Chapter 31 Slap in the face

Mu Qingyin: "Sister, I have been in the mountains for two or three days. Before, I just ate some roasted wild boar meat and wild animals from the mountains. Now that I have finally come down from the mountain, I want to have a home-cooked meal.

Besides this, I want to find two more people to help me carry the wild boar down from the mountain, and find a bullock cart to take me back to Changhe Town. I am unfamiliar with this place, so could you please help me prepare food and find people and a bullock cart?"

"It's not a big deal. It's just a piece of cake. If you don't mind, come to my house for dinner. I have a lot of laborers at home who can help carry the wild boar down the mountain. We also happen to have an ox cart."

Looking at the exquisitely crafted small silver ingot that Mu Qingyin handed over, which was obviously from a wealthy family, the young woman was immediately surprised and somewhat at a loss.

She wanted to take it but hesitated for a moment before saying, "This is too much silver. We can't make the change. In fact, fifty or a hundred coins is the best you can give. Otherwise, you can take the silver back first, and we will send you to Changhe Town and then give you the money when you get home."

"No need, it's just a few ounces of silver." Mu Qingyin smiled nonchalantly and stuffed the small silver ingot directly into the young woman's hand. "If there is any extra, it will be the money I leave for my sister to buy cosmetics."

It's just a mere tael of silver?

Wow, this one tael of silver is worth a thousand coins. During their slack season, a grown man who is a strong laborer can only earn a dozen or twenty coins a day by doing odd jobs in the town.

The group of people gasped and stared at the small silver ingot in the young woman's hand with envy and amazement.

While they were envious and shocked, the women who had previously criticized Mu Qingyin for ruining her clothes and who were mocked by her for "not caring about other people's business" could not help but feel a little embarrassed when they looked at Mu Qingyin again.

The thin, tall and mean young woman who had a big face and started to teach Mu Qingyin a lesson was even more so. Her whole face suddenly turned red and became a little distorted because of jealousy.

She cast a gloomy look at the exquisitely crafted silverware in the young woman's hand, which was obviously made by a wealthy family.

Even though he was unwilling, he still had concerns, fearing that he would be retaliated against if he really offended Mu Qingyin. So even though he felt humiliated, he did not dare to argue with Mu Qingyin anymore.

Mu Qingyin took it all in from the corner of her eye, sneered in her heart and ignored it.

These were just small matters. She had already let go of her anger and that was enough. It was not worth it for her to continue wasting more time on them.

"My maiden name is Li, and everyone in the village calls me Lady Li. I wonder what I should call you, sister?"

For the young woman who received Mu Qingyin's small silver ingot, meeting Mu Qingyin was like a windfall. This made her feel very good. When she took Mu Qingyin to her home, she spoke to her in a more intimate tone.

"What a coincidence, my last name is also Li. Maybe we were one family five hundred years ago?"

Since it was only a half-day's walk from Changhe Town, it would only take a day's journey from the capital. The Mu surname was rare near the capital, so Mu Qingyin would not easily reveal her surname.

In her space, there was also the pass and household registration that she had used in her previous life. Her surname happened to be Li, so Mu Qingyin decided to continue using it in this life until the new household registration was completed.

So, she immediately said this to the young woman, Madam Li, with a smile.

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Chapter 32 Identification

"That's such a coincidence." Madam Li heard the kindness in Mu Qingyin's words and said with a smile, "Then I will be so generous as to call you Sister Li."

"Well, I'll call you Sister Li too." Mu Qingyin nodded happily.

"Okay, okay."

Madam Li nodded with increasing joy, and curiously asked a series of questions: "Sister Li, you said you have been in the mountains for two days. Won't your family be worried about you? What about the wild boar in the mountains? Didn't you even lose your medicine basket when you encountered it? How did you hunt it again? Do you understand pharmacology when you go up the mountain to collect herbs? Then can you treat people?"

"I do know a little about pharmacology and can make some pills. But I'm not good enough to treat patients. As for the wild boar, it destroyed the medicine basket that I had filled with great difficulty. I got lost because I chased it in anger."

Seeing the question, Mu Qingyin did not get impatient, but patiently explained. After explaining, she also deliberately showed a slightly arrogant and temperamental side, snorting lightly, as if she was very angry.

