Ye Cheng

A few days later, a logistics company in the city called Ye Cheng and his village. The second aunt knew that Ye Cheng and the others were not at home, so she asked Cai Jinzhi to answer the phone. Started tinkering with something, and the poor old woman didn't hear anything about it.

She was illiterate, so she took the daughter of the second aunt's family and asked her to help answer the call and write down the address of the other party. The child's hearing is not good, and she always encounters words that she can't write. I can't annoy the caller. He has to make a lot of calls in a day. If everyone is like them, his wife and children will have to go out to drink the northwest wind.

After answering the phone, Cai Jinzhi took the note with the address on it back, and spent the whole afternoon spitting there, asking what to do, these children, seeing that there was no rice in the tank, they dared to make such a fuss.After hearing this, Luo Yueling came over to ask why, knowing that Ye Cheng had bought something outside, she didn't think there was anything wrong.

"I said, Mom, don't worry about it. They are all children with ideas. If you want to tinker with something, let them tinker with it. Maybe you can really tinker with something."

"Hey, I'm just worried. Tell me, their card is about to run out of money, so why do they dare to spend it? In a few months, Ye Ping will be promoted to junior high school, and she said she would give money to her." She's shopping for clothes..."

"Just for this matter, I will buy Ye Ping's clothes." Although their family is poor, they usually save money, but it is not really impossible to afford a few clothes.

"Why do you think they can't be down-to-earth? These children just don't make people worry."

"Mom, you are just timid. What's the use of being down-to-earth? Your son is quite down-to-earth. Look, how does the family live now? Let me tell you, down-to-earth people are no longer popular now." She When I was young, I also saw that Qian Shouwan was down-to-earth, and I felt reliable, so I married.But these years, the burden of life has weighed her down, and she sometimes regrets why she didn't have eyesight when she was young, why didn't she find a down-to-earth man, why didn't she find someone who could make money?

When Cai Jinzhi heard what her daughter-in-law said, she stopped talking. Luo Yueling was smart and capable, but her natal family was very poor in the past. When Cai Jinzhi and her husband were still there, they lived well. She is a pretty girl Marrying her as a daughter-in-law is not a disadvantage.

But who knew that life would become like this later, after Cai Jinzhi's man died, the family was supported by Qian Shouwan, the world is changing day by day, Qian Shouwan, an honest man, only knows how to farm, and his life is getting worse day by day It's gone.Later, Ye Cheng's parents died of that kind of disease, and they still had to take care of those children. Even if they were not raised at home, they would collect the rice grains and firewood they usually eat. A few adults took care of them, and no matter how big the three dolls were, they couldn't live a decent life.

When Cai Jinzhi brought over the note with the address on it, Ye Cheng was quite guilty. He knew that what he was doing now was too unsafe, and he dared to take such a risk because he still had money behind him to protect Wan's family. risk.But he has been in the city for so long, and he has seen how other people make money. Now that his family is poor, he just wants to do something, but he is not willing to sit and wait for death.

However, seeing that Cai Jinzhi was still relatively calm, Ye Cheng was somewhat relieved. He told Cai Jinzhi that he planned to make marshmallows, and he would sell them at the gate of the primary school every evening. Marshmallows were made from white sugar and would not cost much , a piece sells for fifty cents, which is a steady profit anyway.

Cai Jinzhi also took a look at it, anyway, this day, no matter how bad it is, it can't be so bad, so I just let them toss it out on their own, just like Luo Yueling said, maybe they can really find a way out.She has never lived a hard life. When she was a girl, she lived in the town with her parents and was hungry all day long. Didn't she grow up well?After she got married, her father-in-law and mother-in-law didn't like her because she always took care of her mother's family, so she was often squeezed out on weekdays. Isn't life like this?

Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan went to the city again this Sunday. Originally, they thought it would be good to go alone, so as to save some fare, but considering that the thing might be heavy, Ye Cheng wanted to go to the non-staple food market, so Both of them went.

When they arrived in the city, Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan did not go directly to the logistics company to pick up the goods, but went to the non-staple food market first. Selling marshmallows can also sell tricks. Children are greedy for freshness. If they only make ordinary marshmallows , the business is not much better, it must come up with some tricks, it must be something that people in the town have never seen before, so that once their stalls are set up, those elementary school students will be unable to walk around.

