Carrying a Jurassic on me
Chapter 725 - 362: Killing Many Cows_2

Chapter 725: Chapter 362: Killing Many Cows_2

In fact, besides the several piles of high-end beef, there was also a portion of regular beef. The high-end beef was waiting for the trucks from the provincial city and Hong Kong to arrive and load it. As for the ordinary beef, some would be taken to the restaurants in the provincial city, while the rest was reserved by Yan Fei himself.

The restaurants in the provincial city have always been serving ordinary beef, and if they suddenly increase the prices, they could lose many customers. A dramatic short-term drop in business isn’t something they would want to see. They used to source ordinary beef from markets around the provincial city, but now that they are hauling large amounts of it, they might as well take some of this beef too—it’s more convenient this way.

The supply of this ordinary beef isn’t tied to an agreement. If the high-end beef business keeps improving, the use of ordinary beef will reduce, eventually leading to a total transformation into an upscale restaurant. Everyone knows that the higher the grade, the more unique the business, the higher the profit will be.

As for the regular beef that the provincial city couldn’t take, Yan Fei kept it for his own use. He planned to use it for Heizi’s wedding feast in the morning. As for the beef for his personal consumption and gifts for relatives and friends, it would be ready when Pang Fa came back in the morning.

Even if the sun is out in the morning at the cattle-slaughtering place, there’s nothing to worry about. The place is shaded by many trees and ventilated by the river wind. The beef wouldn’t be left out for long, so there were no concerns about its quality deteriorating.

Seeing that there was still some time left, Yan Fei let his people go to sleep for a while. As for the mute, he had to rush back home to wait for Heizi’s family to pick up the bride, and then he had to follow them back to give away the bride.

Yan Fei took the opportunity to go back to the greenhouse and picked several big baskets of fresh Agaricus bisporus mushrooms.

Having a space helper to work was efficient. By the time he finished and brought over all the mushrooms, Heizi and his group had just gotten into bed for some rest.

Not much later, Heizi’s family, relatives, and friends began to arrive one after another. His parents were a bit unhappy at first because according to village customs, weddings in the family should follow the order of birth, starting from the oldest. But now, Heizi, the younger, had gotten married before his older brother, Xiaohei. However, now that things had come to pass, they could only put customs aside, conduct the wedding cheerfully, and leave the rest for later.

A few people took some glue and red paper with the Chinese character for "happiness" written on it and set off. This red paper displaying "happiness" was only slightly larger than a palm. They would begin from the cattle farm and post these papers along the route that the bride’s procession would follow. They would stick them everywhere, on walls, trees—the more the better.

There needed to be someone at the entrance to welcome the relatives—everyone would be given a red rope to tie onto the button in the center of their clothes to signify celebration. In fact, there were many traditions to follow and many things to be taken care of.

For example, arranging the seating was especially troublesome. Those who came to send off the bride had to be seated according to their generational rankings, and their accompanying guests needed to have similar status. All of these were agreed upon in advance. How many banquet tables to set up, how many people to invite, and how many tables to reserve had all been preset. Now, they just needed to enjoy the excitement of the day.

Heizi led a team to fetch the bride as soon as they saw a line of cars coming. These cars were rented at a cost, and there was also a small truck ready to carry the bride’s dowry—the most common item in a dowry being quilts. The more quilts, the better it was considered to be. In the past, those who got married prepared so many quilts, there were enough to last a lifetime.

As for the furniture and other items that needed to be included in the dowry, the mute was frugal, spending little while earning a lot, with all his savings going to his family. With the Bride Price from Heizi’s family, even if the mute’s family was a bit short of funds, they now had enough.

In the countryside, furniture was cheap. The most costly items would be items like a color TV or a washing machine. He did not ask for motorcycles or bicycles, as there were enough for him to ride in the farm. The mute’s parents did not have any burdens now. The mute was working in the cattle farm with Yan Fei, so in the future, their daughter and son-in-law could earn money. Their days were definitely going to get better and better.

When they had more money, they would find a wife for the mute. Even if they couldn’t find a good match, they surely wouldn’t settle for less. Now that the mute was earning money, his parents were contemplating finding a match with better personal conditions for him, even if that meant her family being economically weaker.

