Transmigrating with a Five Million Dollar Retirement Life

Chapter 128 The Peach Blossoms in Full Bloom

"Alright, then I'll call you Wen Di (Sound Science Brother)."

Liu Xuewen: ...Something just feels off.

Mu Qing led everyone to make all the remaining milk tea and double-skin milk pudding, making quite a few of various flavors, which filled two large tables.

"The best-selling items during my half-day break are red bean milk tea and pearl milk tea."

Mu Qing pointed to two best-selling food items and said.

"Have a taste," Liu Xuewen said, fanning himself, and only then did the people begin to move.

When Song Jiaojiao saw the orange and red glutinous rice balls in front of her, it seemed that she had thought carefully about what she had told Mu Qing before she left last time, and had even come up with something new.

After drinking the milk tea, everyone exclaimed how delicious it was, no wonder Half-Day Leisure is so popular.

After that, Song Jiaojiao handed these people over to the people in the shop. Over time, they had learned how to make it, and today she mainly taught them how to make the dipping sauce.

Song Jiaojiao then went to Huichuntang with Liu Xuewen and Mu Qing.

Liu Xuewen wanted to stay in the shop to see how those things were made, but Song Jiaojiao pulled him out.

"Sister Song, where are we going?" Liu Xuewen asked, puzzled.

"Of course, I'll go to those newly opened beverage shops to drink milk tea."

"Huh? We have our own food at home, why do we need to spend money to drink at someone else's place?" Liu Xuewen was so surprised by Song Jiaojiao's words that he blurted out the question before he could even process what she was saying.

"Mom, do you want to try their milk tea and see the difference between it and ours?" Mu Qing asked, remembering something.

Song Jiaojiao gave Mu Qing an approving look and said, "That's right. As the saying goes, 'Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will win every battle.' We also need to see how these milk tea shops make and how they differ from ours."

Liu Xuewen then realized that the stupid question he had just asked made his ears burn. He thought to himself that after running the shop for so many years, he was still not as quick-witted as a young girl.

Soon, the two arrived at the milk tea shop across the street, and Song Jiaojiao asked Liu Xuewen to queue up to buy some.

Liu Xuewen pointed to himself in disbelief, his eyes wide, and said, "Let me go?" He, a prince of equal stature, had never needed to queue up himself to buy anything.

“Of course, we’re known by countless people in the county. What if they deliberately misplace the food so we can’t taste it? Wouldn’t that be a waste of our time here? You’re different. Few people have met you, and nobody knows you’re the owner of Half-Day Leisure. It’s perfect for you.” Song Jiaojiao said matter-of-factly.

Liu Xuewen looked at Song Jiaojiao and then at Mu Qing. It seemed that only he was suitable. At this moment, he regretted not bringing the servant out with him, but instead letting him learn something during his half-day of leisure.

Having no other choice, he had to obediently wait in line. Logically, the number of people should have decreased at this time, but Banrixian suddenly closed down, causing many customers who wanted to drink milk tea to miss out. They had no choice but to come to this newly opened shop to try the taste.

Liu Xuewen waited in line for 15 minutes before it was his turn, and he ordered all the drinks in the store at once.

"This milk tea isn't rich enough, it doesn't have enough milk flavor, I wonder how much water they added," Mu Xue said after taking a sip of her milk tea.

“My niece is right. Not only is the milk flavor insufficient, but the red beans are also hard and not soft and glutinous at all,” Liu Xuewen agreed, taking only one sip and then not touching it again.

"The glutinous rice balls are pretty much the same," Song Jiaojiao said, looking at the milk tea with small glutinous rice balls in her hand.

"That's the simplest topping; any woman could make it. If they can't even make this, this shop would go out of business in three days," Liu Xuewen said dismissively, looking at the milk tea in front of him. Only then did he realize what it meant to be hurtful without comparison.

"These are the only kinds of milk tea? No double-skin milk tea?" Song Jiaojiao asked in confusion.

"Come on, Sister Song, double-skin milk pudding is something they can't replicate. But there's one snack that I can tell is steamed egg custard the moment I see it. The color is so clear, it's made with milk and eggs. You can smell the fishy smell from far away. Just you wait and see, there won't be many people at their house tomorrow." Liu Xuewen thought about the steamed egg custard someone had just brought past him. Only those who had never tried double-skin milk pudding could accept it; anyone who had tasted it couldn't stand it.

"Alright, let's go to the next one." Song Jiaojiao was somewhat speechless; it seemed they still had too high expectations of them.

The group tried all the beverage shops in the county and were so full they could barely walk. They then went to Huichuntang to rest.

"The beverage shop called Tao Zhi Zhuo Zhuo across from Hui Chun Tang is the most similar. Not only does the milk tea taste very similar, but even the double-skin milk is almost identical," Song Jiaojiao said, slumped in her chair.

"Mother, their double-skin milk pudding is a bit strange; it doesn't seem to be made the way we do it." Mu Qing felt that something was amiss.

"Because he doesn't have a milk skin! It's probably just steamed egg custard with the yolk removed," Song Jiaojiao chuckled, pointing out the key point.

Mu Qing suddenly realized, "Oh right, no wonder something felt off."

"But the owner of Tao Zhi Zhuo Zhuo is quite talented to think of this. I wonder if we can poach him." Liu Xuewen wanted to keep him for himself. Just by tasting, he could almost replicate the food. This person definitely has a talent for food.

"It's their signature dish, you can't just poach it so easily. It's okay, competition brings pressure. Otherwise, if we're the only ones standing out, we'll be eliminated sooner or later," Song Jiaojiao replied with a smile. After tasting it today, Song Jiaojiao wasn't worried about being copied at all. They could handle the simple things, but they were completely helpless with the more complicated ones. Of these stores, only one had copied Ban Ri Xian Li's dishes almost perfectly, but none of them had copied the mochi. They did have it with ice, but that was charged separately, unlike Ban Ri Xian Li where it was free.

"Brother Xuewen, there's something I need to discuss with you."

When Liu Xuewen saw Song Jiaojiao's worthless smile, his heart skipped a beat, and he had a feeling that something was wrong.

"Wha...what is it?"

"I've developed a new product. You see, you're a boss who only has some free time, could you provide the raw materials for free?" Song Jiaojiao said this with an even more fawning smile.

"Sister Song, get to the point. Don't laugh, it's making my heart pound."

Song Jiaojiao put away her smile and said seriously, "Boss Liu, we agreed that you would provide the funds and manpower, and we would provide the recipe. Later, I need to make a new drink called sour plum soup, which requires a lot of medicinal herbs."

"Do you need medicinal herbs to make drinks?" Liu Xuewen suddenly thought of something. "It's not like those medicinal herbs you got from Huichuntang last time, is it?!"

"How did you know?" Song Jiaojiao stared intently at Liu Xuewen, her face serious.

Liu Xuewen's heart skipped a beat; oh no, he'd let something slip.

He replied guiltily, "Well... I'm the owner of Huichuntang, so of course I know."

"Have you tried it?"

"Hehe... I have tried it, but can Sister Song's stuff really be made into a drink?" Liu Xuewen thought about the bitter and strange taste he had last time and seriously doubted it.