Carrying a Jurassic on me
Chapter 1583 - 757 Leave of Absence_2

Chapter 1583: Chapter 757 Leave of Absence_2

"No fear of being a senior. ’Marry a girl three years older, embrace a gold brick,’" Hu Yidao said unabashedly.

"Exactly, exactly."

The bunch of dudes kept discussing this issue until the teacher stood at the podium, only then did they reluctantly open their textbooks.

"Brother Fei, is that car thing you mentioned really true?" Hu Yidao, waiting until no one else was talking, quietly asked.

"When have I ever lied to you guys?" Yan Fei retorted.

"Hehe, hehe..." Hu Yidao giggled foolishly. "I thought you were joking!"

"I won’t be joining the military training tomorrow. I have to go back home to handle some things. I’ll invite you over to hang out after the training is over," Yan Fei said.

"Hanging out isn’t urgent, but I have a question to ask." Hu Yidao became serious. "I’m asking on behalf of a majority of our classmates; everyone is curious, why didn’t you go to Cambridge, but chose to study at our Agricultural University instead?"

"Isn’t that obvious?" Yan Fei was disdainful of the question. "My wife is so pretty; couldn’t bear to be too far from her!"

"..."

Hu Yidao fell silent for a moment, then gave a thumbs-up admiringly, and then started taking notes with his pen: "I’ve got to buckle down and study too. I need to catch up to you, Brother Fei, otherwise it’ll be tough even finding a girlfriend in the future!"

...

During the last period before class, Yan Fei also wrote a leave request note and went to find Lu Bin: "Teacher, I need to go back home during these few days of military training to take care of some family matters."

Lu Bin didn’t even bother to look and just signed his name underneath the leave request: "For these few days of military training, my approval alone isn’t enough; you’ll need to speak to a school leader."

"So, who should I go find?" Yan Fei asked.

"Just go to Principal Zhou." Lu Bin instructed. "Didn’t you meet him at the start of school? He should be in his office now, so hurry over!"

Yan Fei said his farewells and headed to the principal’s office with the leave request. Principal Zhou was very welcoming: "Yan Fei is here, come in, take a seat. Is there anything you need?"

As soon as Yan Fei explained his intention, Principal Zhou, without any hesitation, took the request and signed his name: "This is just a minor issue. Actually, if you’re busy, a phone call will suffice."

Yan Fei politely exchanged a few words, and just as he was about to leave with the leave request, Principal Zhou called out to him: "Boss Yan, I heard you’re planning to build a laboratory at the old experimental fields?"

"Yes, that’s right!" Yan Fei had nothing to hide and spoke frankly. "Teacher He must’ve told you. Construction was supposed to start today. I was planning on letting the school know once we had made some progress!"

"That’s wonderful news, we should have shared this earlier and let everyone feel joyous!" Principal Zhou’s face bloomed with smiles. "I heard that when the time comes, you are hoping to involve the teachers from the school?"

"Definitely prioritizing recruitment from our school," Yan Fei said, leaving some wiggle room in case of future changes. "Don’t think I’m just a freshman; when I first started raising cattle, I was already sneaking into our university’s library to learn, and that’s when I got to know Teacher Qi and Teacher He."

"Hehe, it’s that so-called fate, fate," Principal Zhou laughed even more joyously. If Professor Qi’s potential retirement wasn’t sufficient to etch Yan Fei’s name in the minds of the school’s administrators, then from the day Yan Fei was accepted by Cambridge and chose to enroll at Agricultural University instead, any school leader who couldn’t remember Yan Fei would be considered derelict.

"I don’t know much about the teachers and students in the school yet, so I’ll need Principal Zhou and Teacher He to help out more in the future," Yan Fei said. This statement from Yan Fei prompted Principal Zhou to accompany him out of the office as he was leaving.

Aside from the office, Yan Fei realized that classes had started in the morning and after some thought, decided to still go to class!

After entering the classroom, he placed his leave of absence slip in the middle of the desk with a showy discretion. Hu Yidao noticed it immediately and after seeing it clearly, his face was full of admiration: "You’re impressive, asking for a leave right at the start of the semester, you even got the principal’s signature!"