Actually, the way the mute’s parents were thinking wasn’t wrong. This was something they didn’t dare to hope for in the past. But now, with the mute’s knack for earning money and not spending, and Heizi proving to be a promising son-in-law, the mute’s family’s fortune was on the rise. It wouldn’t really be difficult to find a wife for the mute in the future..

The bridegroom’s party had to have dumplings or something at the bride’s family’s house. There, some additional ceremonies had to be performed, such as the bride weeping a little when leaving the house to show that parting from her parents was difficult, after which she could not cry any more and had to go to her new home cheerfully. When the bride gets into the car, a basin of water is thrown under the car by her family, indicating that the daughter who is getting married is like water being thrown out, and from then on she will be part of her husband’s family.

Also, the bride isn’t allowed to look back on the way, etc., signifying that once she gets married, she should not look back and should live a happy life, and so on. There were many such details, and it took quite a bit of time to go through them all.

Yan Fei had nothing to do, he initially wanted to join in the fun to welcome the bride, but the elders said that he was now the master of the bride and groom and that he should just wait there. He wanted to help out with other tasks but couldn’t. The chef who was hired to cook brought his own helper, and Yan Fei didn’t know many of the other rules, so he felt bored. He decided to hang out by the side of the road, sitting on the large stone where the wine was being sold, waiting for the beef delivery trucks from the Provincial City and Hong Kong and occasionally, when there wasn’t anything needing his attention, throwing a small set of firecrackers onto the road.

Not much later, the procession had not yet returned, but the truck delivering beef from the Provincial City had arrived. This time, the truck that came was not the usual small cargo truck, but a small box truck; the driver was the same as before, only this time he was accompanied by a service manager that Yan Fei had previously seen in the restaurant - probably because there was a lot of cargo, and they didn’t trust it to be delivered on its own, so they brought someone along to oversee it.

Yan Fei went over with others to weigh the beef. The service manager, being a good judge of quality, noticed the chubby Agaricus bisporus in the baskets and exclaimed in surprise, "You have Agaricus bisporus here? Are they grown by yourself?"

Yan Fei nodded, "Yes! We don’t have a large quantity yet, so we haven’t mentioned it to your boss. Why, are you also interested?"

The manager responded promptly, "Yes, we are! The trip here is quite expensive, so we should take as much as we can. Your price must be cheaper than the Provincial City’s, right?"

Yan Fei asked about the Provincial City’s price and then said: "From now on, I will give you a price that’s a little cheaper than the Provincial City’s wholesale price. However, this time we don’t have anything for you, everything is prepared for Hong Kong. Maybe next time! Don’t you need to go back and report to your boss first?"

The manager was frustrated: "I’m in charge of purchasing. I can report to myself!"

To be honest, Yan Fei’s price for Agaricus bisporus for the Sixth Miss Guo from Hong Kong was not very high. The market price in Hong Kong is definitely higher than the Provincial City’s, but Yan Fei thinks that people can buy Agaricus bisporus anywhere. So there’s no reason to overcharge customers who go to the trouble of coming so far to pick up their own goods. Therefore, he set a relatively low price.

Of course, even at such low prices, if these were to be put on the market in Sancha River, not many would buy them.

The manager who was in charge of pickups couldn’t do anything about it. Yan Fei didn’t have a high yield of Agaricus bisporus at the moment. Yan Fei had only harvested so much, and he had already promised it to someone else, it would be impossible to let him take it away.

Yan Fei gave him the prepared quarantine certificates and other documents, and both people kept a copy as a record. They would check the accounts when the prepaid money was used up. This saved a lot of time and trouble compared to before, when the driver had to bring money every day.

These certificates were arranged temporarily. He had been too lazy to apply for them before because nobody cared. But now he had to supply customers in Hong Kong, where such documents are required, and the regulations are strict. Fortunately, the handover was approaching, and many of the procedures were much loosened than before. Otherwise, it would be considered an export.

Yan Fei politely offered to have them stay for the wedding feast. But the manager urged the driver to leave immediately. Just kidding - they now had beef to deliver, which could be used that night; if they stayed for a meal and returned late, their boss would kill them.

Having sent off one truck, Yan Fei felt much more at ease.