"Next group, next group, come on stage."
The fourteenth group left the stage, cleaned up the fabrics, and then passed the ball to Liu Qinghuan's group.
Ye Heng and Feng Ying helped to set up the tables and chairs. An iron stove was provided on the boat, and other items were provided separately.
"What are you doing?"
When Liu Qinghuan saw Ye Heng carrying the stove over and putting everything in place but still not leaving, he asked in a low voice.
"I'll light the fire for you."
"..." Liu Qinghuan was speechless. How could this be possible? "No need. Go down quickly. I can do it myself."
"...Really?" Ye Heng looked so aggrieved and reluctant that he was truly pitiful, but Liu Qinghuan still ruthlessly forced Ye to leave the stage.
Liu Qinghuan first scooped some water under the steamer, then lit a fire, and then started making mooncakes.
It was indeed commercial time, so most people stopped watching. After all, who wants to watch someone cook? Unless they want to secretly learn the craft.
But since they can use it on stage for advertising, they are not afraid that you can learn it, so few people have this idea.
Ye Heng was watching quietly behind the stage. Liu Qinghuan was the third one in the group, and Ye Heng saw that she was not obstructed.
Tiny hairs were plastered on his forehead as he stared at the dough in his hands with a look of intense concentration. His eyes seemed imbued with some magical power, and his fingertips kneading the dough with such agility.
Ye Heng couldn't take his eyes off it, thinking to himself that this was clearly a demon, and that the resurrection of the dead was all a lie to him, right?
"It's time for the display. Now, please ask our Lord Lu and Master Xiao to taste and appraise it for us!"
After he finished speaking, two people came up, surrounded by people, and started eating from No. 43 to Liu Qinghuan's side.
"He family's puffer fish, Lord Lu, Old Master Xiao, please enjoy it!" No. 44's voice was very loud, and she announced the name of her family loud and clear. It was really worth her time to put up this advertisement.
The old man just gave a "OK" response.
When they got to Liu Qinghuan, he laid out the snacks slowly and said, "Everyone, please enjoy."
Let a few people eat first, and then announce their numbers, that will be louder.
Lord Lu first took a piece and ate it as if it were just a normal pastry. Old Master Lu was highly respected in Suzhou City, and many young people rushed to offer these pastries to him as a filial tribute. Even those in the palace had tasted them, but they were just so-so.
Neither of them took the mooncake seriously, but after just one bite, before they could chew it thoroughly, the fragrant and slightly astringent aroma filled their mouths.
"What's the filling of this mooncake?" It's not greasy at all.
Old Master Xiao felt that his life had been lived in vain. There were such delicious snacks in the world.
Lord Lu, like a child, stuffed the mooncake in his hand into his stomach in a few bites: "Reward!"
"This is a flower mooncake specially provided by the Huanxi brand. Now it is spring, so the filling is orchid. It is fragrant but not greasy, elegant and slightly sweet. The fragrance surrounds you at first, and it tastes like tea when you savor it carefully, with a long-lasting flavor." Liu Qinghuan boasted to himself, and Lord Lu and Old Master Xiao both joined in.
"Good, it's really good!"
An Lin below saw the right opportunity and gave an order for the small boat loaded with cakes to start hailing.
"Free tasting of Happy Orchid mooncakes!"
This has attracted the interest of many people.
What had Lord Lu and the old man not seen before? They actually praised this pastry so highly. Everyone wanted to know what it tasted like.
"Hey, boy, bring us some."
The waiter would ask for a few pieces from every passenger ship that passed by to try.
"You call this four pieces? It's clearly a pancake cut into four pieces. Do you think my Su family can't even afford a piece of dessert?!"
A maidservant by the Su family's boat was scolding the guy who was delivering cakes.
The waiter, acting as if his client were the Jade Emperor, smiled and said, "I'll give you four more. I only made a hundred of these cakes, and the boss told me when he came that we could only send a maximum of four cakes per ship."
"Alright, alright, get out of here."
The people from the Jin family were very arrogant. They took the paper bag containing the Star Anise pastries for tasting and went back to report.
Everyone who got the sample sniffed it for a long time before putting it in their mouths. Everyone only had one bite, so who would be willing to eat it?
"It's not just about making money, but who would have thought that using flower petals as filling could be so delicious."
"Yeah, yeah, how did it retain its fragrance? Why does it turn sour as soon as I steam it?"
"I think this smells better than real flowers."
"Don't tell me they added some perfume powder into it. That would be really mean." Someone who didn't get a boat heard the discussion here and interjected from across the boat.
"Go away, you're saying the grapes are sour because you can't taste them. This is the natural fragrance of flowers, mixed with the aroma of millet and honey. Don't judge if you haven't tasted it!"
"You just got a chance to try it! I'll go to the Huanxi store and wait for you tomorrow. I'll buy a pound, no, ten pounds to eat!"
Those who didn't get to eat were furious at the smug look on the other boat's face. They had clearly just turned a corner and arrived here, so how come they had already finished their food?
"Tsk, do you know where the word 'Happy' is?"
“…”
Now, everyone realized that such amazing snacks were actually made from an unknown shop.
"I'll go ask around tomorrow. Suzhou is such a small city, isn't it just a dim sum shop?"
Seeing the tense atmosphere on the boat, Yu Tang picked up all ten golden cloth flowers in one hand, exerted a little force in his hand, and then they slowly floated down from above Liu Qinghuan's head like scattered flowers from the sky.
Exaggeratedly shouted: "It's so delicious!"
Yutang's action attracted everyone to follow suit, and now, all the colorful flowers began to fall on Liu Qinghuan's head.
Liu Qinghuan: ...
Yutang picked up another pink flower and went up. If she saw that the flower attack weakened, she would quickly grab two more to make up for it.
Because Yu Tang was a good leader, Liu Qinghuan received a total of 3,544 taels and 9 strings of cash in rewards before he stepped down.
The reward is divided between the organizer and the winner according to the selling price, which means that Liu Qinghuan can get nearly 1,800 taels of silver with this flower.
Not only did this advertisement work, but he also earned back almost double the money Ye Heng had squandered, which made Liu Qinghuan very happy.
"Are you happy?" Ye Heng saw Liu Qinghuan holding the flowers and smiling so hard that her teeth were showing. He really had no way to deal with this little money-grubber.
"Happy, very happy!" Liu Qinghuan grabbed a manager and asked, "Where can we redeem it?"
"Someone will come to redeem it after the competition. I'll issue you a receipt first, and you can come back to collect it after the talent show is over. Miss Liu did well in the exam, and you have a very good chance of becoming the Flower Fairy this year." The steward knew how to judge the situation very well. Although he sounded dissatisfied, the words were flattering enough.
"Okay, I'll come get it after the game."
Because there were so many cloth flowers, Liu Qinghuan asked the steward on the spot to reduce the number of cloth flowers. The steward wrote a note with the official seal on it.
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