Raising children in an ancient county

Qiao Shen sent Xiao Changle to the carpenter's shop, asked Qi Shuo to take Xiao Changle, and went to Lin Fuji with a food box containing moon cakes.

Lin Fuji opened in a busy area of ​​Dongzhen, with a spacious and grand facade. There are various kinds of pastries in the center of the shop. There is a cabinet on the right side of the shop. These grids are filled with high-end products with complex methods and rare and expensive materials, which are not easy to touch. They are made only when dignitaries buy them.

At first, Qiao Shen explained the reason for his visit, but Manager Lin didn't take it seriously. The best pastry chefs are all distributed in various Lin Fu Ji shops. Is it strange that Lin Fu Ji has some?But, free pastries, if you don't taste it, you don't taste it.

Leading Qiao Shen to the innermost side of the shop, facing Qiao Shen and sitting at the reception table, Manager Lin politely poured a cup of tea, and waited for Qiao Shen to take out the mooncakes and put them on the table. I won't hold it anymore.

What else?Just looking at the appearance, Lin Guanshi secretly sighed.

There is a "Fu" character engraved on the baked skin with a little burnt yellow, and the regular lines on the edges are like flowers, exquisite!

The first bite, the dough is crispy and soft, the lotus seed paste is sweet but not greasy, and the second bite, you can eat the egg yolk, surprise!

Qiao Shen specially wrapped double egg yolks this time, good things come in pairs, good meaning.Shopkeeper Lin held the remaining half of the moon cake and looked at it carefully. After all, he is a professional pastry shop, and he can figure out the ingredients of the pastry.

Qiao is sipping tea deeply, not in a hurry, and can let you make it in one bite. Where is the wisdom of this generation after generation?This moon cake culture has evolved through generations of wise people, countless improvements and upgrades, and countless various results.

"Miao, what's the name of this pastry?" Steward Lin couldn't help asking, trying to figure out the ingredients from the name of the food.

"Lotus seed paste double yellow moon cake." Qiao Shen didn't hide anything, seeing Guanshi Lin's expression, he was very confident.

"The double yellow should refer to the egg yolk, but what does this lotus mean?"

Qiao Shen didn't say a word, took another sip of tea, and said slowly: "The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon, and all the people will be reunited, and it is unavoidable to visit relatives to give gifts. Those who have no money pay attention to benefits, and those who have money pay attention to ostentation. This is rich and powerful." Yes, shopkeeper Lin, what do you think they want?"

Manager Lin is also an old employee of Lin Fu Ji, and his surname is Lin. He has a lot of power to make decisions and has many ideas for success. Naturally, he understood the meaning of Qiao Shen's words in seconds, "Our Lin Fu Ji can develop into what it is now. One is the taste, let’s not talk about it first, and the other is the guarantee, which means that all the food sold is checked by the pastry chef of Lin Fu Ji from the ingredients to the making. Sir, your food is good, but our Lin Fu Ji is not. The consignment place."

"It's not for consignment. I'll sell mooncake recipes, and Lin Fuji has the only one." Qiao Shen understood that Manager Lin is really an old fox in the business world. "This method is not difficult, but once you learn it, just this egg yolk, depending on the expertise of your pastry chef, you will surely be able to make other delicacies with it."

With the creativity of modern TV commercials, Qiao Shen made this moon cake extremely tall.I have to say that it is good to read more advertisements.

In the end, Guanshi Lin bought Fang Zi at a price of 30 taels. The mold of the word "Fu" asked Qi Shuo to discuss the price. It was just what Lin Guanshi wanted. He planned to ask Qi Shuo to engrave some molds with different sizes and shapes without the word "Fu". Use it for other signature pastries in the family, and make a few more sets to deliver to other branches.

He left the address of Qi Yuan for the steward Lin so that he could contact him conveniently, and signed again, and Qiao Shen went back to the shop.

