Chapter 483
After lunch, Liu Wangxue took the three to play in the rest area for a while, and then sat at the bar to chat with Tao Huaxin.
During this period, Qiu Xiangrong made several new flavors of cookies and boxed cakes, and sent them to the studio and sent them to customers by express for trial. Everyone's feedback was very good, so it was decided to officially launch them for sale on the mini program after a few days.
Seeing that Liu Wangxue was free, Tao Huaxin wanted to ask her to help take pictures: "Last time I borrowed the camera from you, Xiangrong and I couldn't use it properly. Huayu can use it, but his aesthetic sense is not good. He follows your instructions on lighting and decoration, but the pictures he takes are still not as good as yours. In your words, it's unappetizing. If I put his pictures up, don't expect to sell them. Xuxu, when are you free, please come over and take a look."
"Sure, I'm free right now." Liu Wangxue ate the new flavor cookies that Tao Huaxin brought her and said, "They're delicious. Is my brother-in-law free now? How about I go over now?"
Tao Huaxin took out his phone and said, "Let me call and ask. There aren't many orders today. He said it will be finished around one or two o'clock."
"Okay." Liu Wangxue nodded and reached into the plate to take a small biscuit. It had a ginger milk flavor, which was a bit special, but really delicious.
At this time, Pengpeng, who was playing a chasing game with Guagua, ran over and looked at her eagerly, wanting to eat.
Gugugu also flew over and landed on the bar, playing like crazy. It wanted to take a break and comb its feathers.
Liu Wangxue wanted to tease the dog, so she turned the piece of paper that she was about to hand to Pengpeng. Seeing it stretch its head and open its mouth, she turned her hand again and raised it upwards.
Pengpeng didn't get to eat it, so he retracted his head and continued to look at her eagerly.
Liu Wangxue used the same trick again, and when it was about to feed the cat, he suddenly withdrew his hand.
Pengpeng was anxious now, and chased after Liu Wangxue's hand, raising his front paws to pounce on her legs. Just at this moment, Xiaoci in her arms swung his tail, and when the tail swept across her thigh, Pengpeng's paw fell down and pressed it down.
Xiaoci turned around angrily, raised his claws and hit Pengpeng in the face. Pengpeng quickly withdrew his claws, landed on the ground and bounced back, avoiding the cat punch attack.
Xiaoci still had murderous intent in her eyes, and licked her paws at Pengpeng: "Meow!" You can't touch my tail, don't you know? Pengpeng squatted on the ground, also wagging his tail: "Woof!" You brought this upon yourself, why do you blame me?
Liu Wangxue smiled and touched Xiaoci's head, then threw the biscuit in his hand to Pengpeng, who caught it with a light jump.
Liu Wangxue was about to turn around to get another piece when she caught a glimpse of Gua Gua stealthily probing the edge of the plate. Her "material radar" turned on and she immediately took out her cell phone from her pocket, turned on the camera, clicked record, and started filming the bar.
Liu Wangxue just held the phone in her hand, with her body and head still. Guagua thought she didn't notice it, so she raised one paw to scoop out a piece from the plate, then grabbed it with both paws, flapped her wings and flew up, flying above Pengpeng. As soon as she loosened her paw, the biscuit fell and landed accurately in Pengpeng's mouth.
After eating, the dog raised its head towards Gu Gua, and a smile could be seen on its face. It also raised a paw towards Gu Gua, and Gu Gua flew down, and the bird's paw touched the dog's paw. The two ran away together to continue playing games.
Liu Wangxue's camera recorded this entire scene, and he was almost dying of laughter.
Tao Huaxin noticed the interaction between the three while talking on the phone, and his face was full of smiles.
After hanging up the phone, I watched the replay with Liu Wangxue first. The camera was shaking and she was laughing so hard that she couldn't hold the phone steady.
After reading it, Liu Wangxue put away her phone and asked Tao Huaxin: "How is it going? Have you completed all the orders for my brother-in-law?"
"No, but it will be soon." Tao Huaxin replied, "It doesn't matter if he is not available. Huayu and Xiaoyu happened to be back, and they can help set up the equipment."
These are the lights and lighting equipment needed for indoor photography. Liu Wangxue had them when she was live streaming before, but she sold them second-hand when she left Haishi, leaving only this SLR camera. The equipment Qiu Xiangrong is using now was bought by Tao Huayu.
The top floor of the Tao family's building is a small attic, where all the equipment is set up. But today is a sunny day, with excellent natural light. As soon as Tao Huayu got home and got out of the car, he happened to hear his brother-in-law talking on the phone, so he suggested shooting in the yard. He and Li Yu went to move down the fill light equipment, screen and table.
