Chapter Twenty-Three: Busyness Before the Vegetable Harvest

On the second day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Liu Yi's sister and her whole family went back in the morning, and when they left, the little nephew Wen Yiqiu didn't do it, and she didn't relax holding her grandmother's hand. Everyone still thinks that he is very reluctant to Liu Yi's mother, but Liu Yi knows in his heart that there is no restraint in the countryside, and how much he yearns for a child in the city to play freely.

Liu Yi can't leave the child, he's still in school, so he can't ask for leave and not go. Approached Wen Yiqiu, and said to him in his ear, "Uncle will come home now, and there will be more fun in the future, and I will have a long time on vacation when the time comes, okay?"

"Then you must be the talker, and I will ignore you if there is no fun at that time," Wen Yiqiu's immature voice replied to me.

"Definitely, my uncle will have to plant a lot of fruit trees and raise a lot of animals, okay?" I coaxed him, but I also had plans in my heart.

"Okay" Seeing that he was still reluctant, his mother couldn't help but secretly wipe away her tears.

"Then let my uncle carry you for a while" I bent down and picked up Wen Yiqiu to the side of the road, opened the iron gate in the courtyard, and my brother-in-law immediately drove out the car parked inside.

I saw that the inside was covered with a plastic film, "There are some things piled up inside, I see it everywhere."

"The boss brought the newly developed fertilizer, and it won't grow well without this vegetable," I replied casually, not daring to say too much for fear of being exposed.

The brother-in-law didn't ask too much, "Then you talk to the boss who contributed to it, and when you have time to get a steel shed, this plastic film will not be worth it at all in the summer, and the fertilizer will be troublesome when there is a problem."

Liu Yi wants to have a boss, and now when there is a problem, he will pay for it every time he has a name. In fact, Liu Yi also wanted to get it for a long time, but he didn't have any money in his hands, and there were a lot of things to do after selling vegetables this time. "Well, I'll take the time to ask"

Seeing his brother-in-law's car go away, Liu Yi was still standing there. I haven't figured out a lot of things in my heart yet, and seeing that the vegetables planted can be harvested in a few days, I'm afraid that time is not in a hurry when I come step by step.

When I got home, I told my mother that there was something going on outside, and I had to go out to deal with it. The mother understood and said, "If there is something to do, I will show you the house, anyway, there is nothing to do in the store now."

"That's good, I think it should be done in 2 or 3 days," Liu Yi told his mother how to take care of the vegetables in the greenhouse and when to water them.

"Well, I'm also a farmer. You still have to teach this, and you are busy with yourself," my mother urged me.

Liu Yi returned to Luoshi Town, and went directly to the vegetable garden on the top floor without going home, and now the lettuce in it doesn't seem to have grown, and it still maintains the same appearance as a few days ago. It seems that it grows to the end, and if you don't harvest it for a long time, I'm afraid that it will grow cabbage and flowers. Regardless of the growth of lettuce, I directly pulled out a few trees, cleaned them up, and prepared to eat something in the town, and sent the lettuce to the food testing department in Chengnan District, Shancheng City, in the afternoon, to do pesticide residues and vegetable nutrient content testing.

At less than 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Liu Yi arrived at the Chengnan District Food Testing Center, watched the door closed, and took out his mobile phone to see that the time was only a few minutes away from work. Waited patiently, and after a while, I saw a staff member open the door from the inside, it turned out that the office staff was taking a lunch break inside, it was really punctual, and even a minute earlier to work!

Thinking in his heart, Liu Yi was not slow to meet him immediately. Inside the window was a middle-aged woman, dressed in uniform, plump, with her hair draped casually behind her head, revealing a well-maintained but serious face. Seeing Liu Yi coming in with vegetables, it was self-evident. Ask, "What are the specific items to do for vegetable testing?"

