Carrying a Jurassic on me
Chapter 95 - 36 Buying a Flour Mill_1

Chapter 95: Chapter 36 Buying a Flour Mill_1

Back at the cattle farm doing nothing, Yan Fei started using a water hose to wash his motorcycle. Inside, he was absolutely thrilled!

When he finished washing it, under the light, he realised the motorcycle was quite new, even better than his current ride. Moreover, it even had a plate. Without a second thought, he took the plate off. What good would that do, who needs a plate these days, as long as you have a motorcycle? What if someone recognizes it?

After cleaning it, Yan Fei looked at the scratched bike where paint was missing from the fall, nearly cursing out loud. A perfect motorcycle ruined by a tumble, now several spots were no longer shining.

Regardless, overall, this motorcycle was great. It was bigger than his old bike, with a black seat and a red fuel tank, on which there was a pompous, big ’Leopard’ written. It was very imposing.

Just then, Ma Chao rode in on his bicycle. Yan Fei, generous as ever, beckoned him and pointed at the old bike, "Brother Chao, come over. I’ll give you this motorcycle so you don’t have to ride in the dark."

The cattle needed feeding three times a day, and sometimes one feeding in the middle of the night. The routine began early in the morning. Yan Fei had no plans to do a midnight feeding and his mornings just began earlier. Thus, Ma Chao had to come in before it got dark, and he left late at night. Essentially, he often had to ride his bike in total darkness.

Despite giving him the old, worn-out bike, it at least had a light. Ma Chao would be extremely willing; he was working at the cattle farm, Yan Fei had also given him a raise; his girlfriend’s family was now showing signs of changing their mind. If he had a motorcycle now, even if it was old, that would surely be impressive.

"How can that do, why not I ride this for the time being and see how much it costs? Then you can deduct the money from my wages?"

"Just ride it. It was sent here by someone else and isn’t being used. If you don’t ride it, I might just give it to Brother Fa!" Yan Fei was annoyed with the slow nature of this honest guy.

"Of course, I want it. Why wouldn’t I? I would certainly ride it if you gave it to me." After being in contact regularly, Ma Chao had an understanding of his young boss’s temperament. Except for the matters of cattle farming, the boss could be capricious at times. If it wasn’t Ma Chao who was here right now, anyone else who was familiar would have been offered this regardless.

At this time, the predicament of not affording both a car and the petrol doesn’t even exist. Just five bucks for a jug of petrol is enough for a while. Moreover, Ma Chao’s family’s condition in town was also good in actuality as they were involved in a business.

Since Ma Chao had made up his mind to accept the gesture of his young boss, he ceased with the politeness. After expressing his gratitude, he hurriedly went to feed the cattle.

Yan Fei checked the time and, riding his new motorcycle, he left for school.

Unexpectedly, he had no sooner left than he discovered something as he looked down, and rode back.

Forget it, destiny doesn’t seem to want me to go to school today. I’m not going!

The bike ran out of petrol!

He was too lazy to refill the petrol. Instead, he thought of assisting Ma Chao to feed the cattle and cautioned him to watch over the place well, then pushed his new motorcycle inside and locked the door before leaving.

He would go to the city to buy a grinding machine. It was too slow using the Crescent Moon for bone meal production.

Finding this thing wasn’t easy. It was not because it wasn’t available, but what Yan Fei required was rather difficult to find – a smaller one would not grind the small bones properly whereas the larger one - which was generally used in factories and mines, he could neither afford nor was it a practical choice for him.

After wandering around half of the town, he finally found something approximately suiting his requirement. However, it cost a few hundreds. He could have hired someone to sit and grind the bone meal slowly with a Crescent Moon with the money saved.

Luckily this machine ran on diesel. If it were electric-run, Yan Fei might not have been willing to buy it. The electricity supply was rather unstable in those days. You could rely more on machines run by diesel compared to electric ones.

Carrying this not-so-small gadget out of the door, he decided to find a place and throw it into the cave on Vegetable Garden Island, before setting off on a city tour.

Thinking now, wanting to ride a new motorcycle to school in the morning was too rash. Fortunately, just then it ran out of petrol. Otherwise, just after the police station caught a thief, if he swung around on a new motorcycle, wouldn’t that be an admission of guilt.

We have to maintain anonymity when doing good deeds. Having a motorcycle is enough for us, we don’t want anything from the police station!

As he continued to wander, he found himself in the busiest Yaxiya Mall of Wan City. The goods here left Yan Fei nearly dazzled. They had everything, and it was much larger than the mall in small town.

Yan Fei got lost in following the crowd, he could no longer find the exit.

As he was wandering, he bumped into a place with many people in front of a counter. Although he didn’t like to join the crowd, since he had come this far, if he didn’t crowd in and take a peek, it would be a waste.

Under the disapproving and even angry glares of the surrounding people, Yan Fei finally fought his way through the crowd and reached the counter.

