Baozi Xishi's Struggle

Chapter 240: Qi Xi's Reckless Troublemaking

Li thought for a moment and said, "We can make the first batch of pancakes at 7:00 in the morning, and I guarantee it won't delay your journey."

After receiving the promise, the customer took the wrapped sauce-flavored pancake and left contentedly.

When there were fewer customers in the store, Li and her friends had some time to eat and sit down to rest.

Li was tired and happy. She pounded her arm and said, "It seems that I need to prepare more of these sauce-flavored cakes in the future. I will start making them as soon as I get up in the morning."

"Many customers wanted to bring some for the trip, so they bought a whole basket at a time."

Shen Yu asked, "Mom, how do they know that we sell Jiangxiang cakes in our store? Not every customer has eaten in our store."

Li said: "Speaking of this, I really have to thank the shopkeeper and the waiters who come to eat at noon every day. I heard that it was recommended by them."

"When merchants and customers go to the market and shops along the street and plan to eat or go out of town, they will mention our shop and tell them to buy meat skewers and sauce-flavored cakes."

"They say our Jiangxiang Biscuits taste good and are durable. They won't go bad even if you take them on the road and eat them for a day or two. That's why so many customers came today."

Shen Yu seemed to be thinking about something. This word-of-mouth publicity was quite effective.

Shen Yu pondered for a while, and then said, "When the seals for printing promotional paper are ready in two days, we will give some of these paper to each shopkeeper."

"Please ask them to put it in the store so that it will be easier to introduce it to customers when they ask about it."

Li and the others listened and thought that this would be more effective.

When the market closed and the shops were shut, Shen Yu started to make the meat sauce.

Today, Zhou Dalang did not prepare the dough and ingredients for tomorrow's meal and then go home for dinner as usual.

He kneaded the dough for the lasagna and asked Shen Yu if it was okay to have the sauce-flavored pancake for dinner today.

Shen Yu knew he wanted to practice, so he smiled and said, "What's wrong with that? Just do it. When you're done, you'll have dinner and breakfast tomorrow."

"If there's really too much, just send some to Mr. Lu and Qixi. They like to eat it anyway."

Zhou Dalang couldn't help but smile when he thought of how Qixi enjoyed everything she ate when she was here.

Perhaps because he felt that he was making it for his own family, Zhou Dalang was not so nervous.

I made three sauce-flavored pancakes in total, each one better than the last. By the last one, I could already make beautiful folds and flip it over accurately and easily.

Shen Yu, Li and others were watching.

Li encouraged him, "Zhou Dalang was just scared by your parents' scolding in the past. Actually, you are a quick learner. You have done a great job."

"Tomorrow morning, after you make the soy milk, start making the sauce-flavored cakes. A customer will come to pick them up tomorrow morning."

Zhou Dalang looked at the last round and beautiful Jiangxiang pancake that came out of the pan and said excitedly, "The more I was afraid in the morning, the worse it would be. When I thought about how I had delayed the customer's purchase of pancakes, I became even more nervous."

“I didn’t expect these to do so well.”

Shen Yu smiled and said to Zhou Dalang: "When you make it tomorrow, don't think too much about it. Just think of it as a cake for us to eat. It will definitely be as good as this one."

"After brushing these pancakes with sauce, cut them while they are still hot. We will have them for dinner. You can also take some back."

"This is the last one. After dinner, have Dun Dun and Yu Cheng take it to Master Lu and his friends as a midnight snack."

Li thought for a moment and said, "Let's make another pot of Thousand Layer Meat Pie and send it together. There's not enough meat on the sauce-flavored pie."

Shen Yu smiled. It seemed that even Li was concerned about Lu Lang not having enough meat to eat. As soon as the food was delivered, she would first ask whether there was meat.

After dinner, Shen Yu made another pot of lasagna, a total of four lasagna patties plus a large sauce-flavored pancake cut into eight small pieces, filling up a whole food box.

Shen Yu weighed it and felt it was a bit heavy, so he said, "This food box is a bit heavy. How about I find a stick and tie a rope to the food box, and you two can carry it together, it will be easier."

Just as I was thinking about what I could find in the yard, Zhou Dalang came back from home. He smiled and said, "When she left, the girl said she wanted Yucheng and the others to deliver the cakes."

"I thought it was getting dark, and I was worried about the two little kids going, so I decided to go and take them there."

Li smiled and said, "Okay, I'll trouble you to make the trip."

"Let the two boys follow along, and take turns on the way to avoid being too heavy."

The three of them agreed, and Zhou Dalang carried the food box and went straight to the county government office with Dun Dun and Yu Cheng.

Anping County Government Office, in Lu Lang's study.

County magistrate Lu Zheng sat behind his desk, casually flipping through Lu Lang's recent homework and nodded with satisfaction.

Lu Lang stood respectfully by the side, waiting for his father's instructions.

Lu Zheng said gently: "You have done well in your studies recently. I heard from Liu Shun that you study very hard at night and go to bed at midnight."

"Study hard, but health is also important. If you stay up late all the time, you won't be able to handle the three-day exam."

"I should go to bed earlier in the future and do some boxing and kicking exercises in the morning to keep my body healthy."

Lu Lang hurriedly replied "Yes".

As the father and son were talking, Qi Xi came rushing in from the door with a food box in his hand. As soon as he entered the door, he shouted, "Master, Master, look what this is."

As soon as Lu Lang heard it, he knew it was going to be bad, but it was too late to stop it.

Seeing Qixi carrying a food box carelessly and entering the study without knocking, Lu Zheng's face darkened: "Are your servants always so unruly?"

Qi Xi then saw that it was the master sitting behind the desk. He was so scared that he quickly put the food box aside and knelt on the ground.

Lu Lang nervously covered up for Qi Xi and said, "Father, don't blame him. I asked him to buy a book. The book was hard to buy, and I think he finally bought it, so he was too happy."

Qixi was so clever that he immediately kowtowed and said, "Forgive me, Master. I was so happy that I lost my mind. I found the book that you asked me to find, so I hurried to tell you."

Only then did Lu Zheng's expression ease a little.

He looked at the lunch box next to Qixi and said unhappily, "Just buy books, why do you bring a lunch box?"

"What kind of book is so hard to find? If you need any book in the future, just tell me and I'll buy it for you. Why let a servant rummage around the city like this? It's not decent."

Qixi had no idea what book he wanted to buy.

After a while of grunting, he suddenly had an idea: "Master said yesterday that the bean paste biscuits were delicious, so the young master asked me to buy some bean paste biscuits and bring them back to the master when I go to look for books today, so I took the food box with me when I went out."

Lu Zheng thought about yesterday's lunch when Lu Lang brought out a plate of red bean paste biscuits and said that he saw a restaurant outside that made good biscuits, so he bought some for him to try.