On the day He Shenghua and Hong Xia got their marriage certificate, Lu Yuan happened to be in the county town meeting up with Xu Dong and Lu Yuanchao. The two handed over the payment for the rabbits to him, and Lu Yuan told them to rest well at the guesthouse for the night before driving away by himself.
He drove the car to a secluded, deserted place, then entered the space with the car. He worked hard in the space for half the night before loading 30,000 jin of fruit onto the car.
Lu Yuan calculated the price of this truckload, which totaled [amount missing]. This was the largest sum he had made so far. After this trip, he would become a "ten-thousand-yuan household" (a unit of currency in China). Counting the money in his hand, he would be three "ten-thousand-yuan households" (a unit of currency in China).
Actually, they have this space and don't lack any supplies, so he doesn't have such a strong desire for money. However, now that he has several sons, he still needs to save money. He will have to buy houses and find wives for them in the future. He promised his third son that he would find him many beautiful women in the future. He just needs to get the money!
As dawn broke, he first went out of his spatial dimension to check. Seeing that no one was around, he released the car again, drove to the guesthouse, gave some instructions to Xu Dong and Lu Yuanchao, and then returned to the Changhe Brigade.
Back at the brigade headquarters, Lu Guoan summoned him there. When he arrived, he found it quite lively. People from his own brigade were gathered around watching the spectacle, while a group of twenty or thirty strangers stood around.
Lu Yuan casually pulled a woman aside and asked, "Auntie, who are they, and what are they doing in our brigade?"
When the aunt saw it was Lu Yuan, her gossip enthusiasm soared even higher. "I heard he came from another brigade to our village to learn about rabbit breeding techniques."
Lu Yuan understood; they were just jealous because their brigade had made money selling rabbits.
He squeezed through the crowd and entered the brigade office, where Lu Guoan and Zhang Yongan were entertaining leaders from the commune and several brigade leaders.
Upon seeing him arrive, Lu Guoan and Zhang Yongan felt as if they had found a savior and quickly pulled him over to introduce him to the group.
Lu Yuan exchanged a few pleasantries with them and then wanted to stand aside and remain silent. He didn't know why Lu Guoan had called him over, but the next second, the two brigade cadres pushed the matter onto him.
"This rabbit farm was all set up by Comrade Lu Yuan. We don't know the specifics, but you can ask him if you have any questions."
Then the captains of each brigade began vying to send people to learn from them. Lu Yuan raised an eyebrow, glanced at Lu Guoan and Zhang Yongan, who were looking up at the sky and down at their shoes, refusing to look at him. What didn't he understand? The two brigade cadres didn't want to hand over the money-making project to them at all, and were just using him as a shield.
Although he was a member of the Changhe Brigade and also Gao Weishan's son, it didn't matter if his identity offended the commune leaders and the brigade leaders of each brigade.
Lu Yuan was indeed not afraid of offending people, but he didn't want to offend people casually either. Besides, there was no need to offend anyone in this matter. If the other brigades wanted to know how they raised rabbits, they could just let them learn.
He didn't believe that the brigade could raise rabbits so well, with none dying from disease and all plump and strong. If they could really achieve that, he wouldn't be surnamed Lu; he'd rather be surnamed Gao or Xiao.
“Sure, it’s a good thing to raise rabbits. While the brigade is engaged in production, it should also develop sideline businesses so that the members can have more income. Everyone’s life is not easy. We are all from the same commune, so we should help each other.”
Upon hearing this, the commune leaders and cadres of all the brigades were all overjoyed, praising Lu Yuan repeatedly, feeling that his ideological awareness was truly exceptional.
Lu Guoan and Zhang Yongan, however, looked grim, forcing smiles to deal with the crowd.
And so, the members of each brigade stayed for the training, which was temporarily set for a month. There were quite a few people, 28 people, and the Changhe Brigade simply didn't have enough room to accommodate so many people.
But none of these people were willing to leave. In the end, Lu Yuan asked Lu Xiaoqin and her brother, along with Yu Shaoheng, to vacate the house for a monthly rent of 10 yuan.
The cost of this was naturally shared by the other brigades. As for the issue of meals, the Changhe Brigade would not take responsibility and would let them solve it themselves. The other brigades would naturally not have any objections to this.
They come to learn from others' experience in making money; they can't expect others to provide them with food and lodging.
After the commune leaders and brigade leaders left, Lu Guoan and Zhang Yongan pulled Lu Yuan aside and whispered to each other.
"Ah Yuan, how can we let them stay? If they learn all our experience, and more people raise rabbits in the future, will we still be able to sell our rabbits?"
"Don't worry, of course we can sell them. No matter how hard others try to learn, they can't raise rabbits as well as we do. If other units want to buy rabbits, they will definitely choose from our brigade first. It's a good thing for us to learn from their experience."
"What good news?"
“Look, so many of them have come, which is like sending so much free labor. Shouldn’t we let them do the cleaning work at the farm?”
There are so many rabbits now, and we have to clean up their droppings every day. It's not an easy job, because rabbit droppings are plentiful and smelly.
"I also heard that He Zhiqing and his wife are going to build a new house. They are the director and deputy director of the rabbit farm. If they want to build a house, who in the farm has time to lend a hand? Can those twenty-odd people just stand by and watch? No way. If they help, then our brigade's labor force can be freed up to do something else."
"Also, where will they get their rabbit breeding stock? They'll have to buy it from our brigade, right? We'll make another profit. Don't you think that's a good thing?"
Upon hearing this, the two realized that it made perfect sense.
Zhang Yong'an was still a little worried, "Even if they learn the breeding techniques, they really won't be able to raise rabbits as well as we do."
Lu Yuan smiled mysteriously, "Don't worry, the most important thing about our farm isn't the breeding techniques, but the rabbits' food. Haven't you noticed that the rabbits only eat the vegetables and grass from our garden?"
The two seemed to realize something, and stared at Lu Yuan with wide eyes. "Are the things you grow in your vegetable garden different?" Lu Guoan asked.
"Shh!" Lu Yuan shushed mysteriously.
"This is a secret. I'm only telling you two. If someone finds out and all the vegetables in the garden are stolen, and there's nothing to feed the rabbits, you two will be crying."
The two immediately covered their mouths like children, shaking their heads to indicate they wouldn't say anything.
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