Chapter 31 The Tomatoes That Bear Fruit
Yan Le rubbed his cheeks tiredly and got off the bus, it was already half past eight in the evening.
Rubbing his hungry stomach, he glanced at the roadside stall with annoyance.
He came to Beijing three years ago to work in the center of the city and live on the edge of the city. The high rent and modest salary were enough for him to rent a small single room in an urban village on the outskirts of the city.
He was tired of being outside every day, eating glossy gutter food.
It's just that for people who squeeze an hour on the subway and an hour on the bus to go home, it is really an impossible luxury to buy vegetables and cook after work.
He walked for fifteen minutes on his aching legs and returned to his little room.
He dropped his briefcase and threw himself on the bed.
Suddenly, he saw a lush green patch across the bed.
A wall is freed up in a compact room to grow tomatoes. This vigorous tomato has become the warmest place in this humble room.
Yan Le couldn't help but grin and laughed happily.
He got up from the bed and plucked two ripe tomatoes from the wall.
This tomato, which can be grown indoors and grows vigorously, was bought by his colleagues in the company when he saw them eagerly discuss.
Ten yuan a tree, which is not expensive. Ten yuan is not even enough for them to eat a lunch.
He didn't expect that this ten-dollar tomato seedling would bring him daily happiness and surprises.
Take out a small electric pot for a single person, a handful of dragon beard noodles, and the storage box in the corner of the room stores the bacon brought from home, cut a few slices and throw them into the noodles. Cut the tomatoes into cubes and add them to the noodle soup with a few drops of sesame oil.
A bowl of hot tomato bacon noodles is out of the pot.
The remaining tomato is cut into cubes and mixed with a little sugar, and the fresh tomato flavor spreads out and makes people smell very pleasant.
A dinner that takes less than 20 minutes to make zuò looks refreshing and delicious.
While eating tomato bacon noodles, he turned on his mobile phone and clicked on Taobao.
He also plans to buy two vine red jade tomatoes and send them to his parents in his hometown.
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Lin Ade is a native of Haishi, and the property left by his ancestors allows him to live a worry-free life. Three houses, four storefronts, and the rent he received from renting out was enough for him to live without worries.
For five or six years after graduating from university, he traveled all over the world, collecting and painting. Now that I'm back in Haishi, I'm a little tired of it.
The lease of one shop pù has just expired. He decided to open a coffee house in Haishi.
Lin Ade, who has traveled to many countries and regions, conceived several plans for the renovation of the coffee house, but the construction has not been started for a long time.
He wasn't happy with the styles that had long been commonplace.
Until one, in his circle of friends, he saw a former college classmate drying the tomato wall of his house. Lin Ade's eyes couldn't help but light up.
Verdant climbing tomatoes grow naturally on the walls. Between the green leaves, there are dots of red fruit hanging from it.
Just one plant makes an extremely ordinary room, a blank wall, a natural work of art.
Lin Ade, who studied art himself, saw the tomato of his classmates, and couldn't help but design the appearance of the coffee house in his heart.
He quickly contacted his college classmates and obtained an online store connection to the purchase of climbing tomatoes.
Looking at the online store with only one product, he photographed twenty vine red jade tomato seedlings at once.
After receiving the tomato seedlings, he immediately began to get busy.
Find a suitable planting pot and set up a planting rack in the shop.
Ten tomatoes are planted in the corners of the wall and climb up the wall to become natural wallpaper. Five tomatoes grow along the shelves that have been set up in the store.
The shape of these planting racks was designed by Lin Ade himself. As the tomatoes climb the vines on the shelves, five semi-open intimate areas naturally form.
This is an exclusive area for couples and close friends.
Under the tomato pergola, drink a cup of coffee with a small stack of strawberry muffins.
There is a small yellow tomato flower blooming on the shoulder, and several tomato fruits that are about to ripen hang from the overhead.
Even the well-informed Lin Ade, with a little imagination, is a little intoxicated by this beautiful atmosphere.
The remaining five trees he took home and planted.
The renovation of the shop took a whole month.
The main effort is spent waiting for the tomato seedlings to grow.
Lin Ade did not let the tomato branches and leaves climb freely and messily, and for a month, he continued to tidy up the position of the tomato branches and leaves.
His efforts made the tomato vine shelves in his coffee house look like fine art. From afar and up, it is extremely lovely. Immersion in it quickly reminds me of a fantasy novel, living in an elven tree house in the forest.
When his coffee house began to operate, the soft lighting and natural climbing shelves attracted many people to stop and watch almost in a short time. If it weren't for the good quality of the coffee in his shop, the price would not have been at all affordable, and on the day of its opening, the shop would have been crowded with curious people.
The introduction of his shop pù was eagerly forwarded on Weibo and the circle of friends, and the local food channel also came to the coffee house for an interview.
His coffee house, in a short time, became well-known.
Lin Ade also presented ripe tomatoes from the daily shop pù to customers who came for coffee. As for how many people get tomatoes each day? It depends on the number of tomatoes that day.
Along with the popularity of Ade's coffee house, he planted vine red jade tomatoes in the coffee house, and a large number of customers asked where to buy seedlings.
Ade doesn't cherish himself either, and whenever someone asks, he directly tells them the address of the online store of the City Seed King.
Unconsciously, the sales of Lin Zeng's online store suddenly skyrocketed.
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In modern society, people accept too many bizarre things.
In the corners of more and more cities, the interior walls of high-rise buildings are planted with vine red jade tomatoes cultivated by Lin Zeng.
The planting method that can be used by young children, and the growth method that takes up very little space, make the vine red jade tomato a new favorite of urban planting.
In supermarkets and farmers' markets, urban vegetable farmers who have tasted their own tomatoes are no longer willing to spend money on ripening tomatoes that taste bland and have a poor taste.
The family is fruitful, how can it be possible to spend money on unsafe food surrounded by all kinds of negative information?
At the moment, there are only thousands of urbanites who buy vine red jade tomato planting.
However, with the continuous improvement of Lin Zeng's refining technology, the vine red jade tomato and many plants suitable for growing in urban homes were sold in large quantities and became popular among thousands of households.
As a result, the entire city has changed access to food.
It will also have a powerful impact on the agriculture of the whole world.