What she said was true, something like this had indeed happened before. So her anger didn't seem fake at all. This made everyone who heard her say this stare at her with wide eyes, half believing and half doubting.

"You chased a wild boar? And you ended up killing it?"

Madam Li didn't expect that the promise would be like this. She was also half-believing and half-doubting, and looked at Mu Qingyin in surprise: "Could it be that the little wild boar you met ran out alone?"

"No, it would have been better if it was a little wild boar, the meat would have been more tender." Mu Qingyin pouted in disgust, "It was a grown wild boar. If it hadn't provoked me first, I wouldn't have bothered with it at all. The meat was tough and really unpalatable."

"A grown wild boar?"

The meat was so delicious, making them so greedy that they always felt like they couldn't get enough, but it was rejected as unpalatable. Everyone couldn't help swallowing and exclaiming, then looked at Mu Qingyin with a look of surprise and doubt.

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Madam Li couldn't help swallowing her saliva like everyone else. She was speechless for a long time before she said with a sour mouth, "If the men in our village met an adult wild boar, three or five of them might not be its match. How can a little girl like you control it?"

"It's just a wild boar. I don't care about it."

Mu Qingyin snorted proudly, and seeing that Madam Li and the others didn't believe her, she smiled and explained, "This is nothing strange. Everyone in our family, regardless of gender, has to learn martial arts from the master since they were young.

So let alone hunting a single wild boar, even if a herd of them came at once, I would have a way to make them come and go. If it hadn't been so ignorant as to provoke me first and suddenly appeared to destroy the herbs I had worked so hard to pick, I wouldn't have chased it all the way in anger."

Mu Qingyin puffed her cheeks deliberately in anger, and then she looked frustrated again: "It's also my fault that I'm hot-tempered and not steady enough. Otherwise, how could I get lost in the mountains because of this?"

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Madam Li and several other women were speechless when they saw Mu Qingyin's face, which looked like it had not completely lost its youthfulness and still looked a little immature.

Isn't this person just hot-tempered? Otherwise, why would he lose his temper after just a few words from them? But who can blame him for being rich and powerful?

The Dazhao Kingdom values martial arts, and they have all heard that children from wealthy families would learn martial arts from martial arts masters from a young age. So at this moment, no one doubted Mu Qingyin's words, and they all believed that Mu Qingyin came from a wealthy family.

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Chapter 33: Careful

The child of a rich family, or a family that has the money and qualifications to learn martial arts. Although this is just a girl, she is precious and different from the money-losing goods in their countryside.

Mu Qingyin's words made everyone start to be cautious when looking at her again.

Everyone was sighing in their hearts, otherwise it was said that such a wealthy family was extraordinary that they were willing to spend money to hire a martial arts master to teach her, even though she was a money-losing girl.

But look, those who have learned martial arts are really amazing. Even a half-grown girl can be as good as several ordinary adult men.

If a man from their village had gone, he would have been chased by a wild boar. If he had not been chased by a wild boar, he would have been lucky to have returned safely.

In an instant, even though Mu Qingyin was still just a young girl, no one dared to look down on her. The few people who had spoken to her before were even more silent and didn't dare to say anything more.

"Sister Li, you are really capable. No wonder your family can let you stay in the mountains alone for two days without any worries." After a brief silence, Mrs. Li looked at Mu Qingyin with envy and said.

"I didn't go up the mountain alone. My master followed me. The master my family found for me is quite capable. In addition to martial arts, he also knows some medical skills, so I learned some from him."

When Mu Qingyin said this, she acted carefree and innocent, with a proud look on her face: "I often follow my master out to collect herbs, and it's common for me to be out for three or two days each time, so my family is used to it.

This time I got lost and separated from my master. It was an accident, but I am not a child who can't find the way home. Even if I didn't go back for a while, I left marks along the way, so my master would be able to find me quickly. "

Mu Qingyin said these words intentionally, and naturally she had her own little tricks behind them.

The purpose is to let people know that besides having the means to protect herself, she is not alone. If anyone wants to take advantage of her, they better think carefully about whether they are afraid that someone will come to her door later.

