It takes more than a month to decorate the store. After all, it is all made by hand, so there is no rush.
In his daily study and life, Yunjing often took the time to pay attention to the store decoration situation and made many suggestions. The carpenter responsible for the decoration did not complain about Yunjing's random advice. If he was paid, he wished he had more work.
Youdao is a top scholar in his profession. Seeing those carpenters working, Yunjing had to admire them.
They have never read a book, and the total number of words they know is estimated to be less than a hundred, but their carpentry skills are amazing. For example, they can make stools without marking or measuring.
The textures are spliced together, and at a glance, it seems to be carved out of a whole piece of wood.
Another example is the carver, who doesn't even need to make a sketch, just grabs the tools and gets on the job. With a few taps here and there, wood chips fly everywhere, and the finished product is extremely beautiful.
In short, their carpentry work is quite good, and they are not just famous craftsmen.
Well, people rely on this craft to make a living. If you don’t have any skills, how can you support your family?
The decoration of the store is proceeding in an orderly manner, but there is one thing that makes Zhang Changgui quite troubled, that is, it is difficult to recruit a chef, so he should spend a lot of money to hire one. In a place like Niujiao Town, they still open a small store, which is completely unnecessary, but
Just ask for a normal one. Anyone with some cooking skills will have a place to work. People here are very honest, so I can't invite them at all.
When they open a store to do business, they can't just find a chef, right? It would be weird to have business like that. The taste is not good, and if you encounter some bad-tempered people, they might even demolish the store for you.
For more than half a month, Zhang Changgui failed to recruit a chef. As a last resort, he went to Yunjing to talk about this troublesome matter.
In response, Yunjing said: "Uncle Changgui, I have decided not to open a restaurant, so you don't have to be so embarrassed about the chef matter."
"What? No more opening a restaurant? What are you going to do?" Zhang Changgui was dumbfounded and thought to himself: Why is Xiaojing becoming more and more unreliable? He has invested so much money and changes his mind whenever he wants. Zhang Changgui feels a little distressed just thinking about it.
money invested.
Instructing him to calm down, Yun Jing said with a smile: "Uncle Changgui, I want to open a cake shop. I figured out cakes myself. I don't think anyone else can do it except me, so there is no need to recruit people elsewhere."
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"What is a cake?" Zhang Changgui asked blankly, having never heard of this thing at all.
After thinking for a while, Yun Jing said: "You know, Mr. Guihua Cake, right? The cake is probably similar to that thing. The main ingredients are eggs, flour and sugar... Well, you will know by then."
Zhang Changgui felt that Yun Jing was becoming more and more unreliable, and he hesitated: "Can eggs be made into cakes? Well, this is fine. I mean, can the cake really make money?"
Almost two hundred taels of silver have been invested so far. Although Zhang Changgui doesn't know where Yunjing got the money, he will be worried about Yunjing if the business doesn't make money.
He felt that with so much money, buying ten cows to plow the land, or even selling farmyard manure, might be more reliable than Yunjing's cake that he had never heard of.
"Uncle Changgui, don't worry, it's not a big problem," Yun Jing said with a smile.
Once something like cake is made and the aroma is released, those greedy children and women will not believe that they can resist trying it.
Once you have eaten it, hey, this is the only one. If you want to eat it again, you can only buy it here.
Having said that, the production of this thing is not complicated. If someone wants to imitate it, it is not difficult to do it with more thought. I am afraid that this monopoly method of exclusive operation will not last long.
But it doesn't matter, as long as you build a good brand and control the quality well, even if other cake shops appear on the market in the future, you can still make money.
Yun Jing didn't have the idea of eating alone forever. Anyway, as long as he could make money, the rest didn't matter.
Zhang Changgui had no other choice but to trust Yun Jing, and continued to struggle: "But Xiao Jing, you said that only you can make that cake. You can't do it then, right?"
