Chapter 83 Chapter 83 New Business Opportunities
"I'm really too busy now. Someone has made an appointment to do their hair in my shop in the next few days. I don't know how late I will be busy every day. I really don't have time to go to the county town to buy materials. My son Junhua's birthday is coming soon, so I'd better buy it directly from you." Junhua's mother pushed the money back again.
She was afraid that Ning Shaoming would refuse, so she added, "I've been to the county town many times, and I know that cakes need to be baked in an oven. Cakes made without an oven will definitely taste different from those in the county town. I'm prepared for all this, just make it. My children really like the cakes you make, so it doesn't matter whether it's baked in an oven or not!"
Junhua's mother put the money on the table and took her son away.
As her son Liu Junhua was being dragged away, he turned around and warned: "Uncle Ning, I want the same cake as Xiaoxia's, for my birthday next Friday. Remember, make it for me first, and don't let others cut in line!"
Before he could finish his words, the mother and son had already run far away. He didn't know how they could run so fast.
Ning Shaoming reacted, but he couldn't catch up with them. He could only hold the 100 yuan that Liu Junhua's mother put down and shouted to their backs: "It's just a small cake, it doesn't cost that much!"
Liu Junhua's mother's voice came from afar: "Let's talk after you buy it. If you exceed the limit, you can get a refund or you can get a refund if you do not meet the limit!"
Ning Shixia popped his head out from the side: "Dad, am I causing you trouble?"
Ning Shaoming rubbed her little head: "How can it be troublesome for me? It is to bring me wealth."
"Hehe!" Ning Shixia felt relieved.
Ning Shixia went to school the next day and promoted the event vigorously in the preschool class, the senior class and his own middle class.
In addition, Liu Junhua, who was the first to successfully order a cake, also boasted proudly at school that his birthday on Friday would be the same as Ning Shixia's birthday.
There was cake and you could blow out the candles and make a wish, which attracted the envy of many children.
The junior high school students had a holiday on Friday and could not leave, so Ning Shaoming took advantage of the fact that there were not many customers on Thursday afternoon and went to the county town to buy ingredients to make a cake for Liu Junhua.
That morning, out of the six children who came to ask questions, four of their parents also came with their children.
They heard that Liu Junhua's mother paid for the materials directly and asked Ning Shaoming to help buy the materials. They thought that this could save travel expenses, so they also wanted to pay Ning Shaoming to help buy them.
Ning Shaoming asked them not to pay yet: "Wait until I go to the county to see how much it costs to buy materials, and then you can pay. This way I will know how much to pay."
He wrote down the birthdays of his four children. After arriving in the county town, he looked at the ingredient with the shortest shelf life, whipped cream, and planned to buy enough to make three cakes according to the children's birthdays.
One is Liu Junhua, whose birthday is on Friday.
The other two children’s birthdays are one on Children’s Day and the other three days after Children’s Day.
When he had chosen the items and was ready to pay, he thought that his own children would also celebrate Children's Day on June 1st, so he might as well make a Children's Day cake for them as well.
So I bought some more, planning to give the two children a surprise when the time comes.
After returning home, he calculated the prices. Whipped cream and milk were relatively expensive, but the other ingredients were very cheap on average.
The cost of a small cake is about thirty cents.
After returning home, Ning Shaoming rounded off the bill for several families and only charged thirty yuan.
When Liu Junhua's mother heard that it was so cheap, she asked directly: "Did you buy enough materials for the cake? My child has invited a lot of people for his birthday. Can you make one more for me? You don't have to return the remaining money to me. Just consider it as labor fee."
How could Ning Shaoming accept this? He agreed to do it for free, so what would it mean if he were to charge for it now?
He insisted on returning the money: "We agreed not to charge any money before. I helped you out of Xiao Xia's face. If I charge money, it would be very disrespectful to Xiao Xia. If someone asks me again in the future, I won't be able to refuse them.
If you want to patronize my business, it’s not too late to come when I start selling cakes formally. ”
Liu Junhua’s mother had no choice. Last time, she and her son ran too fast. This time, Ning Shaoming was trying to prevent her from running away, so he asked Zhao Ruyue to guard the door to prevent her from escaping.
After Ning Shaoming finished speaking, he returned the money and went into the kitchen to busy himself. Liu Junhua's mother had no choice but to accept the money he returned, thinking that their family was very honest in doing business.
She silently decided in her heart that if his family really sold cakes in the future, she would definitely bring her relatives and friends to patronize them, and would also introduce all the customers who went to her house for hair treatments to the Ning family's shop.
As for now, her Junhua gets along well with Xiaoxia. Ever since Ning Shaoming and Zhao Ruyue opened the store, she came to eat once and found the food delicious, so her family has been buying breakfast and lunch from them.
After Liu Junhua's mother left with the money, Ning Shaoming suddenly remembered: "Oh no, the ingredients I bought are only enough to make four cakes. I can make two for her Junhua, but the remaining ingredients are not enough to make the Children's Day cake for our children."
Zhao Ruyue asked, "After making four cakes, all the ingredients are used up. Is there nothing left?"
Ning Shaoming said: "That's not the case. It's hard to calculate the ingredients just right when making these things. Everything else is fine, but the amount of whipped cream is not enough to make the fifth cake. If you put too little, the cake won't look good, and children love whipped cream."
Although eating too much cream is not good, their family does not have the conditions to let the children eat too much cream. They only make it for the children occasionally. Of course, when making homemade things, they have to put enough ingredients.
"That's easy. You don't need whipped cream to make the cake base. Just do it. I'll have a way when the time comes."
Zhao Ruyue kept him in suspense and didn't tell him what the method was, and asked him to wait until Children's Day to see.
