General, Madam Called You To Farm

Chapter 91 – Medical consultation fees (1)

In the following days, Su Cheng would search Zhang Dao and keep watch at his place everyday. 

He was wondering if Zhang Dao was scared out of his wits and never dared to go back to the town.

Su Xiaoxiao’s business was booming, and her wife’s cakes had gained a little reputation in the street. One hundred cakes a day were not enough to sell. Su Xiaoxiao didn’t increase the quantity, but added two kinds of new snacks, the chestnut cake and egg yolk pastry. 

-Chestnut cake

-Egg yolk pastry

Every time she opened the stall, it would be sold out in less than an hour.

Shopkeeper Sun had come to see her several times to buy her recipe, but Su Xiaoxiao didn’t agree.

The orders from the academy also kept increasing, and her business of pot-stewed dishes were also the same.

-Pot-stewed dish / Lu Cai (卤菜)

Her pricing was not cheap, but it was all sold out. Because the pot-stewed dishes tasted so good, even the butcher’s own pork business had also prospered a lot through it. 

“This is for today,” Luo Dazhuang handed two strings of copper coins to Su Xiaoxiao.

Su Xiaoxiao checked the money and handed it to Su Ergou to keep it.

Luo Dazhuang said, “These are the last few days of business, the market will close soon, and it won’t open until the 15th day of the first month of the next year.”

The atmosphere of celebrating the New Year was much stronger in this lifetime. Basically, the shops and stalls began to close in the middle of the twelfth lunar month, and the latest would not exceed the Lunar New Year. 

“After finishing the business for these days, I will come back on the 16th day of the first lunar month.” She said to Luo Dazhuang.

Luo Dazhuang originally wanted to say that he might not necessarily open on the 16th day of the first lunar month. But when he saw the little chubby girl’s expectant eyes, he swallowed the words again. 

“.….. Okay la.” Luo Dazhuang seemed to pick up a piece of pork belly casually, “There are not many customers at the market anymore, and probably most of them won’t be able to be sold. So you can take it back.” 

This was the high quality of pork shoulder meat. And it was not even noon right now, so how could it be possible for it to not be sold? 

-Pork Shoulder Meat / Plum Blossom Meat: The fat and thin criss-cross, it looks like plum blossoms in full bloom, so it is very beautiful, hence the name. The plum meat occupies only a small part of each pig, about five or six catties, and the lean meat part accounts for a large proportion, but there will be several thin fat interlaced in the middle, and the taste is delicate and tender. Doesn’t taste greasy, even if you accidentally cook it for a long time, the meat is still delicious.

Su Xiaoxiao saw through it and didn’t say anything. She accepted the pork meat and handed him a pack of snacks.

She didn’t give it as a return gift for the pork shoulder meat, because she had prepared it early in the morning. 

The relationship between people was very mysterious. Some people cooperate because of benefits, while others cooperate because of their compatibility attitude for each other.

“I will go first,” Su Xiaoxiao said goodbye to him.

Luo Dazhuang opened his mouth, like he wanted to say something, and finally he decided to call her out: “That.….. if I didn’t choose to share the profit with you, what price would you sell it to me?”

“Hmm…” Su Xiaoxiao thought about it carefully, “It should be five wen less per catty than the current selling price.” 

“Is this the lowest price you? Just five wen less?”

Most of her pot-stewed dishes sold for 40 wen a catty, with the share profit 20:80 percent, he could get 8 wen for a catty. 

The cheapest big meat was also 30 wen a catty, and he could get 6 wen. No matter what, it was more than 5 wen. 

Luo Dazhuang was very happy and thankful: “Fortunately, I chose to share the profit!”

Su Xiaoxiao smiled and said, “Yeah, you’re very smart.”

No, it was not that Luo Dazhuang was smart.

It was Su Xiaoxiao who gave him a white lie.

Her real price was only half of the selling price. The reason why Su Xiaoxiao didn’t tell him that was because it wouldn’t help, and it would only increase his regret. 

After all, it was impossible for her to change the way of cooperation with him in the short term. 

Making people regret might breed a momentary feeling of satisfaction, but it was not beneficial for cooperation.

If he had the emotions that he should not have, then the differences and conflicts would inevitably occur over time.

Seeing that the business was good now, he wants a reassurance that he would not regret, so she gave him this reassurance.