Chapter 258

Except for those who couldn’t eat last night, which got a 20% discount, everyone else had paied the original prices at noon that day. There were still a lot of people today. Some of them came yesterday, and none of them came didn’t. Xu Ran gave a performance on stage, which was different from other storytellers. This time, he told the “Ghost Stories”.

Xu Ran changed all the Goblin-turned-women into childe and told a poignant and beautiful love story between men and the ghosts. He also told them how affectionate and kind these childe were, and it seemed that a lot of people were attracted by his story.

Xu Ran only said half of it, and then said, “To be continued.”

People who came to eat hotpot  were having a good time while eating and listening to the story. Buw Xu Ran stopped suddenly, which made a lot of people dissatisfied.

Xu Ran explained, “Don’t be impatient, you can not hurry to a goal by just one step. The same goes for listening to stories. Hearing the whole story at once is not interesting. You just have to leave some suspense and let everyone imagine what happened later. Wouldn’t it be a more fun to listen to the answer after you thought about it?”

As the saying goes,  ‘Don’t be angry to the person who in smiles.”, Xu Ran said these words with a smile, and it seemed to make some sense, these people who were complaining didn’t say anything else, so they just asked Xu Ran when he was going to tell the next part.

Xu Ran pretended to be a little embarrassed and said, “Ah! This shop has just opened and I don’t have any spare money to ask for help. I’m afraid I’ll have to do this myself. How about this? Since everyone loves to listen, shall I tell you thestory once in a week? You’ve just listened to Master yesterday, and came here to listen to me today. You’ve heard the story for two days , everyone must be able to do whatever they want.”

The days were set, and Xu Ran had also said nice things. In addition, everyone knew that he didn’t made a lot of money from his newly opened shop, so they just let him go.

When he turned around, Xu Ran wiped off the sweat on his forehead. The reaction of these people was really intense. It was as if they were going to kill him if he didn’t finish his story. Xu Ran quickly slipped into the kitchen and could only sigh, ‘It’s really dangerous outside’.

Compared to the first day, the profit on the second day was 50 taels more, and the amount of money spent on the materials was about the same as yesterday. In conclusion, the net profit was 50 taels more than yesterday. This was indeed a good thing to celebrate.

The door was closed earlier than yesterday. Xu Ran didn’t do much work today and he still had strength, so he cooked pulled noodles for them. But this was pulled by Gao Quan. After all, Xu Ran was not strong enough.

With the seasoning he made, the noodles tasted very good. In addition to the good noodles, they were of the same thickness. Xu Ran didn’t know how to describe them specifically. In short,  it was even better than the authentic Lanzhou beef noodles he had eaten in his previous life.

After eating the noodles, everyone became more confident in the breakfast Xu Ran mentioned. These people often ate the food made by Xu Ran felt that it was delicious, so those who hadn’t eaten must have liked it even more.

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On December 15th, Xu Ran proposed to start selling breakfast. It had been ten days since the opening, so the people who came here to eat hotpot could be stable. After all, they would not come every day, so after the first three days, they only made about two hundred or three hundred taels per day. Not much less than before.

After getting familiar with it, Xu Ran and the rest could handle it themselves. And Xu Ran told people from the mansion that they did not have to come aggain, the family could handle it.

After the spring of the next year, Tangtang and Guoguo were going to the military camp, and it is not too late for them to hire other people.

To sell breakfast, there were a lot of things to prepare. First of all, the flour. Xu Ran went to several stores and chose one that he thought was pretty good, and asked them to send him a bag to Red Tower in two days.

The next thing was the oiled paper that used to wrap the pancakes. The oiled paper here was very large, so it was not convenient to cut it himself. Especially when Baozi was responsible for packing. Baozi was too young and he didn’t move not very fast. Oiled paper were easy to fall off for him, so it was better to process it.

In modern times, as long as they had bought food by the roadside, they would definitely know the appearance of that kind of paper. After Xu Ran bought the paper, he folded one himself and brought it to King Yan’s redidence to ask Xiao Qingyun to fiind some people to fold it for him.

There were a lot of childe in the mansion, so it is not difficult for them to fold the paper and stick it. They got a lot in two days, and it was enough for them for a while.

After this was done, the next was the tools for fried pancakes, that was a pot and a shovel, and  an iron shelf was also required. Xu Ran drew a general outline according to his memory and went to Lu Qi to draw a decent one for him. Then he took it to find a blacksmith to make it in two or three days.

