After discussions with Dr. Wu, the market retail price of honey was set at 1,000 yuan per jin (500g), while Chen Hong offered Dr. Wu 700 yuan per jin, tentatively agreeing to provide his pharmacy with 1,000 jin of honey annually.
Once production increases and the market opens up, we will gradually increase the supply and adjust prices according to market conditions.
Based on the principles of fairness and good faith, Chen Hong signed a supply contract with Dr. Wu's traditional Chinese medicine shop and received an advance payment of 210,000 yuan for the first batch of 300 jin (150 catties) of goods.
Chen Hong planned to send the first batch of honey to Dr. Wu as soon as she got back, and then adjust the supply of the second and third batches according to the shipment volume.
During her trip to Beijing, Chen Hong accomplished three major things: she sold the second batch of pearls, found a safe sales channel for the space honey, and bought the two courtyard houses that had appeared in her dreams.
Lying on the hotel bed that night, Chen Hong was overjoyed. Apart from her son not being grown up yet, she had already achieved all her current life goals.
Having been reborn, she was fortunate to be blessed by the heavens, as she encountered only kind people who offered her selfless help.
Chen Hong secretly made up her mind that since all her wealth came from the ocean, from now on she would do her best to give back to the sea, hoping that she and her son could live peacefully and happily ever after.
With the hotel's help that evening, Chen Hong booked a plane ticket for the next morning. At six o'clock the next morning, a private car arranged by the hotel took Chen Hong to Beijing Airport.
If Chen Hong hadn't booked her plane ticket at the hotel last night, she wouldn't have known that the hotel was so thoughtful and comprehensive, even offering additional airport pick-up and drop-off services.
Of course, you still have to pay for it yourself, but compared to their meticulous and thoughtful service, a fee of one or two hundred yuan is still very worthwhile.
Once again experiencing the speed and efficiency of modern transportation, Chen Hong returned to Rongcheng at nine o'clock in the morning.
Driving her tricycle on the wide, clean highway, Chen Hong saw farmers working everywhere in the fields and mountains, and felt the rich atmosphere of spring.
People are rushing to plant crops. It has been raining on and off in Weihai for the past few days, but today the sky has finally cleared up, and almost everyone has gone to the fields.
At 9:30 a.m., Chen Hong returned to Yujia Village. It happened to be Sunday, and her son was off school, tending to the vegetable garden in the backyard with the village elders.
Seeing Chen Hong return home, the three of them, young and old, were very happy and unanimously decided to make dumplings for lunch.
Chen Hong went back to her old house and cut a bunch of chives to make dumplings with a three-ingredient filling for lunch. These were the first cuts of chives from the land this year; they were thick, robust, and tender.
Chen Hong took a piece of lean meat and a bag of shrimp from the refrigerator and started chopping the filling and kneading the dough. Aunt Guo sat in the kitchen picking chives. The mother and daughter chatted as they worked.
Uncle Village Chief, along with Yu Yang, helped clean the dog villas in the front and back yards of the two dogs. The temperature rose today, and the two even gave the two dogs a bath. Excited, Black Tiger and Glasses ran all over the yard shaking off the water droplets from their fur.
The house was filled with the laughter of adults and children.
Aunt Guo laughed heartily. "Look at your uncle, he's become like a child when he's with Yu Yang at your house. He hasn't been this happy in years."
He only acts so childishly in front of you and Yu Yang. In front of the other villagers, he puts on airs, acting like some high-ranking official when he's just a small village head.
Chen Hong said with a smile, "Auntie, my uncle loves children and never finds taking care of them troublesome. I remember that when Yiming was little, he loved to follow his grandfather around the most."
Don't look down on my uncle's position. The village chief is the first-level cadre at the grassroots level in our country; he's considered a government employee.
Aunt Guo laughed, "What kind of first-level cadre? What kind of national cadre only earns two or three hundred yuan a month? With that little salary, you can't even buy salt that's salty. And yet he's busy day and night, taking care of the elderly, children, and every little thing!"
Chen Hong said with a smile, "That's exactly why the country can't do without rural cadres like my uncle! All communication, from top to bottom, needs to be relayed to the people by village-level cadres, right?"
Aunt Guo sighed: "Actually, your brother Guoqing told your uncle to stop doing this job a few years ago. It doesn't pay much, but it's very stressful. Sometimes when something happens in the village, your uncle is so worried that he can't sleep for nights on end!"
Chen Hong also agreed with this statement. As a coastal fishing village, how many years does it not have several maritime accidents?
Fortunately, with the advancement of technology, the villagers have upgraded the equipment on their boats to varying degrees, and the accident rate has been decreasing year by year; otherwise, the village chief would be even more worried.
"Your family has made great contributions to our village for two generations, and everyone in the village remembers it. This is why Uncle Village Chief has high prestige in the village, and everyone only elects him every time there is a change of leadership."
"That's why your uncle insisted on becoming a village official despite his family's objections. Anyone who didn't know better would think he had a huge craving for power!"
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