Chapter 124 Chapter 124 Eye-Opening
Li Xiurong said, "I'm Lin Xiurong. Is Jiang Tao here?"
"Sister Lin, our boss is here, please wait a moment."
After a while, a rough male voice came from the mobile phone: "Sister Lin, how are you doing recently? What do you want to talk to me about?"
Lin Xiurong: "Are you busy recently?"
The boy on the other end said loudly: "It's been fine recently. Do you need any renovations?"
Lin Xiurong replied, "I have a friend who wants to renovate her house, and you do a great job, so I wanted to introduce you to her."
Jiang Tao's voice became louder. "Thank you, Sister Lin, for introducing me to this business. Don't worry, I'm serious and responsible when it comes to renovations. Unlike those who just mess around, I guarantee it will be perfect!"
Li Xiurong said, "Of course I trust you, so I introduced you to my friend. However, my friend's shop is quite small, so I'm not sure if you would accept it."
Jiang Tao asked, "How big is the area?"
Lin Xiurong looked at Jiang Xi inquiringly, and Jiang Xi whispered beside him, "It's about 60 square meters."
There was a moment of silence on the other end. Jiang Tao usually took big orders, especially those from big restaurants and hotels. At the very least, they were small villas. He had never taken orders for more than 60 square meters.
Jiang Tao thought for a moment and said, "I happen to be free for about a month. I usually don't take jobs, but since you recommended it to me, Sister Lin, I'll take it. Don't worry, I'll definitely guarantee the quality of the work!"
Lin Xiurong said: "Thank you, are you free later? My friend is here, why don't you come to my hotel to talk?"
Jiang Tao: "Okay, I'll be right there."
After hanging up the phone, Lin Xiurong said to Jiang Xi, "This guy's called Jiang Tao. He's young, but he does a good job. I've hired him for renovations before, and there haven't been any problems. However, let me warn you, he's a good person, but sometimes he speaks too directly and seems out of tune. But he's actually very serious about his work. Let's discuss the details later."
Lin Xiurong added: "As for whether to cooperate or not, it still depends on your needs. Don't let my introduction affect your judgment."
Jiang Xi smiled and said: "Thank you, Sister Lin. I will consider it carefully. Thank you, Sister Lin, for telling me so many heartfelt words." Jiang Xi is a person who is sensitive to both kindness and malice. Lin Xiurong is really thinking about her, so she did this.
Lin Xiurong said with a pleasant face, "You're welcome. If you have any problems in Shanghai, you can come to me. I'm happy to help you. After all, you helped me a lot before."
Jiang Xi and Lin Xiurong both understood what "big help" meant. A good deed created a good relationship.
Jiang Tao came over quickly. He was not tall and had long hair with a 2:8 part. He wore a chain around his neck, a floral shirt, jeans, a black leather belt sticking out, a pair of shiny leather shoes, and a mobile phone slung around his waist. He looked very ostentatious.
Qian Lili took a look and turned away. This person was really weird.
Jiang Tao strode in and greeted Lin Xiurong, then looked at Jiang Xi: "Sister, are you the one who wants to renovate the house?" He spoke in a vulgar tone, and Qian Lili's first reaction was that she didn't like it.
Jiang Xi's expression was normal: "Yes, I need to renovate. I want to open a braised pork restaurant, so I want you to help me with the renovation."
Jiang Tao said, "No problem. I made it very clear on the phone. I'll help you pretend to be whatever you want. Trust me, it's right!"
Jiang Tao raised his chin, thinking he was very charming and dashing, but in fact the female comrades present all felt that he was not worthy of watching. He was so pretentious, too pretentious. Most young people nowadays are pragmatic, and such pretentiousness is rare.
Qian Lili took a look and curled her lips. Even Xiufen forgot her fear and stared at Jiang Tao secretly as if she was looking at something new and interesting. What an exaggerated person he was.
Jiang Xi had experience in renovations in Changfeng County, so he took out the sketch he had made at the time and said, "This is my general requirement."