"Look at the eldest sister, I want to do the test of pesticide residues and vegetable nutrients for the vegetables I brought, what procedures are needed" Liu Yi didn't dare to call Auntie, for fear that he would be annoying before he finished speaking, so what else could he do, just give Liu Yi a little color, and let Liu Yi not be able to eat and walk around.

"That's it, then you fill in a list first," he handed over a few forms and asked Liu Yi to fill them in.

Liu Yi quickly filled out the form as required and handed it to the middle-aged woman in the office. The middle-aged woman took the form and took a cursory look, "You have to pay 2,200 yuan for these two kinds of vegetables to test, and the results will be handed over to you within 3 days, and you leave a contact number, and it is possible to contact you with the results in advance."

The 2,200 yuan was still within Liu Yi's affordability, so he simply took out 2,200 yuan and handed it to the staff with the RMB that had been prepared in advance, and got a receipt and left. The middle-aged woman picked up the vegetables that Liu Yi left her for testing, and was a little surprised to see the giant lettuce, and a little doubtful in her heart, whether it was a new type of artificially cultivated dish, otherwise how could it be used for nutritional analysis.

I went to the city and delayed a lot of time, but taking vegetables for testing is also considered to be a complete thing, just waiting for the results. The most important thing has not yet found a market, and Liu Yi also has a way in his heart, but it seems that there is no time to do it today. I called my mother and said that I would not go back to my hometown and would stay in the town for a night so that I could pick vegetables from the rooftops of the building at that time.

Early the next morning, the sky was still bright, and Liu Yi, who was used to getting up early, washed up and went to the top of the building. Today he is going to pull out the lettuce from the vegetable garden on the rooftop, leaving only a dozen or so in case of emergency. Harvesting lettuce is quite fast, less than half an hour, harvesting, sorting, plastic wrap single plant, and it can be done in a basket. Called the driver of the small truck who discussed it last night, it was also a young man, less than 30 years old, slightly younger than Liu Yi, called Li Xiaokang, and talking to Liu Yi was very speculative. He ran a car freight in the town, and today Liu Yi chartered his car to transport Liu Yi's vegetables.

It didn't take long for the car to arrive downstairs at Liu Yi's house, Liu Yi also finished moving the last basket of lettuce, more than 100 kilograms of vegetables, Liu Yi ran back and forth several times, loaded 4 large bamboo baskets, fortunately, after exercising every day, Liu Yi's body is much stronger now, otherwise Liu Yi really has no way to take those baskets of lettuce if he wants to move it down so quickly. After loading all the lettuce into the car again, Liu Yi said hello to Li Xiaokang, "Let's go, go to Chengnan District."

Liu Yi's big idea is to go to the south of the city, the hotel on the top grade to promote his vegetables door-to-door, although the test report of vegetables has not come down, but Liu Yi believes that it is more convincing to wait for the greenhouse vegetables to be harvested and put on the market and then give the test report.

In half an hour, Liu Yi came to the place where the hotels and hotels in Chengnan District were dense, and saw the very famous Yudu Hotel in the local area, and then Liu Yi called the car to stop, waited on the side of the road, and took a few handfuls of lettuce to sell it.

"Hey, master. Inquire about it, who is responsible for the procurement of this hotel" Liu Yi saw the hotel security guard and walked over to ask.

The hotel security guard is still more cautious, looking at this I am dressed simply, and I am still holding vegetables in my hand, "What do you do, what do you do when you are looking for procurement".

Liu Yi's sales skills for several years showed again: "Such a master, last time your purchasing manager went to a friend's house for dinner, one of which was a vegetarian dish that I planted, and your manager said that it tasted good, so he told the friend to ask me to send some vegetables of the same variety to the hotel, and they decided to purchase it." I just knew the situation of Langdao, so I hurriedly ran over, only to know the name of the Ludao Hotel and didn't bring your manager's phone number" said and took out the cigarettes that were ready for Lang from the pocket of his clothes, "Please ask the master to help, it's hard work."

