Chapter 5 The Harvest Season
After more than 20 days of hard work, it was finally harvest season. Speaking of Taoyuan space, it is really powerful, vegetables that can only grow in a few months outside, in Taoyuan space only 20 days have matured, and the vegetables grow very well. In the past 20 days, Li Wei has worked in the Taoyuan space for more than 10 days, building shelves for vegetables and manually pollinating them. Although he was tired enough, looking at the obviously slimmed belly and the getting better and better body, Li Wei thought it was worth it.
During this period, Li Wei bought bamboo blanks, bamboo baskets, electronic scales and a tricycle, even if he saved money, the money in his pocket was gone, and even a red ticket was gone, Li Wei was now waiting to harvest vegetables, and then began to sell vegetables.
Entering the Taoyuan space, Li Wei took out a few half-person-high bamboo baskets, looking at the ridges of tomatoes, beans, peppers and cucumbers full of red and green fruits, Li Wei smiled, a bumper harvest, although it has only begun to ripen one after another, but Li Wei is ready to go to the night market tonight to test the water.
"Pick a basket of chili peppers first, the peppers are more ripe. "Each chili seedling is more than a meter tall and is covered with dense chili peppers. Li Wei took scissors and cut off the ripe ones and put them in a bamboo basket, each of these ripe peppers was more than 20 centimeters long, and after a while, he picked a basket, Li Wei put the full peppers on the edge of the black soil, and then changed to a large bamboo basket to continue picking peppers.
A total of four large bamboo baskets of peppers were picked, and then looked at tomatoes, cucumbers and beans, these three vegetables also grow very well, the tomato seedlings are full of tomatoes, one by one, the bean seedlings and cucumber seedlings are more than one person high, wrapped around the shelves made of bamboo blanks, the beans and cucumbers are hanging in the air, waiting for Li Wei to pick, these three vegetables are also ripe one after another, each picked two large baskets, at this time it has been busy until noon. "Let's make a few dishes and try them at noon. ”
Out of the Taoyuan space, Li Wei began to cook, and the dishes at noon were the four vegetables he planted. Make a chili stir-fry meat, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, bean stew, and shoot a cucumber.
"Yes, there is no skin, and it has a little spicy taste, unlike the chili water sold outside, it is not spicy. Li Wei first picked up a piece of chili pepper and put it in his mouth, which tasted good. Then I ate another bite of scrambled eggs with tomatoes, sweet and sour, a few days ago Li Wei bought a few tomatoes from the night market, and scrambled eggs with tomatoes by himself, and ate them until there was no taste in his mouth, and finally Li Wei ate all the eggs and the tomatoes were poured out.
Li Wei ate all the four dishes he made, and felt that the taste was much stronger than the vegetables sold in the market, a bit like the vegetables he grew at home when he was a child in the countryside, and Li Wei has not used any chemical fertilizers and pesticides in the vegetables, absolutely green and natural food, and it must be popular to sell it in the night market.
"The price is sold at the market price first, and after a few days there are regular customers, the price will slowly rise. Li Wei planned in his heart, and then entered the Taoyuan space and put the bamboo basket containing vegetables into the tricycle, and ten baskets of vegetables were placed on top of the tricycle in two layers.
At half past four o'clock in the afternoon, Li Wei began to be fully armed, wearing all the cotton jackets, cotton pants and cotton shoes, covering them tightly, now it is minus twenty or thirty degrees outside, especially in the evening, it is colder, Li Wei has to stay outside for two or three hours, afraid of freezing. When I came downstairs, I saw that there was no one around, so I took the tricycle out of the Taoyuan space, and covered the vegetables with a thick quilt to prevent them from being frozen.
Riding a tricycle for three or four minutes to arrive at the night market, at this time the night market has all the stalls, Li Wei looked around, found a place where no one set up a stall, and looked around to see that there were no vegetables to sell, so he decided to set up a stall here.
"Big brother, there's no one here, right? Can I set up a stall here?" Li Wei asked a fruit seller next to him.
"No, don't worry about it here, some people don't want to come out in winter, by the way, brother, what are you selling?" The person who sold the fruit was in his forties, wearing a military coat, more than Li Wei had wreathed.
"I'm selling some vegetables, which are not grown by my classmates in the suburbs, just four kinds of vegetables, nothing else, come, big brother smokes a cigarette." Li Wei said as he took out a cigarette from his pocket. This is a soft Chinese piece that Ma Lin gave Li Wei the day before yesterday, and Li Wei himself has no money to buy such a good cigarette.
"Nice, good smoke. Li Wei handed him a cigarette and lit it for him, and then Li Wei said, "Big brother, my name is Li Wei, and your surname is big brother."
"What a noble surname. My surname is Liu, my name is Liu Jianping, you can call me Brother Liu, if the little brother doesn't understand anything, just ask me" Liu Jianping said boldly.
"Thank you, Brother Liu" Li Wei was waiting for this sentence, and hurriedly thanked him, he had never set up a stall, there must be a lot of things he didn't understand, and it would be much better to have Liu Jianping's words. Then, Liu Jianping told Li Wei some places to pay attention to in the night market, and Liu Jianping's enthusiasm and boldness made Li Wei have a great impression of him.
In this way, the two chatted, and after a while, someone came to buy fruit, and Liu Jianping went back to the stall to sell fruit. Li Wei lifted a large piece of cotton cloth on the tricycle, and then took out a few tomatoes and placed them on the edge of the bamboo basket to make a pattern.
At this time, an old lady in her fifties and sixties saw Li Wei and came over and asked, "How much is your tomato?"
Seeing that the business was coming, Li Wei hurriedly stepped forward and introduced, "The tomatoes cost four yuan a catty, you can see that they are completely ripe before picking them, if you buy them home, you can eat them whether they are fried or mixed with sugar, or you can taste them."
"Really, there are still fully ripe tomatoes sold? Aren't they all picked when they were raw? And then they are cooked with something? Don't fool me, young man?" said the old lady with a look of disbelief.
"If you don't believe it, you will know how it tastes, this is what I washed, and it is clean. Li Wei took a tomato from the bamboo basket and broke it, only to see that the seeds in the broken tomatoes were very full.
"Yes, sweet and sour, and very soft, it is indeed ripe, I haven't seen such a good tomato for a long time, okay, give me two catties." The old lady took a bite and said.
"Okay" Li Wei hurriedly took out the bag of materials and weighed two catties for the old lady, and then the old lady bought two cucumbers and a few peppers from Li Wei.
When the old lady left, Li Wei smiled and put twenty yuan in his pocket, which was the first dish Li Wei sold. Li Wei's cucumbers and peppers are three yuan a catty, and the beans are the most expensive, and the beans planted by Li Wei are oil beans, fifteen yuan a catty, although this is expensive, but there are few people who buy it.