"No big deal, I was even specially admitted to Cambridge University," Yan Fei bragged with pride.

Interacting with classmates is different from dealing with people in society; there’s no need for too much scheming, being simple and straightforward is best. Most of the students are quite innocent, if you treat them openly as friends, and if they consider you a friend, even if you have some special circumstances, it won’t affect the relationship between you — as for those with a bit more ulterior motives, Yan Fei hasn’t noticed any so far, and he reckons he wouldn’t bother with them even if he did.

After classes and dining with Xu Xiaoyan, he drove home.

Upon returning, he went to check on the construction site. The land in the southwest direction of West Bridge at Sancha River was almost completely occupied by Cow flower company. Besides the fertilizer factory and the already constructed general beef supply base, they have begun constructing a high-end beef production base for Hong Kong.

Besides this, a large factory building was newly built next to it, intended for a leather factory.

As for the remaining land, except for a big greenhouse by the village at the base of the hill, nobody else bothered with farming anymore. They would just scatter some alfalfa seeds from the farm, and once it grew, it could feed the cattle. If they had surplus, they’d cut it and exchange it for money at the cattle farm, and then wait for the cattle farm to ’expropriate’ their land.

Who says farmers have no wisdom, none of them are fools. The development of the cattle farm in these years has happened right under everyone’s noses, and they all believe it’s only a matter of time. Now fewer people from the village go out for migrant work, and even people from the remotest villages come around the farm when it’s the off-season in agriculture, just waiting for the chance to work here.

Previously, people felt that working odd jobs on the farm, though well-paying, was not as good as going out for migrant work. But once some of those who regularly did odd jobs on the farm became official workers, the young people who never looked for odd jobs in the past were green with regret.

There were also a few smart ones who noticed that Old Ou and the others often couldn’t keep up with the work while driving around, so they spent money to get a driving license. Whenever they saw the farm dispatching vehicles, they would come over, even willing to follow for free, and now they’ve also become official members of the vehicle team.

Gradually, everyone realized that it was difficult to get into the farm not because it lacked opportunities, but because the ’stall’ was not big enough. Now there are many opportunities, the leather factory and the new cattle farm have just started; even those who come to volunteer and help are curious about what’s being prepared, not even asking whether people will be hired later, just eager to show off their capabilities.

Heizi and the others are young people and sometimes don’t think as much as the older ones do. For instance, when hiring, they don’t consider things like relatives from seven aunts and eight uncles’ families, or connections and relations within the village etc.

When hiring, they follow the approach Yan Fei used to take: seeing who is diligent and reliable is enough. There are many such people, so it’s a matter of recognizing a familiar face to decide who to choose.

After Yan Fei looked around the construction site, he took a pile of documents to the laboratory.

The lab was full of people; Professor Qi, Liu JinXue, and Yang Hongqi were all there. Yan Fei took out the stack of documents directly: "I got these through connections, it’s a big project, have a look first, don’t be scared."

Not being scared would be strange; even Professor Qi was startled and rarely spoke seriously: "Xiao Fei, where did you get these from? Don’t think that having money means you can act recklessly. Some information is confidential, and if you obtained it through illegal means, that’s also breaking the law!"

Yan Fei chuckled and reassured: "Don’t worry! This stuff is definitely not from our side, my methods to get it weren’t exactly legal, but that illegality wasn’t against us, it’s from that small island in the east..."

Watching his winking and gesturing explanations, Professor Qi was still a bit worried. Liu JinXue was engrossed in reading, and Yang Hongqi was the most excited: "Right, Brother Fei, if you have a way, then we should take more from them. Before, it was always them stealing from us, now we should get some back."

Yan Fei, with a beaming smile, brought out more papers: "Both of you have looked at this information, now sign this contract for me!"

A contract?

When Yang Hongqi and Liu JinXue picked it up to look, even Professor Qi couldn’t help but lean over to glance at it, then was somewhat amused: "You’ve already shown everyone the stuff, and now you want them to sign a confidentiality agreement?"

"Teacher, you are being too formal," Yan Fei said in a relaxed manner. "It’s just a formality, right? My fellow