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Chapter 1396 - 678: Achieving Cooperation Professor Qi Agrees_2

Chapter 1396: Chapter 678: Achieving Cooperation Professor Qi Agrees_2

In the folk performance category, Tanghe County fell a bit short, only barely winning an award, which wasn’t even from Sancha River Township.

Ultimately, in the comprehensive evaluation, Tanghe County’s ranking was still quite good; this evaluation mainly focused on orders and the number of partnership intentions reached. In this area, under the leadership of Secretary Jiao, Tanghe County did quite well, securing several orders and intentions for crops and medicinal herbs, in addition to Yan Fei’s order.

Actually, the ranking could have been even higher. Pang Fa also had several partnership intentions, but the specifics hadn’t been nailed down yet, which led to them not securing the orders by the end of the Yellow Cattle festival.

In the final summary by Chairman Dong, the first Yellow Cattle festival in Wancheng City was a success and a complete one at that.

In fact, that’s what most people believed as well; at least for Yan Fei, besides the surprise of a large order, all the intended awards were successfully claimed, further establishing his position in the cattle-raising industry of Wancheng City thanks to several large breeding bulls.

At the final celebration banquet, Chairman Dong and a few other organizers from the city received an unexpected surprise: the Yellow Cattle festival, having been vibrant and successful, earned commendations from the Provincial Agricultural Bureau.

It wasn’t just verbal praise; the province also planned to provide further support for cattle breeding in Wancheng. And it was certain that by the next Yellow Cattle festival, the support from the province wouldn’t be slight—after all, this festival had unwittingly created a first, making Wancheng City the first region in the country to host a Yellow Cattle festival.

This was a cause for general jubilation; the higher the renown of Wancheng’s yellow cattle, the better it was for everyone in the industry.

After the joy, everyone quickly went their separate ways. Everyone had their own tasks to catch up on, as the festival had caused a few days’ delays; now that it was over, there was no doubt everyone needed to make up for lost time.

Back at the site, Yan Fei had Heizi and the others start quietly buying up apple trees in their own township. As for other townships, they couldn’t handle that yet—their business was too small to look beyond their own local people.

As for Yan Fei himself, he drove straight to the provincial city to see his wife and get his car fixed.

Once he got to the North Ring Road Intersection and parked his car, he took a bus to meet his wife and began to show off: how he got every award he wanted, developed a new client, and so on.

At the Yellow Cattle festival Yan Fei was calm and collected, but in front of his wife, he boasted as if he were unparalleled in both heaven and earth.

Isn’t there a song that says, "Without someone to share with, even the greatest achievements feel incomplete..."?

Right now, Yan Fei’s greatest joy was showing off to his wife.

He kept boasting until he was almost out of words, and then Xu Xiaoyan asked him with a smile, "Didn’t you say you wanted to find a way to get Professor Qi to come to our place? Did you think of any good ideas?"

Yan Fei started boasting again, "I figured it out; just tell him to come to our place and continue his research!"

Xu Xiaoyan was surprised, "Didn’t you say before that wouldn’t work?"

"That was before. It’s different now," Yan Fei chuckled. "Look at this year’s Yellow Cattle festival. We signed quite a few export agreements for crops. What does that tell you? It shows our place has limitless potential. His body isn’t suited for too much research now, but some simple seed breeding, that’s still possible! Let’s give it a try tomorrow; maybe he’s already changed his mind in this time."

The next day, Miss Xu Xiaoyan took a leave of absence and went with Yan Fei to see Professor Qi.

As soon as he entered, Yan Fei began discussing the Yellow Cattle festival, describing the wonderful events and boasting about the deals reached, finally summarizing, "I had no idea before, but our resources there are really plentiful. From shiitake mushrooms and fungus to chili peppers and gardenias... just randomly picking one could attract merchants from other places. And there’s more..."

Professor Qi listened to him boast with a smile, and finally nodded, "You’re telling me all this, what are you aiming for?"

