Siheyuan: A Very Happy Era

Chapter 542 Honey worth hundreds of thousands

"Qiangzi, are you saying that we should bring Aunt Yinfeng and Sister Yuping to the mountains to help you?"

Not long after, when Xu Yuliang heard the request made by Li Guoqiang, he was immediately surprised, as if he couldn't understand why Li Guoqiang made such a request?
Isn’t Li Guoqiang worried about something going wrong?
Or does Li Guoqiang want to take this opportunity to turn Qu Yinfeng, Xu Yuping and others from farmers into people who eat public food?
Just when he was secretly guessing, Li Guoqiang nodded calmly.

"Yes, I hope to get Aunt Yinfeng and Sister Yuping to go with me to the mountains to set up a beekeeping technology research institute.

Besides them, I also asked the county for a transfer order to transfer some of the workers from Xiangmi Zhai back to help with product research."

After hearing this, Xu Yuliang became even more confused.

Then, he quickly thought of a key point and asked hurriedly, "If you transfer the people back, will Xiangmi Zhai still be able to handle it?"

"So, I need your help to select some new people to fill the vacancies!"

At this moment, Li Guoqiang looked at Xu Yuliang with a slightly meaningful look in his eyes.

When Xu Yuliang heard Li Guoqiang's words, he immediately understood the meaning of them, and his heart began to beat rapidly.

You know, this is a quota for working in the city!
Even though the villagers can now get dividends that are almost as much as an ordinary city worker's annual salary, there is no way to offset the villagers' yearning for the city people.

At this moment, even he, the production team leader, couldn't help but feel excited.

However, he soon thought of his wife and children, as well as the flattery he received from the villagers on a daily basis. He barely suppressed the idea and began to ask Li Guoqiang about the specific number of places.

"This has not been confirmed yet. I need to go back to the city and discuss it with them in a while before it can be fully confirmed."

"That's it!"

When Xu Yuliang heard Li Guoqiang's answer, the excitement in his heart suddenly cooled down, and then he nodded and said, "Okay, I know everything you said. I will go to the commune to handle the formalities for Aunt Yinfeng and Sister Yuping in the next few days.

In addition, regarding the replacement of Xiangmizhai’s job quota, we will discuss it next time you come back from the city.”

"to make!"

When Li Guoqiang saw that Xu Yuliang had agreed, he didn't say anything else. He just got up and went back to his home. He told Qu Yinfeng, Xu Yuping and others about this matter so that they could start preparing from now on.

Three or four days passed like this, and it was time to harvest the honey.

Li Guoqiang first took people to harvest the honey from the Jinshanbao Bee Farm, and a total of 5000 kilograms of honey were harvested.

Then, he took his men to drive sika deer carts, donkey carts and mule carts to deliver the honey to the county town for temporary storage.

Immediately afterwards, he joined the people arranged by Xu Guangfu and went to Sunjiashan, where he began to instruct the people in Sunjiashan how to harvest honey.

After a busy morning, they finally succeeded in harvesting 1500 kilograms of honey from the two apiaries in Sunjiashan.

This result made the people in Sunjiashan burst into laughter on the spot, and then they all calculated in their minds how much money each person could get and what they would do with the money after getting it.

But Li Guoqiang didn't care about all that at this time, and didn't even agree to stay for lunch. He immediately took his men to the next production team that contracted to raise bees.

Finally, after three days of non-stop hard work, he and his men finally finished harvesting the first batch of honey. A total of 14000 kilograms of honey were harvested. On average, each production team harvested about 1300 kilograms.

Immediately afterwards, he did not return to Jinshanbao. After Xu Guangfu recorded the quantity of honey in the account, he took his men on the freight train that had been contacted in advance and delivered all the honey to Sijiu City.

On this day, Luo Huijuan was preparing to take her children to work at Xiangmizhai with Shang Xiuzhen and others as usual, when she suddenly met Wu Cai'e at the door of Xiangmizhai.

"Hey, Aunt Wu, why are you here so early?"

When Wu Cai'e heard Luo Huijuan's question, an unhappy look immediately appeared on her face.

