[Comprehensive Classics] Different Jane

Bread is not the main product of Hogwarts, but Jane still prepares some.Soft European buns with less sugar and raisins are made into cute triangles; golden and crispy croissants are standing on the side of the basket, as if they are real croissants; long square toast breads are neatly arranged on the shelf...

There is also a kind of red round "bread" that no one has ever seen before. They are all naive, the size of an adult's fist, and the color of a pumpkin.The surface appears to be crusty, but it has neither an oily sheen nor a sweet aroma.

They are called "Oriental Bread" in this introduction.

The people who bought it tried it with the idea that "produced by Hogwarts must be a high-quality goods". These "Oriental breads" look a little tough, but they are very soft in the hand. The hard crust on the surface is very smooth, but when you break it However, there are many honeycomb air holes in it. It is tasteless after a bite, but the more you chew, the more fragrant it becomes. The light sweetness and the most primitive aroma of wheat are simply irresistible, and you can eat several with an empty mouth.It's a pity that everyone has only one chance to buy, and when they line up again, the "Oriental Bread" has been sold out.

The customers queuing up can be said to have spontaneously arranged the tables and chairs in the store into temporary partitions. Anyway, in the current situation, it is impossible for anyone to sit in the store and eat and drink slowly. The long-time guests sit down and rest for a while.Unknowingly, a long line formed outside the gate of Hogwarts, and the line continued to turn right at the street corner.

Unknowing passers-by were taken aback by the long queue. They wondered what the best-selling product was, which attracted people to line up to buy.

The people who had no choice but to line up kept silent, for fear that there would be a few more snapping up opponents, but they didn't know that the sweet smell that filled the sky had already exposed Hogwarts, and instead made more people curiously follow behind the line, I want to try what is delicious in the dessert shop that attracts so many people.

Ben was almost paralyzed from exhaustion, forcing himself to brace himself lest he misremembered the price, and he didn't have time to go to the kitchen to replenish the desserts he had bought, let alone take a break for a drink of water.

Jane was in the kitchen putting the last batch of cakes in the oven when she suddenly realized that Ben hadn't come down and asked Anna to go up and have a look.

When Anna came up, she was almost frightened by the guests in the room. She didn't know that so many people could be squeezed into this small shop. She just stretched out her head to look, and then hurried downstairs to report to Jane.

"Such an exaggeration?" Jane murmured in her heart, changing her apron to go see for herself, but she was also taken aback.She thought that there might be many people today, but she didn't expect it to be so many.

Jane strolled to the other end of the street and found that the number of people exceeded expectations, which was the rhythm of not letting lunch.She bought two decks of playing cards at a nearby department store, and went back to the store and said to Anna: "Anna, get ready, go and replace Ben, let him rest for a few minutes, eat something and drink some water."

Anna felt frightened, she gestured and asked, "Me, me? I'm going to the cash register?"

"Could it be me?" Jane definitely couldn't, otherwise she would have done it by herself, "Anyway, you know the price, weren't you by my side when I remembered it? I know you wrote it down. Didn't you also Promised to replace Ben's job? Today is the opportunity."

But I never thought that there would be so many guests the first time I played, what if I got the money wrong!

Anna is very hesitant, Anna is very tangled, and Anna is very disturbed.

"What are you still thinking about? I just need you to come in handy at a time like this, don't I?" Jane opened a pack of poker and said while tidying up, "Don't worry, Ben will definitely not let you start alone right away, he I will stay with you for a while. I went to see it just now. If you don’t replace him, he will have to eat, drink and go to the bathroom all day today.”

That's definitely not possible. You can hold back if you don't eat, but it's a bit cruel if you can't drink water. You can't hold back if you can't go to the toilet.

Anna's appearance did not cause any commotion, and Ben was too busy to look forward to Anna's help.Anna put on the white cloth gloves unskillfully, held the clip, and looked shyly (nervously) at the guest in front of her.

Just in front of him was a kind old man, "Is this the first time, girl?" He stood kindly in front of the counter, leaning on a cane.

Anna gestured to indicate that she could not speak.

Oops, I'm a dumb person, it's not easy.When the old man and the guests behind saw it, they understood, and their tolerance for Anna's unskilled tricks was much higher.

Although there was an extra cashier, the line remained in one row. I was worried that Anna would be alone, so I stayed with her for a while, and finally (couldn't hold back) I ran downstairs.

Ben went to the bathroom, ate a whole loaf of bread in the kitchen, and drank a large glass of water before he recovered.

Jane arranged the poker according to the size order of spades, hearts, clubs, and diamonds, and chopped off a corner with a knife in her hand.

"Daddy will take this up." Jane handed the playing card with a corner missing to Ben.

Ben took the poker puzzled: -0- what!

