Chapter 590

Xia Ya stands rigidly beside the summer solstice and asks in a low voice.

Li Jinmei said with a hearty smile, "then you go and choose."

Summer solstice is already familiar with the store's furnishings, and their apprentices have to work in the store in turn. But ya'er is the first time to see so many beautiful and fragrant cakes. She only thinks that the cakes placed in the square plate are extremely expensive. Can they really afford them?

Don't see that the pavilion is well decorated. Everything is exquisite, but the price is very close to the people. The summer solstice is very familiar with the prices of these cakes. He points out the cakes they can afford to Xia ya, and then lets her choose them.

Xia Ya didn't know which one to choose. In the end, Xia Zhi helped her choose a sweet scented osmanthus cake and a small cake filled with mung bean. After thinking about it, she bought another glutinous rice cake.

The summer solstice didn't bother Li Jinmei. She packed it in a small paper bag and paid for it.

Li Jinmei grabbed a handful of walnuts and stuffed them into Xia Ya's pocket. She said with a smile, "welcome to come again next time."

Xia Ya looks at her pocket and summer solstice. Xia Zhi thanks Li Jinmei and leads Xia Ya away.

They went to the pavilion in the middle of the lake opposite the Qingting square. The summer solstice said to her, "it doesn't matter. That aunt is very nice. You can take it for her. You're welcome."

After coming to Qingting square for so many days, Xiazhi already knows that Xu Qing's family are very generous people. You should take what they give you, and the elderly can't refuse it. This is a new lesson of Xiazhi.

Said, the summer solstice took out glutinous rice glutinous rice cake: "this is delicious, there are fruits in it, you try."

Xia Ya grabs the paper bag and takes a bite of the glutinous rice cake in the middle. It's so soft that she bites the stuffing inside. It's several red fruits, which Xia Ya doesn't know.

The summer solstice said, "this is a cherry."

Summer bud chewing sweet and delicious glutinous rice glutinous rice, raised his hand to the summer solstice in front: "brother also eat."

Summer solstice bitter face waved: "brother has eaten too much, you eat it."

Every day at the summer solstice, she would tell her what cakes she ate in the main house, and the characteristics and taste of those cakes could be as precious as a family.

Xu Qing has always been generous in teaching. Cakes that others can't afford or even spend money on are crammed into his apprentices like running water every day.

Because of this, the summer solstice can be familiar with all the pastries in qingtingfang in a short time. These flavors will never be forgotten.

Xia Ya ate a piece of sweet glutinous rice glutinous rice, but she was not willing to eat the rest of the sweet scented osmanthus cake and small cakes. She planned to have one tomorrow and another the day after tomorrow.

Early May.

The six apprentices who had been working in the studio had a new task. From the beginning of this month, every two of them went to the park to learn how to deal with the ingredients until they learned how to deal with all the ingredients in the pastry.

Learning to make cakes, of course, starts from the most basic. Some of these children don't even know how to grind the flour.

However, before the first day of study, Xu Qing prepared a set of four treasures for each of them, several blank thread bound books, and some enlightenment books.

"The first half of the month was just to familiarize you with the environment. Now is the time to start learning real skills." Xu Qing said, "in addition to fighting in the daytime, when you go back in the evening, you have to spend an hour reading and practicing calligraphy. Go back and have a good look at these enlightenment books. At least you can read, write and recognize them. Tell me when you have learned them all, and I will give you a new book."

"If you have any problems with reading and writing, you can ask Xiao Jiu. I've told him to teach you half an hour every night."

Six people happily answered yes.

If you can read and practice calligraphy, who would like to be illiterate.

The summer solstice opened his mouth slightly. At last, he didn't say anything. He put things aside and went to work with everyone.

He wanted to ask if he could take ya'er to read and practice calligraphy together, but later he thought it was inappropriate.

Xia Ya can come in this is a special case, he can't rely on Xu Qing people to do whatever they want, again and again let Xu Qing give them special care.

Summer solstice introspection in mind for a while, and soon figured out, what you want to rely on their own to earn, can't rely on others, can't give others to attack their own handle!

At the end of May, the weather gradually turned hot, and a strange phenomenon appeared in qingtingfang.

For a week in a row, the bean paste pastry in qingtingfang was not well sold, and gradually the mung bean cake and red bean cake were not sold very well.

We usually sell out of stock goods, but now few people buy them. It's strange.

Xu Qing went to Li Zhu to find out the reason, thinking that the guests were bored?

She also specially checked these kinds of cakes. The taste of the cakes didn't change, and everything in the shop was as usual. That seems to be the external factor.

Li Zhu found out the crux of the problem in one day and came back to report to Xu Qing.

He put two packages of cakes in front of Xu Qing and said, "this is the steamed bean paste pastry, and the mung bean pastry and red bean pastry of Roche pastry. The taste is similar to ours, but the price is much lower than ours. The price of steamed bean paste pastry is only half of what we sell."Xu Qing frowned: "half?"

She tasted these three things one by one, and the taste was really good. They were basically made by imitating her formula, and the taste was almost the same. Moreover, from the taste and workmanship, we can see that the pastry makers who made them had the same skill and experience.

It's just that the price is too funny.

"The price of cookies is only half of ours. Are they sold at cost? What do they make?"

Li Zhu said: "I also went to the grain store to inquire about the price of raw materials for making these cakes. Recently, there was no time when the price of food fell, because we bought the raw materials through the preferential price offered by the Yu family. In fact, the raw materials they bought were more expensive than us, and there was butter in them. Although butter is not rare now, it's expensive. How much is a cake The cost is not low. They are almost losing money. "

Xu Qing speechless: "is it just to fight against qingtingfang and make money at a loss?"

Li Zhu: "I guess this may be one of the reasons. When I sent someone to buy it, I asked the clerk of the pastry shop. The clerk said that he was promoting sales. Maybe he wanted to attract the customers first. Later, when the customers recognized that their products were cheaper, they naturally preferred to buy there."

Xu Qing: "the question is, didn't they think that if the price is so low now, if they raise it later, other people's customers will pay for it? We're not fools. "

Li Zhu: "I've also thought about this, so I guess their final price will still be lower than ours. As long as there is profit margin, they will not worry about making money."