Jiang Tao took the picture and looked at it: "Wow, this girl is a professional, the drawing is very good."
Jiang Xi...I'm really not used to being called "girl" all the time.
Jiang Tao carefully examined the sketch and said, "This is a simple matter that won't take much effort. We can help you finish it in a month. Don't worry, our project is transparent throughout, and we inspect each item one by one. You are guaranteed to be satisfied!"
Jiang Xi and Jiang Tao confirmed some details. Although Jiang Tao spoke in a rough tone, he was very professional when talking about decoration and could give very good suggestions. Jiang Xi felt relieved. No matter what Jiang Tao looked like on the surface, as long as he did the job well, it would be fine.
Jiang Xi and Jiang Tao signed the contract: "Thank you, we are in a hurry and hope to complete it as soon as possible."
Jiang Tao: "Don't worry, I'll do things quickly and effectively!"
Jiang Tao put the contract in his bag, and finally had time to greet the other people.
Jiang Tao glanced at Xiufen: "Hey, sister."
Xiufen shrank back, but Jiang Tao looked calm, not bothered by the fact that she had lost an arm. However, his attitude was still very exaggerated.
Jiang Tao finally looked at Qian Lili. He had noticed Qian Lili when he was discussing with Jiang Xi just now. Now taking a closer look, hey, this girl is really plump, with a round face and round eyes, very festive, just like the dolls in the New Year pictures.
Jiang Tao liked her at first sight and said to Qian Lili, "Sister, are you also coming to Shanghai to open a shop? If you have anything to say, tell me and I'll protect you!"
Qian Lili was shocked. Why did this scoundrel take the initiative to talk to her? Moreover, they had just met, and why was he acting like a big brother? Qian Lili snorted in annoyance: "Who is your sister!"
Jiang Tao smiled instead of getting angry. Her temper was just what he liked. This girl was quite exciting. Jiang Tao asked, "How old are you? Do you have a boyfriend?"
Qian Lili was a little surprised. She had never seen such a person before, and her words were a little stammered: "You, what are you doing, you are being a hooligan!"
Lin Xiurong held her forehead and quickly tried to smooth things over. Jiang Tao was usually a bit of a scoundrel, but he wasn't a bad person. However, Liu Xiurong didn't expect Jiang Tao to be so outrageous today: "What are you doing? You scared the girl."
Jiang Xi hadn't expected things to develop this way, and said coldly, "Comrade, please be respectful."
Although Xiufen didn't say anything, she also glared at Jiang Tao. Qian Lili was a good-tempered girl and very likable. Even Xiufen liked Qian Lili.
Jiang Tao raised his hands in surrender: "Hey, hey, I was wrong. I can't argue with a room full of women."
He looked at Qian Lili again and lowered his voice: "Sister, I didn't mean it. I just thought you were pretty and wanted to get to know you."
It would have been fine if she hadn't said this. As soon as she said it, Qian Lili's face darkened even more. She turned away, a rare gesture, to express her disgust: "I don't want to talk to you! Stay away from me!"
Jiang Tao was embarrassed, and Jiang Xi said: "Since the business has been discussed, we will leave."
After saying goodbye to Lin Xiurong, Jiang Xi took Qian Lili and Xiufen and left the Shiquan Hotel. If he had known Jiang Tao was so outrageous before signing the contract, Jiang Xi would have reconsidered it.
After a few people left, Lin Xiurong said with a serious face: "Jiang Tao, what's wrong with you today? You scared everyone away!"
Jiang Tao touched his nose and said, "Sister, you know I'm a straightforward person. And that girl just now was really plump. I like that kind of girl. It's not easy to meet someone I like, so I have to be diligent."
Lin Xiurong looked skeptical: "I'm warning you, those people are my friends. If you try to mess around, I'll be the first one to not let you go."
Jiang Tao whispered, "How is that possible, Sister Lin? We've known each other for so long, and you know exactly who I am. I always keep my word and never mess around."
Lin Xiurong: "You mean, you really like that girl?"
Jiang Tao: "Of course, I've made up my mind. I want to date her and marry that girl!"
