Chapter 553 What a souvenir (10,000) Please vote for me
Compared with when it first opened, the current farmhouse restaurant looks completely different.
When it first opened, a temporary area was carved out. The ground was paved with square-hole bricks, and a courtyard wall was erected around it. It turned into a temporary "country hotel".
After more than a year of development, during which time it was rebuilt and renovated, the farmhouse restaurant now also has private rooms.
It's no longer like before, everyone is crowded in the big courtyard to eat, with no privacy at all. They are cautious about what they want to talk about, for fear that the people at the next table will hear it and distort the facts.
The private room is equipped with air conditioning. When it is cold in winter or hot in summer, you can enjoy eating by turning on the air conditioning.
Cao Shujie invited Xiang Yuheng and his family to dinner, and he would definitely use the privileges of his second boss to use the reserved private room.
In addition to this, he also went to the kitchen to say hello and asked the chef Gao Fei to prepare a table of delicious dishes, half of which were mainly dishes that children could eat.
While waiting for the food to be served, Xiang Yuheng even said a few words to Cao Shujie.
What he roughly meant was that he was just bringing his family down for a meal, so there was no need to make it so formal.
"Uncle Xiang, I have changed my name to you as uncle. Is there anything wrong with treating you to a meal?" Cao Shujie said righteously.
He's on the line here, Xiang Yuheng really can't beat him.
Looking at Cao Shujie, then at his wife, Xiang Yuheng said: "Xue Jing, have you seen that this little Cao's abilities are all in this mouth, I can't even praise him."
"Haha, how awesome do you think you are? I think this is good." Gong Xuejing looked at the three children playing together, and she felt more and more happy.
The grandson and granddaughter called Mengmeng "sister" one after another. Mengmeng was no longer naughty now. She seemed to have grown up in the moment of becoming "sister".
He first gave the preserved fruits hidden in his trouser pockets to Xiang Siyang and Xiang Siyan, and then told them about other interesting places in the orchard.
"Brother Yangyang, sister Yanyan, let me tell you, my father said that our sika deer will give birth to fawns during the holidays. The fawns are so cute." Mengmeng opened her hands and painted.
But she had no idea about "sika deer cubs" and hesitated for a long time, unable to describe it. Finally she said: "Anyway, it's very cute and beautiful."
"Sister Mengmeng, it's true, can I come over and see you?" the little girl Yanyan was moved.
Not to mention her, her brother Xiang Siyang was also very moved: "Sister Mengmeng, I want to see it too."
"Come on, you two are here, can I still miss you?" Mengmeng patted her chest grandly, looking like she was very generous.
At the stall outside, Cao Shujie found someone else to look at and continued to distribute preserved fruits for free.
When it comes to this snack, I asked Yuheng a few more questions, including the factory's production capacity, efficiency, product market positioning, etc.
After all, he is the top leader in Yiling City. He is well-informed and the questions he asks are comprehensive and the details he asks are very important.
Cao Shujie said: "Uncle Xiang, the main reason is that we just opened the business the day before yesterday. Speaking of which, yesterday was the first day of official production, and we don't have any offline customers."
"You haven't opened the market yet?" Xiang Yuheng frowned.
Cao Shujie didn't feel embarrassed at all. He nodded: "Not yet, but we have been making preparations in this regard, including distributing free preserved fruits yesterday and today. To put it bluntly, it is also advertising in advance to let more people know about our product.
product, it won’t be that difficult to open up the market later.”
Xiang Yuheng nodded, he agreed with Cao Shujie's point of view.
But he always felt something was wrong.
After frowning and thinking for a while, Xiang Yuheng suddenly asked: "Xiao Cao, you just said that the offline market has not yet opened? What do you mean?"
At this point, Xiang Yuheng paused for a moment and then said: "Do you still sell online? Is it the Taobao 'Xuemeng Fruit Shop' you mentioned when you distributed the preserved fruits?"
"Yes, Uncle Xiang, to be honest with you, when I was selling kiwis and apples, I opened an online store on Taobao. At that time, I also accumulated a lot of customers and fans. Now I am using that platform to sell preserved fruits, and the effect is still good.
Not bad." Cao Shujie said this with a heartfelt smile on his face.
He didn't lie. Chen Hong called him and told him that he had sold hundreds of orders in one morning.
This result made Cao Shujie unable to recover.
Xiang Yuheng saw a different expression on Cao Shujie's face. He was about to ask what was going on when someone knocked on the door: "Director Cao, are you serving food now?"
"Let's serve." Cao Shujie said.
From the first dish to the last dish, it didn't take long for everything to be on the table.