Ever since he changed his mind, Yunjing had some concerns in his mind, so he decided to speak out at this time and said: "Uncle Changgui, how about this? I will teach aunt how to make cakes and let her do it. Then she will take charge of the cake."
Chef, he is not an outsider anyway, and he can feel confident doing things with his own family."
Yunjing taught Zhang Changgui's daughter-in-law to make cakes with the idea that the wealth would not go to other people's fields. It could be considered a good job and could be passed down to the family, which was a way to repay Zhang Changgui's kindness.
These are all small things and there is no need to calculate them so clearly.
"Can she do it?" Zhang Changgui wondered, not because he didn't want his wife to work, but because he was afraid that if his wife couldn't do it, it would delay Yunjing's business.
Yun Jing smiled and said: "Don't worry, it's no problem, and making cakes is very simple. I'll prepare some tools during this period. When they're ready, I'll arrange the time and teach aunt how to make cakes. That's it."
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"Okay, if it doesn't work by then, I'll hire someone from outside," Zhang Changgui said after thinking for a while.
This is how it was settled.
After all, cakes are a new thing, and some of the tools needed cannot be purchased off-the-shelf. Yunjing can only explain the requirements clearly and let Zhang Changgui pay someone to customize them.
After the tools were ready, Yunjing took the time to teach his wife how to make cakes. It was not difficult to learn. When the first pot of cakes came out of the oven, the smell almost made Zhang Changgui's family drool.
In fact, they were not satisfied with the first pot of cake Yunjing, but they had never seen it, let alone eaten it.
After eating the sweet cake, Zhang Changgui's eyes widened and he said with sparkling eyes: "Xiao Jing, this business is so delicious, I'm determined to make money!"
After eating the cake, he stopped worrying. It would be unreasonable for such a delicious thing to not make money.
It's one thing that the cake is delicious, especially Yunjing's method of refining ordinary brown sugar into white sugar and rock sugar. Zhang Changgui's family exclaimed that it was magical, and then swore that this method would never be spread to outsiders, and that it would be passed down from son to daughter.
Yunjing reluctantly said that it was not that serious, but he still had to keep it a secret to avoid unnecessary trouble.
Sugar is a luxury product. Even if you only extract white sugar and rock sugar from brown sugar, the value of the white sugar is much more expensive than brown sugar. This is also a huge profit, and confidentiality is a must.
Teach them this method. Yunjing also has his own thoughts. In the future, if the cake shop cannot become an exclusive operation, he can also sell candies in the shop.
In fact, Yunjing doesn't care too much about how much money he can make from doing business. It's because he misses the taste of his previous life. Anyway, as long as he is happy...
When Zhang Changgui and his wife learned how to make cakes, Yunjing also taught some new tricks, such as frothing milk to make cream, and decorating the cakes in a fancy way that would make people "unaffordable" at first sight. By then the store would open.
We also accept custom-made products. Anyway, it’s high-end. I think there are many rich people who have nothing to spend their money and are willing to spend a lot of money just for the sake of cards.
During these processes, Yunjing and Zhang Changgui discussed the pricing of cakes. Ordinary cakes cost one tael per catty, and custom-made large cakes with patterns cost at least ten taels each. Depending on the pattern and size, there are still sixty-six taels or eighty taels.
The price is eighty taels and ninety-nine taels!
When he heard the price of Yunjingding, Zhang Changgui's eyes almost popped out.
Ordinary cake costs one tael of silver per catty? Is it too much?
He knows the cost, eggs, flour, sugar, etc. The total cost of a pound of cake is less than ten copper coins. After all, they are all made by themselves, and the cost is not high. If it is sold at such an expensive price, will anyone really buy it?
And the big cake at the back, ten taels of silver each made his heart beat faster and he almost had a myocardial infarction, let alone sixty-six taels, eighty-eight taels, ninety-nine taels, no fool would buy it!
In this regard, Yunjing can only say that after opening the store, give it a try. If no one buys it, just lower the price. People are alive, and pricing can be flexible according to the market.
