The Pentium Era - South to North

Liu Dehua's family is also a vegetable farmer, with more than 40 acres of vegetable land. Zhang Xiangbei said, more than 40 acres, the vegetable land is not small, and it should be very busy.

Liu Dehua said yes. His parents, grandparents, and grandparents were all too busy, so they hired two helpers. Here in Shouguang, there are also many outside workers, all of whom help grow vegetables.

Zhang Xiangbei smiled and said: "Then you still want to go out to work? Your family should not be short of your money."

"There is no shortage. I am outside and the money I earn is not enough to spend. My mother often gives me money." Liu Dehua said, "However, everyone my age in the village has gone out, and no one wants to grow vegetables at home. Anyway, when you are young, try your luck outside and see if there are any opportunities. If you no longer want to start in a few years, or if you can’t make a name for yourself, then you can come back and grow vegetables honestly.”

"Your family doesn't object?" Zhang Xiangbei asked.

"No objection, they are like this too. They also worked outside when they were young. My parents also went to Huizhou and Shenzhen, and they stopped going out after they got married." Liu Dehua and Zhang Xiangbei said.

Zhang Xiangbei understood. It turns out that there are fewer young people in rural areas now. There is another reason. It is not all because of making money. The outside world is very exciting. You really need to go out and have a good look while you are young and alone. When you are mature, When a family has a child, they are invisibly tied here and cannot leave even if they want to.

There were more and more customers in the store. The little girl shuttled around the store very quickly. She was not only responsible for ordering, but also serving the food. When a customer left, she had to turn over the tables immediately and help clear the tables and clean up.

When passing by them, the little girl would look in their direction, not at them, but at how much food was left on their table. Xiao Wu, Zhang Xiangbei and Liu Dehua said to eat more, if There is too much left, and this little girl will probably hold us back and not let us go.

Zhang Xiangbei and Liu Dehua almost spit out their wine and choked.

When I ordered the dishes, I looked greedy. I wanted to eat everything, so I had to order some. It added up to a lot. These dishes were all hard dishes, very rich and plentiful. The same portion of chicken or loach, Zhang Xiangbei Both Xiao Wu and I felt that if we put it in a hotel in Hangzhou, we could make two copies. No wonder the little girl talked too much to them.

The three of them ate hard until their stomachs were full. They couldn't eat anymore. Zhang Xiangbei waved to pay the bill. A waiter was about to come over. The little girl gave her a hand and walked over on her own.

Walking to them, Zhang Xiangbei asked with a smile, "Is that okay?"

"There are so many more of these." The little girl pointed at the plate of Judian Lake loach and said.

Zhang Xiangbei said with a bitter face: "I really can't eat anymore. It's not that we ordered too much. It's because your restaurant is too honest and the portions are too big. How did we know that there would be thirty or forty pieces of loach in one serving? We thought it was only a dozen." strip."

"Okay, then I'll pay for it for you, so be careful next time." The little girl said, and the three of them quickly said thank you, thank you.

After she took the money and left, Zhang Xiangbei remembered it and asked, "Why should we thank you? How can we pay for it, or should we be merciful?"

Xiao Wu and Liu Dehua laughed, Zhang Xiangbei sighed and said:

"I have to accept it. This is the aura. The little girl's aura is too great. If others touch her, they will have to accept it."

The little girl came back with the change, and the three people stood up and said goodbye to her. She didn't say "Welcome to come again next time", but she was sure that they would come again next time and explained to them:

"A little less next time."

Zhang Xiangbei and the others quickly said, OK, I understand.

"Why do you say you know?"

Walking to the door, Xiao Wu asked Zhang Xiangbei. Zhang Xiangbei was stunned for a moment and said, "I don't know. It seems that I can't say otherwise. I'm afraid she will detain us. By the way, didn't you say that too?"

The three people laughed and walked out of the store. They were supposed to go directly back to the hotel to sleep, but they were too full. They walked in the opposite direction and strolled to the People's Square, where the "Red Star Macalline Cup 2015 Civilization" was being held. "Summer Square Series Cultural Activities", a stage was set up in the square, and the Shouguang Huaxia Academy of Chinese Martial Arts performed the "Chinese Dragon" martial arts program.

The three of them stood and watched for a while. The martial arts performance ended. Then someone came on stage to sing and someone played the saxophone. The three of them watched for more than an hour before going back.

At two o'clock in the morning, the phone on the bedside table woke them up. Zhang Xiangbei walked into the bathroom, took a handful of water with his hands, wiped his face without even wiping it, then opened the door and went out. When he saw Xiao Wu, Just coming out of the room.

Xiao Wu went to Liu Dehua's room and rang the doorbell. There was no movement inside. The two took the elevator downstairs and saw Liu Dehua already sitting in the lobby downstairs waiting for them.

Before the three of them walked out of the gate, they heard the roar of large trucks outside. When they walked out, they saw that the roadside was full of large trucks loaded with vegetables, all of which were preparing to drive into the agricultural product logistics park.

The gate of the Agricultural Products Logistics Park is not directly opposite the Wanhua Hotel. You have to go to the intersection in front and turn left to enter. However, the queue of cars has already reached here. You can imagine the scene inside.

The three people walked to the gate of the agricultural product logistics park. The gate was already blocked by vehicles entering and exiting. Several security guards were whistling and directing the vehicles. The driver and the boss stuck their heads out of the cab and cursed. The security guards listened. When I arrived, I pointed at the driver and boss who was cursing me, then quickly put my head back and rolled up the windows.

The security guard walked halfway and then stepped back. He probably encountered people like this every day and didn't even bother to get really angry.

