Baozi Xishi's Struggle

Chapter 130: One step closer to the small goal of opening a store

Next to the tray stood a red flower stick with two lines of neat and slightly childish calligraphy written on it: When things are auspicious, there will be a reunion cake with various patterns.

The guests gathered around curiously and asked questions one after another.

"Madam Li, these are small reunion cakes. How come they come in different colors? I've never seen this before."

"This flower looks real. Could it be that it's a real peony that was dried and placed here to scare people?"

"Is this a reunion cake? I've never seen something this innovative before."

Jiang and Li stood by with a smile on their faces. When the chatter died down, Jiang raised her voice slightly and said, "This is the small reunion cake made by our Miss Shen. It has a novel shape and a novel filling. The tray is specially made for guests to taste and see. There are nine small reunion cakes in a box. They can be customized and can be picked up in one to two days. It is the perfect gift for the Mid-Autumn Festival."

When the guests heard that they could taste the food, they immediately became interested and gathered around.

Mrs. Li said loudly, "If you want to try it, get in line. Our small reunion cakes are delicious and new in appearance. You'll want to come back for more after trying them once. They're not expensive either. Buy a few boxes as Mid-Autumn Festival gifts. I guarantee you'll earn enough face and save money."

People laughed in good faith, and someone asked, "Madam Li, how much is the silver? Don't say it's not expensive, but then you pay more for it."

Li is no longer the country woman who would stammer nervously and be unable to speak when someone spoke to her when she first set up the stall.

She smiled cheerfully and said, "My family has been setting up a stall here for a long time. We have never raised the price. There are three price levels for these small reunion cakes. The first level is 680 wen per box, the second level is 580 wen per box, and the third level is 480 wen per box. There are nine small reunion cakes in each box. I guarantee you get good value for money. The patterns and fillings are different. You will know when you try them."

While she was talking, Jiang had already deftly taken out some cakes with various fillings and divided them into small pieces.

Some short bamboo sticks were specially prepared on the side. The guests lined up one by one and walked forward. According to Jiang's introduction, they picked the fillings they liked and tasted them with bamboo sticks.

As expected, fillings that are not available locally are more popular, such as golden sand custard filling, crispy five-nut filling, and red bean paste and egg yolk filling.

The guests quickly shared out the small pieces of reunion cakes for tasting, and most of them placed orders on the spot.

Dun Dun and Yu Cheng had already placed paper and pen nearby. Dun Dun was responsible for recording the customer's name, the quantity of the order and which order they ordered, and also agreed on the day to pick up the reunion cakes.

Shen Yu stood behind Dun Dun, watching and reminding him to prevent him from making mistakes or missing anything.

After a noisy morning, when people returned home after closing the stall and closing the gate, Li was the first one to sit at the small table, too tired to get up.

Jiang was still able to hold on. She quickly went to bring in the money box and placed it on the small table in front of Li.

Li drank a glass of water and said impatiently, "Dun Dun, please calculate for me how many boxes of small reunion cakes were ordered this morning."

Although Dun Dun is the best writer in the room, he is still a child after all. After writing all morning, his hands and eyes were not enough.

When Li asked, he quickly took out the booklet he had been holding in his arms and started counting the total number.

After counting for a while, Dun Dun reported the result: "Five boxes in the first tier, twelve boxes in the second tier, and thirty-six boxes in the third tier."

Li counted the total on her fingers and was very happy. She said with a smile, "Oh, the amount ordered this morning is equal to the total amount ordered in the past few days."

Shen Yu was also very happy. The advantage of the small reunion cakes was that they looked good. Although they were a bit more troublesome to make, there were enough people to make them in batches.

Although the quantity seems large, it is not difficult to make. The most important thing is that the profit of small reunion cakes is much higher than that of steamed buns.

If I continue doing this, the money I earn in this half month will exceed what I earn from selling buns at a stall for several months.

Is this one step closer to the goal of opening a restaurant?

Shen Yu's lips curled up slightly, and he happily took the lead and stood up to get busy.

In this way, Shen's steamed bun stall has become busier and more popular since August.

After the guests received the customized reunion cakes on time, some took them as gifts, some kept them for their own consumption, and some came back to order more boxes.

Gradually, the good reputation of the Shen family's fancy reunion cakes spread.

Word spread quickly, and many families in the county town knew that the Shen family, who set up a bun stall at the entrance of the East City Market, was selling new fancy reunion cakes that were not only beautiful and delicious, but also inexpensive. They were both cost-effective and face-saving to use as Mid-Autumn Festival gifts.

Later, Shen Yu simply made more boxes every day and put them aside when he set up the stall, so that customers could buy the goods directly and leave.

With daily sales and customized ones, we can sell thirty or forty boxes of reunion cakes a day.

Not only customers from the east side of the city bought them, but after He gave out the small reunion cakes, just as she had expected, the ladies who received them would definitely like them.

The ladies who were on good terms with He came to ask her where she had ordered the beautiful and delicious reunion cakes after receiving the gifts. They also wanted to buy some as gifts, so He naturally promoted Shen Yu.

As a result, Xu's mother had to run to Shen Yu's place once or twice every day these days, sometimes to place orders, and sometimes to pick up the prepared reunion cakes.

The ladies on He's side all order the first tier, and some even specifically request a separate box of golden sand and custard filling. He makes the decision directly, and if you want this kind of filling, just add an extra hundred coins for a box.

Shen Yu has experienced the feeling of making huge profits in the past few days.

Looking at the money received every day and the boxes of reunion cakes packed every day, everyone is full of energy and wishes the Mid-Autumn Festival could come a few days later.

On this day, August 13th, the customization of the small reunion cakes had come to an end.

There are some diligent wives who start preparing to send Mid-Autumn Festival gifts as early as August. Those who send them before the festival are mostly close relatives, or they buy reunion cakes for their own family.

Since the yard where Shen Yu rented was small and there was no place to set up an oven, he could only make small reunion cakes. He could not do business with large reunion cakes for the time being.

That morning, there were no longer any small reunion cakes in stock at the Shen family's bun stall. Instead, some small reunion cakes that had been customized yesterday were placed there, waiting for customers to pick them up.

Everything was as usual. When it was almost time to close the stall, the buns were almost sold out. Only two red bean paste and candied date buns and three vegetable buns were left in the basket.

Li pounded her aching arm and smiled at Jiang, "We'll close the stall after the customers pick up the small reunion cakes. We've been busy these days, so we'll close early today and have a good rest. We should also buy ingredients for the Mid-Autumn Festival, so we can have a good Mid-Autumn Festival this year."

Before she could finish her words, two angry women came rushing in and overturned the winnowing basket in front of Li.