Fortunately, Nie Junqi is very talkative, and he doesn't bother with the difference between these few taels of silver. Witnessed by Mr. Zhang, the two stamped and stamped in duplicate, each of them received the contract of cooperation, and agreed to make one copy of each different style within seven days, so that Ji Wei could check and fill in the gaps.

As for the publicity that Ji Wei and Mr. Zhang said at the beginning, Mr. Zhang took care of it.

After Ji Wei and Nie Junqi negotiated the pricing of packaging, they began to chat about a book order recently received by the printing house.

In addition to the most basic classics, the printing house also collected a lot of novels from the city, all of which are popular and best-selling novels. It took Nie Junqi a lot of hard work and lobbying around to finally get the manuscript.

What Mr. Zhang took a fancy to was the title page of this novel.

Printing advertisements on books and books does not make students curious about the object, but it will only disgust the object for tarnishing the Holy Word, and then contradict it.

But the novel is different. The pursuit is excitement and novelty. The rare Mid-Autumn Festival snacks on the title page will only make people want to know more about it.

Compared with the packaging that requires special paper and colored printing, it is obviously much simpler to print black and white advertisements on the title page with a simple moon cake pattern.

Mr. Zhang has never asked for anything, and he took the initiative to mention it. Even a shrewd businessman like Nie Junqi would have a hard time not showing his favor.

The two only said a few words, and in Ji Wei's surprise, they set a low advertising fee that made him stunned.

Twelve!

To add mooncake advertisements to the title pages of all printed novels before the Mid-Autumn Festival, it only takes ten taels of silver!

What's the difference between this and a freebie?

It is equivalent to only charging labor and material costs!

This is related to the appearance, and it really is a top two...

Ji Wei can't accept it.

After the business negotiation, Mr. Zhang asked Nie Junqi to reminisce about the old days. Ji Wei winked and stopped staying. He rejected the proposal to stay for dinner, and said goodbye to the two and went home.

When walked through the West Second Alley, could smell the smell of stinky tofu wafting from a certain house. walked out of the alley and lingered in it.

Ji Wei smiled secretly in his heart, and couldn't help but wonder how the neighbors around him could endure the daily devastation of this smell. He thought that it was either someone else's nose was out of order, or someone had a thick skin.

But what does it matter to him?

Having to admire the well-informed businessman, Ji Wei just reached an agreement with Nie Junqi, and Lin Yaozu, who was far away in Daxi Town, came to the door and wanted to get a share of the moon cake.

It's a pity that the Zhang family intervened before, no matter how regretful Lin Yaozu was, he could only watch from the sidelines, and there was nothing he could do.

However, before leaving, Lin Yaozu was very curious about the mooncakes that had not yet been officially released, no matter what flavor it was, after hearing Ji Wei said that there were four flavors, he ordered a box of each.

After hearing the quotation, Lin Yaozu was really surprised. He never imagined that an ordinary box of cakes, even if they were launched during the Mid-Autumn Festival, would sell for such a sky-high price with only six in total?

What a good thing this is, he must taste it!

In this way, Lin Yaozu left behind two taels of silver and left inexplicably.

The packaging samples were delivered to Ji's house in advance on the agreed day.

It did not live up to Ji Wei's explanation. The inner wrapping paper is slightly soft, but it is still much stiffer than ordinary wrapping paper. Fold it into a square flat box along the incision, with a short four-character congratulatory message on the front and a few borders.

The outer packaging is very hard and cannot be easily bent. It can be seen that the compression can only be effective.

Compared with modern paper boxes, the craftsmanship is already top-notch, but the paper surface is still not smooth enough. This is the difference in tools, and Ji Wei doesn't care too much.

The biggest difference from his imagination is the color. The drawings of Wenxuan are drawn by his strokes, which are naturally a lot more detailed.

The wrapping paper is to ask the master to engrave the pattern, then render the color, and print it uniformly. Even for a small inner package, many different mother molds need to be engraved, such as congratulatory words, border lines, etc., and then put together through combination.

The color difference is relatively large, but there are also seven or eight points of resemblance, which is much better than the finished product that Ji Wei thought.

After briefly explaining some flaws that could be improved, the errand worker in the printing workshop rushed back to the city with Ji Wei's opinion. Because the distance between the two places was dozens of miles, it was not easy for a small worker to come to Qingcheng.

Two sets of samples of different styles are sent, that is, including the inner and outer packaging, which together can form ten boxes of mooncakes.

Ji Wei didn't intend to waste the freshly prepared samples. He went to the grocery store and bought many ingredients such as duck eggs, red beans, sesame seeds, peanuts, lotus seeds and so on. He couldn't carry it alone, so he invited the guy from the grocery store to join him. Send things back.

When a large amount of ingredients were delivered to the house, Liu Yimian was startled, but knowing what Ji Wei was going to do, he quickly dropped the book, rolled up his sleeves, and got busy with him.

Cantonese-style mooncakes are tentatively made in four flavors, red bean paste, lotus seed egg yolk, peanut sesame, and fresh meat.

Only the salted egg yolk needs to be prepared in advance. Ji Wei asked Liu Yimian to help him, separate the egg white and yolk of more than 20 duck eggs, and then bury the egg yolk with a lot of fine salt, cover it, and put it in the well to prevent The weather is hot.

After about a day and a night of marinating, you can get up tomorrow morning to make the salted egg yolk stuffing.

Since Ji Wei made red bean paste once before, the practice of lotus paste is basically the same as that of red bean paste. This time, under the guidance of Ji Wei, Liu Yimian operated the red bean paste and lotus paste by himself. Stir fry to a fine paste.

Sesame peanuts need to be mixed with sugar and fried in advance to get the fragrance, and then ask someone to grind them.

Whether it is peanuts or sesame seeds, they have their own oil content. After grinding, the aroma is fragrant, and it is easy to shape them and integrate with the moon cake skin.

Among the four flavors, fresh meat is the most special.

The fresh meat mooncake in the general sense does not belong to the Cantonese style, but it is a variety modified by Ji Wei. The fresh meat is chopped into minced meat, and the minced green onion, ginger and garlic are added with lard, soy sauce, maltose, sucrose and eggs. , everything is mixed evenly, stir vigorously, and combine with Cantonese-style pie crust.