Rebirth: Outstanding

"This is Chen Qingwen, the owner of Chenji Candy Store, and this is Likang's Secretary Song Tianyao. Everyone is from Chaozhou." After Wu Jinliang led a plain and clean middle-aged man into the box, he helped each other with each other. After introducing the referral, I withdrew from the box.

Chen Qingwen seems to be in his forties. Although his face is a bit old and his clothes are plain, he is not like the so-called shrewd man who bows to his knees to do business. He is more like an old-school shopkeeper who keeps himself safe and doesn’t need to laugh before he opens his mouth. When Song Tianyao asked, he took the initiative to say: "Secretary Song, I heard Brother Liang said you want to make a batch of sugar? I’m from Chaozhou. I started working as an apprentice in a candy shop in Guangzhou at the age of fifteen. I opened a store in Western District to sell sweets. Except for the Japanese devils, I closed the shop and went back to the mainland to hide for a few years. Now I have been making sweets in Western District for 15 years, whether it is fruit juice or toffee. Throat-clearing candies are Western chewing gums that foreigners love to eat. I know how to make them. They are in a hurry. These are several kinds of candies made in my own store. Please try it, Secretary Song."

While speaking, Chen Qingwen opened a red-core paper bag beside his hand. Inside was a small bag of round candies of different colors. Without packaging, they were directly wrapped in paper.

"Boss Chen even knows how to make western sweets. How come there is still only one shop today, western sweets are very profitable, and the young masters of big families should like to eat them." Song Tianyao stretched out his hand and picked up a milky white milk. I put the sugar in my mouth and tasted it. This sugar feels like hard candy in my hand, but it is softened in the mouth, soft and sweet, and the sweetness is not too high, with the aroma of milk:

"I want to make a batch of toffee. The toffee is made of milk, but is it made from goat's milk?"

Chen Qingwen rubbed his hands and smiled, and pointed to a piece of slightly yellow toffee: "The kind you just tasted is the most expensive toffee sold in the store. It uses fresh milk and added fine white sugar from Java. The cheap toffee is made after high-temperature cooking. The cheap toffee is made with creamer powder produced by a local milk company with Thai raw sugar, boiled in water and then cooled and solidified. It is this light yellow toffee, the price difference is half."

Spit out the toffee in his mouth, rinse with tea, Song Tianyao put this cheap toffee into his mouth again, it feels sweet and greasy when it enters the mouth, and it doesn’t have the soft and waxy taste, hard and hard. On the tongue, I bite it lightly with my teeth, and it broke into several small pieces.

"How much does this cheap toffee sell in the store?" Song Tianyao asked Chen Qingwen after spitting out the sugar.

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

"Selling ten catties a day, Boss Chen can make a lot in a year." Song Tianyao looked at Chen Qingwen and said with a smile.

Chen Qingwen laughed at himself: "Secretary Song, except for selling more during the Spring Festival, he is usually lucky and earns three to five hundred yuan a month, so he has already paid the gods and chanted."

"If I want to make two thousand five hundred kilograms of this cheap toffee, how much is the minimum price?"

"18,000 yuan." Chen Qingwen blurted out immediately and gave a number: "It is already the lowest price. Brother Liang has gone to a dozen stores. He knows that I must quote the lowest price. If Secretary Song doesn't believe it, you can go. Turning around Hong Kong Island, there will definitely be no one with the lowest price than mine."

"I have two hundred and fifty kilograms of tablets, and you need to make them into powder and mix them with 2,500 kilograms of sugar, just like you add juice or coloring to the candy, and distribute them according to the ratio of one to ten. The sugar is shaped like a spire or a flower tower." Song Tianyao stared at Chen Qingwen: "Wait for you to go to the warehouse with me and take one kilogram of pills to your shop. You can make ten kilograms first tomorrow. Can you do it?"

"You can do it, you can do it." Chen Qingwen nodded again and again: "Without tomorrow, my family can make 80 kilograms a day, and 10 kilograms can easily be done in the afternoon. Put it in the freezer and freeze for an hour before night. Give it to Secretary Song."

"Well done, you will let you make the rest of the toffee. If you don't do it well, boss Chen will continue to earn your three to five hundred yuan a month." Song Tianyao was a little surprised at Chen Qingwen. He didn't expect that the candy shop owner would still have it. Refrigeration cabinets, refrigerators are not very popular now, only factories and the like will buy power-consuming facilities like refrigeration cabinets.

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After having lunch with Song Tianyao and Chen Qingwen in the teahouse, Chen Qingwen took Chen Qingwen to the warehouse of Likang Firm in Zhonghuan Wharf, took out a one-kilogram bag of Sandulian repellent produced by the British SCLC subsidiary and gave it to Chen Qingwen , Followed Chen Qingwen to his candy store in Xiyingpan, and watched the other side mash these large tablets into powder in the processing room at the back of the shop, and carefully weighed the weight of these tablets, and then instructed his wife to follow the powder’s specifications. Start to boil the raw sugar, add these Sandulian insect repellents and creamer powder, and let the son make a flower tower model on the cold sugar board according to Song Tianyao’s instructions, and then the daughter-in-law will pour the evenly mixed batch of toffee one by one. On the cold sugar board, Chen Qingwen personally pushed the entire cold sugar board into a buzzing, wardrobe-sized refrigerating cabinet. The entire production process was divided into batches and the four members of the Chen family performed their duties. Quick action, it looks like it is indeed an old candy store.