It is said that you should not have the intention to harm others, but you must be on guard against others.

After all, when going out, especially for a girl who doesn't look very old, and who has no self-protection means except for her strength, it's always better to be careful.

So she said this not only to make everyone misunderstand that she was a young girl who had practiced martial arts since childhood and had great skills and could subdue a wild boar by herself, but also to give people the impression that she was not alone.

This can not only protect her from being coveted by others to the greatest extent, but also allow those who may come to look for her in Yuejiang Marquis Mansion to rule out the possibility that she is the second lady of Yuejiang Marquis Mansion.

After following Madam Li for a short while, they arrived at her husband's home. Mu Qingyin then learned that her husband's surname was Jiang and this place was Jiangjiaao.

There are five brothers in the Jiang family, and Li's husband is the fourth. At first glance, their house is a thatched house like most of the houses in Jiangjiaao.

But as she got closer, Mu Qingyin immediately discovered that the house was half stone and half adobe, and it looked not only solid but also much more spacious. When she walked in, both the yard and the main room were very tidy.

It was not yet time for dinner, but when they heard that Mu Qingyin was having a martial arts competition and that there was a wild boar she had killed on the mountain, the Jiang family looked at Mu Qingyin with eyes that instantly became much brighter than when they looked at the small silver ingot in Li's hand.

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Chapter 34 Settlement

Mu Qingyin took the Jiang brothers to the mountain to carry the wild boar back. She originally wanted them to find a butcher in the village to slaughter the wild boar, but the Jiang brothers said that they could do it by slaughtering a dead wild boar.

In this case, Mu Qingyin naturally would not insist on hiring another butcher. After the wild boar meat was slaughtered, she asked the Jiang family for a large backpack, filled the backpack, and generously left most of the wild boar meat to the Jiang family.

This surprised the Jiang family, and they were extremely grateful to Mu Qingyin. After having a nice lunch, they even asked Li's husband to drive the ox cart, and thoughtfully asked Li to accompany her "back" to Changhe Town.

It was already late when the ox cart arrived at Changhe Town after a bumpy ride. Mu Qingyin suggested that Li Niangzi and her husband stay at the inn in the town for one night, but the couple flatly refused.

In this case, Mu Qingyin insisted on parting with the two of them outside the town, using the excuse of not delaying their return.

Watching the couple driving the ox cart away, Mu Qingyin put the entire backpack into the mustard seed space in a deserted place, then went into the town, found an inn and booked a room.

After resting in the inn for a night, Mu Qingyin went to the cloth shop the next day and bought some men's clothes. Then, based on her experience in her previous life, she asked someone to re-issue her identity documents.

Afterwards, she went to an agency to look for a suitable house, and bought servants, old women, and a maid to serve her. It took nearly half a month before Mu Qingyin finally settled down.

Mu Qingyin, who changed his name to Li Ying and finally settled down in Changhe Town, began to wonder, if he were to do business, what should he do?

Based on Mu Qingyin's experience, she knew that women's money was the easiest to earn. Whether it was clothes, jewelry, embroidery, or rouge and powder, they could all make a considerable profit.

But whether you want to open a cloth shop, a jewelry shop, an embroidery shop, or a rouge shop, you either need to spend a large sum of money on the goods or have a unique formula.

She has neither of these two things.

She brought a lot of valuables from Yuejianghou Mansion, but most of them were various gold, silver, pearl, jade, gemstone jewelry, jade, antique ornaments, and two boxes of books, pens, ink, paper and inkstone.

There were not many genuine silver notes and gold and silver coins.

Thinking about how she had spent most of her money buying houses and servants these days, Mu Qingyin had already used up a small portion of the money she had. After careful calculation, she found that the remaining money was only enough for her to buy a shop in Changhe Town and do some business that did not require much capital.

Mu Qingyin had never thought of cashing in the most valuable jewelry and ornaments she had, because they all had the mark of Yuejiang Marquis Mansion on them.

She believed that if she really dared to take those things to exchange for money, she would be harassed as soon as she sold those jewelry and ornaments.

Mu Qingyin didn't dare to take such a risk, so she didn't have to think about the cloth shops, jewelry shops, embroidery shops, and rouge shops for the time being.

