Chapter 123: Raw Materials Supply Cutoff
After Shen Jiale returned to the county, Xu Jin would ask his subordinates to come to Shen Jiale every day to report the sales situation of the day.
After receiving the notice from his subordinates, Xu Jin immediately went to see Shen Jiale. When
Xu Jin heard that the food factory was going to take measures against his biscuit factory, he said: "I am not a pushover. If they dare to mess with me, I will not let them have an easy time."
Shen Jiale said: "Since we are doing business openly, these competitions are inevitable. The gap in strength between the two sides is too big. It is not appropriate to confront each other head-on. It is not good for the development of our factory."
Xu Jin was unwilling: "We can't just sit there and wait for death."
The two decided to control the quality of the products, pay more attention to production and transportation, and not let anyone tamper with them.
A few days later, Xu Jin came to Shen Jiale in a hurry.
As soon as he entered the house, he said, "This is a really cruel move. They are going to cut off our supply of raw materials. However, I am not afraid."
It turned out that when the factory went to buy flour, it encountered obstacles.
The flour mill said that a large factory had ordered all the flour from the flour mill at once, and they could not provide flour to Ruyi Biscuit Factory for the time being.
This certainly did not bother Xu Jin. He used to do this, and it was easy for him to buy things.
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Lao Li's wife stood in front of the door of Shen Jiale's house for a long time, hesitating.
After hearing that Shen Jiale was unwilling to compromise, the younger brother left angrily, saying that he would let Ruyi Biscuit Factory know how powerful he was.
Now I don't know what's going on at Shen Jiale's factory.
My husband told me that Lu Mingfeng was fine at work, but Mrs. Li still felt uncomfortable.
It's not that she wanted to see Shen Jiale's jokes, but she was just thinking about him.
Mrs. Li was about to leave when the door opened.
Mrs. Li felt a little embarrassed and didn't know how to face Shen Jiale.
Unexpectedly, Shen Jiale called out with a smile: "Sister Li, are you okay?"
"Oh, nothing, I'm just passing by."
"Sister Li, if you don't have anything to do, let's go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy things together."
Old Mrs. Li saw that Shen Jiale didn't look angry at her at all, and nodded hurriedly: "Wait for me, I'll go back to get the basket."
The two walked on the road silently, and Old Mrs. Li asked first: "How is your factory now?"
Shen Jiale said: "It's operating normally."
Old Mrs. Li was relieved: "That's good."
The two went to the supply and marketing cooperative, and Shen Jiale bought some wool.
He promised to knit sweaters and trousers for Lu Mingfeng if he passed the exam, but because he only passed one subject, Lu Mingfeng still didn't get the trousers.
Seeing that Lu Mingfeng took time out every day to study, Shen Jiale decided to knit the woolen trousers first. In winter, if they still failed, he would drain the water appropriately.
On the way back, Shen Jiale saw a little boy of eight or nine years old washing clothes in front of a house.
He said, "This child is really sensible. He knows how to help with housework at a young age."
Old Li's wife said, "This child is indeed sensible. He lives with his grandmother who is over 80 years old. Not long ago, his grandmother passed away. He was a child with no ability to live, so he went to help other people work in exchange for a bite of food."
When passing by, the little boy looked up at Shen Jiale, and then continued to wash clothes.
The little boy was pale and thin, and his little hands grabbed the clothes and scrubbed them vigorously.
Shen Jiale looked familiar, maybe he had seen him in his previous life.
Old Li's wife said, "This grandparents are not from our area. I heard from people around them that they came from a big city.
At that time, the child was still in his mother's belly and had not been born. His grandmother brought his mother here to look for relatives, but couldn't find them. So they rented a house nearby and lived there. Later, he had a difficult delivery and his mother died. It was his grandmother who raised him."
Shen Jiale said, "There are poor people everywhere."
Not long after the two of them left, they heard a noise coming from behind.
It was a little boy arguing with someone: "You said you would give me a cookie after I washed these clothes."
Another little girl, who was a little older, laughed at him: "What good are you thinking? I just said it casually, but you took it seriously, you fool."
The boy shouted: "You liar!"
The little girl's mother came out with a small cookie in her hand to hand to the little boy, and said to her daughter: "Don't tease him, he is so pitiful."
Before the little boy could take the cookie, the cookie was snatched away by the little girl, and then thrown a long distance away, saying jokingly: "Crawl over and pick it up!"
The little boy endured the humiliation, lowered his head and bent his knees.
Someone walked up to the little boy.
The little boy raised his head and saw that it was the beautiful sister who had just walked by.
Shen Jiale helped him up, walked over, picked up the biscuits, patted them, and handed them to the little boy.
The little girl snatched it from his hand: "If you don't crawl to pick it up, don't even think about eating it!"
Old Li's wife couldn't stand it: "Why are you like this, little girl
? If you don't want to give it, just forget it, why humiliate the child." The little girl said: "It's my family's stuff, I like it, what's your business? Why are you pretending to be a good person here? If you are kind, take him home, so that he doesn't have to beg from door to door every day."
As she said that, the little girl threw the biscuit in her hand to the dog on the roadside, and the dog took the biscuit away in an instant.
"Now, you can't eat it even if you want to."
The little girl's mother patted her lightly: "Why are you wasting food so casually." Then she took her daughter into the house.
The two of them didn't buy any food today. Shen Jiale took out a handful of biscuits from his pocket and handed them to the little boy.
The little boy looked at Shen Jiale.
Shen Jiale put the biscuits in his hand and left.
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Lu Mingfeng got up early in the morning, picked up the broom to sweep the floor, and found that the yard was very clean.
He put down the broom to sweep the chicken coop, and pulled out the board underneath, which was also clean.
He fetched water to cook, and the bucket was full.
Lu Mingfeng entered the house and kissed his wife who was still sleeping in bed.
"Wife, when did you get up?"
Shen Jiale opened his eyes sleepily: "I haven't gotten up yet."
Lu Mingfeng was surprised: "Our yard and chicken coop have been cleaned. If it wasn't you who got up to clean, who else could it be? The yard door is still bolted?"
Shen Jiale got up and saw that the yard was indeed very tidy. Even the weeds in the vegetable garden had been pulled out and watered. She was also confused.
It was really strange.
Shen Jiale joked: "Could there be a snail girl hiding in our house?"
The couple checked the house and found nothing was missing.
Lu Mingfeng said: "Let's bring Xiao Hei here when we get back, so that we can know immediately if someone comes in."
Shen Jiale nodded.