Carrying a Jurassic on me
Chapter 623 - 284

Chapter 623: 284

"I get it, I get it, this is the whole food chain thing, right? We learned about this in school, like how you plant mulberry trees, the leaves feed silkworms, the silkworm waste feeds the fish, and the sludge at the bottom of the pond can be used as fertilizer..." After hearing Yan Fei’s explanation, someone immediately chimed in.

However, after this young man finished speaking, he noticed an odd chill in the air. Everyone in the greenhouse was staring at him, which made him quite embarrassed: "What? Why are you all staring at me?"

"We’re staring because we think you’re quite knowledgeable! Didn’t expect we had a diligent student here!" Yan Fei exclaimed, chuckling.

"Well, to be honest, I did attend middle school. I even aced the biology tests..." This guy wasn’t exactly humble, being young and all.

"Then why didn’t you continue your studies?" Someone asked.

"Well, my family was too poor to afford my education!" The guy feigned a sorrowful expression.

"Don’t let him fool you, I know the truth. Sure, he aced one subject, but add all his scores together, and it’s less than 200. His family made him return home to farm..." Immediately, someone who knew better exposed his bluff.

Everyone burst out laughing.

Boasting without considering your audience is a rookie mistake. This guy should have thought twice; most of the people in this greenhouse were his peers. There was only one middle school in Sancha River, so even if they weren’t in the same class or grade, they all went to the same school and knew each other quite well. There’s no room for bluffing!

"Alright, alright, stop laughing," Yan Fei halted everyone from continuing the joke. "That’s how it works. We have plenty of cattle feed at home. In small quantities, cattle feces are manageable, but when it’s too much, we have nowhere to find the daylight to decompose it. We can use these to grow mushrooms and breed earthworms, which effectively disposes of the cattle feces. You guys should start reserving empty spaces in the village ASAP. Don’t say I didn’t warn you, once this thing takes off, it will be hard to find available lands!"

There’s plenty of open space in rural areas. To speak of breeding earthworms - it’s not so technically challenging, given that they can be found anywhere in the soil.

If other households decide to breed earthworms in the future, the open spaces around the village would become valuable assets. Everyone would surely scramble for them! With this in mind, the crowd started to get stirred up.

"Quiet down, quiet down!" Yan Fei waved his hand to stop everyone from discussing. "What are you all fussing about? Go home, figure out a way to secure some land first. If you fuss too much about it, others will catch on and you won’t have any land left to claim. But don’t get too greedy, make sure it’s just enough for you. If you hog all the land, folks in the village will get jealous, and you won’t have an easy time with your work!"

"Understood, understood! Boss Yan is so insightful, we all understand now!" Someone joked.

"As long as you understand! Start to figure out how you’ll breed the earthworms. Don’t worry about the mushrooms yet, you’ll lose sleep overthinking it. Remember, a catty of earthworms sells for 50 yuan. To tell you the truth, the price I quoted you is lower than the price I sell at, mainly because I’m unsure whether they will lower the price."

"If they increase the price in the future, I’d be making a bit extra from buying from you. For those who keep cattle for me, even if they drop the price below this, I will still buy it at this price, even at a loss. If you can find a better price elsewhere when you have the product, feel free to sell it. Oh, and make sure to leave your names. I’ll only deal with those who are here today, I won’t bother with those who didn’t show up to help today!"

Either way, he knows what the earthworms are used for. If the price drops significantly, he’d just start a small feed plant and sell the feed directly. By the time these people have their earthworms ready, he’d have enough money. So, he could afford to make this promise - money gives courage, after all!

"The same applies to the construction team, whether you are working here or there. After you finish the work at my cattle farm, you’ll all reap these benefits. For those newcomers to the construction team who don’t keep cattle at home, there’s nothing we can do about that for now. We can first take note of your names, and after three months, I’ll distribute cattle to you to raise. As long as you have cattle, you’ll have cow dung, and then you can all reap these benefits!"

Although most of the people working here are from the old construction team, there were a few newcomers. Now that they heard they could be put on the list even if they had just arrived, you can imagine how their mood must have lightened. Yan Fei watched them happily, feeling proud himself. Distributing these things might mean a little loss for him now, but once everyone started raising cattle, he would soon earn back these losses. At least the immediate benefits were immediately obvious — with all these incentives, wouldn’t these people go all out when working for him?

"Alright, everybody can go home. Don’t think raising cattle isn’t profitable. Look after your own cattle in the future, even cow dung is valuable. Do you guys know how they cultivate mushrooms in the Provincial City? They buy cow dung. A catty of dried cow dung is sold for a few dimes..."

As soon as the words came out, the people who were about to disperse got excited. Did Boss Yan go overboard by saying that cow dung could also be sold for money?

Boss Yan snorted coldly, "Stop dreaming, to tell you the truth, the earthworm dung manure factory buys it too, a catty is also worth a dime, it’s just a pity that we can’t transport it there, so we can only use it as fertilizer. Now do you understand the advantage of raising cattle for me? Get moving, don’t loiter around here. I’ve got a lot of ways to make money, including growing greenhouse vegetables. Do you have the money to build a greenhouse? Don’t dream if you have nothing to do. Just raise the cattle well..."

Driven out from the dark shed by him, these people immediately started discussing enthusiastically. No one doubted what Yan Fei said— the fact that he was distributing the cattle to everyone’s home and the earthworms were free, what could he gain from that? At most, he could make a little running money when the earthworms were raised.

As for selling it themselves, these people had not considered that at all. It would be a joke, some of them had never been to the city or even the county town, they would lose their way in the city, let alone sell things.

"Those who should go home should hurry up and go home, don’t just stand there, I cannot cater to everyone. Go back and think about how to do it, and remember to come back and work for me tomorrow, otherwise, I won’t give you any earthworms!" Yan Fei shouted to the people in the field who were reluctant to leave, and then simply went into the house to cook.

Unexpectedly, the men from the construction team also had an idea, sending a young man named Da Song: "Boss Yan, we won’t have dinner here tonight, we’re going back. We’ve got something to do..."

"What’s the matter?"

"Hehe, we’re going back to our hometown to claim some land!" Da Song said a little embarrassedly. "If there are more people in the future, it’d be difficult to claim a place. We’re going home tonight to explain to our family, ask them to quickly find the village head and claim some land."

As soon as Yan Fei heard this, he knew that these construction team people, especially the old ones, would probably have some spare money. They were planning to return home and find some vacant land in the village.

Anyway, to raise earthworms, one just needed to build a shed, and rural areas are not short of any materials, and it’s no trouble at all to build a shed. The main point was that there was no place to dump the cow dung, it would be better to have the old and young at home to work, and they could also earn a bit of money during their leisure time.

Having figured this out, Yan Fei waved his hand,"Go, go! You’re saving me a meal. Tell those who work in the cattle farm as well, don’t just care about yourselves. Right, take a piece of paper and write down the names of everyone in the construction team. I can not take care of those who come later, but the present ones, I can!"

"Sure!" Da Song cheerfully ran off.

Seeing that everyone is full of enthusiasm, Yan Fei is also very satisfied: work hard, everyone! The harder you work, the more money I will make in the future!

It has always been like this since ancient times, it’s hard to start from scratch, but money begets money much faster. The more money you have, the more people you have working for you, the more money you earn...