Huang Gao lifted a corner of the cloth covering the snow maiden and took one out and placed it on the counter.
The visitor was stunned to see what turned out to be a crystal clear pastry.
Huang Gao carefully and evenly cut it into four pieces, put one of them on a plate and held it up in front of the visitor.
The visitor took it and couldn’t wait to reach out and pick it up. One bite was stuffed into his mouth, surprisingly soft and elastic, with a fruity aroma and an indescribable sweetness, not the usual sweetness of the sugar he had eaten, but a soft sweetness.
“Give me another piece.”
Huang Gao took another piece to him, and the man still put a bite into his mouth, but instead of chewing it in big bites like he had just done, he savoured it slowly.
After a long time, so long that Huang Gao’s anxious hands were sweating, the man smacked his mouth again, feeling the long-lasting fragrance in his mouth, “Give me a box.”
Huang Gao’s heart skipped a beat, almost jumping out of his chest, he tried his best to keep it steady and followed what Song Wan Yue had just taught him, “This pastry has glutinous rice powder in it, it’s not easy to digest, one person can eat two pieces at a time, if you don’t have many people at home, you can buy a little less back.”
His family was a businessman, so they had no shortage of money. Today, he was going to talk to someone about business, but he was passing by and smelled the aroma of pastries, and his mother was dear to him, so he thought he would buy some from the shop over there.
He was surprised to hear Huang Gao say this, for what businessman would not want to sell more things, but it was the first time he had seen someone advise him to buy less.
“It doesn’t matter, I have a large family and my old mother likes the new style of pastry even more.”
“Old people are not allowed to eat more than one, just one piece at a time.”
Song Wangyue’s voice went out from inside the shop.
The man thought it was the shop’s daughter and nodded slightly, “I know.”
Huang Gao lifted the covered cloth all the way to let him see all the snow maidens, “Different prices for different fruits, they can be sold by the block, fill a box for you.”
There was still this way of selling, and the visitor was even rarer, picking out the different fruits.
This pastry shop had been quiet for a long time, and today they suddenly set up a table for people to try the new products, and many people who went to that shop to buy pastries also came to smell the sound of the rare fruit pastries and were interested to see them.
The tables were filled with people.
In just half an hour, all the snow mille-feuille made were sold out.
Some people who had not bought them were clamouring and refused to leave.
“Everyone, everyone ……”
Huang Gao’s face glowed with excitement, “This snow maiden is extremely difficult to make, we only made this much in one morning, if there are those who want to buy it, come over early this afternoon, we are an old couple, we can only make a limited amount, it will be gone if we are late.”
“Hire a few fellows to help.”
Someone spoke up.
“Guys, as you have just seen, we use very much material, selling this is not profitable at all, where can we afford to hire fellows, you’d better ask to come early this afternoon.”
The crowd reluctantly retreated.
If they had known that they were selling so well, they should have made more just now.
“You guys have the right idea to sell a limited amount daily from now on.”
Song Wangyue’s voice rang out behind them.
The couple turned back at the same time, wondering why she said that.
“There is a time when you get tired of eating any pastry, if you limit the amount every day so that they can’t buy enough, they will miss it, and the more they miss it, the more they want to eat it and the more they will come to buy it, so that your business will last.”
Huang Gao understood and immediately said, “We listen to the girl.”
“It will soon be the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in a few days I will come and teach you to make a new type of moon cake.”
Huang Gao and his wife looked at each other, their joy almost flowing out of their eyes, mooncakes were a must-have pastry for the 15th of August, almost every household would buy some, and they would be selling quite a few in this shop by then, if they came up with a new style of mooncake, wouldn’t it be a complete turnaround?”
The yellow cake couple added, “Miss, it’s almost noon, please stay for a casual meal.”
“No, my elder brother is still waiting at home, he’s a scholar and can’t cook.”
“My wife is a good cook, so I’ll let her show us what she can do today.”
“Some other time, we have things to do today.”
Mr. and Mrs. Huang Gao could not hold them back, so they had to send them away.
Gu Yi’s mouth still had a sweet taste in it now, he quietly licked his tongue as he couldn’t get enough of it, Little Girl had said that one person should eat at most two pieces, he couldn’t eat more, if he ate more Little Girl would be unhappy.
“Little girl, what are we having for lunch today?”
“What do you want to eat?”
The words “snow maiden” almost came out of my mouth.
“Anything.”
“Dumplings, I haven’t had dumplings in ages.”
“Yes, yes, I like dumplings best.”
Song Wangyue hooked her lips, “Time for you to show off your skills?”
“Huh?”
Gu Yi did not know what Song Wan Yue meant until after he went to the market to buy meat, and immediately dejectedly patted his chest, “Yue’er, just watch, I’ll definitely chop up this meat.”
After buying vegetables and meat, as well as several rolling pins, Xiao Si carried them behind him, and Gu Yi naturally took Song Wan Yue’s hand, “Little girl, the market is crowded, I’ll hold you.”
The young lady is not a fool, she has already seen the young master’s caution clearly, but she is just not willing to poke him.
A few people had just reached the entrance to the house when a carriage drove past and stopped directly in front of them.
Song Wangyue had expected the Sun family to come over and was not surprised, taking Gu Yi’s hand and taking a step back towards the door, waiting for Master Sun to come down.
The carriage curtain was opened and Master Sun was just about to speak when Sun Jin stuck his head out from behind him and snorted at them disdainfully, “I told you that you were scheming a lot and staying at the inn just to sell us something, my father still didn’t believe me, now I’ve been right.”
“Jin’er!
Master Sun scolded with his face hanging out.
“Why are you still talking about me, am I wrong? They are the treacherous ones.”
“You shut up!”
Master Sun pushed his head in and smiled awkwardly towards Gu Yi and Song Wan Yue, “Don’t mind the two of you, he’s just spoiled by me.”
“If you’re spoiled, you should be beaten, if you can’t change, you should be beaten again, and if you still don’t change, you should keep on beating, a loving father has many spoiled children, hasn’t Master Sun ever heard of this saying?”
“Who do you mean to beat?”
Without waiting for Master Sun to speak, Sun Jin scurried out of the carriage, Master Sun failed to pull him back and watched him jump off the carriage and stride in front of Gu Yi.
Gu Yi pulled Song Wan Yue behind him and said in an exasperated voice, “Naturally I’m talking about you, is it possible that I’m talking about the wild dog on the roadside?”