Food like Fengdeng, blueberry yam, fried sweet potato balls, eight-treasure rice, and pineapple rice are all children’s favorite foods.
In fact, adults also like to eat it.
"Uncle Xiang, would you like some fruit wine?" Cao Shujie asked him.
Forget about the liquor, he still has many things to do.
When Xiang Yuheng heard the word ‘fruit wine’, he was very interested: “What kind of fruit wine?”
"Kiwi fruit wine. I had a great harvest of kiwi fruit last year and I left some of it unsold. I asked someone to help me make the fruit wine." After Cao Shujie explained, he left the private room and went out to get the wine.
Not long after, he came in with several bottles of fruit wine without packaging boxes. The bottles were bare and had nothing on them except the corks.
At first glance, it looks more like fake wine.
He not only brought over two bottles of kiwi fruit wine, but also a barrel of apple cider vinegar for the children to drink.
Seeing these things that Cao Shujie just took out, Xiang Yuheng couldn't help but sigh, Cao Shujie really has hidden a lot of good things!
Apple cider vinegar is sour, but children are not afraid of sourness now and love to drink it.
Even Gong Xuejing thinks apple cider vinegar is delicious, better than the apple cider vinegar she bought in the supermarket before.
"Xiao Cheng, did you make this yourself?" she asked Cheng Xiaolin, pointing to the apple cider vinegar.
When she saw Cheng Xiaolin nodding, Gong Xuejing's eyes were filled with envy: "You guys are so nice. You make everything yourself and it's clean. It's more reassuring than buying it in the supermarket."
"Aunt, if you like it, take some back and drink it slowly when you leave." Cheng Xiaolin said.
Gong Xuejing waved her hand: "This is not possible."
"Why not? I am a junior who respects my elders." Cheng Xiaolin is not stupid, just a little apple cider vinegar.
After this year's apples are picked, you can make more, or you can simply use the Xinjiang apples in the cold storage.
Including kiwi wine and the preserved fruits distributed for free outside, they were not worth much at all to the couple.
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After dinner, Xiang Yuheng and the others asked them to go back to Yiling City.
Cao Shujie asked Cao Shuchao to pick another 10 kilograms of strawberries, put them in a foam box, and send them to the parking lot west of the kindergarten to wait.
He also packed two boxes of kiwi fruit wine, apple cider vinegar, and preserved fruits from the truck outside for Xiang Yuheng and the others.
Xiang Yuheng thought it was too expensive and didn't want it.
But Cao Shujie repeatedly emphasized that these were serious local specialties and not worth much money.
Not to mention, they are really all agricultural and sideline products and deeply processed products. Except for some additives and condiments added to the preserved fruits, there is not even a little extra in them.
They were not valuable things, so Xiang Yuheng had no reason to refuse and asked the driver to put them in the trunk of the car. He said goodbye to Cao Shujie and his family.
The car left the parking lot and headed towards Yiling City.
In the car, Xiang Yuheng was still thinking about today's strange experience.
Unlike when he was working, Xiang Yuheng felt particularly relaxed when he came to Caojiazhuang.
Especially when chatting with Cao Shujie and his family of three, Xiang Yuheng did not have the instinct to only speak three words when talking to his colleagues.
"Lao Xiang, Xiao Cao's family is different." Gong Xuejing thought carefully about the scene when she had dinner with Cao Shujie and the others just now. During the whole process, although she felt that Cao Shujie was a bit flattering, he did not mean to flatter her.
Give her a very pure feeling!
"It's different, that kid is very slippery." Xiang Yuheng said as if he was angry.
But Gong Xuejing has been with him for many years, how can she still not understand him?
"Oh, now when I think of little Mengmeng calling me grandma, I feel like I have a granddaughter. Look at how well-behaved that child is. She even gives me preserved fruits to eat!"
"This child is so delightful no matter how you look at him."
The little girl Xiang Siyan also assisted: "Grandma, Sister Mengmeng is so nice, and she even let me see the little deer."
"Yeah, you want to treat me to something delicious." Xiang Siyang followed.
Xiang Yuheng, who was sitting in front, heard his grandson say this and snorted: "Eat, Yangyang, you know how to eat."
Xiang Siyang was stunned. He didn't understand why grandpa suddenly became angry.
Returning to the Tianyuhuafu community in the city, we came to the Huxindao villa area in the middle of the community, and the two children got out of the car.
Before I even entered the door, a man and a woman came out of the villa.
The man looked a bit like Xiang Yuheng, but he was his son Xiang Qigang and his daughter-in-law Kang Yueli.
