Zeng Juan ignored Zhang Yu, but he was not annoyed. He poured two cups of herbal tea from the big pottery pot, tasted it, and found that it was the kind without sugar. He nodded slightly, placed one cup in front of him, and placed one cup in front of Zeng Juan. Roll on the right hand side. Then he gently opened the paper bag, revealing slices of goose-yellow and tender tea snacks. The fragrance was so fragrant that Zeng Juan looked sideways, and his tongue was already murmuring, and he didn't know what he was talking about.
"What is this?" Still unable to resist the temptation, Zeng Juan asked, reaching for a piece and smelling it. After confirming that it was the aroma of food, he was about to stuff it into his mouth.
"This is a tea snack of the Australians, called 'cookies'. I got the recipe from the Australians and just made it on a trial basis."
"Well..." Zeng Juan couldn't stop his hand.
"It's just that this stuff is expensive. It not only requires fine white flour to be sifted, but also eggs, sugar, and some kind of cream. This is Mongolian product. Where can I find it in Guangzhou? I have to use lard. The chief said that water can be considered in the future. Milk is used to make butter - even so, it costs a lot of money. I only tried to make ten kilograms at home, so I will send it to several restaurants to try it out. If it sells well, I will make more in the future. Grow tea food and sell it.”
"Yeah, yeah, it's delicious." Zeng Juan didn't take it seriously after hearing "the cost is quite high". He still kept grabbing it with his hands. When he said it was delicious, he even spit out some bits. He felt extremely distressed and used his hands again. Roll it out to the edge of the table and put it in the palm of your hand. First, swallow the herbal tea in your mouth. Then you raise your hand and pat the broken pieces into your mouth.
"How about it, not bad!"
"Mmm, um, um, it's so delicious..." Before the word "eat" could be finished, another cookie went into his mouth with a click.
"Well, that's good. This bag for you was made by my sister Ting'er..." Zhang Yu said deliberately. Sure enough, Zeng Juan choked. He patted his chest and drank a lot of water. Zeng Juan blushed and said, "A'yu, Tingmei is at your house?"
"Yes, now the business is big, and there are many people using it. The family is short of people. My cousin came over and told my mother, and she came to my house to work -"
Zeng Juan didn't know what kind of theater he fell into in his mind. He was in a state of confusion with a blushing face for a while. Then he suddenly regained his composure, changed his face to a serious one, and said curiously: "That's not right! According to my uncle's temper, If your family got the secret recipe from Australia, how could you ask Tingmei to help? Isn’t your family known to pass down the family to the daughter-in-law but not the daughter-in-law?”
"Haha, there's nothing rare about this recipe." Zhang Yu said with a smile, "It's all written in a book printed by Australians. It's just that ordinary people can't find the ingredients and don't have an oven to bake it."
"Such a secret recipe is just printed in a book for everyone to look at?" Zeng Juan was a little surprised this time.
"Yeah, Australians don't really care about such trivial skills." Zhang Yu's words were filled with the envy of a wealthy man who could crush someone to death even if he lost a hair on his leg. "But baking is quite labor-intensive, and it has to be done without an open fire. To control the heat - this is the most difficult thing. Australians have "thermometers". No matter what materials are used to make the fire, how many degrees and how long it takes, you can get it right with a hundred tries. It is difficult in our store, although there are ready-made stews. Oven, my dad also baked it three or four times before he figured it out."
Zeng Juan's family is a candle maker, so he naturally knows the importance of fire. In order to maintain the fire, no pains are taken - when making a certain kind of candle, only a certain kind of firewood is burned: use charcoal, firewood, rice bran, or straw. The heat is different and very subtle. His father said that when he was studying business with his grandfather, he suffered a lot of "violence" because of this.
Nowadays, Australians use a thermometer to solve the problem easily and skillfully.
"Well, some of them are a bit burnt." Zeng Juan smacked his lips and raised the half-eaten cookie in his hand to signal to Zhang Yu.
"I told my father that even if it costs a lot of money, I still have to buy a thermometer - unfortunately there is no stock in Guangzhou now. Chief Hong said he would try to help us get one from Lingao."
"Well, your family has become more developed and advanced since you hugged that elder Hong's lap." After hearing his words, Zeng Juan's expression suddenly became decadent. But immediately, as if he had made up his mind, he picked up the "Public Basic Knowledge Handbook" and started reading and memorizing it.
Zhang Yu knew that Zeng Juan was interested in his cousin. He could probably guess the reason for his confused words just now. He wanted to set up a match in his heart, but he didn't have anything suitable to say. Maybe it was like this Zengzhi studied the Australian scientific examination materials carefully according to his own wishes, and finally won the Australian examination, which would make his dream come true.
He thought about escaping a thick book from his pocket.
"I just bought this from an Australian bookstore. I'll lend it to you."
"What kind of idle book? I don't have time to read it now..." Zeng Juan glanced at it casually, and his eyes widened immediately. "Analysis of 200 Real Examination Questions" was printed on the cover.
