Chapter 903: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 903: Building the Chicken Farm, Deciding to Dig a Fish Pond

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Wang Erhai and Yang Xiaocai signed a contract, renting that piece of land at the village entrance for three years, three thousand a year, nine thousand for three years.

Wang Erhai was afraid Yang Xiaocai would renege, so the money was agreed to be paid every half year, fifteen hundred each time.

Yang Xiaocai agreed readily, because he knew, with Wang Erhai's character, it was impossible for him to renege.

Wang Erhai gave him fifteen hundred on the spot.

He took the money, beaming with satisfaction.

With this sum of money, his life would be greatly improved.

Don't look down on fifteen hundred; for an old person with no earning capacity, this money, used sparingly, might just support half a year's expenses.

After finalizing the chicken farm matter.

The next day, Wang Erhai rolled up his sleeves and got to work.

He went to town and bought some plastic mesh fencing, enclosing the entire chicken farm.

Then he put the hundred-plus chicks inside, feeding them only one meal of rice mixed with bran a day, letting the chicks forage for themselves the rest of the time.

Additionally he spent some time building a simple shed at the chicken farm entrance.

When it rained, the chickens could go into the shed to shelter from the rain.

With all this done, all that was left was to sit and wait for these chicks to grow.

This day Niu Chunsheng called, saying he would bring guests to New Era Restaurant for a meal in the afternoon.

Wang Erhai was immediately overjoyed, and had his mother catch a few of their home-raised chickens and take them down for the cook to process.

The newly bought chicks hadn't grown that fast yet, so he used his mother's previously raised chickens as a stopgap.

Anyway his mother had raised several dozen chickens.

Wang Erhai also personally went into the restaurant to toast the guests Niu Chunsheng brought, hosting them warmly, humbly asking how the taste was, if there was anything needing improvement.

"This chicken's not bad, I can tell in one bite it's not feed chicken!"

One of the guests answered with a laugh.

Niu Chunsheng said:

"As long as General Manager Liao likes it; as the saying goes, a thousand gold can't buy customer satisfaction; for the catering business, the most important thing is customer satisfaction, Erhai, you agree, right?"

Wang Erhai replied with a smile:

"Right, as long as the guests eat satisfied, we're happy. General Manager Liao, you're Uncle Chunsheng's friend; from now on when you come here to eat, I'll give you a thirty percent discount, absolutely won't let you spend a single wronged cent!"

General Manager Liao laughed heartily and said:

"That's what you said; then when I have time I'll bring my wife and kids over to eat, they all like eating free-range chicken!"

General Manager Liao then said:

"By the way, do you have fish here? Best if it's also home-raised, raised in mountain spring water, that's when the fish is fresh and sweet!"

Wang Erhai's face was full of apology:

"General Manager Liao, sorry, my family doesn't raise fish, only chickens."

Actually he could have run to the vegetable market to buy a fish, passing it off as farm free-range.

But he didn't do that, because he deeply knew, New Era Restaurant had just taken the first step of transformation, reputation was more important than anything, so this kind of reputation-damaging thing, even if it could earn more money, must not be done.

"If there isn't then forget it; I suggest you still dig your own fish pond, anyway the countryside has plenty of land, digging a fish pond isn't difficult, then when we have time we can go fishing, catch fish and bring them to your restaurant to process, eat a meal while we're at it, how great!"

General Manager Liao's words were just said in passing.

But they enlightened Wang Erhai.

Right, since he was already raising chickens.

Why not conveniently dig a fish pond and raise some fish?

"Many thanks for General Manager Liao's suggestion; I'll go dig a fish pond later!"

Although Wang Erhai wasn't the most clever type of person, he was a person with extremely strong execution.

So after returning from town, he started scouting for a place suitable for digging a fish pond.

He discovered that beside the chicken farm, another piece of wasteland near the river was very suitable for digging a fish pond.

But whether it's suitable for digging a fish pond and whether it can be dug are two different matters.

Current policy stipulates that basic farmland cannot be used to dig fish ponds.

So Wang Erhai first went back to the Village Committee Office, checked the distribution map of Shangou Village's basic farmland, then decided whether to take down this piece of land.

The result delighted him greatly; that piece of land, because it was near the river, got flooded every year during floods, so it did not belong to basic farmland.

That land was originally a piece of wasteland belonging to no one, later reclaimed by Li Yunxia into a vegetable garden, later Li Yunxia stopped planting vegetables there, and it stayed fallow.

Wang Erhai immediately went to find Li Yunxia and told her about this.

Li Yunxia and Li Xiulan originally had a pretty good relationship, so when she learned Wang Zhanggen wanted to rent her land, she immediately agreed.

She even said no money needed, just give it to Wang Erhai directly; anyway she had another vegetable garden now, that land was of no use to her.

Wang Erhai still forcibly stuffed her five hundred yuan, and said if she wanted to eat fish in the future, she could just go catch them at his fish pond anytime.

Having secured Li Yunxia's land, Wang Erhai immediately contacted an excavator, agreed with the excavator operator that he would come tomorrow to dig the fish pond.

Early the next morning, the excavator arrived.

Wang Erhai handed the excavator operator a cigarette, then told him how much area to dig, how deep, and where to put the excavated soil.

After giving instructions, the excavator operator started work.

In the blink of an eye several days passed, and next to the chicken farm there was now an additional fish pond covering an area of about three basketball courts.

This fish pond isn't large, but it already counts as decent enough.

Next comes disinfecting the fish pond, then filling it with water.

After the water is filled, let it sit quietly for a short term.

Then release the rice seedlings.

Wang Erhai doesn't understand fish farming techniques, so he specially went online to find some fish farming materials to study.

While Wang Erhai was searching for materials online, he discovered that many people, while raising fish, not only raise some chickens, ducks, and geese, but also develop the hillside near the fish pond to plant fruit trees.

Wang Erhai suddenly thought: the land I've taken over, isn't it backed by a mountain?

That mountain is a hilly small mountain, not high, not steep, and without many chaotic stones; the mountain is all yellow clay, most suitable for planting fruit trees!

So he hurriedly went to contact the owner of that mountain and took over the entire mountainside.

Planning to develop the mountain and plant sand sugar oranges.

These years sand sugar oranges fetch a good price, and they bear fruit in three years, easy to recover costs.

After taking over that piece of mountain, he can also incidentally upgrade the free-range chickens he raises into run-mountain chickens.

The meat quality of run-mountain chickens is even better than free-range chickens!

Because the range of activity is larger, the chickens' daily exercise quantity is also greater.

This whole combination punch cost Wang Erhai not a little money.

Fortunately, his eldest brother previously gave him five hundred thousand.

The New Era Restaurant side cost 250,000 in transfer fees, and afterward basically nothing was spent.

Because although business there isn't too good, it can barely maintain a break-even balance.

That is to say, he still has 250,000 on hand that he can freely dispose of.

250,000 isn't much, but it can let him raise chickens, raise fish, and plant fruit trees, all without pressure.

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