Dressed as a peasant girl, the prince actually wants to seduce me

Chapter 116 Juicy Vegetables

After closing the shop in the evening, Sumu and Su Yuanshan would put out a variety of fresh vegetables.

There are not many new vegetables on the market this time. Most of them are the main vegetables we eat normally, supplemented by other fresh vegetables.

You can’t serve all the fresh vegetables right away. You have to give diners some buffer time and slowly serve new ones to maintain the freshness.

Su Mu ordered a lot of pickled vegetable jars of appropriate sizes, neither too big nor too small, just enough to fit on the shelves.

Each shelf has a different type of pickles and vegetables, and the shelves are labeled with their names to prevent people from taking the wrong ones and to allow for more efficient organization and placement.

There are also pickle samples in small bowls on the counter in front of the shelves, allowing customers to see more directly what the pickles look like.

The shelves on the left are filled with rows of sauerkraut, dried radish, chopped peppers, pickled garlic, kimchi, salted duck eggs, pickled white radish slices, etc.

The shelf on the right also has new vegetables. The shelf here is much larger than the one on the left. There are leeks, lotus roots, cabbages, white radishes, corns, green peppers, and garlic sprouts.

Some seasonings such as onion, ginger, garlic, and even some green wheat grains and corn kernels that can be used for making porridge.

We can’t put more things in there, the space left in the store is limited, it already looks like a small shop.

The most important thing is that they have another important guest, that is pepper! And it is the right time to eat pepper in winter.

But this thing is not something that ordinary people can afford. Pepper is too expensive, costing over a hundred taels of silver per catty. A catty has 16 taels, so one tael of pepper costs more than six taels, nearly seven taels of silver.

After this period of harvest, Sumu has stockpiled a lot of pepper, but pepper is not currently available in large quantities.

"Little sister, can I put the pepper here?"

The pepper was packed in a particularly gorgeous and exquisite ceramic box with various patterns on it.

“Yes, diners can see it as soon as they come in.”

The two of them packed up the shop and waited for it to open the next day. Su Mu did not go back, but stayed in the backyard of the shop for one night.

The next day, when I opened the door, I saw many people waiting outside. "It's so cold, why are you here so early?"

Su Mu opened the door to let the diners in, and the waiter went to light a charcoal brazier to quickly warm up the room.

"Are both Su shopkeepers here?"

"Didn't we hear that the store has new vegetables? Then we should come earlier to buy some."

"Come in quickly, it's so cold outside."

A group of diners blew hot air on their hands to warm them and entered the shop, which was much warmer because of the charcoal basin that was lit.

"Shopkeeper Su, there are so many new vegetables?" The customer looked at the juicy vegetables, "They are all really fresh! They look like they were just picked from the field."

"I want some of this, this too." The diner pointed at a few familiar vegetables.

"Okay." The guy quickly took the vegetables and tried to wrap them up.

"Don't pack it. Look, I'm carrying the basket myself." The man raised the basket in his hand.

"That's easy. Just put it in."

“Are those pickles from before?”

"Yes, here are samples, you can take a look." The waiter led me to the counter.

"Really? Give me a jar of these pickles, too."

"Okay, I'll pack it for you. Welcome to come again next time." The guy packed it up quickly.

Normally, the prices of ordinary vegetables sold by Su Mu here are just okay, not too expensive. However, the prices of fresh vegetables that have never appeared before are quite expensive.

"Hey, man, what is this?" At this time, a thin man saw the fresh green peppers.

"This is green pepper, which is the chopped pepper sauce we usually eat, and there are also spicy vegetables like dogwood." Su Mu came over and explained.

"Take it and have a look?" Su Mu took a green pepper and handed it to the man. The man touched the pepper and smelled it, "It is indeed spicy."

Su Mu knew that this must have been the buyer or manager of that family, and he selected it very carefully.

“What kind of dish can I make with this?”

"You can add some to stir-fry meat or vegetables when you go back."

Although the vegetables and rice are strictly protected here and will not be easily leaked, you still have to explain to people how to eat it. Otherwise, it will be a problem if they buy it back and don’t know how to eat it, and then they may not buy it next time.

"Give me a pound first." The manager was quite cautious and bought a pound to try first.

While the guy was weighing the peppers, the thin man kept looking at the shelf, his eyes fixed on the white porcelain box.

“Is this seasoning?”

He had seen some shops use this kind of white porcelain box to store some seasoning powder before.

"This guy has very sharp eyes."

Su Mu took the ceramic box.

Some diners in the store suddenly realized that there was something inside. They thought it was just a decoration. It was not strange to have a decoration with juicy vegetables in winter.

Su Mu opened the box and the peppercorns inside spilled out. The peppercorns looked even more clearly against the backdrop of the white ceramic.

“What is this? Pepper!” The thin man was surprised. He didn’t expect that the Su family’s cookbook could sell pepper. It was not simple.

"Yes, these are unground peppercorns. You can buy them home and grind them yourself, right?"

It can also prevent others from adding other things to pepper. Although counterfeiting is strictly controlled here, there is no guarantee that some people will not be blinded by profit.

Before the thin man opened his mouth, the diners here were already in an uproar.

"It's actually pepper!" the man's voice suddenly increased.

"Shopkeeper Su is awesome! He's even selling pepper!" Most of the diners were joking, but some of them had obvious excitement on their faces.

“This thing is not easy to handle, right?”

Su Mu could only laugh and said, "It's OK, it's OK."

"How much are these peppers from Shopkeeper Su?" the thin man asked.

"Seven ounces of silver for one ounce of peppercorns."

The reason why it is not sold by kilogram is that you may not eat a kilogram of pepper at home, right? And the loss of pepper after it is ground into powder is very small.

"Would you like some pepper?" Su Mu asked the thin man.

"Give me one or two." The man smelled the pepper first and then said.

"Okay, if you need it and trust our shop, we can add pepper later."

But common pepper powder is more expensive than peppercorns.

Su Mu carefully packed the pepper and handed it to the thin man.

Su Mu was very happy. He didn't expect that he could sell the pepper so quickly. He thought it would take a long time to sell it. It turned out that there was no shortage of rich people in the capital.

"I definitely trust Shopkeeper Su. We are confident in everything your family produces."

I won’t talk about the duck legs and duck wings that are sold individually, but in the past, when people bought large pieces of braised meat, there was no one who didn’t weigh it when they got home. After all, with meat and vegetables, it is very easy for sellers to shortchange you on the weight.