Gao Yi returned to Yaxian Ju at three o'clock in the afternoon. He now had a very good life, an easy job, a good salary, and as a male teacher, he could not live in the school, so he did not have to stay in the school all day like the female missionaries, but instead moved freely, and went wherever he wanted when there were no classes.

He is now considered to have a car, and he is transported by horse-drawn carriage when he goes in and out. Every day at 10 a.m., Mahan would take the coachman to Yaxian Ju on time to come to the station and leave at 4 p.m. In case of a temporary car, you can also ask the guy to call the foreign company at the corner of the street, and Mahan is on call. As for the days when he went to school, the carriage would always wait in the square outside the cloister so that it could be at his command.

When Gao Yi got out of the carriage, the proprietress greeted him from the house.

"Mr. Gao, come back, my belly is hungry, I need some snacks. The little wonton I made for me today, do you want to try it? ”

"There are small wontons, which must be eaten."

Forget about the rest, but the small wontons made by the proprietress herself are a must-eat. is different from the ones sold outside, the proprietress uses shrimp as a filling, plus the homemade crab paste oil when the crab is fat in September, the taste is so fresh that the eyebrows are about to fall off. Gao Yi felt very good after eating it once, so the proprietress would do it every once in a while.

Knowing that Gao Yi doesn't like chicken soup, the soup base is hung with beef tendons, oxtails, and cow stick bones, and only the translucent clear soup is left after skimming off the oil slick, and adding a few coriander leaves that southerners don't like to eat at this time. It's a pity that there is no Pingwang chili oil produced in Wujiang in this era, otherwise a little more spicy will be more suitable for Gao Yi's taste buds.

Gao Yi now rents a total of three rooms, in addition to the original pavilion room, he also chartered two back three-story pavilions, adding up to a total of six beds, accounting for 40% of the total 15 beds in Yaxian Ju. What's more, he paid for the meals of six people alone, and he often didn't eat lunch in the store recently, so it can be said that the proprietress has earned more money on him than all the other customers combined, so it is natural to need to be a big customer of him.

"Do you want to stay in the living room and eat, or do you want to eat in the room like the old way?"

"Let's bring it to the room and eat it." Seeing that the proprietress turned around and was about to go to Zhang Luo Xiao Wonton, Gao Yi hurriedly stopped her and said, "Boss, wait for a while, don't be busy going to the ravioli, please help me collect the pear paste candy in the morning, ah, take it?" ”

"Look at my memory, the important thing is to forget what I said, all the pear paste candy has been collected, a total of 200 catties, all piled up on the sundeck, I want to go up and see it now."

"That's good, let's go up and have a look first."

The proprietress walked in front of her, and said as she walked: "Mr. Gao, I went to collect pear paste candy today, and I heard someone talking about it, saying that the sugar recipe is not authentic enough." People make all the pears with the whole head, only the recipe uses the pear skin and the rotten pears that are peeled off, which is cheap but cheap, but it is effective to eat, so I don't know. Also, in a pear paste candy, you have to add fritillary, almonds, licorice, and banxia, and there is no ...... in the recipe."

She stopped, and seeing that Gao Yi behind her didn't react, she continued: "I think, Mr. Gao was deceived by someone and bought a fake recipe, and the things made by such a recipe are going to collapse the signboard." In addition, the pear paste candy business is very profitable, and I have never seen anyone make a fortune selling pear paste candy. I see, don't do this business, spend copper in vain, and it will be stiff if you can't sell it in Chenguang. ”

Gao Yi secretly laughed at the euphemism that the proprietress said, but did not directly say that he was making fake medicine, and when he saw that she persuaded seriously, he responded: "The proprietress can rest assured, I know it in my heart." My method of making pear paste candy is different from others, these recovered pear paste candy are just embryos, and I have to add things to the inside. ”

The reason why Gao Yi chose to play with candy in the first class today is because he has been making pear paste candy for a month, studying how to reduce manufacturing costs.