"Dad, what are you doing? We didn't see you when we came here just now." Xiang Qigang asked.
It's okay that he didn't ask. As soon as he asked, Xiang Yuheng remembered something unhappy and his face changed drastically: "You still have the nerve to ask. You just threw the child at me and ignored it. I have to think of a way."
Are you going to make them both happy?"
When Kang Yueli heard this, she quickly shouted: "Dad, that's not the case. We came here just to pick up Yangyang and Yanyan..."
Before she finished speaking, Gong Xuejing said: "Yueli, I also know that you two are busy and don't have time to take care of them. I'll take care of it for you, and you can concentrate on your career."
"Lao Xiang, what did you do to scare the child?"
Xiang Yuheng felt depressed.
He is a dignified head of a prefecture-level city, but he has no authority at home.
The driver pretended to be deaf and blind, so he just took out the kiwi fruit wine, apple cider vinegar, boxes of preserved fruits, and eight foam boxes of strawberries from the trunk, and moved them consciously to the villa.
Xiang Qigang saw that his father suddenly brought back so many things, and he was really curious: "Dad, where have you been? I don't see why there are no labels on those things. Don't think there is a quality problem."
"Even if there is a quality problem, I still eat and drink. If I see you and get annoyed, get out of here." Xiang Yuheng held his grandson's hand and entered the villa.
Gong Xuejing also took her granddaughter's hand and followed behind.
Xiang Qigang and Kang Yueli were the only couple left outside. Xiang Qigang muttered: "I told you that you shouldn't have come. If you still come back, you should be punished."
"..." Kang Yueli gave her husband a fierce look in her eyes.
…
Before I knew it, it was getting dark again.
They were picking strawberries in the orchard on the mountain. People who were playing in the orchard also went down the mountain and went home.
After leaving Cao Shujie, Cao Shuchao and the others, they gathered their things at the farm restaurant for dinner.
The busiest two days of Saturday weekend were finally over, and they urgently needed a glass of wine to relieve the fatigue of the past two days.
But while eating, Cao Shuchao approached Cao Shujie and asked in a low voice with confusion: "Shujie, why do those two old men look familiar to me this afternoon?"
"Brother Chao, what looks familiar?" Cao Shujie asked him with a smile.
Seeing his expression, Cao Shuchao became more and more sure of his guess. He said, "I'll remember the award he gave you. I knew that when you went to present the award, you kept staring at the TV to watch all the award-winning footage."
Cao Shujie really didn't know this, but when he heard Cao Shuchao talk about it, he felt a little moved.
There are always some people secretly paying attention to him and caring about him.
"Brother Chao, you have a really good memory and you observe very carefully." Cao Shujie said.
He undoubtedly acknowledged Cao Shuchao's guess.
Cao Shuchao suddenly opened his mouth wide and could not close it.
After a long time, Cao Shuchao came back to his senses, rubbed his sore cheeks, looked at Cao Shujie's back, and thought to himself: "I'll be a good boy! How is this possible!"
But I didn't expect that it would be such a result.
Cao Shujie had already asked the farmer's restaurant to serve food, and they were preparing to drink. When they saw that Cao Shuchao hadn't come over, they called out to him: "Brother Chao, come here and drink quickly."
"Okay, I'll be right there!" Cao Shuchao ran over.
But he was smart enough not to mention what happened this afternoon. Cao Shujie didn't talk nonsense, and Xiang Yuheng didn't come out in a big way. He definitely didn't want more people to know.
"This is an ancient private visit, right? Why did you come to the orchard privately this time? Damn it!" Cao Shuchao felt increasingly uneasy.
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One night passed.
Cao Shujie sent his daughter, who had been working for him for two days, to the kindergarten, and repeatedly promised that he would call her the next time he gave away free preserved fruits. Only then did Mengmeng skip to the classroom.
Her schoolbag is filled with snacks again.
Unlike the last time she brought strawberries, this time she filled them all with preserved apples, ready to be distributed to the children in the class.
The snacks she ate so cutely must be shared.
As soon as she entered the classroom, the teacher hadn't come yet. Mengmeng quickly opened her schoolbag and said, "I brought snacks for you. Who wants to eat?"
"Sister Mengmeng, I eat, I eat."
"I'll eat it too."
"Cao Xuemeng, can you give me some? I will also call you sister from now on."
He is a good-for-nothing, and a little snack can buy him back his moral integrity.
The others were also talking in a flurry of words, and subconsciously gathered around Mengmeng. They all tilted their little heads and looked at the 'snacks' in Team Leader Cao Xuemeng's schoolbag. Some children began to drool at the corners of their mouths.
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