"This is Chen Qingwen, the owner of Chen Ji Candy Store. This is Song Tianyao and Song of Likang. Everyone is from Chaozhou." After Wu Jinliang led a middle-aged man in simple and clean clothes into the private room, he introduced and recommended each other to each other, and then left the private room.

Chen Qingwen looks in his forties. Although he looks a little old and dresses simply, he doesn't look like a so-called smart man who is servile to do business. He is more like a savage shopkeeper who is a scheming shop owner who is just a scheming shop. He laughs before he starts, and does not need Song Tianyao to ask, and then he takes the initiative to say: "Secretary Song, you want to make a batch of candy? I am from Chaozhou. I have been an apprentice in a candy shop in Guangzhou since I was fifteen years old. After arriving in Hong Kong in 30s, I opened a store in Xihuan to sell candy. Except for the Japanese devils who came in, I closed the shop and ran back to the mainland to hide for a few years. So far, I have been making candy in Xihuan for fifteen years. Whether it is juice candy, milk candy, throat candy, Zhong is the Western moist candy that foreigners love to eat. I know how to make it. I came in a hurry. These are some kinds of candies I made in my own store. Please give it a try."

As he spoke, Chen Qingwen opened a red-core paper bag at his hand, which contained a small bag of round candies of different colors. Without packaging, he wrapped it directly inside the paper.

"Boss Chen knows how to make Western candy. Why is it that there is still only one shop now? Western candy is very profitable. The young masters and ladies of wealthy families should like to eat it." Song Tianyao reached out and picked up a milky white milk candy and put it in his mouth to taste it. The candy felt like a hard candy when in his hand, but it was softened, soft, glutinous and sweet, and the sweetness was not too high, with a milk aroma:

"I want to make a batch of milk candy. The milk candy is made of cow's milk, and the middle is made of goat's milk?"

Chen Qingwen rubbed his hands and smiled, pointing to one of the slightly light yellow milk candies: "The one you just tasted is the most expensive milk candies sold in the store. They are made by boiling them with fresh milk and served from Java Island at high temperature. The cheap milk candies are made of creamer powder produced by local milk companies with Thai jelly sugar, boiled with water, then cooled and solidified. This is the light yellow milk candies, the price difference is half."

He spit out the milk candy from his mouth and rinsed his mouth with tea. Song Tianyao put the cheap milk candy into his mouth again. As soon as he entered his mouth, he felt sweet and greasy. He did not have the soft and glutinous taste as before. He was hard and sucked on his tongue. He bit it gently with his teeth and broke into several small pieces.

"How much does this cheap milk candy cost to sell in the store?" Song Tianyao asked Chen Qingwen after spitting out the candy.

"Four yuan per pound is enough to weigh it." Chen Qingwen said.

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

Chen Qingwen laughed at himself: "Secretary Song, in addition to selling more during the Spring Festival, he is lucky and earning three or five hundred yuan a month, he has already paid the gods and chanted Buddha's name."

"If I were to make 2,500 kilograms of this cheap milk candy, what's the minimum cost?"

"Ten to 18,000 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 be the lowest price. If Secretary Song doesn't believe it, you can go to Hong Kong Island for a walk, and no one will have the lowest price than me."

"I have 250 kilograms of pills, which you need to make into powder and mix in 2500 kilograms of sugar. It's like you add juice or pigments to the candy. It's better to distribute them in a one-to-ten-digit ratio, and make the milk candy into a spire or flower tower style." Song Tianyao stared at Chen Qingwen: "Wait later, you go to the warehouse with me and take one kilogram of pills to your store. You can make ten kilograms first tomorrow. Can you do it?"

"You can do it, you can do it." Chen Qingwen nodded repeatedly: "If you can't use it tomorrow, my family can make 80 kilograms a day, and ten kilograms can be easily done in the afternoon. Push it into the refrigerator for an hour and freeze it to Secretary Song before night."

"If you do it well, you will be able to make the remaining milk candy. If you don't do it well, Boss Chen will continue to earn three to five hundred yuan a month." Song Tianyao was a little surprised by Chen Qingwen. He didn't expect that the candy shop owner actually had a refrigerator. Refrigerators are not very popular now. Only factories and other things will purchase power-consuming facilities such as refrigerators.

...

Song Tianyao and Chen Qingwen had lunch together in the teahouse. After that, he took Chen Qingwen to the warehouse of Likang Trading Company in Central Wharf, took out a bag of one kilogram of bags of Shandulian deworming medicine produced by the British Jiali subsidiary and handed it to Chen Qingwen. He followed Chen Qingwen to his candy shop in Xiyingpan. He watched with his own eyes beat the large pills into powder in the processing room behind the store, carefully weighed the weight of the pills, and then instructed his wife to follow the powder according to the powder.

