Cute Wife Gourmet

Chapter 109 The Black-Hearted Boss
Ye Jiayao smiled and said, "I'm sorry, we have signed an agreement with the Helian Palace that we will not sell mooncakes to the public until the birthday banquet is over."

The woman was anxious: "We will definitely keep it a secret."

Ye Jiayao said, "In business, honesty is everything. I'm really sorry, but I'd better ask your host to wait a few more days. Then you can have as much as you want."

"Would you like to buy it for ten taels each?" The woman was obviously unwilling to give up easily and tried to tempt them with money.

Ye Jiayao couldn't help but be tempted. Damn, ten taels each, five would be fifty taels. The owner of this house clearly knew about the agreement between her and the Helian Palace, but still came to buy them privately. It can be seen how great the temptation of these mooncakes is. Will she consider raising the price when the time comes?

Oh, forget it. If this family is not careful and tells others, she will be a person without credibility and Xiao Jing will look down on her. I don't need this little money.

"I'm really sorry. According to the agreement, if you breach the contract, I will have to pay you five hundred taels of silver as compensation. Please ask your master to wait a little longer!" Ye Jiayao refused with great pain.

Seeing that she couldn't be persuaded, the woman had to leave in disappointment.

After work in the evening, Xia Chunyu came to pick her up again.

Ye Jiayao had been feeling sullen all day and couldn't help but complain to him.

"I know the rules of the restaurant, but I invented the mooncakes, and the business is going great, but I can only get 30%. They are so mean. The most annoying thing is that they even want to take the portable ice jar that I invented. I am so angry. Don't they know what invention rights are? I was hoping to make a small profit from this!"

Xia Chunyu was sweating secretly. He had no psychological burden in the 30%-70% split, but that Bingjian... He really didn't expect Yaoyao was also planning on this.

Now he became what she called a black-hearted boss.

"Don't be angry. He is the owner and you are a hired worker. How about I help you redeem yourself and open a restaurant for you?" Xia Chunyu comforted.

"No." Ye Jiayao refused without even thinking. She was not his now, so why should she ask for his things? If she became his in the future, then all his things would be hers, and it would be her right to ask for them.

Xia Chunyu knew she would refuse. Oh, he really missed her shameless look when she wanted to win a few taels of pocket money from him.

"Then why don't you tell the shopkeeper that the Ice Jar was developed by you? If anyone wants it, they can buy it from you. This way they can make some money." Xia Chunyu said.

Ye Jiayao waved her hand: "Forget it, I'm not interested in making a few taels of money."

Xia Chunyu sneered: "How much money do you need to make to be interested?"

Ye Jiayao wrinkled her nose: "Originally, I planned to make five taels for each ice jar, so a hundred of them would make five hundred taels."

Uh... he is quite calm, he even plans to make ten taels of money per person!
"Forget it, let's not talk about this bad thing. I have a lot of good things anyway. I will give them out when I open my own restaurant in the future. I will earn all the money by myself." Ye Jiayao said.

"How can that be? If you don't produce good food, how can you gain fame and become a great chef?" This is related to the interests of the restaurant.

"Those chefs have to come up with new dishes from time to time, otherwise they will be eliminated." Xia Chunyu said.

Ye Jiayao looked at him and sneered, "If you want to become famous, being a chef is not the only way. I heard that there will be a cooking competition soon. When the time comes, I will go and win a gold, silver or bronze medal. Who dares to say that I am not a chef?"

Xia Chunyu teased, "Do you think it's so easy to get gold and silver medals? Jinling City is full of hidden talents, there are so many masters, and I don't know where they will appear from."

Ye Jiayao said disapprovingly: "You don't have to worry about this, the mountain man has a clever plan."

"By the way, have you submitted your letter of repentance? Did you pass it?" Ye Jiayao asked, thinking of this.

Xia Chunyu glared: "That's called a self-reflection book."

"Aren't they all the same?"

"It's different. The letter of repentance sounds bad, as if I really did something treasonous." Xia Chunyu pouted, imitating her.

Ye Jiayao laughed: "It's treason to contradict the Queen Mother!"

"Hey, are you through?" Ye Jiayao poked him with her elbow.

Xia Chunyu said: "It was correct in the first place. The emperor just said it symbolically so that he could report to the empress dowager. Now everything is fine. I will go back to work today."

What disappointed him was that even though he had contradicted the Queen Mother, the Emperor still seemed to want to match him up with Liuli.

But the emperor was reluctant to say it out loud, and he couldn't take the initiative to say: Your Majesty, please don't have that idea, I already have a wife.

Knowing that he was fine, Ye Jiayao breathed a sigh of relief and said, "We will be very busy starting tomorrow. The birthday banquet will be in five days, so we need to prepare some things first."

"Well, are you sure?" Xia Chunyu was also very concerned. The old princess' birthday banquet was very unusual. At that time, all the most prestigious people in Jinling City would attend. If it was successful, they would become famous, but if it failed, they would become a joke.

Ye Jiayao was full of confidence: "Everything is ready, just follow the plan, everyone is working hard, nothing will go wrong."

"Kiss me." Xia Chunyu held her face and pecked her hard. Ye Jiayao protested, "Why? Don't take advantage of me all the time."

Xia Chunyu said innocently: "I am wishing you success in advance!"

