Chapter 12 Making an idea (asking for monthly votes)
Mrs. Liu took it and took a bite, but the frost on her face did not melt at all, "Ms. Xia's meat pie is indeed very delicious, but no matter how delicious it is, I can't bear to eat it all day long, not to mention that I didn't say I wanted to eat meatloaf today, so you just went to buy it. People who don't know thought you were thinking about Mrs. Xia's good-looking child, so you insisted on talking about it. What a sentence!”
“What you said is really an injustice!” Shopkeeper Qian argued anxiously, “Don’t you know my usual conduct? I just saw that the pancakes made by Madam Xia were delicious and the business was good, so I thought about trying to win over them to see if I could get them to set up a stall here, so as to gain popularity for our family."
"You are actually the one. Did you come up with this idea?" Mrs. Liu obviously didn't expect this, and was a little surprised, then nodded, "But your calculation is indeed good. If Madam Xia's food stall does well, we can indeed benefit from it."
< br>"It's okay, I believe you for now, but if Madam Xia doesn't come here to set up a stall, then I don't believe what you say, and we will settle the score then."
"Don't worry, Madam, Madam Xia is a smart person." Shopkeeper Qian was very sure, "We are very sincere, and Madam Xia can see it. When the time comes, Madam Xia will express her position again, and it will be close..."
Here, in front of Xia Mingyue and Lu's cake stall, two scholars came.
It is the scholar who came here yesterday to buy black vegetable meat pie. The tall one is named Zhang Mingyi, and the shorter one is Fan Pingyang.
The two people handed the small bamboo basket they were carrying to Xia Mingyue.
"I want ten black vegetable meat patties and eight green onion meat patties. I just heard that there are new shortbreads today. Let's have six." Zhang Mingyi said.
"I'm sorry." Xia Mingyue said embarrassedly, "You two came a little late. There are not so many pancakes at the moment. There are only three black vegetable meat pancakes and two green onion meat pancakes. Today's new leek and egg pancakes are gone. Sold out."
"There are only five meatloaf left?" Fan Pingyang frowned and turned to discuss with Zhang Mingyi, "I'm afraid it won't be enough to share these five meatloaf. What should I do?"
"Explain it truthfully when you go back. These five meatloaf can only be taken back to the master to eat first, and the rest will have to wait until tomorrow."
Zhang Mingyi was also a little worried after the suggestion, "It's just that we have a heavy workload, so I'm afraid we won't be able to come early tomorrow."
I'm afraid I still won't be able to buy this meat pie.
When Xia Mingyue heard the word "Master", she raised her eyebrows slightly, "Are you two students from the county school?"
"Exactly." The two nodded.
After the establishment of the new dynasty, imperial examinations were still popular to select talents.
However, in order to select talents faster, the county schools in each county have widely accepted students, and the threshold has been lowered. Whether they are children or scholars, as long as they pass the entrance examination, they can enter the county school. There are prefecture examinations twice in three years. It has also been changed to once a year, and the provincial examination is changed to three times every two years.
With the strong support from the imperial court, the number of students in the county school is naturally not a small number.
There are usually canteens in county schools for students to eat, but students still come here to buy meat pies. There are probably two reasons.
First, the food in the county school’s canteen tastes bad.
Secondly, the cakes she made tasted so good that some students never forgot them after eating them.
Money is coming to your door!
Xia Mingyue's eyes lit up, "Since you are students from the county school, you can pay half of the deposit today to make a reservation, and I will have someone send you to the county school tomorrow."
"This is a good idea." Zhang Mingyi and Fan Pingyang agreed. They took out their money bags and paid the deposit as Xia Mingyue said. "As I just said, there will be a total of twenty-four pancakes. They will be delivered before noon tomorrow." Just ask the county school concierge.”
“Don’t worry, you two. It will be delivered on time." Xia Mingyue agreed and took advantage of the situation. "If you want to make another order after receiving the cake tomorrow, you can just tell the person who sent the cake directly, and I can prepare it early."
The county school is in Dongcheng District, some distance from Xicheng District.
For Xia Mingyue’s cake stall, the scope of business is limited. Although she is very confident in the taste of various cakes she makes, it is not yet enough to make people go all the way from Dongcheng District to the west. It’s like eating a pancake in the city.
Maybe we can take advantage of this to open up new sales. "Thank you so much, madam." Zhang Mingyi and Fan Pingyang thanked them, confirmed with Xia Mingyue again the time for delivering the cakes tomorrow, bought the remaining five meat cakes, and then left.
Xia Mingyue and Lu closed their stalls and went home.
In the afternoon, Xia Mingyue picked up leeks and replenished onions, ginger, garlic and other ingredients for making cakes. With a little free time, Xia Mingyue picked up her needle and thread.
In order to save money, I only bought fabrics for the clothes I planned to make, instead of letting the cloth shop make them into ready-made clothes. Mrs. Lu helped cut the pieces of cloth to the right size.
Relying on the memory received from the original owner and the original owner's instinct, Xia Mingyue sewed the clothes smoothly, and her skills became more and more proficient after threading the needle for two consecutive days.
Today's stitches are much finer than when I first picked up the needle, and the sewing speed has also improved a lot.
When it got dark in the evening, Xia Mingyue finished her first piece of clothing.
Arrange and try on.
The length is just right, the width is just right, and even the sleeves are the length she wants.
Not bad.
Xia Mingyue tugged at the cuffs and hem of her shirt again and again, but the corners of her raised mouth dropped down after a moment.
Without a full-length mirror, she couldn't even see clearly when the clothes she made were put on her body.
And a polished, smooth and clear small bronze mirror is quite expensive, not to mention a full-length mirror as tall as a person...
It is absolutely unaffordable with her current income.
The money you make is not enough, you have to keep working hard!
Xia Mingyue clenched her fists and secretly made up her mind. When she and Lu were making noodles that night, she put two more scoops of noodles into the big basin.
Tomorrow is another day of collecting heavy amounts of money!
Seeing this, Mrs. Lu pursed her lips and smiled happily, and her hands kneaded the noodles a little faster.
The next day was busy as usual. Xia Mingyue and Lu made cakes in advance to be delivered to the county school office, and asked brothers Zhao Dahu and Zhao Erhu to make a trip.
Zhao Dahu and Zhao Erhu hurriedly responded to the fact that having an errand could prove that their two children were also very useful. They also repeatedly guaranteed that the cakes would be delivered safely and the money would be sufficient. Bring it back.
"This is a pancake for the guests. If you two dare to be greedy and eat it secretly, watch your skin carefully!" Mrs. Lu warned her, for fear of affecting Xia Mingyue's business.
"Don't worry, mother, we two are not greedy people!" Zhao Dahu and Zhao Erhu assured loudly with their chests puffed out.
Lu, "..."
I really didn't see it.
"Anyway, you remember one thing. Your Aunt Xia attaches great importance to the business of the county school. If you don't do it well, you will have to think about the consequences!"
as a result of?
Is there any need to think about it?
Thanks to "Apeach828" for voting for the month~
(End of this chapter)