He happened to know a lot of people, so the two of them decided to do this. If someone wanted vegetables, they would tell him in advance, and his friend would go to the village to collect them. They wouldn't have to go to the market, but would deliver them directly to the buyer, which reduced a lot of risk for both parties.
It sounds like a good idea.
"You are his biggest customer, right?"
Xiao Jin did not deny it, "Yesterday was his first order, and today is my second order."
"So you are not only a big customer, but also the only customer." This is not a business deal.
Jin Zichu explained carefully, "He has a wide network of local contacts. He helped me get the ingredients before. And although these vegetables are not as good as those from the farm, they are natural and have never been treated with pesticides. So the quality is still good."
They didn't chat for long before the professor brought up a new knowledge point in class today, which Xu Manman had never encountered before, so Jin Zichu tutored Xu Manman for more than an hour.
When Xu Manman returned to her space at night, she ate the dishes made from the dried vegetables that Xiao Jin had dried during the day.
It has only been dried for one day. Although it is called dried vegetables, it has actually just lost some water. Before being cooked into dishes, it still needs to be soaked in water. The taste is naturally not as good as fresh vegetables, but the taste of Xiao Jin's cooking is still quite good.
In mid-October, Jin Zichu came again, carrying three large sacks on his bicycle.
Chen Ming was shocked when he opened the door, "Zichu, what are you doing?"
"These are the ones I dried a few days ago. I'll give you some to try when they're ready." Jin Zichu parked the car in the carport as if he was familiar with the place and began to untie the straps of the sacks.
Chen Ming only knew that he was drying the vegetables. In fact, he was the same as Xu Manman. Every week when his cousin had evening classes, he would go to Jin Zichu's place when he didn't have classes. The only difference was that Chen Ming went there openly and not as sneaky as Xu Manman.
When he saw the semi-finished dried vegetables in the yard, his younger brother Zichu also said that he would send some to him to try. Chen Ming thought that since they had such a good relationship, there was no need to care about such a small thing. But what he didn't expect was that Jin Zichu wanted him to taste so much.
"Zichu, you didn't bring all of this, did you?" Vegetables will shrink when dried. With so many, it would take several hundred kilograms to dry them out.
"How could that be? I made a lot. What you saw that day was just a portion. There's still a lot at home. I can't finish it all by myself, so I'm giving you more."
Chen Ming thought, if he knew that one person couldn't finish it, why did he make so much in the first place? But when he thought about the relationship he had talked about with that person when he and Jin Zichu went to buy radishes and cabbages, he figured it out.
His younger brother Zichu probably bought so much just to help his brother and support his business. He is really soft-hearted and kind.
Since the dishes have been delivered, Jin Zichu can't just go back like that, so he naturally stayed to eat.
However, Chen Ming is the chef today. Even so, Jin Zichu is very satisfied to be able to eat at the same table with the host.
Because they were all dried vegetables, which Chen Ming rarely cooked, Xu Manman also guided him throughout the process, and the final result was quite good.
Dried beans stewed with pork belly, spicy dried eggplant, fried meat with dried potatoes, scrambled eggs with pickled vegetables, and the soup is dried shrimp and winter melon soup.
Except for the soup, all the dishes are good with rice, and the pot of rice is quickly eaten up.
Jin Zichu's emotional intelligence is also very good now, "Brother Ming, your skills are getting better and better now. I can't compare with you."
Chen Ming said modestly, "I'm still far behind you, but I've definitely made some progress compared to before. It's all thanks to Manman's guidance."
"Mr. Xu's cooking skills are naturally unmatched by any big restaurant."
Chen Ming was happier to hear his cousin praised than to himself. "I'm not exaggerating. Manman's cooking skills are so good that you can only count on your fingers the number of people in the world who can match her."
Jin Zichu nodded in agreement, "Yes, yes."
"Besides, our Manman taught herself how to cook. She is so much better than those who have to learn from a master."
Jin Zichu continued to praise the topic, "Yeah, strong."
"Manman is also very good at studying. He easily passed the provincial examination and became the top scholar. He is truly a man of both literary and martial arts skills. He is an absolute genius."
"That's right. Students like Xu are not geniuses. There are no geniuses in the world."
Xu Manman held the bowl and looked at the two people in front of her who had not drunk any alcohol but looked like drunk clowns. The people involved were sitting in front of her, and although she said all nice things, she didn't need to consider her sense of shame.
She picked up a piece of spicy eggplant with chopsticks and placed it in Chen Ming's bowl. "Cousin, this is fried very fragrant, eat more."
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