Carrying a Jurassic on me
Chapter 514 - 202: A Fool’s Joy_1

Chapter 514: Chapter 202: A Fool’s Joy_1

If Yan Fei could bring out the yellow leaves of the tea tree, then he surely had tea trees.

They were located in the dinosaur world. Not many in number, but given the vastness of this world, even from the parts that he had explored, he could probably find around a thousand or so trees.

Not only did he find ancient tea trees over several thousand years old, he also located a small grove of tea trees. He initially wanted to transplant a few to his valley, but all the individual trees he found were ancient specimens — the young ones were simply too hard to find. When he finally found a young tea tree, it turned out to be part of a whole grove.

After some thought, Yan Fei figured he wouldn’t use too much and didn’t want to destroy this entire forest — who knew if it could grow as well as it was now after being transplanted? He decided to simply pick some, as long as it was enough for his own use.

After picking a handful, he left them in the valley for those two to sun-dry while he went off to attend to other things.

The cave on Vegetable Garden Island had now become a study, and those filing cabinets finally had something in them — a total of about twenty or so cattle raising cooperative agreements, which he placed inside preciously.

Looking at the empty filing cabinets, he happily strategized about filling up these cabinets with cattle cooperative agreements, which would then be the right time to proceed with his grand plan!

After filling his belly, he patrolled over Sancha River and found the militia men patrolling vigorously, as if juiced up on steroids, thus Yan Fei felt no need to patrol himself.

Back in the day, everyone was unmotivated. Now that it concerns their own interests — although most of them hadn’t received their cattle yet, that was just a matter of time. With this in mind, the idea of having no thieves or cattle thieves in Sancha River Township became everyone’s common wish.

Early the next day, Yan Fei packed up and prepared to "go to war" in the Provincial City.

He still took the same agricultural tricycle. Even though the chilly morning wind was bone-numbing when riding it, the tricycle was fast, energy-saving, and time-efficient, which was definitely better than walking.

There were no buses early in the morning, so he could only use the ’chartered car’. Fortunately, this tricycle could drop him off in front of the county toll station, which wasn’t far from his destination — this way he saved toll fees, so they could pay less for the ride.

This time, Heizi and Zhang Erwa didn’t need to tag along. Heizi was taking the Breeding Bull to the cattle market on this side of Sancha River for promotion and to buy calves, and Zhang Erwa needed to obediently go to school to see his teachers for the admission exams — after this incident, seeing how Old Ou and their group dropped out of school early and now are randomly idling without any prospects, he could presumably focus on his studies calmly.

In the morning, when Yan Fei returned to the ranch with people from the county buying cattle, there were already people waiting there. Some came to lead away the calves they had signed for yesterday, while others came early to line up to sign. Whether they were leading the cattle or signing, they all were extremely excited, and most of them even brought their entire families, bustling with noise and excitement, and they were only short of setting off firecrackers.

The militia probably all knew their position in the name list, even if they didn’t, it was a slack farming season and it wouldn’t matter if they had to make an additional trip. They could not miss out when their turns came. Just thinking of how they had barely missed out on the first day of receiving the cattle, if they were slow this time, then they deserved to stay poor and couldn’t blame others.

Especially those who had not signed or left a fingerprint, they were regretful!

Just a day late, others could take a group photo, could take a family photo, could show their faces in front of everyone in the village. Yet, they could now only quietly sign and leave fingerprints, needing to come back to lead their cattle home tomorrow, this gap was way too big — there were even some who couldn’t get to sign today.

When they thought back to how they ran too slowly because they were half doubting, they felt so regretful they could cry.

Actually, there were still quite a few people who came to watch the spectacle on the second day, but it definitely couldn’t compare to yesterday’s boisterous atmosphere!

After busying about and signing twenty more cattle raising agreements, Yan Fei and Heizi huddled up and counted the leftover money at night, only to find that not much was left.

Looking at the pitiful amount of money, Yan Fei flat-out said: "Just this tiny amount of money, it’s not worth making a trip to another township, better to give out the wages to everyone first! When I get the money from selling the bezoars, I’ll go buy cattle."

"No rush for wages, there’s nowhere to spend money now, you should buy the cattle first! This is enough to buy three or four calves, buy more if you can. People come to visit every day, if you don’t buy cattle tomorrow, others might think we’re out of money!" Ma Chao objected.

He wasn’t normally a talkative person, but did the most work. Everyone at the ranch respected him. Besides, he was speaking the truth; everyone had spent a considerable amount of time at the ranch and had developed feelings for it.

So when he spoke like this, everyone agreed out loud: "Exactly, buy more if possible, we really aren’t in a rush for wages. We don’t have any place to spend the money, you’ll give it to us and we’ll have to deposit it in the Credit Cooperative."

Lin Yumei stood up and said: "We’ve also made some money from selling wine these past days, we’ve had quite a crowd yesterday and today, many also bought some wine to take home, we’ve earned quite a bit! Furthermore, your money will be back soon, we don’t need to keep any in reserve, you should take it all!"

Seeing her go fetch the money, Old Cheng also ran into his room and took out several hundred yuan: "This is the wages you gave me, as an old man, what could I spend it on, it’s wasted on me. I reckon you shouldn’t give me any wages, just buy a coffin when I close my eyes and kick the bucket, you should take this money to buy cattle!"

Seeing that, others also said: "We also have some, we will withdraw it from the Credit Cooperative tomorrow for you to buy cattle..."

Seeing this, Yan Fei raised his hands and said: "Enough, no need to rush in one or two days. If need be, I can go to the Provincial City earlier, even if it’s half a day’s journey, I can still return quickly."

He then took the money from Lin Yumei and counted: "This should be enough to buy one and a half more calves, not too shabby!"

Everyone broke out into laughter, what a ridiculous comment, since when can you buy half a calf? But they didn’t mention pitching in anymore, as they guessed he wouldn’t have the patience and would leave soon.

So, they all set off collectively again the next day, riding the tricycle into the cold wind to another township to buy cattle.

People are not fools. On the first day, everyone was terribly cold, so Old Ou, who was more mature, decided to wear a thick cotton-padded jacket today. Xiao Song, Li Fang, and Chang Liang, those three fools who prized style over warmth, laughed at him. But when they got off the car, it was Old Ou, bent over with laughter, who had the last laugh at their frozen states!

It was indeed miserable. They endured it while on the car, but actually, they were numb from the cold. When they got off the car and stood on the ground, they were all shaking uncontrollably!

There’s a saying that goes: you die maintaining face, you live suffering inside!

Those who froze, they truly deserved it. On the first day going to Small Gold River Township, the road was smaller and not easy to traverse, hence the car was slower. But to the county they took the provincial road, and the tricycle hummed along speedily, these guys also wanted to show off and didn’t say a word to slow down, and even though they secretly added another layer of clothing, they were colder than the first day.

So on this day, these three fools no longer tried to act tough, each wrapped in thick padded cotton jackets as they arrived. These three got frozen yesterday and grumbled today, preparing to watch and laugh at Heizi’s misery.

Li Fang and Xiao Song even made a bet about how frozen Heizi would get today, and they were discussing the stakes! Heizi was a smart guy, seeing them like this, he directly went to find Old Cheng for a loan of a thick cotton-padded jacket, wrapping himself tighter than they did.

Old Ou and Chang Liang were taking delight in their misfortune on one side, truly a group of fools filled with happiness.