Go away, she doesn't want this kind of support.

That night, after the guys in Tianshangju finished cleaning up, they went to bed. In the middle of the night, one of them quietly got up, dragged out a bag of things from the corner, untied the bag of glutinous rice flour that Ye Jiayao had prepared, scooped out a few large spoonfuls of it, poured in more flour, and mixed it well. Then he quietly slipped back to his room and lay down to sleep.

Wang Mingde opened his eyes drowsily, turned over and continued to sleep.

Ye Jiayao spent two nights making several pots of ice cream. The mooncakes had to be made in advance, and she would be busy cooking by then and would have no time to do these things.

The birthday banquet will be held the day after tomorrow. After finishing work tonight, Ye Jiayao brought a few helpers and Helian Jing sent a carriage early to transport the necessary materials to the palace.

"Yaoyao, I don't have to work at the Ministry of War from tomorrow. The emperor gave me and my brother three days off. We can stay at home and take care of the birthday banquet. If you need me, just let me know." Helian Jing said with a smile. He just went to the Ministry of War and had to familiarize himself with the official duties. He was so busy that he didn't have time to come to Yaoyao. He didn't understand why his elder brother was so busy before, but now he realized that many things were beyond his control.

Ye Jiayao squinted at him and said, "Okay, come and help me light the fire."

This was just a joke, but Xiao Jing said happily: "Okay, I'll do whatever you ask me to do."

I can chat with Yaoyao while making a fire. Besides, watching Yaoyao cook is also a great enjoyment. Why not?

Ye Jiayao's eyes and mouth twitched, thinking: Even if you are willing, I dare not do it! If I tell you to light the fire, your brother and your mother will burn me like firewood.

"Forget it. You have a lot of things to do, so how can you have the time to help me light the fire?" Ye Jiayao pouted.

"If you need it, I have it. If I don't have it, I'll squeeze it out for you." Helian Jing said seriously.

Ye Jiayao looked at him expressionlessly: "If the servants in your house saw you squatting in front of the stove and burning fire, they would probably be scared to death."

Helian Jing laughed: "That's entirely possible."

As they were talking, they arrived at the Helian Palace. Deng Haichuan had been here several times before, so he was quite calm, but the others were not so calm. This was the palace of the king. Who could have thought that one day they would come to the palace to prepare a banquet? Even Chef Niu had never been so awesome!
They looked around excitedly.

The palace is so majestic that even the bricks and tiles here seem particularly precious. They are all for the nobles to step on!

Ye Jiayao coughed twice: "Everyone should stay calm, there will be many opportunities like this in the future."

Cui Dongpeng approached and flattered him, "Follow Brother Yao and you'll have meat to eat. Brother Yao, I will follow you shamelessly from now on."

Ye Jiayao was embarrassed, thinking of the classic lines in The Promise: Why the hell didn’t you say that Brother Xin Yao would gain eternal life?
Everyone moved the things into the kitchen, and Helian Jing waved to two people: "This is Manager Liu. If you have any problem and can't find me, you can ask him, but it's unlikely that you can find me. This is Manager Hu, the chef of the palace and the manager of the kitchen. He will be at your disposal these days."

Ye Jiayao bowed in greeting.

Chief Steward Liu and Steward Hu also returned the greeting politely.

Helian Jing also solemnly instructed: "You must obey Li Yao's orders completely in the next few days, and you must not shirk your responsibilities. If anything goes wrong, Xiao Wang will hold you accountable."

Even the gatekeepers in the palace considered themselves superior, not to mention the stewards and the housekeepers. Li Yao was just a small cook with little fame. Helian Jing was afraid that they would look down on Li Yao, so he agreed to something in front of him and then turned around and embarrassed Li Yao.

"Yes, I've made note of it." Seeing the young prince so serious, Chief Steward Liu and Steward Hu couldn't help but become serious as well, and even if they had a little contempt in their hearts, they put it away honestly.

"Then I'll have to trouble you two. Let's work together to make the old princess' birthday party a great one." Ye Jiayao said with a smile.

Deng Haichuan came to report: "Brother Yao, everything has been moved."

Ye Jiayao nodded and said, "We will use the kitchen tonight, but you don't have to help."

They are about to start making mooncakes and no one else is allowed to watch.

But Helian Jing insisted on staying, and Ye Jiayao didn't want to chase him away, so she had to let him stay and watch.

Zhong Xiang poured out the glutinous rice flour and started to stir-fry it in the pan, Wang Mingde beat the milk and powdered sugar, Deng Haichuan helped, and Cui Dongpeng was responsible for making the fire.

"I heard from my mother that this ice cream mooncake is delicious. I can't wait to try it. Yaoyao, where is the ice cream you mentioned?" Helian Jingdong looked around for ice cream.

Ye Jiayao went to open a large ice jar and scooped a spoonful for him with a spoon: "Try it, but don't eat too much. We don't know if it's enough to make mooncakes. If there's more, I'll let you eat as much as you want."

Helian Jing took the bowl and sat aside to eat ice cream with a smile. Ye Jiayao also rolled up her sleeves and started to work. Suddenly, she saw Deng Haichuan winking at her. Ye Jiayao turned her head and saw Helian Jing quietly opened the ice jar and dug from there again.

Uh, this greedy cat...

(End of this chapter)