Chapter 101

"This is Chen Qingwen, the boss of Chenji candy store, and this is song TIANYAO and song Secretary of Likang. Everyone is from Chaozhou." Wu Jinliang led a middle-aged man in simple and clean clothes into the box. After introducing each other, he withdrew from the box.

Chen Qingwen seems to be in his 40s. Although he looks a little old and wears simple clothes, he doesn't look like a so-called smart man who grovels to do business. He is more like an old-fashioned shopkeeper who keeps himself in line. He laughs before opening his mouth and doesn't need song TIANYAO to ask "Secretary song, I heard from brother Liang that you want to make a batch of candy? I'm from Chaozhou. I've been an apprentice in a candy shop in Guangzhou since I was 15 years old. After I arrived in Hong Kong in 32 years, I opened a shop in West ring to sell candy. Except for the Japanese, I closed the shop and ran back to the mainland to hide for several years. Now I've made candy in West ring for 15 years, whether it's fruit juice candy, milk candy or throat clearing candy , Zhong is the Western moistening candy that foreigners love to eat. I know how to do it. I came in a hurry. These are some candies made in my own store. Please have a taste, Secretary song. "

As he spoke, Chen Qingwen opened a red core paper bag at hand. Inside it was a small bag of round candy with different colors. Without packaging, it was directly wrapped in paper.

"Boss Chen even knows how to make western sugar. How can he still have only one shop today? Western sugar is very profitable. Young masters and young ladies of large families should like to eat very much." Song TIANYAO reached out, picked up a milk white sugar and tasted it in his mouth. The sugar felt like hard sugar in his hand, but it softened in the mouth. It was soft, waxy and sweet, and the sweetness was not too high, with milk aroma:

"I want to make a batch of milk candy. Milk candy is made of milk and sheep's milk?"

Chen Qingwen rubbed his hands and smiled, pointing to one of the pale yellow milk candy: "The kind you just tasted is the most expensive milk sugar sold in the store. It is made by adding fresh milk to the superior white granulated sugar transported from Java island and boiling at high temperature. The cheap milk sugar is made by using the milk powder produced by the local milk company with Thai crude sugar, boiling with water, cooling and solidification. It is this light yellow milk sugar. The price difference is half."

Spit out the milk candy in his mouth and rinse his mouth with tea. Song TIANYAO sent this cheap milk candy into his mouth. As soon as he got into his mouth, he felt sweet and boring. Moreover, he didn't have the soft and waxy taste before. He pressed it on his tongue, bit it gently with his teeth and broke it into several small pieces.

"How much does this cheap milk candy cost in the store?" song TIANYAO asked Chen Qingwen after spitting out the sugar.

"Four yuan a catty is enough to weigh," Chen Qingwen said.

"If you sell ten kilograms a day, boss Chen can make a lot of money a year." song TIANYAO smiled at Chen Qingwen.

Chen Qingwen laughed at himself: "Secretary song, in addition to selling more during the Spring Festival, he is usually lucky. If he can earn three or five hundred yuan a month, he has paid God to chant Buddha."

"If I want to make 2500 kilograms of this cheap milk candy, how much is the minimum?"

"18000 yuan." Chen Qingwen immediately blurted out a number: "it's already the lowest price. Brother Liang has gone to more than a dozen stores. He knows that I must quote the lowest price. If Secretary song doesn't believe it, you can go to Hong Kong Island yourself. No one will have the lowest price than me."

"I have 250 kilograms of pills. You need to beat them into powder and mix them with 2500 kilograms of sugar. Just like you add juice or pigment to the candy, distribute them in a ratio of one to ten, and make the milk candy into a spire or flower tower." song TIANYAO stared at Chen Qingwen: "Wait, you go to the warehouse with me and take a kilogram of tablets to your store. You can make ten kilograms tomorrow. Can you do it?"

"You can do it, you can do it." Chen Qingwen nodded again and again. "In less than tomorrow, my family can make 80 kilograms a day, and 10 kilograms can be easily finished in the afternoon. Push it into the refrigeration cabinet and freeze it for an hour, and then give it to Secretary song before evening."

"Well done, you can make the rest of the milk candy. If you can't do it well, boss Chen will continue to earn you three or five hundred yuan a month." song TIANYAO was surprised at Chen Qingwen. Unexpectedly, the candy shop owner still has a refrigerator. Now refrigerators are not very popular. Only factories will buy such power consuming facilities as refrigerators.

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After having lunch with Chen Qingwen in the teahouse, song TIANYAO took Chen Qingwen to the warehouse of Likang commercial firm at the central wharf, took out a bag of one kilogram bag of shandulian insect repellent produced by the British afterburner subsidiary and gave it to Chen Qingwen. He followed Chen Qingwen to his candy store in xiyingpan and watched the other party beat these large tablets into powder in the processing room behind the store At the end of the day, he carefully weighed the powder of these tablets, then instructed his wife to boil the crude sugar according to the proportion of the powder, and added these mountain durian insect repellent and milk powder. He also asked his son to make a flower tower model on the cold sugar board according to song TIANYAO's instructions, and then his daughter-in-law poured the evenly stirred batch of milk sugar on the cold sugar board in turn. Finally, Chen Qingwen personally put the whole cold sugar board It was pushed into a buzzing refrigerator the size of a wardrobe. The whole production process was divided into batches. The four Chens performed their duties and acted quickly. It really looked like an old candy store.