What kind of shop should I open that doesn't require too much capital and can still make a lot of money? "Maybe opening a restaurant would be a good idea." After thinking hard for a while, Mu Qingyin's eyes suddenly lit up.

How could she forget? In her previous life, she was tortured in the ancestral temple for several years because of all the misfortunes. She didn't have enough food or clothes to eat. After that, she didn't have much obsession with clothes and jewelry, but she was obsessed with food.

Not only do I like to eat, I also like to make my own food.

Because she liked it, after she met her mother, her mother not only took great pains to help her collect delicious recipes, but also found many good chefs and spent a lot of money to have them teach her everything they knew.

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Chapter 35: Wisdom Pills and Loyalty Pills

Perhaps because of her deep obsession, Mu Qingyin was quite talented in cooking and soon became better than her teacher. In the end, she could not only cook many specialties, but also brew wine and make cakes.

In her previous life, it was because of this that she and A-Sha did not starve to death even when they were in desperate situations.

Thinking back to the time when her daughter in her previous life dressed up as a man and mingled with Ah Sha in the kitchens of teahouses and restaurants of all sizes, making a living with her excellent cooking skills.

Because of their excellent cooking skills, even though they didn't stay in each place for a long time, their life was not that bad, although not very good. At least they could make sure that Ah Sha, who had a big appetite and loved meat, was well fed every day.

Thinking of Ah Sha, who would show an especially satisfied look every time she ate the food she made herself, and then thinking of the Ah Sha she met in Changhe Town, Mu Qingyin couldn't help but curl up the corners of her mouth.

Speaking of which, opening a restaurant is a good idea.

In addition to the considerable profits from the food business, teahouses and restaurants have always been the best places to collect information.

After much deliberation, Mu Qingyin finally decided to open a restaurant herself.

However, in order to open a restaurant, you need not only a good manager, but also a chef who has good cooking skills and is loyal to you and someone you won't easily betray.

If Mu Qingyin didn't need to hide her identity and dared to let people know that she had a close relationship with Yuejiang Houfu or the Kuang family in Beijing, then very few people would dare to betray her easily just based on this.

Unfortunately, to outsiders, Mu Qingyin is now just a young man with some money but no one to rely on.

If she opened a restaurant, once the business was booming, it was inevitable that someone would come to poach her. They unceremoniously poached the chef who was the most important chef in their restaurant.

Now she wants to avoid the dilemma of having no chef available after the business gets better and having to take over on her own, unless the chef she uses has signed a contract to sell himself.

Otherwise, no matter how much money Mu Qingyin gave her, she couldn't guarantee that the chef she used would not turn against her.

But asking a chef of that level to sign a contract to sell himself? Mu Qingyin smiled and shook her head, muttering to herself: "Except for the chefs and shopkeepers trained by the aristocratic families who signed a contract to sell themselves, how could anyone with a little bit of ability be willing to easily turn himself into a slave?"

However, it would be easier to hire a shopkeeper, but Mu Qingyin was not confident in teaching all her cooking skills to a chef who did not have a contract to sell himself.

"Fortunately, we still have 'Wisdom Pills' and 'Loyalty Pills'. As long as we spend more time and effort, we can train a chef. And we have to start training the shopkeeper slowly as well."

Thinking of the two simple but practical pill recipes recorded in the "Alchemy Classic" in his mustard seed space, and the pills he had already prepared, Mu Qingyin's heart settled.

Having experienced betrayal in her previous life, she did not dare to think too highly of human nature, even with a contract to sell herself. If she had not relied on the pill in the mustard seed space that could guarantee people's loyalty, she would never have thought of creating her own power.

After months of preparation, the restaurant named "Yipintange" by Mu Qingyin finally opened quietly.

In Yipin Pavilion, except for the shopkeeper who needed rich experience, who Mu Qingyin could not train in a short time and had to carefully select, the rest, whether it was the chef, the errand boy in the kitchen, or the waiter, were all bought by her and signed a contract to sell themselves, and they also took the Wisdom Heart Pill and the Loyalty Pill.

