Just as Xu An was feeling sentimental, there was a knock on the courtyard gate, followed by Aunt Hong's anxious voice: "Anzi, Anzi, are you home?"
"Here!" Xu An put away his phone, got up and opened the courtyard gate. He saw Aunt Hong standing outside the gate in her pajamas, barefoot, looking flustered. "Aunt Hong, what's wrong?"
"Anzi, did you see the news on Shanghai TV? The person in charge of Shengli Supermarket was arrested for allegedly selling illegal food!" Aunt Hong's hand, gripping the hospital door tightly, turned white from the force. "What are we going to do? So many greenhouse growers just signed contracts with them, and the cauliflower has only just been planted. Shengli Supermarket is in trouble now. Won't this affect our cooperation?"
Xu An fell silent upon hearing this; he had been worried about the same thing. According to his memories from his previous life, this impact was inevitable.
But the timing of this life's misfortunes is much better than in the previous one.
In my past life, the disaster struck just before harvest time. There were only three to five days left before the cauliflower was ready to be harvested, and I couldn't shovel it or sell it. This timing was absolutely terrible.
But in this lifetime, the cauliflower has only just been planted. Even if Victory Supermarket breaks the contract, they can simply uproot the planted cauliflower and plant other crops instead.
There will definitely be some losses, but at least it won't be like the previous life, where we were dragged down by the huge cauliflower production.
“Victory Supermarket is under the Qiansheng Group, so they shouldn’t just sit idly by.” After saying that, Xu An felt that his words were too hypocritical, so he changed his tune and said, “Victory Supermarket has already compensated us for the crops that were previously uprooted. It’s not too late to pull up the cauliflower and plant other crops now, so the losses are still within an acceptable range.”
well!
Aunt Hong sighed deeply, knowing that what Xu An said was the best solution at the moment.
While feeling sorry for others, Aunt Hong couldn't help but feel a little fortunate.
Fortunately, I felt upset that day and went to the beach to clear my head; fortunately, I ran into Xu An there; fortunately, I talked to Xu An about the greenhouse.
If I hadn't gone to the beach that day, I wouldn't have run into Xu An, and I wouldn't have talked to that greenhorn about greenhouses.
If this hadn't happened, I would most likely have agonized over it for days before finally joining the rest of the group to sign the contract with Victory Supermarket.
Just thinking about it made Aunt Hong shudder.
That's terrifying!
Thank goodness! Thank goodness I went to the beach that day.
Meanwhile, Hu Juan, Uncle Lin, and the two brothers from Yanjiacun were also relieved, as none of them chose to cooperate with Shengli Supermarket.
After Aunt Hong left, Xu An sat back in the rocking chair, took out his phone, and opened Lin Xuyang's chat window.
I typed and deleted lines of text, then typed and deleted them again, until finally I decided to delete them all and close the chat window.
I was quite curious about how Lin Xuyang and his group got their hands on Shengli Supermarket. Was it because of what I said that they noticed it, or was it something else?
But now that the mastermind behind it has been caught, what's the point of digging deeper? Let's just leave some room for imagination.
I had a good night's sleep.
At 5:10 a.m. the next morning, Xu An got up on time, washed up, and went to Qianhai Town to pick up the goods.
As soon as I arrived at the entrance of the wholesale market, I heard a noisy commotion inside, which was even louder than usual.
Xu An slowed down and listened for a while, discovering that everyone was talking about Shengli Supermarket and Anxin Food Processing Company.
Their conversations became increasingly absurd, starting with expired food, then escalating to food poisoning, and finally to poisoning food.
Xu An could be considered a semi-participant, and listening to their conversation, he felt it was quite outrageous.
It's only been one night, how did it ferment like this?
Xu An shook his head slightly, quickened his pace, and walked to Bald Chen's stall.
Since Anxin Food Processing Company stopped selling expired or near-expired food, Bald Chen's business has improved.
Not long ago, they rented the stall next door and even hired a helper.
At this moment, the stall was crowded with people, and Bald Chen and his companion were so busy that they naturally did not notice Xu An standing at the back of the crowd.
Now that Shengli Supermarket is in trouble, Bald Chen's business will probably be even busier from now on.
As soon as a gap appeared in the crowd, Xu An darted in front of the stall: "Bald Chen, time to pick up the goods!"
Upon hearing Xu An's voice, Bald Chen quickly looked up at him, handed the bag in his hand to his helper, and said to Xu An somewhat embarrassedly, "Business was so good today that I didn't notice you were here."
As he spoke, Bald Chen turned and walked into the store, pushing a small blue cart out with more than 300 kilograms of meat piled on it.
"Let's go!" Bald Chen shouted to Xu An, pushing the cart ahead to clear the way, with Xu An following behind.
"Your business is exceptionally good today!"
"Yeah, thanks to Victory Supermarket, my phone hasn't stopped ringing since that news came out yesterday. It's all calls to place orders. I barely slept a wink all night, I'm so tired." Bald Chen said, yawning widely.
The small cart skillfully stopped in front of Xu An's tricycle. Bald Chen, while unloading the goods, joked, "You buy so many ingredients every day, the sales must be pretty good, and you must be making a lot of money. Why are you driving an electric tricycle that costs only a thousand or so yuan? It doesn't suit your status as Boss Xu."
In the past, Xu An would definitely have joked back.
But things are different now! Xu An has a car! It's a brand new pickup truck that was only manufactured last year!
"Hehe, who said I don't have a car? I do have a car, and it has four wheels!"
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