Chapter 13 Too good is easy to make people suspicious
Xinxing Farmers' Market is the largest agricultural and sideline products trading market in Nancheng, but most of the market is also professional vegetable vendors with fixed stalls, and only a few like Zhang Yao grow their own and sell them.
He generally has two options when he comes to the farmers' market like this, if he is too lazy to squat in time, he can weigh the vegetables to the vegetable sellers, so that he can turn around and go home, but the price is lower, not as good as guarding the retail sales.
Zhang Yao came quite late, and it was already past the time to sell the whole thing, and the vegetable vendors at this point would no longer be purchasing on a large scale, because they were also worried that they would not be able to sell, after all, the vegetables were fresh, and they would have to be smashed in their own hands after a long time.
By the time I found a suitable place to park the three-wheeled motorcycle, it was almost eleven o'clock, and it was actually past the best time to sell in an environment like a farmer's market.
However, in addition to being close to urban villages and several communities, the Xinxing Farmers' Market is also opposite the Qingxi Intermediate People's Court, and there are also units like the District Procuratorate, and there are also many civil servants who will buy vegetables and cook at home after work, but they don't have to worry about no one buying.
Besides, with the quality of his vegetables, they will definitely be sold out as soon as they appear, Zhang Yao is very confident in this, so he didn't deliberately rush to the morning, just counted the time to get off work at noon.
After several kilometers of transportation, all kinds of vegetables are still fresh, Zhang Yao still felt that it was not shocking enough, so he took out the drink bottle and sprinkled a little water on it.
This is also a common means of preservation in the vegetable market, keeping the moisture at any time will not let the vegetables dry, and it will look more good, if it is wilted by the sun, no one will take a second look.
Zhang Yao sprinkled water into the basket, like a magician announcing the moment of witnessing a miracle, and the already round and jade vegetables encountered the water like a dusty pearl reappearing to the sky, which was even more eye-catching.
With the appearance of pearls and jade, anyone passing by will inevitably take a few more looks, Zhang Yao has not put the drink bottle away before a lot of people surround him, a middle-aged woman first asked: "Young man, how much is your tomato a catty?" ”
Because of the relationship between the dragon balls, the vegetables planted by Zhang Yao matured relatively early, and the amount of tomatoes on the market is not large now, and many of them are still stored in the cold storage before.
No matter what it is, the price is always more expensive when it is scarce, and Zhang Yao didn't know the price of various vegetables before, so he still asked his parents about the price before he came.
"Auntie, tomatoes are four pieces per catty, do you want to bring some back?"
"Others only buy three dollars and five, young man, you really dare to speak." The middle-aged woman didn't take her eyes off the vegetables, and she really couldn't hold back while talking, picking up a tomato and looking left and right.
These tomatoes are not ridiculously large, almost all of them are the size of an adult's fist, as if they were carefully selected, but they are heavier than other tomatoes of the same size.
"Auntie, this is a seasonal vegetable for me, not the kind of out-of-season that is grown in a greenhouse, let alone taken out of the cold storage, but just picked from the field, and the price is actually very cheap for five cents."
The middle-aged woman didn't seem to hear his words, stared at the tomato for a long time, picked up the radish on the side, frowned, and said: "Your dishes are too exaggerated, I have never seen such a good tomato in my life, and this radish is too, it can't be any hormone pesticides, right?" ”
"Auntie, I can assure you that this is definitely a natural green vegetable, and no pesticides have been used, let alone hormones."
"How can you look so good without hormones, and you don't even have an insect eye, you must have been sprayed with pesticides, right?" The people around also came over and picked up Zhang Yao's dishes to play with the onlookers.
"Now who doesn't know that buying vegetables has to buy insects and eat dog bites (dialect vocabulary), insects can live to prove that they are not poisonous, and you are not specially bred to blame."
"Uncles and aunts, uncles and aunts, my family lives in Longquan Village, these vegetables are all grown by ourselves, and our family eats them ourselves, how can there be hormones, if we really want to, do we dare to eat them?"
Zhang Yao had no choice but to explain, and said: "There must be special cultivation skills, but it's different from what you imagine, if that's the case, I'll plant it on a large scale and sell it directly to vegetable vendors, why do you still work hard to sell it in the vegetable market?" ”
"Who's going to admit that their dishes have been hormonized." An old man in the crowd snorted disdainfully and said, "In this world, only people who sell stinky tofu dare to say that their things are stinky, and who else will say that their own things are bad?" Anyway, the better I am, the more I dare not eat it. ”
The people around him were all convinced that Zhang Yao was so amazingly good that these vegetables were the result of using pesticides and hormones, and it was useless for him to explain them.
"Young man, your dishes are covetous, but I really don't dare to eat them, who knows how many poisonous drugs are used to make it so beautiful."
