"Dear Mr. Xiao, you have come at the right time. Pierre was so happy to see Xiao Ping that he opened his arms to give him a hug.

If Pierre is a charming French girl, let alone a hug, even if it is a hot kiss, Xiao Ping will not mind. It's a pity that this Frenchman is a man, and Xiao Ping doesn't need to hug or anything. He grabbed the other man's hand before Pierre hugged him, shook it a few times, and sat down immediately, not giving the Frenchman a chance to show enthusiasm.

Pierre was also accustomed to the Chinese's subtlety, did not reassure Xiao Ping's reaction, and said to him with a smile: "I have contacted the Italian side, and they will ship the truffles out in the next few days." In order to meet your fresh requirements, this batch of truffles will be flown in and will arrive in four days at the latest!"

This is indeed good news for Xiao Ping, although the French are a little overzealous, but they are still quite reliable. Since the truffles will arrive soon, Xiao Ping is not in a hurry to go back, and said to Pierre with a smile: "In this case, I will stay in the provincial capital for a few more days, and then leave when the truffles arrive." By the way, my friend, you use a lot of vegetables in your store, like salads or something?"

"Of course, vegetables are healthy foods and are very popular right now. Pierre said proudly: "I dare to say that among all the western restaurants in the city, the vegetable salad in this restaurant tastes the best!"

Xiao Ping smiled sheepishly: "That's not necessarily. ”

"You're doubting my professionalism!" said Pierre, a little displeased.

"Don't be in a hurry, let's try this. Xiao Ping threw Pierre a few fresh vegetables with a mysterious expression.

When the Frenchman saw the appearance of these vegetables, his eyes lit up, and he couldn't help muttering in French: "Such a beautiful vegetable, oh...... God, this is a work of art!"

Xiao Ping couldn't understand French either, so he urged impatiently: "You can try it." ”

Foreigners basically use lettuce to make salads, and Pierre tore off a few vegetable leaves, washed them down with water casually, and stuffed them into his mouth. He only chewed it for a few times, his face immediately changed, and he quickly swallowed the contents of his mouth, glared at Xiao Ping and asked, "Where did these vegetables come from......?" Great!"

Xiao Ping didn't answer Pierre's question, and deliberately asked: "If other Western restaurants use these vegetables to make salads, will they taste better than yours?"

Although he was reluctant to admit it, Pierre could only nod his head, but he quickly said unconvinced: "It's just because of the ingredients, and it has nothing to do with the chef's level." ”

"The guests are all about the taste, do you think they'll care about anything else?" Xiao Ping said to Pierre speechless.

However, Xiao Ping quickly gave the French hope and said to him with a smile: "This dish is produced on my farm, all-natural green food, are you interested?"

"Of course!" Pierre immediately nodded: "Every breed costs a hundred kilograms a day!"

Xiao Ping shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, the yield of this vegetable is very small, at most two hundred kilograms per variety per week. It's for the sake of us as partners, taking special care of you. ”

"That's fine!" As a senior chef, Pierre of course knew the significance of these vegetables, and agreed to Xiao Ping's conditions without even asking the price.

"In a word, after three weeks, we will deliver goods to you once a week. Xiao Ping was not verbose, and gave this matter down.

With the experience of harvesting vegetables this time, Xiao Ping has already asked Wang Cannon and others to sow seeds in batches. Sow a third of the land every other week, so that the vegetables are on the market every week. The advantage of this is that the supply of vegetables can be stabbed stably, and the price will not plummet when the market is concentrated, and customers will not be able to buy the vegetables at other times.

Xiao Ping's visit to Raffles Restaurant this time was very rewarding, not only knowing that the truffles were about to arrive, but also finding a long-term customer for the farm. Although the amount of Pierre's purchase is not large, Xiao Ping values his influence in the Western food industry. The farm will definitely continue to develop in the future, Xiao Ping has an ambition to sell the farm's production to all parts of the world, and Raffles Restaurant is the first step to open the market in the world. …,

After leaving Raffles' Restaurant, Xiao Ping went directly to the riverside seafood market. If you want to know what kind of fish is the most profitable to raise, you just need to go there and take a look. Last time, when Xiao Ping went to the provincial capital, he was in a hurry to buy saplings to go back, so he didn't have time to come here to take a look. This time, I want to live in the provincial capital for a few days anyway, and I just came to receive the market.

