“Is this carrot real?”
"I don't know. Look, it says 'Bai Yu Luo' on it. Maybe it's actually carved out of white jade!"
"This is a produce store. We don't sell carvings. These are just edible radishes."
"Who knows, maybe a jade sculpture could be placed there to attract wealth!"
“There are four of them!”
"Lucky buff*4"
“…”
"Anyway, I've never seen a radish this white, this clean, and this big."
“I really want to buy some to try.”
"50 yuan per pound..."
As soon as the white jade radish was put on the shelves today, many people who took a casual look at it were like their shoes were stuck to the ground, and they stayed there motionless, staring at the flawless white jade radish inside, and exclaiming in amazement.
For no other reason than this white jade radish is so beautiful.
Don't think that the white jade radish is strong just because it matures in the hard soil. In fact, the white jade radish is very fragile and its skin can't withstand the slightest scratch. So it's not as easy as it looks for Liu Ben to harvest the radishes. He has to control the strength properly when knocking the soil. If the strength is too little, there will be no trace on the iron ground. If the strength is too much, the white jade radish will be broken together. Liu Ben needs to be very careful to dig out these radishes cleanly and intact.
He hadn't been completely unscathed; several white jade radishes had scratches on them when he dug them out. Of course, ordinary people wouldn't mind a few scratches when eating radishes, but the damned Big Cat System wouldn't accept them. It only scraped away the cleanest and prettiest ones, leaving the rest to Liu Ben. Liu Ben could only curse inwardly as he sorted through the remaining radishes, saving the unsightly ones for pickled radishes and selling the good ones.
The benefit of this caution is that the white jade radishes displayed today are large, round, flawless, and their skin smooth and white like jade. Liu Ben fashioned racks and placed the radishes upright one by one. In the light, the white jade radishes truly resemble jade sculptures placed in a collector's glass cabinet, beautiful and noble.
"White Jade Radish, 50 yuan per pound, enhances appetite, promotes digestion, and nourishes the intestines. It can really be eaten!" Someone read the contents on the label in amazement.
"Is this delicious?" someone asked Wang Caiqing.
Wang Caiqing smiled and said, "Even though it's homemade, I still want to praise it. It's really delicious and really appetizing."
A little girl asked, "How heavy is this carrot?"
Wang Caiqing: "The smallest one weighs eight kilograms."
"Eight kilograms, that's 400 yuan each, my goodness!" exclaimed an old lady.
This radish is not like other vegetables. It cannot be sold individually. If you want to buy it, you have to buy it one by one. One costs 400 or even more, which is not affordable for ordinary people.
"When you buy it, just treat it like winter melon. Cut as much as you want to eat. It can be stored for a long time, so you don't have to worry about it going bad if you can't finish it." Liu Shuangying is not very good at selling words, but he can still tell the truth. After all, this is the experience of his family eating white jade radish these days.
Don’t be fooled by the fact that white jade radish looks juicy, crisp and tender like fruit. In fact, it can withstand freezing and storage after being cut.
Of course they said that, and new customers can't easily spend 400 yuan to buy a carrot.
“Are there any dishes in the store?”
Liu Shuangying was very familiar with this: "There are three dishes to choose from. The portions are not large, only about 30 grams per dish."
Customers who are already familiar with this store don’t think it’s expensive. Compared with other products, it’s still relatively cheap, but that’s not their focus.
"There are actually three ways to choose from for this dish! It's on par with your signature Wushuang rice, right? Haha!"
There are three ways to eat Wushuang rice, namely rice, rice porridge, and rice milk. These are all very simple methods, but they are also three kinds of dishes.
Wang Caiqing smiled and said, "Actually, it's steamed radish, salad radish, and pickled radish."
In order to let the guests taste the original flavor of the dishes, other dishes are simply cooked by salad dressing, blanching, etc., but Bai Yu Luo has a pickled radish dish, which is relatively complicated.
"I want to try it!" Two familiar boys squeezed out and smiled at Wang Caiqing.
"Oh, it's you again? Why is there one kid missing today?" Wang Caiqing recognized them immediately. Who else could it be but Weng Yuzhuo and Hong Kang?
