Now that the other party has spoken to this extent, Su Qingluan also understands that what happens next is not something that "outsiders" like himself and Yao Guang can interfere with.
When Su Qingluan arrived at the door of "Su Ji", there was already a long queue at the gate.
But just when Su Qingluan passed by the door and headed towards the end of the queue, Su Qingluan discovered that there were no new products on the market in the store. Instead, the clerk inside the store was handing out number plates.
Su Qingluan didn't know why, so she turned to look at Yan Min: "What does that number plate mean?"
"To grab the jam."
"Jam?" Su Qingluan raised her eyebrows.
"Ms. Su is new here, I'm afraid she doesn't understand the joints," Yan Min looked at Su Qingluan and explained, "This hollow golden nanmu number plate costs twenty taels of gold, ten yuan in total. With such a number plate, it will definitely be able to I got a new set of marmalade; the mahogany number plate costs five taels and one gold, and this kind of number plate costs thirty yuan. Sometimes, if the ten gold-threaded nanmu brands in front of the family get three or four sets, they may have There are cases where you can’t grab the mahogany number plate at the back, but it’s relatively rare.”
When Mrs. Yan said this, she carefully explained to Su Qingluan that although many families sent maids to do the shopping, the only ones who could do this kind of work were personal maids or housekeepers. The social circle in the capital was so large, who could There are also countless personal maids in the family.
In this way, anyone can know how much jam someone buys every day as long as they inquire.
If you buy too many sets at once, and it’s not the kind of festival or birthday of an elder in the family, you don’t need to make a big deal. If you buy too many sets, you will inevitably be laughed at - no matter how delicious the jam is , after all, it’s just food. If you are too greedy, it will be difficult to retain the reputation of being "greedy", which is not a good thing for any female family member.
Of course, there are weird things everywhere, and it’s not like there aren’t people who just want a bite to eat, and don’t care about their own reputation at all, and let others be picky.
However, probably because he felt that it was rude to talk to others behind their backs, Yan Min did not name the specific people who "didn't care about their own reputation."
Su Qingluan wasn't really interested in these parents' filial piety, so he didn't ask further. As for Yaoguang, Su Qingluan has not seen her interested in anything other than eating and sleeping so far, so she has basically been acting as a backdrop.
She is obviously quite pretty, and she is a beauty if you take a closer look, but if Yao Guang wanted to, he could not attract anyone's attention - even after Yan Min was helped off the carriage by Xia Ying, he thought for a moment that Yao Guang was gone. lost.
Su Qingluan wondered if this was one of the "training results" of the secret guards? I want to wait until I go back to ask Yaoguang.
But right now, there is another thing that attracts Su Qingluan even more. She quietly approached Yan Min and asked: "But I see that the brand these people came to queue up to get is neither golden nanmu nor mahogany?" Su Qingluan naturally didn't know golden nanmu, but mahogany. But she recognized it.
But the people in front of her were holding exactly the same wooden number plates, and even if she had never seen the golden nanmu, she knew it was very expensive. Expensive wood has a texture that cheap wood cannot match. .
But the wooden signs of these people in front of them were visibly cheap, and Su Qingluan saw that the price they paid was one or two gold.
Su Qingluan looked at Yan Min: "Do you want to queue up by yourself?" At this moment, they had already got off the carriage, and the coachman went to park the carriage to another place specially designed for parking carriages.
Yan Min smiled and shook his head: "I asked Xia Ying to go, but this time she came too late and didn't have time to catch the mahogany number plate. I had to try my luck and get a beech number plate first."
"What, what does the beech wood brand say?" Su Qingluan, Yao Guang and Yan Min slowly asked in a shady place on the other side of the street.
"Although Mahogany occasionally can't get jam, but after all, everyone looks up and down, and rarely gets things done, so he can usually pick out at least a set or a jar of jam - of course, both If you choose the leftover golden nanmu brand, it may not be the one you like the most. But the beech wood brand is different."
As he said that, Yan Min sighed: "This brand, there are only a few bottles of jam on the market, so there is a high probability that if you grab the brand, you won't be able to grab the jam."
Su Qingluan raised an eyebrow: "But I see there are quite a few people here with beech wood brands!" Although it is not a "bad street", Su Qingluan took a quick look and saw that there are still a hundred and eighty people.
"There is nothing we can do about it... Who makes Su Ji's marmalade really delicious every time, even if there are substitutes, it is still inferior by three points?" At this point, Yan Min sighed softly, "The rules in the store are that if you don't grab the wooden sign, you won't even be eligible to buy jam."
When Su Qingluan heard the first half of Yan Min's words, she was still a little smug. After all, she was the complete inventor of the jam recipe, and the finished product of the jam was the result of the joint efforts of her employees.
His hard work has been sincerely praised by others, and the other person does not know his relationship with "Su Ji", so this kind of praise must not have any added water.
However, before Su Qingluan was pretty enough, the second half of Yan Min's words made her furious, so she immediately said coldly: "How come I haven't heard of the bullshit rule that you have to buy a wooden sign?"
Su Qingluan's reaction was so strange that Yan Min looked up at her. At this time, Yao Guang stepped forward and patted Su Qingluan's shoulder gently: "Cousin, don't be so angry. If you go to buy jam, the one or two gold can be deducted from the price, right?"
Being interrupted like this by Yao Guang, Su Qingluan also regained her composure and said secretly in her heart: Maybe there is a hidden secret? She must not get into trouble.
Thinking this, Su Qingluan also looked at Yan Min.
Yao Guang's speculation is very common sense - after all, even the cheapest brand of beech wood costs one or two gold. Although in a capital city full of wealthy people, one or two gold is really not enough for a wealthy family, but to be fair, this price is not a small amount.
Even in a wealthy family, the monthly income of the eldest girl is only one or two taels of silver. This one tael of gold is enough to cover more than half a year's wages.
And these are considered "high-paying" professions. More people can only earn three to five taels of silver throughout the year - after all, the vast majority of them are ordinary people.
Unexpectedly, Su Qingluan and Yaoguang still underestimated the shamelessness of the black-hearted businessman. Yan Min shook his head under the gaze of the two people: "No matter whether I can finally buy the jam, or whether it is the one I like, this The money you spend to buy a brand is considered a 'deposit'. The golden nanmu and mahogany brands need to be recycled, but the beech ones are not - there is not much money for those things."
After all, beech wood is a common furniture material in ordinary people's homes and cannot be too expensive.
Su Qingluan and Yaoguang took a breath of air when they heard this: This is too dark!