At the same time, they started to print the the booklet that was said before. Xu Ran made an advertisement to everyone who came to the store to eat hotpot to promote it.

The preparation took a few more days, and they officially started selling breakfast on December 20th.

This morning, at the entrance of the Red Tower, a wooden car with wheels was pushed out. There were many things on it, and the most eye-catching thing was naturally the big pot. There was also dough that had been massaged by the side. Xu Ran rolled the noodles into the shape of a cake. When the oil in the pot heated up, he put them down to get them fried. When it was fried, he put it on a little iron stand to drain them.

Baozi started Shouting loudly,

“Pancakes, pancakes, freshly fried pancakes… ”

He said quite aloud, but it was clearly a child’s voice, which made many passing by stop to walk over to take a look.

Baozi was even happier than Xu Ran when he saw that he had called them over. He said hello to these people and told them the price of the pancakes, then he asked them how many pancakes they wanted.

Also, Xu Ran picked up the fried pancakes and put it in front of Baozi. The height of the car was not high, so Baozi was just within reach.

Taking out the prepared oiled paper, Baozi took one pancake in and handed it to the person who paid the money. He also kindly reminded him that it was hot, so he’s better be careful.

This made some of the childe who came to see him instantly overflowed in their hearts, and they quickly paid for it.

Xu Ran was seriously frying the pancakes and seeing Baozi’s greeting guests seriously, he felt very funny.

Since there were more and more people, Baozi could not handle it himself. Xu Ran quickly helped to pack some of them and continued to do his work after collecting the money.

Seeing that his father was helping him, Baozi was completely focused on talking to these people. With a few words, most of them planned to core here to buy pancakes again tomorrow.

People came in groups. In the short time of rest, Xu Ran said to Baozi, “Baozi, I didn’t know you were pretty good. Who did you learn this from? ”

Baozi raised his chin proudly, “Dad, Am I  awesome? This was what Uncle Du Xin taught me. He said that as long as we said nice things, people would come over to buy our pancakes.

Xu Ran said, “Du Xin is right this time. Baozi, since you’re so good, I’ll leave this matter to you. And I will be responsible for fried pancakes.”

Baozi nodded and patted his chest to say, “Dad, don’t worry. I can definitely attract many guests over. These uncles of their husband who just spoke to me also said that they would come tomorrow. Dad, we don’t have to worry about selling the pancakes.”

A guest came over from afar and Xu Ran started to get busy again. He didn’t answer Baozi’s words. And Baozi thought that his father didn’t believe him. His face was puffed out with anger and just as he intended to be angry with his father, he heard someone say, “What is kind of pancake is this? How much is it?”

Baozi immediately put on a smile and began to introduce, “Good morning, uncle. This is called Wu Dashang Pancakes. You can buy one with just five pence, a big one!”

Baozi’s small hand first drew five, then he extended his other hand and drew a big circle.

The cake was on the surface, and the person could see it himself, but when he saw Baozi’s gesture, he couldn’t help but smiled and said, “Then I’ll have two.”

Baozi took a bag of oiled paper and gave him two pancakes. He did not forget to say, “Uncle, I promise this cake must be delicious. You will still want to come again tomorrow after you eat it. We’ve been selling it here. It’s called Red Tower. Uncle, if you can’ft find it, you can ask other people.”

Not only did he say that the pancake was delicious, he also promoted the Red Tower. Xu Ran listened to it from the side and thought to himself that if he didn’t know that this was taught by others, he would  regard his son differently.

After the man paid, he glanced at Baozi again and said to Xu Ran, “You are lucky. Your child is so smart.”

Xu Ran smiled faintly and accepted his praise. After all, he couldn’t expose his son’s shortcomings in front of outsiders.

It was just buying two cakes, so the man couldn’t say much. In addition, there were still people behind him, so he turned around and left with the pancake.

Baozi shouted from behind, “Please come again tomorrow!”

The man turned back and wanted to say okay to Baozi, but he found that Baozi was surrounded by a group of people who came behind. He couldn’t even see his head. He sighed and shook his head. The child was good, but he was a little too short.

Of course, apart from the business of selling pancakes outside, the business of pulled noodles and rice inside was even much better. So they had earned a lot this morning.