Ye Jiayao smiled: "I'm sorry, we signed an agreement with Prince Helian's Mansion and we will not sell mooncakes until the birthday banquet is over."
The woman was anxious: "We will definitely keep it secret."
Ye Jiayao said: "Business is all about integrity. I'm really sorry. I'd better ask your master to wait for a few more days. Then you can have as much as you want."
"Do you want to buy ten taels each?" The woman obviously refused to give up easily and wanted to seduce him with money.
Ye Jiayao couldn't help but feel excited, Damn, there are ten taels each, five taels is fifty taels. The owner of this family clearly knew about her agreement with Prince Helian's Mansion and even bought it privately. This shows how tempting this mooncake is. Is it time to consider raising prices
Hey, forget it, if this family member is not tight-lipped and tells the truth, then she will become a person with no credibility and will be looked down upon by Xiao Jing. I don’t need this little money.
"I'm really sorry. According to the agreement, if I break the contract, I have to pay five hundred taels of silver. You'd better ask your master to wait!" Ye Jiayao reluctantly refused.
Seeing that she couldn't be moved, the woman had no choice but to leave angrily.
After finishing work in the evening, Xia Chunyu came to pick her up again.
Ye Jiayao had been sulking for a whole day and couldn't help complaining to him.
"I also know the rules of the restaurant, but I invented this mooncake, and the situation is great, but I can only get 30% of it. It's really shameful. The most annoying thing is that they didn't even use the portable ice cream I invented myself. If you want to take it, it really pisses me off. Don’t they understand what invention rights mean? I still expect to make a small profit from this!"
Xia Chunyu secretly sweated. He didn't have any psychological burden when he opened Sanqi, but that Bingjian... He really didn't expect Yaoyao to have this idea too.
Now he has become the black-hearted boss she calls him.
"Don't be angry. Who let me be the shopkeeper and you a hired worker? How about I redeem your life and open a restaurant for you?" Xia Chunyu comforted.
"No." Ye Jiayao refused without thinking. She was not his now, so why should she want his things? If she became his in the future, then all his things would be hers and she should take them as a matter of course.
Xia Chunyu knew she would refuse. Hey, he really missed her shameless behavior when she was just trying to win a few taels of personal money from him.
"Then you won't tell the shopkeeper that you developed the ice mirror yourself. If you want it, just buy it from you. You can make a profit at least." Xia Chunyu said.
Ye Jiayao waved her hand: "Pull it down, I'm not interested in making money from one or two or two."
Xia Chunyu chuckled: "How much do you need to earn to be interested?"
Ye Jiayao wrinkled her nose: "Originally, I planned to earn five taels per ice mirror, but one hundred would be five hundred taels."
Uh... He's really calm. He plans to earn ten taels apiece!
"Forget it, let's not talk about this troublesome thing. Anyway, I still have a lot of good things. I will take them out when I open my own restaurant in the future. I will make all the money myself." Ye Jiayao said.
"How can that be done? If you don't come up with good things, how can you earn fame and become a chef?" This is related to the interests of the restaurant.
"Those chefs will come up with new dishes from time to time, otherwise they will be eliminated." Xia Chunyu said.
Ye Jiayao looked at him and sneered: "Isn't this the only way to become famous and become a chef? I heard that there will be a cooking competition soon. I will get a gold, silver and bronze medal then. Who dares to say that I am not? Chef?"
Xia Chunyu teased: "You think it's so easy to get gold and silver medals? Jinling City has hidden dragons and crouching tigers. There are so many masters who don't even know where to appear."
Ye Jiayao said disapprovingly: "You don't have to worry about this, the mountain man has his own clever plan."
"By the way, did you hand in the letter of repentance? Did you pass the test?" Ye Jiayao asked, remembering this.
Xia Chunyu glared: "That's called a self-examination book."
"Aren't they all the same?"
"It's different. The letter of repentance is unpleasant, as if I have really done something treacherous and unethical." Xia Chunyu pouted, imitating her.
Ye Jiayao laughed: "Contradicting the Queen Mother is not treasonous!"
"Hey, have you passed?" Ye Jiayao poked him with her elbow.
Xia Chunyu said: "That's right in the first place. Your Majesty also meant it symbolically. It's easy to do business with the Queen Mother. It's okay now. I'm all back on duty today."
What disappointed him was that after he contradicted the Queen Mother like this, the Emperor still seemed to want to bring him and Liuli together.
But the emperor has been slow to say it clearly. He can't take the initiative to say: Your Majesty, please don't think about it. The minister already has a wife.
Knowing that he was fine, Ye Jiayao breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I will be very busy starting tomorrow. In five days, there will be a birthday party. Some things must be prepared first."
"Well, are you sure?" Xia Chunyu was also very concerned. The old princess's birthday banquet was unusual. The most prestigious people in Jinling City would attend it. If it was successful, it would become famous, but if it was not successful, it would become a joke.
Ye Jiayao was full of confidence: "Everything is ready, just follow the steps. Everyone is very attentive and nothing will go wrong."
"Kiss her." Xia Chunyu held her face and pecked her hard.
Ye Jiayao protested: "What are you doing? Don't take advantage of others."
Xia Chunyu said innocently: "I wish you success in advance!"
