Just as Xia Yu was looking forward to a bright future, a voice came from behind him. When he turned around, he saw an uncle carrying a hoe and wearing a straw hat.
"Uncle, you misunderstood. I am the boss here, but you probably don't recognize me."
Xia Yu began to explain.
A farm this big must have someone to take care of it, and this uncle must be a farm worker.
"Boss, is your last name Xia?"
Hearing what Xia Yu said, the old man hurriedly asked, Boss Wang told him some time ago that the farm had been transferred to someone else, and said that he would come back to take over after a while, could it be this young man?
"Yes, my name is Xia Yu, and this farm was transferred to me by Wang Dalong!"
"That's right, hello, Boss Xia. I'm Li Tai, and I've been guarding the gate at our Chaolu Farm for twenty years!"
After confirming Xia Yu's identity, the uncle's attitude became much friendlier.
"Then I'll call you Uncle Tai. Uncle Tai, are there any other employees on our farm?"
Xia Yu asked, since he was the farmer, he had to meet with all the employees.
"No, it's just me. Our farm is easy to manage. Apart from a few acres of vegetable fields and mushroom houses, the chickens, ducks, cows and sheep all find their own food!"
"Are there still cows on the farm?"
Xia Yu asked in surprise after hearing Uncle Tai's words.
He had seen ducks and sheep, but he didn't know there were cows.
The file bag should have contained a description of the farm's assets, but Xia Yu came out in a hurry and didn't read it all.
"There are two dairy cows, one large and one small, mother and daughter. I heard they are imported breeds that Boss Wang brought back from the Netherlands."
It’s actually a dairy cow. It looks like there will be endless milk to drink in the future.
"Uncle Tai, if you're not busy right now, please show me around the farm. This is my first time here!"
"Okay, I'll take you to have a good look, boss!"
Uncle Tai sounded very happy. Because it was a private farm, Chaolu Farm was not open to the public. The previous owner, Wang, was also elusive, so he seldom had the chance to talk to him. He would just go for a stroll in the town after work every day.
A new boss came today, and Uncle Tai finally got the chance.
Putting down the hoe, he took Xia Yu to visit the entire farm.
The number of two hundred acres may not sound large, but when converted into square meters it is a huge 130,000 square meters, which is as large as 19 football fields. What Xia Yu just saw was only a small part, and a large part was hidden in the woods.
For example, this semi-enclosed chicken coop houses about forty free-range chickens. Uncle Tai picked up two still warm free-range eggs from a bush and handed them to Xia Yu.
Uncle Tai can’t finish eating all the eggs laid by the chickens and ducks by the lake by himself, but there is no need to worry about the market for such high-quality ingredients. Someone comes to collect them every morning, and the money is paid into the farm’s public account on a monthly basis.
After listening to Uncle Tai's introduction, Xia Yu remembered that there seemed to be a bank card in the file bag.
"Boss Xia, let me be honest, but you only have one dog, two cows, twenty-something sheep, fifty-something chickens, and a hundred ducks on two hundred acres of land. It's such a waste!"
Uncle Tai said with great sorrow.
He has worked here for twenty years and is truly the boss here. He feels sorry that the previous owner never increased the number of livestock raised, but employees must listen to the boss and he cannot make decisions on his own.
But now it’s different. Changing his boss has given him hope.
"No, I think this is fine!"
Xia Yu's words poured a bucket of cold water on Uncle Tai from head to toe, but he did think so.
The farm looks like what it does today because there are not many livestock. Otherwise, the livestock manure would be a disaster.
Although it can be used as organic fertilizer, adding too much fertilizer can also burn crops.
Controlling the number of free-range livestock to the current level is best for the environment and the ecology.
The previous boss, Mr. Wang, must have built this farm with this intention in mind from the beginning!
The city center of Shanghai is impetuous, but having a place like this in the suburbs where people and nature live in harmony can cleanse and calm even the most impetuous mind.
Compared to that, the extra money is nothing.
The farm's output can ensure the most basic balance of income and expenditure, so even a small loss doesn't matter. Boss Wang bought such a large piece of land to build a farm twenty years ago, so he must not be short of money.
Similarly, Xia Yu is not a man short of money. The salary for signing in alone is 30,000 yuan a day, which is more than 10 million yuan a year. Now that he has obtained this farm because of signing in, he wants to keep it as it is.
Of course, the freshest ingredients still cannot escape his magic hands.
In addition to producing meat, eggs and milk, the farm also has several acres of vegetable fields, more than ten acres of orchards and a mushroom house.
"Boss Xia, I've always taken care of the vegetables in the garden. Apart from applying some organic fertilizer, I never use any pesticides."
When introducing the vegetable garden, Uncle Tai's face was full of pride, but he did have reason to be proud.
There are tender rapeseed sprouts in the rapeseed fields, juicy white radishes in the radish fields next door, baby cabbages that taste better than Chinese cabbage, and many other vegetables that are not common in rural areas.
"This dish makes me want to eat it. I'll cook for lunch and make some of my specialties!"
Xia Yu said praisingly.
Although they are not certified, these vegetables are organic vegetables that are much more expensive than ordinary vegetables in supermarkets.
It seems that he won’t even have to go to the supermarket in the future. He can just pick some every week and take them back. They are all his own anyway.
"Okay, I, Lao Li, will help wash the vegetables and dishes!"
As Uncle Tai spoke, he went down to the field and picked a lot of vegetables, which the two of them held in their hands.
Next, he took Xia Yu to the orchard, where there were apple trees, orange trees, peach trees, pomegranate trees and persimmon trees. There were not many trees but many varieties.
There is nothing special now, but in autumn the garden will be full of fragrance and abundant fruits.
Xia Yu was looking forward to such a day.
When walking towards the residential area, Xia Yu passed by the mushroom house and took a quick glance at it at the door.
In addition to the common oyster mushrooms and enoki mushrooms, there is also Agaricus bisporus, which uses cow dung and straw as the culture medium.
Uncle Tai told him that in addition to these three, a lot of wild edible fungi can be dug up in the forest after it rains, and wild wood ear mushrooms can be seen on many rotten wooden stakes.
This is a good thing. Xia Yu had only seen it when he was a child on the crooked tree in his hometown. At that time, he thought it was poisonous and did not dare to pick it home. When he returned and told his family, he realized that he had missed a delicious dish.
Now he won't have any regrets as the whole farm belongs to him. He can eat whatever mushrooms he wants as long as they are not poisonous, and he won't have the same ones twice a week.
The fun of rich people is so simple. After all, technology is advanced now, and there are a lot of mushrooms sold in the vegetable market. People without money can also buy some to take home, stir-fry some side dishes, and drink a glass of bulk white wine.
This doesn't sound bad, but it still lacks some flavor.
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