Lin Xiurong didn't believe it at all: "You think so much after just one meeting?"
Jiang Tao recalled Qian Lili's face: "Sister Lin, you don't know, this feeling, I can't control it, it comes when I say it, how do you say it, you search for him in the crowd for a thousand times, and that person is right there, do I really like girls like that, sister, tell me quickly, what does that girl do, how old is she, does she have a boyfriend?"
Lin Xiurong: "I'm afraid that your feelings will disappear as quickly as they come. You should be honest and do a good job of decorating for them. Don't think about other things."
Jiang Tao... "Sister, can you bear to watch me die alone?"
Lin Xiurong: "I have something else to do, you should go back quickly. Didn't you just take an order? Go back and prepare well. Don't say anything you shouldn't say, and don't do anything you shouldn't do."
Jiang Tao...
Qian Lili had already shown her resistance to Jiang Tao, and Lin Xiurong was not someone who was willing to match others up. Jiang Tao begged for a long time but it was useless, so he could only go back dejected.
The Shanghai Stock Exchange is really big, and the people there are all kinds of weird.
Qian Lili and Xiufen had seen the world today, but they soon had no time to think about it because Liang Guangzhi had already made an agreement with the leaders and arranged for them to go to the Weimin Chicken Farm to study.
Originally, Qian Lili didn't need to go, but she had nothing to do anyway, so it would be good to learn more knowledge. So Qian Lili followed Jiang Xi and Xiufen to the Weimin Chicken Farm.
The one who received them was Liang Guangzhi, who was also a servant. It was he who introduced the people, so it was more appropriate for him to receive them.
Liang Guangzhi introduced the basic situation of Wenming Chicken Farm to everyone: "Our chicken farm mainly raises broilers. At the beginning, the entire chicken farm had about a thousand chickens. After these years of development, the chicken farm now has about 70,000 to 80,000 chickens."
"Seventy or eighty thousand chickens! That's a lot. How many days will it take to eat them all?" Qian Lili said in surprise. She couldn't imagine that seventy or eighty thousand chickens piled up would be as high as a mountain. Even if they were eaten five times a day, no, eight times a day, they would not be able to be finished.
Liang Guangzhi said with a smile: "We sell chicken almost all over the country!"
Liang Guangzhi said with pride: "Let's put it this way, one out of every five chickens in Shanghai comes from our Weimin Chicken Farm."
Liang Guangzhi took everyone to visit the chicken farm. The Weimin chicken farm is very large.
"This is our chicken coop. The roof is made of a tree frame and is covered with thermal insulation rock wool. This way, it won't be too cold even in winter."
Everyone looked at the chicken coop. The chicken coop here was not like the traditional iron cages at home. Instead, it was arranged in a vertical row, separated by wire mesh in the middle, with feeding troughs and water troughs in front. Many chickens were eating with their heads down.
This chicken coop helps save space, and when space is saved, more chickens can be raised.
"These chickens must be sorted by size and hatching time. Chickens from different months of hatching must be placed in different chicken coops. Furthermore, extra care must be taken to vaccinate each chicken and monitor their health at all times. If a chicken contracts fowl plague, it must be immediately isolated, otherwise the entire chicken farm will suffer..."
Liang Guangzhi explained everything in detail and taught almost everything he knew. Jiang Xi took notes quickly and Qian Lili listened attentively.
Xiufen tied the notebook to a rope and hung the other end of the rope around her neck. When she needed to take notes, Xiufen held the notebook with one hand, found a place to support herself, and started taking notes.
Liang Guangzhi explained slowly and at the same pace as hers, and Xiufen also felt that she benefited a lot. In the past, she always relied on experience, but now these experiences have been systematically transformed into knowledge, and Xiufen can summarize the previous experiences into theories.
Liang Guangzhi took everyone to the chicken coop where they were about to be sold. "Here are the chickens we're about to sell. Each one weighs eight or nine kilograms. It used to take about three months for a chicken to be ready for sale, but now, with feed, a white-feathered chicken can be ready for sale in about a month."
