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Chapter 465 - 160: Is it Just Getting Bigger and Bigger? _1
Chapter 465: Chapter 160: Is it Just Getting Bigger and Bigger? _1
After hearing Yan Fei talk about ’harassing’ the Forestry Bureau, Xu Xiaoyan and Heizi couldn’t help but laugh. Heizi supported him: "Right, we should go. The squeaky wheel gets the grease! They just dump the animals here and then wash their hands of it. We can’t let them get away with that. We need to give them a hard time. Get them to reimburse us for our food expenses... for our..."
After thinking for a while, he still couldn’t come up with anything else!
The Forestry Bureau was a proper department in the county. He was just a small fry. The people working there were considered big shots in the eyes of ordinary folks. They felt that just getting a chance to see them and say a few words would be enough, maybe asking for some feeding costs at most. They couldn’t even think of, let alone dare to ask for anything else.
Yan Fei even asked him to come along the next day, but he chickened out immediately. It was the county’s Forestry Bureau after all. Just thinking about it made him uneasy. He dared not take on this task, which irritated Yan Fei and made him scold him for being a coward.
The three of them, having nothing better to do, seriously created a list. They all pitched in, forging handwriting, starting a record of how many pigs were slaughtered and how much fish was bought since the day they began raising the tiger, and so on.
In the end, they calculated the cost to be exactly nine thousand eight hundred and forty-six yuan!
This was because Xu Xiaoyan was there; otherwise, Yan Fei and Heizi would have inflated the cost to tens of thousands of yuan.
Yan Fei was chuffed with the list: "Alright, if they refuse to own up, they must at least admit that they begged me to raise this tiger. Later, if we let the tiger chase people for fun, we’ll be perfectly justified."
He seemed to be getting addicted to using the tiger to chase people!
However, his moment of joy didn’t last long, as he was dragged back to studying by Xu Xiaoyan.
Serves him right! Having brought up his intention to take an early high school entrance exam, he was now trapped! Xu Xiaoyan, armed with textbooks, tutored him day and night. She even set aside her beloved Walkman, monitoring him constantly, leaving no chance for him to slack off.
After reading the textbook for a while, he suddenly asked something utterly unrelated to studying: "Darling, do you think Old Pan would force me to enlist when I turn eighteen?"
Xu Xiaoyan smacked him lightly in retaliation: "Focus on your studies and stop daydreaming. I’ve told you already, that’s years away! It’s way too early to be worrying about that."
Yan Fei didn’t share the same sentiment. Lin Baoguo had given him two books to study when he was a militiaman. He might not understand the rest, but he understood conscription law. He said to Xu Xiaoyan, "Regardless of the circumstances, I’m still a resident of Sancha River town. What if he forces me to enlist, what should I do then?"
"If you get into university, you won’t be a resident of Sancha River town anymore!" Xu Xiaoyan retorted promptly. "Then you can just move your household registration."
"Getting into university doesn’t exempt you from military service. Even if they want you to serve, you still have to serve! You’re studying law; you don’t even know this. I know more than you!"
"You already know a lot, don’t you? Don’t worry! If worse comes to worst, you can show them your disability certificate. They wouldn’t be able to do anything then."
"Right! Hahaha! Good thing I didn’t listen to Uncle Baoguo and had this certificate cancelled. It seems having this certificate has its benefits. If there’s an opportunity to get a certificate in the future, I’ll get a few more. Hmm, next year, I’ll start by getting a middle school graduation certificate!"
Listening to his theory about the benefits of having more certificates, Xu Xiaoyan couldn’t stop laughing. But after laughing, she put on a stern face: "Stop thinking about other things and focus on your studies. We’ll talk about tomorrow’s matters tomorrow. No more distractions now!"
"Mmhm!" Yan Fei had no choice but to nod and go back to studying.
Just when he was deeply engrossed in his study, he suddenly smacked the tiger’s head, exclaiming, "I’ve got an idea!"
"What idea?" Xu Xiaoyan asked in confusion.
"I’ll raise cows! Old Pan always feels guilty about the militia working without compensation, right? I’ll hire them to raise cows for me!" Yan Fei brought up excitedly. "We give them some benefits, and he won’t have the nerve to bring up the enlistment issue again, right?"
"By hiring people to raise cows for you, is that a kind of benefit?" Xu Xiaoyan was puzzled by Yan Fei’s logic that hiring people to raise cows for him was considered bestowing benefits.
