Carrying a Jurassic on me
Chapter 656 - 309: An Unexpected Misstep - 1

Chapter 656: Chapter 309: An Unexpected Misstep - 1

"Can you step aside for a moment and let me finish my conversation with Boss Yan?" In the room at the entrance of the cattle farm, Dai Chengfu couldn’t help but scold the jumping Guo Guozhu.

There are some people in the world, seeing them makes you want to punch them. Others are discussing important matters, and he, with nothing to do, keeps asking questions, fearing that others might not notice his existence.

Even though everyone is annoyed with him, he is shamelessly trying to gain attention, without any self-awareness.

Yan Fei has been ignoring this guy who is constantly interrupting with unrelated questions. Not everyone can be like Yan Fei, ignoring whoever he wants to ignore. Even Dai Chengfu couldn’t help but scold the guy.

After being admonished by Dai Chengfu, Guo Guozhu felt no shame and argued, "I am just being responsible. We have taken their money, so we need to be responsible. If we do not understand the situation well and they don’t get proper training, who will be responsible then? Can you be responsible?"

Dai Chengfu couldn’t help getting angry: "If needed, I will be responsible. If there’s a problem, I will deal with it myself. It’s not for you to worry about. If you have nothing to do, just go out and rest, don’t mess things up here."

After speaking, he ignored Guo and turned to Yan Fei, "Don’t worry, Boss Yan. Since you have paid, once the equipment is installed, I will have Xiao Lu come and guide for a while, ensuring your technicians are trained. If you have any questions, feel free to call me anytime."

Yan Fei nodded and said to the young man following Dai Chengfu, "We’ll have to rely heavily on Master Lu in the future!"

Xiao Lu hurriedly humbled, "Don’t call me master. I can’t bear that title. This is what I’m supposed to do..."

While the three were engrossed in their conversation, Guo Guozhu asked, "Boss Yan, I heard your cattle farm has only been open for a year, but you’ve expanded so quickly. The required capital is not a small amount. Do you have a big boss supporting you from behind?"

Yan Fei topped off the water in the cups of Dai Chengfu and Xiao Lu, "We’ve talked a lot, this tea has cooled down. While busy with work, why don’t you both try my tea? I roasted it myself!"

If most people were treated like Guo Guozhu, they would be cursing by now. However, Guo Guozhu, entrusted with a ’sacred mission’, has a lot of patience. The more they want to drive him away, the more he insists on staying, listening keenly to the conversation, for fear of missing any crucial details.

What’s even more annoying is that he keeps asking clever questions out of the blue.

If it were anyone else, they would naturally respond when caught off guard by such questions. But faced with Yan Fei, his efforts are in vain.

Guo Guozhu was feeling a bit frustrated. This young boss was difficult to talk to. Although others might be annoyed, when asked directly, they would usually give a response. If some issues are inconvenient to discuss, there would still be some kind of facial expression.

Guo Guozhu was confident that he could guess the answer by observing such reactions. But Yan Fei was different. He ignored him completely, no matter what Guo said, Yan acted as if he didn’t hear. Yan’s lack of any reaction made Guo’s skill of reading people and situations ineffective.

As they were talking, Heizi and the two drivers who came from the provincial city to get the beef, motioned to Yan Fei at the door. Yan Fei stood up and said, "Sorry, Director Dai, I have to step out for a moment. I’ll be back shortly. You two can have some tea..."

Yan Fei had to step out to collect the money. The beef that the provincial city needed was all loaded onto the truck. Since no one else knew the price, they had to call him to settle the account.

Now, the calculation is simple, a hundred yuan for a kilogram. After feeding them for some time, the cattle size has increased, and one beef already weighed almost 150 kilograms.

This amounted to 20,000 yuan. The two drivers counting the money were very envious. How were these cattle fed? A kilogram of beef was fifty yuan. Fortunately, the number of cattle in this farm was not large, otherwise, the boss would have been incredibly wealthy.

What they didn’t know was that Yan Fei was actually not satisfied. The marbled beef raised for so long, the added profit wasn’t as great as the benefit of fattening a new cow. After all, there’s a limit to livestock growth. TheBone meal is not a panacea; it can’t make the cow grow indefinitely.

Heizi was also surprised, and now he knew why Yan Fei didn’t care about the normal beef. The good beef was sold at such a high price.

Yan Fei saw the look on his face and knew what he was thinking. He said to him, "The price was not that high before. I provided it every day at half this price. It was not until recently that I discovered our beef could be sold at such a high price. In the future, the price in Hong Kong will be even higher than here. This must be kept secret. If I’m not around and you’re the one collecting the money, apart from you and the person in charge of the accounts, there’s no need to tell anyone else."