"Xiaoyu is here too?" Liu Wangxue asked with a smile, "Is their school on holiday?"
"No," Tao Huaxin shook his head. "I just heard from Huayu that the first draft of his graduation project is complete, and his professor gave him a holiday in advance. But it's already the second half of the month, so it doesn't matter whether he takes a holiday or not."
"Okay," Liu Wangxue finished the last cookie on the plate, clapped his hands, and stood up holding Xiaoci, "Then I'll go over now."
Tao Huaxin untied her apron and said, "Wait a minute, I'll go back with you."
Liu Wangxue thought she was coming here just to accompany him: "No need, Sister Hua Xin, I can go there by myself."
Tao Huaxin hung her apron on the wall behind her and said with a smile, "It just so happens that the coffee beans here are almost used up. I'll go back and get a few bags."
The most popular product in the non-sweet drink bar is coffee, and the most consumed product is coffee beans. Tao Huaxin originally wanted to bring coffee beans when she came in the morning, but the sister-in-law of the neighbor next door came to buy biscuits for her child. The two stood together and talked for a while, and she forgot about it.
There wasn't much left in the cabinet at the bar, and it was almost used up from morning till now. Qiu Xiangrong had originally agreed to send it over after he finished making the cake, but now that she needed to take pictures, she might as well go back herself.
Liu Wangxue asked her, "Then if you go back, what if someone comes to buy drinks? I'll run it for you. It's not far anyway."
"You said it's not far, it's okay." Tao Huaxin walked out from behind the bar, "It won't take long, I'll just treat it as exercise."
"All right."
Peng Peng and Gua Gua, who were playing nearby, saw Liu Wangxue leaving and immediately followed. Liu Wangxue put Xiao Ci on Peng Peng's back and let him carry her, while she used her hands to support Tao Huaxin.
As I was about to leave the house, I met two colleagues. After greeting them, I said, "Sister Hua Xin, four cups of coffee, please."
"Unfortunately, we're out of coffee beans," Tao Huaxin said. There weren't enough left in the cupboard for four cups. "I'm just about to go home and get some. Please wait a moment."
One of the thin colleagues, who was standing at the end of the line at lunch and asked Gu Zicheng to cut in line in front of him, said, "Then let's buy a piece of cake first."
"Okay," Tao Huaxin said to them, "Go get it yourself, I'll be back soon."
After walking two steps forward, Tao Huaxin suddenly grabbed Liu Wangxue, looked at her with a smile, and raised his chin towards the office with a hint of teasing, "Why don't you go and tell Qingsong?"
Liu Wangxue smiled slightly embarrassedly. After dinner, she wanted to sit with Tao Huaxin. Xu Qingsong also came with her. Then Tao Huaxin knew that she was required to "accompany him all day" these days, and Tao Huaxin made fun of her. Then, Xu Qingsong was called away by Richard, and the jokes stopped.
Liu Wangxue smiled and sighed: "Then wait for me."
"Okay, go ahead."
The three followed Liu Wangxue to the office and came out after a while.
Tao Huaxin teased again: "Did he agree?"
Liu Wangxue walked out holding Tao Huaxin's arm: "You have to agree even if you don't agree. He has no right to speak. Hahaha..."
It took less than ten minutes to reach the Tao family courtyard. From a distance, I saw several elderly people in the village leading their children who had not yet attended kindergarten out of the courtyard. The children were holding small biscuits in their hands, jumping around and enjoying the food very much.
Ever since Qiu Xiangrong's private bakery opened for business, the air above Tao's house and several nearby stores has been filled with a sweet aroma from almost morning to night, making people salivate, especially children, who sometimes ask the adults at home to buy some.
Qiu Xiangrong did not set up a stall or store outside the courtyard, but he would sell cookies to villagers whenever they came to buy. Villagers usually bought biscuits for their children, and sometimes they would order cakes for the birthdays of elderly people.
As for the scraps from the cake dough, the cookies that were accidentally broken when packing, or the cookies that were deformed when out of the oven, Tao's parents would pack them up in small food bags and send some to the neighbors, or they would stop the children passing by and give some to them as well.
Every time Tao Qinglei came back, Qiu Xiangrong would pack some for him and let him take it to school to share with his classmates. At that time, when he was still in the studio, Tao Qinglei helped to promote it among his classmates. These students who studied painting were not short of money and bought it because they thought it was delicious. Unsurprisingly, this helped Qiu Xiangrong open up this sales channel.