As far as the pattern of marshmallows is concerned, it is nothing more than tampering with the color and taste. Ye Cheng knows the food flavor, and a drink called pearl milk tea has just emerged in C City. It's the effect of flavoring and coloring. Ye Cheng was looking for these two things today.

The non-staple food market is quite large, and the products sold are also very miscellaneous, but it is not difficult to find stores that sell food additives. Even if the milk tea business has not become very popular, those cake shops still need to use these additives, fruity flavors and food additives. Pigments are actually very common.

Ye Cheng picked several flavors of flavors, and then matched them with food colorings of corresponding colors. The boss cracked the computer a few times and said that it would cost 170 yuan. Ye Cheng simply paid the money, and then put those bottles The cans are stuffed into two people's backpacks, and they have to free up their hands, and they have to carry a cotton candy machine back later.

When the two of them went to the logistics company to pick up the goods, they were complained a lot, saying that if they came to pick up the goods two days later, they would have to pay a storage fee. Things get in the way wherever you put them.A wooden frame was built outside the cotton candy machine, it was still made of pine wood, and it was heavy and finished. Seeing that the frame outside was not broken, Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan carried it away.

One person was carrying a large bag of things, and he was carrying a big guy. The cotton candy machine was not particularly heavy, but with the pine frame outside, it was not light. Ye Cheng was worried that it would bump into bumps when riding in the car. I broke the cotton candy machine, and I have been holding back the wooden shelf.

It was already past four o'clock in the afternoon when they returned to the village. Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan both sweated a lot. They went under the water pipe to wash their faces and hands, and then they started studying around the cotton candy machine.The ingredients in those bottles and jars were placed on the table one by one, and I wiped the inside and outside of the cotton candy machine with a clean rag, moved out the gas tank at home and connected it to the cotton candy machine, and then turned it on. Warm up first.

Along with the cotton candy machine, there are several spare parts and a printed A4 paper, which is a simple and rough instruction manual. Facing the paper, Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan took out the sugar bowl at home , If there is no bamboo stick, use chopsticks to top it, step on the pedal under the cotton candy machine, and fumble to make cotton candy.

At the beginning, I was not proficient. I couldn't grasp the heat and the rhythm of the feet. The white sugar was either not burnt or burnt. I didn't make a decent cotton candy for a long time. The white sugar was a lot of waste.But gradually, a little pattern was found, and the marshmallows on the chopsticks became more and more round. When the first marshmallow was made, they were all very excited.

But this is not enough, in addition to the original cotton candy, they also have to explore a variety of flavors, such as green apple, orange cantaloupe, yellow banana, pink strawberry, and brown coffee And purple taro flavor.

How much color and essence are used in each marshmallow is also very particular. After all, these things are not like white sugar, which will become sticky when heated. If the proportion is too large, it will affect the molding of marshmallows. Any less, and the marshmallows will be too close to white in color again, and the taste will be very bland.Therefore, this ratio needs to be explored slowly. It is not possible to mix white sugar and fruit flavored powder together. White sugar is granular and fruity powder is powdery. Do not mix together evenly.

The test products are always oddly shaped and unattractive, because they are still unskilled, and the marshmallows they make are round and flat, dark and light in color. When the chopsticks at home are almost used up, Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan finally put each I figured out the weight of the material.

"Brother, this marshmallow is really delicious." Ye Ping had already eaten three marshmallows in a row, and now she was holding a cantaloupe-flavored one, biting it bit by bit.

"Don't eat so much, you won't be able to eat for a while." Ye Cheng took a rag to clean the machine.

"It's really delicious." Lu Mingyuan put those bottles and jars in a cabinet beside him, then picked up a marshmallow and ate it.

"How much do you think we should sell?"

"One yuan." Lu Mingyuan said, with the market in their town, it would definitely not be easy to sell for one or five taels.

"I think so too." The machine was not heavy, so Ye Cheng removed the gas tank, carried it with both hands, and put it against the wall.

"I think we have to process this thing." Lu Mingyuan looked at the cotton candy machine and said.

"Yeah, at least we need to find a place to put the gas tank."

