Ge Liutao was somewhat worried.
"Little Little, who is this Aunt Ah Yu you’re talking about? She gave you such expensive pastries; how could you just accept them?"
These pastries cost over a hundred Yuan!
That really is more expensive than gold!
This was something they could never have imagined—it completely overturned their understanding and made them even more curious and awestruck by the outside world.
It seems the outside world is truly beyond their imagination!
"It’s no problem to accept them, Aunt Ah Yu is a very nice person," Chiang Xiao said.
"Could it be Captain Meng’s mother?" Ge Xiaotong had a flash of inspiration.
Chiang Xiao was at a loss for words. "Auntie, Aunt Ah Yu has nothing to do with Meng Xinian. They don’t even know each other."
However, she didn’t go into more detail to avoid having to repeat it all when Chiang Songhai and the others came back.
So, when Chiang Songhai, Ge Dejun, and Xu Linjiang returned and Chiang Xiao coaxed each of them into eating two pieces of the pastry, the three men found the other three women eyeing them with a very complex look as they ate.
Especially Ge Dejun, who ate quickly and without much decorum. When Chiang Xiao handed him a piece of pastry, he glanced at it, praised its good looks, and stuffed it into his mouth in one go.
Then he noticed Liu Pei glaring at him fiercely.
"What’s wrong? You all want some too? It’s impossible that you haven’t eaten any, right? Hey, these pastries are delicious. Little Little, get another one for your uncle!"
As Ge Dejun spoke, he reached out himself and took another pastry dusted with tea powder, once again stuffing it into his mouth whole.
Liu Pei couldn’t hold back any longer and yelled out loud, "Father! You have just eaten ten Yuan! That green one, one piece is five Yuan!"
"Pfft!" Ge Dejun spat everything out before he could swallow, the pastry truly spraying out of his mouth.
"There goes five Yuan down the drain," Liu Pei pinched his arm hard, nearly in tears. What a waste, a waste is so shameful!
Xu Linjiang and Chiang Songhai ate a bit more elegantly, but they too had already eaten one piece each. Looking at them, both men were also stunned.
"One for five Yuan?" Xu Linjiang also looked towards Ge Xiaotong with some caution, seeking confirmation.
Ge Xiaotong looked like she was about to cry but laughed instead, nodding at him and made a seven sign with her hand. "Linjiang, I’ve eaten, eaten seven pieces..."
Xu Linjiang nearly spit out as well.
Chiang Xiao placed a hand on her forehead, at a loss for words. She really hadn’t expected the price of these pastries to elicit such a big reaction from them. With that in mind, presumably, if she mentioned she wanted to sell these kinds of pastries, they would probably be frightened as well, right?
Sure enough, after dinner, while they were cooling off and chatting over tea in the courtyard, as soon as Chiang Xiao brought it up, almost everyone objected.
"How can we sell that? That won’t do at all!" Liu Pei was the first to protest, "They are too expensive, no one would buy them!"
Ge Liutao quickly added, "Yes, Little Little, that won’t do. Who would buy such expensive pastries?"
"If there really were people who’d buy them, there would only be a few. How much could you possibly earn?" Ge Dejun did some mental calculations and said, "Besides, such items can only last two or three days at most. With such high costs, if they go bad, think about how much we’d lose. Little Little, let’s think of something else to sell. If nothing else, we make quite a bit selling mountain goods and roasted chestnuts."
He thought it was quite possible that they’d lose all the money they made from selling mountain goods and roasting chestnuts.