Chapter 382 The picking has begun [Please subscribe, please subscribe]
It's almost noon.
The workers came back one after another after finishing their work, took a shower and prepared to eat.
Eat mutton for lunch.
There are white radish stewed mutton dumplings, winter melon and mutton bone soup. The mutton bone soup also contains pork ribs... and haggis hot pot.
Then I stewed a white fungus soup and spicy crayfish.
Papaya and Tremella Soup, this is Ye Mo’s favorite dessert.
Dad came out with a beer and said, "If you want to drink beer, take it by yourself. I won't say hello to you."
"It's time to start." The food has been set.
Ye Mo held the bowl and filled the bowl of white fungus first.
"Don't drink." Li Xuebin saw it and said.
"Tremella soup is more comfortable to drink." Ye Mo said with a smile, "Now that the weather is cold, I don't really like drinking beer."
"Beer and crayfish go best together," Wei Jianming said with a smile.
"You guys drink." Ye Mo said, "We don't encourage drinking here."
"Hahaha... OK." Wei Jianming looked at Li Xuebin and Zhou Minghai: "Would you like some more beer?"
"One bottle." Li Xuebin said.
"I don't want it anymore, I have to drive later."
Everyone started to eat, and then Tang Xun and Li Zhi came over.
This lunchtime meal, with more than forty people, was just like a banquet.
Ye Mo mixed some dipping water and added a large piece of mutton. The mutton was stewed after nine o'clock, and it was stewed until half past twelve. The meat was stewed and melted in your mouth.
Not many crayfish were caught today, only about 20 kilograms. But the size of the crayfish was all over 1 tael.
"Mr. Wei, try this crayfish, it's no worse than sea shrimp..." Li Xuebin took a crayfish to Wei Jianming and said.
Wei Jianming imitated Li Xuebin and took a sip of the shrimp head before choking: "It's so spicy."
"You can't eat spicy food?"
"It's edible. But this one is too spicy." Wei Jianming quickly took a sip of beer.
The shrimp tail meat is firm and elastic, with a very good taste and the unique deliciousness of river seafood.
For people who don't often eat spicy food, the crayfish made by Linshan tastes very spicy. But for people who like to eat crayfish, this taste is just right.
Wei Jianming ate a crayfish and then tasted the mutton.
The mutton dumplings taste very good, very authentic. There is a mutton smell, but the mutton smell is not big, it is more like a flavor.
Ye Mo took a mutton rib. There was a lot of mutton left on the rib. It had been stewed until the bones and flesh separated, and the aroma was rich.
"The taste of fresh mutton is just different, it's so fragrant." Wei Jianming picked up a piece of sheep scorpion, chewed on the meat, and said with a smile.
The sheep that are being killed are fresh, so I won’t mention them.
The hot pot contains mutton, haggis, and blood... spicy and fragrant, with all the flavors.
Ye Mo also drank a bowl of white fungus, washed the bowl, and took out a bowl of radish and mutton soup.
Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer.
Mutton and radish soup, one sip will warm your whole body.
"Eat more meat and drink less alcohol." Ye Mo shouted: "There is a lot of meat at lunch, don't leave any leftovers."
After a burst of laughter, Zhou Yue responded: "I haven't been drinking, I've been eating meat."
Many people have almost eaten before starting to drink beer.
Drink beer, set up the Longmen array, and then eat slowly.
Li Xuebin and Ye Mo talked about some details that need to be paid attention to when picking watermelons, and then went back.
Wei Jianming came here to see with his own eyes the watermelons produced in Ye Mo's greenhouse. He was going back to Guangdong in the afternoon...
Ye Mo went out to see Li Xuebin and the others off. When he came back, he took a small pot and put some white fungus in it.
"Are all the watermelons you have here special grade?" Tang Xun walked over and asked.
"Of course." Ye Mo said with a smile: "What I'm looking at today is the Little Bee watermelon. The other watermelons are not yet ripe and have not bloomed."
"The watermelon I have over there feels...the skin is a bit thick," Tang Xun said.
"Is your watermelon ripe?"
"Red, not ripe."
"It's not ripe, say a hammer." Ye Mo said: "An unripe watermelon will look much thicker. Wait until it's ripe and then look at it... The most important indicator of super watermelon is the thickness of the watermelon rind.
There is a difference of 1 millimeter between special grade and first grade... This millimeter is insignificant to a five or six kilogram watermelon. The watermelon seeds of your watermelons must be black."
"The heart of the melon is black, and there are some white seeds outside." Tang Xun said.
"We'll see when it matures. It's useless to talk about it now..." Ye Mo shrugged: "Even if you know there are flaws, you can't change them. After five o'clock, you come over and help pick the watermelons."
"Yeah." Tang Xun nodded.
"Lin Xiaomian, are you going back?" Ye Mo asked.
"The meal is not finished yet, wait a minute." Lin Xiaomian and the other women sat at the same table and were chatting animatedly.
Today Yun Xiuzhi's daughter is back, Lin Xiaomian's eldest cousin, Niu Xiaoli...
Ye Ran, Zhang Xia, Wang Yue... five women at one table.
Ye Mo put the white fungus in the car and walked over. He heard several women laughing and talking about something happy.
"What are we talking about?" Ye Mo said.
"Women's topic." Lin Xiaomian said, "You should go back first. After dinner, we will go out to play mahjong."
"Come back early in the afternoon." Ye Mo said.
"Know."
Ye Mo went back to the villa by himself, brushed his teeth, washed his face, and took a nap.
Recharge your batteries...
Get some sleep and feel good.
After two o'clock, Ye Mo drove to the greenhouse and started the final preparations before picking.
It's very cool today, the outdoor temperature is only 20 degrees Celsius.
The preparations were almost done. Ye Mo turned on the ventilation of the greenhouse to ventilate the greenhouse and quickly reduce the temperature inside the greenhouse.
Then lay a layer of straw on the area used to stack watermelons in the warehouse...
After three o'clock, Li Xuebin brought a special fruit set for watermelons. The temperature inside the greenhouse was the same as the outdoor temperature, so he still waited until after four o'clock before starting picking.
Look for black label watermelon.
Pick it off, take the watermelon out of the net bag, put on the fruit cover, tie up both sides, and put it into the fruit basket.
There is a brand on the buckle used to close the fruit sleeve, which reads:
Gaoshanping Orchard, Hongshan Town, Yancheng
Little Bee Crispy Watermelon
Beili Fruit Industry, Tel: 13xxx......
The top row is the place of origin.
Little Bee is a variety of watermelon.
Beili Fruit Industry is the abbreviation of Li Xuebin and his company’s name.
Li Xuebin also brought five people here to help with the trap.
Foam fruit cover to prevent watermelon rind from being scratched.
The watermelon here has a very thin, tender and crisp skin. Put it in a fruit sleeve for easy transportation.
The same batch of watermelons are still very uniform in size.
These watermelons all weighed 2.8 kilograms. Of the ten watermelons used for testing in the morning, the lightest weighed 2.6 kilograms and the largest weighed 3.1 kilograms.
Premium watermelon also has a fruit uniformity, and the weight difference is less than 10%.
If the quantity is large, the neatness of the fruit is not very important. As long as the appearance is neat... it doesn't matter.
There is a large amount of watermelon, so you can sort out watermelons of similar weight and divide these watermelons into batches.
Therefore, these watermelons must first be sent back to Li Xuebin and his company, where the watermelons will be sorted, packed, and then shipped.