"Hey, you still have the nerve to ask me? If I hadn't run into your dad on the street yesterday and heard what he said, I wouldn't have known that you had given up your job! What on earth are you doing?"

"this."

Luo Huijuan's expression was slightly hesitant, and for a moment she didn't know whether she should tell the truth to Wu Cai'e.

"What's the matter? Why can't you tell me something?"

When Wu Cai'e saw it, she immediately frowned with some dissatisfaction.

Others may not know, but how could you, Luo Huijuan, not know what our relationship is?

"No, I didn't mean that!"

Seeing that Wu Cai'e was angry, Luo Huijuan waved her hands and explained, "It's just that I don't know how to tell you about this matter for the time being."

As she spoke, she glanced at Shang Xiuzhen and others who were not far away and showed curiosity. Then she stepped forward and grabbed Wu Cai'e's arm. She lowered her voice and said, "How about this! Wait for me to take care of the child first, and then I will tell you slowly."

"Row!"

When Wu Cai'e heard this, she was not in a hurry and nodded and agreed.

Afterwards, she followed Luo Huijuan quietly, waiting for Luo Huijuan to carry the child into the backyard room and place him properly.

Not long after, Luo Huijuan finished it and pulled Wu Cai'e to sit in the small studio where she had previously worked.

As soon as she sat down, Wu Cai'e couldn't wait to ask, "Xiaojuan, what's going on? Why did you suddenly transfer your job?"

"Aunt Wu, this is what happened."

At this time, Luo Huijuan no longer concealed it and directly told Li Guoqiang that he wanted to take them to live in Hong Kong.

"What? What you said is true?"

After hearing this, Wu Cai'e was so shocked that her eyes widened and her face was full of disbelief.

No matter how she thought about it, she never expected that Li Guoqiang would do such a thing to her.

However, she was not an ordinary housewife after all. She quickly controlled her emotions, and then stared at Luo Huijuan with both pairs of eyes, waiting for her answer.

"Really? Look, I don't even want to work anymore, can't I prove it?"

Luo Huijuan looked at Wu Cai'e's questioning eyes and felt a little helpless for a moment. In fact, if she hadn't experienced it herself, she probably wouldn't believe it was true.

"Did Qiangzi tell you how you were going to get to Xiangjiang?"

When Wu Cai'e saw that Luo Huijuan didn't seem to be lying, her brows suddenly frowned, and then she thought for a while, and suddenly she thought of the most crucial point.

You know, these days you need a letter of introduction everywhere, and Hong Kong has not yet returned to normal, so it is simply impossible to go there through normal channels.

"He didn't tell me this!"

Upon hearing this, Luo Huijuan quickly shook her head and answered.

"That's it!"

When Wu Cai'e heard this answer, she was silent for a moment, then hurriedly asked, "Did he say when he would be back?"

“This should be coming soon!”

Luo Huijuan looked at Wu Cai'e with a slightly hesitant look on her face.

"Okay! Then when he comes back, you must ask him to come find me!"

When Wu Cai'e heard this, her expression kept changing. Finally, she sighed lightly and began to give instructions.

After saying that, she politely declined Luo Huijuan's idea of ​​chatting with her for a while longer and got up and left Xiangmi Zhai.

After sending Wu Cai'e away, Luo Huijuan stood at the door and watched quietly for a long time. Then she went back to the backyard room to look after the children with a heavy heart.

In her opinion, Wu Cai'e had undoubtedly given her whole heart and soul to Li Guoqiang.

If Li Guoqiang really abandoned Wu Cai'e and took them to Hong Kong, what would Wu Cai'e do in the future?

Although Luo Huijuan wanted to help Li Guoqiang solve this problem, after thinking about it, she didn't know how to solve it best. She could only wait for Li Guoqiang to come back.

Soon, it was noon.

Just when everyone in Xiangmi Zhai was having lunch, more than 20 carts arrived outside the store.

Moreover, every cart on the road was loaded with baskets, emitting a faint, tempting sweet fragrance that made passers-by on the street stop and look.

Then, Li Guoqiang jumped down from the first cart and waved to the back. Then, strong men holding rifles jumped down from the carts behind one after another.

These people are all militiamen under the county’s armed forces department. They were specially arranged by Qian Weiguo to help escort this batch of honey worth hundreds of thousands of yuan.