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Chapter 36 Shopkeeper Ai's Worries

After trying them, Mu Qingyin found that both the Zhongxin Pill and the Huixin Pill were quite powerful.

Anyone who is willing to acknowledge the master when taking the Zhongxin Pill, whether it is voluntary or not, will involuntarily tell the master everything he knows, and will never have any thoughts of rebellion. The Huixin Pill is even better, it can open people's minds. It makes the person who takes it become smarter, and the speed of learning anything will be much faster, especially for the talents they already have.

This discovery made Mu Qingyin unable to help but take a Huixin Pill, and then she found that her already good cooking skills had improved even more in a short period of time, and she also felt that this was not the end.

This surprised Mu Qingyin and she immediately decided to postpone the opening of Yipintang in order to train her own chef.

Her decision was right. In just a few months, she had trained several chefs with their own specialties. If she continued like this, she would never have to worry about lack of talent whether she wanted to open a branch or do anything else.

With a good mood, Mu Qingyin was still smiling even though Yipin Pavilion was deserted on the first day of its opening.

But even though she was not in a hurry, someone else was.

Seeing that it was almost time for dinner and no one had come to the store yet, the shopkeeper Ai, who was invited by Mu Qingyin, couldn't help but feel worried.

He suggested to Mu Qingyin, "Boss, although our Yipin Pavilion is located in the most bustling county street in Changhe Town, it is a bit remote after all. It would not be good if we open the door quietly without anyone coming to support us.

Even if we don't follow other families' example of hiring people to beat gongs and drums at the door, at least we can let the waiters stand in front of the door and shout a few times, so as to give the diners some benefits and a dish? "

"Good wine needs no bush. We don't need to go through so much trouble." Shaking her head, Mu Qingyin, who had already come up with a plan, rejected Shopkeeper Ai's proposal and said casually, "Don't worry, I know what to do."

Do you know what is going on?

How could it be that even a ghost wouldn't come to the door? Shopkeeper Ai was secretly discussing it in his heart, but he could do nothing about Mu Qingyin's indifferent look. He could only sigh in his heart and stare at the door expecting someone to come in.

Unfortunately, it was almost time for dinner, and seeing people coming and going at the door, everyone seemed to ignore their own Yipinzhai. Shopkeeper Ai endured it again and again, but finally he couldn't sit still any longer.

He approached Mu Qingyin again: "You said that the ingredients should be fresh. The leftover dishes prepared today cannot be left for tomorrow. But those meat and vegetables are still good. We can't just throw them away if we don't need them, right?"

"Don't throw it away. I've already given instructions for the remaining prepared food. Tell the kitchen staff to prepare all the fillings and make buns tomorrow. We'll sell them for one penny each."

Mu Qingyin added, "If the buns don't sell well outside our Yipin Pavilion, we can have people go to the dock and shout a few times to attract people over. The price is cheap, and the buns with meat fillings will always sell well, and it can also help to make our Yipin Pavilion famous."

Changhe Town was close to the canal, and the town was as prosperous as those big state capitals. Especially the pier not far from them, it was bustling with people coming and going.

"A meat bun for one penny? Isn't that too cheap? When Yipin Pavilion's business gets better and there's no meat left, will it cause dissatisfaction if we stop selling these meat buns?"

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Chapter 37 Worry Comes True

Mu Qingyin's words made Shopkeeper Ai hesitate for a moment, and he said with a somewhat unpleasant expression: "Our side dishes are all of the best quality. Even if the fillings are left overnight, it is not expensive to sell a bun for three or five cents."

"We'll talk about the future later. Now just do as I say." Mu Qingyin didn't care at all about Shopkeeper Ai's worries. She smiled faintly and said.

"Yes." In response to Mu Qingyin's insistence, Shopkeeper Ai had no choice but to obey, so he could only agree reluctantly.

The next day, Yipinzhai really started selling buns for one penny each.

Hearing that there is meat filling in the buns, many people, even those who are usually frugal, are willing to pay for one to try it.

As a result, they found that although the meat filling in the Yipin Pavilion's one-cent buns was far less than that in the real pure meat buns, the Yipin Pavilion buns tasted very good, even more than ten times better than the large meat buns with pure meat fillings.