The provincial capital has a large seafood market, with hundreds of stalls operating here. In addition to freshwater and saltwater fish, there are also a variety of seafood such as shrimp, crabs, and shells, and they can be sold as long as they come out of the water.

Xiao Ping walks among the many stalls, looking for suitable fish for his own farming. There are only two conditions for him to choose to farm fish, one is that the price is expensive enough, and the other is that it is freshwater fish. As for whether the fish is easy to raise, or how fast it grows, it is completely out of his consideration.

However, Xiao Ping walked around the market for most of the time and found that only river eels met his requirements. River eels weighing more than two catties are sold for more than 60 yuan a catty, which is relatively expensive among the freshwater fish in the aquatic market. However, Xiao Ping inquired, farmed eels have to buy wild fry in early spring, and there is no way to raise them at this time, so we have to wait until next year.

Helpless, Xiao Ping could only continue to walk around the market, and when he passed by a shop specializing in high-end aquatic products, his eyes suddenly lit up. There is a signboard hanging outside the store, on which is written a line of eye-catching big characters: New to the Yangtze River saury, more than two taels, 4,500 yuan per catty.

Xiao Ping had long heard that the Yangtze River saury was very expensive, but he didn't expect it to be so expensive. He rubbed his eyes vigorously to make sure that he didn't miss a few zeros or missed a decimal point or something, and then couldn't help muttering: "Four thousand five pounds a catty, this is the fish I want to raise!"

After sighing, Xiao Ping walked into the store, pretended to look at it for a while, and then asked the boss: "Boss, where is the Yangtze River saury?"

The boss was a middle-aged man with a flat haircut, and after listening to Xiao Ping's words, he looked at him carefully and asked, "Dude, you are new to the industry, right?"

"How do you tell?" Xiao Ping was surprised.

The boss grinned, pointed to the freezer in front of Xiao Ping, and said, "Isn't this it, you don't even recognize the swordfish, aren't you a layman?"

The boss's words made Xiao Ping smile embarrassedly. As soon as he looked down, he saw the legendary thousands of pounds of saury fish, and found that this fish had a narrow body and a silvery white body, and it didn't look special.

"Today, the whole market received these dozen or so fish. The boss sold hard: "Each one is more than two taels, and four thousand five is very cheap!"

Xiao Ping shook his head lightly and asked the boss tentatively, "Is there anything alive?"

"Alive, are you kidding?" The boss was originally a talker, but now there were other people in the store, so he chatted with Xiao Ping: "The knife fish has a short temperament, and after being caught in the net, it will struggle desperately, and it will die not long after it comes out of the water." I've been in the saury business for several years and haven't seen a live saury. ”

Xiao Ping was very disappointed by the boss's words, he took out a cigarette from his pocket and threw one to the other party, and asked with the most hopeful hope: "In other words, this saury cannot be artificially farmed?"

The boss's eyes were very sharp, and he could clearly see at a glance that the cigarette Xiao Ping took out was soft China, and there was immediately a little more smile on his face. He lit a cigarette and took a puff, and then said slowly: "At the moment, all the saury fish are wild, but I heard that there is a professor named Song Tianming at Nanjing University, who is studying the technique of artificially breeding saury, and it seems that he is almost successful." ”

This boss has been in the saury business for several years, and he usually pays close attention to all the news of saury, and now he is talking to Xiao Ping.

However, the speaker had no intention of listening, Xiao Ping heard him say the name of Nanda, and his heart immediately moved, and he thought to himself: "Isn't Xiao Pepper Nanda, maybe she can gain something by asking her about this." ”

"Thank you, boss!" Thinking of this, Xiao Ping didn't talk much with the boss, casually threw the whole bag of China to the other party, and left the store in a hurry.

Xiao Ping found a quieter corner in the market and dialed Song Lei's phone.

===Dividing line===

A new day has begun, continue to ask for tickets and collections, thank you very much.

Another: Thanks to Chubby Liang for the two tips.