Zeng Juan’s great cause of reading and memorizing was once again interrupted by surprise. "You... you... you are so rich! This book costs 12 yuan! My father has been busy for a year and can't save 12 silver cakes!" He suddenly stopped talking and looked at Zhang Yu with doubtful eyes. "Will you lend me this book?"
"I'm useless if I don't lend it to you - I don't plan to take the civil service exam, and my family's business cannot do without me." Zhang Yu sounded like a new business elite.
"But this is too expensive. I feel ashamed of myself. I feel ashamed of myself..."
"I'm lending it to you, not giving it to you." Zhang Yu focused on the word "borrow", "As for the money, don't worry. The 'Individual Energy Bar' that my family tried out last time passed the appraisal. Fu Bojun Lianqin signed a big order. The Australians also want to equip my home with machines and build a new factory specifically to produce this thing. The advance deposit has already arrived. Buying a book is nothing."
"Twelve yuan to buy a book is nothing..." Zeng Juan muttered it several times and said with a wry smile, "It's just this "Public Basic Knowledge Handbook" and an examination syllabus, six silver cakes, and I still have to find De Long took out a student loan, and now he has to go to this newspaper reading center every day to read newspapers and work to pay off the debt! I think your family is the second one besides Chen Liji to let Australians invest in setting up a factory! Why do you just Such good luck!”
Zhang Yu himself often laments that if he hadn't worked so hard back then and first established a relationship with Kun...an Australian, he doesn't know what would have happened to his small tea shop now.
"Ajuan, you will take the first Encore exam for Australians after this summer. You should work hard. Take the book and read it - we are good brothers." Zhang Yu said in a very sincere tone.
Zeng Juan looked at Zhang Yu silently, his lower lip trembling, but he didn't know what to say. His words of thanks were so weak at this time.
"Well, let's encourage you!" Zeng Juan replied forcefully, then stopped talking and continued to chew on the "Public Basic Knowledge Manual" that he could not fully understand and could only memorize by rote.
Zhang Yu stopped disturbing him, opened the curtain and walked out. I heard the tea guests who were still chatting outside were discussing enthusiastically what they had just read. The literate ones even spread the "Yangcheng Express" on the table and pointed at it.
"What the hell is this electrician? Isn't he a thunder male and a lightning female? Why is he an electrician again? The new name of the Australians?"
"This is the work of craftsmen, not the work of male and female," said the literate person. "Does the thunder and lightning in the sky also cause craftsmen to work?"
"What's going on with Portugal and Spain? Why does the King of Spain control Portugal? Last time, didn't the boy from the Zeng family say that Spain is France? Last time, he seemed to say that there was a man named France in the north of Spain. We still haven’t dealt with this Franji! Why are these Thai and Western countries in such a mess?”
"Then there's nothing to say about how many ponies were born on Jeju Island, and they even published a special article!"
"You don't know this. It is said that the pregnancy of a horse is longer than that of a human being, it takes twelve months. And there are not just a few horses, but more than 200 foals were born in the late spring and early summer. They all survived. Do you know what this horse is doing?"
"How come the case of the Maojia Inn has not been solved yet? I think this group of Australian police are just ordinary!" a tea guest said in a boastful tone, "They are very good at fines for people caught throwing garbage and spitting..."
…
Amidst the noise, Zhang Yu saw the bright red letters on the front page that were put aside, which read "Guangzhou Special Municipal Government's Advanced Workers Commendation Conference will be held today". Just as he was about to take a closer look, several regular customers saw it and started to say hello.
"Ah Yu! You are a rare visitor!"
"Come, come, come and drink tea together!"
"Ajuan needs to study hard again, tell us what happened in this newspaper."
"It's just that you are familiar with Australians, so you must know better than he does."
…
Zhang Yu has been doing business with his father these days and has made great progress in his life. Business is all about popularity, so I smiled and bowed my hands as a courtesy, and greeted the people around me before taking my seat.
What the tea drinkers are most concerned about is the recent major case of the Maojia Inn.
"A'yu, what's the plot behind this Maojia Inn case? It's caused a lot of uproar in the city, but there's still no confirmation yet? These people are so evil. Even if the Australians get it, they won't try it or cut it up. Just keep it like this?"
"These flower-shooters really deserve death! I heard people say what kind of sorcery are they doing?"
"Yes, they are really practicing witchcraft!" A tea guest lowered his voice and pretended to be mysterious, "I heard that Liu Dafu was infected with Taoism and almost couldn't afford it. Later, he hired a Taoist priest from Lingao. It’s only after we come that we can resolve it.”
"It is said that he also subdued a kid. The cousin of the third brother of my second aunt's family is a cleaner in the municipal government. He said so."
"I heard Taoist Zhang from the Five Immortals Temple say that this group of demons want to destroy the Feng Shui of Guangzhou! They will damage the local dragon veins."
"Where does the dragon vein come from in Guangzhou? Your Taoist priest doesn't even have an ultimatum."
…(To be continued.)
