Song Qiaoqiao curled her lips, lowered her head and said awkwardly: "My mother-in-law never let me make cakes since she was a child."
"Okay, then you can put the pastries into the mold." Cheng Qingwen lay on the bed helplessly and fell asleep soon.
In the next few days, everyone was busy buying ingredients.
The night before the opening, Cheng Qinghan was still climbing a shelf to hang lanterns.
Cheng Hua'er stood below, looking at the big word "Cheng" on the lantern, and smiled happily.
"Wanwan, come down for dinner soon."
"Okay, I'll be down right away."
Cheng Qingwen smiled and climbed down. As soon as he landed, he saw Su Yunwei getting off the carriage not far away.
She stood there and waited for a while, watching her approach before saying, "I thought you had forgotten the ten taels of silver."
Su Yunwei smiled awkwardly and glanced at the door plaque covered with red cloth: "Are you planning to open a business?"
"Yes, tomorrow." Cheng Qingwen walked into the house and whispered a few words to Qiaoqiao.
"I came today to tell you about the cakes for the full moon ceremony."
"I know, besides looking for trouble, this is the only thing you can do."
Su Yunwei didn't seem to hear the insinuation and said to herself: "The full moon ceremony will be at the beginning of next month. Each cake will cost fifty pieces, and ten taels is the deposit."
Cheng Qingwen fiddled with the abacus twice, looked at the calculated numbers, frowned and asked, "Have you told your sister how much a serving of my pastries costs?"
"I told you."
"Then don't your sister think that a deposit of ten taels is too much?"
Su Yunwei raised her eyebrows and said with a contemptuous smile: "Of course I don't think so, it's just twice as much. If your pastries are liked by everyone at the banquet, my sister will reward you heavily."
When Cheng Qinghan heard this familiar tune, she rolled her eyes in her heart.
"Actually, ten taels of silver is nothing to our family. It's not like you. You have to work hard for a year to get it."
Cheng Qingwen didn't wait for her to finish, but directly stuffed ten taels of silver into her arms and said, "Okay, I understand. In this case, you go back first, and I will discuss everything after the opening."
Su Yunwei was stunned for a moment while holding the box in her arms, and looked at each other with the maid behind her for a long time.
"Cheng Qinghan, you are trying to beat out the God of Wealth who came to your door!"
"I don't have it. Isn't the God of Wealth hanging on the wall?" Cheng Qingwen pointed directly at the statue of the god on the wall and said with an innocent look.
"I'm here to give you money, and this is how you treat me?" Su Yunwei stamped her feet and said angrily.
"Come, Miss." Cheng Qingwen pulled up a chair for her, as if talking all night long: "I'm going to open tomorrow. After dinner, we all have to work. What do you have?
As for the matter, we can discuss it after we finish our work."
Just as Su Yunwei was about to say something, she saw that the others had finished their meal and went to work.
Cheng Qingwen buried herself in the rice, and after a while, she finished eating and went to work.
In a small place, everyone is busy with work, but Su Yunwei is the most leisurely person sitting there.
She looked at it for a while, but no one paid attention to her. Then she felt it was boring, so she turned around and left with the maid.
Cheng Qinghan was looking at preparing the ingredients for tomorrow and didn't notice anyone leaving.
It wasn't until everything was tidied up and everyone was going to bed that they realized they were gone.
That night, Cheng Qingwan did not sleep well and woke up several times before Yin hour.
The last time I really couldn't go back to sleep, so I just got up.
As soon as she moved, Song Qiaoqiao woke up immediately.
"Huanhua, what time is it?"
"It's not Yinshi yet, you can sleep a little longer." Cheng Qingwan stood up and put on her clothes and said.
"Where are you going?" Song Qiaoqiao sat up and asked, rubbing her forehead.
"I can't sleep anyway, so I'm going to the kitchen to get ready."
"Then I'll go with you." Song Qiaoqiao said as she got up: "I can't sleep well either. I keep waking up. I might as well go to the kitchen to prepare."
"Okay, let's go down together." Cheng Qingwen sat on the bed for a while, waiting for her to get dressed and wash up.
Afterwards, the two of them went downstairs together.
Before I even reached the stairs, I heard the door to Lian Zhi's room open.
The girl came out and looked at the people in front of her in surprise: "Sister Hanhun, Sister Qiaoqiao, are you up too?"
"Why are you up too?"
"I couldn't sleep, so I got up early to see if there was anything else I could do." Lian Zhi rubbed his eyes and followed them down the road.
The three of them walked to the kitchen together and made some breakfast.
After breakfast, we started kneading dough and making pastries.
After they were almost ready, Cheng Hua'er and the others also came down.
The family was busy in the kitchen till midnight, and some of the cakes were steamed out.
Cheng Hua'er and Aunt Liu took the freshly baked pastries and put them on the counter. Lian Zhi prepared the account books and abacus and waited for the door to open.
Cheng Qingwen and Song Qiaoqiao saw that the time was almost up and walked out, waiting for the auspicious opening.
At a quarter of the hour, the door opened wide, and Aunt Liu and Lian Song lit firecrackers outside the door, attracting many people.
Cheng Hua'er waited for the firecracker to end, looked at the people gathered around, and said with a smile: "Dear folks, our Cheng's pastry shop is opening today. All pastries in the store are discounted at half price today. I hope you will support us."