Go, she doesn't want this kind of support.
That night, the guys from Tiantian Juli finished cleaning up and went to bed. In the middle of the night, a man quietly got up, dragged out a bag of things from the corner, untied the bag of glutinous rice flour that Ye Jiayao had prepared, and scooped out a few With a large spoon, pour in the other powder and mix well. He quietly slipped back into his room and lay down to sleep.
Wang Mingde opened his eyes drowsily, turned around and continued to sleep.
Ye Jiayao spent two nights making several basins of ice cream, and the mooncakes had to be made in advance. She would be busy cooking and would not have time to do these things.
The day after tomorrow is the birthday banquet. After finishing work that night, Ye Jiayao brought a few helpers, and Helianjing sent a carriage early to transport the required materials to the palace.
"Yao Yao, I don't have to go to the Ministry of War as an official from tomorrow. Your Majesty will give my brother and I three days off to work on the birthday banquet at home. If you need anything from me, just let me know." He Lianjing said with a smile. explain. He just went to the Ministry of War to familiarize himself with official duties, and he was so busy that he didn't have time to come to Yaoyao. He used to not understand why his elder brother was so busy, but now he realized that many things were beyond his control.
Ye Jiayao looked at him sideways: "Okay, come and help me light the fire."
This was a joke, but Xiaojing actually said happily: "Okay, I will do whatever you ask me to do."
You can chat with Yaoyao while lighting the fire. Besides, watching Yaoyao cook is also a great pleasure. Why not
The corners of Ye Jiayao's eyes and mouth twitched, and she said in her heart: Even if you want, I wouldn't dare! If I want to command you to light the fire, your brother and your mother will not burn me as firewood.
"Forget it, you have a lot of things to do yourself, so how can you help me light the fire?" Ye Jiayao curled her lips.
"I'll have it if you need it. If you don't have it, squeeze it out." He Lianjing said seriously.
Ye Jiayao looked at him expressionlessly: "If the servants in your house see you squatting in front of the stove to light the fire, they will probably be scared to death."
He Lianjing laughed loudly: "It's completely possible."
As they talked, they arrived at Prince Helian's Mansion. Deng Haichuan had already been here several times, and his expression was relatively calm, but the others were not so calm. This was the Prince's Mansion. Who would have thought that one day he would walk into the Prince's Mansion to hold a banquet? Woolen cloth? Not even Chef Niu has ever been so awesome!
Everyone looked around with excitement.
The palace is so majestic, even the bricks and tiles here feel particularly precious. They were all stepped on by the nobles!
Ye Jiayao coughed twice: "Everyone should calm down, there will be many more opportunities like this in the future."
Cui Dongpeng came closer and patted the horse: "Follow Brother Yao and you will have meat to eat. Brother Yao, from now on I will follow you shamelessly."
Ye Jiayao was embarrassed, thinking of the classic lines in The Promise, why didn't you say that Brother Xinyao will have eternal life!
Everyone moved things into the kitchen, and He Lianjing waved to the two of them: "This is Manager Liu. If you can't find me if you have any problem, you can go to him. But it's unlikely that you can't find me. This is Manager Liu." Manager Hu, the royal chef and the steward of the kitchen, he has been at your disposal these days."
Ye Jiayao bowed her hands in greeting.
Manager Liu and Manager Hu also returned the courtesy politely.
He Lianjing also solemnly ordered: "You must obey Li Yao's instructions completely in the past few days without any excuses. If anything goes wrong, please ask me, Xiao Wang."
Even the janitors in the palace thought they were superior to others, let alone the general manager and stewards. Li Yao was just a little cook and not well-known. He Lianjing was afraid that they would look down on Li Yao, so he agreed in front of him. , turned around and embarrassed Li Yao.
"Yes, I have taken note of it." The young prince was so solemn that Manager Liu and Manager Hu couldn't help but become serious, and even if they had a little contempt, they honestly put it away.
"Then we'll have to trouble you two. Let's work together to make the old princess's birthday party a decent one." Ye Jiayao said with a smile.
Deng Haichuan came to report: "Brother Yao, everything has been moved."
Ye Jiayao nodded and said, "We will use the kitchen tonight, but you don't need to help."
They are about to start making moon cakes, and no one else is allowed to watch.
But He Lianjing had to stay, and Ye Jiayao couldn't drive him away, so she had to let him stay and watch.
Zhong Xiang poured out the glutinous rice flour and started stir-frying. Wang Mingde beat the milk and powdered sugar, Deng Haichuan helped, and Cui Dongpeng was responsible for lighting the fire.
"I heard from my mother that this ice cream mooncake is so delicious. I can't wait to try it. Yaoyao, where's the ice cream you mentioned?" Helian Jing looked around for the ice cream.
Ye Jiayao went to open a large ice cream shop and took a spoonful of it to him: "Try it, but don't eat more. You don't even know if it's enough to make mooncakes. If you add more, I'll let you eat as much as you can."
He Lianjing smiled and took the bowl and sat aside to eat ice cream. Ye Jiayao also rolled up her sleeves and started working. Suddenly she saw Deng Haichuan winking at her. Ye Jiayao turned around and saw that He Lianjing quietly opened the ice mirror and dug there again.
Uh, this greedy cat...
(End of chapter)