Chapter 20 Business
"Jinji."
"Isn't that right, sister? You want to sell the pancakes to Kam Kee?"
If it was before yesterday, she might have tried this, but after experiencing Rong'en Hall, she understood that she, a little village girl, could not get into the eyes of these shops.
"Let's go to the opposite side of Kam Kee."
Su Ergou was dumbfounded: "Sister, Jin Kee sells dim sum! How many shops opened across from it have closed down! Can we compete with them for business?"
Su Xiaoxiaofeng said calmly: "Stealing business? You are worrying too much. Just two baskets of cakes can't sell to many people. However, it's good that you have this ambition. Maybe one day in the future, we can really compete with Jin Kee."
Maybe they’re trying to steal business.”
Su Ergou muttered: "Sister, why do you daydream more than me?"
Su Xiaoxiao smiled and said: "Okay, we will know in a moment whether we can sell it or not."
In ancient times, there was no urban management. As long as they did not block the entrance of the store, they could usually set up some stalls. Of course, if it affected the operation of the store, they would be driven away by the store owner.
The jewelry shop opposite Kam Kee opens late, so this is the perfect time to set up a stall.
Kam Kee’s first pot of sweet-scented osmanthus cake is almost ready, and there’s a long queue at the door.
The more Su Ergou looked at it, the more he felt that he might not be able to sell any of them today.
Su Xiaoxiao found a suitable position and took out the cake.
They didn't have a stall truck, so before setting off, Su Xiaoxiao made a bamboo sieve tray that hung around her neck.
The golden shortbread was neatly placed on the tray. If it were any other vendor, it might not have attracted much attention.
But Su Xiaoxiao is a fat man weighing 200 pounds!
Who walks over and doesn't look at her twice?
Even those waiting in line for Kam Kee dim sum couldn't help but look at her frequently.
"Sister, let me serve the cakes," Su Ergou said.
"No, you have other tasks." Su Xiaoxiao picked up a shortbread and handed it to Su Ergou, "Eat."
Su Ergou: "Aren't we going to sell it?"
Su Xiaoxiao said: "You don't understand, this is called eating and broadcasting."
Su Ergou: "..."
Su Ergou was used to all the abnormalities after his sister broke her brain. Since his sister asked him to eat, he would just eat.
When he ate the third pancake, a little girl finally got so greedy that she took her mother's hand and said, "Mom, I want to eat that."
The mother and daughter stepped forward.
The woman asked: "How do you sell this cake?"
Su Xiaoxiao said: "It costs ten cents each and has three flavors. White sesame is red bean stuffing, black sesame is prune, vegetable and meat stuffing, and double sesame is mung bean stuffing."
The woman frowned and said, "The meat buns only cost two cents each, and you sell a palm-sized cake for ten cents. It's too expensive!"
Su Xiaoxiao explained patiently: "There is a lot of sugar, it is very sweet, there is meat in the prunes, and the filling is very filling."
Sugar was expensive in ancient times, and the cost was there, so this was a conscientious price.
"Why don't you try it first and make sure it tastes good before you buy it?"
"ah……"
The woman was stunned.
Su Xiaoxiao wrapped her hands with clean gauze and cut three cakes on the spot, letting the woman and her child taste a small piece of each flavor.
"Mom! It's delicious, delicious, delicious!"
The woman rarely retorted.
I thought the snacks sold by a village girl wouldn't taste much better, but I didn't expect them to be so delicious.
And she had just noticed the little fat village girl's movements when cutting the cake, which was very clean.
"Let's have two of the same," the woman said.
Su Xiaoxiao took out a clean bamboo leaf to wrap the pancake: "I'm opening a business. I'll give you one more. Which flavor do you want?"
"Which one is your favorite?" the woman asked her daughter.
The little girl said bluntly: "I like them all!"
"Let's have some prunes and vegetables," the woman said.
"Okay." Su Xiaoxiao handed the wrapped pancake to the woman.
The woman took out her purse.
Su Xiaoxiao said: "Ergou, collect the money."
Su Ergou couldn't believe it when he saw the sixty coins that suddenly appeared in his wallet.
How long have you been working hard? Are you able to earn so much?
It’s faster than him and his dad going door to door to extort money!
The reaction of the mother and daughter was watched by everyone. Some people questioned whether they were shills, while others were genuinely curious.
Suddenly, a young scholar in the queue at the entrance of Jin Kee shouted: "Oh! It's her!"
The companion in front of him turned his head and asked: "Who is it?"
"I asked you to come to Jin Kee with me yesterday, but if you didn't come, you might have missed it!" The scholar pointed at Su Xiaoxiao, "She, the one I told you, saved the fat village girl who choked her child!
"
"Ah, yes! It's her!"
The person who said this was the old man who had just bought his first box of snacks.
He was also present when Su Xiaoxiao rescued the child.
The scholar smiled and said, "I'll buy her cakes!"
The companion was anxious: "Hey! There are only two more and we will be here! We have been waiting in line for almost half an hour!"
The scholar didn't care and went to the other side of the street without looking back.
"Girl, do you still remember me?"
"Have we met?"
"Okay, yesterday I was upstairs and you were in the lobby, busy rescuing people, so you probably didn't see me."
Su Xiaoxiao understood, he was a guest of Jin Kee.
The scholar clapped the folding fan in his hand and said, "Your pancakes look very ordinary. Jin Kee also has this kind of shortcake."
Su Xiaoxiao said seriously: "But mine is more delicious."
"Ha!" The scholar laughed out loud, not because he was mocking her, but simply because he thought this little fat village girl was so confident and cute.
"It tastes bad and I bought it too. Who asked me to respect you as a heroic girl? Give me ten!"
Su Xiaoxiao packed ten bags for him.
The scholar wondered: "Why don't you give me one as a gift? The customer just bought only six and you gave them all away."
Su Xiaoxiao said: "That's an open business. If you are the first to come tomorrow, even if you only buy one, I will give you one as a gift."
How could the scholar be greedy for her cake? He didn't expect it to be delicious, he was just teasing her.
He won't come tomorrow!
Thinking of something, he asked again: "Does this cake of yours have a name? Jin Kee's calls it shortcake."
Su Xiaoxiao thought for a while and said, "Wife cake."
Scholar: "???"
…
The sales of dim sum were smoother than expected. In less than half an hour, all 100 pancakes were sold out.
If you go to the market, you won't be able to sell it so quickly.
After all, her prices are high, and people going to the market may not be willing to pay ten copper coins for a small snack.
Of course, Jin Kee's customers are not short of money. If her price was just cheaper than Jin Kee, there wouldn't be so many people buying it.
In addition, she has the aura of saving people, which also gives her customers a lot of trust.
Finally, there is a little gimmick - the name of the shortbread.
Wife cake, so novel.
Limited by the cooking tools, the wife cake she made still tastes very different from the wife cake in her previous life.
However, for the ancients who have never eaten various preservatives and additives, the taste of this shortbread is already very wonderful.
When closing the stall, Su Ergou smiled coquettishly: "Sister, how many copper coins do you think we sold today?"
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Chapter completed!