Traveling to an ancient peasant family: I got rich by doing business

When Nanny Shi left Danyang Gate, before Li Yu came forward to greet her, she asked loudly, "Did Boss Li bring the mooncakes I bought?"

As she spoke, she winked at Li Yu.

Li Yu immediately understood what she meant and replied, "I have brought them. They are all the ones that Madam specified me to buy..."

Madam Shi smiled faintly, stepped forward and quickly stuffed a folded piece of paper into Li Yu's hand, and whispered, "Today's situation is special, so I can't say more. The specific reasons are written on the note. Madam Li can read it after she goes back."

Li Yu turned around and said, "I see. Here are two mooncakes, one for the Crown Princess and one for Mammy."

Nanny Shi took it and said loudly, "It looks good. I hope it tastes good."

After saying that, she turned around and strode into the palace without even giving Li Yu a glance.

Li Yu watched her go in and get back into the car.

After the car curtain was completely lowered, she immediately opened the note.

*

The note was written by Nanny Shi.

She said that among the imperial guards guarding the Danyang Gate this afternoon, there were men from the Third Prince's group. If they were seen speaking in such a familiar manner, the Third Prince might regard her as a member of the Prince's gang and cause trouble for her.

"The Crown Princess didn't want Madam Li to get involved in court battles and suffer misfortune, so I pretended to be doing business with Madam Li..."

Li Yu: “…”

Apart from anything else, the Crown Princess's actions made her feel warm inside.

*

After reading the note twice, Li Yu took out the fire starter he carried with him and lit it.

The next step is to go to Prince An’s Mansion.

Princess Jianing was talking to Princess An, and Li Yu went over, bowed, and presented the mooncake to her.

Princess Jianing has always liked to eat it, so she broke off a piece of bacon mooncake first.

Princess An smiled and said she was greedy, and she also picked up a piece and tasted it.

Because Li Yu did well in her shop, Princess An had certain expectations for her mooncakes. After tasting them, she felt that there was a reason why she could run such a good shop.

"You have always been clever." Princess An said, "No wonder Jianing always talks about you. Okay, you two have not seen each other for a few days, so you must have something to talk about. I won't delay your conversation. You can go out now."

*

Princess Jianing pulled Li Yu out.

Qingbi followed behind the two of them, carrying mooncakes.

Princess Jianing said, "There has been nothing fun in the capital lately. It's really boring."

Li Yu reminded, “There will be a lantern festival in a few days for the Mid-Autumn Festival.”

Princess Jianing sighed, "There will be a palace banquet on Mid-Autumn Festival. My father, mother and I all have to go to the palace, which is even more boring. You don't know, there has been a lot of commotion in the palace these days. The child of Concubine Jing, who was newly appointed in May, is gone, and the emperor's uncle got really angry."

Li Yu heard about this matter. She could only say that the palace fighting was too cruel and those who could live peacefully in the palace were not ordinary.

Li Yu still had to go to Mr. Su's place, so he talked with Princess Jianing for a while and then said goodbye and left.

*

At the Su's house, Li Yu had just entered the door and was called away by Mrs. Su before he could say anything.

This year during the Mid-Autumn Festival, Mrs. Su had a sudden idea and wanted to try making mooncakes herself, but she couldn't make them well no matter what she did.

"I don't know why, but the stuffing I make always tastes like clear soup." Madam Su said, "Can you help me take a look?"

Li Yu looked in the direction Mrs. Su pointed, and it was no coincidence that Mrs. Su had made peach filling.

"I love peaches, so I thought about making something with peach filling, but I never knew it would be impossible to make."

Li Yu smiled, "Don't worry, Madam. I can handle it."

In the following time, Li Yu found the winter melon and made the peach filling again according to the same process as he did at home in the morning.

Madam Su was amazed, "I didn't expect that winter melon could be used."

By the time I had taught Mrs. Su to make a few, it was already evening.

Mrs. Su invited Li Yu to have dinner at her home, but Li Yu declined the invitation as their store was closed today and it was rare for everyone to be at home.

