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Manager Wu shook his head: "Once this business starts, everyone will know the price. It's useless to hide it from you, but I'm not sure of the price now."

"Oh? Shopkeeper, do you have any concerns?

I thought about how my Guest Home Resturant's small and infamous position couldn't compare to the price of my Cloud Jade Workshop. Since the fruit paste that you can make for me is much better than normal pastries, I didn't plan to set the price too low. After thinking about it, I decided on a bag of five pieces of Egg Fried Rice, for a total of two silver.

In fact, there was a reason for Manager Wu's worry. Not to mention the fact that the normal girls and women did not understand the rules and difficulties of these merchants, even the small merchants who were used to doing business would feel that their profits would be wasted after hearing that they had cheated on them.

However, Manager Wu did not expect Qin Wuya to not only not show any signs of dissatisfaction, she did not even show a single trace of emotion. How could the girls from ordinary families not be able to compare to him, even herself might not be able to remain calm.

In truth, how could Manager Wu understand Qin Wuya's thoughts? In Qin Wuya's heart, there was indeed doubt about the price Manager Wu had set, but this doubt was not because he had set the price too high in her heart. Instead, it was because he felt that the Manager Wu had been kind and set the price too low.

From the way Manager Wu did things just now, excluding the costs of manpower, firewood, oil, water, rent, and other fees, just the pure materials would cost 4 taels of silver, while the final price would only be 6 taels of silver. This was considering the fact that the new pastries were famous for their excellent sales and guaranteed that they could all be bought.

One had to know that the best way to eat was to avoid stocking up on food. In this era, there was no refrigerator to keep the food in for a long period of time and it would be ruined. If the risks were taken into account, he would at least need a tael of silver, which was why his Manager Wu only earned a tael of silver from the canned fruit paste business.

A business would need to spend five taels of silver to earn only one tael of silver. With the exception of raising the price of the fruits, if he raised the price, there would be no profit left at all. It was no wonder the Manager Wu would not agree.

To be honest, Qin Wuya did not think that the price Manager Wu had originally set was due to greed. Instead, she felt that this livelihood was not profitable at all. If it were him, he would definitely not do this business. However, if he did do this business, the price would not be so low.

The location of the bakery with the purple fruit sauce in Western China was not based on the popular market with low levels of food for its loved ones, but rather on the model of profit-making. It was targeted at a few high-end markets that were rich in consumer power, in order to do less good work. This way, the profit per unit price naturally couldn't be too little.

However, the interest rate calculated by the Manager Wu was not even 20%. To spend so much money just for this little bit of profit … He might as well take the money and lend it to her.

Wu Ya only got a hundred and sixty gold coins for selling a catty of agaric, and two to three taels of silver for making a jar of fruit paste. It sounded like it might not be any better than the Manager Wu, but Wu Ya had no money to buy it! After taking away all the effort she had put in, she didn't have any capital to spend on it. That was the real profit.

That was why Qin Wuya couldn't help but feel that the Manager Wu was too kind, or it could be said that the merchants of this era had not reached the point where they only wanted benefits, truly too inferior to the world that she lived in before.

Wuya didn't think that he was too greedy and was unsatisfied. She remembered that in her previous life, even the most ordinary fast food restaurants were selling for quite a high price, let alone those special cake shops that took the high-end route. If they met a merchant with a better conscience, the price would definitely be between 60% and 80% of the ingredients themselves. If they met someone without any conscience, it would be within 120% to 200%.

For example, it was said that the simplest domestic dish would be a hot and sour potato filament. In general, a small restaurant would sell it for around twelve dollars, while a plate of cold mixed tofu would cost eight dollars. However, as to how much a potato would cost, there was no need to explain the price of a box of tofu.

Seeing that the Manager Wu was worried, Qin Wuya also sighed: "With the shopkeeper's agreed price, this fruit paste is truly unprofitable if it were to increase by one tael."

