Carrying a Jurassic on me-Chapter 1266 - 624 Second Hand Goods_2

Moreover, the number of farming households breeding earthworms and cultivating Agaricus bisporus in the rural areas was growing slowly but steadily. As the saying goes, when there’s no way to make money, people can only sit idle, but once there’s a way to make money and hope for life, the enthusiasm for labor that farmers burst forth with is truly frightening.

The busiest day is always when they slaughter the cows; Pang Fa presides over his beef jerky factory, buying the Agaricus bisporus and earthworms brought in and then reselling some of the Agaricus bisporus — some restaurants also buy an appropriate amount. Other vegetables can be bought at will, but Agaricus bisporus always have to be handled by the depot first.

There’s a reason for this. Firstly, the restaurants don’t buy in large quantities, and secondly, the farmers’ supplies are not stable. If the farmers take Fungus Seedlings from the depot and learn the technology, they also trust the depot more, as relying on restaurants is unreliable.

The restaurants also find relying on the farmers unreliable, both in terms of supply quantity and mushroom quality. It’s better for them to just buy directly from the depot — Pang Fa even has to instruct people to sort the Agaricus bisporus by quality, and the restaurants don’t need to choose the best ones; the prices are even more affordable.

This operational mode of the depot had already formed a set procedure, whether it’s slaughtering cows or buying earthworms and mushrooms. These activities are fixed to the days the customers come to pick up goods unless the weather is particularly bad. Otherwise, it’s always operated this way.

In short, when Boss Yan wasn’t there, everyone also followed the job distribution and arrangements from past days; whoever was supposed to do what would just do it, and everything remained the same whether he was there or not.

When it was time to eat, everyone would gather together. Anyone who was unsure about anything and needed group discussion would speak up, and with everyone holding their bowls, the issues would just get resolved. If they really couldn’t solve something, they would give Boss Yan a call to ask.

While everyone was busy working hard for Boss Yan, Boss Yan himself was standing with his wife in the kitchen of a small local restaurant, pointing at the various small creatures in the water basin and ordering, "Let’s have some marine rainbow, a few Sea Oysters, some Crawling Shrimp. Also take some of those small squid, Yellow Sharp Fish too..."

The restaurant owner was a simple local, and because she was using dialect, worried they might not understand, she slowed down her speech to remind, "Young man, there are just two of you, aren’t you ordering too much? Our plates are all this big!"

Xu Xiaoyan glanced over, "We asked for small portions, are these all large portions?"

The owner explained, "These are the small portions."

Yan Fei casually responded, "No problem, I have a big appetite. I can finish whatever is there."

"Is it your first time here? If you’re not used to eating these sea items often, consuming too much in one go might upset you," the owner advised.

"Alright then, just serve what I ordered just now, and we’ll order more if it’s not enough," Yan Fei replied with a smile.

If it were a larger restaurant, they wouldn’t care how much you ordered or if you could finish it, but in small places like this, people are much more genuine and will remind customers not to order too much food.

The owner then asked a question that puzzled both Yan Fei and his wife, "Just ordering these, not getting any meat dishes? We also have game here."

It was only after Yan Fei asked that he realized, the locals don’t consider seafood as meat dishes; only pork, lamb, and beef count. The game mentioned by the owner Yan Fei had seen too, it was just wild chicken and rabbit—there were plenty around the mountainous areas. However, Boss Yan was tired of these items and not at all interested.

It turns out that not considering seafood as meat was news to Yan Fei; in fact, he felt he had quickly learned a lot of local customs along the way. For instance, the "Sea Oysters" he referred to a moment ago was the local term, which actually are clams or oysters.

As for the marine rainbow, that’s mussels. The small squid is actually cuttlefish, and since it has the word ’small’, it definitely isn’t the kind several meters deep from the deep sea.

After the owner explained everything, Yan Fei was somewhat speechless. These items were all being raised alive in the water basin, yet they weren’t considered meat dishes—it was unbelievable. freēwēbηovel.c૦m

As for the other dishes, Yan Fei and his wife weren’t interested and simply said with a smile, "No need for those, what we ordered is fine. We didn’t plan on staying here originally, but we could smell your kitchen from far away and felt the cooking was very authentic, so we decided to stop here. If not for the smell, we would have gone to the seaside by now!"

As a semi-chef, Yan Fei had a say in matters of food. He had cooked these seafood items himself, although the creatures from the dinosaur world and the modern society were different, there were similarities.

Unexpectedly, his comment made a chef who was busy cooking nearby hear, and he immediately became happy and started to shout at the owner.

He spoke too quickly, so Yan Fei and his wife didn’t understand his local words, but the owner’s expression first looked like she was being scolded, then she turned around smiling and said to them, "Our boss says since there are just two of you and you’re getting large portions, he’s worried you might not finish. How about this, others have also ordered these dishes. When we make theirs, we’ll make a bit more and give you a smaller serving of each so you can try more variety. Is that alright?"

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