Yan Fei was taken aback, "Well, I mean, as we have more and more cattle, we need a lot of feed. The main source of feed is straw. We have considerable acreage of various crops. If you, sir, are willing to come over, your guidance would be incredibly valuable. You know, it’s the experienced folks like you who count. Like last year, the students led by Professor Shu, although well-educated, I could see that in crucial moments, it really needs the elders to step in..."

Professor Qi laughed heartily, "Alright! But I must warn you, I’ll be of little use physically when I’m there, a real burden. Are you sure?"

"Ah?" Yan Fei was taken aback for a moment before he responded, "All set, all set. Just go ahead, everything you need will be there once you arrive."

"That’s good to hear," Professor Qi smiled. "Now I don’t have to listen to Old He babbling in my ear every day. How is your laboratory doing now?"

"The laboratory is doing quite well!" Yan Fei was a bit puzzled. "Anyway, Senior Brother Liu and Yang Hongqi are always huddled together. You can’t see them until it’s time to eat."

At this point, Yan Fei felt a bit embarrassed, "I talked to Senior Brother Liu last time. He handled some things for me, so I gave him complete control of the laboratory. He can research whatever he wants, and I just provide whatever he is missing. I don’t inquire about anything else."

"Mm," Professor Qi nodded. "Leaving professional matters to professionals, you’re doing a good job as a boss. I’ll come with you to have a look. Anyway, here, with my old bones, nobody dares to let me do anything. If I continue to idle, I probably won’t be able to see you guys in a few days."

Till now, Xu Xiaoyan still hadn’t realized, how Professor Qi, who had always been firmly unwilling to go to Sancha River Township, had suddenly agreed!

Actually, Yan Fei was right. During this Period, Professor Qi had changed his mind on his own.

Someone who had been doing research work all their life, suddenly becoming idle, might have been able to endure it at first, but as time goes on, they’d definitely grow unaccustomed. It follows the same logic as the many elderly in the countryside, who, as long as they can still move, always aim to walk around in the fields—staying at home and resting, in the view of some old folks, is truly not an easily adaptable matter.

Moreover, there were pretty good conditions at Yan Fei’s place. For a retired researcher, staying there was quite good; at least there was a laboratory he could freely enter and exit, and there were fields and greenhouses. If he wanted to conduct some simple research, there were all kinds of favorable conditions available.

Yan Fei was thrilled to have settled this matter. He couldn’t even sit down to eat and hurried to call to inquire about the car repair progress.

He had to quickly bring this elderly back. As long as this elderly stayed there, his laboratory could easily recruit more people in the future, relying solely on the reputation of this individual.

Unfortunately, Yan Fei’s happiness came too early. The repair shop told him that painting a car door wasn’t like painting a wall; it couldn’t be done with just one coat and involved many more processes. They mentioned, "You’re lucky that we just happened to have the materials, Boss. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be odd to make you wait for half a month."

Hearing this, and thinking about how he had easily persuaded Professor Qi, Yan Fei felt his luck was indeed very good.

During lunch, before Yan Fei could brag to Professor He, Professor He cut him off and nonchalantly stated he wasn’t the least bit surprised about Professor Qi’s decision. He even looked down on Yan Fei and told him, "You think it was your sincerity that moved him? Wrong, it was my relentless annoyance that drove him away..."

Is this something a professor should say?

No wonder people often say old children indeed revert to childhood when they get older!

Both Xu Xiaoyan and Granny He couldn’t help laughing in the kitchen, and Yan Fei finally understood why Professor Qi, when saying he would go, added that he wouldn’t have to listen to Old He’s rambling anymore.

Regardless, this was a very meaningful event for Yan Fei. Not to mention anything else, at least he, Yanfei, would no longer be the mudslide of the scientific community but rather the owner of a laboratory with competent researchers.

In the afternoon, Yan Fei mentioned staying to help Professor Qi pack up some things, but Professor Qi shooed him out, "You two don’t get to see each other every day now. Take this time to go out and have fun. There’s nothing much for me to pack here; anything I wanted to pack is already at your place."

Fine then!

Let’s go have fun!

Joyfully have fun!