Boss Yu was the last one to receive the gift from Tian An.
After putting on his gloves, scarf, and hat, he looked at the vegetables and strawberries again, then picked up the invitation handed to him by the bank owner and took a look at it.
He asked someone to leave some vegetables, and then packed up the rest of the food along with the invitation and sent it to his wife in the capital.
He also told the delivery man to tell his wife that he must attend the store opening on the invitation.
After arranging everything, Boss Yu picked out some things from the warehouse and bought some on the street. With two horse-drawn carriages, he didn't even have time to eat lunch. He just bought a few buns and headed to Shangba Village.
He wasn't the only one heading to Shangba Village. After delivering the gifts to several familiar families, Chen Qiang went to the four largest restaurants in the county town.
After knocking on the back door of the restaurant, he placed a small basket of vegetables and a small plate of strawberries in front of the person who opened the door.
"My master has grown some fresh vegetables and sweet strawberries and wants to discuss business with the shopkeeper. Please pass on the message, little brother."
The young man casually glanced at the small basket and found that there were fresh vegetables such as cucumbers, beans and eggplants that were not available in this season. There were many varieties and the quality of the vegetables was also very good.
He immediately did not dare to look down on him, and nodded and asked Chen Qiang to wait for a moment, then hurriedly went to find the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper was a little skeptical at first. How could vegetables grown in a greenhouse during the winter be better than those grown in season?
He thought the guy was bragging. But seeing him swearing and swearing like he was ready to die, he decided to go with him to see for himself. What if it was true?
When the shopkeeper saw the basket full of red, green, and dew-covered vegetables, which were incredibly fresh, his jaw almost dropped.
My god, there really is someone who can grow greenhouse vegetables so well! At the same time, he was extremely lucky that he came out to see it. Otherwise, he would have missed the business opportunity.
"How are your vegetables selling? How many do you have left?" asked the shopkeeper after looking at the vegetables.
Greenhouse vegetables are difficult to grow, and he estimated that there wouldn't be too many.
But who would have thought that Chen Qiang actually said: "If the shopkeeper wants it, two taels of silver per basket can supply it to you for a month after the New Year."
The shopkeeper pointed to the basket on the ground and said, "Such a small basket, two taels of silver?"
Chen Qiang: "How could that be? We are honest people. The baskets for vegetables are four times as big as this one and can hold 50 kilograms. The baskets for strawberries can also hold 20 kilograms.
This small basket of vegetables and these strawberries are just a welcome gift for the shopkeeper. If you are sure you want them, we will start delivering them to you tomorrow."
The shopkeeper did some rough calculations. Although these fruits and vegetables were expensive, he could still make a good profit. Moreover, having fresh vegetables in this cold winter was definitely a first, and the restaurant's business would likely improve.
Seeing the shopkeeper's hesitation, Chen Qiang said, "How about you think about it again? I'll go to the next store first! Once you've made up your mind, just send someone to our village to let us know."
"Are you going to the next one?" The shopkeeper was surprised.
Chen Qiang nodded: "My master has prepared four gifts for you."
The shopkeeper said casually, "Isn't your master giving it to the four largest restaurants in the county?"
Chen Qiang said: "I came to you first."
This confirmed his statement. The shopkeeper quickly asked Chen Qiang for the address of the village, and then said that he would go to get the vegetables himself, so he took people to prepare them.
Chen Qiang ignored him and told him to go and get it himself, saving them the trouble. He walked out of the alley behind the restaurant and headed straight for the next one.
The owner of this restaurant was just like Boss Yu. He didn't even have time to eat. He just took some cakes and arranged two horse-drawn carriages and headed towards Shangba Village.
The young man beside him asked in confusion: "Boss, didn't they say they could deliver it? We can just wait, why did you bother yourself by going to the countryside to get it?"
The shopkeeper glanced at him unhappily: "Wait? Didn't you hear him say he wanted to go to a few other places? By tomorrow the daylilies will be cold.
Since he is the first one to come to our store, we should buy all the vegetables first so that the other stores can’t buy anything. This is our exclusive business.”
The young man suddenly realized: "Oh~~Is that so?"
We are all business people, and what you can think of has also been thought of by others.
Next, the several restaurants Chen Qiang visited all followed the same practice.
In this way, one horse-drawn carriage after another drove into Shangba Village.
Although there were occasional horse-drawn carriages coming into the village to visit Tian An's family on weekdays, and the villagers were used to it, there were never as many as this time!
"How many carriages are there?" A family at the entrance of the village looked at the carriages of two more carriages entering the village.
An old man next door who was also paying attention to this said, "I think it was the seventh or eighth! I can't remember clearly."
"Is the Tian An family doing some lucrative business again?"
Someone said, "Just go and take a look and you'll know."
"Why don't everyone go and take a look!" someone suggested.
"Let's go and take a look."
Everyone was curious to begin with, and when someone suggested it, they all agreed and went to Tian An's house.
And at this time Tian An's family.
A group of shop owners in the county town were arguing over a few baskets of vegetables, and they were almost fighting.
Zhao Yiming carefully protected Tian An and stood aside. The two of them stared at the quarreling people in amazement.
Boss Yu was the most frustrated. He was the first to arrive at Tian An's house. He had originally wanted to order all of her dishes, but ended up trying to get a lower price by trying to curry favor with her. As more and more people showed up, things got really chaotic.
Tian An looked at the sky, then at the crowd. It wasn't long until dinner time. Could these people be trying to stay for dinner?
Tian An shuddered and shook her head. That wouldn't work. Her family didn't have any extra food to entertain these people. These shop owners from the county town were very picky and she couldn't serve them.
Tian An rolled his eyes and deliberately pulled Zhao Yiming's sleeve to make him lower his head. Covering his mouth with his hand, he leaned close to his ear and said in a neither loud nor soft voice:
"Brother Yiming, do you think anyone will come later?"
Zhao Yiming looked around calmly and saw that everyone had stopped and was listening with their ears perked up.
Zhao Yiming understood and deliberately looked around before saying, "It seems Master Peng hasn't arrived yet. But he always arrives late, so he should be on his way by now!"
Although the Peng family was small, they were all on the same page. He had been in the county town for a long time, so he had heard of his name. Everyone knew that the Peng family was rich, and if someone really came and liked the dishes, they would definitely buy them all without bargaining.
Everyone looked outside. It was indeed getting late. If they continued arguing, they wouldn't be able to take the food away today without having to wait for Peng Zhang to come.
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