Escape to farming: Fortunately, I have a portable supermarket

Chapter 141 Too much! (6000 words)
"You ask so many questions at once, which one do you want me to answer first?" Ye Mingqin looked at Song Zixin's little face flushed from excitement, and replied with a smile.

"Sister, are your injuries healed?" Song Zixin asked.
"Almost everything is fine." Ye Mingqin replied truthfully.

"Then why are you here, sister?" Song Zixin put the first question asked just now in the second place.

"Let's see how you guys are doing!"

"Then sister, are you coming back to look at the store with me?" Song Zixin's eyes sparkled. The answer to this question is very important to her. She wants to make money with her sister!
"It's still a few days away. The family is opening a paddy field these days, and they need to grow wheat. It will take a while." What Ye Mingqin didn't say was that she had to wait to grow peppers.

"Okay!" Song Zixin was a little disappointed when she heard this answer, but she quickly adjusted again. It's better than anything else when her sister recovers from her injury!
Of course Ye Mingqin didn't miss the momentary disappointment in the little girl's eyes, but there was no other way, no matter what, she had to wait until all the pepper seedlings were transplanted before she could consider coming to the shop.

"By the way, how is the business with Qingfenglou going?" Ye Mingqin changed the subject.

"One penny and five cents! I'm going to talk about it!" Song Zixin immediately became excited when he mentioned this, and even his tone carried a hint of asking for credit.

"Oh?" Ye Mingqin was a little surprised when she heard this. She thought that Song Zixin would be good if she could speak for one penny and four penny.

"Can you tell my sister what you say?" Ye Mingqin was really curious. After all, the girl was only 13 years old. In her previous era, 13-year-old children had just entered junior high school!
"Sister, come here first and I'll talk to you in detail!" Song Zixin said while reaching for the rein in Ye Mingqin's hand.

Then he tied the rope tied with the wind to a post at the door.

Song Zixin asked Ma Xuanyi and his brother to install the pillars. There was no way, as more and more orders were received, there were more and more things in the yard.

The yard wasn’t very big in the first place, and it would be even more problematic if the carriage was pulled in, but considering that the family often has a car to deliver things, it’s impossible to let the people who deliver things put them down at the door. If you don't greet the water or say hello, let them go, right?
So Song Zixin asked them to make this pillar, which was specially used to tie up the animals brought from home. The gate would be open at that time. Anyway, there were always people in the courtyard, so there was no fear that the carriage would be lost.

Ye Mingqin looked at it and knew that it was a post specially used to tie up animals. He knew that the little girl Song Zixin must have made it. After all, how could the other two have thought of such things.

Ye Mingqin took another high look at Song Zixin after thinking that the little girl had abruptly raised the price of tiramisu by two cents.

"Sister, come in, sit down and drink some water, and I'll tell you what happened." Song Zixin pulled Ye Mingqin and walked inside.

"Sister Ye!" Song Ziwen, who was taking cakes from the bakery, greeted Ye Mingqin. He had heard that Ye Mingqin was coming, but he couldn't get away from the work in his hand, so he didn't talk to Ye Mingqin until now. Qin said hello.

"Hey!" Ye Mingqin just responded and didn't say anything else. After all, Song Ziwen was a boy, and Ye Mingqin didn't talk to him as freely as he did to Song Zixin.

After Song Zixin pulled Ye Mingqin to sit down on the stool under the eaves, she was not in a hurry to tell Ye Mingqin the glorious story of her negotiating the price, but took a bowl to pour Ye Mingqin a bowl of water first.

The water was boiled in the morning, because of the mobilization of Ye Mingqin and Ye Lou, now the whole family does not drink raw water.

Ye Mingqin took the water from Song Zixin with one hand, and passed the stool next to her with the other, motioning her to sit down and said.

"Sister Ye, I was actually thanks to your help when I was negotiating the price!" Song Zixin said to Ye Mingqin as she sat down.

"Oh?"

"The thing is like this, I will follow what you said, first take a piece of tiramisu and show it to shopkeeper Li.

When I first went there, I told him directly that he wanted one yuan and seven cents a piece, but after that, guess what the shopkeeper Li said? " Song Zixin asked Ye Mingqin.

"What did you say?" What else can I say, I must have been spotted. Li Bo has been the shopkeeper for so many years, and his eyes have long been cultivated. Let alone Song Zixin, sometimes he is not sure Can't stop him, although Ye Mingqin has already guessed the follow-up, but she still makes a question.

"Uncle Li actually thought I was lying. He asked me to think about it, what price did you tell me..." Song Zixin felt aggrieved when he said it.