Qian Lili was surprised and said, "What kind of feed is so magical! It directly shortens the time it takes for chickens to be marketed by 1/3. Will the chickens still be as big as before? Will there be any problems?"
Liang Guangzhi shook his head. "There's no problem at the moment. This is a technology our experts imported from abroad. Through this breeding method, the efficiency of the chicken farm has been greatly improved. And amazingly, with this feed, the chickens grow meat much faster, and the meat is even fatter than before."
Qian Lili and Xiufen had never heard of this before. They stared at the chickens, their eyes wide open, as they ate. Could the granular substance in the stone trough be some magical feed? What was in it? How could it make the chickens grow so fast?
Jiang Xi's focus, however, was not on this: "Do chickens raised with feed taste the same as chickens raised using traditional methods?"
Liang Guangzhi: "It's definitely different. The taste is a little worse, but nowadays, having meat to eat is good enough. Why would I care about the taste?"
For ordinary chicken farms, feeding chicks with feed can not only increase the output rate but also save costs and increase economic benefits. Moreover, there is a shortage of meat in the market now, and people don’t care about the quality of the meat. As long as it is meat, it is good.
But the chicken farm that Jiang Xi wants to run is different. The meat from the chicken farm is not supplied to the market, but to Wu Ji Zao Lu.
The quality of the brine is largely determined by the raw materials, so although feeding chickens with feed can save a lot of costs, Jiang Xi does not intend to adopt this method.
Jiang Xi then asked, "In terms of nutrition, which is more nutritious, chickens raised with feed or chickens raised using traditional methods?"
Liang Guangzhi scratched his head. "We're not sure about that, but if you want to raise delicious chickens, free-range chickens are the best. To make the chickens taste better, you need to let them move more and run more. Also, feed them more protein-rich foods, like earthworms and grasshoppers. If conditions permit, you can also feed them some leeks..."
Everyone nodded and wrote down what Liang Guangzhi said.
The tour of the chicken coop was almost over. Liang Guangzhi said, "Raising chickens sounds simple, but it's actually quite complex. While every household can do it, to raise chickens on a large scale and do it well, you need to pay attention to every aspect, from the height of the fences in the coop to the hatching time of the chicks and the regular spraying of disinfectant in the coop. These are all very particular and it's impossible to explain them all in just a few words."
Liang Guangzhi is a man of action. Although he does not hold a high position in the chicken farm, he has accumulated a lot of experience over the years. He also enjoyed the teaching to the fullest and only ended today's teaching when he was thirsty.
Jiang Xi said, "Thank you, Uncle Liang. If it weren't for you, we would still be at a loss."
Xiufen also expressed her sincere gratitude: "Thank you Uncle Liang for teaching us so much. I will definitely learn from you in the future."
Even Qian Lili felt that raising chickens was indeed a science, and it seemed that nothing was easy.
After several people came out of the chicken coop, Jiang Xi asked, "Uncle Liang, can you take us to visit the chicken farm's cold storage?"
Of course, Weimin Chicken Farm has a cold storage. Liang Guangzhi said, "I'm not in charge of the cold storage, but I know the person in charge. I can take you to have a look."
Most of the chickens released from Jiang Xi's chicken farm will be directly consumed internally, so the demand for cold storage is not high. However, cold storage is needed to run a braising liquid factory. If one wants to sell Wu Ji Braising Liquid all over the country, the construction of a cold chain system is very important. Jiang Xi also wants to take this opportunity to understand the market situation.
Liang Guangzhi took Jiang Xi and his group to the cold storage. The cold storage area of Weimin Chicken Farm was not too large, because many chickens were sold alive, and fewer chickens needed to be frozen.
Liang Guangzhi greeted the colleague in charge of the cold storage: "Lao Li, I brought these comrades to visit the chicken house today. They want to see the cold storage. Is that okay?"
Lao Li was a thin but capable old man. He smiled and said, "Lao Liang, I haven't seen you for a long time. How have you been lately?"
Liang Guangzhi: "It's okay, it's okay. Is it convenient for us to check the cold storage now?"
