Chapter 1300 - Chapter 1300 Chapter 1099 Extensive Publicity_1
Chapter 1300: Chapter 1099: Extensive Publicity_1 Chapter 1300: Chapter 1099: Extensive Publicity_1 After these people returned to the Capital City, they immediately had someone wash the crayfish and slaughter pigs and chickens. Since none of them were the masters of their own households, spending so much silver all at once, they had to have an explanation for the family head.
Indeed, the chefs of their residences’ cuisines were not as good as Qiao Xiaomai’s, but the ingredients were genuinely top-notch. Even if cooked with ordinary well water, it couldn’t mask the taste of the ingredients.
However, when they ate it, they always felt it wasn’t worth so much silver.
Crayfish were a novel delicacy, their bright red appearance looked festive, and they tasted good too, but still not worth five hundred and eighty-eight taels a pound!
And this pork–good, very good, superb even–but a single pig almost cost two thousand taels…
However, the Sour Plum Soup was excellent, both cool and sweet. Drinking a bowl in the height of summer really made even the pores relax. And it was even provided for free, which especially pleased them!
There were also these sweet potato noodles, which tasted quite good and were also complimentary.
But speaking of these sweet potato noodles, when sweet potatoes sold for just a few hundred wen per pound, how did their price soar to the skies in just one year, like a monkey climbing to the heavens?
Even with the meal personally prepared by Qiao Xiaomai, they felt that tens of thousands of taels of silver were misspent.
As family heads, even those with a penchant for fine foods thought about matters from various angles. Managing an aristocratic family or a large clan wasn’t an easy task. While the items were excellent, spending tens of thousands of taels of silver felt like a huge loss.
However, the silver was already spent, and they certainly couldn’t ask Qiao Xiaomai to return it.
In order to prove their silver wasn’t misspent, they could only drag others down with them. If everyone shared in the loss, it didn’t highlight their loss as much.
So the next time these people went out, they actively began to promote Qiao Xiaomai’s products or simply invited others to visit their homes, treating them with goods purchased from Qiao Xiaomai.
Their type of households would never engage in commoners’ talk, such as how much something costs or exclamations of “Wow, that’s expensive! Can you give a discount?” when discussing items.
Coming from well-off backgrounds and maintaining their status, they would only express interest after hearing someone else’s promotion and inquire about the quality of the goods, never broaching the subject of price.
With family heads personally promoting the products, the influence was comparable to a head mother promoting Floral Dew. The items Qiao Xiaomai offered quickly became as popular as watermelons and turned into legends of their own.
Thus, gourmet enthusiasts grew restless. The goods they brought back were nothing special, but the main attraction was the meal personally prepared by Qiao Xiaomai for those who went to purchase watermelons.
Aside from the Royal Family, few had tasted Qiao Xiaomai’s cooking; just for that reason, many hitched up their carriages and prepared to travel to the manor.
The opportunity to taste Qiao Xiaomai’s culinary skills, as well as to savor watermelons that had become legendary, made the journey absolutely worthwhile.
Consequently, the road from the Capital City to Bailu Town saw an increase in luxurious carriages. As if by agreement, they all set off at the same time, forming an impressive convoy that stretched for miles.