Chapter 608
Jiang Xia had settled the bill for the food processing workshop, and Zhou Chenglei had already settled the bill for the ship.
Zhou's mother collected the money for the small boat every day, and together with the money for the big boat, Zhou's father helped them deposit it into a passbook. There was nothing to calculate, just take a look at the deposit and you would have an idea.
Zhou Chenglei was only checking the accounts for a pair of dried fish. After all, this involved collecting dried fish from villagers and reselling them.
What Zhou Chenglei looked at carefully was the expenditure on building the factory.
So far, we have spent three hundred thousand to buy land, build factory buildings and order equipment. A conservative estimate is that it will cost another three hundred thousand to complete.
The factory is not big but not small either. It can be considered a small to medium-sized food processing factory.
“The factory should be ready by the end of next month.”
Jiang Xia: "Then I'll have someone post some job opening notices. You're good at calligraphy, so you can help me write them."
"Okay. After the National Day, I plan to ask my second brother to help me apply for a telephone and install a telephone in the factory."
It would be convenient to have a telephone in the factory.
The area around their factory is an industrial zone, and some factories have already installed telephones, so it shouldn't be difficult to apply for the installation.
The line to be pulled should not be very long.
Jiang Xia heard this and said, "How about we install one at home? Our home is not too far from the production team, so we should be able to run another line, right?"
Zhou Chenglei nodded: "Okay. Then install one at home too."
Jiang Xia asked again: "Is the registration fee expensive?"
"I don't know. The ones at home should be cheaper, and the ones from the factory should be more expensive."
Zhou Chenglei only knew that the policy stipulated that the initial installation fee was 300 to 500 yuan.
This is just the initial installation fee, there are also material costs and so on.
But having a phone is much more convenient.
He and Jiang Xia are in Beijing, where they have a factory, a fishery to manage, and a dried fish business to take care of, so they have a great need for a telephone.
Every time I make a phone call, it takes half an hour to go back and forth, which is too troublesome and a waste of time.
Zhou Chenglei wanted to install one in Beijing as well, since the courtyard house was his own after all.
It can also be installed in the house over in Jiang Dong.
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The couple discussed things for a while and then went to bed.
Zhou Chenglei was afraid that Jiang Xia was too tired after the long journey yesterday, so he didn't ask for it for the past two days.
I went to bed early tonight, and Jiang Xia took a two-hour nap in the afternoon, so I wasn’t sleepy at all.
He gave it to her twice until she was so tired that she fell asleep in his arms.
The next day, at 5:30 in the morning, when it was still light, Jiang Xia heard voices coming from outside.
She opened her eyes and found Zhou Chenglei was no longer around. He must have gone jogging again.
Jiang Xia sat up and glanced at the child.
They all raised their hands to their heads and slept soundly.
Jiang Xia lay back on the bed and planned to continue sleeping for a while, then he heard the voices downstairs again, very clearly: "Let's borrow your jeep. Motorcycles are windy, and the child has a high fever and can't be exposed to the wind. Can't you let A Lei drive us to the town hospital?"
"If the child hadn't had a high fever, I wouldn't have lent you the car!"
Zhou's mother: "Alei went for a run. He goes out for a run at five o'clock every day and comes back at six. Now I don't know where he went. You go find him and let him drive. You can ride your bikes to the clinic! If you have time, why not get going now!!"
You can go to the clinic by bike in less than ten minutes if you ride fast.
When Zhou Zhou was sick before, his family was so poor that they didn’t even have a motorcycle. It was Zhou Chenglei who took Xiao Xia to the health center on bicycles in the middle of the night to see a doctor.
If they don’t have a car, won’t they go to the doctor?
Zhou Bingqiang's wife: "Where's Xiaoxia? Doesn't Xiaoxia know how to drive? And where's Asen?"
"Xiao Xia doesn't need to be fed? What if the three children wake up hungry? Asen is out at sea, so he doesn't need to make money?"