Within ten days, Yipin Pavilion Meat Buns became famous, and almost everyone in Changhe Town knew about it.

Word of mouth spread quickly. Every morning, people would line up at the entrance of Yipin Pavilion, waiting to buy these buns, which were sold out in less than an hour. They were the same price as other vegetarian buns, but tasted much better than other meat buns.

As Yipin Pavilion was clearly losing money to sell meat-filled buns at such a low price, many people were inevitably curious and kept asking questions.

Facing the inquiries from everyone, the waiters at Yipin Pavilion did not hide anything and all told the truth according to Mu Qingyin's instructions: "Our restaurant has just opened, and it is not very famous. There are not many people eating here. Therefore, the meat and vegetables prepared every day will inevitably be left over.

The stuffings of the buns we sell are all left over from the day before. Although the ingredients are still good, the boss refused to use them. But we can't waste the good meat and vegetables, right? So our boss simply let people wrap them into buns and sell them at a low price. Our boss didn't ask us to keep it a secret, and if anyone minds, they don't have to buy them. "

"No, no. It's just meat and vegetables that have been left out for a day. I have to say that your boss is too honest. Who can guarantee that the meat and vegetables are not left out overnight? We are not so hypocritical that we cannot eat meat that has been left out overnight."

"That's right. No wonder I was wondering why the price of these meat buns was as good as free. It turns out they really are free. I think this penny is just the price of buying the flour."

"Since your boss is so honest, he doesn't even use overnight meat and vegetables, but only fresh ones. Just based on his honesty, we will have to go to Yipin Pavilion to have a proper meal one day."

"That's right."

The waiter's honest speaking did not cause anyone to be offended. Instead, everyone praised the honesty of the head shopkeeper of Yipin Pavilion.

Everyone's reaction made Yin, who was listening upstairs, feel relieved. Although he didn't show it on his face, he couldn't help but worry that everyone would be disgusted by him using "leftover" ingredients to make meat buns. And then he would be disgusted by Yipin Pavilion's chief shopkeeper Mu Qingyin.

But she was relieved just a moment ago, and the next moment she began to feel a little bit amused and helpless, because immediately afterwards, Shopkeeper Ai's worries came true.

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Chapter 38 Take Your Time

Mu Qingyin only heard someone shouting at the top of his voice: "If the business of Yipin Pavilion is good in the future, and the shopkeeper has no meat and vegetables left, will he stop selling these meat buns? Then where can we go to eat such delicious and affordable meat buns in the future?"

"Well, that's true. What should I do?"

Someone immediately responded to the previous call, and someone shouted, "We can't keep complaining about Yipin Pavilion's poor business behind their backs. Can we leave more meat and vegetables? If so, when Yipin Pavilion can't hold on, we still won't have meat buns to eat, right?"

"That's right, that's right? What should I do?"

"Oh, my child loves this now and looks forward to eating it every day. What if it is no longer available in the future?"

Many people started to worry, sighing and saying, "What should we do? We are looking forward to eating your meat buns from Yipin Pavilion for a long time."

"That's right, you have to come up with a solution, right?"

Worry can also spread. As voices echoed one after another, many people frowned and became distressed. As more and more people echoed, the voices became louder and louder, and the situation suddenly got a little out of control.

Seeing the situation downstairs, if everyone continued to make such a fuss, it would eventually get out of control. Shopkeeper Ai, who had anticipated this, stood up anxiously.

He had a bitter face. He had been worried for the past few days, fearing that such a situation would happen, but he had no idea what to do. He had no choice but to look for Mu Qingyin with a difficult face: "Boss, what should we do now?"

With a sigh, Shopkeeper Ai hesitated to speak, and looked at Mu Qingyin with worry. He knew that this shopkeeper was very opinionated despite his young age. Even if he said something, it would be useless if he insisted on it.

If Mu Qingyin had listened to him at the beginning, even if she had insisted on making all the good ingredients left over from Yipinzhai the day before into fillings for buns, even if each bun sold for a few cents more, she would not have been so worried about making things worse like she is now.

Thinking of the true value of those good ingredients for fillings, he still felt a little sad even though the money he lost was not his.

