Chapter 488 Boss Cao’s orchard is very famous among children (30
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"Boss Cao, good morning." A tourist greeted Cao Shujie from a distance.
Cao Shujie took advantage of Zhu Lingyun's appearance in Dongshan Provincial Television's "News World" column and appeared on camera, so that many people came to say hello to him after seeing his familiar face.
When these tourists see Cao Shujie, they feel like meeting a 'star'. They all want to take a photo with him and brag to their friends when they go back.
When Cao Shujie encounters such a situation, he will cooperate enthusiastically and take photos with these tourists.
In Cao Shujie's view, after all, people come to his orchard to consume, and it's all God.
After entering the orchard, Cao Shujie also saw a family of three pushing a flatbed cart with four 5-pound standard boxes filled with kiwi fruits. However, they were still picking kiwi fruits and packing them into boxes, as if these fruits were free of charge.
There are many such scenes in orchards.
"Boss Cao, you can eat this kiwi fruit even if it's hard, it's quite crispy and quite sweet," someone said.
He just picked a good one, and on a whim, he cut it open with a knife and tasted it. It was red soil, and it felt like eating a hard apple.
When Cao Shujie heard what he said, he smiled: "Brother, you can take it back and ripen it to make it more delicious."
"Okay!" The young man opposite agreed, peeled off the outer skin with a knife, stuffed the pulp into his mouth, and chewed it all with a few "click, click" bites.
The 37 acres of orchards planted with red-heart kiwifruit and yellow-heart kiwifruit have already been occupied by people.
At a glance, there were people everywhere, and it was even more lively than when he was picking strawberries in the orchard.
Some kiwi fruit farmers will enclose the kiwi fruit trees in their orchards in units of several trees with barbed wire. When someone comes to pick, they will release them one by one. This is to prevent tourists from just looking for the fruit trees.
The large fruits are picked, leaving some small fruits that cannot be sold.
But Cao Shujie has no such worries. The 37 acres of kiwi fruit orchard is not enclosed at all. In Cao Shujie's opinion, these people can pick whatever they want. The fruits in his orchard are all about the same size.
Cao Shuju and a group of people are here to help.
Seeing Cao Shujie coming over, the smile on Cao Shuju's face never broke.
She heard from Cao Shulin that the factory workshop in the town was already being upgraded and it would definitely be completed in November. By then, the equipment would be delivered and installation and debugging would begin.
This also means that the factory is not far away from starting production.
And this time is different from how they sold apples at the end of last year. Once the factory is up and running, it will not stop unless there is force majeure. But once the apples are sold out and there are no other fruits to sell, there will be no replacement.
Just like last year, they sold more than 5,000 tons of apples in two months, but what can they do?
After selling it, there is no life left.
If Cao Shujie hadn't asked them to come to the orchard to help, they wouldn't even have income.
In contrast, Cao Shuju is more thinking about starting the factory.
Cao Shulin also told her that at the factory in the town, not only was the workshop upgraded, but a cold storage covering an area of more than 5,000 square meters was also built simultaneously.
For this cold storage, Cao Shujie went to the town to purchase 15 acres of industrial land, which cost him 2.7428 million yuan. After the ground was hardened and a wall was built around it, the cold storage could be built.
The overall cost does not exceed 3.5 million yuan.
After three bids were submitted for the cold storage, one company was finally shortlisted with a quotation of 926 yuan per square meter, and the entire project was 4.63 million yuan.
Liu Furong really guessed it right this time. When making the budget, he had to make a bigger budget. No one could guarantee that something might happen in the meantime.
Just like Cao Shujie did not expect that he would buy another 15 acres of industrial land in order to build a cold storage.
Fortunately, apart from the 15 million yuan used in the last loan to pay for the remaining equipment costs, there is still 7 million yuan left.
He took out another 1 million himself, which was just enough to pay for the cold storage and land purchase.
But as a result, the money in his hands was a little tight.
Starting in July, he has to repay more than 650,000 short-term loans every month.
After nearly 29 million of his previous self-owned funds entered the stock market, he only had more than 3 million in cash on hand. After withdrawing another 1 million to pay for the purchase of land and building cold storage, Cao Shujie really had money left on his hands.
There is only 2 million, which is only enough to pay for more than 3 months of loan installments.
If this batch of kiwis hadn't been sold and the blood could be recovered, Cao Shujie would have been in a state of depletion of liquidity.
Back in the small room at the entrance of the orchard, Cao Shujie calmed himself down and thought about the various income and expenditures this year.
Ever since he earned more than 20 million yuan from selling apples, he felt very unsteady and spent a lot of money on various investments.
At that time, I thought he had so much money that he could never spend it all, but who knew that it was only July, just halfway through this year, and he would be facing a 'funding crisis'.
"You have to save some money next." Cao Shujie warned himself, but he couldn't let his mind wander any longer.
