Chapter 10 Acquiring a Large Scale Farm
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Translator: JayM
Chapter: 10
Chapter Title: Acquiring a Large-Scale Farm
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After nearly a day of getting along, although he couldn't quite understand it, Su Yi quickly realized a very serious matter.
That was, Yue Ling didn’t seem to guard against him at all, especially on issues between men and women.
If she was so unguarded towards everyone, then Su Yi wouldn't have found it strange. He would have just assumed that creatures from another world were more open-minded.
But when it came to others, she wasn’t like that at all.
Yue Ling was very smart and could already understand some simple words of his native language.
But every time an outsider tried to strike up a conversation with her, even though she could clearly guess the meaning that the person was expressing and only needed to nod or shake her head to make clear her opinion, she would always first seek Su Yi's opinion before replying to the other party.
She had absolutely no intention of getting to know or communicating with outsiders.
If he had to describe it, it was as if she regarded herself as Su Yi's private property.
The latter wasn't quite sure why this situation had occurred, but he guessed that it probably had nothing to do with the trading platform, but was more like some kind of rule from her world.
Most likely, it was related to that guardian knight ceremony at the time, which had looked quite legitimate.
It wasn't appropriate for him to ask Yue Ling about this matter directly, so he planned to ask Vivi about it in passing during their next transaction.
In any case, it wasn't a bad thing.
A charming and beautiful elf was completely obedient to his words and had no trace of guardedness in front of him.
He wished for more of this kind of good thing!
Aside from him being a bit drained due to healing magic being constantly cast on him, there were no downsides at all, alright.
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Setting aside some of the interactions with Yue Ling for the time being, Su Yi hadn’t forgotten about his proper business.
After getting up and washing up, he had a simple lunch and then drove with Yue Ling straight to a farm in the suburbs of Jiangcheng.
Vivi's side wasn't in a rush for the one thousand tons of flour right now, and Su Yi also planned to leave those two idiots, Liu Sheng and Li Wenyuan, hanging for a few days, so he wasn't in a hurry for the time being.
But it was best for him to quickly get the fruits, vegetables, and meat he had promised Vivi before and send them over.
This batch of fruits, vegetables, and meat as well as the five hundred tons of rice provided earlier were all part of the trade request Vivi had made when they first met.
The rice had already been traded, and the trading points for it had been settled, but the fruits, vegetables, and meat had not yet been delivered, so that transaction wasn’t complete yet.
The two hadn’t agreed on a specific time back then. Su Yi had just said that the fruits, vegetables, and meat would probably take some time to prepare.
The trading platform's points were calculated based on the items exchanged in real-time, and there was no hard and fast rule that a transaction had to be completed within a certain timeframe.
Logically speaking, even if Su Yi dragged it out for eight to ten years, or even acted like a deadbeat and just didn't procure them…
Vivi's side wouldn't be able to do anything to him.
But he was clearly not that kind of person. When he promised someone something, he would generally keep it in mind.
If it wasn't handled in a timely manner, it would just occupy a space in his mind and he would always feel uncomfortable wherever he went.
Them going out at this time was precisely to solve this problem.
Meat was easy to handle. Su Yi had a childhood friend whose family ran a restaurant, and in recent years, that friend had gradually taken over the family business.
It was a small matter for him to get a few tons of frozen meat through his friend’s channels.
But for things like fruits and vegetables that were difficult to preserve for a long time, it wasn't easy for his friend's side to get several tons of them at once. After all, their restaurant was only so big. It wasn't some large hotel.
However, Su Yi did get the contact information of the owner of a large-scale farm in the suburbs of Jiangcheng from his childhood friend.
With someone to make an introduction for Su Yi, it was naturally more convenient for him to get things done.
He had already contacted the farm owner last night and had arranged to meet with them this afternoon.
"Yuanfeng Ecological Farm, this is it."
After driving for nearly half an hour, Su Yi arrived at the farm located in the southeastern suburbs of Jiangcheng, not far from the great river.