Before even looking at the goods, he checked the prices and immediately lost interest.

"Hurry up, hurry up, if you’re going to buy then hurry, don’t squeeze in from the back. Each person can only buy one set, if you buy many then the people at the back will miss out."

"Young man, are you buying or not? If you aren’t buying then step aside, I’ve been waiting for a long time!"

Yan Fei only looked for a while before someone nearby became impatient and started rushing him.

"What’s this thing used for?" Yan Fei couldn’t help asking.

"What’s it used for? You don’t know yet you’re squeezing in? Haven’t you ever watched TV? DaZhong Softshell Turtle Spirit and SiZhu Oral Liquid, Red Hair Medicinal Wine, it’s good for both curing ailments and strengthening health; they are all incredible products that people fight to get." the middle-aged man who had been urging him earlier said impatiently.

"Turtle spirit? I’ve eaten Old Turtle before, is it really that miraculous?" Yan Fei was puzzled.

"What do you know? This is high-tech stuff. Who knows how many Old Turtles it needs to distill a bottle of turtle spirit. It can cure all kinds of diseases. Are you buying or not? If not, then move aside."

After listening for a while, Yan Fei still didn’t understand what it exactly did, but according to the discussion around him, it seemed to be a wonder product. With this, all the hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies in the streets and alleys could just close their doors.

Standing in the front of the crowd and being jostled and bumped, Yan Fei touched his pocket and then quietly wormed his way out of the crowd.

Except during shopping, he didn’t usually carry much money in his pocket. It was all in the mountain cave on Vegetable Garden Island! With so many people now, he couldn’t take it out, so it seemed he wouldn’t be able to buy anything! Never mind, that so-called Medicinal Wine probably wasn’t better than the one made from dinosaur bones at home. Not buying turned out to be a money saver!

But the guy saying that he hadn’t watched TV did sting him a bit.

After strolling to a deserted place and retrieving some money from Vegetable Garden Island, he arrived at the home appliance store. He spent over a thousand dollars to buy a big color TV, and walked out of the mall carrying it amidst the envious glances of the crowd.

He always felt that those products with miraculous abilities were rackets. They dared to charge hundreds of dollars for such small amounts. After consuming, there’s nothing left. It’s better to buy a big color TV, and once placed in the room, it brings much richness.

After strolling around the mall, Yan Fei realized that he was running short of money. Carrying the color TV, he didn’t linger any longer and hurried back home to feed the cattle and earn some money.

After returning home, he left all the stuff at the entrance, picked a huge pile of vegetables from Vegetable Garden Island and left them at his front door, before he called Ma Chao to help him move everything in.

By the time Ma Chao rode his newly acquired motorcycle to fetch diesel, the color TV had already been set up. Unfortunately, there was no outdoor antenna and the one included with the TV only received the nearest city station. Everything else couldn’t be received.

After adding oil and checking that the machine was in good order, with it grinding bone meal even better than when he did it himself, Yan Fei was satisfied. Right after testing the machine, Aunt Yu Mei came over to call them for dinner.

While eating, they watched their brand-new large-screen color TV. Li Cheng asked Yan Fei, "Xiao Fei, is all the land over there yours? It’s wasted when it’s idle, why don’t we let Brother Chao clean it up tomorrow and plant some vegetables or something, it’s convenient to eat."

Yan Fei didn’t care, "Why should we plant vegetables? We are not short of vegetables to eat. But now that we have some free time we should level that land, chop down the crooked trees, and use them as firewood. We can talk more after it’s leveled."

Indeed, in the cattle farm, they were not short of vegetables. The straws they collected from the farm were used as feed, straws were everywhere on the rural roads. Some farmhouses even directly burned them for fertilizer. Now that someone was willing to buy even though the money would barely cover the labor, people flocked to sell, fearing that they wouldn’t be bought. Everyone brought some produce from their fields, and most of the time it was vegetables.

Furthermore, ever since the farms around them started growing fruit trees, even cow dung has suddenly become valuable. Anyone who came to pull cow dung would most likely bring a bunch of the vegetables and radishes they grew. Just a few people couldn’t consume all these, sometimes it’s even used as food for the pigs and cows.

The old man felt that he was now just an idle person in the cattle farm and was looking for something to do because he had nothing better to do! Hearing Yan Fei say so, he laughed, "That works as well. I just felt that it’s a waste for the land to be idle after we bought it."

"We should think about raising some chicken as well, how funny it is to buy eggs even though we have such a large farm." What was suggested was Ma Chao, although Yan Fei frequently provided ’Lu Soup’, eggs were also a must-have. Since the cattle farm had no more chickens, the eggs they ate were bought by Ma Chao. It’s estimated that he heard some people talking.

"Go ahead with whatever you want to do, we have the space. Let me know when you need money to buy something. I don’t really care about these things." said Yan Fei in an indifferent tone.