Xian Manju launched mooncake sales.
Guests who have eaten Xian Manju pastries were looking forward to it!
Looking at the mooncakes placed in the window cabinet, each mooncake tastes unique and exquisite, but the price is not cheap. They heard that the price of a palm-sized mooncake starts from 200 wen, especially the egg yolk mooncake and osmanthus mooncake, which cost 500 wen each. Many customer’s hopes were crushed.
With the gift box, it will cost six or seven taels a box!
This is too expensive!
There are also ordinary ones, which cost hundreds of wens each. If the family has spare money, they will buy one or two to try. Once they try it, they want to eat it even more. The ones worth a hundred wen are so delicious, so the five hundred wen ones should be even more delicious.
They were not short of money, so they bought the most expensive mooncake to try. After eating it, they felt that the price was worth it and that this was the best mooncake they had ever tasted. If it was used as a gift, it would save face.
Except for the few members who wanted to order them as gifts, the owner of the restaurant used a brocade box for the gift box. Wei Cheng would not easily let go of the opportunity to promote the transparent gift box and immediately ordered someone to send several gift boxes for people to choose from.
It is a transparent gift box, the lower part of the box is brocaded with white crystals, and the upper cover is a whitish clear part of the box. This name given by Wei Cheng was ‘White Crystal Boxes’. He couldn’t call it plastic, it’s not classy.
Seeing the gift box covered with white crystals, the store owners who are outside the staff don’t need to worry about the price. This white crystal gift box is a rarity. It looks high-grade and the price is not expensive, so they immediately choose the white crystal gift box.
The moon cake gift box the store owner sent to the others was to curry favor with the rich and powerful.
Countless people receive gifts from high-ranking and wealthy households every festival, and they all want to use this to build relationships.
Gifts not on the qualified list are all piled up in one pack, put into the warehouse if they are useful, and rewarded by the servants if they are not useful, they are not even qualified to present them in front of the host.
This is the case every year when they send something to the people above, the packaging is an important aspect of the gift. Spending countless taels of silver for good packaging is nothing to them compared to the favors they might gain.
After ordering Xian Manju’s mooncakes, these people had a premonition in their hearts that their gifts would go to the hands of the master of the big families.
Not to mention the delicate and delicious mooncakes, even the gift box is a surprise.
Sure enough, the moon cake gift box was sent to the servants who were in charge of receiving the festival gifts. When the servants saw the gift box, they hurried in to ask the housekeeper for instructions. The gift box was transparent, so how could they dare to decide?
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With the gift box of Xian Manju mooncakes, their names were all on the guest list of these wealthy families.
After the butler left, these bosses blushed with excitement. The money they spent was worth it, and they thought about going to Xian Manju to order another batch.
The white crystal gift box is a limited edition, how could Wei Cheng let them pre-order it on a whim, otherwise it would seem that the white crystal gift box is not something rare.
These bosses played the emotional card and even raised their prices. Wei Cheng insisted on not letting go and he pretended to be wronged, “It’s not that I don’t want to sell this for everyone, it’s that white crystal gift boxes are rare. There are not many. When I first produced the box, the owner of Tai Fu Luo heard the news and ordered 800 boxes on the spot. After you guys ordered another batch, I don’t have many white crystal gift boxes left on hand, so I always keep some as a backup. If I give them to you, no one else can buy them.”
They know he has some on hand and it’s not that he doesn’t have any stock, it was just that he couldn’t provide for all these bosses. Of course, once these bosses learned that he had some on hand, they kept begging and asking Wei Cheng to sell a few boxes.
“Boss Wei, we are all regular customers of Xian Manju. We are so familiar with each other. You can sell me another twenty boxes for the sake of friendship, no, ten boxes.”
“Boss Wei, if you are willing to do this favor this time, I will owe you a huge favor. I will never shirk anything in the future.”
“The sauces for my five restaurants are all ordered from your workshop. In terms of our cooperative relationship, you can sell me a few more boxes, just a few boxes.”
Several bosses surrounded Wei Cheng, they sat at a large table in the restaurant, and ordered all the mooncakes for this year, begging Wei Cheng to sell them the box.
One runs a restaurant, the other runs a clothes shop, one sells tea and southern goods, and the other sells pottery.
Wei Cheng will definitely not offend them!
Wei Cheng said slowly, “Since several bosses have already asked then if I refuse, I would only be hitting myself. I can agree to sell some but we can only sell eight boxes per person, no more.” His tone was very embarrassed.
Several bosses immediately expressed their understanding and warmly toasted with him.
Wei Cheng drank his wine and smiled without showing a trace of what he truly thought.
For the mooncakes of Xian Manju, Tai Fu Luo gave them as gifts to the distinguished guests in their restaurant, and the sales peak started.
