Chapter 176 Price war?
Xu Zhiyi turned around and walked towards her own stall, took out a purse from the space, opened it and took a look. There were exactly ten taels of silver inside. She didn't want the reward from Miss Yin Yin just now because she had received the reward from somewhere else!
Originally, she was just planning to use her own purse to prove that the man was a pickpocket, but when she saw the fallen purse, she realized that she had a similar one herself.
The person who gave the silver to do bad things was afraid that they would be traced back, so the purses they used were ordinary purses without any marks, so she deliberately used the ability of space to switch the purses!
The three of them returned to their stall, and unexpectedly their business was unusually good, with many people surrounding them to buy.
"Mom, we're back!"
Su was very happy to see Xu Zhiyi and the other two coming back: "Zhiyi, do you know that our business is very good? Many people said that they are regular customers who have bought in town, so they buy in batches at a time."
"It's been almost two hours since you left, and we've sold at least 120 of them!"
Xu Zhiyi couldn't help but feel happy when he heard that. He went over to open the basket and looked at the remaining bowl-shaped cakes. All together, they cost less than two hundred yuan!
"Mother, you go to the mountain with your grandmother and aunt. The three of us will guard the stall. There is still a lot of incense left in the basket in Chang'an's hand. You can carry it up the mountain."
Su: "What? How come there are some left? I prepared two portions. I have a small basket with some left. The ones in your basket are for the three of you."
"Don't worry, the three of us have worshipped all the statues, even the Yue Lao Grandpa's."
Hearing this, Su quickly glanced at Shen Changan and Shen Wuyou, then pulled the corner of Xu Zhiyi's clothes and whispered: "Zhiyi, you took two husbands to ask the matchmaker? Do you want a few more red threads, or..."
When Xu Zhiyi heard Su's random thoughts, she quickly interrupted her to explain: "Mom, who said that by praying to Grandpa Yue, I must be praying for marriage?"
"The three of us went to fulfill our vows to Grandpa Yue Lao and sincerely thank him for helping us tie the red string. The three of us just wanted to tell Grandpa Yue Lao that we are all very satisfied with the red string he tied for us."
Su: "Is that so!... Then I really need to let you know!"
"That's good! I'll leave the stall to you. Mom will be back after she goes to burn some incense. Oh, you three haven't had lunch yet. There are some meat-filled pancakes that I baked at home in the basket."
"Okay, I understand, go ahead!"
Xu Zhiyi took out a basket from under the table, which contained ten bread cakes: "Chang'an, Wuyou, we will have bread cakes for lunch today. We still have 200 bowl cakes left. We probably won't be able to go home until 3 p.m."
The three of them took the pancakes, sat on a few small stools inside the stall and started eating.
"Master, the stall in front is..."
Xu Zhiyi and the other two were eating noodles with gusto when suddenly an uncle came to her stall and shouted, "Master, this is the one!!"
The three people who were eating the noodles looked at each other with a worried look in their eyes: Are you here to cause trouble?
The three of them put the unfinished half of the bread back into the basket and stood up.
"Uncle, what do you want to buy?"
Then he looked at the old man behind him and asked, "Grandpa, what about you? Do you want to buy some bowl cakes? Four cents each, six flavors..."
The old man at the back looked at the cakes on the wooden plate on the table and nodded with satisfaction: "Girl, did you make all these cakes?"
Hearing this, Xu Zhiyi nodded and said, "I did it!"
"How did you make this? I've never seen pastries made like this before."
Xu Zhiyi: “….”
"Grandpa, do you want to buy cakes? How many do you want?"
"Little girl, don't be afraid. I'm not here to cause trouble. My manager just bought a few of these...this is called...something called bowl cakes. I saw that they are very beautiful."
"More importantly, we have never seen this kind of cake in town. Who would have thought that he only bought two? I haven't tasted enough of them yet. They were gone in a few bites. The other snacks, although very expensive, I've already gotten tired of them!"
"The girls' cakes are really to my liking, so give me twenty of all the flavors."
Upon hearing this, the steward at the side quickly spoke up: "Master, there are six flavors, so you must have hundreds of them! How can you finish them all?"
"When did I say that I was the only one eating it? Go back and send some to each courtyard, so that you won't accuse me of being partial to you, old man."
Xu Zhiyi: "Grandpa, are you sure you want 20 of each flavor?"
"Yes, twenty of them."
After hearing the confirmation, Xu Zhiyi took the basket, separated the boxes with oil paper at the bottom, with each layer separated by a piece of oil paper, for a total of one hundred and twenty boxes, and put them directly into a basket for him.
Xu Zhiyi: "Grandpa, there are 120 in this basket, each one costs 4 coins, a total of 480 coins."
The old man nodded when he heard this, and then signaled the manager next to him to bring the basket and pay the silver.
The steward handed Xu Zhiyi half a tael of silver. After Xu Zhiyi took it, he quickly changed back the twenty cents.
In the end, the two of them just left with one sentence: "No need to change, the twenty cents will be used as the purchase of this basket!"
Now, not only the colleagues next to them, but even the other stall owners couldn’t help but become jealous!
"Bah, that family did it on purpose, right? With her stall here today, every one of our dim sum customers went to her place!"
"What can we do? We can't force customers to come and buy ours, right?"
"I'm afraid that more than half of our cakes today will be left. They will be even harder to sell if left overnight!"
Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind, and he said excitedly: "Why don't we lower the price? Anyway, if we can't sell all of it today, it will taste bad tomorrow, and we may not be able to sell it. Why not lower the price? At least we won't lose money today!"
"Is this... possible?"
"Why not? Just do it like this. I want to piss off the opponent to death. It would be best if she surrenders too. We are going to have a duel."
After that, he cleared his throat and shouted: "Everyone, our brown sugar cake originally costs three cents each, but now it's only two cents each, a big and sweet brown sugar cake, one is enough to fill you up"
People passing by couldn't help but stop in their tracks when they heard this, especially the common people who came to burn incense. At two cents each, they would buy one to take home to comfort their children.
I usually don’t want to spend three cents, but now that I have come across such a good thing, I will grit my teeth and spend two cents to buy one.
When the other nearby stalls saw the price reduction stall suddenly filled with people, they couldn't help but feel tempted as well.
Especially looking at Xu Zhiyi's stall, there were a few people preparing to buy, but when they heard that other stalls had reduced their prices, they immediately walked away. Why did everyone look so happy?
Afterwards, two or three other shops also lowered their prices one after another. All they had to do today was to break even. Anyway, as long as they could snatch business from those shops selling bowl-shaped cakes, they wouldn't feel so painful!
Shen Changan Shen Wuyou looked at several stalls near his stall, and suddenly, as if they had discussed it beforehand, they all lowered their prices.
Now all the customers have run away! Even those who just came to my stall to pay have run away!
"Ma'am, they've all lowered their prices!"
Xu Zhiyi looked at the stalls and nodded: "Well, they can lower their prices. Even if the sky falls, we won't lower our prices either."
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