"The mooncake recipes are sold? Why?" Qi Shuo heard that all the recipes were sold, so he asked strangely. Before, he asked himself to call it Su Liguo and changed it to bean jelly. Why did he just explain how to make it and sell it this time?

"The Mid-Autumn Festival comes once a year. Even if Lin Fu Kee can customize it, the mooncakes are heavy with oil and sugar. If I eat too much, I won't be able to digest them. If I hold the recipe in my hand, at most I will make more and sell them for a few days. Once the Mid-Autumn Festival is over, Who would ask me to buy mooncakes every day?" Qiao Shen held Xiao Changle in his arms, and counted money with Xiao Changle.

"It's your reason, so let's sell it. The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon, and you have to rest for a few days. You can earn money slowly, and you can't rush it." Qi Shuo looked at Qiao Shen and his son's looks of money-lovers, and bent over Mouth.

"Anyway, I'm idle, I like to make money. Make money for Chang Le to study, does Chang Le want to study?" Qiao Shen pinched Xiao Chang Le's armpit, lifted Xiao Chang Le up, and rubbed his forehead against Xiao Chang Le's softness. Huhu's chest, Xiao Changle laughed so happy.

"Why don't I set up a shop for you too? It saves you the hard work of going back and forth every day."

"I also want to open a shop?" Qiao Shen put Xiao Changle into his arms, gently clasping the back of Xiao Changle's head with his hand, and Xiao Changle moaned softly as he pressed his forehead against his father's neck.

Qiao Shen was moved by Qi Shuo's idea. With the new 30 taels of silver in his hand, plus the six taels of silver he had saved from selling jelly every day for more than a month, it was more than enough to rent a shop, let alone Qi Shuo Pay more than ten taels, even if you open a shop, you will need capital turnover in the future, Qi Shuo's artisan shop is still earning a stable income.

As soon as he thought about it, he wanted to do it. Qiao Shen picked up Xiao Changle and prepared to go shopping and pay attention to the shop.By the way, look at other people's shops to open up ideas for yourself. "I'm going shopping, what do I want to eat tonight? I bought it along the way and made it back home. I'll have a big meal today."

"What to do and what to eat."

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Qiao took Xiao Changle by his hand, and walked slowly on the busy streets of Dongzhen, and it was the first time that he looked at the shops on both sides seriously.Small restaurants, big restaurants, small taverns selling wine, bookstores selling pens, inkstones, pastry shops selling snacks, teahouses where listening to books and drinking tea, cloth shops selling cloth or clothes, and meat shops selling bacon, cooked meat and fresh meat shop.

In front of some shops, either their own expenses are spread out, or they are rented out to ordinary people pushing carts. There are fruit sellers, vegetable sellers, and small toy sellers.

Qiao Shen decided to open a stewed meat shop. Do you like to eat braised duck neck, stewed chicken feet, stewed pig's trotters, braised intestines and braised pork?Then open a lo mei shop for yourself!

Qiao Shen, who had a direction, picked up Xiao Changle, who was following her father with soft steps, and started the shopping mode.Qiao Shen originally wanted to marinate the hot wings, but in ancient times, chickens were sold whole, so he had no choice but to buy a whole chicken.I went to the dry goods store and bought spices, dried chilies, star anise and peppercorns.Finally, buy lotus root and dried tofu, and it will be complete.

"Don't throw it on the ground, Daddy is going to get angry." Qiao frowned deeply, pretending to be angry, and Xiao Changle held the star anise pepper wrapped in oil paper, and made a gesture of throwing it on the ground.

Hearing his father beating him, staring innocently at Qiao Shen with big black eyes, and seeing his father's angry face, Xiao Changle opened his mouth to explain: "Hit... da da... um..."

"No." Qiao Shen walked up to Xiao Changle. It turned out that there were a bunch of little ants on the ground, and he took Xiao Changle with him 24 hours a day. He more or less guessed what he meant. This little boy wanted to smash the little ants. .