If he were to ask him, as long as the food is not spoiled, why can't it be used? Why are other restaurants not so particular? Unfortunately, his words were useless, as the head shopkeeper insisted on not using ingredients that were not fresh overnight.

Now it's good, a bun that costs only one penny and is made with good ingredients, and it's only been a few days, but the people below are already addicted to it, right? Shopkeeper Ai is really worried. If the business of Yipinzhai gets better in the future, and there are no good ingredients left to make those buns, won't those people make a fuss every day? If this goes on, can Yipinzhai continue to operate?

The more he thought about it, the more he thought that if Yipinzhai didn't do well, his rare job, which earned him twice as much money a year as other companies and more, would be ruined. Shopkeeper Ai wanted to sigh again.

He said with regret: Although their boss had the right idea, he was still defeated because he was too young and inexperienced. He really didn't listen to the old man and suffered the consequences.

"It doesn't matter. Go down and tell them that even if Yipinzhai's business is good in the future and there are no ingredients left, we will still sell at least 300 buns made with fresh ingredients of the day, each costing one penny.

However, the quantity of the buns will be limited, and each person can only buy one at a time until the daily supply of 300 buns is sold out."

Mu Qingyin had already expected such a situation, so she smiled and spoke calmly.

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Chapter 39 Admiration

Seeing that Shopkeeper Ai was still worried and gloomy, Mu Qingyin smiled. She also knew that he had a sense of belonging to Yipinzhai and was really worried.

She felt a little uncomfortable in her heart, and patiently explained: "Shopkeeper Ai, you also know that there are many expensive ingredients in those fillings. But aren't there a lot of buns we make with them every day? After all, there are more vegetables and less meat in the fillings of the buns. With such a small profit and a large turnover, we have never really lost money, and we can even make a small profit.

And this way, the reputation of our Yipinzhai will also be spread. Soon more and more people will know that our Yipinzhai is honest and only uses the freshest ingredients of the day.

You said that with such a good reputation, people who come to our restaurant will find that the dishes of Yipinzhai are different from those of other restaurants and taste better? In this way, even if our prices are higher than those of other restaurants, about eight out of ten people who come to eat here will not mind this.

We still don't have to worry about bad business in the future, right? So even if we don't have any leftover ingredients, we can still use fresh ingredients to make dumplings with this kind of fillings. If we continue to make no profit, or make less profit, or even make a slight loss on this, what's the harm in that?"

"Yes, you are right. I was just confused before and didn't think clearly for a while."

After Mu Qingyin made it clear, Shopkeeper Ai felt as if the fog that had been blocking his eyes had dissipated, and he quickly figured out the key points.

All of a sudden, the distress on his face turned into a smile, and he looked at Mu Qingyin with admiration: "As long as our Yipinzhai becomes famous, how much profit can we not make up for it?"

"That's right."

Mu Qingyin smiled and nodded: "You can go down and tell them later that in addition to the buns that cost one penny each, starting tomorrow when you come to the store, we will also sell buns for one tael of silver each."

A bun that costs one or two taels of silver?

This is even more cruel than robbing money.

Swallowing his saliva, Shopkeeper Ai felt that Mu Qingyin was just as possessed as he was before. However, seeing that the noise was getting louder and louder, he did not dare to hesitate, nor did he have time to think or ask more questions, so he hurried downstairs to convey Mu Qingyin's words.

After hearing that the meat buns at one cent each would always be available, even if there was a restriction that each person could only buy one at a time, most people finally felt relieved.

Although some people are still dissatisfied and can't help complaining, most people are content and know there is no reason to make people do business at a loss.

So everyone's voices gradually became lower.

Not only that, many people who reacted quickly also praised the head and shopkeeper of Yipin Pavilion for their thoughtfulness. Otherwise, the 300 meat buns limited to each day would be bought up in one go by the first person in line. What else would others buy? After being praised like this, most people also responded.

All of a sudden, most of the people lost even the last bit of dissatisfaction they had, and they all praised the chief shopkeeper and the shopkeeper of Yipin Pavilion in unison.

Amidst all the praises, most people subconsciously ignored what Shopkeeper Ai also said, that if you came into the store you could get a bun for one or two taels of silver.

