books44 Chapter 303: Looking Shorter
Chapter 303: Looking Shorter
The brothers discussed their money-making plan with the director team, and after getting their support, they prepared to implement it early tomorrow morning.
Generally speaking, as long as the re-employment ideas of the brothers are feasible, the director team will not interfere too much and will provide help as much as possible.
So, after learning about their plans, Zhao Hao helped them find a coconut wholesaler on the way back. Shortly after arriving at the Fushan Town Hotel that evening, the Fushan Cafe also agreed to cooperate, and they could just call them when the show started recording tomorrow.
Fushan Coffee House is affiliated to Chengmai Fushan Coffee United Co., Ltd., a local specialty coffee shop in Nanhai. They decisively agreed to cooperate under such tight time constraints, of course not just to sell a few bags of coffee beans to the guys at a low wholesale price on the show. Compared with coffee shops, these "private" buyers have little purchasing power at all. Their main purpose is to promote local enterprises and increase their visibility.
Therefore, they requested that the production team go to their company tomorrow morning to film their production line and experience the corporate culture. However, given the limited time for filming the entire South China Sea segment, they could not waste the entire day in Chengmai, so after visiting the company, they could go their separate ways.
Brothers who need to learn how to make sea salt raw coconut latte can go directly to their Fushan Coffee headquarters to learn from the master, while others can go to coconut wholesalers to buy coconuts.
The brothers had no objection to this arrangement, so the next day after throwing darts as usual to get their living expenses, Yu Yu contacted the person in charge of Fushan Coffee Company and came to the company's door with a "huge sum" of 1654 yuan.
Yes, after two nights of accommodation, their balance did not decrease. The reason is that all the room charges for the South China Sea trip were actually paid directly by the program team, and their living expenses were not deducted. After all, the room rates on the South China Sea islands during the peak tourist season are not cheap. In order to make them enjoy a comfortable vacation-style trip on the island, and the fuel costs for the yacht are too high, the program team simply omitted the step of them paying the room charges.
Although there was no filming, the audience would understand when they saw that their living expenses had not been reduced.
The entrance to Fushan Coffee Company is built in the style of a small Western-style building in Southeast Asian island countries, reminiscent of a government building from the Republican era of the last century. The person who met them was a woman named Xiao. She said she had worked at Fushan Coffee for almost 20 years, having started right after graduating from university, but she didn't look at all like she was in her forties.
The seven people gave a lot of emotional value right from the start, praising the company's architectural style, the reputation of the Fushan coffee brand, and Teacher Xiao himself for being young and capable. They praised Teacher Xiao so much that he was so beaming that he was embarrassed to talk to her.
Amidst everyone's cheerful greetings, Su Xing made a joke at the right time.
"Teacher Xiao, you're obviously the backbone of our company. You can definitely make decisions directly on many things. To be honest, we came here today just to take some coffee beans for trial, to see how good our Fushan coffee is. Just a 1,000-800g of beans will do."
As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately made amends: "I'm sorry to say what's really on my mind. What I mean is that we all know that the best local coffee beans in the entire South China Sea are in Fushan, so I wanted to buy some coffee beans from you. It's just a small amount, and I'm very short of money."
He rubbed his fingers together in an international gesture.
Teacher Xiao didn't mind such a playful joke. She smiled and nodded, "That's fine, that's fine. Our company doesn't have much else, but we still have plenty of coffee beans. Let's go around first and see which kind of coffee beans you like. We can discuss it then."
"Look, Mr. Feng, our Sister Xiao is a straightforward person. Your fellow countrymen are all very good people."
Su Xing mentioned the pride of Nanhai, Chen Fusheng again. Chen Fusheng said nothing, but nodded to Teacher Xiao with a smile on his face. Then he made a gesture of invitation, asking Teacher Xiao, who had been hesitating on the edge for fear of blocking their camera, to come to the front.
Many employees of Fushan Coffee Company only learned this morning when they came to work that the Kuaifa program crew would come to their company to film. As a local brand in Nanhai, they rarely see any celebrity artists.
So when they passed through the office area under the guidance of Teacher Xiao, most of them pretended to work while secretly glancing at the brothers. Yu Yu had already noticed that several good employees had typed a string of garbled characters on the open documents and pretended to be serious in writing plans.
Seeing the brothers walking through the office area, they couldn't help whispering to each other, and most of them were sighing that they were thinner and more handsome in real life than what they saw in the video. Of course, some people said in disbelief that Zhang Yuan was actually so tall that they couldn't tell before.
The brothers who had not walked far heard the last slightly loud exclamation. Zhang Yuan immediately raised his head and chest with a look of pride, and he wanted to go back to the office area and walk like a model to let them see how long his legs were.
"...But as expected, she's shorter than Yu Yu. Zhang Yuan looks short, but Yu Yu is exactly as I imagined. She has a well-proportioned figure, is beautiful, and has a great temperament. She gives people the impression of being tall..."
You look short, how presumptuous.
The guys who were originally trying to hold back their laughter couldn't help but burst out laughing when they heard this. Zhang Yuan, who was originally like a proud peacock, immediately retracted his tail that had just been spread out. He looked at Yu Yu, who was pretending to touch his hair and muttering "Oh, I feel a little embarrassed by this compliment", with empty eyes, and snorted with contempt.
