Chapter 33 - New Clothes (2/2)

“Baozhu, you have to control your strength when rubbing the mesona. If you rub it too hard, the cold jelly will become hard too.”

“So does the sugar water. If you make it too thick, it’ll be too sweet and a waste of money but if you make it too watery, it won’t be sweet enough.”

“…”

Ye Xiaoxian unreservedly taught Xiao Baozhu her “secret recipe” for making cold jelly.

Xiao Baozhu somehow found Ye Xiaoxian a bit odd. She thought that would it be that Ye Xiaoxian treat her as a maid and after she learnt everything, Ye Xiaoxian would just sit back and do nothing?

But Xiao Baozhu was just happy to learn anyway because she knew that they made money out of this, besides, she could go to town. She hadn’t gone to town much in her whole life.

Xiao Baozhu didn’t expect that their cold jelly was that popular until they arrived in town. Especially after the incident with the bridgehead old man that day, the Xiao’s Cold Jelly were brought to the front. There were even some people around their stall waiting for their cold jelly before they came.

Xiao Baozhu was a bit at a loss at the beginning but when she saw that her ma and little Ye were perfectly at ease of giving the cold jelly to the customers as well as taking the money, she then followed suit and started to get herself busy.

Just before noon, the housekeeper of a wealthy and influential family who bought half the bucket cold jelly last time came around again and once more bought half the bucket.

So they sold out everything before noon.

Ye Xiaoxian put the empty bucket, bowl and spoon near the chubby shopkeeper’s stall and asked him to look after them. Then she suggested to Li Hongmei, “Ma, Baozhu, it’s still early. Let’s go around and have a look in town. And I want to buy some ingredients for making pancakes. If they turn up to be delicious, we can sell pancakes with the cold jelly tomorrow.”

“Little Ye, you want to sell pancakes as well?” asked Li Hongmei in surprise.

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