"good"
Ring ring—ring ring—
Before he could finish speaking, Xu An's phone rang abruptly. After seeing that the caller ID showed Xu Heping, Xu An asked Lu Shengnan to leave first. Only after the office door clicked shut did Xu An press the answer button.
"Anzi! The procedures for the factory land here in Hezibao have all been completed, the design drawings have entered the detailed construction design stage, and the construction materials have begun to be transported to the site one after another. I asked Third Grandma, and the 18th and 26th of this month are both auspicious days to start construction. Which one do you think is more suitable!"
As soon as the call connected, Xu Heping rattled off a string of good news.
Hearing that all the formalities had been completed, Xu An breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "Let's do it on the 18th. If we delay any longer, I'm afraid winter will arrive in Hezibao, making construction more difficult. It's better to start sooner rather than later."
“Okay, then I’ll arrange the groundbreaking ceremony for the 18th. You’ll have to come over then.” Xu Heping said in a low voice, his voice full of excitement, “Secretary Li said that the Poverty Alleviation Office plans to invite Qingyan Provincial TV Station to come and interview the report. If they do, the leaders from Honghe City will also come.”
"Wow! What a grand display!" Xu An exclaimed in surprise. "Then we need to get all the materials in here quickly. It'll look impressive if there are piles of materials neatly stacked up!"
"The materials arrived without any problems; the poverty alleviation office is helping to keep an eye on things." Xu Heping paused here, then spoke again after about three seconds, his tone ambiguous:
"The day before yesterday, when the first batch of materials was being delivered, a truck got stuck in a pothole. It was only with the help of the surrounding villages that the truck was pulled out. After hearing about this, everyone in the villages of Hezibao picked up hoes and shovels and went out to clear the road in two days. They even spontaneously organized a patrol team that goes out every day."
"It's fine." Xu An's mind was filled with countless thoughts, but in the end, all that could be said were these three dry words.
After that sentence, there was a long silence, so silent that only the two of them could hear breathing on either end of the phone.
"Oh right, I need to talk to you about something." After a moment of silence, Xu An awkwardly changed the subject: "Da Ni made lemon tea from the lemons and tea leaves you sent, and it tastes pretty good. I'm thinking of opening a lemon tea shop here in Haishi. Could you get some more tea leaves and lemons over?"
After speaking, Xu An added a word of advice.
"Please use a vacuum packing machine to compress the tea leaves, otherwise they'll easily get damp and won't keep well in Haishi. You should buy 500 jin of lemons first. I've contacted the equipment company, and the equipment will be delivered in the next couple of days."
Just as Liaojia Village, which produces tea, and Anqing Village, which produces lemons, were excited about the sudden purchase, the village chief of Hua'an Village couldn't sit still.
Why can't the astringent tea leaves and sour lemons be sold, while the large, sweet, fragrant, and juicy grapes produced in our own village can be sold?
I've worked so hard to cultivate these grapevines, but they're not as good as the naturally growing tea bushes, or even the neglected lemons.
If that's the case, what's the point of growing grapes in my Hua'an Village!
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"What time is it?"
"8:30 PM."
When do you think they'll be back?
"This is the peak time for customers; we won't start packing up until at least 9:30."
“.”
The above conversation began at 7:30 p.m. and was repeated every ten minutes.
After four days of training, today is the day the trainees who learned how to make "Crispy Potatoes" officially graduate and put their skills into practice. At four o'clock in the afternoon, each trainee carried fifty pounds of potatoes and pushed a cart to the location chosen by Niu Daben to set up a stall.
The sales performance of these five trainees over the next two days will determine whether their project should continue or whether they should cut their losses.
"What time is it?" Niu Daben asked again less than six minutes later.
But this time, before the cold noodle vendor could speak, a loud sound of wheels turning came from afar, growing louder and louder. A small black dot slowly grew larger, eventually transforming into a figure pushing a cart that appeared before the two of them.
The owner of the grilled cold noodles glanced at his phone instinctively; it was 8:36.
The moment Niu Daben recognized the newcomer, he leaped to his feet, rushed to the student's side, grabbed his hand, shook it violently, and anxiously asked, "How's it going? How are the sales?"
"It's great!" the student said cheerfully. "As soon as the stall was set up at five o'clock today, quite a few people came to see what was going on. Starting at five-thirty, the crowd grew even larger, and all fifty pounds of small potatoes I brought were sold out."
"Very good, very good!"
When Niu Daben breathed a sigh of relief, he let go of the potato bucket on the cart and looked at it. The bucket was empty, not even half a potato peel was left.
The return of this student was like a signal; in the next half hour, the remaining four students returned one after another, each with a beaming smile, happily showing Niu Daben their empty wooden buckets.
The weight that had been hanging over his throat finally lifted after the last trainee returned. Niu Daben let out a long sigh of relief and sat down on the cement ground in front of the warehouse, feeling somewhat exhausted.
"These five people sold 250 jin of small potatoes today, which is one-eighth of a ton," Niu Daben murmured in a voice only the two of them could hear. "Given the size of Haishi, even if we recruit another 30 to 50 people, it wouldn't create any competition or surplus issues."
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