Yunding Ranch

Chapter 184 Purchasing Manager
After taking a hot bath, I feel lighter, as if my tiredness has flowed into the sewer along the water.

"Where are your parents?" An inquiring voice came from the direction of the kitchen, Lu Li turned his head and saw Cole drinking water, "Are they okay?"

"Well, it's okay. But after all, I'm still tired and need to rest and adjust." Lu Li also walked to the kitchen, put the kettle on the gas stove again, and prepared to make a cup of tea for himself. "It turns out that hiking is so boring, and so Interesting thing. It seems that we should explore more in the future."

With such a contradictory description, Cole couldn't help laughing.

"Where is the farthest we can go to the forest behind us? You said before that it extends towards the Grand Canyon Park, right?" Lu Li asked curiously, "We were all walking in the forest yesterday. A few small hills, but no real mountains and no big animals."

"If it is at your speed, it is very likely that you have only walked ten kilometers, at most fifteen kilometers, and you are still at the peripheral stage, so you can't see it." Cole has now begun to get used to the tea fragrance of Tieguanyin, but he Still refuse to taste.Tea, he still prefers tea bags, Lipton is fine.

Lu Li showed a surprised expression, "Then what if a hunter wants to go hunting in the mountains? Do you want to drive? There are almost no roads in the woods."

"Horseback riding, of course. This is the west." Cole's answer made Lu Li suddenly realize, "Or it's on foot. It's not uncommon for professional hunters to go hunting in the forest for weeks, or even months."

Lu Li threw a pack of Tieguanyin into the teacup, then poured the boiled water down, watched the tea leaves in full bloom, and the clear green color faded a little bit, which was not poetic, "No wonder, I discovered it by accident this time. A cave, that's a temporary shelter..."

"Randy? Randy?" A call came from the door, Lu Li and Cole turned their heads to look at the same time, Cole said, "It should be the purchasing manager of the supermarket."

Lu Li put down the teacup in his hand, walked out quickly, and then saw a group of three people, not the suits and leather shoes as he remembered, but the familiar shirt and jeans, just three denims.That's why people always joke that after entering Texas, people with prosopagnosia should look confused, unable to tell who is who, and even occupations.

They should be the representatives of HEB supermarket.

The system in the United States is quite unique. Each state has its own legal and economic system, which leads to slightly different living habits in each state.For example, in different states, the largest, most convenient, and most popular banks are different, and the same is true for supermarkets.

Some supermarkets are located in all major states of the United States, such as the well-known Wal-Mart; but some supermarkets are only available in a few states, such as HEB supermarkets.This supermarket is only available in Texas and northern Mexico. After leaving these areas, you can’t see it at all. However, HEB is one of the most popular supermarkets in Texas, second only to In the Sprouts-Farmers-Market of California and those large national supermarket chains.

Compared with those large supermarket chains across the United States, HEB's products are relatively limited. The main sign is "fresh food", just like the Whole Foods Supermarket that has been popular in the United States in the past two years, hoping to provide customers with the freshest and best quality. , the healthiest food.In Texas, HEB's market share is not as high as that of Whole Foods Market and California Pastoral Market, but it has the highest customer loyalty.

At the same time, this is also the fundamental reason why Yunding Ranch can go online with HEB—they hope that all products come from the local area, especially from the state.When he was in the flower market before, Andre once mentioned that Texans are very supportive of their own products, and HEB is also a leader. If possible, they give priority to vegetables grown in their own state.

It is for this reason that HEB is willing to give Yunding Ranch a chance under Sean's matchmaking.Otherwise, Yunding Ranch is just a small private ranch, and the organic farm is only [-] acres - although it is said that it will be expanded to [-] acres in the future, but that is all in the future, just a few thousand A catty of vegetables is not enough for the entire state of Texas to fit between the teeth.

"Welcome to Yunding Ranch. I'm Fourteen, the owner of the ranch. Randy is still at the organic farm. Are you the representatives of HEB?" Lu Li quickly walked down the porch and stretched out his right hand, "I'm inside Do you want to join us for afternoon tea?"

"Fourteen, Sean and Randy have mentioned your name many times, and now we finally meet." The man in the lead stepped forward quickly, and grabbed Lu Li's right hand. His wrist was very strong and powerful. As if being pinched by a crab's pincers, just one movement can tell that he is branded as a Texan, "Are you British?"