When the sun was slanting, Chen Qingwen and his son worked together to carry a large sugar box, which was filled with piles of flower tower sugar, which was as many as two to three thousand. The two put the sugar box in front of Song Tianyao. On the desktop, wiping the sweat from his face and asked Song Tianyao: "Secretary Song, this is done according to your requirements."

Song Tianyao picked up one and observed it in his hand. The style was indeed similar to the flower tower candy he had eaten as a child in his last life. The thumb nail was the size and was light yellow. It smelled before his nose. There was no smell, but he now has some Doubt, the number of these two or three thousand pagoda sugars in front of you is more than ten kilograms, right?

However, he immediately realized that Chen Qingwen's ratio was one kilogram of medicated powder with ten kilograms of Thai raw sugar, but in this batch of flower tower sugar, in addition to raw sugar, there is also the same proportion of creamer powder.

"Three per person, taste it?" Song Tianyao said to Chen Qingwen and his son.

While speaking, he himself first gave one to his mouth and crumpled it. He couldn't feel the bitterness of the Sandulian insect repellent at all, but only a sweet taste.

Chen Qingwen picked up three of them and bit them into his mouth and swallowed them. Then he smacked his mouth and felt the candies he had made. He didn't seem to feel any unusual smell.

"Help me install all of these, and then find a rickshaw." Song Tianyao took out three hundred Hong Kong dollars from his wallet and handed it to Chen Qingwen: "Thank you, boss Chen, for your help. I have been busy all afternoon. If this sugar is made well, I Will come to you."

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

With this bag of freshly baked pagoda sugar, Song Tianyao went straight back to Taihe Street, carrying the nylon bag weighing fifty catties and struggling to climb to the second floor, waiting for his sister Song Wenwen to help open the door, and Song Tianyao entered the room. Later, I found out that my mom and dad were sitting on the stool in the living room with an ugly face.

"What happened to the two of them?" Song Tianyao straightened up and took a breath, and asked his sister Song Wenwen next to him.

Song Wenwen shrank and whispered in Song Tianyao's ear: "You asked my mother to buy western medicine, and let them take one pill. As a result, two people had excreted more than a dozen insects just now, and some of them would move. "

Song Chunliang, his old beanie, sat blankly like a clay sculpture at this time. He didn't respond at all to Song Tianyao's return. He touched his stomach nervously with both hands. Mother Zhao Meizhen was better than Song Chunliang, but she also turned pale and looked at her. While holding Song Tianyao, he put his hands on his lower abdomen just like Song Chunliang.

"Next time, remember not to drink raw water, and don't go to the street to buy cheap water from the fire candle ghosts." Song Tianyao walked to Zhao Meizhen, who was still pale, and squatted, reaching out and shaking her eyes: "Exhaust. If you go there, it means there is nothing in your stomach? Take another pill tomorrow to ensure you won't be so scary again."

Zhao Meizhen said weakly to Song Tianyao: "Zhongyong, you tell me? From now on, I will take one pill every day, Pu, your mother, now thinking of those insects, the pores on the back are open to let the cold air out!"

"That's not necessary. Take another pill tomorrow. You can take it every three months or half a year from now on. Too much of this medicine is not good for your health." Song Tianyao pointed to the bag of pagoda sugar in the door: " These medicinal candies are also insect repellent. You can send them to the neighborhoods in other buildings to eat. You are only allowed to give three tablets per person. You are not allowed to give them more. It is best to watch them eat them in person."

"Are you rich? Ask the neighbours to eat candy?" Zhao Meizhen rubbed her stomach and stood up, walked to the bag of pagoda candy and looked at it: "It looks strange, like toffee. Huh?"

"The medicinal candy used to fight insects is not ordinary toffee. I don't know the effect of the medicine. Please help from the neighbors to try it." Song Tianyao said.

"Medicated candy is not sugar? It's okay if I try it for you, so much sugar is cheap for the neighborhood?" Zhao Meizhen grabbed a few of them, gave them two to her daughter, and stuffed one into her mouth.

Song Tianyao reluctantly opened the door and shouted upstairs: "Shi Yehui, come down quickly!"

But in three or two minutes, Shi Yehui ran down from the third floor: "Secretary Song, are you trying to punish me? Sister Yun, I have already picked it up, you go up to see her..."

"I see your mother, your mind is always a few steps slower than others. When you see that the bag of sugar is not there, you can take three pills and eat it yourself." Song Tianyao pointed to the bag of pagoda sugar and said to Shi Yehui.

Shi Yehui picked up three of them and threw them into his mouth to chew. After swallowing, he said, "It's delicious and sweet."

"It’s not allowed to eat any more. Only three pills are allowed. If you eat too much, it will cause stomach pain. Distribute this bag of medicated sugar to the neighbourhoods in this street. Eat more, it’s used to fight worms. Go ahead. By the way, remember to save three pills for your boss."

Shi Yehui picked up the nylon bag and yelled to the third floor endlessly: "Sister Yun, Secretary Song asked me to help send sugar!"

Then dong dong dong stepped on the stairs downstairs.

Seeing this guy frizzy disappearing into the corridor, Song Tianyao couldn't help but want to go to the third floor to ask Lou Fengyun, where did this guy get the fancy name of Shi Yehui, and how stupid a person can he praise. Is this guy qualified to be a master?