"Making candied hawthorns."
Lin Zhou couldn't help but chuckle as he watched the fruit vendor's expression, which looked like he was about to bite into a hawthorn.
Even middle-aged men can be adorable.
Who would eat hawthorns like fruit? What's the difference between that and eating lemons on their own?
"Candied hawthorn is good. It's suitable for all ages and tastes delicious."
The uncle looked like he couldn't eat hawthorn berries but could eat candied hawthorn berries, which made Lin Zhou laugh.
"Uncle, give me some grapes, green ones and purple ones, and ten boxes of blueberries too. Apples, strawberries, cantaloupe, oranges, bananas, peaches, kiwis, pears, tomatoes, black dates... give me some of everything."
After buying the fruit, Lin Zhou headed straight for the dried goods section.
When it was time to buy the wooden skewers, he looked at the pile of bags of wooden skewers of varying lengths and fell into deep thought.
You said... is it possible that selling 500 candied hawthorn skewers a day with 80-10 hawthorns on a single skewer is too difficult?
If you use shorter skewers, each skewer can only hold two hawthorns, and even that small portion is still a skewer!
Lin Zhou's eyes grew brighter as he looked at the 10cm long stick, and he wanted to laugh out loud to express his feelings.
Hahahaha!
There's always a way out!
Sure enough, the system doesn't issue tasks that can't be completed.
If he can't get over this misconception and just sells the common candied hawthorns available in the market, he'll work himself to the bone all day and still not be able to sell them all.
But even a single string of candied hawthorns can vary in size!
The system task didn't specify how many candied hawthorns to string together.
Hehe~
The shop owner looked at Lin Zhou grinning foolishly at a pair of wooden skewers, a hint of doubt flashing in his eyes.
Is this young man an idiot?
"Would you like to buy some wooden skewers, sir?"
"Yes, I need a lot of these wooden skewers. How many do you have?"
Upon hearing the boss's voice, Lin Zhou looked up and said happily.
There are five boxes...
The boss doesn't understand, but it would be foolish not to make money when there's an opportunity.
He brought out all the unsold wooden skewers from his inventory.
When he was picking up the goods, he had obsessive-compulsive disorder and ordered several boxes of each of the wooden skewers of different lengths.
But 10cm wooden skewers, neither short nor long, simply cannot be sold.
I never expected to be ripped off today.
No, he's a really good person!
They cleared out all his inventory.
It seems this is fate!
He always said that there's nothing that can't be sold; it's just a matter of whether the customer has a connection with the product!
When the boss saw that Lin Zhou was carrying several large bags, he kindly helped him load them onto the tricycle.
"Welcome to come again next time!"
The boss watched Lin Zhou ride away on his tricycle, waving enthusiastically.
Looking at the candied hawthorn sign on Lin Zhou's three-wheeled cart, he knew why the customer was buying so many wooden skewers at once.
Oh, so you're making candied hawthorn berries!
......
Lin Zhou bought a lot of things in bits and pieces, and when he finally got home, he had to make several trips to move the groceries.
Then wash all kinds of fruits in batches and let them dry.
Then start boiling the sugar.
The process of making candied hawthorn skewers involves only a few main steps: selecting the fruit, stringing the fruit, boiling the sugar, dipping it in sugar, and cooling it.
However, it is both simple and complex. Due to differences in the quality of ingredients, sugar, and sugar-making techniques, the quality of candied hawthorn skewers naturally varies.
In Lin Zhou's view, some handicrafts seem simple and easy to learn, but to make good candied hawthorns really requires skill.
There's a lot to learn about making candied hawthorn skewers that are crisp, refreshing, sweet and sour, and don't stick to your teeth!
Taking a break from his busy schedule, Lin Zhou saw a message from Grandpa Zhang.
I asked him if he was setting up a stall today.
Grandpa Zhang had roughly figured out the pattern of Lin Zhou's stall.
I went hiking on Qinhuang Mountain this morning, but I didn't see him. I checked the time and realized it was Monday!
It's a new week.
Lin Zhou figured he'd have to move his stall to a different location again.
Zhang Jianjun also tried to guess what Lin Zhou would sell this week, but after thinking for a long time, he couldn't guess it and was very curious, so he wanted to ask.
"I'm selling candied hawthorns this week, and I plan to ride my bike around selling them."
Lin Zhou washed and arranged a table full of fruit, took a picture, sent it over, and added a caption.
Royal Villa No. 11.
Zhang Jianjun was surprised when he received the reply.
He guessed that the food would be noodles or wontons, but he didn't expect Lin Zhou to plan to sell candied hawthorns.
He hadn't eaten this for decades; it was something he ate when he was a child.
Childhood memories suddenly found an outlet.
Zhang Jianjun couldn't help but recall his childhood, when his parents would always buy him a candied hawthorn skewer to bring home whenever he took an exam, regardless of how well or poorly he did.
Doing well on the test is a reward.
Even if you don't do well on the test, it's still encouragement.
So when he was a child, he was the only one who looked forward to exams, which everyone in his class feared.
He often felt proud among children his age.
Only his parents would buy him candied hawthorns, regardless of whether he did well or poorly on his exams.
Unlike other children, who get beaten for not doing well on tests.
Even if you do well on the test, there's not much encouragement.
In their generation, most parents used a repressive style of education, and it was rare to find parents as open-minded as him.
Think back to his childhood, his family wasn't very wealthy, and a string of candied hawthorns wasn't cheap back then.
Looking back now, I realize that his current achievements are inseparable from his parents' upbringing.
It wasn't just about being well-fed and watered; it was about giving him a strong inner strength.
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