The people around looked at each other and refused to come forward.
A woman stretched her head to look at it and said hesitantly: "How much does a pack of your pastries cost? Are they delicious?"
"Our discount is only six cents a pack, and the more expensive ones are only seven cents." Aunt Liu took a pack of pastries and said with a smile: "It must be delicious. Buy it back and eat it. I promise you will eat it."
You never want to leave."
Cheng Qingwen stood behind, looking at the woman's hesitant expression, then turned and walked to the kitchen, took two pieces of each of the freshly baked pastries, cut them up, put them on a plate, and gave them to Cheng Hua'er.
"Auntie, let them try it. If it tastes good, they will definitely buy it."
Cheng Hua'er nodded, took the plate, and said with a smile: "Everyone, you will know if it tastes good after you taste it."
The onlookers looked at each other without moving forward. The woman who spoke first took a step forward and took a piece of cake to taste.
Immediately, I bought two bags of cakes.
When everyone saw it, they all came forward to taste it.
The freshly baked cakes are fragrant and are the most delicious. People who have tasted them have basically paid for one or two packs.
After a while, one hundred pastries were purchased.
The people eating at the back looked at the empty counter and asked, "Madam boss, have you finished buying today?"
"Also, don't worry, we are already working on it. Please wait a moment and I will urge you." Cheng Hua'er said with a smile, turned and walked towards the kitchen.
At this moment, Cheng Qingwen had just brought out the cakes when he saw the woman who was about to come in: "Auntie, why are you here?"
"After buying the hundred copies, and there are still customers who want them, I'll come in and take a look."
"That's just right. The chestnut cake and crystal cake have just come out of the pot. You can take them to the front first, and I will steam the cloud cakes and the cakes right away." Cheng Qingwen kept moving his hands and said.
"Okay, if you're too busy, I'll ask Lian Zhi to come in and help you."
"No, one fire girl is enough. If you have one more, the house will be crowded."
Cheng Hua'er glanced at Song Qiaoqiao who was trying hard to light the fire in front of the stove, smiled, and quickly took out the cakes without saying anything.
The customers who had tasted the food had already lined up and were about to reach the street.
Cheng Hua'er hurriedly walked over, smiling and asking the guest what pastries he wanted, while taking some wax paper.
Aunt Liu walked into the kitchen with an empty plate, took a few pieces of freshly baked pastry, cut it, took it out, and went to the street to attract customers.
Lian Zhi stood at the counter, moving the abacus skillfully while collecting cash.
Although Lian Song was young, he stood at the door to greet guests and lead the way.
The room was crowded with guests, each of whom was busy with his or her own business. Although they were unfamiliar, they seemed to be in good order.
Jinghou stood in front of his house, looking at the scene in the shop, and smiled and said to the people beside him: "I also said that I would find a few people to take care of me, but now it seems that there is no need at all. This girl Huan Huan does have some character.
It’s craftsmanship.”
Listening to this, Yuan Qi's face showed a bit of pride inadvertently, and he responded with a smile: "Yes."
Jinghou glanced at him and asked seemingly casually: "I heard from her mother-in-law that you and this girl have eyes for each other?"
Yuan Qi didn't expect him to ask such a direct question, so he blinked and responded: "Yes, I plan to propose marriage when Hanhan gets married."
"Oh?" Jinghou turned around and looked him up and down: "Can the Yuan family agree to your proposal of marriage?"
"My affairs have always been decided by myself." Yuanqi said in a firm tone, neither humble nor overbearing.
Jinghou chuckled lightly, looked at more and more people in the pastry shop, and said: "I heard that a few months ago, the prince had already announced that he was going to transfer you back. Why don't you leave? It's because of Huan Huan
What?"
"Yes, it's also for the Cheng family."
When Jinghou heard this, he quickly turned around and asked, "What do you mean?"
Yuan Qi's eyes were shining and his mouth was smiling: "Today in court, His Majesty has decreed that the Cheng family should be ordinary."
"Is this true?"
"really."
Jinghou stared at the young man in front of him and said with a smile: "I really underestimated you. Even if you are in Hua County, you can find out the news about the capital, and you can actually vindicate the Cheng family."
"I dare not, this matter was handled by the Crown Prince and His Royal Highnesses together."
Jinghou waved his hand, smiled and said nothing.
The two stood there for a while, and then Motoqi said goodbye and left.
Jinghou turned around and walked into the mansion, and said in a deep voice to the people beside him: "Send someone back immediately to find out whether this news is true or not."
"Master Hou is worried that Lord Yuan will lie to you?"
"What is he trying to deceive me for?" Jinghou took a sip from the tea cup and sighed: "This matter is unclear. If there is even the slightest mistake, Hua'er's life will be lost."
"Yes, I will order someone to take care of it right away." The attendant next to me said, "It's just that I don't understand something."
"explain."
"Why did His Highness the Crown Prince re-investigate the old affairs of the Cheng family for no reason?"
Jinghou laughed and put down his tea cup: "Where is the prince? It was clearly Yuan Qi who submitted the evidence through the prince's hand."
When the waiter heard this, he immediately lowered his head and smiled: "I am stupid."
"If this matter is true, then this Yuanqi has a few brushes. The fourth prince has been investigating for five years, but there has been no progress at all. When he investigated, he was actually vindicated."