The equipment is not yet in place, and production needs to be debugged later, as well as large quantities of kiwis, apples and other fruit raw materials need to be purchased. These costs are quite high.
Cao Shujie doesn’t even know where to get money now?
"Go to the bank for a loan again?" A thought came to Cao Shujie's mind.
But he remembered the last time he was approved for a 15 million loan. It took more than a month to review his good qualifications. In addition, the bank's current funding situation was tight. He felt that it would be difficult for him to lend money again now.
"That's bullshit. This is a great time. I got myself into a trap." Cao Shujie was speechless.
Fortunately, he can now make money by selling this batch of kiwi fruits.
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In Anyi City, on Saturdays, brothers Cao Shubin and Cao Shuxin drove Cao Shuxin’s GL8 towards Caojiazhuang with their family.
Cao Shuxin is sitting in the passenger seat, and his father, Cao Jianlin, is sitting in the middle row of seats.
Zhang Yi and Ren Jingjing, the two sisters-in-law, originally planned to go on a long trip, but in the end they failed in the face of reality.
All kinds of messy things gave them a headache and they couldn't get out at all.
"Mom, are we going to my third uncle's house to pick fruits?" Cao Yichuan asked his mother as soon as he got in the car.
Zhang Yi nodded: "Yes, when we get to your third uncle's house later, you can go to the orchard and pick whatever you want."
After hearing this, Cao Yixin asked her: "Auntie, can you pick a lot of fruits then?"
"As long as you can eat it."
Cao Yixin stroked his slightly bulging belly. He was already thinking about the scene of him standing in the orchard eating fruit.
"Mom, please help me take some more photos when the time comes."
"Okay, Yixin, why do you want a photo?" Zhang Yi was a little confused.
Then she heard her nephew say: "I want to take the photo to school and show it to my classmates. I told them that the 'Mengmeng Orchard' belongs to my third uncle, but they still don't believe it and say I lied to them."
"Wait until I throw the photo in their face and see if they believe it this time!" Cao Yixin said loudly.
Zhang Yi looked at her nephew and found it hard to believe that this little guy thought so.
This little guy is 5 years old this year and has more ideas.
"Yixin, is your third uncle's orchard famous in your school?" Zhang Yi asked.
Then I saw Cao Yixin nodding fiercely: "Auntie, you don't know, my third uncle's orchard is famous. Many students in our school know it."
"It was in the news some time ago and was discussed in our class QQ group." Cao Yixin's chubby face was full of pride.
Not only him, Cao Yichuan also said: "Mom, we are also discussing in our class group. There are many people who want to come over to play, but their parents don't have time to bring them over."
Zhang Yi subconsciously looked at his sister-in-law Ren Jingjing. He didn't expect that his cousin's orchard was quite famous among children.
At this moment, Cao Yixin suddenly remembered something and asked his mother Ren Jingjing: "Mom, where is my household registration?"
"Why do you ask this?" Ren Jingjing felt puzzled.
Why does her son still care about where his household registration is?
Cao Shuxin, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was also puzzled. He turned around and asked his son: "Yixin, your household registration is in Anyi City with your mother. Are you okay?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard his son say: "Dad, is your household registration still in Sanshu Village?"
"Yes, my household registration is still in Caojiazhuang."
Hearing what his father said, Cao Yixin breathed a sigh of relief: "Dad, can you also move my household registration back?"
"Why did you move back?" Cao Shuxin said to him: "If you move back, it will be troublesome to go to school in Anyi."
"Then I'll go back to school." Cao Yixin didn't seem to know how difficult it was to change schools.
He said: "I read the news. My third uncle was admitted to university and the village gave him a bonus of 2,000 yuan. I want to make money."
"..." Cao Shuxin didn't know what to say.
His son was still worried about the money.
"You also discuss this?" He couldn't figure out what his son and his friends usually discussed.
When he saw his son nodding, Cao Shuxin was a little speechless, as these little guys got into Qian's eyes at such a young age.
"Dad, compared with Uncle San, our community is really not good. The property management only knows how to collect money, but doesn't know how to reward. It's so ruthless." As Cao Yixin spoke, he turned to complain about the property management's inaction.
Cao Shuxin found that he could not keep up with his son's thinking.
But having said that, he had actually heard of a high-end residential property that gave money to the owner's children who passed the college entrance examination and passed the bachelor's degree.
Because of this, the owners of that community are not picky about the property at all and are very active in paying property fees.
This approach is actually similar to that of his uncles and brothers, but the purpose of achieving it is different.
Unknowingly, this GL8 coming from Anyi City got off the highway. After running along the provincial road for more than 30 minutes, it then ran on a rural road, and Caojiazhuang was already in sight.
Cao Shubin, who was driving, shouted: "We are here."
Hearing what he said, brothers Cao Yixin and Cao Yichuan both looked out of the car window.
This is an incredible sight, there are people and cars everywhere outside.
