Chapter 1118

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Liang Xinghua's inner heart underwent such a tremendous change; if Wang Erhai were to find out, Wang Erhai would absolutely feel heart-chilled.

After all, he helped Liang Xinghua so much, yet in the end he was actually resented by him!

Swap anyone in, and no one's heart would feel good about it.

But right now Wang Erhai has no leisure to concern himself with Liang Xinghua.

He has to go back and handle those two hundred-plus acres of high-standard farmland he contracted.

The matter of sowing needs to be put on the agenda.

He must urgently recruit people, and then get the fields planted.

Additionally, the farm side raised that many chickens, and a whole pond of fish; now the hotel in town has completely gone bust, so how to sell off these chickens and fish, as well as the grain harvested later, is definitely a major problem.

So next he must urgently find a partner/cooperator, stabilize the sales channels, and only then can he be at ease!

Also, his father's cancer matter, he also has to expend more effort on.

So it's not that he doesn't want to help Liang Xinghua, but that he truly doesn't have the heart-strength to help!

Returning to Shangou Village this side.

Wang Erhai went to the farm for a trip.

He discovered the free-range chickens here were raised superbly by his mother and Yao Aina!

Ordinary chickens don't fly.

These free-range chickens, as long as they hear Li Xiulan banging the basin and calling out that it's time to eat, can actually fly down from the halfway-up-the-mountain slope a hundred-odd meters away!

These chickens can fly, which proves the meat is good!

Truth be told, in the city no matter how much money you spend, you can't necessarily buy chickens this good!

But fine wine also fears a deep alley!

This sales channel must be opened up urgently!

Otherwise if these free-range chickens are raised too long, the feed cost is a small matter, but the meat quality becoming too old and tough, thereby affecting the taste, then it would all be ruined in his own hands!

At this moment he thought of Niu Chunsheng!

Doesn't Niu Chunsheng have shares in Lixin Grand Hotel?

Have him help make connections, sell these free-range chickens to Lixin Grand Hotel, and it'll definitely work!

After all, Niu Chunsheng himself has come to eat these free-range chickens before, and knows their quality is top-grade!

If Lixin Grand Hotel can't absorb that much sales quota, then he'll think of another way!

If it really won't work, then he can only go find Zhang Sheng!

Zhang Sheng's Huangsheng Hotel is the best hotel in the whole county.

Every day there are people holding banquets at Huangsheng Hotel, so that side can definitely absorb all the farm's free-range chickens!

But this is a last resort forced by necessity!

Because Wang Erhai doesn't want to have any more excessive involvement with Zhang Sheng.

He was previously given a psychological shadow by Zhang Sheng's scheming, so naturally he avoids him if he can.

But if there's truly no other way, he'll definitely swallow his pride and go discuss this with Zhang Sheng.

This is perhaps the most essential difference between him and Liang Xinghua!

Liang Xinghua, when he truly has no way out, still waits for others to take the initiative to offer help!

As if asking someone for a favor would cost him half his life.

Under the influence of self-esteem, he feels owing someone a favor/debt of gratitude is a heinous crime.

Little does he know that in this secular world, favor/debt-of-gratitude exchange is the key to getting things done.

Owing someone a favor/debt of gratitude isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Clever people all take the initiative to owe favors/debts of gratitude to superiors.

Because once you owe a superior a favor/debt of gratitude, you can use the reason of repaying the favor to create an opportunity to make contact one more time!

This is the same principle as chasing a girl in a romance.

Want to take the initiative to pursue a girl? The best method is to borrow some small item from her — a book, a pen, whatever — then when you return it next time you have a legitimate reason to invite her to a meal.

Whereas if you directly invite her to a meal, she'll definitely be on guard inside, very resistant.

After Wang Erhai finished inspecting the farm, he made another round around those high-standard farmlands in the village.

These farmlands, after his transformation last year, are now plot by plot, neat and square, looking extremely good.

Some terraced fields even have stone walls built to prevent field ridge collapse and soil erosion.

Returning from the fields, he went non-stop, visiting household by household.

Checking which households still have people at home, which households' people are willing to help with farming.

The left-behind elderly in the village have nothing to do, so many people, hearing Wang Erhai say he's recruiting to help transplant rice seedlings, immediately expressed great enthusiasm to participate.

One hundred yuan a day; this money is not considered little for the rural left-behind elderly.

Many haven't farmed in several years, and their hands are a bit itchy, after all they farmed for a lifetime.

If farming weren't a money-losing venture, they would never have left the land fallow.

But there's no help for it; as pesticide and fertilizer prices keep rising higher, farming became a losing business, so many people stopped farming.

Even Yang Xiaocai, hearing Wang Erhai say he wanted to recruit people to help transplant rice seedlings, also enthusiastically participated.

Wang Erhai knew Yang Xiaocai was slippery and deceitful, but he still gave him this opportunity.

After all, they were from the same village.

Everyone had confessed, yet Yang Xiaocai was not among them—that simply wouldn't do.

Mainly because, at the previous wedding, everyone in the village had been invited, but Zhou Aidi had not been invited due to the ancestral grave being dug up, which led to her hanging herself in the raw house his family had just built.

This matter had too great an impact on the Wang Family.

Wang Erhai did not want to repeat the same mistake.

Although he knew that Yang Xiaocai, this carefree scoundrel, could not easily commit suicide, but who could say for sure?

After going door to door, he finalized the headcount.

Wang Erhai returned home and told his mother Li Xiulan about this matter.

He asked his mother to go invite them one by one to help when the rice-planting day arrived.

Wang Zhanggen stood by, watching Wang Erhai order Li Xiulan around while treating him as if he were air, feeling very displeased:

"Do you think I'm air? I can help with this too!"

Wang Erhai gave a dry laugh:

"Dad, just rest. You don't like doing farm work, do you?"

Mainly because Wang Zhanggen now had liver cancer, exactly how severe was still uncertain, and he needed to go to the Big City Hospital in Guangzhou for a re-examination; under these circumstances, it was naturally impossible to count on him to help.

Just don't cause trouble!

However, Wang Zhanggen said:

"This isn't farm work, it's supervising others doing farm work! Being a foreman is something I'm very good at; didn't I go to your company to supervise work for a while before? Did I make any mistakes back then?"

Wang Zhanggen's words were indeed the honest truth.

He couldn't do the work himself, but he was very good at supervising others doing the work.

After all, ordering others around brought great satisfaction to his vanity.

But Wang Erhai still said:

"Just rest at home. By the time rice-planting comes, the weather will start getting hot; there's no need for you to go out to the fields and get baked by the sun!"

Seeing that Wang Erhai absolutely refused to let him work, Wang Zhanggen's face darkened, and he suddenly asked:

"Tell me honestly, did my physical examination reveal some major problem?"

Wang Erhai was stunned and panicked, but quickly covered it up, hurriedly saying:

"Dad, what are you thinking!"

"If I didn't have some major health problem, why wouldn't you let me help with the work?"

Wang Zhanggen questioned him.

Wang Erhai hurriedly found an excuse to explain:

"It's not that we think your health is poor and don't want you to overwork!"

Wang Erhai inwardly sucked in a breath of cold air, never expecting this old man to have such keen insight.

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