"No way, sister? You want to sell the cakes to Jinji?"
If it was before yesterday, she might have tried this, but after what happened at Rong'en Hall, she realized that as a little country girl, she would not be favored by these shops.
"Let's go across from Jin Kee."
Su Ergou was dumbfounded: "Sister, Jinji sells dim sum! So many shops across from it have closed down! If we go and compete with them for business, can we win?"
Su Xiaoxiao said calmly, "Stealing business? You're worrying too much. Just two baskets of cakes won't sell to many people. But it's good that you have this ambition. Maybe one day in the future, we can really steal business from Jinji."
Su Ergou muttered: "Sister, why are you more fond of daydreaming than me?"
Su Xiaoxiao smiled and said, "Okay, we'll know whether it can be sold or not in a moment."
There were no urban management officers in ancient times. As long as they did not block the entrances of shops, they were generally allowed to set up small stalls. Of course, if they affected the business of the shops, they would be driven away by the shop owners.
The jewelry shop opposite Jin Ji opens late, so this time is perfect for setting up a stall.
The first batch of osmanthus cake from Jin Ji is almost out of the oven and there is a long queue at the door.
The more Su Ergou looked at it, the more he felt that he might not be able to sell a single one today.
Su Xiaoxiao found a suitable position and took out the pancake.
They didn't have a stall, so before setting off, Su Xiaoxiao made a bamboo sieve tray and hung it around her neck.
The golden shortbread was neatly arranged on the tray. If it were any other vendor, it might not have attracted much attention.
But Su Xiaoxiao is a fat man weighing 200 pounds!
Who wouldn't look at her twice when walking over?
Even those waiting in line for Jin Kee Dim Sum couldn't help but look at her frequently.
"Sister, let me serve the pancakes." Su Ergou said.
"No need, you have other tasks." Su Xiaoxiao picked up a shortbread and handed it to Su Ergou, "Eat."
Su Ergou: "Aren't we going to sell it?"
Su Xiaoxiao said: "You don't understand, this is called eating broadcast."
Su Ergou: “…”
Su Ergou has become accustomed to all the abnormal behavior of his sister after she broke her brain. Since his sister asked him to eat, he just ate it.
When he ate the third pancake, a little girl finally couldn't stand it anymore. She pulled her mother's hand and said, "Mom, I want to eat that."
The mother and daughter came forward.
The woman asked, "How much do you sell these cakes for?"
Su Xiaoxiao said, "They're ten cents each, and there are three flavors. White sesame is stuffed with red beans, black sesame is stuffed with pickled mustard greens and meat, and double sesame is stuffed with mung beans."
The woman frowned and said, "Meat buns are only two cents each, and you're selling a palm-sized cake for ten cents. That's too expensive!"
Su Xiaoxiao patiently explained: "There's a lot of sugar, so it's very sweet. There's meat in the pickled mustard greens, so the filling is quite filling."
Sugar was expensive in ancient times, but the cost was there, so the price she offered was already a fair one.
"Why don't you try it first and buy it if it tastes good."
"ah……"
The woman was stunned.
Su Xiaoxiao wrapped her hands with clean gauze, cut three cakes on the spot, and let the woman and her child try a small piece of each flavor.
"Mom! Delicious, delicious, delicious!"
The woman rarely refuted.
I thought the snacks sold by a village girl wouldn't taste very good, but who would have thought they were so delicious.
And she just noticed the way the chubby country girl cut the biscuits, which was very clean.
"Let's have two each," said the woman.
Su Xiaoxiao took out a clean bamboo leaf pancake and said, "I'll give you an extra one for the opening of the business. Which flavor do you want?"
"Which one do you like best?" the woman asked her daughter.
The little girl said frankly: "I like them all!"
"Let's have the pickled mustard greens," said the woman.
"Okay." Su Xiaoxiao handed the wrapped pancake to the woman.
Su Xiaoxiao said: "Ergou, collect the money."
Looking at the sixty extra coins that suddenly appeared in his purse, Su Ergou couldn't believe it.
How long has it been? He's already earned so much? It's faster than him and his father going door to door to extort money! The mother and daughter's reactions were seen by everyone. Some people questioned whether they were hired as a shill, while others were genuinely curious.
Suddenly, a young scholar in the queue outside Jinji shouted, "Oh! It's her!"
The person in front of him turned around and asked, "Who is it?"
"I asked you to come to Jinji with me yesterday, but you didn't come, so you missed it!" The scholar pointed at Su Xiaoxiao and said, "She is the fat village girl who saved the choking child I told you about!"
"Oh, yes! It's her!"
The person who said this was an old man who had just bought his first box of snacks.
He was also present when Su Xiaoxiao rescued the child.
The scholar smiled and said, "I'll go buy her cakes!"
My companion was anxious: "Hey! We are only two more away from being ours! We have been waiting in line for nearly half an hour!"
The scholar ignored it and walked across the street without looking back.
"Girl, do you remember me?"
"Have we met before?"
"Okay, I was upstairs yesterday, and you were in the lobby, busy rescuing people, so I guess you didn't see me."
Su Xiaoxiao understood that it was a guest of Jinji.
The scholar clapped his folding fan and said, "Your cakes look very ordinary. Jinji also has this kind of shortbread."
Su Xiaoxiao said seriously: "But mine tastes better."
"Ha!" The scholar laughed out loud, not in a mocking way, but simply because he thought this chubby country girl was so confident that she was a little cute.
"I bought them even though they tasted bad. Who told me to honor you as a heroine? Give me ten!"
Su Xiaoxiao packed ten for him.
The scholar was puzzled and asked, "Why didn't you give me one? The customer just now only bought six and you gave them all away."
Su Xiaoxiao said: "That's the opening business. If you are the first one to come tomorrow, even if you only buy one, I will give you one for free."
How could the scholar be greedy for her cake? He didn't expect it to be delicious, he was just teasing her.
He won't come tomorrow!
Thinking of something, he asked again, "Does your pancake have a name? The one from Jinji is called crispy pancake."
Su Xiaoxiao thought for a moment and said, "Wife cake."
Scholar: “???”
…
The dim sum sold better than expected, and in less than half an hour, all one hundred cakes were sold out.
If we go to the market, we won’t be able to sell them so quickly.
After all, her prices were high, and people who went to the market might not be willing to pay ten copper coins for a small snack.
Of course, Jinji's customers are not short of money. If her price was merely cheaper than Jinji's, there wouldn't be so many people coming to buy.
In addition, her aura of being a savior also gives the guests a lot of trust.
Finally, there is a little gimmick - the name of the shortbread.
Wife cake, so novel.
Due to the limitations of cooking tools, the taste of the wife cakes she made was very different from that of her previous life.
However, for the ancients who had never eaten food with various preservatives and additives, the taste of this kind of shortbread was already very wonderful.
When closing the stall, Su Ergou smiled slyly: "Sister, guess how many copper coins we sold today?"
Good morning, are there any cute people following my post?
(End of this chapter)