She thought of Shopkeeper Li's eyes that day, as if she felt that she was secretly asking for more money in order to save private money.

The little girl was really terrified at the time. If she made a mistake and others said her, she would be a little sad at most, but if others misunderstood her, the situation would be completely different, and the other party was her sister Ye. Just hit the line.

So the little girl was anxious, she just gritted her teeth and told the truth.

"Actually, my sister said at the beginning that it was one yuan and four yuan a piece, but she also said later that as long as I can raise the price, she will give me a reward at that time!"

Although the little girl was so flustered that she was telling the truth, she still kept a few things in mind. For example, she didn't say that the original price that Ye Mingqin said was actually one penny and three pennies. The reward is centimeters...

"Oh? Then you talked about it, let me see how you want to raise the price!" Hearing this, shopkeeper Li was also thinking. This price is indeed more like the price that Ye Mingqin would say.

To be honest, at first he really thought that this little girl was thinking about herself, raising the price to raise money for private house. After all, this little girl has been delivering the goods for a long time, and the money is still settled daily, so if she thinks too much It is really convenient to hide money.

Since Ye Yatou promised the little girl the bargain, and it happens that the store is not too busy today, so let's listen to her, although it is unlikely to have any results.

"Our new snack is called Tiramisu, and it's filled with fresh grapes." After taking a deep breath, Song Zixin began to tell Shopkeeper Li about the advantages of Tiramisu.

"Oh? This name is quite fresh. It was named by your sister? Does that mean that the dim sum you made before did not use fresh ingredients?" Shopkeeper Li first commented on the name of tiramisu, and then asked Said Song Zixin.

"No, the things we use to make dim sum are all fresh." When the dim sum at home was questioned, Song Zixin immediately panicked.

"I know, I know." Shopkeeper Li saw that Song Zixin was obviously flustered, and couldn't help being a little amused. After all, the little girl is still a little young. Could it be that Ye Yatou specially called her here to train herself, so she must teach her well. she is gone.

"But this tiramisu has extra fruit, and the fruit has been processed by my sister, which is different from ordinary grapes." Song Zixin cheered herself up in her heart, and continued.

"That's right, so your sister's price for this tiramisu is four cents and four cents, which is much more expensive than egg yolk cake." Shopkeeper Li saw the trick, but still maintained a relatively kind tone, but Don't scare the little girl, or she won't come in the future.

"No, the processed grapes are just one of the advantages, and there is another point, you need to use ice cubes when making this tiramisu!" Song Zixin continued.

When she left, Ye Mingqin told her all the methods of making ice without hesitation, but he only talked to her alone, which made Song Zixin feel that it was because Ye Mingqin valued her so much that it has been going on until now She still insisted on making ice in the room alone, and she didn't even tell her own brother how to make ice.

"Ice cubes?" Hearing this, shopkeeper Li couldn't sit still. If he knew the origins of Ye Mingqin and the others by now, then the whole family had escaped from the south.

The red lobsters that Ye Mingqin gave him before were actually brought up from the lake, so it took so long to deliver them to him once.

So that is to say, it is absolutely impossible for the ice they used to be taken from the ice cellar dug by their own family. After all, according to what Ye Mingqin told him, they escaped from the south in the wake of spring.

It would be even more unrealistic to say that Ye Mingqin and the others bought it from outside. It's midsummer, the hottest time of the year, and I don't even look at the price of the ice cubes outside. It costs so much If the price goes out to buy ice cubes and comes back just to make such a dim sum, then the price of this dim sum is definitely not a penny or four cents.

So based on all the above, shopkeeper Li intuited that Ye Mingqin and the others had a way to get ice cubes, and they were still very cheap.

Look, shopkeeper Li didn't think about Ye Mingqin's ability to make ice at all, only if they discovered snow mountains.

After all, the mountains in their place are really high, anyway, he doesn't know why, when walking on those high mountains, it always gets colder as you go up, and when the cold reaches a certain level, there will be snow mountains.

This is not his nonsense, but someone actually discovered the snow-capped mountains in the early summer, but it was far away from the populated places, and the road was still difficult.

As a result, when the big guys got there after going through all kinds of difficulties and dangers, they found that the snow mountain was melting at a very fast speed, and more than half of it melted before they got there, before they could find a way to go outside. When it comes to transporting ice, the snow-capped mountains will all melt.

So to sum it up, shopkeeper Li felt that Ye Mingqin and the others must have discovered the snow mountain after a blind cat met a dead mouse, and they also found a way to transport the ice cubes on the mountain home.