"Sure, Brother Fei. Don’t worry! I definitely won’t spread anything around." Heizi quickly assured.

There always exists a comparison. If the price of beef is only slightly higher than that of ordinary beef, others might envy you. But if the price suddenly went up several folds, it would make anyone’s eyes turn green with envy. Although it’s not that we fear others coveting it, but after all, "the higher the tree, the stronger it attracts the wind", there will always be upstarts, and wouldn’t that just invite trouble?

Now the cattle farm is already bothered by the breeding bulls. With the people from the cattle research institute having visited recently, if people found out about the high beef prices, there might be more troubles ahead!

Yan Fei was about to go in when he remembered something else: "Tell Old Gao and Pang Fa to keep some of the beef here. We can eat it ourselves or give it to others. We have plenty of beef, and the weather is getting warmer. We don’t want Pang Fa not being able to sell it all."

Incredulously, Heizi almost looked at him scornfully: "Our beef is so good and priced so low. I asked Old Pang last time if he’d be able to sell it and he said he’d bash his head against a wall if he couldn’t."

Yan Fei ignored his reaction: "Just keep some anyway. Have Old Ou send thirty catties to the police station and twenty to Old Pan. Consider it as giving them some benefits. For those of you who have families here, everyone should also send two catties back home."

"We don’t need to. We will just take some beef offal and other cuts back home..." Heizi hadn’t finished speaking when Guo Guozhu came out of the house, leaving his words unspoken.

Guo Guozhu got restless after sitting in the house for a while. Dai Chengfu was giving him a hard look in the house, and Xiao Lu didn’t want to have anything to do with him. It seemed there wouldn’t be any information coming his way here, so he might as well go outside and look around.

As he came out, he happened to see the two drivers pulling the car over and waving goodbye to Yan Fei.

When they came in the morning, Old Gao had already slaughtered the cows by the river. The truck carrying beef had to travel hundreds of miles and it wasn’t possible to have the beef exposed outside, it was completely covered over. So now as the truck loaded with beef passed by him, Guo didn’t even know what was in the delivery truck.

Ironically, Guo Guozhu was still unaware of what he had missed. He ran over wearing an artificial look of enthusiasm, and asked Yan Fei, "Boss Yan, it looks busy here! There are cars coming and going. Is there a lot of business usually?"

Yan Fei ignored him. He could see that neither serious discussions nor work information came Guo’s way. He couldn’t understand why this guy was even here, was he here to freeload a meal? Having him around was certainly not going to spoil anyone’s appetite!

Thinking of food, he said to Guo indifferently, "You’ve seen all the cows we have, haven’t you? What business could there be?"

After saying that, he ignored Guo and turned to Gao Rui in the liquor store: "Xiao Rui, go and tell Aunt Yu Mei to start cooking the beef. Let’s make a few dishes and have lunch at the ranch."

While in the house, it was okay as Dai Chengfu and Xiao Lu were from the institute and wouldn’t care about Yan Fei ignoring Guo Guozhu. Everyone knew about his thick skin and it didn’t bother him.

Now, with Heizi beside him and seeing Yan Fei couldn’t even bother to greet him, Guo Guozhu’s bit of ’self-respect’ for being a ’researcher from the city institute’ was a bit too much for him to bear. He cursed a few words in his heart and decided to go find someone else to probe for information. As for running around and looking everywhere on someone’s ranch, it never occurred to him that it might be impolite.

Just as he was about to move, Yan Fei took the initiative to greet him: "Director Guo, are you planning to look around? Do you need me to get someone to accompany you?"

Guo Guozhu sneered in his heart. Afraid that I might find something wrong, huh? Sorry to disappoint, but I don’t need anyone.

However, he was a seasoned old hand, and although he was dismissive in his heart, he politely declined, "No need, no need, I’ll just wander around..."

As soon as he had walked a bit further, Yan Fei said to Heizi, "This guy is the one who saw Old Gao perform his nail-eating trick last time. He’s been poking around for our secret method. You take Li Fang and Chang Liang with you and keep a close watch on him. Just observe what he’s looking at, and then report back to me."

Heizi agreed, turned around and ran after him. As he ran, he also waved at Li Fang and Chang Liang, looking as if he was treating the guy as a prisoner out for a supervised stroll.

Seeing the three young guys following him, Guo Guozhu’s face changed inconsistently. He vowed to himself, "Once I find out the secret of your cattle farm, I’ll see how arrogant you’ll be then!"

His face changed repeatedly, but unbeknownst to him, Yan Fei, standing behind him and watching their retreating figures, also looked rather grim. He fell silent for a moment before turning around and walking back into the house to continue discussing the cold chain equipment issue with Dai Chengfu and Xiao Lu.