Little Chang Le pouted, squatted down, and pinched the little ant with her fat and short little finger, and the ants swarmed away from him and fled in all directions.

Qiao Shen simply squatted beside Xiao Changle, looking at his son leisurely.During this period of time, the food was so good that it gave Xiao Changle the profile of Crayon Shin-chan. Qiao Shen couldn't help but poked his head over and sucked his son's plump and tender face.

Little Chang Le was stared at by his father sucking the milk on his face, murmured, struggled to stand up, and walked crookedly forward again.

The way home was taken by Xiao Changle for three times as long as usual. The child was curious about everything, and went astray from time to time. Qiao Shen, the parent, did not stop him, and followed Xiao Changle indulgently, waiting for his son Curious enough to lead back to the right direction.

From afar, Qiao Shen saw a man standing at the gate of his courtyard. He was wearing a dark blue coarse cloth shirt, but he was neatly tidied up.Qiao Shen, who had never seen this man before, felt strange and quickened his pace.

When Qiao Shen walked to the door, the man quickly greeted him and introduced, "Is it Qiao Fulang from the Qi family? My name is Zhao Tie, and I live in Sanqi Alley. I would like to ask you to buy some jelly."

Qiao Shen knew that Sanqi Alley was in the corner of Dongzhen Town, quite a distance from his home, and he had never sold jelly there before, and besides, he did not prepare jelly for making mooncakes these days, so he refused: "Sorry, Things have been delayed at home these past few days, so I didn’t make jelly today.”

"Then when will Qiao Fulang make jelly again? How much does he make every day?" Qiao Shen finished speaking and opened the courtyard door to go in, but the man hadn't left yet.

After hearing this, Qiao Shen thought to himself, how many bowls does Zhao Tie want to buy?However, I am very grateful to this person for being so sincere and liking the jelly that I made so much. Qiao Shen said gently: "I will continue to sell it tomorrow. How much do you want, brother?"

The man in charge was not at home, Qiao Shen invited Zhao Tie into the yard, and the gate was wide open.Poured a glass of water for Zhao Tie, and the two sat down and chatted...

It turned out that Zhao Tie was here to buy goods, and he planned to sell jelly in the corner of the town. "I'm in Sanqi Alley, far away from here. I don't think it will affect Qiao Fulang's business, so..."

Seeing that Qiao Shen didn't answer, Zhao Tie said again: "If Qiao Fulang thinks it's feasible, my brother-in-law is in Xizhen and wants to sell it, you see?"

Qiao thought deeply, this is a good thing, jelly is not complicated and tiring to make, and a small handful of jelly seeds can make a bucket of jelly, the cost is not high, and selling sales can make you easily earn a fortune .The most important thing is that with this social networking, there will be a market for selling other things in the future.

I discussed with Zhao Tie again, Zhao Tie would charge 20 Wen for a bucket of jelly and a bucket of taro balls, and cook the red beans at home.You can sell more than 30 bowls in one trip, and you can earn more than 120 Wen for one trip, [-] Wen for four trips a day.Moving goods to the wharf only costs seventy or eighty renminbi a day. The hard work is tiring, and not every day has work to do. Zhao Tie thought that the sale would go well, so he asked his husband to sell jelly together, hoping that he would not be able to sell jelly. The three children in the family are hungry.

Zhao Tie left after making an appointment to buy the goods the next day.Qiao Shen thought about it, and after Qi Shuo came back, the two husbands and wives discussed it, and asked Grandpa Niuche to take the lead, and asked Brother Qi to help go up the mountain to pick scallops. If there are not enough sweet potatoes and pumpkins at home, they can buy them from the farmers in the village. , These things are highly productive, and the cellars of every household are full, and they are not worth much.

In the end, they decided to hire a bullock cart to help deliver the goods. The two of them would send some money to the family after returning to the village during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Then they would discuss using the money to buy sweet potatoes and pumpkins, and to pay labor costs for picking scallops.