When the sun was slanting to the west, Chen Qingwen and his son jointly carried a large sugar box filled with two or three thousand flower pagodas piled into a hill. They put the sugar box on the table in front of song TIANYAO, wiped the sweat on their faces and asked song TIANYAO, "Secretary song, this is what you asked for."

Song TIANYAO picked up one and observed it in his hand. The style was indeed similar to the flower pagoda candy he had eaten in his childhood in the previous life. The size of his thumb nail was light yellow. He came up to his nose and smelled it. There was no taste. But now he has some questions. The two or three thousand pagoda candy in front of him is more than ten kilograms?

However, he immediately reacted that Chen Qingwen matched one kilogram of medicinal powder with ten kilograms of Thai crude sugar, but in this batch of Huata sugar, there was the same proportion of milk powder in addition to crude sugar.

"Three for each, taste it?" song TIANYAO said to Chen Qingwen and his son.

As he spoke, he first sent one to his mouth and bit it. He couldn't feel the bitter taste of Shandu lotus insect repellent. There was only a sweet taste.

Chen Qingwen picked up three and chewed them into his mouth. Then he smacked his mouth and felt the candy he had made. He didn't seem to feel any abnormal taste.

"Pack all these for me, and then find a rickshaw." song TIANYAO took 300 Hong Kong dollars out of his wallet and handed it to Chen Qingwen: "thank boss Chen for his help. I've been busy all afternoon. If this sugar is well made, I'll come to you."

Chen Qingwen's son turned and went outside to help stop the car. Chen Qingwen's wife and daughter-in-law found a nylon bag for milk powder and put these pagoda sweets into the bag.

Loaded with this bag of freshly baked pagoda sugar, song TIANYAO went directly back to Taihe street, climbed up the second floor with this bag of nylon bag weighing 50 kg, and waited for his sister song Wenwen to help open the door. After song TIANYAO entered the room, he found that his mother and father were sitting on the stool in the living room with ugly faces.

"What's the matter with them?" song TIANYAO straightened up to catch his breath and asked his sister song Wenwen.

Song Wenwen shrunk, leaned in Song TIANYAO's ear and whispered, "you asked my mother to buy western medicine and let them take one pill each. As a result, just now two people excreted more than a dozen worms, and several Zhong would move."

His old bean song Chunliang sat like a clay sculpture at this time. He had no response to song TIANYAO's return. His two hands nervously touched his stomach. My mother Zhao Meizhen was better than song Chunliang, but her face turned white. She looked at Song TIANYAO with her eyes, but covered her belly like song Chunliang.

"Next time, remember not to drink raw water, and don't go to the street to buy cheap water from candle ghosts." song TIANYAO went to Zhao Meizhen, whose face was still a little white, squatted down and stretched out his hand to shake in front of her eyes: "if you drain it out, it means there's no food in your stomach? Take another one tomorrow to make sure you won't be so scary."

Zhao Meizhen said to song TIANYAO in a weak tone: "Zhong Yong, you tell me? I'll eat one every day in the future. Your mother, now I think of those insects. The pores on her back are open and cold!"

"That's not necessary. Take another pill tomorrow, and then take it every three months or half a year. It's bad for your health if you eat too much of this medicine." song TIANYAO pointed to the bag of pagoda sugar in the door: "these medicine sugars are also insect repellent. You can send them to the neighbors in other buildings later. Each person is only allowed to give three pills, not more. You'd better watch them eat them face to face."

"Are you rich? Invite the neighbors to eat sugar?" Zhao Meizhen stood up with her stomach rubbed and went to the bag of pagoda sugar and looked at it: "it looks strange, like milk candy. It's not good to stay at home for new year's holidays?"

"The medicine sugar used to beat insects is not ordinary milk sugar. I don't know the efficacy. Please try it with the help of the neighbors." song TIANYAO said.

"Medicine sugar is not sugar? I'll try it for you. So much sugar is cheap in the neighborhood?" Zhao Meizhen grabbed a few from inside, gave her daughter two, and stuffed one into her mouth.

Song TIANYAO reluctantly opened the door and shouted upstairs, "shiye Hui, come down quickly!"

But in three or two minutes, shiye Hui ran down from the third floor: "Secretary song, you find me? Sister Yun, I've picked it up. Go up to see her..."

"When I see your mother, your mind is always a few steps slower than others. If you see whether this bag of sugar is available, take three of them yourself." song TIANYAO pointed to the bag of pagoda sugar and said to shiye Hui.

Shiye Hui picked up three and threw them into his mouth. After swallowing them, he said, "delicious, sweet."

"Don't eat any more. Only three pills are allowed. If you eat too much, you will be poisoned and have a stomachache. Give this bag of medicine candy to the neighborhood in this street. Three pills for each person. Don't give more. Also tell them not to eat more for children. It's used to beat insects. Go and remember to keep three pills for your boss's wife."

Shiye Hui picked up the nylon bag and shouted to the third floor: "sister Yun, Secretary song asked me to help send sugar!"

Now, I'm walking down the stairs.

Looking at this guy's impetuous disappearance in the corridor, song TIANYAO couldn't help but want to go to the third floor to ask Lou Fengyun where the flower name of this guy's shiye Hui came from. How stupid a person should be to praise this guy for being a shiye?