You're obviously secretly happy, yet you still say you're embarrassed? Why don't you seem to be dying of shame?
After Teacher Xiao took them on a tour of the office area, they arrived at the factory area in another building. The coffee beans weren't grown here, of course, but in a plantation in the suburbs. This area primarily processed the dried beans, turning them into instant coffee powder or freshly ground coffee, and bagged the roasted beans.
This was the first time for us to see the coffee bean processing process, so the whole visit was not boring. Afterwards, Teacher Xiao took them to the rest area and let them taste the flavors of several main beans they were selling.
Yu Yu and Chen Fusheng, who drink coffee frequently and have some knowledge about coffee beans, can distinguish the flavors of different types of coffee with different roasting degrees. But for others who drink coffee like a beverage and never consider the coffee beans and roasting degrees, after drinking several cups of coffee, they still cannot taste the so-called sweet fruity aftertaste or wine aroma.
So, when Yu Yu and Chen Fusheng, two sea salt and raw coconut latte baristas, began discussing with Teacher Xiao what kind of beans were more suitable for making latte, the other five brothers were still struggling with which beans corresponded to these cups.
"Is this the fruit flavored one?" Zhang Yuan placed a small pot of coffee in front of the fruit flavored beans.
"Doesn't this look like the chocolate one?" Wang Zhengliang objected immediately when he saw the dark chocolate flavor he had chosen was placed next to the fruit flavor. He passed another pot over and said, "This one is the fruit flavor, and this one is the chocolate."
Lu Hu was confused: "Is there something wrong with my sense of taste? This is not fruit or chocolate, this is the aroma of wine?"
"What are you talking about? These are only bitter and sour, where do the other flavors come from?" Wang Yuexin was even more confused.
"Is it possible that they didn't mess up the order when they gave it to us to drink, and just followed the original order, with one pot of coffee corresponding to a small plate of coffee beans?" Su Xing changed the order of the coffee pots again.
Yu Yu, who had dragged Chen Fusheng into this mess just to make it easier for him to mess around later, happily slacked off while his elder brother and Teacher Xiao were asking for advice, watching the others amusing themselves. He maliciously urged them, "Are you guys hitting a dead end? Let's try another approach. Actually, it's very simple to find the right coffee for each bean. Can't you just taste it by eating a bean?"
Su Xing looked at Yu Yu, his eyes clearly watching him talk nonsense. It was common sense that coffee beans and the liquid brewed from ground coffee beans tasted different. How could anyone possibly eat them raw...
"Gah...ah, ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh..." Land Rover spat the coffee beans that he had just thrown into his mouth as sweet beans onto the paper.
“? Hahahahaha!” Zhang Yuan, who watched Lu Hu take one, started laughing when he vomited it out immediately.
"Hu Zi, hahahaha." Su Xing was shocked.
Wang Zhengliang also felt that this kid was too honest. He handed Lu Hu a few more tissues, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. "How can you believe everything Xiaoyu says? He's obviously up to something."
"I don't know. I just proposed another way to solve the problem. Brother Liang, how could you frame me?" Yu Yu blinked innocently.
"So, what does this taste like?" Wang Yuexin passed the mineral water handed to her by Yu Yu, who had succeeded in his evil plan but kept his fame hidden, to Lu Hu, feeling a little curious and wanting to die.
"It's nothing but bitter, and you can't taste the flavor of coffee at all," Lu Hu said. "If you want to try it, you can try it. It's more acceptable than Shugan tea."
Chen Fusheng also noticed the commotion here. He turned around and saw Yu Yu, who was grinning like a fox who had done something bad, and Lu Hu, who was chugging mineral water. He laughed a little, "What are you doing?"
After they explained, Teacher Xiao also laughed. She said that they actually predicted the question she was going to give them. The order of the four pots of coffee on the table was indeed disrupted and the coffee beans did not match. As long as they could successfully match the four pots of coffee one by one, they could buy the coffee beans at a 20% discount on the original wholesale price.
When everyone heard this, they immediately poured two cups of coffee from each of the four pots and handed them to Chen Fusheng and Yu Yu, obviously giving them the right to choose.
"It's okay, don't be stressed, we're just short of money." Su Xing "comforted" the two.
If the two of them really had no idea how to distinguish the taste of coffee, then Su Xing's "comfort" at this time was indeed quite successful.
Yu Yu thought about it and directly numbered the four pots of coffee from left to right 1234, and then asked Chen Fusheng to give the corresponding numbers of the coffee beans from left to right after he finished drinking them, so as to prevent them from being disturbed by another person's order and having preconceived notions. After all, the taste of coffee itself is a very subtle thing.
Chen Fusheng nodded.
They both took a sip of their coffee, and after each sip they would think for a few seconds before writing down the numbers. Finally, they both showed the question board at the same time, and the order of 2314 was surprisingly consistent, so there should be no problem.
After drinking four small cups of coffee, Teacher Xiao also gave the correct answer, 2314, and got a % discount coupon.
By the way, the answer that the five people came up with after working so hard and whispering to each other was completely unrelated to the correct answer. I don’t know how they did it.