"Ahem," Hong Kang pretended to be serious. "He's learning calligraphy at home. We're the first to try your new dish today."
Actually, Guan Mingbo was forced by Grandpa Guan to practice calligraphy in the study. Grandpa Guan ate radishes for a few days, and his appetite and mood improved. However, no matter how big the radish was, the whole family would finish it quickly. Although other dishes at Aben's house were also delicious, Grandpa Guan just liked that radish and asked Aunt Li to come to the store to check, but there were no radishes for sale. Grandpa Guan was in a bad mood without radishes, and when he saw Guan Mingbo's poor handwriting, he didn't let him go out.
Weng Yuzhuo nodded: "Yes, I want to try the pickled radish."
They were different from those who lived alone. They had big families with them, and white radish was very appetizing, so they finished 10 kilograms of radish in no time. They were really greedy these two days.
Weng Yuzhuo was sweet-talking and coaxed Grandma Liu into agreeing to notify him one day in advance of what new agricultural products would be on sale. So he received the news yesterday and came to buy them today. He didn't expect that there would be a dish called pickled radish.
This is odd. This produce shop has always sold simple dishes, so why is it switching to pickled radish? Is it planning to open a serious restaurant?
Thinking this way, he asked directly.
"We don't know either." Liu Shuangying told the truth. Xiao Ben suddenly took out the recipe for pickled radish and asked the family to make white jade radish into pickles and sell them. The family couldn't ask anything.
The night before yesterday, Liu Ben suddenly announced that the daily salary of each person in his family who works in the store would be increased to 500 yuan. This was also without any warning. Moreover, once he makes a decision on many things, he will not change it.
On average, each member of the Liu family could earn 6,000 yuan per month by helping Liu Ben run the store, which was considered a high salary. The Liu family didn't know how much Liu Ben would have to pay for the goods he bought from the research institute, and they worried for a long time whether he would lose money.
Uh, I'm off topic. In short, Liu Ben did a lot of things suddenly, which seemed unreliable, but he never messed up.
"Okay, let's try it first." Weng Yuzhuo shrugged.
I originally thought it was just the most common radish in the village, which was dried and pickled with salt and chili peppers, but I didn’t expect the small dish of white radish served was quite exquisite.
Short, juicy, sauce-colored radish strips are neatly stacked in layers to form a small tower, with a thin circle of juice spread out on the plate, which looks very appetizing.
Hong Kang casually threw one into his mouth and exclaimed "Wow".
"Is it delicious?" Weng Yuzhuo asked him.
Hong Kang didn't say anything, picked up another one, and then gave Weng Yuzhuo a thumbs up.
Weng Yuzhuo quickly picked up some and ate it. As expected, it was sweet and spicy, refreshing and appetizing, and especially good with rice.
The two of them originally just wanted to try the pickled radish, but they couldn't help but order two bowls of rice to eat with it.
Almost everyone else in the restaurant who ordered pickled radish did the same thing. They ordered an extra meal with tears in their eyes. There was nothing they could do about it; the pickled radish was just too delicious.
"Auntie, can I take this pickled radish away?" Weng Yuzhuo ran to Wang Caiqing, who was weighing rice for the customers, and asked eagerly.
Wang Caiqing kept her hands busy, but she still had time to glance at their table: "Aren't you all finished eating?"
The table is empty, there is nothing to pack.
Weng Yuzhuo scratched his head: "I want to pack a few to take home and bring some for Bo'er as well."
30 yuan per portion is not too expensive for them, and it would be nice if they could take it home and eat it with their family.
Liu Shuangying was cleaning up the dishes. Upon hearing this, he said helplessly, "We don't have take-out boxes here." We only have those simple plastic bags, which are not very hygienic.
Weng Yuzhuo thought for a moment and clapped his hands: "Then I'll go buy some takeout boxes!"
He did it right away. He and Hong Kang whispered for a while and then ran out. He soon came back with a few take-out boxes.
There are many snack shops around, and every one of them has take-out boxes, which you can buy with a little extra money.
A plate of pickled radish costs 30 yuan, but it's not much. A round takeaway box only has enough for the plate of radish to fill the bottom. Five plates, more than a pound, fill the box.
