But in the Qin Family, convincing Qin Congwen and Zhao Rong to let Qin Huai spend 600,000 yuan on a year’s tuition is harder than getting Qin Luo admitted to the top universities.
With more than half a month left, Qin Huai felt it was time to find a moment to discuss this matter seriously with Zhao Rong.
This cafeteria can’t do without Luoluo...
’s handmade lemon tea!
During the remaining time, besides waiting for Grandma Ding to deliver the locust flower honey, Qin Huai was studying whether dried tangerine peel tea could be seasoned with salt and brown sugar.
The internet told him, yes.
The Qin Family ancestral traditions told him, no.
From their ancestors, making cold tea can only use rock sugar.
If you ask when this ancestral tradition started, Qin Huai can only say, probably from the day the Qin Family could afford rock sugar.
After browsing a few recipes online, Qin Huai kind of wanted to brew some tea.
Making cold tea is quick.
Dried tangerine peel tea is especially fast.
In just about 15-20 minutes, you can have a piping hot, bitter yet cooling, refreshing cold tea ready to serve.
Now Qin Huai had tea, dried tangerine peel, traditional brown sugar, and salt.
Qin Huai was getting excited.
"Luoluo, is mom home?" Qin Huai first made sure Zhao Rong wouldn’t suddenly appear in the cafeteria.
"Didn’t mom go home to sleep an hour ago? Of course, she’s at home." Qin Luo thought her brother was being silly again.
Qin Huai breathed a sigh of relief and started preparing the ingredients, putting them into the pot one by one, only a little salt was needed.
Seeing Qin Huai was about to brew tea again, Qin Luo didn’t say a word and just went to find lemons.
As she searched in the warehouse, she muttered: "Could Brother Yang have really been right, my brother wants mom to send me to that ridiculously expensive international school, but not enough money, so he’s making more cold tea to boost sales."
Fifteen minutes later, the dried tangerine peel tea was ready.
Qin Luo also counted the lemons in the warehouse, there were 8 boxes left, which should be enough.
Qin Huai ladled out a small bowl, blew on it, and took a sip.
Qin Huai fell silent.
Dang it, this dried tangerine peel tea was actually pretty good.
Uncle Luo has something, his taste is decent, and Qin Huai felt it was time to check Uncle Luo’s negative reviews of various shops to see if there were any hidden mysteries among them.
The reason the Qin Family’s cold tea doesn’t sell is because of the ancestral traditions being problematic.
Qin Huai suspected there was something wrong with his taste buds, so he took another sip, smacking his lips.
Oh my god, the taste is indeed pretty good.
Is this really the dried tangerine peel tea he grew up drinking?
Zheng Siyuan saw Qin Huai’s expressions were all over the place and couldn’t help but approach and ask with concern: "Are you feeling unwell?"
"Want some dried tangerine peel tea?" Qin Huai offered.
I admit that lately my dad’s hints about apprenticing under him have been quite annoying, but you don’t have to take it out on me.
He’ll be here soon, you can deal with him directly.
"I just learned a new recipe, and it tastes really good." Qin Huai said sincerely.
Zheng Siyuan thought for a moment and decided to trust Qin Huai once, and took a half bowl sip.
A sip down the throat.
Tastes good, another bowl please.
The two of them started gulping down the cold tea.
Qin Luo, coming out from the warehouse and seeing this scene: (д)ﾟﾟ
Oh heavens, her brother and Brother Zheng have lost it!
Grandma Ding’s arrival interrupted Qin Huai and Zheng Siyuan’s cold tea tasting session.
"Master Qin, Master Qin! I’ve brought the locust flower honey for you!" Grandma Ding shouted as she walked into the cafeteria, sweat glistening on her forehead, showing she hurried over as soon as she got it.
Qin Huai quickly went out to greet her.
Grandma Ding set the delivery box on the table, quickly unwrapped it, and took out two jars of locust flower honey to display them for Qin Huai.
"Absolutely pure and natural good honey! Only simply filtered, without any processing, I specifically instructed them, also brought half a bag of buns for my in-law, must be pure natural!"
"My in-law said there’s also wild honey over there, but it’s not locust flower honey, Master Qin, do you want it? If you do, I can go over and get it for you now." Grandma Ding’s expression suggested that at just a word from Qin Huai, her in-law could immediately fetch it for him.
"No need, no need. This is already very good." Qin Huai quickly said, gesturing the waiter to quickly serve Grandma Ding a bowl of ice-cold mung bean soup to cool off.
"Grandma Ding, please sit and rest, have a bowl of mung bean soup before you leave. I might not have time to keep you company, as I still haven’t finished with the kitchen work..."
"Master Qin, just go on with your work, don’t worry about me." Grandma Ding cheerfully sat down, waving her hand, indicating that Qin Huai should focus on his work.
For heavens and earth, making snacks is the most important.
Qin Huai held the two jars of honey and went into the kitchen to study the honey with Zheng Siyuan.
Compared to the multi-processed honey used before, these two jars of pure natural honey clearly had more impurities.
This also showed that Grandma Ding’s in-law was not misleading her, these two jars were indeed pure natural.
Qin Huai and Zheng Siyuan were ready.
From the moment Qin Huai realized the issue might be with the honey, he and Zheng Siyuan had been looking forward to getting the right honey to make locust flower buns that meet their standards.
"Should we wait for Uncle Zheng?" Qin Huai asked.
Zheng Da protested yesterday’s work stoppage, was late today, and was still on his way.
"No need." Zheng Siyuan said, as the honey had arrived, whether his dad came was no longer important, "My dad hasn’t made snacks for years, and once he does, he gets bored quickly, so he’ll definitely dawdle until the afternoon to make the locust flower buns, no need to wait for him."
With this decided, Qin Huai and Zheng Siyuan got to work.
Following the exact same procedure as before, the two had been doing it for two weeks and were very skilled by now.