The proportion started to boil the choy candy, and added these Shandulian anti-worming medicines and creamer powder. The son asked his son to make a flower tower model on the cold sugar board according to Song Tianyao's instructions. The daughter-in-law poured the mixed batch of milk candy on the cold sugar board one by one. Finally, Chen Qingwen personally pushed the whole piece of cold sugar board into the buzzing refrigerator, which was as big as a wardrobe. The entire production process was in batches and batches. The four members of the Chen family performed their duties and acted quickly. It seemed that they were an old candy shop.

When the sun sets west, Chen Qingwen and his son worked together to carry a large candy box filled with a pile of flower tower candy piled into hills, with as many as two or three thousand. The two put the candy box on the table in front of Song Tianyao, wiped the sweat from their faces and asked Song Tianyao: "Secretary Song, this is what you did as you ask."

Song Tianyao picked up one and observed it in his hand. The style was indeed similar to the flower candy he had eaten in his childhood in his previous life. His thumb nails were light yellow. He leaned in front of his nose and smelled it, but he had some doubts now. The two or three thousand pagoda candy in front of him were more than ten kilograms, right?

However, he immediately realized that Chen Qingwen's ratio was one kilogram of medicinal powder and ten kilograms of Thai jelly sugar, but in this batch of flower candy, there was also the same proportion of creamer powder in addition to jelly sugar.

"Each person has three, taste the taste?" Song Tianyao said to Chen Qingwen and his son.

As he spoke, he gave one to his mouth and bit it. He could not feel the bitter taste of Shandulian's deworming medicine, but only a sweet taste.

Chen Qingwen picked up three and put them in his mouth and bit them to swallow them. Then he smacked his lips and felt the candy he made, and he didn't seem to feel the abnormal smell.

"Carry all of these for me, and then go find a rickshaw." Song Tianyao took out 300 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 kind of sugar is well made, 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 candy into the bag.

After loading this bag of freshly baked pagoda candy, Song Tianyao went back to Taihe Street and climbed up to the second floor with a bag of 50 kilograms. When his sister Song Wenwen helped open the door, Song Tianyao entered the room and found that his mother and father were sitting on the stool in the living room with an ugly face.

"What's wrong with them?" Song Tianyao straightened his waist and gasped, asking his sister Song Wenwen beside him.

Song Wenwen shrank her body and leaned into Song Tianyao's ear and whispered: "You asked my mother to buy Western medicine, and let them take one pill each. As a result, the two of them just now had more than a dozen insects, and some of them could move."

Song Chunliang, his old bean, was sitting blankly like a clay sculpture at this time, and he had no reaction to Song Tianyao's return. He touched his stomach nervously with both hands. His mother Zhao Meizhen was better than Song Chunliang, but her face turned pale. She looked at Song Tianyao, but her hands were like Song Chunliang to cover her lower abdomen.

"Next time, remember not to drink raw water, and don't go to the street to buy cheap water for the candle ghost." Song Tianyao walked to Zhao Meizhen, whose face was still a little pale, and squatted down, reached out to her and shook her eyes: "If you discharge it, it means there is nothing in your stomach? Take another pill tomorrow, so you won't be so scary again."

Zhao Meizhen said to Song Tianyao in a weak tone: "Zhong to tell me? From now on, I will eat one pill every day. Pu, your mother, now I think of those insects, and the pores on the back are opened and the cold air is exposed!"

"That's not necessary. Take another pill tomorrow, and you can take it every three months or six months from now on. Taking too much of this medicine is not good for your health." Song Tianyao pointed to the bag of pagoda candy inside the door: "These medicine candy is also dewormed. You can send it to the neighbors in other buildings later. Each person is allowed to give only three pills, not more. It is best to watch them eat it in person."

"Are you rich? Please invite the neighbors to eat candy?" Zhao Meizhen stood up while rubbing her stomach, walked to the bag of pagoda candy and looked at it: "It looks weird, it seems like milk candy is left behind, can't I eat it well during the holidays?"

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

"Isn't medicinal sugar? I'll try it for you. So much sugar is cheap and cheap neighbors?" Zhao Meizhen grabbed a few pills from it, gave her daughter two pills, and stuffed one pill into her mouth.

Song Tianyao opened the door helplessly and shouted to the upstairs: "Sir Hui, come down quickly!"

In just a few minutes, Master Hui ran down from the third floor: "Secretary Song, please ask me? Sister Yun, I have already brought you back. Go up and see her..."

"I see your mother, you will always be a few steps slower than others. When you see this bag of candy, take three pills to eat it yourself." Song Tianyao pointed to the bag of pagoda candy and said to Master Hui.

Shi Ye Hui went over and picked up three pieces and threw them into his mouth to chew them. After swallowing them, he said, "It's delicious, sweet."

"No more food, only three pills are allowed. Eat too much will cause poisoning and stomachache. Distribute this bag of medicine sugar to the neighbors of this street, each person will not give more food. They also tell them not to give more food to children. It is used to kill insects. Go, remember to keep three pills for your boss's wife."

Master Hui carried a nylon bag and shouted to the third floor without any end: "Sister Yun, Secretary Song asked me to help give the candy!"

Then Dongdongdong stepped down the stairs.
Chapter completed!