Chapter 185 Pastries can be ordered in advance
Xu Zhiyi: "Girl, today's cakes are sold out, please come back tomorrow!"
"What? Sold out? I even ran all the way here from the mansion, thinking I was early enough!"
"Girl, how much do you want? I can accept advance orders starting tomorrow, but you have to pay half of the deposit first."
The girl took out her purse and handed Xu Zhiyi some silver, and said hurriedly, "Miss, I'll order seventy for tomorrow morning."
Xu Zhiyi took the half tael of silver, and then gave her change for pocket money: "I'll take 140 coins first, and the remaining half, you can come back tomorrow to pick up the cakes and give me!"
"Oh, okay, then I'll come over tomorrow morning." Fortunately, after going back, she can tell her young lady about this. Anyway, the young lady is inviting the young ladies from all the mansions tomorrow, so it won't be considered a delay!
When Su saw Xu Zhiyi coming back so early again, she knew it was sold out without any guessing this time!
Su: "Zhiyi, business has been so good these past two days, how about your aunt and I steam some more tomorrow?"
Xu Zhiyi: "Mom, let's steam a hundred more starting tomorrow! We plan to accept advance orders in the future. If the quantity is large, we will have to work hard together!"
Qin: "What's the big deal? I wish I could be busy all day long. That proves that your business is good."
When Xu Zhiyi heard what Qin said, she couldn't help but think of a problem. If the quantity really becomes large in the future, then Qin would not only help for a while, but might take most of the day. Then she couldn't let others work for nothing!
Although the two families are temporarily living together, their living expenses are basically shared on an AA basis, and both families contribute in terms of money and work.
Then, when Su entered the room, Xu Zhiyi followed her in and discussed with her whether she should be paid more wages if she still needed her aunt Qin's help in the future.
After hearing what Xu Zhiyi said, Su thought for a moment and said, "Zhiyi, we all live together now, and we all give to each other in every aspect. I'm just afraid that if we give your aunt wages, she won't accept it."
"My idea is that after the house is built, our two families will live separately. By then, your aunt can't find an excuse not to take it in, so we can pay her the wages!"
"If this pastry business can continue to be so prosperous for a long time, your aunt will definitely be needed to help with the housework. We will just pay her according to the town's salary."
Xu Zhiyi saw that Su had a plan in mind, so he didn't say anything else. He just nodded to show that he understood!
"Uncle, you bought the bricks so quickly?"
After Xu Zhiyi came out of the room, he just saw his uncle Su Ze coming back at the door carrying bricks.
Su Ze was surprised when he saw Xu Zhiyi: "Zhiyi, are all the cakes sold out so early today?"
"Yes, thanks to that young man yesterday, he brought the housekeeper to buy cakes from me for the banquet in the mansion, so my bowl cakes were made loudly! Today, the ladies and masters who attended the banquet sent people to buy cakes for me."
Su Ze also became happy after hearing this: "Really? It turns out that we should go to Fayun Temple to worship the God of Wealth!"
"I just happened to have the bricks for building the kiln. You can watch from the side and if uncle doesn't do it right, you can point it out in time."
Xu Zhiyi: "Okay, I'll go pick up some yellow mud first, it can be used later."
Shen Changan and Shen Wuyou helped to move the bricks in, and Su Ze began to level a small area of the ground.
Xu Zhiyi, who had picked up the yellow mud, began to mix the mud, and the other three began to fumble around to build the kiln.
After two hours, the four of them finally built a small semicircular kiln!
Then apply mud on the outer layer to seal every gap tightly.
Finally, the fire is lit to speed up the drying of the mud in the entire kiln. The fire in the kiln cannot be stopped and it burns from the afternoon to the night. Before going to bed, the kiln mouth is sealed to allow the charcoal fire inside to bake all night.
The next day, after getting up and washing up, Xu Zhiyi hurried to check on her kiln and opened the seal. After a night, although the charcoal fire inside had burned out, it was still warm inside, proving that there were no gaps through which heat could leak out.
It can be said that this kiln was built successfully! When she comes back from the stall, she can do her experiments!
Xu Zhiyi suddenly remembered that there was no yeast powder in ancient times, so they could only let the dough ferment in advance. In fact, they just had to wait for the dough to ferment naturally. The wild yeast in the air would multiply and grow, which contained natural yeast. Or they could use wine koji to leaven the dough.
Su looked at Xu Zhiyi kneading dough and asked curiously, "Zhiyi, what are you doing? I made pancakes this morning. Just tell me what you want to eat."
Xu Zhiyi: "Mom, I just let some dough rise. I'll keep it for later use. When I come back from the stall today, I'll make something delicious for everyone."
Hearing this, Su rolled up her sleeves and pushed Xu Zhiyi away: "You go have breakfast, these women will come."
There was no other way, Xu Zhiyi could only give up her position. Now she was at home, and apart from setting up the stall every day, it seemed that she didn’t have to do any other work!
Su and Qin were busy in the kitchen. Even if they were too busy sometimes, Shen Changan and Shen Wuyou would go into the kitchen to help.
The two brothers took turns to boil her own bath water, wash her clothes, and even after washing her hair, she would sit down and someone would help her dry and straighten it.
Forget it, they are in the service of the inner world, so she should just work hard on the outer world! She should focus on her career and concentrate on making a lot of money!!
This time I arrived at the stall a little earlier than yesterday, so people started to come in one after I put everything out.
Of the ten people who came yesterday, four came today. They all made reservations in advance, two of them reserved 50 seats and two of them reserved 70 seats, so the total is 240 seats.
"Girl, I ordered seventy cakes yesterday."
Xu Zhiyi saw that the girl who had made a reservation in advance yesterday had arrived, with a young man behind her, carrying two baskets and handing them over.
Shen Changan took the basket, and the three of them began to help put the prepared bowl cakes carefully into the basket and covered it with oil paper.
Xu Zhiyi: "Both baskets have four layers, three layers of ten, one layer of five. One basket can hold thirty-five. Do we need to check again?"
The girl heard this and handed over the remaining copper coins: "Girl, I just checked, the number is correct."
After the girl and the boy left with the cakes, another uncle came over and bought thirty bowl cakes.
Today we brought the seventy that we had ordered, and we steamed a total of two hundred and twenty.
This time, it took an hour to sell out. After closing the stall, I thought about the large number of orders and the insufficient sugar and condiments at home, so I went to prepare some more sugar.
There are also some winter fruits sold at the small stalls, which can be made into jam at home for later use.
"Mom, we sold embroidery today! I think..."
Xu Zhiyi, who had just got on the mule cart, heard the familiar voice and hurried to look for it.
Shen Wuyou saw Xu Zhiyi looking at the people coming and going, as if looking for something, and asked curiously: “Wife, what are you looking for?”
"No, I seemed to have heard Lou Qianqian's voice just now!"
Xu Zhiyi glanced at the crowd again, without looking at anyone: "Maybe I heard it wrong! Let's go back!"
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