Chapter 172 Come Prepared

When I asked the driver who pulled the cart, there was no chemical store in the city, and they all shook their heads. These days, chemicals are definitely a high-level thing, and most people have never heard of it. Finally, a driver said: "Sir, I remember that there were A shop, opened by foreigners, seems to be selling the things you mentioned, but it’s in the east of the city, and it’s a long way to go.”

"I'll give you enough money for the car." Jiang Hao said and got on the rickshaw.

The rickshaw ran quickly, crossing the streets and alleys for half the city, and finally came to the door of a store called "George Chemical Store".

Looking at the name, Bacheng was opened by a foreigner.

Walking into the store, the store was deserted, there were no customers at all, only a guy was dozing off on the counter, Jiang Hao walked over to the table quietly, the guy woke up, looked at Jiang Hao and said quickly: "This gentleman, want some what."

Jiang Hao said a lot of chemical terms. Some guys know it, some feel plausible, and some have never heard of it. The guy said with a sullen face, "I'm sorry, sir, I've only been here for three months, and some things are not very good. Clear, or I will ask my boss."

"Okay, tell your boss, this is a long-term business, and I just happened to talk to your boss in person." Jiang Hao said.

The guy ran upstairs and came down with a brown-haired, blue-eyed foreigner not long after. This guy looked in his thirties, but the foreigner's head was wearing a Chinese-style long gown, looking nondescript. After seeing Jiang Hao, he used a very lame look. He said in Chinese, "Muhao, what do you want?"

Jiang Hao almost didn't laugh and said in English, "We can communicate in English."

As soon as the foreigner heard that the man opposite could speak English, he immediately smiled and said in English, "I'm American, my name is George, George Lee, oh, your English is really standard, have you ever been to study in the United States?"

"No, I taught myself." Jiang Hao said.

"God, you are a genius. I have been learning Chinese by myself for more than a year, but I can only understand part of the everyday language."

The two chatted for a while, and George asked, "By the way, what do you want, please say it again. My buddy doesn't know much about chemistry. You know, there is almost no chemistry in China."

Jiang Hao said again what he wanted to buy. George was much better than that guy, and quickly gave a reply, some yes, some not. Jiang Hao looked at the chemical list and considered it, and finally chose some.

With these things, Jiang Hao can make several kinds of liquor additives that he needs, which is enough to make his own wine fragrant and delicious.

I wrote a list, the guy went to prepare things, George took Jiang Hao to sit down and continued to chat, probably because no one spoke his native language with him for a long time, which made this guy have a great desire to communicate, so he kept talking. Absolutely said.

"You know, I used to run a chemical store in the United States, but then the economic crisis, the demand for industrial products fell sharply, and my store was losing money every day, which made me sad."

financial crisis?

Oh, the Great Depression in America.

Jiang Hao remembered.

"Later my cousin Baker wrote to me saying that he was in China, China is an uncultivated virgin land, and there are plenty of opportunities here. By the way, my cousin is Professor Rohato's secretary, Rohato The professor is an economist, and your chairman's "constant" economic adviser."

Hearing that name, Jiang Hao's heart skipped a beat unconsciously.

"With this kind of relationship, I think there should be a lot to do, so I said goodbye to my wife, Susannah, and came here with all my belongings. I spent 24 days on the ship. You know, the days of drifting at sea are not easy."

"But after I came, I found out that this place has not been cultivated, but it is too desolate, so desolate that very few people use chemicals, they only need the most common ones, such as acid and alkali, other No one cares about it at all, and a lot of my stuff is piling up there."

"Look here, there is often no customer coming in for a day. At first I wanted to open the store in Shanghai or Nandu, but my cousin disagreed. He said it was not safe there. It's better to open in an inland city. That's why I came to Rongcheng."

"But the business here is really not good, it makes me very leisurely, I have learned to drink tea and listen to music." Speaking of this, he approached Jiang Hao and said, "Later I saw a beautiful lady who sang opera. , I want her to be my girlfriend, you know, and later she took the initiative to tell me to be my concubine."

After speaking, he raised his eyebrows at Jiang Hao, "Chinese women are very gentle and good at serving others. I feel like I can't live without her."

"What about your wife Susanna?" Jiang Hao asked.

George shrugged, "You know, it's lonely outside alone, I love Susannah, but I'm lonely too, I don't think it's betrayal, you're a man, what do you think."

Jiang Hao's ass was not clean, he nodded and said, "I think it shouldn't be counted."

George smiled and clapped his hands, "Man, I think we can be friends."

Men's topics talk about women, as long as they are not rivals in love, it becomes easy to communicate.

"By the way, Jiang, the guy said that you want to cooperate for a long time. That's great. I can give you a discount. Now it's 5% off. The more you use it, the bigger the discount."

Jiang Hao smiled, "That's great George."