The middle-aged woman shook her head and sighed, gritted her teeth and put the radish back in the basket and left, and the others also talked to each other and left, surrounding more than a dozen people, but they didn't buy any of them.
"The baby is wronged." Zhang Yao tried his best to explain, but it turned out to be completely useless, and he was almost going crazy.
Seeing the people who could have been the first batch of customers leave, Zhang Yao was also deeply helpless, and he couldn't blame them for speculating at will, it was normal to have this kind of thought these days, and he was just taking the blame for the food safety of the Heavenly Dynasty.
Food hygiene has long been a commonplace problem in China, but there is no sign of improvement, as long as this problem is discussed, everyone on the Internet is saying that the people of the Heavenly Dynasty have already cultivated a physique that is invulnerable to all kinds of poisons, even if the zombie virus outbreak does not have to worry.
In fact, as a rural person, he has heard more about such appalling things than most people, even if his parents grow beans and vegetables, they still apply various fertilizers and spray pesticides, but there are really no hormones.
For vegetable farmers, it is still very helpless, if you don't use such means, the appearance of vegetables will not be good, and if you don't sell well, vegetable sellers will not accept it, then you can't make money, and everyone seems to have become accustomed to it.
In fact, this is nothing in itself, and the use of fertilization and pesticides is indispensable for planting crops in any country in the world, but pesticide residues in Europe and the United States are very low, and the domestic ones are basically exceeded.
It is an open secret that people who grow vegetables do not eat the vegetables they grow, Zhang Yao's village is better, and vegetable planting has only emerged in recent years, and the town next door is even more exaggerated, it is said that there are all kinds of means, and there are really a lot of hormones such as bulking hormone for vegetables.
At night, you can even hear the sound of vegetables growing in the greenhouse, and their vegetables are still growing after they are bought, and the cucumbers can be opened the next day when they are placed in the refrigerator......
In the past, Zhang Yao regarded these things as a joke, but he didn't expect that one day he would suffer from it, and he was wronged, he didn't even use chemical fertilizer for these dishes, but no one would believe it if he said it.
"It looks like you've suffered a lot of setbacks on your first day of selling vegetables." When Zhang Yao was struggling, Liu Xinran's voice came.
She was wearing a white shirt and a thin taste jacket today, shorts that were long enough to cover her lower body, she looked as if she was not wearing pants from a distance, with canvas shoes on her feet, and her slender jade legs were completely exposed outside, and she was standing in front of Zhang Yao with a smile at this time.
"Are you really here?" Zhang Yao was surprised when he saw it.
"Of course I want to see if you lied to me, and I said it a long time ago, I want to watch your so-called perfect plan be implemented step by step." Liu Xinran glanced at him, thinking that he was making a fuss.
Also, she came to help when she was selling fried potatoes, and what was so strange about buying vegetables?
Zhang Yao smiled helplessly, "You, I really don't know what to say about you." ”
"Hmph, you just play stupid." Liu Xinran glared, and the two fell into a short silence, but they didn't feel embarrassed by it.
The best relationship is not to have endless topics to talk about when you meet, that is, even if you don't say a word together, you won't feel embarrassed.
Liu Xinran looked a little angry, and said after half a sound: "Forget it, I'll help you study the problem of selling vegetables, I also heard about what happened just now, if you don't have me today, you seem to have to capsize in the gutter." ”
Zhang Yao was thinking of a way, and when he heard this, he said, "What good way do you have?" ”
Liu Xinran also picked up a tomato, turned her head and said, "You really didn't use any illegal hormones?" It's exaggerated enough to look at it from a distance, but if you look closely, you can't believe it, is this really a tomato? ”
"I'll go, are you here to help or to smash the field?" Zhang Yao rolled his eyes and said, "I can guarantee this, you can eat it now, this original taste can be grown with hormones." ”
"I can't help it." Liu Xinran didn't care about the image at all, she directly broke the tomato and stuffed it into her mouth, Zhang Yao naturally believed it, and she just expressed her amazement at these dishes.
"It's delicious, it's really delicious." After destroying a tomato in three or two mouths, Liu Xinran stared at the cucumber again, directly picked one up and stuffed it into her mouth, and continued to nod and said, "It's really delicious, it tastes great." ”
“……”
"You're washing." Zhang Yao patted his forehead, is she really that little fresh beauty?
"Because it looks like a pearl, it is so round that there is no dust at all, and it feels like it has been washed countless times and can be eaten directly. I'll tell you, if you have diarrhea, I'll be with you for a long time. ”
Tomatoes and cucumbers, including radishes, can be eaten raw, but whether eating raw vegetables will cause diarrhea is not necessarily the problem of the dish itself.
"Hey, you better confirm if it can be a raw and cold thing, I have already carried the pot once today, don't send me the pot again."
"No, I can't stop." Liu Xinran chewed hard.