Although Lu Li is an obviously Asian face, it is an era of globalization, and Asian-British people are not uncommon.

But Lu Li was stunned for a moment, and it took half a second for him to realize that afternoon tea has become synonymous with the British; origin, China is losing influence.

"No, I'm from China." Lu Li explained with a smile, "You must know that China is the origin of tea culture, just like porcelain."

The leading man touched his mustache under his nose, shrugged his shoulders, and didn't get too entangled in this topic, "I'm Ferguson, and this is my assistant, Paul; this is a technician from our fresh food department, Mr. guard."

Lu Li shook hands with the two of them respectively, "If you are not interested in drinking tea, then let's get to the point now." From the few words just now, one can feel that Ferguson has a straightforward and straightforward personality , they came today for business, not for making friends.Therefore, Lu Li did not drag his feet.

"Please lead the way." Ferguson put his hands on his waist and nodded.

Lu Li turned his head to look at Cole, and Cole walked down quickly, and took the initiative to introduce, "Cole." A simple name introduction, nodded to the three people respectively, the simplicity of Texas style reached its peak at this moment Then he led the way, "The warehouse is being remodeled now, so the vegetables are temporarily placed in the lobby on the first floor. However, the warehouse and cellar will be remodeled soon, and the refrigeration system equipment will be equipped accordingly , to ensure the freshness of vegetables.”

These are Randy's jobs, but Cole also knows something about them, so a simple introduction is naturally no problem.

It was only then that Lu Li noticed that baskets of green vegetables were stacked neatly behind the Cowboy Villa. Those big flowers of kale not only filled the entire hall, but were almost stacked to the ceiling. Above, the whole house is filled with green vegetables, as if a green stream is overflowing, it is really spectacular.

Inexplicably, there is a feeling of entering a Hayao Miyazaki movie.

Before all the vegetables were planted in the ground, I couldn’t feel it, it seemed that they only weighed two or three hundred catties, but now after they were all piled up, I really felt the huge quantity. The vegetables in front of me were at least measured in thousands of catties - or should it be calculated in tens of thousands?
Lu Li had no experience, but he could tell that this batch of kale was a bountiful harvest!The space spring is indispensable.

No wonder Randy has been urging the warehouse to renovate. Judging from the current warehouse, it is not a problem to accommodate all the vegetables, but other things cannot be put in, let alone those machinery such as planters and harvesters; , as Cole just mentioned, the refrigeration system and exhaust system also need to be reset, and the operation of the organic farm still has a lot of supporting facilities to keep up with.

The three of Ferguson also showed expressions of surprise—because this is a villa, not a warehouse, it is really rare to see vegetables filling up the entire villa; but at the same time, they also showed expressions of disapproval, If the vegetables are not properly preserved, after long-distance transportation, they will not be fresh enough when they enter the supermarket shelves.

This is why Cole explained just now, so he took the initiative to say, "These are all freshly picked, and they are ready to be transferred to professional trucks at any time."

Cole is implying that if you load it immediately, it will still be fresh, and if you continue to delay, then it is uncertain.

Ferguson nodded, and David and Paul walked up to the five baskets of kale stacked on the outermost side, and then David took out a lot of equipment from his backpack and started testing stand up.Obviously, they have to test whether this is organic food. Pesticides are the most basic link. After inspecting a kale, he nodded to Paul, and then began to walk into the villa, and started to randomly follow the narrow passage. sampling.

Paul picked up the kale just now, first put it aside and weighed it, then took four or five kale, weighed it, and recorded the average value; then picked up the first kale, and carefully weighed it. Carefully disassemble the leaf petals one by one, inspect each leaf and each link, and finally stuff a leaf into his mouth and chew slowly.

Seeing this scene, Lu Li couldn't help being a little curious - because he had never tasted kale before, he couldn't tell whether the taste of kale watered by the space spring would be different, the previous lettuce would be sweeter, It is not the sweetness of saccharin, but the sweetness, which improves the taste.

Paul didn't show any expression. After chewing one leaf, he stuffed the second one into his mouth, then walked towards Ferguson and handed one over, "Do you want to try it?"

(End of this chapter)