung bean cakes! No mung bean cake in the whole city tastes as good as hers!"
She was a loudmouth, which made everyone in the store laugh.
Almost everyone in the neighborhood knows each other. When their neighbor called out to them, and since the mung bean cakes were on sale and really cheap, they all bought some and paid Tian Xiaohui.
This isn't just flattery of Ye Yun.
The master baker who taught her to make pastries said that his ancestors served the people in the palace, and the skills were passed down from the imperial kitchen.
The thin noodle dumplings are just as good.
City dwellers had long been tired of cornbread, and since they couldn't eat white flour steamed buns every day, fine flour cornbread became their new favorite, and more people bought it.
Other desserts also sold quite well.
Gu Jin watched as bags of half-price mung bean cakes and desserts were packed up and sold, and she kept gasping for breath, feeling a pang of heartache.
"Ye Yun, aren't you afraid of losing money by doing this?"
Moreover, it's half price for all three days.
Ye Yun smiled.
Price isn't her goal. Her new store has just opened, and what she wants isn't to make money, but to attract more customers. What she needs to do now is to get more people into the store, to let more people taste the flavor of her mung bean cakes, and to make them crave them.
As long as the pastries are delicious, why worry about them not coming back to buy them?
Besides.
Even at half price, she wouldn't lose money; she'd just earn less.
The mung bean cakes were selling like hotcakes, making the nearby steamed bun shops envious. They wondered how a mung bean cake could sell so well.
What they didn't know was that Ye Yun sold more than just mung bean cakes on her first day of business.
Her shop doesn't just sell mung bean cakes.
Because business was so booming, Ye Yun didn't open the inner room on the first day. It wasn't until the afternoon of the second day that she told the children who came to buy pastries after school that they could read and do their homework in the inner room.
Even if they go home so early, they may not have a good environment to do their homework.
Reading a book costs one cent, and desserts are free.
Upon hearing this, the students who had just bought desserts and pastries saw the clean and tidy environment and the books in the large bookcase, and they all paid Ye Yun's deposit and went inside together.
Some were reading, some were doing homework, and the sounds of pens falling and pages turning created a harmonious atmosphere.
As for whether there would be any mischievous or noisy kids, Ye Yun was prepared. The 50-cent deposit she was holding wasn't meant to be used for personal gain.
Everything seemed to be on the right track.
On the third night, Ye Yun finally started to seriously calculate the accounts for the three days.
Income is meager.
Gu Jin said, "I don't know if this method will work. Business is tough. What if those people are just taking advantage of the first three days?"
Before Ye Yun could speak, Tian Xiaohui said discontentedly, "Can't you think of something positive? Who's like you, always pouring cold water on people's dreams! Everything is difficult at the beginning. You're making sarcastic remarks right from the start of your business. The worst thing in business is someone like you!"
Gu Jin quickly raised her hands in a pleading gesture, "Okay, okay, I won't say anymore..."
Ye Yun smiled but remained silent.
Her goal for the first three days wasn't to make money; she just wanted to avoid losing money.
Soon the freshly cooked dishes in the pot were ready, so she pushed the small bills in her hand forward for Tian Xiaohui to count first, then got up and went into the kitchen.
She cooked the mung beans this time.
If we're talking about the most profitable small businesses in later generations, beverages are definitely at the top of the list.
Now she has prepared almost all kinds of pastries in her shop, but she is short of drinks. She can't let those who come to read and rest keep drinking plain water.
Summer is just around the corner, and nothing tastes better than mung bean soup.
"Hey, why are you protecting her like this?" Gu Jin turned and moved closer to Tian Xiaohui after Ye Yun left.
Tian Xiaohui rolled her eyes at him, "If I don't protect my sister-in-law, am I supposed to protect you?"
Tsk, she calls her sister-in-law quite affectionately.
Gu Jin glanced at Qin Zheng, who was working in the yard turning over the soil, and said meaningfully, "I remember, didn't you like your brother Qin Zheng?"
Tian Xiaohui was stunned, and even forgot to count the large stack of small bills in her hand.
After a long while, she stared at Gu Jin's ambiguous smile, then gritted her teeth and squeezed out, "Are you sick in the head?"
"Hahaha……"
Gu Jin stopped teasing her and ran off to watch Qin Zheng, who was diligently turning over the soil, with a smug look on his face.
The soil in the small courtyard was particularly hard; it could be turned over to grow vegetables. At this moment, Qin Zheng was turning the soil with an iron shovel, sweating profusely. With each turn, the veins on his arms bulged, full of power.
Gu Jin thought to himself, if it were him, he definitely wouldn't be able to do this kind of rough work.
In the kitchen, the mung bean cakes in the pot had been cooked into a paste. Ye Yun bent down, took a spoon, scooped them out, put them into an iron basin, poured in a lot of cooled boiled water, added a little sugar to sweeten them, stirred well, divided them into bowls, and took them out.
"Come quick! Time for some mung bean soup!"
Tian Xiaohui was counting her small bills when a bowl of mung bean soup fell to the ground beside her. Her eyes lit up, and she put down the bills and looked at Ye Yun excitedly: "Sister-in-law, you've been tinkering with something new again?"
"Here you go." Ye Yun smiled and pushed a bowl of mung bean soup in front of her.
Without any hesitation, Tian Xiaohui picked up the bowl, tilted her head back, and gulped down the large bowl of mung bean soup.
She then put down the bowl and let out a satisfied burp: "Burp!"
Ye Yun couldn't help but chuckle, "How about it?"
"Delicious!"
Tian Xiaohui looked at Qin Zheng, who was busy beside her, and said, "Brother Qin Zheng! Come and have some mung bean soup!"
Qin Zheng did not call him.
Gu Jin, however, came over without any hesitation.
Qin Zheng glanced over here, and Ye Yun picked up a bowl of mung bean soup and walked towards him.
Just then, a cool night breeze blew by, carrying the sweet aroma of mung bean soup, which was refreshing and invigorating. Qin Zheng couldn't help but laugh out loud.
His fatigue vanished instantly, and all he could see was Ye Yun's approaching figure.
"young married woman……"
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