Chapter 309: Although I'm very tempted, I can't...
I just heard the news not long ago that the third phase of Bauhinia Garden might start construction ahead of schedule, and in less than half a month, the news has come true!
Xu An was only slightly surprised when he saw the message; he wasn't flustered at all.
Since the headquarters of Xu's Catering has already been built and the workspace for Xu's Catering has been reserved, all the equipment and everything else can be moved over in a small truck.
I wonder if the main gate to the Bauhinia Garden construction site will be moved. We need to keep an eye on that, since there are several hundred workers on the site...
After finishing up some odds and ends, it was already 3:30 in the afternoon, time to pick up the two little ones from kindergarten.
This trip to Hezibao made the two little ones, who were already from Sheniu, become the most popular children in the whole kindergarten. The children, big and small, listened to their stories every day about picking mushrooms and catching rabbits on the mountain, and roasting fish and sweet potatoes in the fields. They never got tired of hearing them.
The two of them were so smug that every day when they got home they would ask several times when they were going to go to Hezibao again, completely forgetting that they had vomited bile on the way there and back, cried and said they didn't want to go when they went, and cried and said they didn't want to come back when they came back.
On his way back to the village, Xu An saw a group of people riding electric bikes in one direction. He glanced at them a couple of times but didn't think much of it.
It wasn't until he turned from the main road onto the village path that he saw the group of people following him around the corner in his rearview mirror, and he realized something was wrong. What were these people doing in Xujia Village?
I parked my car on the small banyan tree at the village entrance, and was about to get on the car to ask those people what they were doing there, when the group of people turned around again and rode in a roundabout way towards Geng Yan's house, stopping in front of Xu's house.
Then, Xu told Anzi everything that had happened during the National Day holiday. After speaking, she looked at the abandoned paper mill and sighed, "Now, young men get a headache just looking at that factory. It occupies a small area, and although the supervision is strict, there are still many areas that border the mudflats. It's impossible to prevent it all. Now, we can't expect surveillance to have a deterrent effect."
Although Anzi had no doubts upon hearing this, he did not hesitate at all. He took two slow steps, opened the door, pulled Xu Shi back, peeked out through the crack in the door and looked around to make sure someone was following them before closing the gate. He then turned and asked, "Xu Shi, what's going on?"
"That was just a coincidence. Your shop happened to need a small amount of fruits and vegetables, and it just so happened that the Xu family could provide them. Wasn't that a win-win situation?" Geng Yan took over the conversation, offering a plausible reason to comfort the Xu family before casually asking, "We went to the Xu family to ask them to...?"
Knock knock—knock knock—
Eighty-eight thousand yuan per mu. After deducting the land occupied by the small shed for the eight people of the Xu family, there are still about seventy mu left. Forty percent of this group of relatives, eighteen mu, is seventy-one eighty thousand yuan!
Although Anzi was very tempted, the thought of the annual rent of 1.4 million yuan made her tempted only so-so.
"...That bad young man got carried away by that failed supermarket and is planning to sell his stall... He even came over to ask if you wanted to take it over, but your eight stalls are enough to keep you busy..."
While Anzi was thinking, Madam Xu continued to explain the situation of the small sheds to him: "...The transfer fee for one mu of land, including the small sheds, is 88,000 yuan...That price is quite reasonable. Originally, the land alone cost 20,000 yuan per mu. After deducting that part, with eight small sheds on one mu, it only costs 7,000 yuan per shed..."
Xu was stunned by Anzi's blunt words and took a few seconds to react. She looked Anzi up and down and asked with some doubt, "Aunt Hong, was he joking or serious?"
"Here'll have a bowl, you can sit for a little while longer..."
"...Those seven small sheds over there belong to Yan Laoqi's family in Yanjia Village. I plan to transfer eight of them out, and keep the remaining two for myself... Those two over there are from Hetouyong, and I'll transfer both of them together... And these four small sheds on the hillside above the paper mill, the Yan brothers plan to transfer them all at once..."
In October, the temperature in Shanghai was still hovering around 80 degrees Celsius, showing no signs of autumn, and the weather was very humid.
It's time to slow down, it's time to slow down. That factory building has been sitting idle in my memory. Hurry up, wait until the Xu'an braised food branch opens, wait until the group catering business is booming, wait until the Xu'an slow food main store's production can meet market demand, then it'll be too late to consider renting that paper mill...
After doing the math, An Ziren clicked his tongue in amazement. If he wanted to take over all the small sheds there, he would have to consider taking out a loan! He also wondered how much the land where Geng Yan Catering's headquarters was located would be worth as collateral.
Before drinking the lotus seed and snow fungus sweet soup, Xu chatted with Anzi while playing with the two big guys. Somehow, the conversation turned to the topic of greenhouse farmers.
After following Mr. Xu around the greenhouse planting area, we found that apart from Geng Yan and the other eight farmers who cooperated with their own shops, less than 40% of the remaining greenhouse farmers had put up signs for sale.
"Sister Hong, he's home. Call him if you need anything!" one of them asked as they got off their electric scooter and knocked on the door.
"You think that guy is capable? A whole 80,000 jin! Even if all eight vegetables in his shop were cauliflower, making that every day would still consume a lot... There's no other way. You'll have to find an excuse to hide out there for a while, and then carefully come up with a reason to let us know when we're in trouble..."
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