Zeng Juan ignored Zhang Yu, but he was not upset. He poured two cups of herbal tea from the big pottery pot and tasted it. It was the kind without sugar. He nodded slightly and put one cup in front of him and the other in front of him.
Zeng Juan's right hand side. Then he gently opened the paper bag, revealing slices of goose-yellow and tender tea snacks. The fragrance was overflowing for a while, making Zeng Juan look sideways. His mouth was already murmuring with his tongue, and he didn't know what he was talking about.
what.
"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's hand could no longer stop.
"It's just that this stuff is expensive. It not only requires fine sifted white flour, 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 a few 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 kept grabbing it with his hands. When he said it was delicious, he even sprayed 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 crushed pieces into your mouth.
"How's it going? Not bad!"
"Mmm, um, um, it's so delicious..." Before I could finish pronouncing the word "eat", another cookie popped into my mouth with a click.
"Well, that's good. The bag I gave you was made by my sister Ting'er..." Zhang Yu said deliberately. Sure enough, Zeng Juan choked, patted his chest and drank a lot of water, Zeng Juan was red
He said with a straight face: "Ayu, Tingmei is at your house?"
"Yes, now the business is big and there are many people using it, so 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 had fallen into in his mind, and 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 as one that passes down the recipe from daughter-in-law to 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 rich 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 by trial and error. 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, he takes great pains - when making a certain kind of candle, he only burns a certain kind of firewood: charcoal, firewood, rice bran, or other
Using straw, the heat is different, which is 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 licked 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 and more developed and advanced since you hugged Elder Hong's lap." After listening to his words, Zeng Juan's expression suddenly became decadent. But immediately, he seemed to have made up his mind again.
As if determined, I picked up the "Public Basic Knowledge Handbook" and started reading and memorizing it.
Zhang Yu knew that Zeng Juan was interested in his cousin. Zhang Yu could guess the reason for his confusion just now. He wanted to match her, 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 suddenly widened. "Analysis of 200 Real Examination Questions" was printed on the cover.
Zeng Juan's great career 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.
He 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 deal. The Australians also want to equip my home with machines and build a new factory to specialize in the production of this product. 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, and six silver cakes. 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 do that?
Such good luck!”
Zhang Yu himself often laments that if he hadn't worked so hard back then and established a relationship with Kun...an Australian, he doesn't know what would have happened to his small tea shop now.
"Ah Juan, after this summer you will take the first Encore exam for Australians. 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 read the "Handbook of Basic Public Knowledge" that he could not fully understand and could only memorize by rote.
Zhang Yu stopped disturbing him and opened the curtain and walked out. He heard that the tea guests who were still chatting outside were enthusiastically discussing what they had just read. The literate ones even spread the "Yangcheng Express" on the table.
Point and point.
"What kind of thing is this electrician? Isn't he a thunder male and a female electrician? 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 affect craftsmen?"
"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 is a country called France in the north of Spain, and it's the same as France.
We still haven’t dealt with this Franchise! How come these countries in Europe and the West are in such a mess.”
"Then there is nothing to say about how many ponies were born on Jeju Island, and I even published a special article!"
"You don't know this. It is said that the pregnancy of horses lasts longer than that of humans. It takes twelve months. And there are not just a few horses. In the late spring and early summer, more than 200 foals were born.
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 confident voice, "They are very good at fines for people caught throwing garbage and spitting..."
…
Amidst the commotion, 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 from the past 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 about popularity. He smiled and bowed his hands as a courtesy, and greeted the people around him before sitting down.
What tea drinkers are most concerned about is the recent major case of the Maojia Inn.
"A'yu, do you think there's something behind this Maojia Inn case? It's caused uproar all over the city, but there's still no confidence in it? These people are so unreasonable. Even if the Australians get it, they won't try it or cut it into pieces.
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 city government. He said so."
"I heard from Taoist Zhang from the Five Immortals Temple that this group of demons want to destroy Guangzhou's feng shui and damage the local dragon veins."
"Where does the dragon vein come from in Guangzhou? Your Taoist Priest Zhang doesn't even have a Taoist certificate."