Reborn 92's Business Tycoon

Chapter 461: Chapter 461: Interrupting

'Ma'am, it's less than four pounds, 19.5 yuan, I'll charge you 20,' the young wife who had opened a fruit shop next to the village office put another bag over the apples.

Mei Qiuping, holding 20 yuan in her hand, thought for a moment and laughed, 'You really know how to do the math. 19.5 yuan, you're not supposed to round down, charging me 19, and you're still charging me 20?'

The people around her laughed, 'The daughter-in-law is as clever as the mother-in-law,'

and the young wife realised what she had said and laughed, "Look at what I've said, yes, I'll charge you 19,'

'Forget it, it's 19.50, so your mother-in-law doesn't say anything about you again," and Mei Qiuping laughed as she took the 50 cents.

If Feng Yiping went home now, he would find that Feng Jiachong was improving day by day, just like the game Age of Empires he played.

Next to the village office, there are not only people buying fruit, but also selling vegetables, mainly some off-season vegetables. Every three days, there will also be pork sold in fan-shaped pieces, as well as chickens that have been prepared and fish.

These are not important, but the key is that there are also people selling rice and flour. It is really a big step for a rural area for farmers who used to farm to also spend money on buying food.

As for the small shops, there are now three in this area, and they are actually not small, each with an area of about 20 square meters.

Next to the food factory and tea factory, there are new buildings under construction. Sales at both factories are good, and to be precise, production cannot keep up with sales, so the newly built factory buildings are being expanded again.

The deepest foundation is for dormitories. In total, the two factories now have more than ten girls and boys from other parts of the county. In the future, there will definitely be more, and it is necessary to solve their accommodation problems.

This building is planned to be built with 6 floors, and after it is completed, it is estimated that for a long time, it will be the tallest building in the village.

Not only Feng Yiping and his group have built new buildings, but other groups have also built houses one after the other. They are not the kind of buildings that are built haphazardly and roughly, but all have chosen their favourite styles from the few that were designed by the design company, and they are quite unique.

Another welcome change is that the toilets that were originally concentrated at the village entrance have all been demolished and replaced with flush toilets.

In fact, it's quite simple. It's obviously not practical to add sewers to those old houses, but it's very easy to rebuild this area, and the water is also convenient, as it is pumped from the adjacent pond.

Those who have not yet rebuilt their new houses sometimes laugh and say that even the toilets are now better than their own houses.

If they knew that city people already had public toilets made of pure gold, they would probably say, 'The city knows how to have fun.'

The things grown in the fields are also different. This is not just the case in the village of Fengjiachong, but also in the surrounding villages, and the scope is expanding year by year.

In these villages recognised by the food factory, apart from growing a year's food ration, all the other fields are used to grow the raw materials required by the food factory. Some families don't even grow a food ration, they simply buy the food, as the rice from the northeast seems to taste better.

And the people responsible for all these changes are of course the Feng Yiping family. So on the way home, Mei Qiuping is greeted by a constant stream of people. She meets children on the way home from school with nice school bags, and she gives them an apple from her bag.

Although for the children in the village, apples and oranges are not as rare as they used to be, these popular fruits are still a treat for the kids.

'Wash them before you eat them,' she said, watching the children as they wiped their sleeves and then bit into the apples.

She couldn't bear to see them go to waste, and she couldn't afford to buy apples either. Occasionally, when she received a gift or visited relatives, she would get one or two small apples, which she would wrap up and put in the grain container, saving them for Feng Yiping to eat when he returned from school. Although they didn't rot, they were limp and tasteless.

In short, life is really good now, and it gets better every day.

The main dish for lunch is fish head and tofu, and there is also a side dish of stir-fried eggplant with chili peppers.

'The factory has made all the arrangements, so let's go to the province tomorrow or the day after tomorrow,' Feng Zhanchang finishes eating a bowl of fish head and tofu. He heard from his son that tofu is good for you, so they make it in different ways at home.

'In such a hurry? Don't we have to wait until the batch for export to Japan is ready?'

'While the weather is still nice, it will get hot in a few days. I'm afraid you'll get even more carsick. As for the production, we don't need to worry about it, they're doing a great job.

And, by the time we get back, the new house will have been drying for three months, so it will be ready to move into.'

'That's fine. We should also go and check out those noodle shops. It's a small matter if they don't make money if they don't do a good job, but it's a big deal if they ruin our brand.'