This made shopkeeper Li very excited. If he wanted to say what he was most worried about every summer, it would be this ice cube.

You must know that the ingredients that a big restaurant like Qingfenglou needs to use every day can only be prepared more and not less, but in this way, there will be a lot of ingredients that are not used every day.

Among these ingredients, there is no lack of expensive ingredients such as high-quality mutton and venison. These things must need ice cubes, otherwise, according to the weather, they are guaranteed to be broken the next day.

In this way, ice cubes have become an indispensable item in Qingfenglou from the beginning of summer to the end of summer.

If you want to say that a restaurant as big as Qingfenglou can't have its own ice cellar, there must be one. There is a cellar and an ice cellar in the backyard alone, not to mention the two in a courtyard near the south gate. an ice cellar.

The previous years were fine, the three ice cellars supported together could almost pass this summer no matter what.

But this year, I don't know what's wrong, except that the night is slightly cooler, and the daytime is unbelievably hot, so the loss of ice cubes in the ice cellar is much more than in previous years.

So the current situation is that many expensive ingredients not only need the ice cubes to be kept at night, but also cannot be separated from the ice cubes during the day, so the consumption of the ice cellar will almost double.

No, the boy who was in charge of guarding the ice cellar came to tell him yesterday that the ice cubes in the last ice cellar were only half full.

This is worrying for Shopkeeper Li, you can’t just leave the ice cubes gone, then if the dishes you make don’t taste good, it’s just smashing your own brand. Besides, if the ice cubes are gone, you don’t know how much you will lose Ingredients.

In a word, what else can I do if I go to buy ice cubes.

When it comes to buying ice cubes, shopkeeper Li is really reluctant, because because of the ridiculously hot weather this year, the amount of ice cubes on the market is almost double that of last year.

If shopkeeper Li and the others can buy more at one time, it will be cheaper, of course it is impossible.

You must know that ice cubes are used as little as possible, and you have to wait until next year if you want to replenish them.

And the weather is so hot this year, so I don't have to worry about buying ice cubes, because the retail price is even higher.

Then let's ask if there is a possibility to increase the price of those dishes that require ice cubes.

That's even worse, we are a big restaurant that has been open for more than ten years, and what we sell is not only good food, but also reputation.

How can the price increase so suddenly?

You must know that the price increase of ordinary dishes is because the price of the ingredients needed for cooking has become more expensive, but there is no such thing as an increase in the price of food because the ice cubes have become more expensive. Anyway, shopkeeper Li himself feels that they Qingfenglou can't afford to lose him. .

Since the price of vegetables can no longer be raised, what else can Qingfeng Lou do to buy ice cubes by smashing his teeth and swallowing them in his stomach?

So let's just say, considering all the factors above, how could Shopkeeper Li not be excited when he heard the news from Song Zixin, how could he not be excited!
"Then can you sell me cheap ice cubes?" The excitement in Shopkeeper Li's words was particularly obvious.

To be honest, Song Zixin didn't realize the reaction of shopkeeper Li for a while: Isn't it just ordering ice cubes, as for being so excited, I can do that stuff, it's so simple!
But the little girl didn't expect that her family used to run a grain store before, and they never bought ice in the summer. Even drinking mung bean soup and eating watermelon, they were all put in the well to put ice.

"It should be possible, but I still have to listen to my elder sister Ye." Song Zixin recovered, but the little girl knew that she couldn't talk to death. After all, Ye Mingqin taught her the method of making ice. Ye Mingqin has the final say on what will happen.

"Good! Good! Good!" Shopkeeper Li said three good words in a row, because in his heart, this matter was already inseparable. After all, what is the relationship between him and Ye Mingqin?
Not only is she a business partner, but he also treats her as his daughter-in-law.

When I went to see my boss a few days ago, I always liked to say what I wanted, and I even said a lot of good things about Ye Mingqin to my boss.

But I have to say that the boss is really kind. I didn't think of it for a while. After I calmed down and thought about it, if half of the boss heard their subordinates praise an outsider like this, and the other party was also in business.

In any case, I would feel a little uncomfortable, but their boss didn't, and just smiled and said: "Lao Li, you have been with me for so many years, and this is the first time I see you can be so satisfied with someone. It's all praise." How long has it been?
If I hadn't known that you were a serious businessman, I would have thought you wanted to marry that girl back home as a little wife!"

Thinking of this, Shopkeeper Li felt his face panicked with embarrassment. This is all going on, and his boss is just making jokes.