Mrs. Su had no choice but to let her go, but she brought a lot of return gifts to Li Yu.

Li Yu couldn't refuse and took the thing.

*

At home, during an afternoon when Li Yu was away, the few of them made seven or eight kilograms of winter melon stuffing and a copper basin of peach jam.

Han Xiaomei took credit for it to Li Yu, "Sister-in-law, I made the peach jam this time."

Li Yu praised her and said she was great, then looked at the stuffing in deep thought.

Such a large amount of winter melon filling will not go bad if left until tomorrow, but the taste will definitely deteriorate, so it is best to deal with it tonight.

We didn’t want to waste it, so after dinner, we made mooncakes together.

Now that the winter melon filling and peach jam were ready, frying them wouldn't be that troublesome. Li Yu saw that it was not yet dark, so he drove out decisively to buy glutinous rice flour.

After that, use flour to make ordinary mooncakes and use glutinous rice flour to make snow skin mooncakes.

*

The nine people worked until midnight and barely finished.

Li Yu finally counted and found that they had made more than 200 mooncakes, half of which were snow skin mooncakes and the other half were ordinary mooncakes.

According to her original plan, she was going to let the people in the store do this.

Finally made it at home.

Li Yu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and took a few people to wrap the mooncakes in oil paper.

Now that it’s ready, let’s start selling it tomorrow.

*

The next day, customers who came to Li Ji Hotpot Restaurant and Barbecue Restaurant found that moon cakes were available in the store.

Since Li Yu opened the shop, everything he sells has been delicious, so even without the recommendation of Wei Hesong, the Beijing gourmet, everyone started buying it spontaneously.

Although it was the first shop in Beijing selling fruit-filled mooncakes, Li Yu didn't ask for a high price, but didn't ask for a low price either, just eighty cents each, considering that there were many happy events at home this year.

Those who can often come to the store to consume are those who have some money at home. After hearing the prices, they are no longer in a hurry to buy sausages and hot pot, and they line up in front of the moon cakes.

Li Yu hopes that more people can taste mooncakes, so he set a purchase limit, with each person buying a maximum of two. More than that will not be sold.

But there were only so many mooncakes at home, and the two stores each sold 100, and the sales were sold out in less than half an hour.

Those who bought something happily carried it home, while those who didn’t buy anything asked Li Yu if he had any in the afternoon.

Li Yu shook his head. "This thing is hard to make. I'll have it tomorrow."

The guests were disappointed and asked Li Yu if they could make a reservation in advance. They would pay first.

Li Yu thought about it and accepted the orders from these people, two per person, no more for the time being. In addition, she would not collect money for the time being, only record the name.

She is not worried if these people don’t want to buy it tomorrow. As a new product, there will always be people who want fruit mooncakes.

Besides, it tastes good on its own.

*

At this time, outside the city, Lu Xuan drove a rented carriage and bought a lot of winter melons with Si'er.

Li Yu wanted to keep the mystery of the fruit pie filling, so she couldn't buy winter melon in the city. She wanted too much and others would be able to guess it. So she asked Lu Xuan and Si'er to go outside the city to buy directly from farmers.

Not only is the price low, but you can also buy a lot at once.

Anyway, winter melon is durable, so you don’t have to worry about buying it.

*

Everyone was busy with their own things. In the afternoon, Li Yu taught the people in the store how to make fresh meat mooncakes.

On August 14th, barbecue restaurants specialize in selling mooncakes.

The most common ones are those with fresh meat fillings, and there are also those with five-nut fillings. In modern times, many people do not like five-nut fillings, but in the Dayu Dynasty, five-nut mooncakes were quite popular among the people because they contained more oil and sugar.

There were no mooncakes with fruit filling. In the past few days, everyone in the inner city knew that Li Yu was selling mooncakes with fruit filling, so much so that as soon as Li Yu and his companions finished making tomorrow's mooncakes at home in the evening, the servants and maids from various families in the inner city bought up all the mooncakes that were not reserved.

Because the business was so good, several dim sum shops in the inner city came to propose cooperation.