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At their home in the provincial capital, Feng Yuxuan, who had returned especially for lunch, heard the door open and ran over to help them with the luggage. 'Mom and Dad, why are you only just arriving now? I've already finished lunch,'

Mei Qiuping took off the camera around her neck. 'I took a lot of photos along the way, and I even went back to the hotel for a while,'

'You can just take Ping's nonsense. Do you really expect him to organise a photo exhibition for you when you get there?'

In order to arouse his parents' interest, Feng Yiping had spent a fortune buying them all cameras and had promised to organise a photo exhibition for them in the future, entitled "The City as Seen by My Parents".

Mei Qiuping looked around the room, saying, "Not bad, it's quite clean.'

Feng Zhenchang looked at the wine on the table and said with a smile, "I can't count on my son, but I still have you, my daughter.'

Feng Yuxuan was immediately interested. 'Yes, I'll do it for you, Mum. Don't bother looking, it's tidier than when you were here. Come and see the photos you took today.'

'How many franchises have you negotiated this month?' Feng Zhenchang was quite happy to finally have his daughter to drink with him.

'We're talking to a lot of them, and there are five that we'll be inspecting this month.'

Mei Qiuping put a shrimp in her daughter's bowl. 'When we opened the first one, I never thought we'd be able to make this kind of money.'

'Speaking of which, Dad, Mum, those that the people in the village have opened, have they never charged a management fee?' Feng Yuxuan asked.

'We discussed it and either we don't charge it, or we charge a nominal amount, but we don't use it either, it goes to the village as a whole, either to buy things for the school, or to install running water for everyone, to build pipes and things like that,' Feng Zhenchang said.

'So if the village wants to open another one, they still don't charge money?'

'No. The fact that our brand has become so well-known so quickly is actually related to the fact that at the beginning, there were many shops in the village. So, we can now collect franchise fees, and the villagers also deserve credit. However, this free offer is limited to our own village,'

'That's fine, but when you go down there this time, you must be serious about the inspection. We can't confiscate a single penny from them, but they don't do their work seriously instead,' Feng Yuxuan said.

'We know. By the way, how are the sales of the noodle counter and the pork bone soup noodles in the shop?'

'They're both quite good. The soup we make tastes really good and everyone likes it. But there aren't enough pigs for sale from our uncle's farm, so we still have to buy most of it from the market.'

'Just wait. By the second half of the year, there will be more pigs available for sale. The ones you buy from the market are all fattened up on feed, so how can they compare to our own pigs? We even consulted experts from the province about the type of sweet potato to feed the pigs,' Mei Qiuping said proudly.

'Yes, everything at home is good,' Feng Yuxuan said along with her mother, and then teased a little, 'Why does my younger brother say that the rice from the north is still delicious?'

'That's because he's only just eaten a few meals and finds it fresh. Whenever he comes home, he eats a few big bowls,'

Well, my parents always think that the food they grow themselves is the best.

'Yu Xuan, the other day Grandpa also mentioned you to me. What do you really think about personal matters? You are not young anymore, and in your hometown you are already an old maid, it is time to think about it,' Feng Zhenchang said.

'Oh, Dad, why are you still sticking to the same old routine? How many people get married in their twenties these days? Besides, I am in the city now, so in two years' time, there is no rush,'

'Two more years? Yiping already has a girlfriend he is very close to. In a year or two, when he graduates, I'm afraid they'll get married. You're the older sister, and you still haven't found a husband. Do you think that's urgent?' Mei Qiuping gave her daughter a little tap on the head.

'You're biased, everything your brother does is good. Look at him, if I had been in love at his age, you would have broken my legs,' although she doesn't see her brother much these days, she misses him sometimes, but the idea that her parents favour her brother is deeply ingrained and she has to bring it up from time to time.

'I've come to realise that my brother is really clever. He could have gone to university in the province, where everything is convenient, but he had to go to the capital. It's so far away, and no one will care what he does,' Feng Yuxuan added.

'Can a university in the province compare to Tsinghua?' Feng Zhenchang asked her.

Mei Qiuping's words were even more infuriating, "If you are capable, even if you study abroad, we will also give our full support.'

Although she was criticized again, Feng Yuxuan didn't care. She successfully changed the topic of her parents" pressure to get married.