At five o'clock in the afternoon, the courier boy delivered the mold sent by Qin Xiuli to my door.
Six sets of solid wooden molds weighed more than sixty kilograms together. Ouyang didn't believe that one mold weighed more than ten kilograms, so he had to hold one and stand on the scale to weigh it. Then he found that he had gained another eight kilograms and started emo.
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Qin Huai chose to ignore it and tried making a set of animal molds.
Very successful.
The speed is fast, the size and shape are uniform, and the most important thing is that it does not require subsequent processing. The mold itself is fine enough, and the little rabbits, mice, and pigs that are pressed out are lifelike, and it is a style that children will like.
"It can actually be pressed out. I thought this kind of mold can only be used to press mooncakes and osmanthus cakes." Ouyang was amazed when he finished his emo. He pointed to another unused set of molds and asked, "Is this set of molds the right one?
Can Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie be suppressed?"
"You can press out a rough shape." Qin Huai said, "It needs to be processed and colored later. If the craftsmanship is good, the final product will be similar to the dough."
"That's not bad." Ouyang suddenly became interested. "Two years ago, I took my nephew on the street and met a man who made dough. To be honest, I didn't think the dough was very good. I could probably tell it was Sun Wukong, but there was no trace of it at all.
Let’s take a closer look. It’s 25 yuan each. It’s neither edible nor fun to play with. My nephew crushed it before we finished shopping. If you can mass-produce this, a batch of three, 3 minutes at a time, the hourly salary will be 1,500.
!”
"Qin Huai, why do you want to open a canteen? Go directly to the entrance of the affiliated primary school and set up a stall. You are going to make a fortune!"
Qin Huai really wanted to take out his system panel and show it to Ouyang. With his rudimentary fingering skills, how could he make a fortune? Can elementary school students rely on stupid money and the tolerance of urban management?
"You pinch one now, and I'll give it to my nephew to open up sales for you. He's from the affiliated primary school." Ouyang felt that he had seen a bright future.
When Qinhuai produces and he sells, he will become rich soon.
Qin Huai spread his hands: "No."
Ouyang:?
"Why do you have these molds in your family if you don't know how? Could it be that your uncle knows how to do it?!" Ouyang felt that it was time to establish friendship with Qin Congwen.
"Neither can my dad."
Ouyang:??
"It's like this. These 6 sets of molds were ordered by my dad from the most famous carpenter in our county 27 years ago when he didn't open a breakfast shop. It cost a lot of money. In my mother's words, if my dad had
If we had not ordered these 6 sets of molds but used the money to buy a small house in the city, our family would have been rich and free a long time ago."
Ouyang:0.0
"Is this thing so expensive?"
"That's not true. The main reason is that houses in the city were cheaper at that time, even cheaper than in our county."
"Then why does uncle spend a lot of money to order a set of molds that he doesn't know how to use?" Ouyang was puzzled.
Qin Huai said that this is a very long story.
Speaking of this, we have to talk about Qin Congwen's ambition.
Although Qin Congwen has been running a breakfast shop for more than 20 years, his skills are still average, but he was also a man with dreams. Qiu County more than 20 years ago was prosperous for a period of time due to its geographical location, and people came and went.
There were many businessmen, many of whom were wealthy, and both restaurants and hotels were doing very well. At that time, Qin Congwen’s dream was to open a dim sum shop, work steadily, and first make it the best in the county, and then the province.
, and finally went nationwide.
It happened that the most famous restaurant in the county was trying to generate revenue at that time. In addition to the normal lunch and dinner, it also sold snacks all day long. There were many varieties, all kinds of cute animal styles, and a series of gift boxes. What are the twelve zodiac signs, Liangshan One Hundred Orders?
The Eight Generals are the same as those in Journey to the West. As long as the price is right, they can even be customized. Whatever you can't imagine, there is nothing you can't do. In just a few months, the restaurant's dim sum has become a famous specialty in Qiu County, and businessmen who come and go like to buy a few sets as gifts.
As soon as dim sum became popular, more and more people followed the trend. Every dim sum shop in Qiu County asked carpenters to customize the same molds. If the high-end ones couldn't make them, they started a price war and took advantage of the low-end market. With everyone's concerted efforts, we decided to
Carpenters in Qiu County have become very popular. Qin Congwen, who has a dream of dim sum, also followed the trend and asked carpenters to order molds. He not only queued up but also added money, spending huge sums of money to customize the molds, becoming the number one victim of the dim sum craze.
A few years later, the restaurant closed down because the chef left, and without its leader, the cheap dim sum from a dim sum shop that relied solely on molds without excellent craftsmanship was no longer popular.
Today, Qiu County is no longer a transportation hub and has become an ordinary small county. The prosperity is no longer the same as before. The old time-honored brands have closed down. Qin Congwen, who was unable to open a dim sum shop and switched to a breakfast shop, unexpectedly opened the Qin Family Breakfast Shop.
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Font size’. Nowadays, except for Qin Congwen who occasionally takes out the well-preserved molds that are still 99 new to mourn the wasted money he spent following the trend, it is estimated that not many people remember that the specialty of Qiu County was dim sum gift boxes.
"When my dad asked Carpenter Zhang to make custom orders, Carpenter Zhang even persuaded my dad and told him that the Journey to the West series was not that simple. The restaurant dared to sell it because the craftsman was good at it. The mold could only produce a rough shape.
, it still needs to be processed and colored later. But my dad didn’t believe in evil. He didn’t know how to make dim sum at all at that time. He who didn’t know was fearless. Who knew that the subsequent processing was so difficult. If you think you are making Sun Wukong, others will think you are making it.
He is the king of inspiration."
"The final result was that after the mold was made, every dim sum shop in the county could make those simple basic styles, and they were even more delicious than what my dad made. So my dad simply didn't open a dim sum shop in the future.
, I learned steamed buns from my next-door neighbor’s aunt for a few months and opened a breakfast restaurant.”
"These six sets of molds have been kept at home. I can't bear to throw them away, and I can't sell them. Thanks to the high quality of the wood, they haven't rotted or been eaten by insects for so many years. Now they can be put to use."
Ouyang could only say regretfully:
"Why did my uncle decide on the template for Journey to the West back then? If we decided on the twelve zodiac signs, wouldn't our business of making faces begin?"
"The twelve zodiac signs are so good, children will definitely like them!"
Qin Huai felt that if Qin Congwen could hear Ouyang's words, he would definitely say: What do you know? Journey to the West only has 4 masters and apprentices, Monk Tang, and there are 12 zodiac signs. If you spend three times more money, do you understand the cost-effectiveness?
Ouyang Lai, who didn't understand cost-effectiveness, had another dinner at Qin Huai's house, and finally took two large bags of red bean hedgehog bags home under Qin Luo's moved eyes. Before Ouyang left, Qin Luo didn't even dare to cheer until he was sure that Ouyang had already arrived.
Qin Luo screamed when he got off the elevator.
"Okay, I don't have to eat red bean hedgehog buns anymore!"
"Brother, what shall we eat tomorrow morning?"
Qin Huai pointed to a batch of rabbit buns made in the kitchen during the mold test this afternoon: "Eat the red bean rabbit buns, the other fillings haven't been made yet."
Chapter completed!