Since brothers Liu Yuebing and Cai Wulin both started ordering Li Yuan's vegetables, his customer base has grown explosively. However, in just two or three weeks, chefs from more than 30 restaurants contacted Li Yuan, hoping to buy from him.
Li Yuan agreed to more than a dozen restaurants and promised to supply them. In addition to Xinghualou and the five flagship restaurants of the Contract Catering Group, now Li Yuan will provide fresh vegetables to more than 20 restaurants.
The scale of these restaurants is very large, and the daily demand for vegetables is not small. However, Li Yuan's vegetable garden is only more than five acres in total, and it takes time for vegetables to grow, so his vegetables have been in short supply.
Even Liu Yuebing, who has the best relationship with Li Yuan, can only get a hundred catties of vegetables from him every three days. For a restaurant of the size of Deyuelou, such a small amount of vegetables is simply a drop in the bucket.
And compared with the arguably meager supply, the popularity of these vegetables is very hot. Almost every table of guests will order these vegetables specially, and some guests will order them again after tasting them. There are even some returning customers who come here specifically for these vegetables. After they come to the store, they don't want other dishes, so they just order the six types of vegetables that Li Yuan can currently provide, and they also specifically stated that each dish must be served twice. Even if the price of these vegetables is more expensive than seafood, these customers don't care.
Because these vegetables are so popular, they have already attracted much attention in the catering circle of Wuxi City. As the only supplier of these vegetables, Li Yuan also received more and more calls for purchase.
Just in the past three days, Li Yuan has received calls from the Chinese kitchen of a five-star hotel and the chefs of two other well-known big restaurants, all of whom want to buy vegetables from him without exception. . Even a restaurant far away in the provincial capital took the initiative to contact Li Yuan, hoping to buy from him.
However, right now Li Yuan really couldn't make any shipments, so he could only say hello to them, and promised to give them priority when the production increased in the future.
And these calls are only from those famous big hotels and restaurants. There are more calls from other small and medium-sized restaurants, and they can receive more than ten or twenty calls a day, which is simply impossible to count.
For Li Yuan, these phone calls really made him both painful and happy.
The happy thing is that Li Yuan is now very sure that using golden beads to grow vegetables has a bright future. As long as he can guarantee the supply, he can easily make a lot of money, and he is not far from his life goal of enjoying life to the fullest.
The pain is that the vegetable garden is too small right now, and it is impossible to provide enough vegetables to customers. So much so that Li Yuan watched helplessly the money he could have earned slipped away from his eyes. This pain could hardly be expressed in words.
So Li Yuan quickly made up his mind, came to Lao Liao's house and said viciously: "I have made up my mind, I want to leave here and go outside!"
Although after taking the golden beads that Li Yuan secretly put into the water, Lao Liao's legs and feet have become more agile. However, in his free time, he still used to carve some gadgets out of old bamboo.
After hearing Li Yuan's words, Lao Liao put down the carving knife in his hand, looked at him and asked unhurriedly, "Boy, have you really thought about it?"
"Think about it!" Li Yuan nodded heavily: "I have a bigger ideal, so I need a bigger stage to realize it. If I stay in this small place all the time, I will have no future!"
"Isn't your ideal just those old tricks? I'm too embarrassed to say you." Lao Liao habitually uttered a bad sentence, and then nodded slowly: "But I agree with your idea of going out, young man I have to see the world everywhere, how can I stay in such a small place all the time! But... "
Speaking of this, Lao Liao paused slightly, and then asked Li Yuan: "What are your plans?"
Li Yuan had already thought about this point, and said without hesitation: "Vegetables are selling better and better now, and the supply of those vegetables is already in short supply. I want to go to the outskirts of the city to contract a piece of land first, increase production and supply more Customers. In the future, my vegetables will not only occupy Wuxi City, but also enter the provincial capital and sell them all over the country!"
Although Li Yuan's goal sounds a little unrealistic, Lao Liao showed a hint of relief, nodded slightly and said: "I am also very pleased that you have such an ambition. I used to watch you eat and wait to die every day. I thought you, like Ye Jun and his gang, were a guy with no ambitions!"
"You have no ambitions." Li Yuan gave Lao Liao a dissatisfied look and said, "I used to keep a low profile just to hide my strength and bide my time. Now that I have such a good opportunity, of course I have to give it a go!"
Looking at the fighting spirit of Li Yuan, Lao Liao didn't say any more, but walked into the bedroom alone. After a while, he came out slowly, handed a bank card to Li Yuan and said, "There are more than 30,000 yuan in this card, which I have saved over the past few years. You can use it first. The password is mine." Birthday, you kid should still remember it?"
Looking at the small bank card, Li Yuan only felt warm in his heart. Although the two often quarrel, they will try their best to support each other when encountering major events. The so-called Wangnianjiao is vividly reflected in Li Yuan and Lao Liao.
Li Yuan and Lao Liao are already like a family, so he will not refuse Lao Liao's kindness, and he generously took the bank card and said: "Okay, I need money right now, so you're welcome. But this Treat the money as a loan from you, and when I earn it, I will pay you back the principal with interest."
"Nonsense, of course I lent it to you!" Lao Liao gave Li Yuan an angry look and said, "You are not my son, why should I give you money for nothing?"
Li Yuan nodded deeply and said: "You are right! I will pay you back when I earn money, and then you can use the money to find a younger wife. If you work hard, you may be able to grow old. !"
"Get out!" Amidst Lao Liao's angry shout, Li Yuan left his home with a smile.
But after walking out of Lao Liao's house, Li Yuan's expression immediately turned serious, and he muttered to himself in a low voice: "Don't worry, old guy, I won't let you down!"
In the next few days, apart from taking care of the vegetable garden and making deliveries, Li Yuan has been wandering around the suburbs of the city on his old-fashioned bicycle, just to find a bigger piece of land to grow vegetables.
However, the water villages in the south of the Yangtze River have many people and little land, and many places in the suburbs of the city have been developed into residential areas. It is not easy to find a large area suitable for growing vegetables. Reluctantly, Li Yuan could only look for it in the outer suburbs, and the distance of cycling alone would be dozens of kilometers every day. Fortunately, he is physically strong now, so he doesn't feel strenuous.
The so-called "hard work pays off", Li Yuan really found a suitable place after a few days.