Chapter thirty-nine, selling moon cakes

As soon as the school holidays began, my family began to make snowy moon cakes.

The mooncake filling was prepared by my mother, and I started to stir fry the flour. My brother waited for the dough to be mixed. Two days ago, I went to the fair and asked the skilled father's older brother to make some cake molds for us. Everything was ready. The mooncakes should be ready before the mid-autumn festival, so you can give it away and sell it.

The ice skin is particular about the skin, so when I fried the flour, I fried it very carefully and didn't dare to make a mistake. At this time, the market price of the flour was two cents a Catty, because we bought more, so I also got a discount from the boss, 18 cents a catty, we bought a big bag of flour, about 50 catties, and spent nine dollars.

If this is before our family, nine dollars can cover the expenses of our family for a month, now bought a bag of flour, or to Huo Huo Huo, do not know whether it can be done, in fact, I am also unsure.

But have the determination to try or can, I first fried flour, do not dare to fry more, took a few two first try, and so on brother Knead, Moon cake molding, found that is not the case, not what we want.

Three or five times in a row, and the sixth time, it finally paid off.

Because the biggest characteristic of the snowy moon cake is that it doesn't need to be cooked. After it falls off from the cake mold, it can be eaten directly, so we need to use the skin and filling are cooked.

At this time, we do not have a refrigerator, and ice-covered moon cakes in the refrigerator, the taste can be better. Although at this time the market has been the emergence of the refrigerator, but our family can not afford to buy, as far as we earn this money, although more than ordinary families, but the money to buy a refrigerator is not enough.

So I let my brother go to the ice cellar factory early in the morning to spend a dollar to buy two blocks of ice back. August and September days, is not particularly hot, the morning is even some cold, so the ice will not melt very fast.

After you buy the ice, put it in a large metal box that has been prepared early in the morning, so it can be stored all day. Our Moon cakes will be ready today, and then put in the iron box frozen for a few hours, you can eat it.

In the failure of several times, after the master of the stir-fry time and dough and soft, soft gluten. Finally, we made ice-covered Mooncakes, after they had been frozen, we took them out and tried them. My brother repeatedly nodded as he ate. I could see from his face that it was a success. Those who had failed in front of US wasted several catties of flour, although mother looked at some heartache, but she ate one after also repeatedly praise, do well.

The snowy mooncakes could not help squeezing, so we packed them one by one. The wrapping paper was bought from the sellers of steamed buns. The snowy mooncakes were much smaller than the ordinary ones. So we cut the buns out of the bags, with a bag like this, we could fit two snowy moon cakes in it.

At this point, a moon cake our cost price is about 20 cents, four into a small bag. But when it came to pricing, we got into a bit of a fight.

Mother felt that the price should not be too high, after all, no one will buy these high, we do not have a long shelf life, can not sell will be a waste of money, after all, we have these materials, but spent ten dollars.

Brother thinks, fresh things should sell higher, so as to show the uniqueness of this snowy moon cake.

I thought about it between the opinions of my brother and my mother. Right now, the price of our ordinary mooncakes is 25 cents a piece, but the price of our snowy mooncakes is already 20 cents. We spend so much manpower to do it, it can't be 25 cents.

The final price was forty-five cents, four in a bundle, and fifty cents for each purchase. Because not everyone can afford mooncakes, let alone something as fresh as ours.

After mom and brother are OK with it, we can get ready to start selling. By the time the mooncakes were finished, it was already a little late, but the mooncakes still had to be kept on ice in order to taste good. I had to ask my brother to go to the ICEBOX factory and buy two more pieces of ice. The way the money was spent was like running water. My mother couldn't bear to look at it. She closed her eyes and said, "You two toss about it, I sleep first. " At this point I know that my mother is distressed money.

The next day, we began to peddle in the fair, last life and this life together, I really did not peddle things along the street. But this is near the mid-autumn festival, fair people really is many, at this time there is no Chengguan, come and go out to sell things people are also many.

Before and brother discussed, take out a few different flavors cut into a small piece of a small, let a person taste after buying, so that can attract people.

The three of US found a place around the corner where the most people came and went, and laid down our burdens. The carrying Poles were two large foam boxes containing the ice that had not melted the night before. This will allow the snowy mooncakes to last a little longer.

After putting things in place, the shape of our moon cakes still attracted the eyes of people coming and going, but no one came forward to ask.

I don't think it's going to work like this. We can't sell it even if no one gets near it. Anxious I thought about it, close to the ear of my brother and mother said my plan, then began to call out.

"A new flavor of ice-covered Moon cake. It's cold and melts in your mouth. Try it before you buy it. "

When I was finished, it was my brother's turn to repeat what I had said, and then my mother's turn to repeat it, and so on. Like a perfect chord, the three different yelps and yelps succeeded in attracting the attention of the crowd in the polder.

A slightly older woman first came up and asked, "can you really taste this before you buy it? "

As soon as I heard someone ask, I was so happy that I nodded my head and said, "of course, you don't need money if you don't like it. ".

After tasting it, she nodded her head. "Well, it's ice-cold, sticky and not greasy, just like the dim sum in the city, " she said. Then she asked me, "how much do you charge for this? "

As soon as I heard someone ask the price, I knew there was a chance. "If you buy four, you get forty-five cents a piece. If you buy one, you get fifty cents a piece. "

In fact, I know my price is a little expensive, but things are expensive in a fresh, now we have this at home, 50 cents to buy a taste is also possible.

Even some families have beloved grandchildren and so on, will be willing to buy a back to coax the children, so it is not said that all can not afford.