Qin San Niang was quite satisfied with the price! The recipes for these three desserts are actually not difficult; they just require a bit of ingenuity. However, to make them taste delicious, you still need some tricks!
Thinking that she still had many prescriptions, which were all worth a lot of money, I felt so happy!
Secondly, she also hoped that Manager Si could fulfill her wish. When asked why, she thought of her mother, Ms. Qi, and wondered how she was doing now. Was she doing well without her beloved mother, who was now quite old?
“Okay, five hundred taels of silver, deal. I’ve already written the recipe on a piece of paper. Of course, I can also provide after-sales service, oh, that is, I’ll teach the pastry chefs here step by step.” Qin San Niang took out a piece of yellow hemp paper from her Doraemon-like sleeve pocket and handed it to Manager Si, saying.
She has professional ethics; she wouldn't just give you a prescription and leave. Her principle is to teach you until you learn!
"Thank you so much, Madam Qin!" Manager Si said sincerely, bowing with his hands clasped. He then asked Ah Jin to call over the cook from the kitchen. This cook was from his own household and had been with him for over twenty years; there was nothing he couldn't trust!
Watching Qin San Niang enter the kitchen, Manager Si sighed inwardly. This woman was truly a kind person. She could have easily raised the price, but she had agreed to the fixed price without hesitation, making him feel a little embarrassed. He had indeed gotten a good deal. Sigh, he could only wait until the New Year to prepare more money for gifts!
Even Ah Jin, carrying a tray, exclaimed, "Shopkeeper, this Madam Qin is truly remarkable. I misjudged her before. You have such discerning eyes!"
Speaking of this, Manager Si glared at Ah Jin, half annoyed and half helpless, and scolded, "You've been with me for many years! I've told you to be kind to people, kind to people! If it weren't for Madam Qin's kind heart, this recipe might have fallen into Chen Ji's hands, and then your master would really be starving!"
"Master, I was wrong! These past few days, Chen's family has sent a lot of people to cause trouble for us, haven't they? I just thought that Madam Qin and the others were from there too. Oh, please don't be angry, I'll go and fawn over them right away!" After saying that, Ah Jin patted his cheek twice, making a regretful expression!
He was genuinely delighted with this kind master, wondering what good fortune he had accumulated in his past lives to have met such a wonderful master. Now that Qin San Niang had helped her master, he would be willing to do anything for her, even just to bring her water to wash her feet.
In the kitchen, Qin San Niang was instructing the head chef on how to make pastries, while A Jin wandered around nearby.
"Madam Qin, have some honey water. I just made it." Ah Jin was fanning Madam Qin in the kitchen.
Looking at the child, Qin San Niang wondered if he was a little slow-witted. Was the weather really that hot?
"Alright, I understand. Da Wa and Xiao Er, come and have some honey water." Qin San Niang called out to her sons. The two boys were a little reserved since it was their first time visiting someone else's home, and they were sitting properly in the kitchen next door.
"Madam Qin, both young masters have theirs, this is yours, please drink!" Ah Jin's face was beaming with joy, his fawning manner making it clear that he was eager for others to know what he was thinking.
The chef truly lived up to his reputation. With just a few pointers from Qin San Niang, he mastered the technique and produced a dish that was even more exquisite and beautiful than hers! That's real skill!
Sure enough, she wasn't skilled enough to open a pastry shop on her own. The yams, however, were brought from home; even the cook had never seen anything like them before.
"Madam, what is this? I've never seen it before!" Although this white jade cake looks beautiful and is easy to make, the ingredients are not easy to obtain. At least, it's not sold in the market. Even if you had the recipe, you couldn't make it!
"Don't worry about that, that's what makes our white jade cake so unique! I'll talk to Manager Si about it later. You can practice first!"
"Yes, madam, then I'm relieved!" As a long-time employee and loyal servant of the shop, the head chef naturally hoped that the business would get better and better.
With these pastries, and by making a name for themselves during the Lunar New Year, Si Ji would surely be back to its former glory in no time. Thinking of this, the cook felt a surge of excitement and continued practicing.
Inside the hall, after listening to Qin San Niang explain the problem of the ingredients for the white jade cake, Manager Si was not worried. He was sure that Qin San Niang had a solution. Besides, since it was a wild product from the mountains, it wouldn't be difficult to buy it!
"Could you help me collect some yams, Madam Qin? You can set the price!" I just got a good deal, so this is a way of compensating you a little.
After thinking for a moment, Qin Sanniang said, "Yams are not worth much in the countryside, only about one coin per pound. I will have someone collect them. Storing yams is also very simple. Do you have a cellar here? They can be stored in a cellar for up to a year."
"I never imagined this stuff would be so easy to store; it's truly a wonderful ingredient for making pastries!"
There's a cellar behind the shop, and it's quite spacious, so Madam Qin doesn't need to worry. As for the purchase price, let's set it at two coins per pound. I'll trouble Madam Qin to buy more." He believed that the white jade cake would sell very well, and with the New Year approaching, it was necessary to have a sufficient supply of ingredients. It wouldn't spoil if he bought more, and it wasn't expensive either.
"Alright, I'll have someone send you some tomorrow so that business doesn't stop!" There are quite a few iron yam in the space, which can help out for now.
I asked Wang Guixiang before, and she said that her family planted a lot of yams last year, and the surrounding villagers also planted a lot. If they knew that they could make money from them, I guess many farmers would have sold them, and they wouldn't have to worry about the source at all.
"Alright, then thank you very much, Madam Qin!"
"You're welcome. I wish Manager Si great success in his business!"
"Thank you for your kind words..."
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In the South City, early in the morning, Wu Chunhua, Liao Hongying, Liu Shi, and others set up a stall. This stall sold handicrafts such as embroidered handkerchiefs, cosmetics, hair ties, wooden hairpins, and homemade linen.
Liu was simply worried about the two of them. Wu Chunhua was a little better, but she wasn't a shameless woman either. As for Liao Hongying, the scholar's wife, Liu was really worried that the two of them wouldn't even know how to call out to her. Wouldn't all the good cloth her eldest daughter had been wasted?
As it turns out, the old lady was quite prescient.
Wu Chunhua called out, "Come and take a look, big sister! Our handmade gloves and earmuffs are very warm."
"Ear warmers and gloves, the patterns are really nice!"
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Liao Hongying also joined Wu Chunhua in calling out, but seeing that no one seemed interested, she couldn't help but feel a little discouraged, because this thing sold very well!
Liu shook her head helplessly. This can't go on!
"Grandma, why isn't anyone coming to see it?" Even six-year-old A-Nan could tell that everyone was in low spirits, probably because the goods weren't selling well.
"Young ladies, what are you selling?" An old woman selling eggs next to them noticed that they hadn't made a sale for so long, but the items in their baskets looked quite pretty, with their red and green colors!
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