Seeing this, Shopkeeper Ai, who had been worried that people would question him for selling buns for one or two taels of silver each, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The next morning, when Mu Qingyin really asked someone to make the meat buns, which were dyed green by vegetable juice and cost one tael of silver each, he muttered a few words to the side, trying to stop Mu Qingyin from making 500 meat buns at a time, and wanted her to make fewer.

Unexpectedly, in less than half a day, the 500 meat buns sold by Yipinzhai at one or two taels of silver each were sold out.

It's sold out, but people still keep asking if there are any more?

Shopkeeper Ai had a good memory for people and found that most of the people who came to ask were customers who had bought meat buns for one or two taels of silver before. Those people were not the ones who ate the buns, but mostly the managers and servants of the rich families in Changhe Town.

Shopkeeper Ai: "."

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 40 Convinced

Quickly coming to his senses, Shopkeeper Ai hurriedly promised the person who came to ask that he would prepare more meat buns the next day.

After sending everyone away with kind words, he came to Mu Qingyin with a sincere heart and a lot of questions: "Boss, you are really smart. How did you know that a meat bun that costs only one tael of silver can sell so well?"

"I don't know either."

Mu Qingyin at least remembered that she was dressed in men's clothes, so she resisted the urge to blink and looked at Shopkeeper Ai with an innocent smile, "I was just thinking, everyone knows that our Yipinzhai's buns are delicious.

But the buns that cost one penny were made with the leftover ingredients from the day before. Those buns, those people who lived in poverty and didn't smell meat in their homes for ten days or half a month, naturally didn't care about eating them.

But the masters and mistresses, young masters and young ladies of the rich families, wouldn't they care and eat those things without caring about their face? That's why I came up with the idea of selling those meat buns that cost one or two silver coins each. I bought 500 of them because we have a lot of employees in Yipinzhai, and I thought that even if these expensive meat buns can't be sold, the worst that can happen is that the rest can be shared with everyone and it won't be a waste."

Shopkeeper Ai: "."

When he looked at Mu Qingyin, he was impressed by her ability to guess people's minds, and he also had a better understanding of her generosity. In the past few days, he really saw clearly that his boss was a truly broad-minded person who could accomplish great things.

He said: "Today our Yipinzhai's business is much better. The side dishes we prepared are almost gone. I'm afraid we will have to start selling the one-cent buns in limited quantities starting tomorrow."

"Then let's limit it." Mu Qingyin nodded, "Starting tomorrow I won't come every day, I'll trouble you with Yipinzhai's affairs."

From the preparation to the opening of Yipinzhai, business began to improve. Mu Qingyin had already invested half a year in this business, and she felt that she could finally step back and focus on other things.

"I dare not say it's troublesome, this is what I should do."

After hesitating for a while, Shopkeeper Ai asked with doubt: "I wonder how the shopkeeper came up with such a good idea that day, allowing Yipinzhai to go from obscurity to fame in Changhe Town in such a short period of time?"

"I didn't come up with this idea. I just got the idea from a story I heard."

Mu Qingyin chuckled and said openly, "In the story, there is a couple who opened a braised meat shop because they threw some braised meat to passing stray dogs every day.

As time went by, everyone started to ask about it out of curiosity, and then they learned that the braised meat in the couple's shop was never kept overnight. The meat they fed to the stray dogs was the braised meat that had not been sold out the day before, so they all thought that the couple was honest.

Gradually, more and more people came to patronize their braised meat shop, and it gradually became famous. The braised meat shop also became a century-old shop that could be passed down from generation to generation. "

"So that's how it is." Shopkeeper Ai was suddenly enlightened after hearing this.

Although he knew that this method was not thought up by Mu Qingyin herself, he still admired her: "Everyone knows that integrity is the foundation of survival, but knowing is one thing, but how many people can really do it?"

"That's right, it's easier to destroy a tree than to plant one. Honesty is the foundation, and we should never forget this."

Mu Qingyin nodded and said seriously, "In the future, even if Yipinzhai's business is booming, we must not forget the word 'integrity'. In addition to integrity, we must not look down on customers who only pay a penny to buy buns."

(End of this chapter)