Locked: God is the matchmaker, neither you nor I can escape

We need to make mooncakes to sell today, so everyone in the family came to the shop to help. Considering that the oven for roasting duck is not suitable for baking mooncakes, we asked Father Li to rebuild four of them early on.

Father Li already had experience in building ovens, and with so many secret guards helping him, it was built in just two days.

Now the division of labor in the backyard is very clear. Some people help to light the fire, some are responsible for kneading the dough, some are responsible for rolling the skin, some are responsible for wrapping the stuffing, some are responsible for rubbing, demoulding and oiling, etc. It's a whole assembly line operation.

"Aye, there are already about 30 guests outside, divided into three tables. You can distribute the mooncakes to everyone for tasting.

I have already told the guests that after trying the food, they can decide which flavor they want and ask them to register with Uncle Li. We will then prepare the food for them in the backyard according to Uncle Li’s registration.”

Xin Ye: "Okay, I'll get ready now."

They prepare too many flavors of mooncakes, mainly because there are not many ingredients!

You said you wanted the most common sesame filling, so it must have sesame, right? But it does have red beans.

So, they made four flavors: fresh pork and fresh chicken fillings, similar to the five-kernel barbecued pork filling, but Xinye did not make barbecued pork, but directly used pickled pork jerky, so the three-kernel jerky filling was made of almonds, kernels and melon seeds, and the last one was the normal version of the red bean-filled mooncake.

"Second brother, remember to explain to the guests later that mooncakes with fresh meat fillings don't last long, so just eat them fresh. Red beans and bacon can only be kept for ten days at most, which happens to be the third day of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

We will not make mooncakes in the first three days of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Please remember to remind everyone. Also, we can provide reservation service, but the quantity will be limited. "

When it comes to limited edition, he was unsure about the book for a while, so he thought of asking his wife first. However, his wife was not sure about these things either, so it had to be him.

"Brother, what do you think is the appropriate limit for each person?"

Hua Muxin didn't expect him to ask her a question in return, but she didn't push it back. Instead, she asked, "How many people are there in Guyang County living in the county seat?"

"I heard Master Xu mention it once, it's probably more than 10,000 households, but he didn't say exactly how many people there are."

"Then how about using households as the calculation unit and limiting each household to 10 mooncakes?"

"Some families have more than 10 people. How should the wealthy people in the city be counted? Should they be treated equally?"

"Yes, after all, there are too many people and we can't do that much."

Yan Yiyi said, "We can't calculate it this way. We should calculate it based on the amount we can make in a day. It takes at least two quarters of an hour to bake a batch of mooncakes. Let's calculate it based on three quarters of an hour. Eight quarters of an hour is one hour."

We sit for a maximum of four hours a day, or thirty-two ke.

One oven can bake fifty mooncakes. Excluding the first oven, the three ovens together can bake one hundred and fifty mooncakes.

Excluding the time difference of each oven, and taking the integer of thirty for four hours, each oven can bake ten times a day, fifty at a time, which means five hundred, and one thousand five hundred a day.

Therefore, our limit is to sell only 1,500 a day, and each household is limited to 10.”

Hua Muxin: "In that case, everyone will definitely choose the long-lasting red bean and bacon fillings. Then, is there any objection to our fresh meat filling?"

"Then we still lack some effort!" Yan Yiyi said indifferently.

Xin Ye thought, "Although the oven for roast duck is a little different, it can also be roasted. I will use that oven to make the fresh meat stuffing. It will be sold on the same day. Each person is limited to two. It will be made and sold on the spot. No reservations will be accepted. It will be sold while stocks last."

"I'll write down the conditions clearly and post them later. Ah Yu will be in charge of explaining them when the time comes," Hua Murong looked at Hua Muyu, who was drooling at the mooncakes. She really couldn't understand why he couldn't get tired of eating them. Anyway, he was tired of them. "Ah Yu, is it possible?"

Although Hua Muyu was multitasking, he still listened with his ears, and immediately patted his chest and promised: "Okay, I promise to complete the task." Anyway, he just read the words, he is not stupid, how can he not do this? The eldest brother underestimated him.

After the discussion, they started to get busy. Xin Ye cut the four flavors of mooncakes into several portions and put them on plates, which were then taken out by Xin Ye, Hua Muchin and Hua Murong. Yan Yiyi followed them out to watch the fun. Hua Muyu needed to explain the ordering to everyone, and took the notice written by his eldest brother out to post it.

When the guests saw them all coming out with plates, no one asked any questions, and they all understood the next steps.

Sure enough, after they put everything on the three tables, Xin Ye introduced loudly: "This is our newly developed mooncake, with four kinds of fillings, fresh pork and chicken, dried meat and red beans.

Mooncakes with fresh meat fillings do not last long, so it is best to eat them on the same day you buy them. Of course, it is not a big problem to leave them for a day, but the meat will go bad if left for any longer. Therefore, mooncakes with these two fillings are suitable for trying now, and the other two fillings are suitable for storing in advance until the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the whole family can eat them together.

Due to limited manpower, we need to limit orders. Ayu will explain the specific rules to you later.

To thank you for your support, the mooncakes you buy today will not be counted in the purchase limit list, but you cannot pre-order today, you can only buy as many as we make. "

"The prices are: pork filling is 8 wen each, chicken filling is 5 wen each, dried meat filling is 10 wen each, and red bean filling is 3 wen each."

As soon as the prices were announced, people couldn't help but start talking about it. The red bean filling was the same as that sold in the pastry shop in previous years, and the others were meat fillings, so it was normal for them to be a little more expensive, but the dried meat one was really a bit expensive.

However, no one thinks that Li Ji Grocery Store deliberately set the price so high. Instead, it means that the dried meat filling can be kept for a long time and dried meat is more expensive than fresh meat. The price is reasonable, but not everyone is willing to buy it and can afford it.

Then Hua Muyu took the notice written by Hua Murong and began to read aloud. After he finished, Xin Ye announced the start of the food tasting.

There is no need to explain in more detail what filling each dish has, you will understand after you eat it.

"I tasted pork, it tasted so delicious!"

“The chicken I had was pretty good too.”

"This jerky is not pure meat. I can taste the flavor of melon seeds in it."

"The red bean filling is better than what I've had in previous years, but the price is the same as in previous years. Li Ji's food is indeed as good as expected!"

"I can't afford so many meat-filled ones, but I can bite the bullet and buy some more red bean-filled ones to bring back for my family!"

As expected by Yan Yiyi and others, red bean filling is the most popular. They don't make much meat filling, most of it is red bean filling. The old customers who often come here to sell things are not very poor, but they are not very rich either.

There was still some money left for occasional snacks, but now it’s all gone.

If you have a little more money, you can buy a few ones with meat filling. If you are average, you would rather buy a few ones with red bean filling. The ones with red bean filling are delicious and worth it!