He had looked up information on Yuanfeng Farm before coming.
It covered an area of about 5,000 mu*. Not only did it grow various fruits and vegetables, but it also raised livestock and poultry such as pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, and geese. There was also a lake inside the farm, which raised various fish with high economic value.
It was a super-large-scale comprehensive ecological farm.
It was said that its initial investment exceeded one hundred million.
If his childhood friend's family wasn't planning to cooperate with others to create a restaurant brand and open branches all over the country recently, requiring a stable source of supply, they wouldn't have been able to get in touch with the owner of such a large-scale farm.
And Su Yi's visit today was naturally not just for those few tons of fruits and vegetables.
For such a small amount, a boss with a net worth of over one hundred million wouldn’t make a special trip just to meet him.
He was here to talk about the acquisition of the farm.
Yuanfeng Farm was poorly managed, and coupled with the overall poor economy in the past two years, it had long reached the brink of bankruptcy.
The owner had other industries, and now that times were also tough, he urgently needed funds to fill holes elsewhere, so he had the idea of transferring the farm.
As for why Su Yi wanted to acquire a farm, it was naturally for his trade with Vivi.
After some research, he found that for the grain, fruits, vegetables, and meat that Vivi needed, as long as he had a farm, he could purchase them all on a large scale in a reasonable and compliant manner through it.
Needless to say for fruits, vegetables, and meat. These things were originally the main products grown and raised on a farm.
As for grain, with a farm in hand, it was just too simple to want to reasonably purchase grain in bulk.
Can't I buy it to feed the livestock?
Why does the livestock eat grain instead of feed?
Do you understand what ecological farming is?!
The high cost is my own business. I'm happy to lose money, is that any of your business?
Isn't grain-fed beef also fed with grain?
Then there's no problem at all, alright!
As for why the farm puts in so much grain but doesn't produce various grain-fed chickens, ducks, cattle, and sheep…
Don't ask. If someone asks, then they died of a plague.
It could be said to be a closed loop of logic, completely flawless.
In contrast, although the food processing factory he was more familiar with could also purchase grain in large quantities, it wasn’t easy for it to handle the fruits, vegetables, and meat part. Moreover, it would be easy for people to discover a problem if the grain only went in and never went out.
And if he started a hotel or a restaurant, fruits, vegetables, and meat would be easy to get, but purchasing hundreds of tons of grain at a time would be difficult.
It just goes to show that one has to solve the problem at the source.
This ecological farm was the source!
Because he had contacted them in advance, as soon as Su Yi's car arrived at the entrance of the farm's office building, a young man in a suit greeted him enthusiastically.
"You must be Mr. Su, right? Please come in quickly, our President Sun’s already waiting for you in the office.
My surname is Zhou, and I’m the manager of the farm. You can just call me Little Zhou."
From his enthusiastic attitude, it wasn’t difficult to see that the owner of Yuanfeng Farm was really eager to sell the farm off quickly.
And this Little Zhou naturally acted very attentively when receiving someone who was very likely to be his future boss.
The farm's office building wasn’t very beautiful, and the layout inside was also very ordinary, but it was all cleaned spotlessly, giving people a very refreshing feeling.
From the cleaning marks on the floor, it was obvious that it had been specially tidied up recently.
A big boss would obviously not deliberately arrange this kind of thing, so these were clearly arranged by this "Little Zhou" in front of him.
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* A traditional Chinese unit of land area. 1 mu is approximately 666.7 square meters, or about 1/6th of an acre. 5,000 mu is roughly 823 acres or 3.33 square kilometers.
T/N - Okay, that’s actually smart of the MC. If he’s gonna trade long term with Vivi, then a farm is definitely a solid investment as well as a very good cover for his bulk purchases. It’s just that… I wonder if the author will address the fact that the MC suddenly gaining enough wealth to buy a farm worth about 100 million yuan will most likely ring alarm bells with the authorities in real life…