"There must be a place to put the fruit powder." Ye Ping added.

"Let's just weld a small cart, with two wheels, it's easy to push." ​​The more Lu Mingyuan talked, the more interested he became.

"That's good, but we don't have much money." Ye Cheng said helplessly.

"It's all over here, are you still short of a hundred dollars?" Lu Mingyuan made a decision: "Don't give that girl a make-up class at noon tomorrow, let's go to the hardware store in the town to weld a small car."

"You can go alone. I'll make up lessons for Lan Xiaofeng." If they sell marshmallows in the future, they may not be able to make up lessons for Lan Xiaofeng every day like now. Lan Xiaofeng's parents have always supported them. Okay, Ye Cheng is too embarrassed to say that if he doesn't have class, he won't have class.

"Cut, you'll die if you stop for a day?" Lu Mingyuan yelled dissatisfied.

"We have to measure the size first, otherwise you will know how big it should be tomorrow?" Ye Cheng said and went into the house to get a ruler. The longest ruler in their house is 25 cm. They used it in math class. .

"It's about 1.2 meters long. Put the gas tanks in the empty space below, and put those tanks on top."

"We still need to measure the size." Ye Cheng measured the size of the cotton machine, and then measured the size of the gas tank, and wrote them down on a piece of paper, and then drew a sketch of the trailer beside it, indicating the length and width. high.

"In this place, install a wheel." Lu Mingyuan pointed to a position in the sketch and said.

"Don't you want four wheels?" Ye Ping asked.

"No, as long as there are two wheels near the back, when you push it down a little, you can go away, and it won't slide away by itself when you leave it still." Ye Cheng patiently explained to her .

"So that's how it is." Ye Ping said, biting her chopsticks.

After a while, Cai Jinzhi and Luo Yueling also came over. Seeing that Ye Cheng and the others had made marshmallows on the table, they each took one and tasted it. Can make money.Cai Jinzhi looked at these colorful marshmallows, ate a few mouthfuls, and felt that the taste was good, and his heart was relieved a lot.

Luo Yueling brought vegetables to Ye Cheng and the others, and Ye Ping took out the bowls and turned them upside down, and then helped Luo Yueling wash the two bowls, so they didn't need to cook tonight, they only needed to cook a pot of rice. Before leaving, Luo Yueling brought back two marshmallows and said she wanted to give the big fat and the fat two a taste.

When they went to class the next day, Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan brought the cotton candy machine with them. They had to fix the machine on the cart, and they couldn't do without it.It was placed in the reception room in the morning. Although the old man's face was not very good-looking, he did not disagree after all. Ye Cheng did not go to the hardware store with Lu Mingyuan at noon, but gave Lan Xiaofeng extra lessons as usual.

Ye Cheng was taken aback when two people went to pick up the cart after the evening self-study, he didn't draw like this at the beginning, why did he have an extra canopy?The size of this cart is made according to the data given by Ye Cheng, but there are two extra poles at both ends. On top of the two stainless steel poles is a small canopy, not too big, so it can just cover it The car is not so much a shelter from the wind and rain as it is purely a decoration.

It turned out that when Lu Mingyuan went to order a cart at noon, he saw someone ordering a canopy at this hardware store, so he added a canopy to their cart on a whim.The structure of the canopy is very simple, just a few sticks to form a roof shape, but the red and white striped fabric on it really made the cart a lot more energetic. Before a paint store closed, I went in and bought a few bottles of spray paint.

That night when they walked back to the village, one person pushed the bicycle and the other pushed the small cart. The small cart was a bit heavy, and the two had to take turns pushing it.There was a slope ahead, Ye Cheng first rode his bicycle and parked it on the top of the slope, then walked quickly to Lu Mingyuan's side, the two of them had to push the small cart up the slope together.They started the run-up before reaching the bottom of the slope, so that they could save a lot of energy later by using inertia.

The two of them kept on stepping, always walking briskly, pushing the cart up the slope in one go, and parked it beside the bicycle. They looked at each other and smiled, feeling that the moonlight illuminated each other's eyes clearly and brightly. I don't know who got closer to whom first, but when the four lips were tightly pressed together, there was some sweet taste, and it rippled away.