Chapter 143: Family Farm Breakthrough

Chen Hong was curious about his method, watching him, waiting for his continuation.

Zhang Minghua didn't sue either, he said directly.

"We're reluctant to sell; we still focus on domestic cat breeding and service."

"For those people, we just need to occasionally release a few."

"After all, are they expensive? It's normal for them to be rare."

He's black-hearted; Chen Hong immediately understood his meaning, even more black-hearted than her husband.

Her husband let her sell a cat to Lou Xiao'e for ten yuan, and she felt that was already enough of a scam.

This Zhang Minghua is even darker; he's trying to scam those rich people.

Selling less doesn't mean earning less; maybe they earn more.

Cough cough.

"You mustn't say this to anyone from now on; I've never heard it either."

"If others ask, I won't admit it."

"The breeding center is now yours; I'll go handle the paperwork and get the land."

"But are you sure you don't need any other support?"

"Like money, supplies, etc."

Zhang Minghua shook his head.

"We don't need it for now; I still have some foundation, enough for us to keep operating."

"That won't do."

Chen Hong felt this was a bit of mixing public and private.

"You should still make a list, like what the cats need to eat, what to use, to see how much is needed."

"We still need to keep them separate; mixing public and private easily invites gossip."

Zhang Minghua felt a bit embarrassed.

"Really, we don't need anything; the cats' food is made from things others don't want, like fish processing leftovers, unwanted vegetable leaves, some wild grass from the ground, etc."

"So what, these things cost no money? But don't we still need people to prepare them?"

"Write it down, and our Jiedao will directly order the relevant market companies and shops to send these things to us."

Seeing Chen Hong insist, Zhang Minghua still made a detailed list.

Looking at the items, there aren't many, actually they don't cost much money; the main expense is still that plot of land.

The next day.

Director Wang settled the matter, the district chief also relaxed; since the higher-ups support it, go ahead and mess around, as long as it's not excessive, I'll agree.

For the plot Chen Hong wanted, Director Wang directly allocated her a large, almost abandoned courtyard.

Let them mess around as they like.

When the other Jiedao people saw how little was needed, they thought they could handle it themselves; even if they failed, they could bear it, at worst giving up a month's salary.

They didn't realize this is a skill-dependent job; the most important thing is people, while other things are actually not that important.

And so the breeding center was established.

That day Xu Huizhen brought over a cat in her arms.

This counted as support for Chen Hong's work.

Afterward she followed Chen Hong back to the Siheyuan.

The old lady saw another big beauty arrive and felt a bit worried for Chen Hong.

You silly girl, others avoid him and still can't get away, yet you bring him home; you don't know what kind of character your man has, right?

The old lady discovered that Yang Qing this guy tends to attract women.

Look, the women coming to our house now, each more beautiful than the last; if they were men, they couldn't stand this kind of torment.

Yang Qing declared himself innocent; he's now worried about having too many vegetables in the garden that he can't finish eating.

Well then, he started messing around with pickling vegetables.

For pickling vegetables, he also bought several large blue-and-white jars.

He didn't dare buy the dragon-shaped ones; at a glance they're not something ordinary people can use.

He's been working with flower, bird, insect, fish jars; the ones with patterns at the bottom he's covered with plaster mixed with glue, and deliberately stained them with oil.

What if they're genuine? That would be asking for trouble.

Even though he bought them very cheap, cheaper than new ones.

When Xu Huizhen came over, she happened to see Yang Qing pickling sour green beans.

He had filled an entire jar.

He looked up and saw Xu Huizhen.

"Sister-in-law has arrived."

Xu Huizhen, seeing the situation, came over.

"Pickling vegetables is what our family does best; you should call your brother Cai over to help you."

"Hey, just messing around; as long as it's edible, why bother Brother Cai?"

"By the way, what is Brother Cai doing these days?"

Xu Huizhen gave a charming smile.

"He's at home watching the kids; at the little tavern, I won't let him go; the Jiedao currently has no other work, so he's idle."

"Being idle is fine; otherwise, who would look after the three kids?"

The man who married into the family has no rights; Yang Qing mourned for Cai Quanwu.

However, Xu Huizhen is a conscientious woman; she has always stood by Lao Cai, and in the end her daughter even bore him an heir.

Such a son-in-law who lives in his wife's home is already quite good.

Yang Qing didn't want to say more about this, and turned his gaze to her.

"Sister-in-law, you seem to have something on your mind today."

Xu Huizhen grabbed Chen Hong's hand.

"I didn't come to ask Chen Hong for teachings."

Yang Qing was delighted upon hearing that.

"How come, you Jiedao are also preparing to start a vegetable garden?"

Xu Huizhen smiled and nodded.

"Effort does not betray the earnest."

"The Jiedao still agreed."

"You know, most of our Jiedao are engaged in business, and because of the disaster, business has been greatly affected."

"Although the government bears the losses for these shops, the Jiedao will also be greatly affected."

"Our Jiedao aunties, seeing that your place is getting more prosperous, have finally made up their minds to start this."

Yang Qing was overjoyed; it seems the impact of the vegetable garden plan is growing larger and larger.

This is good for him, because he is the main planner and promoter; the people below may not know, but those above certainly do.

The greater the impact, the more likely he is to get a seat at the table.

Even if it's only a little influence, the future benefits are still enormous.

(I'm talking about the benefits from 66 years ago.)

"Good, good, good, this matter is settled; it brings many benefits to your Jiedao."

"Partial self-sufficiency in vegetables can bring great benefits to those restaurant canteens."

"The more consumption, the more swill there is; you can also use swill as a condition to cooperate with surrounding villages on breeding, and even if only partially satisfied, the benefits are enormous."

Xu Huizhen sighed and pointed out the problem in Yang Qing's words.

"Swill is collected by dedicated personnel; how could we possibly handle it ourselves?"

"In the city, the destination of swill is the surrounding breeding farms."

"Swill is an important condition for them to obtain meat quotas."

Yang Qing felt foolish; nowadays almost everything is exploited to the extreme, so how could swill possibly not be valued.

"Nowadays even ordinary trash is scarce in Jingcheng, let alone swill."

"This stuff is still quite precious nowadays."

"It's my mistake; I committed an error of utopianism."

"Let's start with the vegetable garden; your place is different from here—your area is a commercial zone."

Xu Huizhen found Yang Qing's embarrassed look amusing; is this how a twenty-something should act, pretending to know everything all day?

Chen Hong also found Yang Qing's embarrassment quite enjoyable.

Afterwards, she pulled Xu Huizhen into the house to share experiences.

Today, Yang Qing is not the main character; Chen Hong is.

Seeing Yang Qing's failed attempt to show off, the old lady was also delighted.

You can, but you actually think you're Zhuge Liang, wanting to point fingers at everything.