Chapter 157: New flavors can be developed
The college entrance examination arrived as scheduled. Huo Dongsheng and Shen Jidong were both a little nervous, but Shen Jintao and Huo Beichuan sent them to the examination room. After talking to Shen Jintao for a while on the way, the two became much calmer.
According to Shen Jintao, being nervous now will only affect their grades and will not have any other effect.
Of course, both of them knew this, but they were uncontrollably nervous at the beginning. Now they are much better and are even encouraging each other.
"Just go and take the exam with peace of mind. Your brother and I will be waiting for you in town. After you finish the exam, we will go home together."
Chen Jintao sent both of her younger brothers to the examination room.
Then the couple started traveling around the town. The examination venues for Huo Dongsheng and Shen Jidong were both arranged in the town’s primary school, which was very convenient and they didn’t have to worry about accommodation.
Naturally, the two of them would not wait outside the examination room, but went directly to the rented house.
Now Xu Xuemei can basically handle everything by herself. Her three aunts will buy goods from her to sell. Now Xu Xuemei is responsible for making popcorn and milk tea at home. This is actually very simple. After all, as long as the proportions are right, there is nothing wrong with it.
"Mom, how's business today?"
After Chen Jintao entered the room, she started to help and asked about the current situation.
Xu Xuemei was a little worried. "Your aunt said that the sales of popcorn are still very good recently. It's just that the sales of milk tea have obviously declined over time."
Chen Jintao had thought of this situation a long time ago, and said with a smile, "The taste of milk tea is too simple, but we can come up with some other flavors."
Chen Jintao immediately found a pen and paper and wrote down the recipes of several types of milk tea that became very popular in later generations.
Xu Xuemei was stunned. "How can this be possible?"
"Yes, but fruits are not that easy to buy. You can make flavors based on what you can buy. But it would also be nice if you could go to some families that have fruit trees and harvest them directly. For example, for candied pears, you only need to find enough pears to make them. The same goes for the others."
Chen Jintao gave Xu Xuemei a new idea, and she immediately became eager to try it out.
"Some people in our team are planting pear trees, but now it's out of season. We can harvest them next year. We also have some edible wild fruits on the mountain. If we can find them, can we use them to make what you said?"
Chen Jintao gave her mother a thumbs up and said, "You are so smart. You can draw inferences from one example."
Basically, any edible fruit can be used to make milk tea. Chen Jintao thinks her mother is very smart and she will know how to develop new flavors in the future.
She couldn't help but sigh in her heart. She had read some novels in her previous life. The people who were reborn and traveled through time were given golden fingers or something, such as spiritual spring space or a mall where they could buy things at will, but she had nothing, otherwise she wouldn't have to worry about this.
But it's not completely impossible. The time at which fruits ripen is different in places with different climates. If you are interested, you can actually go and buy them. However, Xu Xuemei definitely can't get away, and Shen Jianmin certainly can't get away either. It's also a troublesome question as to who to assign this task to. Shen Jintao told Xu Xuemei about her idea, and Xu Xuemei immediately gave a candidate, Xu Hongwei, the eldest son of her second uncle, who is also Shen Jintao's second cousin.
"Hongwei is a smart guy, and he's good at talking. If we let him go, there will be no problem."
Chen Jintao suddenly remembered that her second cousin had been a community leader since he was a child. Now that he had grown up and become much more mature, it would be perfect to let him do this.
"Then you can talk to him. If he's willing, you can give him some commission for each trip. Although this is a bit more troublesome and the cost is much higher, as long as the variety increases, you basically don't have to worry about business in the future."
Xu Xuemei thought so too. She understood the principle of small profits but quick turnover. She would definitely not be reluctant to spend this little money. Instead, she was very happy. This way, Hongwei would have something to do. His wife was pregnant again recently, so wasn't the family spending a lot of money?
Xu Xuemei was also very happy to be able to help her nephew from her mother's side.
There were three subjects on the first day of the college entrance examination. After the exams were over in the afternoon, Huo Dongsheng and Shen Jidong went back with Xu Xuemei and the others. Everyone was very happy to learn that the two boys were doing well, but this happiness did not last long.
When they returned home, they found an uninvited guest in their house.
This person was none other than Mr. Shen’s only daughter, Shen Xiaoju.
Shen Xiaoju married and moved to the county town. She has looked down on her relatives in the countryside over the years and has never come back. She didn't even show up at Shen Jintao and Huo Beichuan's wedding. No one knows why she suddenly came back.
You know, Mr. Shen doesn't have a good face towards this daughter. After all, he treated her well before. After she got married, she treated her family like this. She basically forgot that she had such a daughter. Normally, her family members would not mention her. As the saying goes, no one comes to the temple for no reason. If Shen Xiaoju said that there was no purpose in coming back, no one would believe it.
"Xiaoju is back?" Xu Xuemei was also very surprised. When she got married, Shen Xiaoju was still a little girl. However, she never liked this sister-in-law. She was arrogant and had done a lot of mischief in her parents' home. After she got married with great difficulty, she no longer had any contact with her parents' home. Xu Xuemei really didn't think there was anything wrong with it. She hoped that this sister-in-law would not go home and cause trouble for everyone.
But after all, they haven't seen each other for so many years, and what happened in the past is in the past. Xu Xuemei didn't have any objection to Shen Xiaoju's sudden visit.
"Sister-in-law!" Shen Xiaoju also greeted Xu Xuemei with a smile. She didn't show the arrogance she had when she was young at all. Xu Xuemei was shocked. After all, in her memory, Shen Xiaoju never had a good face towards her, the sister-in-law.
"Um!"
Hearing Xu Xuemei's indifferent response, Shen Xiaoju was not angry, and looked at her with burning eyes, "Are you back from your work, sister-in-law?"
"Um!"
"Sister-in-law, your business should be doing well now, right?"
Shen Xiaoju heard that her elder brother and sister-in-law from her mother's family had made a lot of money, so she came back to find out the situation.
“Not bad!” Xu Xuemei was not surprised at all that Shen Xiaoju knew that she was doing business now.
"Haha, that's good. Big brother and his wife can finally live a good life. As the younger sister, I can rest assured."
This is too fake. When Shen Xiaoju just got married, Shen Jianmin and Xu Xuemei came to visit her and brought some vegetables from home, but they were so disgusted. How could they really care about how they were doing?
"I'm glad you have this intention. Why did you come back so suddenly? Do you want to stay for dinner tonight?"
Xu Xuemei responded politely.
"Yes!" Shen Xiaoju had already seen some cured meat and sausages hanging in the kitchen and was very greedy. Although life in the county town looked glamorous, it was not easy to eat meat. She thought that she had finally come back, so her elder brother and sister-in-law must take out the best things in the house to treat her.
Hearing Shen Xiaoju's answer, Xu Xuemei was speechless for a moment, but still said nothing and walked directly into the kitchen.
Shen Jianmin also quickly followed in.
The eldest brother and his wife were not in the main room, so Shen Xiaoju's eyes naturally fell on Shen Jintao and Huo Beichuan.
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