General, Madam Called You To Farm - Chapter 40

And just now she also noticed this little fat village girl’s movement when she cut the cake, which was very clean.

“Two pieces for each of them then.” The woman said.

Su Xiaoxiao took out a clean bamboo leaf that used to wrap the cakes and said, “It’s the first transaction of business for today, I will give you one more. Which flavor do you want?”

“Which one do you like best?” The woman asked her daughter.

The little girl said straightforwardly, “I like them all!”

“I will take the meigan cai then.” The woman said.

-Meigan Cai with pork meat filling

-A bundle of Meigan Cai (梅干菜)
A type of dry pickled chinese mustard. The pickle consists of a whole head of various varieties of chinese mustards and cabbages that has undergone an elaborate process consisting of drying, steaming, and salting. The vegetables are harvested, trimmed before the Qingming Festival, and sun-dried until limp. It is then salted or brined, kneaded until the juices are exuded, and left to ferment in large clay urns for 15 to 20 days. The vegetable is then repeatedly steamed and dried until reddish brown in color and highly fragrant. [Wikipedia]

“Okay.” Su Xiaoxiao handed the wrapped cakes to the woman.

The woman took out her purse.

Su Xiaoxiao said, “Ergou, collect the money.”

Su Ergou couldn’t believe it when he saw the extra 60 wen that suddenly appeared in the purse.

How much work did it take? And they already earned this much?

It was faster than he and his father extorting money from door to door!

The reaction of the mother and daughter was seen by everyone. Some people questioned the validity of this, while some people were genuinely curious.

Suddenly, a young scholar in the queue at the entrance of the Jinji shouted, “Oh! it’s her!”

The companion in front of him turned his head and asked, “Who is it?”

“I asked you to come to Jinji with me yesterday. But you didn’t come, so you missed it!” The scholar pointed to Su Xiaodao and said, “She… she’s the one I told you, the fat village girl who saved a choked child!”

“Ah, that’s right! It’s her!”

The person who said this was the old man who had just bought the first box of snacks.

When Su Xiaoxiao saved the child, he was there.

The scholar smiled and said, “I will go buy her cakes!”

The companion was anxious: “Hey! There are only two more people before our turn! After all, we’ve been waiting for an hour!”

The scholar did not care and went across the street without looking back.

“Miss, do you still remember me?”

“Have we met?”

“Well, I was upstairs yesterday, and you were in the lobby, you were also busy saving people. I guess you didn’t see me.”

Su Xiaoxiao understood, he was the guest of Jinji.

The scholar patted the folding fan in his hand and said, “Your cakes look very ordinary. Jinji also has this kind of flaky cake.”

Su Xiaoxiao said seriously, “But mine is more delicious.”

“Ha!” The scholar laughed out loud, not mocking, but simply thinking that this little fat village girl was a little cute with her self-confidence.

“Even if it’s not delicious, I will also buy it. Who told me to respect you as a heroine among women? Give me ten!”

Su Xiaobao packed ten for him.

The scholar wondered: “Why don’t you give me one more? The customer before just bought six and you gave them one more.”

Su Xiaoxiao said, “That’s the first transaction of a business for today. If you come here first tomorrow, even if you only buy one piece, I will also give you one more.”

How could it be possible for the scholar to be greedy for her cakes? He didn’t have any expectation for the cakes to be delicious, It was merely just idle talk, nothing more.

As for tomorrow, he won’t come again!

Thinking of something, he asked again: “Do you have a name for this cake? The one in Jinji is called flaky cake.”

Su Xiaoxiao thought for a moment and said, “Wife cakes.”

-Wife Cakes / Lao Po Bing (老婆饼)

The scholar: “???”

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The snacks sold out more smoothly than what she expected. In less than an hour, all of the 100 cakes were sold out.

If they went to the market, they wouldn’t be able to sell it so fast.

After all, her price was high, so people who went to the market might not be willing to pay 10 copper coins to buy such a small snack.

Of course, Jinji’s customers were not short of money. If she was only cheaper than Jinji, there would not be so many people to buy it.

In addition, she had her own reputation of saving people, which also gave the customers a lot of trust.

Finally, there was a little gimmick — which was the name of the pastry.

Wife cakes,  which was interesting.

Due to the limited cooking tools, the wife cake she made was very different from the wife cake that was made in her previous life, the taste was also very different.

However, for the people in ancient times who had not eaten various kinds of preservatives and additive foods, the taste of this kind of pastry was very wonderful.

When the stall was closed, Su Ergou smiled, “Jie, you guess, how many copper coins we got from the cakes we sold today?”