The guy has prepared the things. There are more than a dozen kinds of raw materials, many of which are packaged in glass bottles, and a bunch of beakers and reagent bottles, etc. These are tools for making additives, and they are wrapped with straw mats and made very fine.

"George, I'm going to go to other places to buy some gifts for my wife. I'll put them here and take them away when I come back from shopping." Jiang Hao said.

"no problem."

Jiang Hao said goodbye to George and took a car to Chunxi Road. Chunxi Road was named in 1924. It is known as a century-old golden street. It is the most prosperous street in Rongcheng. There are everywhere. Walking on this street, its prosperous feeling is comparable to that of later pedestrian streets.

clang clang clang!

A sound came from a distance, and Jiang Hao saw a tram coming. Because it made a clanging sound from time to time, the locals called him Dangdang.

Walking into a shopping mall, the spaciousness is not inferior to that of later generations. Jiang Hao turned around and stopped in the jewelry area. He found that the things here are very expensive, not to mention those jade jewelry, even a piece of gold jewelry is worth It's expensive, and he can't afford it now.

Coming to the cosmetics area, the cosmetics are now very complete, vanishing cream, talcum powder, shampoo, perfume, lipstick, Jiang Hao stopped at the lipstick counter, picked up a few and looked at them, and found that they were all foreign brands.

"Sir, do you want to buy a lipstick for your wife? This is the American "Dan Qi", the latest rotating design, when applied to the mouth, it can definitely double the beauty of a woman. Look at my lips. Lipstick." The waitress pouted slightly as she spoke.

"How much is this?" Jiang Hao asked.

"Five oceans." The waitress said lightly.

My darling, just such a lipstick costs 5 yuan, do you know how much food can be bought for five yuan, do you know if five yuan is enough for a family to live for half a month, five yuan, I can make it for you Do you come out in a basket?

Jiang Hao can do this by himself.

Making lipsticks is not complicated. It can be said that it is very simple. There are many videos of making lipsticks by yourself on the Internet. There are hundreds of various formulas, and they are sold directly in Prestige for a few dollars.

"Okay, give me one." Jiang Hao took out 5 silver dollars and gave it to the waiter.

Back at the chemical store, Jiang Hao asked if George was there. The guy said that he took his concubine to listen to the music, and he lived a more dashing life than himself, a transmigrator.

Thinking of the lipstick in his hand, Jiang Hao walked around the store and bought a few more things. Then he called a driver and took his things to the inn.

The next day, Jiang Hao got up in the morning, hired a car, and took everything back to the county seat. Once he got home, Jiang Hao vacated the east wing and turned it into a laboratory, although the laboratory seemed too large. Simple, only a few flasks of reagent bottles and two stoves.

But simple does not mean simple, the career starts from here.

At this moment, a black and sturdy guy knocked on Jiang Hao's door, opened the door and saw the person who came, with two packets of snacks in his hand, Jiang Hao asked with a smile, "Chef Fang, I don't run your restaurant. , how did you come to me?"

The person who came was Fang Dazheng, the owner of the small restaurant that Jiang Hao brought Jiu'er to dinner the day before yesterday.

Boss Fang smiled and said, "Boss Yu, I'm here to learn art from a teacher."

Since he ate boiled fish yesterday, Fang Dazheng has been obsessed with it. He felt that if he mastered that dish, his business would definitely be popular, so he started to learn the art.

I was thinking about it for a day yesterday, and finally came to my door today.

"Xueyi, yes, but how do we settle the account?" Jiang Hao asked.

Fang Dazheng also knew that learning art is not so simple, and said, "I prepared a gift of 30 yuan, and I just want to learn Boss Yu's boiled fish. Can you think of it?" Then he put a money bag on the table superior.

30 dollars is a lot.

Jiang Hao immediately wrote down the recipe and cooking details of the boiled fish, and gave it to Fang Dazheng. He exchanged 30 yuan for a piece of paper, and he didn't know that he lost money.

Just when Fang Dazheng was about to leave, Jiang Hao said, "By the way, I will also cook quite a few other dishes that don't taste as good as boiled fish, such as pickled fish or something."

Fang Dazheng almost fell.

After Fang Dazheng left, Jiang Hao started to tinker with alcohol additives based on his memory. Although he failed twice, he finally succeeded.

Jiu'er has also come to see it, but she doesn't understand what the man is doing, but she knows that the man must be doing something big. She has no culture and can't help him, so she will serve him well.

The food is delicious and drinkable every day, and it is almost impossible to feed it directly. At night, I take a bath and wash my feet. The one who serves is dedicated. It is estimated that this kind of treatment can be enjoyed in ancient times.

A week later, all the additives Jiang Hao wanted were finally made. Looking at the reagent bottles, Jiang Hao laughed and thanked his high school teacher again.