At his age, being the father of Ye Yatou is more than enough, and marrying a wife by himself is absolutely non-existent, but he is considering marrying a wife for his silly boy.

Anyway, the shopkeeper Li said that, my hypocrisy with Ye Yatou is definitely preposterous, and since the little girl in front of me can tell herself this, it means that Ye Yatou may have mentioned it to her.

But this time shopkeeper Li really misunderstood Song Zixin. Although Ye Mingqin did intend to go out to buy ice, he hadn't told anyone about it yet.

At first, Song Zixin just wanted to tell shopkeeper Li, how delicate their tiramisu is, it is definitely worth a penny and five cents.

But she never expected that shopkeeper Li could think so much. In just a short while, the topic changed from tiramisu for five cents to whether he sells ice cubes or not.

"Okay, then I'll take this tiramisu for a penny and four cents, but can you change the stuffing in this thing to a few more flavors, after all, some guests really don't like grapes."

Shopkeeper Li not only fixed the price of tiramisu with the final word, but also enthusiastically gave Song Zixin his opinion.

Song Zixin's narration ended here, she looked at Ye Mingqin a little cautiously, a little worried that Ye Mingqin would be unhappy because she privately revealed that they could get cheap ice cubes.

Ye Mingqin didn't speak for a while after listening, just looked at Song Zixin very normally.

Ye Mingqin's reticence made Song Zixin even more embarrassed. She felt that her elder sister Ye was angry.

"Sister, did I do something wrong..." Song Zixin said a little at a loss, keeping her head down as she spoke, not daring to look directly into Ye Mingqin's eyes.

Ye Mingqin couldn't bear to see Song Zixin like that. After all, the child wanted to make more money, but after thinking about it, she decided to say what she had to say, otherwise, if Song Zixin continued to behave like this in the future, something serious would happen.

"Zixin, have you noticed that many things in our house are not available outside, such as the building of our house, the snacks we sell, and the wine that your brother Ye is going to sell soon." Although it should be said Everything has to be said, but Ye Mingqin still feels that this kind of thing cannot be done overnight and directly preached, but to explain the truth to her slowly so that she can understand it by herself.

"Found it..." Song Zixin replied weakly.

"We have an old saying, 'People are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong'. Do you know what the similarities are between the two?" Ye Mingqin not only wanted to break the truth to them, but also asked Song Zixin to participate in it. Come and think together.

"Well...whether it's a famous person or a fat pig, they are different from the people or pigs around them." Song Zixin thought for a while before answering.

"That's right, the more different things are, the more accidents are likely to happen, so we can't just tell others about our different things if we don't know everything about it, you know?
For example, for the egg yolk cakes that our family sells, have I already negotiated the price with shopkeeper Li and agreed with them that if something happens to us, they will take care of us and sell them on a large scale?
Another example is your elder brother Ye's wine, is it made after you have found a merchant who wants to order in large quantities?
Then, would you say that we built the small building in our house without accepting business?
But you have to know that the previous two need prescriptions just like our ice cubes. Others can steal our business as long as they have prescriptions, but the small building is different, even if they know what materials are used. I don't know how to cover it. "

Ye Mingqin paused at this point, she was waiting for Song Zixin to ask a question.

Sure enough, Song Zixin thought for a while after Ye Mingqin finished speaking, and then asked the question Ye Mingqin wanted her to ask.

"Then I just told shopkeeper Li today, can we go to discuss business with him first and then sell it?"

"Yes, you just told shopkeeper Li this time. Uncle Li is not like those businessmen who only care about profit. He is principled. He doesn't think about other things. Get cheap ice cubes here.

But have you ever thought that if you didn't tell Uncle Li, if you change someone, the ending may develop in a completely different direction.

For example, not only will he not agree to the price you mentioned, but he will also sneak someone to our snack shop after you leave, and watch how you get your ice cubes. After you know how you make ice In order to let only him know this method, will he hire someone to silence you in a hurry? Make a lot of money with this method? "

Song Zixin immediately raised his hand to cover his mouth when he heard this, his eyes were full of panic, obviously frightened.

"Hey!" Ye Mingqin sighed, thinking that this little girl was protected by her parents too well before. She was a child who grew up in a shop in the town, but she didn't know the relationship between these merchants. Dirty.

In order to make Song Zixin more alert in the future, Ye Mingqin told Song Zixin in detail about the robbery incident that she and Lu Ci encountered in the pastry shop last time.

"It's too much, how can it be like this, that prescription is obviously our own!" After hearing Ye Mingqin's narration, Song Zixin immediately became excited.

(End of this chapter)