The security guards are not sure of the situation, and the hotel is not a secret base to be guarded. Besides, when I got the cigarettes I gave him, the cigarettes were not bad, a pack of more than 20 yuan, and it would be a matter that could be solved with a few more words if you took advantage of it. After a while, he gave me the phone number of the purchasing manager and pointed me to where his office was.

I sincerely thanked the security guard, and I walked to the purchasing manager's office with a nervous heart. "Knock, knock, knock" knocked on the solid wooden door of the office, and there was a voice from inside, apparently interrupting their conversation, but someone inside still said "Please come in".

I held the vegetables in one hand and unscrewed the doorknob in the other. After the door opened, there were 2 people inside who looked at me suspiciously, Liu Yi was very strange to them, but seeing the vegetables I was carrying in my hand, one of the younger middle-aged people might have understood something, but did not show it, "Is there something wrong?"

I'm waiting to hurry up, the opportunity is rare, and the opportunity is lost in an instant" hurriedly took a few steps forward, Zhou always, hello. I will tell you the purpose of coming today, that is, I want to provide vegetables to your hotel, and I hope that Mr. Zhou can give you a chance."

Mr. Zhou remained silent and looked at the middle-aged man who was older than him standing next to him, "Our hotel has a very good supply of vegetables now, and there is no shortage of vegetable supply."

I was a little anxious in my heart, and I listened to the meaning of Mr. Zhou's words, and I refused a little, "What I provide is not an ordinary vegetable, and the quality and taste are very different from ordinary vegetables."

The older middle-aged man next to him spoke, "How can we believe what you say, generally people who come to sell their products say so, I don't care how you get in, but as long as the vegetables are good, we can also consider it." In fact, the older middle-aged man is the owner of the hotel, named Wu Xinguo, and recently he has been worried about the source of the hotel's customers, facing the competition of many large hotels, without characteristics and popularity, Yudu Hotel is going downhill. Boss Wu went to the purchasing manager to discuss, and was ready to take risks to buy some game to meet the alternative needs of consumers. So when I heard that Liu Yi provided high-quality vegetables, I was a little excited.

Liu Yi also wanted to open up sales, so he didn't think much about it, "I can ask the chef in your store to make a few copies of the vegetables I am holding in my hand and try them, and I can talk about the taste if I think it tastes."

"Okay, immediately call the chef Elder Jia to come over and take the vegetables to make a few dishes, and we will also go over and have a look." Mr. Wu didn't talk about anything else, and immediately ordered.

"I don't think I need to call him, I'll take it," Mr. Zhou said.

Liu Yi saw that he had the bottom in his heart, and hurriedly said, "I'll take it, you guys walk."

In this way, the boss and the sales manager had one more and I walked to the kitchen, and the other employees in the hotel saw it and talked about it. I couldn't figure out what the boss was doing with a bunch of people in the kitchen early in the morning.

The vegetables were brought to the kitchen, and the chef Lao Jia was also surprised to see the lettuce. I hurriedly explained to him, explaining that this vegetable has been in the field for a long time, and if you buy plants in the future, it will still be smaller.

The chef cooks, that is with a knife like flying, Liu Yi is dazzled, and after a while, he can make a few dishes, which are fried and boiled cold, watching the hotel owner, manager, and chef Lao Jia put down chopsticks one after another, Liu Yi is not polite to try the chef's skills.

Mr. Wu ate the vegetables in his mouth, chewed them a few times, and then chewed the tenacity of the vegetables to taste them. "Yes, it's good, this vegetable tastes better than the average vegetable."

Mr. Zhou and Lao Jia also echoed on the side, "This dish is good, the quality is very good, the color, texture, and taste are really good after cooking, and our hotel has dishes made of this vegetable, which will definitely attract customers."

The boss Wu Xinguo was already happy, but he didn't show it, and when he asked Zhilu Dao Liu Yi's name, he said, "Xiaoliu, go to the office and talk." With a wave of his hand, he took the lead and led a group of people to his boss's office, which attracted a lot of discussion among employees.