"Since this is the case, I will naturally have to change the price for taking on this business. However, I want this shop to have a reputation without a location. If the price is set to be higher, would there be anyone who would want to buy it?"

This was the reason why Manager Wu was hesitating. Honestly speaking, he was not even interested in the two taels of silver.

"Shopkeeper, Wuya is a country woman, yet she doesn't know much about business. Wuya only wants to ask you one question, do you think it's the fruit paste cake cooked by my sister-in-law or the Cloud Jade Workshop's Emerald Cloud Cake?" Qin Wuya knew that if he were to use the Manager Wu's theory to talk about marketing, that would make him too out of the ordinary, so he asked about it in a different way.

"Naturally, it's your sister-in-law's cake with the purple fruit jam filling. This isn't something I, Old Wu, can boast about. The cake's jam is very fragrant, it's really good when paired together." The taste of the pastries was comparable to that of his own. Manager Wu could not help but take a piece and place it in his mouth as he savored the taste.

"Then I'll ask you again, what do you think about our fruit paste pastries being on Cloud Jade Workshop's Jade Cloud Cake?"

"Naturally, it's also our house's good. Although Cloud Jade Workshop's Jade Cloud Cake is also a top grade good ingredient, but it's not that special compared to our house's hard to find pastry, is it?" The Manager Wu was absolutely confident in this point. As someone who dealt in food business, he was most proficient in choosing ingredients and naturally could tell the difference between the quality of Cloud Jade Workshop's Emerald Cloud Cake and his own pastries.

"What about its rarity?" Is it that the Cloud Jade Workshop's Emerald Cloud Cake is rare and hard to buy, or is the Guest Home Resturant's fruit paste pastry rare and hard to buy? " Wu Yi asked with a smile on his face.

"Of course it's because our family is hard to buy, although there are very few Jade Cloud Cakes in the Clear Water Town, it's not as rare as the ones in the Cloud Jade Workshop, it's actually because his family is selling things at too high a price.

I might not know about it from the side, but from the looks of the Cloud Jade Workshop, my family's pastries are often piled up together because they can't be sold out after making too much. Today, in the day of the day, even if they are sold out, they can't be sold at a cheap price after tomorrow, I heard that in the end, they are either given to the shop assistant or they are dealt with together, it's such a waste.

This was only in the Clear Water Town, and was also where the shops were located in the neighboring towns. If one wanted to sleep and eat the Jade Cloud Cake, it was fine as long as one had the money to go anywhere. As long as you don't sell the ingredients to others, not to mention in the small Clear Water Town, I'm afraid you won't be able to find a second house in the entire Cloud Region. If anyone wants to eat it, they will have to come to our Guest Home Resturant, and in total, only these jars of fruit sauces will be first to get it.

After saying these words, the Manager Wu's mood became much better. At first, he didn't think much about it, but after comparing them with the Manager Wu, he felt that his items were much more difficult to obtain. Only, the good thing was that even though the Manager Wu s were good, they did not quite understand what Qin Wuya meant. They could not help but raise their eyebrows in confusion: "Little girl, why are you asking me these questions?"

"Shopkeeper, don't worry about this for now. Can you allow Wuya to ask another question?" Seeing that the situation had developed as he had expected, Wuya continued to persuade.

"Little girl, just tell me."

"Wu Ya asked the shopkeeper three questions, and they were all compared to the Cloud Jade Workshop's Jade Cloud Cake, and this one was the same as the previous three, Wu Ya boldly asked the shopkeeper, what if they were to compete in reputation?

Cloud Jade Workshop's Jade Cloud Cake's reputation is better, or is our Guest Home Resturant's pastry reputation better? "

"Of course it's the good reputation of Cloud Jade Workshop." After speaking about this Manager Wu, his imposing manner weakened a bit as he said, "Cloud Jade Workshop's pastries are well-known throughout the entire Cloud Region. I'm afraid that you would know about it wherever you go. It's something a small shop like me can compare to."