Jane explained, "When all the biscuits are bought later, the business in the morning will end, and the customers behind will get a card in order. In the afternoon, the order of the cards will be the standard for queuing up." , tell him that the order is before spades, before hearts, before clubs, and then squares. The numbers are based on size, and a missing corner is a mark—the missing corner is also marked.

Ben had never touched poker before, thanks to Jane's patience.But she also reminded Ben that the poker is only for today and will not expire, and this must be made clear.

When it was almost noon, Ben began to inform the customers that the business was closed in the morning and please be early in the afternoon. Although the customers complained quite a bit, it was the owner's freedom to open the shop or not.What's more, the customers who came in front got the priority to buy in the afternoon, and most of the customers who came later just wanted to try their luck, so everyone complained for a while and then dispersed.

Ben carefully closed the door, drew the curtains, and ran down the kitchen on tiptoe like a thief holding a full cash box.

"My God, Miss Bennet, count it quickly." Don't blame the money fan, he has never seen so much money in his life.

Anna silently handed over the bills recorded today. In fact, she was also very excited, and her face flushed.

"Both of you, go to dinner quickly, and prepare some things for sale in the afternoon." Jane said coldly (calmly), "Don't make me count the money wrong."

Ben and Anna seemed to be poured over their heads by a bucket of ice water. Just now, they were thinking "I've never seen so much money $_$" and suddenly became "What if I got the wrong money!!! (○д) "

Ben and Anna gnawed on the bread absently, their eyes kept turning to Jane's direction.

The cash-box was mostly coins, pennies, twopence, threepence, groot, sixpence, crowns, pounds . . . and a few notes.

The current banknotes are not issued by the government, but by various banks. If the bank fails, the banknotes issued by it are equivalent to waste paper, but this situation is relatively rare.

At this time, the purchase value of the British pound was much higher than later, but prudent people still prefer to use gold coins when buying bulk goods.

Jane took out the few pounds in the cash box to check, except for the banknotes of Lloyds Bank and Barings Bank, she usually changed them into coins in time.

Jane poured out all the coins in the cash box, stacks of ten of the same denomination.It takes a lot of time to set it up, but you can quickly count how much it costs when you count it.

The turnover in the morning is very impressive.

Jane was not as crazy as Ben and Anna thought. She planned how much money she earned every day, and usually only calculated monthly costs and profits at the end of the month. Apparently, both Ben and Anna forgot about this.

But today I did make a lot of money.

Jane stuffed most of the money into her purse, leaving only the spare change in the cash box, emptying the cash box until it could be filled again in the afternoon.

At noon, everyone seized the time to make a batch of snacks to fill the shelves, but there were far fewer people in the afternoon than in the morning.

Most people don't want to spend the whole day here for a snack, and some people are just curious because of the long queue.There are still some loyal customers who came to buy with the playing cards they received in the morning. They were pleasantly surprised to find that the desserts that had been sold out when it was their turn in the morning were replenished.No need to settle for second best, which is great.

After closing, Jane also made a batch of small biscuits for Ben and Anna to send to nearby shopkeepers.Because other businesses are doing well, and the queue of customers is too long, which affects your own business?This doesn't make sense anywhere.However, after receiving the small gift from Hogwarts, the shopkeeper who had a little bit of grievance in his heart disappeared.

The three people at Hogwarts were exhausted that day, but they were still very happy to think that their wallets were bulging.

Jane gave Ben and Anna a penny each, which was certainly not as much as Ben had received before, but Ben took it as the beginning of Jane's willingness to forgive him and repair the relationship, so he was very satisfied.Jane was secretly satisfied, her vision was not wrong, if there was resentment in her heart, then she really couldn't stay.

"God, look how tired you are." Mrs. Wood was surprised and a little distressed when she saw that Jane almost fell asleep on the table after dinner. "Shall I send Mary to help you tomorrow?" said Mrs. Wood.

"No, thank you, Mrs. Olivia, there probably won't be so many guests tomorrow. And Dwyer hasn't done this before, and she won't do it if she goes." Jane covered her mouth and yawned.

"Why not, even if she doesn't take money, she should be useful in the kitchen. Mary, Mary." Mrs. Wood called Dwyer, "You go with Miss Jane tomorrow, go, Hogwarts , Yes, that’s the name, help out in the kitchen, and learn a few tricks by the way.”

"But if I go to Miss Jane's place, what can I do at home?"

"It's not that I don't have hands and feet, or can I do without you? Come on, Miss Jane won't need you to stay there all day. When you come back, buy a piece of cheese by the way. You know what I want."

Early the next morning, Ben still picked up Jane on time, but this time there was an extra Dwyer, which made Ben and Anna feel a sense of crisis.

The author has something to say: Jane: Only making money can make me happy~