The two teenagers paid the money and left with three full take-out boxes and three big radishes. They still had to go and save Guan Mingbo!
Other customers who wanted to try the pickled radish but didn't want to spend an extra bowl of rice also realized that although the store didn't have take-out boxes, they could buy them themselves, so they went to nearby stores to buy take-out boxes.
Wang Caiqing, who never goes out for snacks, has looked at all the different take-out boxes from nearby stores today. There are round paper boxes with openings for ice cream, strip-shaped paper boxes with lids for octopus balls, small plastic boxes for salad dressing...all kinds of things.
Aben's produce is very expensive, so even for the tasting dishes and rice, many people usually order a portion for two or more people. But today, many people who ordered pickled radish together also bought a portion individually.
They said they wanted to take it home as a snack for dinner, or put it in a beautiful lunch box and take it to work tomorrow.
However, Wang Caiqing and Liu Shuangying were not particularly surprised. This pickled radish was a recipe that Xiao Ben got from somewhere. The method was uncommon but not difficult. The finished product tasted unexpectedly good, making people want to eat more and more. Moreover, when there was pickled radish on the table, other dishes tasted more fragrant.
"Pickled radish is very popular..." Liu Ben was very happy when he got the news when he came to deliver milk at noon.
Liu Shuangying smiled and said, "It's not very popular, it's very popular! To be honest, the sales of pickled radish now far exceed those of the whole white jade radish."
Less than ten white jade radishes were sold, and many customers bought them in groups and asked Wang Caiqing to cut them and pay for them.
Pickled radish is not dried radish. It contains a lot of water, and the cost of the seasoning used in pickled radish is very low. No matter how you calculate it, the profit is higher than that of the whole white radish.
This is quite surprising. Liu Ben did not expect that a plate of pickled radish weighing only about 100 grams and selling for 30 yuan would be so popular.
What is this? Isn’t this a business opportunity?!
Liu Ben just doesn't want to turn the farm produce store into a restaurant, but it's not impossible for him to sell agricultural and sideline products like pickled radishes.
Moreover, pickled radish does not require a lot of equipment like a cattle farm. As long as there are enough people, the pickling work will not be difficult. At most, you will need an automatic weighing, bottling and coding equipment, which will not be very expensive. The venue does not need to be too large. You can set up a family workshop, like a dairy farm, and require employees to dress neatly, undergo physical examinations, etc. according to regulations. These are not difficult.
The cost of white jade radish is very high. If it is canned, a can of pickled radish must be at least 300 grams to be decent, so a can will sell for 90 yuan. More people may still prefer to buy it in bulk, so it is cheaper.
But Liu Ben didn't want to sell it too cheaply, so he decided to sell it at a minimum of 80 yuan per can.
Actually, this isn't cheap, and there definitely won't be many people buying it. If it were a little cheaper...
Wait, come to think of it, now is the time to plant radishes.
Not in the space, but outside, in the village. Now that the weather is getting cooler and the rice fields have been harvested, it's time to plant radishes. So, can we get the villagers to plant white jade radish together? Although the quality of the white jade radish grown outside isn't as good as the one grown in the space, the price can be lower.
Of course, white jade radish is difficult to harvest, and each household can't grow much, but if the entire village grows it, the yield is still substantial. Many rural industries are like this: they're formal, inexpensive, and receive strong government support.
Although there are still many problems, it will be too late if we miss the planting time. Let's deal with other things after the planting is completed.
Now the first step is to get the seeds.
Liu Ben tentatively took out all the seeds from the white jade radish seed packet to see if it could be refilled, but it didn't. He took out all the seeds, even taking them out of the space, leaving them in his bedroom, and then returned to the space.
But the seed packet was still flat. I opened it and looked, but there was not a single seed inside.
【Hehehe～】
When the bad cat of the system laughed cunningly, Liu Ben knew that this would not be an easy task.
The author has something to say:
Thank you to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution~
I don't buy it often, so I bought a bottle of chocolate.
P.S.: I’ve been so lazy lately… I can’t do this anymore…
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