Whether it is the novelty of the mooncakes or the rarity of the white crystal gift box, it makes the big families and inner county families who receive the mooncake gift box feel unique for a while. They all started to inquire about Xian Manju’s gift boxes and even ordered some people to buy them.
Xian Manju’s mooncakes spread in the wealthy circles of the inner county.
The white crystal gift box is limited to purchase, and the egg yolk lotus paste is limited, and it is hard to find a box similar to theirs. The most popular ones are lotus paste mooncakes and osmanthus lotus root mooncakes, two of which are favorites of gers and girls.
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In the Cao family’s house in the inner county.
The housekeeper reported on the matter of Xian Manju, and the housekeeper was shocked to learn that the boss behind Xian Manju was that countryman back then.
Mr. Cao was very surprised when he heard that, the countryman was indeed as he thought, an extraordinary person.
The housekeeper asked, “Master, do we need to inquire about the formula?”
Mr. Cao took a look at the housekeeper before saying, “You are late. If we had wooed him back then, our Cao family could still take advantage of it.”
The background of Tai Fu Luo is not something the Cao family can offend. It doesn’t matter that the Cao family is backed by third-rank officials. The power behind Tai Fu Luo is in the imperial city, which is a place of real power.
This country guy is really smart, and it was his luck to get on Tai Fu Luo’s side so early. It just so happened that the young owner of Tai Fu Luo came to Nanshan County he struck a huge pot of gold.
The Cao family doesn’t care about the formulas and recipes but many big families were taking a very close look at Xian Manju.
The first one is the owner of Baixiangzhai’s pastries. Since Xian Manju sells mooncakes, it directly affects the business of Baixiangzhai, so they were trying their best to get the pastry recipe.
Although they are afraid of Tai Fu Luo, they can still do it secretly.
No matter how tightly guarded the formula is, they believe that they can get the formula.
Baixiangzhai relied on this method to bring down the century-old shop, but now it wants to repeat the same trick and find someone to infiltrate the Wei family’s workshop to get the formula.
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At the Wei family’s house.
“This mooncake is so delicious. Ms. Min deserves to be a noble lady. The osmanthus mooncakes can’t be reserved so easily, especially for a couple of boxes. Miss Min’s house can still make reservations. It shows the ability of the Min family.” Wei Cheng’s eldest aunt complimented, “I want to ask someone to buy it, but I can’t.”
Min Yueting came to give a Mid-Autumn Festival gift to Wen Lanzhi, a good sister in her boudoir, and she was with Wei Zhai at this time.
Facing the compliment from the wife of Wei Zhai, Min Yueting just smiled politely.
Wen Lanzhi was holding her young son in her arms. Ever since she heard her mother-in-law and husband talking that day, she felt a lingering depression in her heart.
Although her mother-in-law didn’t mention letting her husband take a concubine again, her mother-in-law also didn’t want to give up. Her husband will take the Juren examination next year, and all of his attention was focused on preparing for the exam, so it’s not good for her mother-in-law to propose taking a concubine at this time.
But the Wang family’s mother and daughter frequently entered the Wei residence, which was clearly to bring the Wang family’s daughter into the house.
If her husband were to become Juren next year then Wen Lanzhi knows very well that her mother-in-law will definitely let her husband take a concubine. When the time comes, she is faced with having to serve her husband with someone else, what should she do?
In the beginning, she disregarded her family’s objection to this low marriage, she just wanted to rely on her family’s power so she was careful to prevent her husband from taking concubines.
“Lanzhi, my family is urging marriage. I don’t want to find someone I don’t like as a husband. I’m so envious that you can find someone you like to marry. Although it’s a low marriage, your husband is devoted to you. I want to find someone too. A husband who treats me sincerely and can stay with me for the rest of my life.”
A year ago, there was a story that was very popular and caused waves in the boudoir. The story was about a man who devoted himself to his wife. The two stayed together for a lifetime and never had a second person.
This made the girl in the boudoir envious, and they all had a longing in their heart.
Min Yueting is one of them.
Wen Lanzhi had nothing to do with Min Yueting before she entered the boudoir. Now she doesn’t want to tell her about the family affairs, so she doesn’t want to be too embarrassed. She doesn’t know that her mother-in-law is going to give her husband a concubine.
Wen Lanzhi hugged her young son tightly in her arms.
The only thing she can rely on is her son.
But, after her husband is admitted to Juren, is he really going to betray her?
Only for money.
She didn’t dare to ask, she was afraid that she would collapse!
Thanks for the chapter 💚
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Nooo i hope she can stop it and her husband loves her 🙁
Also yay Wei Cheng keeps selling like crazy hahaha
Nah rhe Bailangxi are gonna fail
Thank you for the update.