Although he said this, he thought that there are still many "idiots" in the world, and sometimes there are not enough bad people.
In fact, Yunjing feels that his pricing is conscientious. It may seem expensive, but to some really rich people, it doesn't matter at all. What they want is face, and they can afford what others cannot afford.
What does money mean to them? There is a lot of it, they buy, buy, buy, the more expensive they are, the happier they are...
Yunjing never thought that ordinary people could afford such a customized large cake.
His conscience doesn't hurt at all for making money from rich people...
After teaching him how to make cakes for a while, Yunjing got tired of eating them and didn't want to eat them at all. After being taught dozens of ways to make large cakes, Yunjing finally calmed down.
After getting busy with these things, time passed by unknowingly. The store was decorated and ready for business at any time. Moreover, the semester of the school has also come to an end.
A few days before the holiday, Yunjing's cake shop opened in Niujiao Town. It opened in a very low-key manner without any fanfare or drums. Even before that, the surrounding neighbors didn't know what this place was about.
The so-called aroma of wine is not afraid of deep alleys. When the cakes in the cake shop are made, the unique fragrance permeates the air, and people who smell the smell spontaneously flock in. Although not many people can afford it and are willing to spend money, the business is really good.
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Yunjing, who was observing secretly, felt calm.
On the first day we opened, business was booming. After all, it was a new thing, and the fragrance was so rich and unique that people couldn't help but drool. Anyone who has money and can afford it would want to try it. It's so sweet that it melts in your mouth.
The cake is so addictive. No one here has ever tasted such delicious food. It’s so delicious.
In half a day, the raw materials prepared were sold out, and many people who came after hearing the news were unable to buy it. Anyway, the two waiters hired by Zhang Changgui's family were very tired that day.
But the harvest was joyful. In the final reckoning, I sold a total of 283 taels of silver that day. After taking into account the cost and labor, I made more than 250 taels of silver!
This made Zhang Changgui beat his chest. If he had known that business was so good, he would have prepared more materials.
In just one day, he made back more than half of his investment. The speed of making money frightened Zhang Changgui. At the same time, he also wondered, are there so many rich people in Niujiao Town, where he has lived for decades? He usually doesn't show off his appearance.
Yes, you are willing to spend a lot of money just for a bite to eat?
Business was good, so Zhang Changgui still listened to Yun Jing's instructions and prepared similar materials every day from the first day. To use Yun Jing's words, on the first day, people were trying to be fresh, and business might not be so good in the future.
Yunjing also considered safety. He talked to Wang Baotou through Wang Bolin and asked him to take care of it. Then Yunjing asked Liu Dazhuang to watch Yunjing in the store every day to prevent anything bad from happening.
There is no ambiguity about the cloud scenery that should be taken care of. These are all things that should be spent. Humanity is so sophisticated that you can’t make enough money.
On the third day after the cake shop opened, Yunjing went to school and saw Zhou Jintai holding the cake and gnawing at it, exclaiming that it was delicious, while complaining that it was too expensive and worried about money, fearing that he would eat every day and make his family poor.
Well, if you have delicious food, this guy is indispensable.
The final exam was over soon. Yunjing took the final exam. Although he didn't care about his ranking, he still did the exam questions seriously. There was no need to hide his clumsiness. After all, what he learned was real.
In the second semester when he was promoted to the knowledge class, he got first place.
In just one year, he caught up with the progress of others and even surpassed others in the class, which made his classmates look at him like a monster.
Alas, the world of academic masters is so dull and boring...
It's holiday, and next is the summer vacation. The Yunjing brothers have finished their semester of study and left town to go home.
When he went back, Yunjing brought a lot of cakes. His family had never tasted such delicious cakes.
This coming summer vacation, Yunjing has something very important to do.
That is to take her mother back to her hometown, the hometown she has been away from for more than ten years...
This chapter has been completed!