Friday night is Liu Junhua’s birthday.
His father and mother came out directly, each holding a cake, which made him very happy, and also made the other children who came to celebrate his birthday very envious.
These two cakes made Liu Junhua the envy of all the children in the town for a long time after his birthday.
Except for those who had already ordered cakes, the children whose birthdays were not far from Liu Junhua told their families after returning home that they also wanted cakes for their birthdays.
At one time, many parents who came to Ning Shaoming's place to eat rice noodles couldn't help but ask one more question: "I heard that you can make custom cakes?"
Ning Shaoming hurriedly explained: "The child was just playing around. I don't have an oven at home, so how can I make a cake?"
Now Dorayaki has become a product that sells better than hot dog buns. Many people from nearby villages come to the market to buy bags of it, and the sales of hot dog buns have not dropped much.
Even if he gave all the work of cooking noodles to Ning Shichun, he would already be busy enough and didn't want to take any more orders.
Unless the family can afford a commercial oven, he plans to open a bakery.
However, it was no use for Ning Shaoming to say this now.
The children's propaganda was so effective that people in the town believed that not only could he make cakes with a rice cooker, but they also believed that the "bread" used in his hot dog buns was also made with the rice cooker.
Especially those in the town who wanted to follow the trend and sell hot dog buns also tried to secretly make buns in rice cookers.
The result is predictable. The food is totally inedible. It is either mushy or as hard as a brick and can make people dizzy.
One person even caused the rice cooker at home to explode. When Ning Shaoming went to watch the fun, he couldn't figure out for a long time how this person managed to make the rice cooker explode.
Some people used to think that he had only been in Shenzhen for one year and had only worked in the hotel kitchen for half a year, so what real skills could he have learned?
Other people's apprenticeships usually start with a year, and it takes two to three years, or even three to five years to become a master. He must have only learned half of it.
After this incident, the people in the town were completely convinced of Ning Shaoming. They all said that he was indeed amazing and a man of real ability.
However, many people want to ask Ning Shaoming whether he will accept apprentices, but they are still waiting and watching.
After all, Ning Shaoming's own store has just been open for less than a year. It is obvious that he will not recruit apprentices so quickly, unless he is like Liu Junhua's mother and is preparing to open a branch, then he will start recruiting people.
Following Liu Junhua's mother, people in Rongxi Town who wanted their children to learn a skill also took Ning Shaoming to heart.
People who want to eat out will choose this restaurant first, hoping to get to know it first.
When he recruits apprentices in the future, even if we are not his relatives, we can still establish the relationship of being his old customers.
The townspeople's enthusiasm for cakes and Dorayaki made it impossible for Ning Shaoming and Zhao Ruyue to ignore the business opportunities in this area.
When he went to the store to purchase something again, Ning Shaoming couldn't help but walk to the section where ovens were sold and silently memorized the prices of the ovens.
Most of the ovens on the market now are imported products. Even though household ovens are cheaper than commercial ones, they are actually quite expensive. After buying them, they cannot be used in daily family life, and they are not enough for commercial use. They are a bit useless for their families.
Instead of buying a cheap home oven as a transition, it is better to continue saving money and buy a commercial oven in one go.
However, the cheapest commercial oven costs just over 6,000 yuan.
Ning Shaoming calculated the profits of his family's store. After deducting various expenses, they could save more than four thousand, nearly five thousand yuan a month.
If nothing unexpected happens, after leaving some spare cash in the store, you can buy an oven in at least two months and at most four months.
They can still afford to wait this time.
*
Children's Day is coming soon.
The school held a garden party that morning. Children could play various games, such as blindfolded gong beating, shuttlecock kicking, rope skipping, basketball shooting, dart throwing, etc., and get fruits, candies, biscuits and jellies prepared by the teachers.
The two children got up early in the morning and ran to school impatiently, saying that they were class leaders and had to go early to help the teacher with arrangement.
There were many people coming to the store to eat that morning, and Ning Shaoming was busy until four in the afternoon before he had time to make cakes.
He was worried that the two children would find out that he was doing it for them too, which would not be a surprise enough.
Unexpectedly, the two children did not come back in the afternoon.
She asked Zhao Ruyue with some concern: "Why haven't Xiaoqiu and Xiaoxia come back yet? What else is going on at school today?"
Zhao Ruyue said with a smile, "You forgot that the elementary school holds a party every June 1st night, and both of our children have to perform. In the afternoon, they woke up from their nap, ate something casually, and then hurried to school to put on makeup. Xiaoqiu was the little host, and she said she wanted to rehearse again before the performance."
Ning Shaoming was so focused on the suspense she had kept before and thinking about preparing a surprise for the two children on June 1st that she actually forgot about the performance that the two children were going to perform.
After Zhao Ruyue reminded him, he also remembered that he went to the county town to buy things a few days ago and took his two children to the county town to buy clothes and shoes for them to wear for the performance.
Last year, his family had two children, but the daughter was too young, and the teacher didn't dare to choose her because he was afraid that she would cry on the stage.
My son started school too early and is one or two years younger than his classmates. I guess he didn’t get enough nutrition and was much shorter than his classmates.
Last year, their class's program was about boys and girls dancing hand in hand. At that time, he was shorter than the girls and was not selected.
Maybe because the family had good food this year, the two children grew very fast and looked taller than their classmates who were one or two years older than them. That’s why they were finally selected to participate in the show.
Ning Shaoming is very much looking forward to seeing his children's performance.
He couldn't help but speed up his movements and said to Zhao Ruyue, "I'll hurry up and make the cake. Let's go to the children's school early so that we can get a good seat in advance and watch the children's performance!"
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