Mobile phones are not prohibited in the studio, but students are strictly prohibited from bringing mobile phones to the town's high school. In mid-December, Tao Qinglei took the provincial unified examination and went back to school for classes without stopping. As usual, he took the "samples" given to him by Qiu Xiangrong and shared them with his classmates.
Since everyone here couldn't go to the mini program to make purchases by themselves, Tao Qinglei collected all the orders from his classmates, wrote them down in a small notebook, and brought them back to Qiu Xiangrong during the weekend half-day off.
It is not difficult to make the small cookies, and a lot can be baked in one oven. After Qiu Xiangrong receives the order, Tao's father and mother can prepare and pack them as required that evening, and Tao Qinglei will bring them over the next day.
When Qiu Xiangrong first received the order and money, he was very surprised, then he was happy and asked Tao Qinglei: "Why are you so honest? Don't you know that the middlemen make a profit from the price difference? At least charge them a commission for running errands, for so many things."
Tao Qinglei scratched his head and laughed. Don't say he hadn't thought about it. Even if he had, he would have despised himself. What's the difference? He felt that it was good enough that he could help. This was what he should do. Then he said that he didn't take the "sales commission" that Qiu Xiangrong gave him. He almost got angry when he refused.
However, Tao Qinglei is now in his third year of high school, and his studies are very intense. He cannot finish the papers handed out by the teachers every day. According to his mother, he has to stay up until after 12 o'clock every day, and he still cannot finish them. However, his parents have experienced his brother's third year of high school. In the past, they felt distressed about such high-intensity studies, but now they are completely immune to it. They only prepare food and drinks for their children, and everything else is the same.
Qiu Xiangrong felt that Tao Qinglei was in a critical period and did not want him to be distracted by such things, so he explicitly prohibited Tao Qinglei from bringing goods. Tao Qinglei only brought goods once. Anyway, the town was not far from the village, and most of the classmates who wanted to buy goods were from the town. They would come together to buy goods during the weekend half-day off. Moreover, Qiu Xiangrong would give Tao Qinglei a discount price for his sake, and sometimes even give him some gifts.
After Tao Huayu found out about this, he thought, why not just build a shed on the cement ground at the gate of the yard, put a table there, and do a small business at home.
This proposal was rejected by my parents and brother-in-law.
Tao's mother said he was doing this in vain: "It's not like our courtyard door is closed to the public. If anyone wants to eat, just come in and ask for it. Why do we need to build a shed?"
Tao's father also said, "Your mother, your brother-in-law and I are in the bakery every day. Who has the time to watch the stall at the gate?"
Tao Huayu thought about it and agreed, so he gave up.
Liu Wangxue and Tao Huaxin approached, greeted the elderly and children, and chatted with them for a while. The children liked her three little ones, so they let go of the elderly's hands and played with them for a while.
As soon as they left, Li Yu came back on an electric bike with a bunch of flowers in the basket. He called out to them from a distance: "Sister Xuxu, Sister Huaxin——"
When they heard the shout, they turned around and the first thing they saw was the bouquet of flowers. When he came close and stopped, Liu Wangxue asked, "Did you buy it in town?"
Tao Huaxin asked: "Why buy flowers now?"
Li Yu pushed the cart and walked towards the courtyard with the two of them: "Brother Huayu asked me to buy it. He said it would be nice to use as a background when taking photos."
This bouquet of flowers is not packaged, it is just randomly tied together. There are roses, lilies, baby's breath, and several other types. It seems that Li Yu simply didn't know what to buy so she just ordered a variety of them.
Sure enough, he spoke next: "Brother Huayu told me to buy whatever I wanted, and I didn't know which one would look good as a background for taking photos. Flowers should all be similar, so I just picked a little bit of everything I liked."
In the yard, Tao Huayu was arranging samples on the table in front of the curtain. Hearing this, he raised his head and asked Tao Huaxin first: "Sister, why are you back?"
Tao Huaxin said: "Come back to get the coffee beans."
"Then why didn't you tell me on the phone just now? I would have sent it to you." Tao Huayu said.
"It's okay, you guys go ahead and do your work." Tao Huaxin waved his hand and walked into the house.
Tao Huayu called Liu Wangxue again: "Come, come, come and see how this is displayed."
Li Yu parked the car, took the flowers down and handed them to Tao Huayu: "Which kind of flowers would be good?"
Tao Huayu thought seriously for a while, then randomly picked two and placed them next to a pack of biscuits: "They are all flowers, there is no need to be so particular, I think they are all beautiful."
Tao Huaxin happened to come out with a bag and laughed when he heard it: "What kind of aesthetics does he have? Let him choose."
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