Zhou's mother was also impressed by Zhou Bingqiang's wife. She quarreled with her every other day, but she would come to her house whenever she had something to do! She would tell her when she saw the papayas were ripe, and when someone borrowed the field to release water, she would pass by and tell her to remind her to block the field stalks. These were considered a great help to her, and even if they were reconciled, she would come to her house every day to borrow things.
I'm not happy if you don't lend it to me! I go to the vegetable garden every day, don't I know that the papayas are ripe?
Who would borrow someone else's field to release water without blocking the field ridges after release? At this time, Zhou Guohua hurried over, followed by Wen Wan holding the child. He said anxiously: "Aunt Fu, just lend me the motorcycle, the child can't be woken up."
Mother Zhou glanced at the child in Wen Wan's arms and was startled. "Wait a minute, I'll go get the car keys!"
She quickly ran into the house to get the car keys and gave them to Zhou Guohua.
"Thank you, auntie."
Then Zhou Guohua drove a motorcycle to take Wen Wan and the child to see a doctor.
Jiang Xia didn't get up to check either. She was too sleepy. After hearing the sound of a motorcycle in the distance, she fell asleep again. When she woke up again, it was already past seven o'clock. She was awakened by the baby's "mmm" and "ah" sounds.
The three children in the crib were waving their arms and legs and making “umm” and “ahh” sounds with their mouths.
Zhou Chenglei has returned and is making milk powder.
Jiang Xia took out his watch and looked at it. It was seven fifteen. "They just woke up?"
Zhou Chenglei approached with two bottles of milk: "Yeah."
He placed the two bottles on the bedside table and went to hug his sister.
This morning it was my sister's turn to be breastfed.
When my sister saw my father approaching, she laughed: "Ah~"
Zhou Chenglei picked her up and gave her to Jiang Xia.
"Are you hungry, Xiaobao?" Jiang Xia smiled and took it.
My sister gave my mother a big smile, and when she fell into her mother's arms, she subconsciously turned her head and opened her mouth wide.
This is hungry.
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After the children had eaten, Zhou's father and mother pushed the three children out to play in a stroller.
Zhou Chenglei and Jiang Xia drove to the factory.
The factory is indeed almost completed. The basic buildings including the raw material sorting and cleaning workshop, drying yard, air-drying yard, several production workshops and packaging workshops, finished product warehouse, etc. have been built and the exterior walls have been processed.
Some walls and staff dormitories are still under construction.
After construction is completed, pave the road with concrete and plant some green plants in the green area.
Jiang Xia said to Zhou Chenglei, "What kind of trees do you think would be better?"
Zhou Chenglei: "Fruit trees? Plant all kinds of fruit trees, so the children don't have to worry about having no fruit to eat in the future."
Jiang Xia: "That's fine."
She had intended to plant some trees for decoration and viewing.
But it’s not impossible to plant some mango trees.
In her previous life, she had seen some cities with roadsides planted with green Miscanthus.
However, those mangoes have absorbed too much exhaust gas from roadside cars, and the heavy metal content is probably excessive, so they cannot be eaten.
But her factory is a food factory, so it has no impact.
There are also factories nearby, but they are far away. The nearest one is a soy sauce factory, and the other one is also a food factory.
The factories most likely to emit toxic waste gas are quite far away from them, so there is nothing to worry about.
Zhou Chenglei took a large piece of land, fifty acres at one time.
The food factory currently only uses ten acres.
There are still forty acres of land left vacant.
"Plant mangoes on both sides of the road, and plant whatever you like in the spare space at the back."
"Well, I'll go to Jiang Yang's place to see if there are any fruit trees."
After looking at the factory, the two prepared to go home.
At this time, a man with a bald head and a big gold chain around his neck came over.
He first glanced at Jiang Xia, with surprise in his eyes.
There is one more chapter, I will make it up tomorrow morning. I was so sleepy that I accidentally fell asleep! I didn’t even know it was past twelve o’clock (/ω＼)
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