Huh?
It's so delicious!
It was sweet and fragrant, with a hint of milk, and the delicate aroma of the bamboo leaves balanced out the sweetness perfectly. It was exactly to her liking.
"How much are these?" She immediately ran back, looking around for a place where the zongzi (sticky rice dumplings) were displayed.
Liu Zi was standing at the door observing everyone's reaction to the zongzi.
"We only accept pre-orders for zongzi. These three types are two yuan each, and the rest are one yuan and fifty cents each. Minimum order is five. This is just a seasonal item, and we don't plan to offer it on a large scale in our store."
Liu Zi is right. Although the zongzi are delicious, they are a bit pricey, so the quantity is probably not very large.
The main problem is that the fillings are too expensive. She added cream and condensed milk to the fillings of those three types of zongzi that cost two yuan each.
These items are quite expensive, so we can't sell them too cheaply.
To her surprise, the number of pre-orders for the zongzi was excellent, especially after the announcement the next day, when the number of pre-orders skyrocketed.
Liu Zi had no choice but to contact several of the older women who had previously worked as temporary workers to ask if they had any free time.
Since the equipment was readily available, Liu Zi directly borrowed the store's mixer, steamer, and so on.
Seeing the daily increase in orders, Liu Zi felt that after the Dragon Boat Festival, the store should be able to add two more refrigerators.
No matter how good the zongzi business was, it didn't stop Liu Zi from delivering them.
Liu Zi felt somewhat inconvenienced by this delivery.
She went to a packaging factory in the suburbs of Beijing to order a batch of bamboo baskets, ten zongzi per set, and then put their shop's trademark on the outside. The order volume doubled again.
She had already told her parents that if they needed anything, they could come to the store to pick it up. The rest was up to Liu Zi to arrange.
The studio doesn't use such fancy packaging; they could just use bags.
The remaining tasks involved finding partners. Liu Zi selected a few and entrusted the matter to Wang Jian.
He can send more to CCTV, and he can control the amount himself. However, the bill must be processed through the company. He can't just take the fruit drinks for free. After all, Liu Zi has already started allocating shares to the two store managers, so everything has to be done properly.
As for herself, she had several baskets in her car and three boxes of individually packaged zongzi (sticky rice dumplings).
She intended to send these to Teacher Yu Hai at the military band. She had simply handed everything over to him, and felt a little guilty about it.
Upon arriving at the military compound, the sentry at the gate recognized Liu Zi and kindly advised her to contact the military band in advance.
A new guard post has been set up at the entrance, and unauthorized personnel are not allowed to enter without a special pass.
Upon hearing this, Liu Zi made up her mind; it seemed the matter should be resolved.
She got out of the car and took a bag from the back seat.
"The rice dumplings I made at my shop, you can heat them up at the canteen after you finish your shifts."
The squad leader on duty refused to take anything, but Liu Zi didn't waste any more words with him. She simply put the bag aside and drove away.
Fortunately, this wasn't a military-sensitive area, and Liu Zi's phone was still usable. She first called Teacher Yu Hai's office, but no one answered; he was probably in the training hall.
Having no other option, she called Commander Li's office again.
"Commander Li, I just entered the compound. I heard there's a new gatekeeper. May I enter now?"
"Liu Zi! You can come in. I'll have a clerk pick you up." Commander Li immediately ordered someone to go outside to get Liu Zi's car.
To ensure the safety of the instruments and to prevent vandalism, the military band and the Beijing Military Region jointly decided to add a new guard post.
Liu Zi saw Commander Li's orderly and instead of driving off, she took a bamboo basket from the back seat of the car.
"These are zongzi for the Dragon Boat Festival, from my shop. I'll give a few to Commander Li to try."
Liu Zi certainly wouldn't favor one over the other. There were sentries at the main gate, and there were sentries here as well, but there were relatively fewer people here, so she took a few.
"This..." While Commander Li's orderly was still hesitating whether to accept it, Liu Zi had already put the things on the table next to her and drove away.
The orderly was dumbfounded. What should they do?
This was the first time the gatekeeper had received anything like this, and he was scratching his head, unsure of what to do!
Liu Zi heard the noise in the yard and drove over. The noise was so loud, it was easy to find.
Teacher Yu Hai was standing on a high platform, surrounded by several people who seemed to be discussing something.
Liu Zi wasn't sure if she had come to the right place; there wasn't a single car in the courtyard, and the more she drove, the more uneasy she felt.
Fortunately, everyone seemed to be familiar with her car, and no one stopped her.
Liu Zi thought to herself that she was there to deliver holiday gifts, so how could she get them in if she parked her car outside? So she felt perfectly justified and kept getting closer and closer.
Yu Hai rubbed his temples. This girl was far too unrestrained.
Liu Zi parked the car nonchalantly, got out, took off her sunglasses, and waved to Yu Hai.
Yu Hai sighed and walked over.
"Why did you come here?"
"I felt guilty seeing how hard you've worked, so I came to give you a holiday gift!" Liu Zi said playfully.
"What kind of holiday gifts?" Yu Hai was so engrossed in composing music that he hadn't paid any attention to such things.
"It's the Dragon Boat Festival!"
Liu Zi wondered if Teacher Yu Hai was living a rather rough life.
Yu Hai gave him a look that said, "Are you kidding me?"
Liu Zi gave an awkward smile: "I'm here to deliver something!"
After saying that, he opened the car door and took out a basket.
"There are so many people here, and you only brought one basket. How are we going to divide it up?" Yu Hai said bluntly.
"There's still some in the trunk. I brought three big suitcases, not as many as yours, but everyone can still have a meal," Liu Zi quickly added.
"I don't like it, let's all share it!"
After Yu Hai finished speaking, he tried to hand over the basket in his hand, but Liu Zi stopped him.
"Teacher, these zongzi are all our shop's original creations, with eight different fillings. You're never home, so bring some back for your wife so you can explain it to her!"
Yu Hai thought about it and realized that what the girl said made sense. Recently, his wife had been complaining that he was working overtime every day and had stopped making him breakfast.
"Don't try to take advantage of me. Call me 'Auntie,' I'm fifteen years older than you."
Yu Hai said with dissatisfaction, "If you call her 'wife' or 'sister-in-law,' then he'll be on the same generation as Liu Zi! He'll be a generation younger than Lao Li and the others for no reason."
"But my aunt is ten years younger than you. We are indeed the same age. You'd better ask her properly, so that next time you see her, she won't think I made her sound old." Liu Zi had heard about Teacher Yu Hai's love story, and heard that his wife was once his student.
"Get out of here, if you have nothing else to do, hurry up and leave, I'm busy here!" Yu Hai said with an angry and embarrassed expression.
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