After a fruitless argument with no outcome, Ma Chunfang was so angry that she sat at the table and wiped her tears:
"Is there such a shameless person who doesn't do well in business and follows the trend of selling sesame seed cakes like us? Your father is the same. He heard those companies say they don't sell them in front of the machine factory, so he believed them. In turn, he persuaded me to live in a tube building like this.
For many years, I haven’t looked up and looked down, so don’t be so stalemate. He also said that Pingcheng is so big, if we have more sesame cake stalls, our family will not have no business. Damn! He believes this, but I don’t believe it! By then the business will be taken away, so let
He went to eat at that restaurant!"
Xu Yin rolled out the dough and did not answer.
If you complain like this, whoever accepts it will be criticized.
Ma Chunfang scolded the man, and felt a little relieved. She turned around and saw her daughter rolling out a large dough cake. The dough was almost as big as a square table, but it was said to be making knife-cut noodles. The layers of dough were stacked one on top of the other.
It was too thick, not to mention that there seemed to be salt, pepper and chopped green onion between each layer of pancake. I couldn’t help but wonder:
"Yinyin, what are you doing? Don't waste flour. You have to run a stall in the evening. I have to make more money before those shameless companies renovate their sesame cake ovens. I'm afraid I won't be as good as these few days in the future.
Business is over, alas..."
As I spoke, I wanted to curse again.
Xu Yin went out for a trip and saw that the iron pot on the stove was hot. She spread a layer of her own secret sauce on the cake surface, then put the large dough cake into a double-sided frying pan and fried it.
Then he washed his hands and sat down opposite Ma Chunfang: "Mom, when we set up the stall, there were so many people coming and going, there must be many laid-off workers. Anyone who is willing can take a look and do it themselves.
If you can stop those businesses from selling sesame seed cakes, can you stop others?"
Ma Chunfang curled her lips: "I can't control other people, but those families clearly don't see that our business is good, and they deliberately come to rob us. Otherwise, why haven't we seen them making sesame seed cakes for sale before?"
"Have they ever come to our house and learned how to make sesame pancakes?"
"Of course not!" Ma Chunfang glared, "They have the nerve to come and learn? I won't do the stupid thing of teaching apprentices to starve the master to death!"
"Then their fillings are mixed the same as ours?"
"Definitely not! They are not so particular about making peanut butter and crushing salt and pepper. They must buy it ready-made."
"Then what are you worried about? There are so many similar foods in the world, but why do some businesses do well and some do poorly? In the final analysis, it depends on the recipe and the taste. What they follow is just the surface. As long as our bakery stall sticks to the current practice,
Business won’t be any worse.”
"But they shamelessly said that they want to sell it cheaper than ours." Ma Chunfang got angry thinking about this. No matter how confident she was in her own sesame seed cakes, she couldn't beat the price war.
"It doesn't matter if it tastes good, most people are greedy for cheap."
Just like her, she went shopping for vegetables, and there were two same vegetable stalls. One sold vegetables that were good, but expensive; the other sold the same vegetables, with leaves that were a little wilted, but cheap. She would definitely choose the second one, because it was wilted.
What's wrong? Who can tell when you buy it home, soak it in water for a while, and fry it? It won't affect the meal.
That’s why I’m worried.
Xu Yin asked her: "Aren't the sesame cakes sold in the cafeteria very cheap? They cost a dime each and are very strong. Why don't many people buy them?"
Ma Chunfang: "..."
Yes!
The cheapest pretzel biscuits and sugar biscuits in her store cost 20 cents, while the sesame cakes in the cafeteria only cost 10 cents. Why do so many people come to her stall to buy sesame cakes? What does this mean? If the taste is really bad, then
It's useless even if it's cheap.
Thinking of this, Ma Chunfang's anger was half gone, but she still felt uncertain about the impact on the sesame cake stall:
"But they can even figure out how to modify the stove, but can't they figure out the fillings for the sesame cakes themselves? If they figure out the same taste as ours and sell them cheaper than ours, won't ours still be out of business?"
"Maybe we can figure out something similar to ours." Xu Yin nodded, "That's why I didn't plan to just make sesame cakes at first."
"Ah? Then what else are you going to do?"
“Xu’s secret sauce pancake!”
"..."
What the hell?
“Wow, it smells so good!”
"Sister, what are you cooking that tastes so delicious?"
"It smells so good, it must not have been made by your mother."
Xu Wuyi, Ma Jianbing and little tail Xu Xiao filed in behind them.
Ma Jianbing's uncle and nephew had just heard the eldest sister's scolding in the back room, and they were so angry that they rolled up their sleeves and went to fight.
But Xu's father was outside, so Xu Yin didn't follow him.
What's more, her uncle is just a bastard and won't really do anything outrageous. The only bully who can do something outrageous is still a little kid.
The three of them came back in peace and harmony.
Ma Chunfang glared at the man angrily: "Hey! Is the guy who helps you with the care or not the kiss come back?"
"..."
"Sister, you are so angry. Those companies don't know how to renovate stoves. Guess what they renovated? An open flame stove with a leaky bottom, hahahaha! When the charcoal fire lasts, the flames can reach the mouth of the stove. It scares those companies to think that
If it's about to catch on fire, quickly remove the charcoal fire. There's also too much smoke. You can bake the biscuits, but they'll burn black if you're not careful. There's a big difference in selling! You have to be careful when clamping, in case the clamps loosen.
If it falls, it will be like a fire, and it will burn into charcoal immediately."
Is there such a good thing?
Ma Chunfang burst out laughing: "Yes!"
As soon as Xu Wu came to his wife's side, he pressed her shoulders diligently: "I told you not to be so angry. If you haven't figured out what's going on, you just start arguing with someone. Now you know that the argument is in vain, right?"
Ma Chunfang rolled her eyes at him: "You can't say for sure. Maybe today you didn't make the right changes, but tomorrow and the day after tomorrow you make the right changes? Are you scolding them if you want to steal people's business? I don't have such a good temper."
"Yes, yes, your temper has never been that good."
"Xu Wuyi, what did you say?"
"Nothing, nothing, I'm going to see what delicious food my daughter has made."
"..."
After Xu Yin turned over the double-sided frying pan, she estimated that the time was almost up. She brought it into the house and asked her father to find a piece of insulation cloth to spread on the dining table. She opened the lid of the frying pan, and a tempting smell of sauce came out.
The fragrance comes to your nose.
When the white heat in front of their eyes dissipated, everyone saw a huge piece of sauce-flavored pancake in front of them.
Xu Yin brushed the hot sauce on it while it was still hot, and sprinkled a handful of chopped green onions grown by herself to make the aroma even more intense.
"Gululu——"
I don’t know who’s belly is singing the empty city plan.
Xu Yin couldn't help laughing, she took a kitchen knife and scalded it with boiling water, cut the cake into four large pieces, and then cut a quarter of it into small pieces: "Try it while it's hot!"
Ma Jianbing couldn't wait to grab a piece and stuff it into his mouth. Shasha shouted that it was hot, but was reluctant to spit it out. He praised vaguely: "It's delicious! It's so delicious!"
The others took a pair of chopsticks and each of them ate a piece of the fragrant sauce pancake, nodding as they ate:
“It’s really delicious! Even better than our sesame cakes!”
"Crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, the layers are no less than the number of layers of sesame cakes, but it can still be made so thin, which is a technical job!"
Ma Chunfang remembered what her daughter had said before, and her eyes lit up: "Yin Yin, this is the cake you just talked about? From now on, in addition to sesame cakes, our family will also sell this cake, right?"
"Yes! So as long as you work hard, business will not be bad!"