At first, his plan was very simple, he was going to buy the finished pear paste candy directly from the market, melt it, add it to Nakodine, and then sell it. At this time, a piece of one or two pieces of pear paste candy is only one copper dollar, divided into five parts, each ten grams is sold for a copper dollar, the cost of pear paste candy is one copper dollar, and the total amount of manpower and fire consumption is one copper dollar, which can make a net profit of 300%. However, when he bought it back, a piece of pear paste candy was only about 30 grams, and then he remembered that it was now the era of 16 taels of 1 catty - this point he often forgot - 10 grams per serving, only 3 copies could be made, and the net profit suddenly dropped to one-third of the original, and the business could not be done. And reduce each serving of pear paste candy to six grams, and only half a good piece of candy remains, which looks stingy and has a poor appearance, and it is likely that it will not be sold even if it is made.

Gao Yi had given up this business for a while, because according to ten grams of a piece of sugar, it would take a total of 10,000 catties of pear paste candy to make the ten catties of Nakeding on hand. If he didn't buy it from the market, but let him start by boiling pear paste candy alone, then he wouldn't have to do anything else for the rest of his life.

If you recruit someone to open a factory to make pear paste candy, he will have ten catties of Na Keding in his hand, and he will run out, what will the factory do at that time? It was impossible for him to go back to his old business in order to continue producing pear paste candy, and then throw away the main product, leaving only the by-product Nacodin.

What's more, he is not short of money now, life is not a problem at all, not to mention, there are even some small luxuries. To be honest, he can now have an income of 5,000 yuan in two years of honesty, and another 5,000 yuan will still be very attractive to him, but the premise is that he can earn it easily, and even if 10,000 catties of pear paste candy can be made, it is very problematic whether it can be sold out within two years.

The most important thing is that with the experimental equipment, the bottlenecks that hinder him from moving to the next step have disappeared, so all his energy needs to be focused on preparing for the next step of development, except for the short-term projects that can make money immediately. It is completely worth the cost to expend a lot of energy just for the sake of a total income of 5,000 dollars, without the cost of it.

However, just when he was about to give up, he found that in the alley opposite Yaxianju, there were many mothers-in-law and aunts who cooked and cooked, and they didn't seem to object to spending some physical strength to earn a few copper dollars in their spare time. So, Gao Yi tried to outsource the work of boiling pear paste candy to them. The results were unexpectedly good, because they were kitchen workers, and although the steps of boiling the sugar juice were a little more cumbersome and the amount was a little larger, it was not beyond their ability. Moreover, they also bring their own production tools such as pots and stoves, which virtually saves a lot of equipment costs.

So Gao Yi restarted the project again, and he gave himself a month to change the production recipe of pear paste candy to save as much cost as possible. Because his product relied on Nakodine to suppress cough, cough medicines such as Chuanbei and licorice were all unnecessary, so they were eliminated in the first place.

In order to further reduce costs, Gao Yi hit the idea on the pear peel again.

The fruit vendors of this era, just like Brother Yun in the Golden Bottle, need to carry fruits to various teahouses, study houses, and halls to provide door-to-door services to do business, and they not only sell fruits, but also be responsible for peeling, which is what Du Yuesheng did before he made a career.

Therefore, in this Tangzi alley opposite Yaxianju, there are many peddlers who peel pears, and the aunts who are easy to mobilize in the hall can be said to have brought their own pear peels to supply.

With such a combination of punches, the cost of pear paste candy has been reduced to less than half of Gao Yi's original plan. Like today, two hundred catties of pear paste candy only need to pay eight oceans, and according to one ocean to one hundred and fourteen copper dollars, the cost of one copper dollar can be exchanged for eleven 10 grams of pear paste candy. That is to say, after removing the manpower and fire costs required for further processing, the investment of one copper dollar can be exchanged for eight copper dollars, and the net profit is 800%, and the business is completely over. What's more, this mode doesn't consume much time.