Chapter 58: Fragrance Spreads Ten Miles Away
Not long after the message was sent, many messages came in.
Zhong Ming: Boss, you're finally opening up. It's the holiday season, peak tourist season.
[Wan Zi Ai Jun Jun: I haven't eaten your food for several days. I dream about it every day.]
[Brother Jie: Boss, you've been gone for so long. Shouldn't you make some solid food these past two days to make it up to us?]
[Yu Yue: I thought your store was closed. It's finally back in business! I was so scared.]
Chef Bai from Qiongye Restaurant: ??? Why would my place go bankrupt out of nowhere?
[Yu Yue: That must be because the craftsmanship is so good that someone paid a huge price to dig it out and take it somewhere else.]
Chef Bai from Qiongye Restaurant: I'm just an ordinary cook. Please don't exaggerate.
Although the restaurant has not been open for several days, Bai Mengmeng is still happy to see that everyone in the group is thinking about her dishes.
Although this farm stay does make life busy, fortunately her talent is really great. The food is delicious and will gradually attract many people.
This kind of leisurely and peaceful life is exactly what Bai Mengmeng wants.
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What should be on tomorrow's menu?
Bai Mengmeng looked around the kitchen and found a lot of chestnuts, sweet potatoes, pumpkins and acorns.
Other things are easy to store. You can leave them for a little longer and the taste will be sweeter after the starch settles.
As for the acorns, you can dry them in the sun, grind them into powder, and use them to make jelly.
After taking it out to dry, seeing that it was still early, Bai Mengmeng went straight to the vegetable market to see if there were any seasonal vegetables and think about what to buy tomorrow.
Driving a small tricycle, he slowly walked towards the vegetable market.
The vegetable market in Fenghuang Town has not only a morning market but also a night market. Not only inside the vegetable market, but also in the open space outside, there are many farmers selling agricultural and sideline products there, so the scale is not small.
After Bai Mengmeng parked the car, she was about to walk into the market, but she found that there seemed to be a lot of people gathered outside.
Some farmers gathered together, carrying loads on their shoulders, or carrying bamboo baskets and oil bags.
Before I got close, the fragrance of osmanthus wafted over from afar.
"Twelve yuan per pound, fresh osmanthus flowers, twelve yuan per pound!" A man with a thick accent was shouting loudly in the crowd.
It turned out to be osmanthus!
Because of the unique climate, the local osmanthus is also quite famous. Although it is not famous for its osmanthus and there is no large-scale planting, people from other provinces still come to purchase it.
Bai Mengmeng walked forward with a smile on her face, planning to buy some if the quality was good.
Although many people grow this thing and it can even be seen on the roadside, the quality varies and it is not easy to screen it.
But perhaps because she was a stranger and not very old, no one paid any attention to her after she walked around twice.
The merchant weighed the goods very quickly. He paid the money after weighing them, and then moved on to the next one. Soon, the pickup truck was loaded with several bags of osmanthus flowers, and the number of people around him gradually decreased.
This is almost the end.
Bai Mengmeng was a little disappointed, but before leaving, she saw a little girl running towards her quickly with a basket.
She walked up to the merchant who was purchasing and said a few words. The man shook his head and started to leave.
The little girl's disappointment was visibly evident.
"Do you want to sell the osmanthus flowers?" Bai Mengmeng walked up and asked curiously.
There are not many osmanthus flowers in the little girl's basket, but they are golden in color and look full, and they are handled very cleanly.
The girl's eyes widened immediately, and she nodded in surprise: "Yes, I want to sell all of these."
But after saying that, the girl was a little disappointed: "But my quantity is too small, and the boss was too lazy to calculate it."
"How about I buy it? I just happen to be craving for osmanthus flowers recently." Bai Mengmeng said with a smile.
The girl's eyes suddenly lit up, her face full of surprise.
"If you want to buy my osmanthus flowers, I'll sell them for ten yuan a pound. There are two pounds here, so just give me twenty yuan."
Hearing this, Bai Mengmeng found it funny. No wonder the merchant refused to buy it. Two kilograms of osmanthus flowers were indeed a little too little.
But they were doing wholesale, and she just wanted to buy some to cook, so it didn't matter.
He simply gave her a red note, then took out a plastic bag from his pocket, put the osmanthus flowers in the bag, and tied a knot neatly.
The girl was a little embarrassed at this time: "I... I don't have that much change."
It is already October and the weather is a little chilly, but the little girl is still wearing a very thin white T-shirt and torn sandals. She probably doesn't even have ten dollars on her.
Bai Mengmeng originally wanted to give the money directly to the little girl and tell her not to change it, but considering that this would hurt her self-esteem, she could only smile and say:
"I don't have any change, so you can take it first as my deposit. Then you can sell the osmanthus flowers to me later, okay?"
The little girl was even more surprised and nodded quickly:
"That's great! There are actually a lot of osmanthus flowers in my yard, but they are too tall, so I can't pick them."
Bai Mengmeng was a little hesitant for a moment. She just wanted to help the little girl and didn't actually need so many osmanthus flowers.
But I was also afraid that the little girl would climb up the tree to pick osmanthus flowers in order to keep her promise, which would be too dangerous.
After pondering for a moment, Bai Mengmeng asked, "Is your home far from here?"
The little girl Yan Wang pointed to a yard at the back, where there were some old houses.
"Go that way. My house is the second one over there."
"Are there any adults at home now? My friend and I will go to your house to pick osmanthus flowers?" Since I have decided to help, I might as well be a good person and help to the end, and buy all the osmanthus flowers directly.
Then I'll make some osmanthus cake, osmanthus honey, osmanthus candied lotus root, and osmanthus spareribs...
Many recipes using osmanthus suddenly popped up in my mind.
In this way, these vegetables can be sold for money, and the little girl can also get help.
The little girl was so happy that she couldn't stop smiling. She nodded quickly: "Yes, yes, my grandma is at home!"
Bai Mengmeng quickly called Wang Hao. He knew that the other party was shopping near the scrap yard, so he asked him to come over quickly and bring a beam scale and oilcloth.
After a while, Wang Hao came.
He handed the item over, looking confused at the same time, "Master, are you going to do something?"
Bai Mengmeng laughed and said, "I'm planning to buy some osmanthus flowers to cook. Let's go to this little sister's house to pick osmanthus flowers."
The little girl skipped and jumped in front, ran forward about a hundred meters, turned a corner, and walked into a small alley.
The roads here are very narrow, with some bungalows on both sides that look quite old, and each one has a small yard.
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