Zhao Chuchu and Zhang Xiuyuan had agreed not to pay a deposit, but Zhang Xiuyuan was worried. In the end, he paid a deposit and ordered four of each type of flower cake, saying the extra ones would be given to relatives visiting the next day.
It just so happened that Sister Lin came to look for them after class at the private school. Zhao Chuchu asked Sister Lin to write a note to that person so that he could come directly to pick up the ordered flower cakes with the note tomorrow.
Seeing that the flower cakes could be pre-ordered, the people nearby became eager to try. Even after the two men had completely packed up their stall and went back, they received three more pre-order orders.
Next, reservations became the business model of Zhao's flower cakes, a treatment that no other pastry shop had.
The number of flower cakes sold every day was increasing, and Zhao Chuchu and Zhang Xiuyuan alone were unable to handle it, so Zhang Fulang and Wen Ge'er also joined in.
For a time, following the Zhao family’s “high-priced dishes”, fresh flower cakes once again made the Zhao family famous.
Considering that some people would use flower cakes as gifts, Zhao Chuchu specially bought paper boxes and made different packages, including ordinary packaging, exquisite packaging, luxury packaging, etc.
The price of each package is also different.
Zhao Chuchu knows very well that in the modern Mid-Autumn Festival, people now eat not only mooncakes, but also the packaging. The more luxurious the packaging, the more expensive the mooncakes.
Only when the gift is luxurious can you gain face when giving it away.
This set of principles is applicable in modern times as well as in ancient times.
The price of the packaging box is not expensive, but Zhao Chuchu raised the price a lot, so she made more money.
Although there are four people helping to sell the flower cakes, they are sometimes still too busy to handle it. Now that paper boxes have been added, it takes more time. Sometimes the whole family has to work until late at night.
Zhao Chuchu and Zhang Xiuyuan could still handle it, but Zhang Fulang and the weak Wen Ge'er could not. Moreover, in addition to the flower cakes, they also needed to be busy in the vegetable garden. Zhao Chuchu also had to find time to teach Yuan Ge'er to read, so there was simply not enough time.
"Why don't we hire two people?" Zhao Chuchu suggested.
After discussing it, the whole family agreed.
When Qiao Fulang learned that they were looking to hire someone, he recommended someone to them...
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In Zhaojia Village, there was a woman who was the head of a family. She gave birth to thirteen children. The first six were born to her deceased husband, and the last seven were born to her second husband.
In ancient rural areas, the economy was underdeveloped and life was difficult. Natural disasters and man-made disasters made life even more difficult, and the death of children was common.
Of the thirteen children born to Zhao Mingxian, five died young. Two died of illness, and three starved to death during the famine. Now, there are only eight children left: six daughters and two sons.
Zhao Xiuqing is the eldest son of the family. He is now 23 years old and still unmarried.
Zhao Xiuqing was good-looking and capable, but no one dared to come to her house to act as a matchmaker.
All the money she earned over the years was used to support her younger siblings who were crying for food at home. The family was poor. Her mother was in poor health because she had given birth to too many children. Now she was old and often sick. She needed money to see a doctor and buy medicine. The second and third daughters were also old, but they were still single and had no money to get married.
Last year, the third son fell in love with a young man, but the boy's family saw that the third son could not afford the betrothal money and there were so many people in the family. They were afraid that their son would have to work hard to support the family after getting married, so they refused to agree to them being together.
In the end, the young man was married off by his family to a wealthy widow from the next village as a second wife. The third brother was heartbroken and in pain for a long time.
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