Old Li said, "It's not convenient to be inside the cold storage. You can't see anything inside. Once you open it, there's only ice inside. The temperature is extremely low. You'll get frostbite if you go in wearing such thin clothes. Just wait outside and observe."
Jiang Xi said: "Thank you, Uncle Li. This is our first time visiting a cold storage. Could you please introduce it to us?"
Seeing that Jiang Xi had a good attitude and was brought by Liang Guangzhi, Old Li enthusiastically introduced: "Building a cold storage costs a lot of money. If our Weimin Poultry Farm wasn't strong, we wouldn't be able to build a cold storage. This is your first time visiting a cold storage, so you've found the right place. If you want to visit somewhere else, there's no such place!"
Jiang Xi asked, "How much does it cost to build a cold storage?"
Lao Li: "Let me give you an example. How much does a refrigerator cost now? A cold storage is a super-sized refrigerator. Can you calculate how much it costs?"
A refrigerator currently costs about 500 to 1,000 yuan on the market, and you can't buy it without a ticket. It is easy to imagine that building this cold storage must be troublesome and expensive, and the final price may be an unimaginable figure.
Jiang Xi followed Lao Li to learn about the construction of the cold storage and what needed to be prepared. He felt that a loan of 50,000 yuan was not enough. There was no way to think about the cold storage at the moment, but this plan must be implemented in the future.
Although we can't build a cold storage, we can still ask about food preservation methods. Jiang Xi asked: "Is there any way to keep food warm?"
When the weather gets hotter in the future, the fermented brine will definitely need to be kept warm when it is distributed from the factory to other places so that it will not deteriorate quickly. Since it is impossible to build a cold storage now, it is better to ask for some folk remedies.
Old Li said, "The traditional method used to be to wrap a foam box with a quilt. If you want something more beautiful and practical, you can use a wood chip insulation box."
Jiang Xi humbly asked, "How do I make a wood chip insulation box?"
Old Li squatted on the ground and took a branch to show Jiang Xi: "Actually, it is to use wood chips to isolate the external temperature, like this..." Old Li drew a rough sketch, Jiang Xi copied it in his notebook, and asked some details. Finally, he figured out how to make the wood chip insulation box.
Jiang Xi closed his notebook and said sincerely, "Thank you, Uncle Li. Does the factory have a refrigerated truck?"
This question made Lao Li excited: "Of course, this is the treasure of the factory. I spent a lot of money to buy it!"
Since his words were even prouder than the factory's cold storage, Jiang Xi said, "Can you take us to see it?"
Lao Li said, "Okay, but you can just look at it. Don't touch it or move it around. If you break it, you can't afford to pay for it."
Jiang Xi assured: "We will definitely not move!" The other people nodded, their minds full of excitement. The car was already amazing, but they had never seen a car that could refrigerate things. What would that be like?
Even Liang Guangzhi couldn't help getting excited. The refrigerated truck was the treasure of the field. What Lao Li said was absolutely right. When the refrigerated truck came in, almost everyone went over to watch the excitement.
The usually calm factory director beamed as he announced the good news to everyone. Even the city leaders came to visit the refrigerated truck. Liang Guangzhi only looked at it from a distance. The mere presence of the refrigerated truck just parked there was a sight to behold.
Normally, the treatment of this refrigerated truck is better than that of the factory director. The factory has set aside a special warehouse for parking refrigerated trucks, for fear that the refrigerated trucks will be exposed to the sun or rain. They are treated very preciously.
Lao Li opened the warehouse door and said, "The refrigerated truck is parked here. Don't move."
Everyone hurriedly assured each other, and the warehouse door slowly opened, revealing the true appearance of the refrigerated truck.
The cold storage truck is very long, with two round headlights on the front. The body is white with a huge compartment, similar to a large truck, but the compartment is completely enclosed.
Old Li said proudly: "If the cold storage is an oversized refrigerator, then the refrigerated truck is an oversized refrigerator and an oversized portable refrigerator. This thing is amazing!"
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