Wang Tianxiao smiled and said, "Times have changed, Director. If I'm looking after such a large forest all by myself and there's no convenience for me, wouldn't I feel wronged? You wouldn't bear to see such a good employee like me all alone and destitute, would you?"
"Why are you making yourself sound so pitiful? You don't have a professional title right now, so we can't find a reason to give you a raise..."
"Please think about it again."
Dai Zhixin thought for a while, then shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Forget it, you can tell me yourself. Apart from giving you a raise, everything else is negotiable."
"Then I'll really tell you, okay?"
"Speak up, you little rascal, I've never seen you so long-winded before."
Before Wang Tianxiao arrived, he hadn't expected such a good thing to happen. He had a plan for the future: to rely on the mountains to develop the planting of Chinese medicinal herbs and the breeding industry.
Ziwu Ridge has more than 100 kinds of Chinese medicinal herbs, and Yangzi Ridge has more than 60 of them. As long as you find some of them that can be planted and have high added value, you can definitely become rich.
Many things people don't understand are due to limitations in their thinking. He is a person who has been reborn, so he can view herbal cultivation with the mindset of a person from a later life.
People in that era only thought about growing more food in the fields, and few had any business acumen. Even the widespread cultivation of flue-cured tobacco later on was a phenomenon of the 1990s.
As long as he gets started early, he will definitely be able to take the lead in the market. At that time, Western medicine had not yet been widely spread. Whether it was urban hospitals or rural clinics, they mainly used Chinese medicine, so the market for Chinese herbal raw materials was very large.
To grow things, you need land. In the village, he didn't even have land to grow crops, let alone medicinal herbs.
I was thinking about this question the other day when I was catching rabbits in the mountains: how can we make good use of the mountain ridge in a logical and reasonable way?
And wouldn't you know it, the opportunity came so quickly.
It's like a windfall.
Sure enough, his luck turned around after his rebirth, with good fortune coming one after another. All he had to do was convince the old farm manager to let him do it.
"Manager, look, here's the thing. As you know, I don't own any land in the village, and my wife hasn't been allocated any land yet. We're having trouble even feeding ourselves. So, I was thinking of finding some flat land in the mountains to grow some grains and vegetables, and maybe some common medicinal herbs too. What do you think?"
Dai Zhixin remained silent.
Wang Tianxiao saw that Dai Zhixin was not speaking and was just looking at him, and he couldn't figure out what the old man was thinking.
He was also staring at Dai Zhixin.
The two stared at each other for a full minute before Dai Zhixin finally said, "Speak up, why did you stop?"
"I already said that."
That's it?
Dai Zhixin chuckled, "I thought it was something big, but it turns out this is all you ask for. What kind of request is this? Just go ahead and plant. What we need to do in the mountains is prevent the forests from being illegally logged and prevent certain animals from being hunted. Everything else is fine. As long as you can grow something, plant whatever you want. It's just grass growing in empty spaces anyway."
Wang Tianxiao was so excited he almost shouted it out. This completely met his expectations, and the farm manager's promise was even better than he had imagined.
Can.
Since this request is nothing in the old farm manager's eyes, it means that I can make some more difficult requests.
His eyes lit up, and he decided to ask for more.
"Of course, there's a patrol going on over there, so my safety needs to be guaranteed. You don't want me to be riddled with bullets by those illegal loggers with homemade guns, and you certainly don't want me to become wolf and bear excrement. So, the guns and bullets used here will still be provided, right?"
A gun is something Wang Tianxiao must acquire. His old homemade gun is simply not good enough. If he encounters a large beast in the mountains or wants to hunt large herbivores, a good gun is an essential tool.
"Of course, take the five or six old guns you used. I'll give you fifty rounds first... never mind, I'll give you a hundred rounds. But you can't use guns recklessly; weapons are, after all, instruments of death."
Perhaps because Wang Tianxiao already had experience using guns, the old farm manager readily agreed to his request and generously gave him a hundred rounds of ammunition, enough for a while.
"Hehe~ I'll definitely mind hitting people, but if I run into wolves or black bears, I can't hold back, or you'll never see me again, right?" he said with a grin. Anyway, he only needed to stick to one principle in front of the old farm manager.
That's being shameless and persistent.
This trick never fails.
"You little brat."
"Also, I want to take Big Black with me."
For the first time, Dai Zhixin showed a pained expression. "No way, why are you taking my Big Black? Don't you have two dogs?"
"Manager, I've been with you for so long and helped you solve the problem of arranging people to go to Yangziling. You should give me something as a parting gift. Of course, it doesn't have to be the big black dog. I want something else too."
“Besides Big Black, tell me more.”
"Lend me a thousand yuan."
Dai Zhixin glared at Wang Tianxiao and said irritably, "Where am I supposed to get money for you, you ungrateful bastard?"
After saying that, he sighed again, "Fine, if you really want to take it, then take it. Anyway, Big Black likes you the most. If you really leave, it will be unhappy."
Dahei was the first dog the old farm manager raised here. Dahei's mother was taken away by a leopard shortly after giving birth to him, so Dahei was an orphan from a young age.
After the old farm manager raised the dog for a few years, Wang Tianxiao also went to work at his unit. Dahei followed Wang Tianxiao around. Anyway, Wang Tianxiao already had two dogs, so he didn't need to add another one, Dahei.
Big Black is purer and larger than A Ying and Big Wind, but it has a stubborn personality—either it doesn't get angry at all, or it's determined to fight to the bitter end. It once chased a wild boar all over the mountain, dragging it until other dogs came and together they killed the boar.
Once it sets its sights on its prey, it's hard for it to escape; and if it doesn't like someone, no amount of flattery will help.
For example, it really dislikes Liu Jun and bites him whenever it sees him. Liu Jun tried to win it over with treats, but it was no use at all. Dahei never eats food offered with contempt.
This is very similar to Wang Tianxiao.
"In addition, I also want to..."
"Alright, alright, are you ever going to stop? You might as well take me back with you," Dai Zhixin said, feigning anger and laughing as he scolded.
"Never mind then. I was actually planning to tell you something."
"What is it? Spit it out."
"Let's forget about it, it's not a good thing anyway."
Seeing that Wang Tianxiao had become stern, Dai Zhixin said irritably, "Are you going to talk or not? If you don't, my promise is off."
Wang Tianxiao then suppressed his smile, moved closer to Dai Zhixin, and whispered, "Logically, I shouldn't talk about people behind their backs, but I accidentally learned some news that I feel I would be doing you a disservice if I didn't tell you."
"Oh?" Dai Zhixin became curious as he saw how mysterious he was.
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