Chapter 17 Chapter 17 How come it's you?
The Chinese cabbage from Xianshan Farm has become a hit.
The live stream where he "only loves eating meat" was edited into clips by viewers online that day and circulated on various websites.
One second the anchor was saying, "No vegetable can taste better than meat," and the next second he was fighting with his assistant for the cabbage on the plate, not even glancing at the fragrant meat next to him.
The "only loves eating meat" persona backfired, but it was actually quite funny.
[Look at your name, you've forgotten your roots!]
The most popular of those short videos even garnered over 500,000 likes. Not to mention anything else, at least many people in Ling'an City now know about the Chinese cabbage produced by Xianshan Farm, and even the customer traffic at Xiaoping'an Supermarket has increased.
At first, it would take two days to sell out the thirty cabbages in Xiaoping's supermarket, but now even sixty cabbages a day are not enough.
Customers who arrived late stared blankly at the empty shelves.
"Sorry," the person in charge of the Xianshan Farm area explained with a smile, "It's really not that Xiaoping'an Supermarket is trying to create scarcity. This kind of Chinese cabbage is difficult to grow, and Xianshan Farm can only supply a limited amount before the next batch matures."
Customers who couldn't buy anything had to leave disappointed. Seeing that the vegetables in the fresh produce section looked good, they bought some to take home, secretly resolving to get up early the next day.
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At the Fresh & Delicious Supermarket near the vegetable market, the general manager, who was on an inspection tour, saw customers shaking their heads and sighing at the cabbages on the shelves more than once.
She turned to the purchasing manager and asked, "Is there something wrong with the cabbages lately?"
The purchasing manager looked bewildered: "No, it's still the same agricultural company supplying the goods. The quality of the cabbages we've been getting lately is no different from before."
"If there's no difference, then why aren't customers buying?"
For several days now, very few people have been buying cabbage, and the number of rotten cabbages that the staff are cleaning up every day is also greater than before.
Even more surprisingly, the number of customers has decreased.
This is something that has never happened before.
The general manager frowned, pushed a shopping cart, and pretended to be a customer as he approached the cabbage shelf.
At that moment, several people were buying other vegetables in front of the shelf. One person looked at a cabbage, but eventually put it down and prepared to leave.
The general manager looked at the cabbage, picked it up, and said, "This cabbage is quite fresh."
The man turned around and looked at her when he heard the voice, then nodded: "It is quite novel."
Before the general manager could even breathe a sigh of relief, the man added, "But it doesn't taste good, and it's not cheap either."
"Not tasty?" The general manager was taken aback. "Don't all cabbages taste the same? Only winter cabbage is a bit tastier."
The man chuckled, “There’s a cabbage that’s even tastier than winter cabbage…” She seemed to realize something and quickly stopped, waving her hand and saying, “Never mind, these cabbages are just ordinary anyway, and people don’t usually eat them.”
Aside from those who really like it, most people only buy cabbage when they have absolutely no other vegetables to choose from.
Sometimes, I buy winter cabbage grown by farmers themselves in winter.
These vegetables from the greenhouse, I don't know if it's just psychological, but they just taste a little off.
After saying that, the customer pushed the shopping cart away.
The general manager, somewhat puzzled, frowned and silently put down the cabbage in his hand, returning to his office.
As soon as she entered, she said to the purchasing manager, "The customer said there's a brand of cabbage that tastes even better than winter cabbage. Can you find out which brand it is?"
Just as the purchasing manager was about to nod, the young assistant hesitated and said, "Cabbage that tastes even better than winter cabbage... I think I know which company it is..."
The general manager and the purchasing manager both looked at her.
The assistant took out his phone and found a clip from the live stream of "Only Loves to Eat Meat":
"Mr. Chen, it's the cabbage from the Immortal Mountain Farm that this disciple of the Qingfeng Sect mentioned."
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After signing the contract with Xiaoping'an Supermarket, Li Chang'an stopped setting up a stall.
He currently has two thousand cabbages that can barely supply Xiaoping'an Supermarket and Qingfeng Sect. Besides, he can't sell them even if he sets up a stall, so he simply farms and cultivates in the immortal mountain.
Except for a few cabbages that needed to be saved for seeds, all the other cabbages in the field were picked by Li Chang'an.
He cut down some bamboo and built a warehouse next to the bamboo house.
The bamboo floor of the warehouse was raised more than 20 centimeters, and the cabbages that had been picked were stored inside.
With Li Chang'an inputting spiritual energy every day, the cabbages can be stored in the warehouse for a long time, and they still look fresh and cute, without any signs of dehydration or wilting.
The poor-quality spiritual soil of that one acre of land was now empty, so Li Chang'an started turning the soil again, irrigating it with water from the Ningjing River, and even using the outermost leaves of Chinese cabbage as compost to spread on the ground.
Despite being carefully nurtured, the spiritual energy of the inferior spiritual soil doesn't seem to have been lost much.
While waiting for those cabbages to bolt and flower, Li Chang'an harvested a batch of wheat, edamame, millet, and yellow millet.
The wheat and edamame grew on those five square meters of poor soil. The wheat flour produced was very fragrant, and the edamame was tender and had no fishy smell at all.
Millet and yellow millet only have low-quality compost at their roots, so they grow a little slower, but their quality is not bad.
Li Chang'an kept a few plants of each of the four grains for seed, and sold the rest to the Qingfeng Sect.
Since the quantity is small, it cannot supply Xiaoping'an Supermarket, so it can only make a few limited-time special dishes for Qingfengpai.
The poor-quality soil shortened the crop's maturation time, and the few cabbages that were saved for seed quickly produced seeds.
Following the video he had saved, Li Chang'an rubbed the seeds into a cardboard box and placed it on a large rock to dry.
Just as he finished, he noticed that Xie Kuling had entered the immortal mountain, and his steps seemed a little hurried.
Li Chang'an straightened up and instantly teleported to the bamboo forest: "What's wrong?"
His sudden appearance didn't frighten Xie Kuling, as he was already used to it.
“A purchasing manager from a supermarket came to Qingfengpai and wanted to inquire about your cabbages.”
“I told him that you had signed a contract with Xiaoping An Supermarket to supply only Xiaoping An in Ling’an City, and he said that you could supply them to their branches and supermarkets in other cities.”
Li Chang'an patted the dust off his hands: "What's the supermarket called?"
"Delicious and fresh."
Li Chang'an paused.
That's a very familiar name.
Xie Kuling took in his reaction and smiled, saying, "I know about your connection with Fresh Good Taste Supermarket, so I came here specifically to tell you."
That day, Li Chang'an and Xie Xuan brought cabbages to Xianhaowei's door to seek cooperation, but were ridiculed by the purchasing specialist.
Upon returning, Xie Xuan recounted the incident to him indignantly.
"So, would you like to meet them?"
Li Chang'an nodded: "Let's meet them, so they won't bother the Qingfeng Sect."
Before setting off, he drew a cleansing talisman on himself, and his body immediately became clean and refreshed, and the mud that had gotten on his clothes while doing farm work disappeared.
Upon arriving at the main hall of the Qingfeng Sect, Li Chang'an had just stepped through the gate when he saw a familiar face.
It was the purchasing agent who had mocked him that day.
Upon seeing Xie Kuling lead Li Chang'an in, the purchasing specialist's eyes widened in surprise: "What, what are you doing here?!"
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