Hu Qiongfang didn't expect that the land in Xinjie would come in handy so soon.

When they bought the land, they were thinking of taking advantage of the fact that individuals could hoard land and buy more residential land. In the future, when the new road was built, even if they did not do business themselves, they could build storefronts and rent them out to others, and it would be nice to collect the rent every year to support their retirement.

I never expected that Shuangfeng Town, oh no, to be precise, it should be my future in-laws, Mayor Han, would have such great abilities.

The money from selling land in the town was still not enough to build the new road. Han Sishu used some unknown connection to get the Highway Administration, which was responsible for the road construction, to agree to include this branch road in the construction scope of Provincial Highway 336.

In this way, Shuangfeng Town pays the bulk of the cost, and the Highway Bureau subsidizes the rest. Taking advantage of the Highway Bureau's ongoing road construction, the new road is built at the same time.

As soon as the construction of this road started, Jiang Tian asked Han Jisong about it, and immediately urged his family to start construction along with the highway and build houses on both sides of the road.

They have to build houses. There are a lot of laid-off people who set up stalls. Although the residential land on both sides of the road are bought by them, if they don’t build houses, these residential lands will be seen as unwanted vacant land by others.

By then, they will all come to set up stalls, and when they want to build a house, they will have to persuade these people to leave, which will be very troublesome.

Jiang Tian’s premonition was still very accurate.

In order to build houses, the residential land in Xinjie was dug up in a mess. After the night market street opposite the Foreign Languages ​​University was demolished, the stall owners had no place to do business, so they all ran to the old street.

I heard that in order to grab the territory, the stall owners quarreled with the original residents of the old street every day, making the old street a mess.

After the stall owners on the old street had settled down, the new street also opened.

In addition to the Xinjiekou branch of Fangjie fast food restaurant, there is also a direct-operated store of Grandma Hu’s Zongzi Factory on the Xinjie side, and my second aunt also opened a large clothing store here.

My uncle and his wife are too busy with the project now, so they asked my cousin Hu Changqun to open a tobacco, alcohol and tea store here.

Hu Qiongfang's sister Wang Chunjuan and her husband also rented a storefront in Xinjie and opened a grain and oil store.

Wang Chunjuan and his wife have now transferred the breakfast shop to someone else. With the help of Hu Qiongfang, an old and close sister, Wang Chunjuan has switched to the grain and oil business. Every year, she earns dozens of times more from supplying fast food restaurants and hotels than from selling breakfast.

Jiang Tian also hired two more people and opened a hardware store in Xinjie, which can be regarded as a "must-have industry" for their family.

Whether it is my eldest uncle's clothing factory, the projects under my second uncle, or their own restaurant, in this era that advocates frugality and repairs everything that breaks, hardware stores may look inconspicuous, but their profits are much greater than those of ordinary restaurants.

There was a shop next to my second uncle's clothing store. My second aunt didn't have time to take care of it and originally wanted to rent it out. Jiang Tian rented the shop and opened the first milk tea shop in Shuangfeng Town.

In this era, you couldn’t purchase the “technology and hard work” used to make milk tea in later generations. If you wanted to make milk tea, no matter it was taro balls, pearls, or grass jelly, it had to be made by hand.

There are no ranches locally, so fresh milk is hard to buy, and ordering milk to make milk tea is too extravagant. Jiang Tian had no choice but to ask Han Jisong for help. When he went to Inner Mongolia to purchase fresh beef and mutton, he also brought back a lot of local milk powder for her.

It’s a pity that coconut flakes are hard to buy, but people nowadays haven’t tried the various kinds of milk tea that appeared in later generations. Simple pearl milk tea, taro ball grass jelly milk tea, silk stocking milk tea, etc. are enough to support a milk tea shop.

Moreover, although there was no coconut fruit, Han Jisong heard that she wanted to experiment with making some "fruit tea", so he asked someone to bring her a lot of jam made by local people from the new province.

Apricot jam, cherry jam, strawberry jam, fig jam, these are all rare delicacies in the inland.

I just picked up a picture and the various jams in Xinjiang are really delicious, especially this apricot jam, which is perfect with toast!

It’s not that they don’t have apricots and cherries here, but the sweetness of these fruits in New Brunswick is generally much higher than that in their hometown. The jam made from them is soft and sweet, and is especially suitable for making various flavored fruit teas.

In addition, Jiang Tian asked Grandpa He to help her make local fermented glutinous rice, so she could make fermented glutinous rice milk tea.

There is also the local specialty, sugared osmanthus, which can also be used to make osmanthus-flavored milk tea.

Rice wine, osmanthus and glutinous rice balls milk tea, an autumn limited edition delicacy.

With these raw materials, her milk tea shop can finally open!

Locals don’t even want to drink milk tea because there are no large ranches or farms in the province, and many people have never even had fresh milk since they were young.

Not to mention fresh milk, now only some well-off families are willing to buy milk powder for their children who have just been weaned.

In most families, children start drinking rice porridge and soy milk after they are weaned. Some families that are more extravagant will buy a can of malted milk for their children.

Milk? That stuff is so expensive. They didn't drink milk when they were young, but they grew up healthy, didn't they?

When Jiang Tian first said she wanted to open a "milk tea shop" in Xinjie, no one in the family was optimistic.

However, Hu Qiongfang has always loved this daughter the most. She always felt that it was because she was too confused back then that her eldest daughter followed her and suffered a lot in the Jiang family.

Now that their life has finally gotten better and the family is not short of money, her daughter hasn't done anything bad that would anger God or anyone, so what's wrong with her wanting to sell milk tea?

If she really can't sell them, she can buy all the milk tea from her daughter's shop, take them to the hotel as gifts, and give them to the guests in the private rooms, right?

Anyway, there is usually some free tea in the private room, and now it has been changed to milk tea, so the customers are getting a good deal.

Milk is so expensive~

However, several cousins ​​and classmates of Jiang Tian all like this milk tea very much.

Especially now that the weather is cold, holding a big cup of hot milk tea in your hands can warm your hands and can also be drunk as tea. If this milk tea wasn't too expensive, they would really like to have a cup for themselves every day.

Two days later, with a burst of crackling firecrackers, Jiang Tian’s "Tian Mi Mi" milk tea shop officially opened!

The first people to discover this milk tea shop were the young girls who were buying clothes in the clothing store next door.

Girls of this age have just started working and do not need to support a family or children. All the salary they earn, except for paying some living expenses for their family, the rest is theirs. This is the time when they are most willing to spend money on themselves.

Smelling the mellow and sweet milk tea, listening to the loud speaker next door shouting "Grand opening sale, buy one get one free", and then asking the price, it turns out that I can afford it.

And with a buy one get one free deal, they can easily share the cost of a cup of milk tea.

If you don’t take advantage of a bargain that’s right at your doorstep, you won’t be able to sleep at night, okay?

Just like that, after the first pair of good sisters came in and bought milk tea, soon more and more people lined up in front of the milk tea shop...