Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

Chapter 771 I'm Not Leaving (First Update)
After hesitating for a long time, Old Man Zhou Gui answered with a look of uncertainty, "Probably not..."

"The man selling the lambs didn't seem like a conman..."

"They look quite wealthy, and with the town leaders vouching for them, they shouldn't go back on their word..."

"correct……"

"Guangcai, have you been to Beijing? Have you heard of the Dongjun Hotel?"

"The man selling the lambs said he worked at the Dongjun Restaurant, and that the Dongjun Restaurant was a very prestigious restaurant in Beijing, with many branches, and that it used an average of twenty to thirty lambs every day..."

"During holidays and rest periods, we need at least thirty sheep a day..."

"Even if every household in our village raises ten sheep, they can buy them all and use them all..."

"Eating twenty or thirty sheep a day, that must be a huge restaurant..."

"If they hadn't said it themselves, I wouldn't have dared to even think about it."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Guangcai, who had just been full of doubt, instantly calmed down.

In his search for a job, he traveled to many places in Beijing.

Although I have never eaten at Dongjun Hotel, I have heard of it and even seen it.

To be honest, this was the first time he had ever seen such a big restaurant in his life. There were dozens of large tables in the lobby alone. Every time it was mealtime, customers would come in and come out in a continuous stream, just like in a queue.

Zhou Guangcai's first reaction was that the people in Beijing were too rich, that so many people were willing to spend money to eat at restaurants.

Then they started to wonder if Dongjun Hotel, with so many guests every day, must make an uncountable amount of money...

When Zhou Guangcai heard his father say that the person selling lambs was related to Dongjun Restaurant and that he was a special supplier of lambs to Dongjun Restaurant, he immediately believed it to be 70-80%.

Because Dongjun Hotel is just too rich.

The money earned from serving just a few tables of guests is enough to buy a goat from them.

She immediately turned her gaze to her father and asked very seriously, "Dad..."

"The man selling the lambs really did say they were buying goats for the Dongjun Restaurant..."

"Is this for real? Not only do the people selling the lambs say so, but the town leaders say it too..."

"That person also said that Dongjun Restaurant plans to set up a mutton processing plant in the town to purchase and process mutton, and then send the processed mutton directly to Dongjun Restaurant and Sijiu City for sale."

"Once the processing plant is established, they will need to hire dozens of workers from here, with a monthly salary of thirty yuan..."

"Anyone with slaughtering experience can apply to the processing plant..."

“Our family has never slaughtered sheep, so they definitely won’t take us. Otherwise, it would be more worthwhile to work in a processing plant than to work in Beijing.”

"Not only can I go home every day to eat, sleep, and take care of my family, but I can also earn money and get a salary."

At this point, Dad remembered something else and continued, "Oh, right..."

"The man who sold the lambs also mentioned something else."

"Weren't you just worried that the sheep wouldn't have anything to eat after winter came?"

"People have a way of storing the fodder that goats eat and feeding it to them in winter. I think it's called silage."

“As long as we are willing to sign a breeding agreement with them, the processing plant will arrange technicians to teach us how to make silage before winter.”

"They also said..."

"Once winter sets in, we feed the goats silage, so we don't need to feed them corn anymore..."

"Even if we continue feeding them corn, just a handful or two a day is enough for each sheep, which greatly reduces our breeding costs..." "They also provide us with grass seeds..."

"They were worried that there wouldn't be enough grass in the mountains for the sheep to eat, so they asked us to take grass seeds and plant grass in the mountains..."

"They say that the grass seeds grow into pasture grass, which is specially used to feed cattle and is also particularly suitable for silage."

Hearing this, Zhou Guangcai's last remaining doubts disappeared.

In his view, Dongjun Hotel was wealthy and powerful, and could probably earn more in a day than they could in a lifetime. They certainly wouldn't deceive them on such a small matter.

If Dongjun Hotel really intends to buy the goats they've raised at a high price, and provide them with pasture seeds and teach them how to make silage to reduce the cost of raising goats, then keeping them at home to raise goats is indeed a good way out.

If the goats raised at home don't lack food after winter, Zhang Biao can continue.

It should be no problem to raise it to 60 pounds before the New Year.

Based on the purchase price offered by Dongjun Hotel, it can be sold for at least thirty yuan.

After deducting all costs, making twenty yuan is a certainty.

Earning 20 yuan per sheep means you can earn 200 yuan a year if you raise 10 sheep. It's definitely more profitable than working in Beijing.

Although you can earn one yuan a day doing manual labor in Beijing, after deducting food expenses and rent, you're lucky if you can save six mao a day. Even if you have work every day for a month, you can only earn eighteen yuan.

If you can't find work sometimes, earning 15 yuan a month is considered good, which is not as much as the income from raising sheep at home.

more importantly.

Staying at home not only allows me to raise sheep, but also helps my parents and wife with farming. Occasionally, I can go into the mountains to collect medicinal herbs to sell in town, and take care of my parents, wife, and son…

The more Zhou Guangcai thought about it, the more tempted he became, and then he turned his attention to his wife.

Since getting married and having children, Zhou Gui, the father, has stopped managing the household finances and handed over all the money to Zhou Guangcai.

Zhou Guangcai handed it to his wife and asked earnestly, "Wife..."

How much money do we have left in total?

"Thirty-two yuan and fifty cents..." The wife knew the family's finances perfectly well and answered without thinking.

Zhou Guangcai frowned immediately. A lamb costs about five yuan, so ten lambs would cost fifty yuan.

I originally planned to raise ten sheep at once, but now it seems impossible.

Even if we emptied our savings, we still couldn't buy ten lambs.

Seeing the resentment on her son's face, and recalling that her son had asked his wife how much money was left in the house, she immediately realized that her son wanted to stay at home and raise sheep.

He quickly asked, "Guangcai..."

"Do you want to stay at home and raise sheep...?"

Zhou Guangcai nodded and replied, "I've heard of Dongjun Restaurant in Beijing. If the person who bought the lamb was buying goats for Dongjun Restaurant, then this matter is probably true."

“I wanted to raise a lot of sheep at once and then stop working in Beijing, but my family didn’t have enough money, so I could only buy six lambs.”

"If we keep some money for emergencies, we might only be able to buy four lambs."

Old man Zhou Gui hadn't expected his son to have such a big appetite, wanting to raise ten sheep right off the bat, but he supported his son's plan and immediately replied, "Don't worry about the money for the lambs..."

“As long as we agree to sign the purchase agreement, they can provide the lambs without charging us money, and we can just deduct the outstanding payment when they sell the sheep.”

(End of this chapter)