Chapter 71: 71. Chapter 71: Jiang Yu Proposes Cooperation

71. Chapter 71: Jiang Yu Proposes Cooperation

Jiang Yu walked out of the restaurant and saw Shopkeeper Zhou's slightly dissatisfied expression at a glance, so he said: "Alright, Old Zhou, everyone is doing business, who doesn't want to earn more? They aren't here to grab your business."

These restaurant shopkeepers were almost all from neighboring counties, so they couldn't grab business from them anyway.

After speaking, he walked up slowly. The shopkeepers of several restaurants and tea houses saw him, and their expressions immediately became respectful, politely calling out "Young Master Jiang."

Jiang Yu nodded slightly, then looked at Jiang Xiaoxiao: "Little girl, your family's ice cream and snow cakes are so popular, would you like to consider cooperating with me?"

Since they were going to cooperate anyway, it would be better for him to take the first step.

Jiang Xiaoxiao heard this and looked at Shopkeeper Zhou behind him, unable to help but say: "Young Master Jiang, the Yuelai Restaurant under your industry has already ordered our family's ice cream and snow cakes. How else do you want to cooperate?"

"That's not what I mean." Jiang Yu shook his head, looked at Jiang Wei, and said solemnly: "I want to cooperate with your family in the name of the Fu'an Trading House."

Upon hearing this, several shopkeepers showed expressions of disbelief.

The Fu'an Trading House is the most prestigious trading house spread across the country, with its main family under the feet of the Son of Heaven in the Capital, and there are also people from the imperial court in the family, protected by them, and no one dares to offend them!

Cooperating with the Fu'an Trading House is something many business people dream of. They hadn't expected Little Lady Jiang to have such an opportunity!

"Oh?" Jiang Wei took a step forward and asked: "How does Young Master Jiang want to cooperate?"

Jiang Yu thought about it and said: "I have eaten a lot of your family's ice cream and snow cakes in Yong'an Town these past two days, and I really like them very much. I want to order a large batch to transport to the Capital to sell. How about it?"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Xiaoxiao's eyes lit up instantly!

The Capital is the most prosperous place in the whole country. High-ranking officials and nobles must like to eat such novel and cooling food as ice cream and snow cakes. If they are transported to the Capital to sell, they must be able to make a lot of money!

In that case, there would be no need to worry about the money for building the house this year!

Jiang Xiaoxiao opened her mouth and wanted to agree, but Jiang Wei shook her head and said: "Young Master Jiang, I'm afraid this won't work. Ice cream and snow cakes are not easy to preserve for a long time. Our Yong'an Town is far from the Capital, and I'm afraid these ice cream and snow cakes will melt before they are transported to the Capital."

That's true. The Capital is so far from their Yong'an Town. If the ice cream and snow cakes are transported there, they will melt halfway...

Jiang Xiaoxiao couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

There is no refrigerator in this era, so it is impossible to transport so much ice cream and snow cakes, unless there are a large number of ice mines. However, there are only those ice cubes made by her mother using saltpeter in the space, which are far from meeting the requirements for transporting and preserving ice cream and snow cakes.

After listening, Jiang Yu was also a little disappointed. He sighed: "Since that's the case, then forget it."

The shopkeepers on the side breathed a sigh of relief quietly when they heard this. They were really afraid that Little Lady Jiang would agree to cooperate with Young Master Jiang, and there would be no extra stock for them to cooperate with their restaurants...

Jiang Wei turned her head to look at them again and said: "How much ice cream and snow cakes do you want to order?"

They were stunned for a moment, and then scrambled to say: "My restaurant wants one hundred bowls of ice cream and one hundred snow cakes!"

"My family too, one hundred portions of ice cream and snow cakes each!"

"My family only needs fifty bowls of ice cream and fifty snow cakes!"

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For a time, seven or eight shopkeepers stated the quantities they needed.

Jiang Wei nodded, wrote them down one by one, and then said: "Alright, I will deliver the goods to your restaurants tomorrow morning."

Jiang Xiaoxiao calculated silently in her heart. All the restaurants and tea houses combined totaled eight, with a demand for six hundred bowls of ice cream and seven hundred snow cakes...

Ice cream is ten wen a bowl, and snow cakes are five wen a piece. Adding them up, there will be nearly ten taels of silver coming in every day!

Jiang Xiaoxiao, who calculated this result, felt a little dizzy. With so much money, there is no need to talk about waiting until autumn. Just one month, and the money for building the house will be no problem at all!

However, can they, the mother and daughter, make so many snow cakes and ice cream in one day?

Along with the sky-high wealth came an even heavier workload.

Finally, after delivering the goods to Shopkeeper Zhou and getting another tael and a half of silver, the mother and daughter rushed to the street corner to sell snow cakes.

This time, Jiang Wei expressed her apologies to everyone who came to buy snow cakes: "Everyone, I'm sorry. My family's business is really busy, so I won't come here to sell snow cakes in the future."

"Ah? You won't come in the future? Then what should my grandson do if he wants to eat snow cakes in the future?"

Upon hearing this news, everyone expressed great disappointment.

But there was no other way. Although Jiang Xiaoxiao was also reluctant to part with these enthusiastic and loyal old customers, the amount ordered by those restaurants every day was not enough to make, and they had even less time to come here to sell snow cakes.

Seeing the disappointed expressions of the crowd, Jiang Xiaoxiao thought for a moment and said: "I will consign a batch of snow cakes at Yuelai Restaurant. If you want to buy them, you can go to Yuelai Restaurant to see."

This is a good method.

Jiang Xiaoxiao nodded in agreement upon hearing this. It's not far from here to Yuelai Restaurant, and it's convenient for them to go directly to the restaurant to buy snow cakes, and they don't have to stand in the hot sun and queue up like they do now.

However, the price of this snow cake is not easy to set, and it needs time to discuss it carefully with Shopkeeper Zhou.

At the same time.

Yuelai Restaurant.

Jiang Yu was still a little disappointed that he couldn't reach a cooperation with Jiang Wei.

He sat in the main hall on the first floor, feeling unhappy, and ate two bowls of ice cream in one breath. It was so cool that all the irritability in his body dissipated.

Shopkeeper Zhou waited on the side, not daring to speak.

Jiang Yu hooked his finger and called the Shop Assistant to bring a food box, and put two bowls of ice cream in it.

"Hey, Young Master, where are you going?" Shopkeeper Zhou saw that Jiang Yu called his own people to pick up the food box and was about to go out, so he hurriedly asked.

"Of course, I'm going to find my second brother. Where else could I go?" Jiang Yu glanced at him, took his people out of the restaurant, and walked toward the County Yamen.

Shopkeeper Zhou looked at the departing figure and couldn't help but reach out and touch the sweat oozing from his forehead. Sigh, when two ancestors get together, there will be trouble...

On the other side, after Jiang Wei finished selling the snow cakes, she took Jiang Xiaoxiao to a carpentry shop and ordered five ice cabinets and two hundred snow cake molds in one breath, and requested them to be done by tomorrow, saying she could pay extra.

Upon hearing that she would pay extra, the owner of the carpentry shop immediately patted his chest and guaranteed that he would have his apprentices work overnight to make them, and they could come to pick up the goods tomorrow morning.

After doing all this, the mother and daughter rushed back to the village in a hurry.

It was already late after selling the snow cakes, and the thousand or so ice cream and snow cakes might not be finished today. Jiang Xiaoxiao originally thought her mother would take her home to work overnight, but she didn't expect Jiang Wei to lead her straight to Qiulian Niang's house. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 72 =====