Since Liu Yuebing and Cai Wulin's brothers began to order Li Yuan's vegetables, his customer base began to grow explosively. However, in just two or three weeks, the chefs of more than 30 restaurants took the initiative to contact Li Yuan, hoping to buy goods from him.

Li Yuan promised more than a dozen of these restaurants to supply them. Coupled with Xinghualou and the five flagship restaurants of the contract catering group, Li Yuan now has to provide fresh vegetables to more than 20 restaurants.

These restaurants are all very large, and the demand for vegetables every day is not small. And Li Yuan's vegetable garden is only more than five acres in total, and the growth of vegetables also takes time, so his vegetables have been in short supply.

Even Liu Yuebing, who has the best relationship with Li Yuan, can only get a hundred or ten catties of vegetables from him every three days. For a large hotel of the size of Deyuelou, such a little vegetable is simply a drop in the bucket.

And compared to the pitiful supply, these vegetables are very popular. Almost every table will order these vegetables, and some will order them again after tasting them. Even some repeat customers came specifically to make these vegetables, and after coming to the store, they didn't want other dishes, so they directly ordered the six vegetable varieties that Li Yuan can currently provide, and specially explained that each dish should be doubled. Even if the price of these vegetables is more expensive than seafood, these customers don't care.

Because these vegetables are so popular, they have already attracted attention in the dining circles of Wuxi City. As the only supplier of these vegetables, Li Yuan has also received more and more calls for purchases.

In the past three days, Li Yuan has received phone calls from the chefs of a five-star hotel and two other well-known restaurants, all of whom want to buy vegetables from him. Even a restaurant far away in the provincial capital took the initiative to contact Li Yuan, hoping to buy goods from him.

However, at the moment, Li Yuan really can't squeeze out the goods, so he can only say hello to others, and promise that when the output increases in the future, he will definitely give priority to them, which can be regarded as barely appeasing the other party.

And these calls are only from those famous big hotels and restaurants, and there are even more calls from other small and medium-sized hotels, and they can receive more than ten or twenty calls a day, which is simply impossible to count.

For Li Yuan, these phone calls really made him painful and happy.

Happily, Li Yuan is now very sure that the future of using Jinzhu to grow vegetables is bright. As long as he can ensure the supply, it is easy to make a lot of money, and he is not far from the goal of enjoying life to the fullest.

The pain is that the garden is too small to provide enough vegetables to customers. So much so that Li Yuan watched the money that he could have earned slip away from his eyes, and this pain could not be expressed in words.

So Li Yuan quickly made up his mind, came to Lao Liao's house and said viciously: "I think about it, I want to leave here and go outside!" ”

Although after taking the gold beads that Li Yuan secretly put into the water, Lao Liao's legs and feet were already good. However, in his free time, he still used to carve knick-knacks out of old bamboo.

After listening to Li Yuan's words, Lao Liao put down the carving knife in his hand, looked at him and asked unhurriedly: "Boy, have you really thought about it?" ”

"You've figured it out!" Li Yuan nodded heavily and said: "I have bigger ideals, so I need a bigger stage to realize them, and if I keep nesting in this small place, there will be no future!" ”

"Aren't your ideals those old tricks, I'm embarrassed to talk about you." Lao Liao habitually spit out a bad sentence, and then nodded slowly: "But I agree with your idea of going out to break in, young people have to see the world everywhere, how can they always nest in such a small place!" But ......"

Speaking of this, Lao Liao paused slightly, and then asked Li Yuan: "What are your plans?" ”

Li Yuan had already thought about this, and said without hesitation: "Now that the vegetables are selling better and better, those vegetables are already in short supply." I want to go to the outskirts of the city to contract a piece of land and increase production to supply more customers. In the future, my vegetables will not only occupy Wuxi City, but also enter the provincial capital and sell them to the whole country! ”

Although Li Yuan's goal sounded a little unrealistic, Lao Liao showed a hint of relief, nodded lightly and said: "I am also very pleased that you can have such ambitions, I used to watch you eat and wait for death every day, I thought you were the same as Ye Jun's gang, a guy with no ambitions!" ”

"You don't have big ambitions." Li Yuan glanced at Lao Liao dissatisfiedly and said: "I used to be low-key and just in Taoguang, but now I have such a good opportunity, of course I have to fight!" ”

Looking at the scrappy Li Yuan, Lao Liao didn't say more, but walked into the bedroom alone. After a while, he slowly came out and handed a bank card to Li Yuandao: "There are more than 30,000 yuan in this card, which I have saved in the past few years, you can use it first." The password is my birthday, you kid should remember it, right? ”

Looking at the small bank card, Li Yuan only felt warm in his heart. Although the two often quarrel with each other, they will try their best to support each other when they encounter major events. The so-called year-old handover is vividly reflected in Li Yuan and Lao Liao.

Li Yuan and Lao Liao are already like a family, so he will not refuse Lao Liao's kindness, so he generously took the bank card and said, "Okay, I need money right now, so you're welcome." But this money should be borrowed from you, and when I earn it, I will pay you back with interest. ”

"Nonsense, of course it's lent to you!" Lao Liao glanced at Li Yuan angrily and said, "You are not my son, why should I give you money for nothing?" ”

Li Yuanshen nodded approvingly: "You're right! I'll pay you back when I make the money, and then you can use the money to find a younger wife, and maybe you can get old if you work hard! ”

"Get out!" In Lao Liao's angry shouts, Li Yuan left his house with a smile.

However, after walking out of Lao Liao's house, Li Yuan's expression immediately became serious, and he muttered to himself in a low voice: "Don't worry, old guy, I won't let you down!" ”

In the following days, in addition to taking care of the vegetable garden and making deliveries, Li Yuan has been roaming the outskirts of the city on his old bicycle, just to find a bigger plot of land to grow vegetables.

However, there are many people in the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, and many places in the suburbs of the city have been developed into residential areas, and it is not easy to find a large area suitable for growing vegetables. Li Yuan, who had no choice but to go to the suburbs to find it, had to ride a bicycle for dozens of kilometers every day. Fortunately, he is now physically strong, and he doesn't feel strained.

The so-called "hard work pays off", and Li Yuan really found a suitable place a few days later.