Seeing them all armed with guns, pedestrians on the street tried to avoid them, fearing that they would accidentally mistake them for robbers and be shot.

Soon, the noise at the store door attracted the attention of Pan Qiaoyan who stayed in the store.

When she saw Li Guoqiang walking towards the store door, a look of surprise immediately appeared on her face.

"Brother Qiangzi, you're back!"

"Well, please let the customers in the store pay attention. There is a batch of goods to be moved in."

When Li Guoqiang saw Pan Qiaoyan coming out, he immediately gave an order, then turned around and waved his hand, signaling the shop owners to help unload all the honey from the truck and move it into the store.

Since the wages he paid were very generous and there were strong men with rifles watching them, all the bosses worked very hard.

After a while, they moved baskets of honey into Xiangmi Zhai, one after another, and then moved them to the open space in the backyard for temporary storage.

At the same time, Luo Huijuan, Shang Xiuzhen and others who were eating also noticed this situation, and hurriedly put down their bowls and chopsticks and came out to help.

They worked like this for more than ten minutes. After Li Guoqiang settled the wages with the bosses and sent them away, they came up to Li Guoqiang and asked about the specific situation of this batch of honey.

Not long after, when they learned that a large part of this batch of honey was produced by the ten pilot production teams that contracted to raise bees, they could not help but feel surprised.

After all, they knew that those ten production teams had only started contracting beekeeping for less than three months. They could produce so much honey in such a short period of time. What was the difference between that and picking up money while lying down?
At this time, Li Guoqiang did not care what Shang Xiuzhen and others thought. He directly asked Xu Yuchang, as the representative of Xiangmizhai, to sign his name on the receipt for receiving honey. Then he asked Yao Meilan and Luo Huijuan to prepare some food for the militiamen who helped escort the goods.

After they had all eaten their fill, he called for a few carts and took them back to the train station, where they could take the freight train that had been arranged in advance.

It must be said that Qian Weiguo also put in a lot of effort in order to contract the huge profits brought by bee breeding.

Otherwise, under normal circumstances, Li Guoqiang would not be able to contact the corresponding freight train to transport so much honey to Sijiu City.

This was also one of the main reasons why Li Guoqiang was willing to agree to help expand the beekeeping business.

Soon, when he returned to Xiangmi Zhai from the train station, Xu Yuchang, Sun Jinda and others had already moved all the honey into the ice cellar for storage, and according to his instructions, they hung a sign at the door of the store indicating that new honey was on the market in large quantities.

After all, it is impossible to use such a large amount of honey to make honey lemon tea. A part of it must be consumed through direct sales.

Fortunately, after more than a year of accumulation, Xiangmizhai has initially formed a relatively well-known brand. Coupled with the gimmick of the new honey coming on the market, old customers who heard the news soon came to the store and bought a lot of honey to give away at the price of 6 yuan per catty, which directly gave Xiangmizhai a good start.

Moreover, I was so busy that I kept busy until dark.

On several occasions, Luo Huijuan wanted to ask Li Guoqiang about moving to Hong Kong, but she never found the time, let alone discuss with Li Guoqiang how to arrange for Wu Cai'e, Qin Jingru and others.

It was not until Xiangmi Zhai closed its business for the day and she took a tricycle back to the courtyard that she found an opportunity to pull Li Guoqiang into the room and asked about these things while Yao Meilan, Shang Xiuzhen and others went to the kitchen to cook.

When Li Guoqiang saw that Luo Huijuan was a little anxious, he felt a little happy and hurriedly told her about the arrangements he had made in Jinshan Fort.

After hearing that he had found a place for everyone and guaranteed that they would not leave suddenly and cause any unnecessary trouble, Luo Huijuan felt relieved.

Afterwards, she pondered for a moment, and then said with some worry: "Aunt Wu came to Xiangmi Zhai to see me this morning. She asked me why I wanted to transfer my job. I thought she was not an outsider, so I told her about it.

Then, she asked me how I planned to take us to Hong Kong. I said I didn’t know. Finally, she asked me to wait for you to come back and go find her.

What do you think about this matter? "

(End of this chapter)