"Oh yes, there are six of us in total, including my uncle."
Now that things have come to this point, even the slowest person would realize that Mr. Xu isn't here to find a partner, but to buy the greenhouses!
Although he had already guessed Xu An's purpose, Xiao Gao still looked at Xu An with unwavering determination and asked, "Mr. Xu, did you come here to buy greenhouses?"
“Yes.” Xu An nodded succinctly.
"Oh, I see." A hint of disappointment flashed in Xiao Gao's eyes, but he quickly cheered up and led Xu An and the other man into the greenhouse, explaining as they walked, "Our greenhouses here are all built with high-quality materials. Look at this steel frame, the thickness of this material—it's all solid, good stuff."
Although Xiao Gao gave a very thorough introduction, once Xu An stepped into the greenhouse, his attention was drawn to the rows of cauliflower inside.
The cauliflower grown in Qianhai Town is green-stemmed loose cauliflower, also known as organic cauliflower.
This type of cauliflower is priced 1-2 yuan per kilogram higher than the common white cauliflower. It has a short maturation cycle. If it is not harvested and stored in time after maturity, its flower head will open up and the flower branches will grow rapidly, entering the flowering and seed-bearing stage.
These cauliflowers are already in the stage of opening their flower heads. If they are harvested now, the taste will be slightly worse, but they will still be edible. However, once the flower stalks have grown, they will no longer be edible.
"If we don't harvest these cauliflowers soon, it will be too late, won't it?" Seeing this, Xu An couldn't help but remind him.
"Oh, let it be. At the current purchase price, it's better to let it rot in the ground."
"Has it gone down again? I heard this morning that it was 65 cents a pound, how much is it now?" Aunt Hong asked casually.
"Sixty-five cents is yesterday's old news. Today, the vegetable vendors are buying at forty cents a pound. Three groups of vendors have come since this morning, and they've all stuck to forty cents a pound."
"Four cents a pound? Those vegetable vendors must be crazy! They're still selling it for three dollars a pound at the market! They haven't lowered the price at all!" Aunt Hong exclaimed in shock.
"They saw that the cauliflower here was already growing, and if we didn't harvest it soon, it would start to flower, so they tried to drive down the price as much as possible." Xiao Gao sighed as he spoke, and then stopped talking about the topic.
The greenhouse covers an area of only 220 square meters. Even though the three of them walked around and stopped frequently, it only took them about ten minutes to carefully examine the entire greenhouse.
"Mr. Xu, how many greenhouses are you planning to acquire?"
"Several," Xu An paused deliberately for a few seconds before saying, "All of them, I plan to take over all the greenhouses that are being transferred in the entire greenhouse planting area!"
"Wow, that's quite a lot! You're accepting all of them?!" Overwhelmed with surprise, Xiao Gao let out a high-pitched scream, gesturing wildly with his hands in the air, and stammered, "That's...that's over fifty greenhouses! You really want them all?"
"Yes." Xu An nodded with a smile, emphasizing, "All of them!"
Hahahaha!
After receiving Xu An's definite answer, Xiao Gao rubbed his hands together and spun around like a headless fly. Then, with lightning speed, he sprinted out of the greenhouse. Three seconds later, his upper body was back inside, and he stammered to Xu An, "Boss Xu, wait a minute, wait a minute, I, I'll call, shout, shout, I'll go."
After stammering for a long time without being able to utter a coherent sentence, Xiao Gao gritted his teeth and disappeared from Xu An and the other person's sight once again. The heavy running sound accompanied by his loud shouts echoed throughout the entire greenhouse planting area.
"Boss Xu is here! Boss Xu is here! Everyone come quickly to my greenhouse! Boss Xu wants to buy all our greenhouses! He'll buy as many as you have! Come quick, everyone!"
The whole world was silent for three seconds; even the chirping of insects and the calls of birds disappeared without a trace.
At the fourth second, Xu An felt as if a thousand troops were charging towards his greenhouse—rapid, heavy, loud, and terrifying.
When Xu An walked along the path in the greenhouse planting area again, a large group of people appeared behind him. Every hundred or two meters, someone would step out from the group and lead Xu An into the greenhouse next to the road.
One, two, three, five, ten
But upon entering each greenhouse, Xu An's first concern wasn't the materials used for construction, the spacing between plants, or their lifespan; rather, it was the blooming green-stemmed cauliflower inside.
One-sixth of the cauliflower has already been harvested, and the remaining one-sixth of the cauliflower stalks stand tall, their pale yellow flowers blooming brilliantly.
Often, words can only convey less than one percent of what the eyes can see.
When Xu An heard that nearly a hundred tons of cauliflower were unsold, he felt a pang of regret, but nothing more. However, when he saw the unsold cauliflower with his own eyes, his heart inexplicably began to ache.
An elderly man in the crowd noticed that Xu An's gaze kept falling on the cauliflower, and immediately asked, "Mr. Xu, are you interested in these cauliflowers?"
Xu An had just nodded and hadn't even had a chance to say anything when the old man excitedly pointed at the cauliflower, looked at Xu An expectantly, and cautiously probed, "Mr. Xu, forty thousand yuan, just forty thousand yuan, this land, this greenhouse, this cauliflower, everything is yours, how about it?"
Huh?
"How about 39,500 yuan? Just 3,500 yuan." Seeing that Xu An still didn't react, the old man clenched his teeth tightly and forced out a sentence: "How about 3,000 yuan?"
"Don't be fooled by the fact that many of the cauliflowers have already flowered. This morning, a pig farm owner came over and was willing to buy them for two cents a pound to feed his pigs. The leaves and stalks can also be sold for a decent price, Mr. Xu. Look at all of these, they're all in good condition. Wouldn't it be worth three thousand yuan?"
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