Chapter 179 Selling Laba Porridge
All the people who worked for Wei Ruo, Wei Ruo, were not left behind.
In Xu Ji Braised Meat Shop, Chen Aqing held a bowl and drank it all in big gulps.
Seeing that she was drinking so anxiously, Wei Ruo couldn't help but said: "You act like this, I wonder if I deducted from you and didn't let you have enough to eat." "No, miss, your porridge is delicious! You and
Xiu Sister Mei’s craftsmanship is so good!” Chen Aqing explained.
"It's not a matter of craftsmanship, it's a matter of ingredients. This bowl of porridge uses yellow rice, white rice, glutinous rice, millet, water chestnuts, chestnuts, red cowpeas, and peeled jujube paste. After mixing them together, add water and cook them. Dye red peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, and white sugar, brown sugar, and grapes for some dyeing."
There is something special about cooking porridge, but it's not that important. It's just boiled in a pot of water, and it's really not much. The embodiment of craftsmanship.
This porridge is more about the ingredients used. People elsewhere may not have the time and leisure to gather so many ingredients to make this porridge.
"This... so many things? It must be very expensive..." Chen Aqing stared blankly at the empty bowl in his hand, regretting that he ate in a hurry.
"It's okay. I can afford to give you a meal once in a while, and I'm not just giving it to you. I'll be selling it later. Tomorrow is Laba, so it's just the right time to sell this porridge." With that, Wei Ruo said
. He told Chen Aqing: "We will make a conspicuous place in the store soon and sell this porridge for one tael of silver per bowl." "
One tael of silver?" Chen Aqing was stunned and couldn't believe his ears.
"Yes, one tael of silver." Wei Ruo replied firmly.
Hearing this, Chen Aqing swallowed, and then looked at her empty bowl again. Didn't she just drink a whole tael of silver in one go?
Although she felt that the price was very expensive, Chen Aqing didn't ask any more questions. She believed Wei Ruo unconditionally and felt that the lady's price must be reasonable!
When Wei Ruo used this ingredient to cook the porridge, he made up his mind to sell the porridge at a high price, exclusively to wealthy people.
Since the opening of Xu Ji Braised Meat Shop, Mrs. Yuan's promotion has attracted many noble people in the city to try it, and then accumulated a group of rich and powerful loyal customers for itself.
Although the last incident with Zuixianju caused some losses to the store, it also promoted Xuji Braised Meat Shop to another extent.
Nowadays, there is no shortage of wealthy customers in the shop, and everyone recognizes the taste of the braised meat shop, so if Wei puts this Laba porridge in a conspicuous place in the shop, there will definitely be people willing to spend a lot of money to taste it.
Sure enough, at noon, several portions of Xu Ji Laba porridge were sold.
In the afternoon, more people bought it. Some tasted it on the spot and then bought several bowls to take home.
Wei Ruo only prepared one barrel for sale in total, and it was sold out by the end of the day (two or three o'clock in the afternoon). A total of thirty portions were sold, which equaled thirty taels of silver.
Chen Aqing still can't believe it, but he just sold it for thirty taels of silver! It’s like magic!
Although Wei Ruo was not surprised, he was also shocked by the sales speed.
Wei Ruo knew from the beginning that even if her porridge was priced at five cents, ordinary people and poor people would not buy it.
What they need is food and clothing, not delicacies.
But the rich and powerful are different. What they pursue is quality. The more expensive things are, they feel that they are worthy of their status.
This is the reason why the bones of a wealthy family will freeze to death if they eat wine and meat.
Counting the thirty taels of silver in her hand, Xiumei was very happy: "Miss, this Laba porridge is so profitable! After excluding our costs, the profit is more than what we make from selling vegetables, sweet potatoes and braised meat!" "Don't be too happy too early
. , we have to prepare ingredients when we go back today, and we have to sell them for another day tomorrow." Wei Ruodao. "I can make so much money, I can just stay up tonight!" Xiumei said excitedly.
"That's not possible, your body is worth more than money!" Wei Ruodao.
"Miss, you are still talking about me. Don't you often do this? You are always tired when it comes to other things, but if it has anything to do with money, you can stay up all night!" Xiumei retorted.
In fact, in addition to making money and saving people, Wei Ruo also forgets to eat and sleep.
Uh...can't argue with that.
"Okay, okay." Wei Ruo quickly changed the subject, "Hurry up and get busy with the next thing. There are a lot of ingredients to prepare. If you wait too long, you won't be able to catch up with the good day of Laba Festival tomorrow." Then Wei Ruo was gone
. Giving Xiumei a chance to continue talking about herself, he pulled her into the carriage.
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Early the next morning, as soon as Xu Ji Braised Meat Shop opened, there was a stall selling Laba porridge in front of the shop.
Yesterday it was only placed in a conspicuous place in the store, but today it was better, it was placed directly at the entrance of the store.
A sign was erected next to it, which read: "Laba porridge, one or two per bowl."
At first, people passing by thought that the owner of Xu Ji Braised Meat Shop was crazy about money. He dared to sell such an ordinary bowl of porridge at such a sky-high price. .
But people who had such an idea soon discovered that they were wrong. Not only did people buy such expensive porridge, but there were also a lot of them!
The families of high-ranking officials, wealthy businessmen, and children of wealthy families in the city were the buyers of the sky-high price of Laba porridge.
On the same street, Zuixianju also started selling Laba porridge on this day, but obviously the business was not as good as Xu Ji’s Braised Meat Shop.
After selling for an hour, Shopkeeper Shen from Zuixianju went to Xu Ji Braised Meat Shop to find Wei Ruo.
"Is Mr. Xu here?" Shopkeeper Shen asked Chen Aqing, who was busy in the front.
"I don't know, I'm busy with business." Chen Aqing replied.
In fact, Wei Ruo was in the yard behind the shop, but Chen Aqing still said she didn't know, because she didn't know if their lady wanted others to know she was here.
Sister Xiumei had taught her to just tell people she didn't know in this situation.
At this time, the curtain of the shop opened through the backyard, and Wei Ruo walked out from behind.
"I've met Mr. Xu. It's like this. My young master would like to invite Mr. Xu to Zuixianju for a chat. Is it convenient for Mr. Xu?" Shopkeeper Shen asked Wei Ruo politely with a smile on his face.
"I'll go with you now if you have time." Wei Ruo replied cheerfully.
"Okay, Mr. Xu, please come with me!" Shopkeeper Shen was busy leading the way for Wei Ruo.
When they arrived at Zuixianju, shopkeeper Shen took Wei Ruo to the private room in the corner with the word "Heting" written on the door number.
Like last time, Fan Chengxu was sitting alone in the box, with tea and some pastries in front of him.
"Boss Fan, why did you come to me today?" Wei Ruo asked straight to the point.
"Let me ask you, when will the five-spice powder and oyster sauce we discussed last time be available to me? Last time you said you would give you some time, and I think enough time has passed now." (End of Chapter
) )