I am farming in the real world

Chapter 36: The Groaning Noodle Shop Owner

Thanks to the [Bed]'s instant-sleep function, and not having to set an alarm to get up early to deliver goods the next day, Chen Jue slept especially soundly that night.

When he woke up naturally around 9 o'clock the next morning, Chen Jue rubbed his sleepy eyes and crawled out of the wooden house.

The sound of chickens clucking came from the distant chicken coop, and before him was a large expanse of green grass, with several fruit trees that had grown to the second stage standing in the middle.

"Woohoo~ So comfortable!"

This pleasing MC scene made Chen Jue stretch. He even wanted to stay in this offline single-player world forever.

After all, it was "Minecraft." The feeling of being undisturbed and isolated from the world was also very good.

After circling around and not seeing any [Villagers] spawning, Chen Jue tilted his head and thought, "How low is 'extremely low probability'? Is it because the village layout hasn't been fully restored yet?"

"Or is there a hidden, pay-to-win surprise project?"

Looking back at the few mosaic wooden houses, he always felt that something was missing.

...

After a simple inspection of his vegetable garden along the vertical shaft, and the subway tunnel construction site below, which was bustling with activity.

Finding no unexpected bugs, Chen Jue climbed back to the old Chen Village house with peace of mind.

He glanced at the time and saw that it was almost 10 o'clock. There were several unread messages on his phone, which was left outside to charge.

One was a WeChat video sent by Wu Lao San. The video showed Tie Yi and Tie Lao Liu busy with the two loaders and the driver he brought, moving the Shanghai greens stockpiled in the Wanqiang Logistics Park.

Because the MC vegetable garden had its third harvest in the early hours of the morning, yielding more than ten thousand catties of Shanghai greens.

Chen Jue instructed Tie Yi to load two trucks overnight and transport all the vegetables to the warehouse for storage. He also took out the remaining ten thousand yuan in cash and had Tie Lao Liu, who seemed a little more clever, put on a regular person's skin and go over to help.

The boss was responsible for driving and unloading, and Lao Liu was responsible for overseeing the warehouse handover. The transaction was completed smoothly this morning.

Of course, the busiest person was Tie Yi, the truck driver.

He not only had to load and unload the Shanghai greens produced by the MC vegetable garden, but also rushed to Wentcheng Pingtou Village overnight to bring back the five thousand catties of freshly picked Shanghai greens that he had promised to buy from the villagers before.

A total of 15,000 catties of Shanghai greens were mixed together for shipment.

This was actually the same as those crab farmers in the past who sold hairy crabs. When the season came in September, they hurriedly pulled the crabs from their own ponds to Yangcheng Lake for a soak. Soaked crabs and Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs were mixed together and sold at ridiculously high prices.

Although netizens constantly complained about this profiteering behavior on the internet, ordinary people couldn't taste the difference at all, and they could only curse a few times and feel helpless.

In addition, after a day of market fluctuations, both the production area price and the wholesale price of Shanghai greens increased significantly compared to yesterday.

The production area price rose from 53 cents to 60 cents, and with Chen Jue's original promise to add 10 cents for purchase, it directly became 70 cents per catty.

The vegetable farmers in Wentcheng were so happy that they couldn't close their mouths when they learned of this price. They got up early in the morning to rush to pick them. Each family put together a few hundred catties, and it was easy to gather five thousand catties.

Because they had never encountered this purchase price of 70 cents per catty for Shanghai greens.

You should know that the vegetable farmers in rural areas now don't open up two plots of land like they used to, just planting a little for self-sufficiency.

With the support and help of the local rural economic cooperatives, as long as they weren't lazy, every household started large-scale planting to generate income for the family.

Greenhouses, drip irrigation, and pesticide-spraying drones were almost standard equipment in the village.

According to Li Fumin, the head of the cooperative in Pingtou Village, the land that Chen Jue was currently contracting could produce at least two to three million catties of Shanghai greens a year.

Relying on this one vegetable alone, each household could earn two to three thousand yuan a year.

Not to mention that with the price increase for purchasing vegetables, the villagers' income was visibly rising, and everyone was happy.

It was estimated that it wouldn't be long before the influence of Chen Jue's price increase for purchasing vegetables spread out, and several townships neighboring Pingtou Village would come to him seeking cooperation after hearing the news.

