"Wow, that's great! Once the square is built, everyone will have a place to cool off and take a stroll after dinner!" Xu An said, looking up at the surrounding villages and roughly comparing the locations in his mind. He added enthusiastically, "It's a good location; the distances to the surrounding villages are about the same."
The scene looked quite lively, but it was just a few machines digging and burying soil, nothing special. After watching for a while, Xu An said goodbye to his second grandfather and returned home.
In the courtyard, Grandma Xu was listening attentively as Xu Kang and Xu Le told her stories from picture books. The two little ones were acting like little teachers, sometimes telling Grandma, "Don't get distracted, listen carefully," and sometimes patiently asking her, "Did you understand? Do you want me to tell you again?"
That's good. Judging from her performance in the past six months of kindergarten, she doesn't seem to have any aversion to learning yet, so she shouldn't go down the same path as she did in her previous life.
When the two little ones got tired of talking and announced a break, Xu An went over and chatted with Grandma Xu.
"Grandma, when I came back, I saw they were filling in the land over the rice paddies. Second Grandpa said they're going to build a plaza. It looks pretty big. After dinner, we can go to the plaza together to cool off and take a walk. Grandma, you can chat with your old friends too."
As he was talking, Xu An suddenly sensed something was wrong. He had a feeling that his grandmother had known about this all along.
So Xu An stopped rambling and asked directly, "Grandma, did you already know about this?"
"Yes, I not only know that a square is going to be built over Dayangtian, but I also know that your second grandfather spearheaded the project!"
"Second Grandpa, wasn't this built by the Qianhai Town government? How is it related to you?"
Upon hearing Xu An's question, Grandma Xu realized that she had let something slip. But words cannot be taken back, so Grandma Xu stopped hiding anything and told Xu An the whole story clearly.
"It's nothing now, but once the mudflat aquaculture harvest is complete and we make money, it'll be hard to say. Didn't we get targeted a while ago, with people trying to poison the mudflats? It's not that we're afraid of thieves stealing, it's that we're afraid of thieves eyeing us. There's no such thing as guarding against thieves for a thousand days. Now that we're eating meat, we should let everyone else have some soup too."
Xu An was dumbfounded when he heard that his second grandfather had not only started a homestay business with the surrounding villages, but also persuaded them to build a food plaza together, and finally got them to willingly spend money to repair roads and do landscaping, among other things.
In the end, all the words can be summed up in one sentence—Second Grandpa is truly amazing!
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"One, two, three, four, twenty-eight! Twenty-eight boxes in total, that's right!" The courier station owner joked as he printed the waybill after counting the boxes.
"There are five more boxes of lemons delivered today than last week. Let me see. Not only did they add five more boxes of lemons, but they also added a delivery address. It seems like they've opened another branch in Dongqing City. Mr. Xu is really opening one branch after another!"
"Of course! At first we were worried the lemons would rot in the ground, but now we're worried they won't even last until next year's harvest."
Every single household in Shuangzhai Village has their cellars filled with lemons; they've even cleaned out all the old, unused cellars in the village.
Next spring, we'll clear that wasteland to the east and plant lemons all over it.
Professor Wei said that with that technology, you can harvest crops in the same year you plant them; it's amazing.
They also said that the lemon trees in our village bear summer flowers and fruits, and that next spring they would help us plant spring-flowering and autumn-flowering lemon trees so that they could bear fruit all year round.
The village chief of Shuangzhai Village was just following along with the courier station owner's words, but as he spoke, he ended up telling the whole story in one go.
Hearing these words from the village chief of Shuangzhai Village, the owner of the express delivery station smiled sincerely. The more shops Mr. Xu opened, the more raw materials he would need, and the more orders his own express delivery station would receive!
The Hezibao courier station, which has been open for less than two months, is already catching up to the second-to-last courier station in terms of order volume! Combined with the orders from the other courier station in town, it has already squeezed into the top fifty of the head office.
Xu's Catering has already achieved this level of performance even before its factories have been built. Imagine how huge the order volume will be once all the factories are built!
The courier station owner exchanged pleasantries, but his hands moved quickly and efficiently, packing all the boxes, affixing shipping labels, and handing the receipt to the village head of Shuangzhai Village, instructing him:
"Alright, here's the express delivery receipt. Village Chief Yang, please keep this safe. These lemons will be loaded onto the truck at six o'clock and transported to the city. They should arrive the day after tomorrow. Remember to let General Manager Xu know!"
"Okay, I'll go register with General Manager Xu right away."
Watching the villagers of Shuangzhai Village push their handcarts away, the courier station owner turned around and looked up at the location of Xu's Catering Factory. In the distance, he could see huge cranes towering in the air, and beyond the low shrubs, rows of snow-white buildings came into view.
"I took a stroll over yesterday, and the factory buildings are almost finished. Once the factory opens, the volume of express deliveries should be quite high. The road from Hezibao to Hongshan Town has already started construction. Should we apply to headquarters for another truck?"
(End of this chapter)
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