Inside the agricultural product logistics park, there are large sheds with a clear height of seven to eight meters and covered with colored steel tiles. To their surprise, the inside is a little neater than the outside. The large red and blue trucks with high fences are all uniform. The head is facing in, the tail is facing out, and it is parked neatly.

The raincloth and plastic film on the car were lifted, revealing the vegetables in the car. The rear fence was also put down, and the boss stood next to the car and started selling vegetables.

The people coming and going in the middle passage were all small agricultural vehicles and utility vehicles, and even more electric tricycles. These were buyers' vehicles. Liu Dehua told them that these buyers all used tricycles to buy various vegetables and then transport them. Go to the parking lot, fill up a big car, and then set off.

Zhang Xiangbei and Xiao Wu looked at the large trucks parked here. Not only did one truck only have one vegetable variety, but there were dozens of trucks parked in the entire greenhouse, all containing bundles of vegetables. Garlic car.

Liu Dehua told them that the vegetables here are divided into regions. This shed sells garlic sprouts, the big shed next door sells cucumbers, and beyond that sells Chinese cabbage and cabbage. In each such shed, They only sell one kind of vegetables, and everyone who purchases them knows that if you want to buy whatever vegetables you want, just go to the greenhouse.

"Where do these purchases come from?" Zhang Xiangbei asked.

"There are more in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and Dalian." Liu Dehua told Zhang Xiangbei.

"They took it back and then wholesaled it?"

"Yes, and then wholesale it to the vegetable sellers at the local farmer's market."

Liu Dehua said, Zhang Xiangbei thought, this is another intermediate link.

"There are also many large companies and university cafeterias that come here directly to purchase." Liu Dehua told them, "Universities in Beijing, Tianjin and Jinan basically have people sent to Shouguang to be responsible for purchasing."

Zhang Xiangbei nodded. In a university, tens of thousands of people dine every day. If you purchase food here, you can save a lot on this cost alone.

The big truck stopped here, and the driver went to sleep. The people standing by the big truck were all bosses. Zhang Xiangbei asked a few of them. Some of them came from Henan, some from Anhui and Jiangsu, and some from Hebei. They bring the garlic seedlings from Hebei, and then the people from Hebei buy them back from here. It seems that such a thing will really happen here.

They walked around several greenhouses and asked questions along the way. Zhang Xiangbei discovered that vegetables such as Chinese cabbage, cucumbers, garlic sprouts, radishes, and tomatoes were basically imported from neighboring provinces. At most, they were native to Shandong. Large trucks came from Zhejiang and Ningxia, but they sold vegetables such as kale, broccoli, xuedou, and lilies that are rarely produced locally.

There are not many vegetables from Yunnan, Hunan and Guangdong, and their varieties are more diverse, such as cabbage, white jade balsam pear, oil melon, Taiwan's short luffa, as well as sophora japonica, bracken, Houttuynia cordata, brucein, and wild fungi. , bitter thorn flower, gray chard, stinkweed, water celery, sage, splendens, artemisia, dandelion, mountain bittercress, tangerine flower and so on.

There are also stores that specialize in selling vegetable varieties imported from abroad. These vegetables are basically supplied to Western restaurants and large supermarkets.

There are many vegetables that Zhang Xiangbei has never even seen. The sales volume of these vegetables in the north will not be very large, but there is a need for them in canteens and hotels of some units. If there is a need, the market will appear.

Zhang Xiangbei walked around and found a strange phenomenon. Few of these large trucks were from Shouguang. Zhang Xiangbei asked Liu Dehua, don't Shouguang people sell vegetables here?

"Selling, in the greenhouse over there, they are just loaded with agricultural vehicles and sold, there are no big vehicles like this."

"Why?"

"Agricultural vehicles are sold to these scattered wholesalers. When they are sold out, they go back and bring another cart over. If a customer needs a whole truck of vegetables, he goes directly to the vegetable field to buy it and does not come here. At this point, the market still has to tap and charge handling fees." Liu Dehua told them.

The three of them walked around and it was only around five o'clock when they returned to the hotel. The hotel's breakfast was served at six o'clock. There was still more than half an hour, so they simply went to the small shop next door to eat dumplings.

While eating dumplings, Zhang Xiangbei, Xiao Wu and Liu Dehua said: "It seems that this market is not our target. Although there are many varieties of dishes here, it is not the source. We need to find the source."

Xiao Wu nodded and said: "The price from the source will be the cheapest."

"On the one hand, the price is cheap, and another important reason is that only by purchasing from the source can we have an accurate grasp of the production conditions of the place of origin. Only then can we control the quantity supplied within a certain period and have an estimate, otherwise there will be chaos. .”

Zhang Xiangbei said and Xiao Wu nodded.

Liu Dehua said: "If you want to find the source, then go directly to the cooperative."

"Cooperative? What do you mean?" Zhang Xiangbei asked.

"Our vegetable growers here basically all participate in vegetable cooperatives. There are almost every village and every street in a cooperative. The cooperative organizes everyone and arranges everything from what to plant to when to harvest and how much to harvest. , and finally responsible for unified sales.”

Liu Dehua told them, Zhang Xiangbei shouted: "That's good, they are all professional cooperatives, right? Your family also participated?"

"Of course I participated." Liu Dehua said.

"Okay, then we will directly find the cooperative and establish a cooperative relationship with the cooperative."

Zhang Xiangbei said that it seems that Shouguang is a step further than their hometown, where they are still independent and working alone, but here they have been organized. With such an organization, it is convenient for Zhang Xiangbei and the others. A lot.

"Mr. Zhang, let's finish breakfast and rest for a while. We'll get up at around nine o'clock. I'll take you to a few cooperatives. If it's too early, they will be very busy and may not have time to receive us."

Liu Dehua said, Zhang Xiangbei nodded.

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