Of course, what surprised and surprised Chen Jue the most was the wholesale price of Shanghai greens in the vegetable basket this morning.

"Damn! 3 yuan 2 per catty?"

"Is the price changing every day? It's doubled in two days! Even gold hasn't risen so fiercely!" Chen Jue was a little dumbfounded when he saw the real-time wholesale price sent by Wu Lao San.

Although Chen Jue already knew that the Shanghai green market was coming, it was indeed a bit more intense than he expected.

The 15,000 catties of Shanghai greens shipped in the early morning brought him a total revenue of 48,000 yuan.

After deducting the expenses for purchasing vegetables from Wentcheng farmers, as well as truck fuel costs, warehouse rent, etc., the gross profit alone reached as much as 44,000 yuan.

This exaggerated income was almost catching up with the quick money earned from shipping MC bayberries before.

"No wonder so many people are vying to be secondary dealers. Who said there's no future in selling vegetables?"

"Isn't this a great way to make money!" Chen Jue took a deep breath.

...

In addition to the message from Wu Lao San, the remaining messages were all from Zhang Fan and Zhao Xiaoguang of Caidie Advertising.

One was to inform him that the new batch of bayberry gift boxes had been completed and that Chen Jue should hurry to pick them up. Because this time, they had ordered 2,500 pieces in one go, which had almost filled their small shop to bursting.

The other was that Xiaoguang said that he would bring two classmates over for Chen Jue to interview when he set up a stall part-time in the evening.

Chen Jue replied one by one, tidied up a bit, and after going out, he rode his bicycle to the homestyle noodle shop in the next village and ordered a bowl of pork rib noodles to slurp on.

The rice noodles were smooth, the pork ribs were soft and glutinous, and the spoonful of salty meat soup was poured on, sprinkled with chopped green onions and dried shrimp, which was especially delicious.

It was just that only two emerald green Shanghai green vegetable leaves were placed in a bowl of noodles, which made Chen Jue realize something was wrong.

Because normally speaking, those who make noodles have never been stingy with putting vegetable leaves, so while slurping, he chatted with the old lady who ran the noodle shop: "Grandma, has the price of vegetables gone up?"

The old lady complained: "Yes! This Shanghai green used to sell for only 2 yuan per catty, but now it's risen to 3 yuan 5 per catty in the vegetable market, it's so expensive! They all say there's a flood outside, and the vegetable fields are flooded. If it keeps rising, I'll have to switch to bean sprouts and cabbage, otherwise there won't be any money to earn from making noodles."

Chen Jue paused with his chopsticks when he heard this, and his thoughts began to stir.

Since even the vegetable market in the countryside has risen to this state, the price of Shanghai greens in the city is even more needless to say.

Because Shanghai greens are an essential vegetable for many noodle shops and dim sum shops in Wenzhou. Without this thing, the flavor of the noodles will be much worse.

Although there are also substitutes like cabbage and head cabbage that can be used, diners who are used to eating it will always feel awkward and strange.

"The impact of this waterlogging is really big!"

"I don't know how many planting bases have been flooded," Chen Jue thought to himself.

While chatting with the old lady, a girl in a goose-yellow summer dress with messy hair walked in from outside the shop, lifting the plastic curtain.

"Ruomeng is here! Still the same as usual?"

"Have you found a job yet?" The old lady seemed to be very familiar with this girl, asked a few questions, and then busied herself at the stove.

The yellow-skirted girl softly replied "Um~ Not yet" and then sat at the table next to Chen Jue, burying her head and looking down at her phone.

"Ruomeng?"

Chen Jue originally planned to leave after finishing the noodles, but after hearing this familiar name, he stared at the girl and sized her up.

Under the messy hair that looked like it had exploded was a delicate Jiangnan face, with willow eyebrows and big eyes wearing black-rimmed glasses, and the arms exposed revealed a touch of unhealthy whiteness.

Seeing Chen Jue looking over, the girl cautiously met his gaze, with a hint of contemplation on her face.

Finally, the two of them almost simultaneously opened their mouths and asked, "Did you graduate from Shannan Elementary School?"

The first update is here~ Continuing to ask for tickets.

Let's play a reply interaction game, let me see how many living people there are, book friends can report what green vegetables are put in the noodles of their hometown (wry smile)