No Spring Festival holiday in 2022

  Early in the morning at 7:40, Pang Hua sent a cautious message: What time does the mall usually open?

  Chen Haotian heard the message tone, opened his eyes, and stretched out his hand from the edge of the cold quilt - how come he didn't realize it before, it's so cold during the Spring Festival?!

  It doesn't open until 10 o'clock, you eat Tangyuan first.

  I've already eaten.

  I haven't eaten yet!

  Got up with a sigh, looked at the thermometer, 4 degrees! Oh my god, what a cold Spring Festival! What a cold room!

  Aim the heater at the bathroom door, so as not to shiver while brushing teeth. Oh, and fortunately, I remembered to boil an extra bottle of water last night, otherwise, washing my face with cold water would be extremely unpleasant.

  Oat milk and jam toast, after a simple breakfast, she took another look at her phone, and Peng Hua obediently didn't send any more texts.

  It's already past 8:30. After applying some sunscreen and pearl cream, she made the call:

  "Get ready to leave."

  "Now?"

  "Right."

  "Alright! Let's meet at the subway station near the north gate of our community!"

  "...then I knew this guy probably woke up frozen around 4 or 5 o'clock, just like the coldest night of her previous year"

  I remember that morning's lowest temperature was minus 5 or 6 degrees. Without double-glazed windows and heating/air conditioning, life was really tough...

  Long hooded down jacket, furry high-top down boots, and a good warm face mask with the collar of the down jacket standing up.

  Pang Hua was already waiting in the warm subway station with a good spirit. She seriously suspected that when she called him, he had already run over.

  "Let's go and take a look at the opening place first."

  "Good!"

  They went to a relatively far away chain store that didn't require transferring subway lines, and finally found a small heater for Pang Hua. Fortunately, they also found an air conditioner brand that could be installed within two days.

  Pang Hua's small wall-mounted air conditioner has been used for more than six years, and it's not worth repairing, so Chen Huai Cheng simply bought a new one: this way, both winter and summer are solved.

  However, their way of paying separately made the cashier look at them a few more times: So they weren't a couple after all!

  On New Year's Day, lunch was bought from a store at the subway station; dinner was cooked by Chen Huai-sheng.

  At the beginning of the year, Pang Hua bought fruits, cooked dishes, and semi-finished vegetables very honestly. Then he studied how to use an electric rice cooker to cook rice and make tomato scrambled eggs, potato diced chicken, steamed eggs, and celery fish soup - no labor, no food!

  On the third day of the new year, start working hard. Because this year's Spring Festival is late, Pang Hua will become a student again in a few weeks. If not now, when else?

  "I feel like there have been fewer packages coming out lately."

  "Uh, I've been busy with the boss on a bankruptcy case recently. No more promotion for now. But the profit hasn't decreased much." Chen Huaicheng was busy all day, making two batches of high-end handmade cold process soap. "Now I only make three-digit numbers or above, just four formulas, plus handmade cold process soap - you also stopped making the fourth formula that had a serious oxidation problem last time you tested it."

  "Oh." Pang Hua was very pleased, his professional level was reflected.

  "So I need at least two new formulas. Chen Huacheng took out two pieces of paper. 'Test, try to spend as little money as possible. Your task this year is to get another patent or a tested formula. You can find several people to cooperate on the patent, but it's best not to find a tutor, the price they charge is too high, I can't afford it.'"

  。”

  "......" Forget it.

  "Right, the cream on your front shelf should be ready."

  "New formula? That's it?" Pang Hua washed his hands and lightly touched them, not a thick cream, but something like butter that sank in with just one touch.

  "Apply to the mirror, apply it to the concave area. It's best not to touch normal skin. After applying, wash your hands. Two hours later, wash your face and then apply sunscreen before going out."

  "......Alright!" This guy is determined to thoroughly cure his face! Hehe......even his mom has given up on him...

  Pang Hua's acne went from the earliest full-face whiteheads to the most severe 30-40 large and small closed red pimples. After she personally took care of it, it took several years for all the acne to come out, and then combined with external and internal treatments, the number was reduced by more than half. Now the acne has indeed decreased, and closed comedones have almost disappeared, only occasionally breaking out a few, which can be directly treated with a few dots of acne gel.

  The most serious thing now is the pockmarks and blue marks left by acne in the past. The dermal layer of the skin will definitely be very difficult to recover slowly on its own. Without a strong external force, it's estimated that he won't have smooth skin for his whole life.

  "Starting tomorrow, you come try the laser and microneedle." Chen Huan finally made up her mind. The club had placed a large order before New Year's, buying out all of her high-end handmade soap stock to use as gifts, because this type of soap takes a long time to make, so the store would be out of stock for several months. She also had to write an apology statement. At the time, she was torn for half a day, but still decided to "return" this profit to the club - humph, in the end, Pang Hua would definitely have to foot the bill himself.

  For the next two weeks, the club only had a good business with maintenance makeup. Everything else was very light. Chen Hua Sheng also took advantage of this gap to use laser fruit acid EGF alternately, and severely made Pang Hua unable to go out and see people, and could only stay indoors to work. Oh, by the way, take photos for documentation.

  It's unrealistic for things to improve significantly in just two weeks. Even with today's prices, combined with super-low costs, it would take two or three years and a five-figure price tag.

  But just a month later, Pang Hua excitedly showed her two large-sized student ID photos:

  One was taken when I entered university, the photo is an unprocessed colour photo, the colours are still quite good, so good that even Chen Huasheng, who has seen a lot and knows a lot, finds it disgusting.

  Another photo is of the doctoral student reading his student ID card. Chen Huan usually takes care of him, telling him to apply moisturizer first and then sunscreen, and when he needs to show his face, he applies some pearl cream with concealer effect - this low-oil acne-controlling pearl cream is also a product that sells quite well in her store.

  。

  This photo is quite close to her high school face, but looking carefully can still see the difference.

  "It's quite effective. It's worth it for me to exchange a thousand yuan of handmade soap for it."

  "...... Ah, I thought it was provided for free by the club...... It's so expensive?! He knew the price of that big soap. Over a thousand yuan...... His annual rent was about the same!"

  "It's also free. For these soaps, I only charge for the cost, and the labor, depreciation, and profit are all given to the club."

  "It's still quite expensive......" That would be several thousand too!

  "So you'd better get down to work seriously!"

  “……”

  So, until two months later when the first project started, almost all of Pang Hua's time was spent in the workshop "paying off debts".

  After graduation, it's another kind of "repayment" with higher added value.

  ***

  The DIY of maintenance products is becoming more and more popular, and the number of stores selling raw materials, semi-finished products and finished products is also increasing. The competition has increased, but at the same time, the cake has been enlarged, which can be said to be a win-win development trend.

  Some shop owners have started to find Chen Huai's studio for processing or testing formulas. As long as it can be done, she will not refuse anyone, and then throw them all to Pang Hua to do. The online store owners who are starting to get big and worried about taxes are also "surprised" to find that she can develop invoices, although the name of the invoice is a bit unclear, processing has become technical service, but as long as it's not a fake invoice, tax authorities will recognize it.

  Chen Haotian likes to visit other people's stores, whether it's the formula, packaging, or even the taste - she lets Pang Hua register as a user, but she uses it, pays for it, buys other people's products, tries them out, tests them, and analyzes them, so she has also added two domestic suppliers and one French supplier.

  The trading company that had cooperated with her at the beginning was still her import agent and wholesale supplier, responsible for her orders. Although she had been promoted to business manager, every autumn she would look forward to her hand cream and handmade soap products.

  She misses the old times.

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