"You forgot what I told you about the old lady who came to exchange silver coins for wine. Her grandson, Tian Dafu, to whom I gave two cows. He contributes labour, I contributed money, and when the cows are fully grown, we split the profits. Remember?" Yan Fei reminded Xu Xiaoyan.
"So, that’s how you raise the cattle? Can you still make a profit? What if the cattle die?"
"How can I not make money? It’s just a bit less. Think about it, a big bull now is equivalent to the cost of four or five calves. So if people help me raise two cattle and I manage to raise one successfully, I will not lose money, in fact, I will even gain. " Yan Fei explained, the more she clarified her ideas, the clearer her perspective became and the words came out more fluently.
"I have seventy thousand now, enough to buy almost a hundred calves, which I can distribute to dozens of willing militias. Can they starve the cows? Even if they accidentally lose ten or eight, I won’t lose money! Moreover, they can make money too, guaranteeing their dedication. The better they raise, the more money I make. And the key is, they should be thanking me! Hahaha..."
Watching the smug Yan Fei, the girl also started considering this deal.
Heizi had been paying attention ever since they started talking about raising cattle and quickly volunteered a piece of advice: "Brother Fei, you’re brilliant! This is a good idea. All you have to do is purchase the calves, after that everything else will be taken care of. Cowswell raised will be sold for profit, ones not well raised will be moved to our cattle farm for some time and fattened. No matter how you look at it, it’s a profitable business!"
And immediately, the girl got it.
Raising cattle by one person itself is laborious, but distributing it to several houses, not to mention one or two, even four cows won’t be an issue per home. There’s no shortage of items to feed the cows with, in the countryside! Plus, anyone would be able to raise the cows, be it the young or old, there’s no concern over a lack of manpower.
As for the matter of unexpected cow death? Distribute the cattle across the county and all of them getting sick and dying simultaneously? Unless there’s a widespread epidemic. If it’s indeed so, it doesn’t matter where the cows are raised, there’s going to be a loss. In that case, it’s all about accepting one’s bad luck.
Yan Fei continued: "I will go now, and tell them it’s for the sake of helping old Pan. To see how I put others before myself, even opting to earn less money! Ah... I am truly noble!"
Heizi gave a thumbs-up: "Brother Fei’s idea is brilliant. We are being thanked for letting people help us make money! Brilliant, absolutely brilliant!"
Xu Xiaoyan, the girl, was thinking way beyond: "If such reasoning actually works, you sell the bezoar and let more people raise cows for you. In the future, if you become a leading figure in prosperity, authentically leading thousands of families to make money. Yan Xiaofei, you are truly amazing! How did you come up with such an idea?"
Yan Fei grinned rather happily, "Of course it was a stroke of inspiration."
He would never admit that he thought about the fact that if the money from the bezoar was used to buy cattle as well after the New Year, there would have to be hires made for construction and other tasks, which weren’t only complicated but also posed a high risk. Keeping so many cattle concentrated at one place also had a chance of causing trouble!
Heizi watched Xu Xiaoyan with stars in her eyes, and couldn’t resist teasing: "Sister-in-law, should I step aside?"
The girl blinked, "Why would you do that?"
Heizi grinned: "Looking at your excitement, do you want to do something with Brother Fei? I can give you the chance... ahh... Brother Fei, I was wrong, guarantee won’t run my mouth again!"
Before he could finish, Yan Fei threw a book at him who then collected it and handed it back to Yan Fei, fawning with a flattering smile.
Yan Fei didn’t accept the book but stood up: "I’m going to see old Pan now, tell him about this and get his thoughts."
After pacing for a bit, he turned back to say: "No, I shouldn’t talk to old Pan first. This is a big issue, I should discuss it with others first. Honey, get dinner ready. I’m going to invite guests for dinner tonight. Invite Uncle Ming, Brother Fa, Uncle Baoguo and get them to help me think if I have overlooked anything!"
Watching him ride away, Heizi couldn’t help saying: "Brother Fei is getting bigger and better! If he succeeds with this, even the village head will have to step aside to respect him when he sees him! Super cool!"
Is this simply getting bigger and better?
Xiao Xing, the girl, wouldn’t think like this, she had stars in her eyes!
This is the man she will be with in the future, is it the same goofy boy from back who slept on her back and couldn’t be awakened by her calling?
Lan Fei, riding his bike on the road, was mumbling: "Old Pan, ah Old Pan! Wait until the whole county is raising cattle for me, so many people will be depending on me for their meals, and you think I’ll join the army then? No chance, haha..."
Deep down, he had a hunch: to achieve his future grand plan, this approach would be much more beneficial than burying his head in making money by himself!
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