Rebirth after the college entrance examination

Chapter 102 Ten Miles of Peach Blossom
The old lady cooked a pot of corn grits porridge, with pickles and duck eggs on the side. Lin Jiajia also steamed a bowl of egg custard for Xia An.

After breakfast, Xia An took Zhang Tiancheng to the top of the mountain and introduced him to the surrounding environment and the situation in Taoyuan.

Then, I called Lao Zhou.

"Hey, Uncle Zhou, I'm Xia An, there's something going on..."

Xia An said that he had a friend whose brother was a wealthy man who also ran a fresh food chain and wanted to contract Taoyuan.

There were clear sounds of sheep bleating on the other end of the phone, one after another. Xia An guessed that Lao Zhou was probably doing some outdoor activities with the shepherdess.

Lao Zhou's business focus is now gradually shifting westward. He has stopped caring about several businesses in the northeast, including Taoyuan and the factory in the eastern suburbs, and is like a king who will no longer attend court early in the morning.

Ever since he went to Binhai to study, the idea of taking over Taoyuan and leaving it to Lin Jiajia to manage has become stronger and stronger. For Xia An himself, this phone call was not out of the blue.

Old Zhou first asked about Xia An's parents' health, then about his studies, and even asked if he needed some pocket money. He didn't respond, so Xia An added, "Aunt Jia Jia and my friend's brother also know each other. They want to start this business together."

Lao Zhou's voice hesitated for a long time.

Xia An heard a sigh.

Lao Zhou said, "Okay, ask your friend's brother to call me later."

"No need to look back, he is here now."

Xia An handed the phone to Zhang Tiancheng and nodded at him.

Zhang Tiancheng chatted with Lao Zhou for twenty minutes as if he was reciting lines. After learning about Zhang Tiancheng's actual situation in detail, he hung up the phone.

The thousand-acre peach orchard is not a small project, and Lao Zhou needs to have a fuller understanding of Zhang Tiancheng's strength.

Zhang Tiancheng told Xia An that he would return to the city in the afternoon to prepare background check materials. Nothing else mattered, the most important thing was to verify the capital.

Xia An nodded, patted him on the shoulder and said that he had just transferred three million into the trading company's account.

The annual contract for the orchard is about 200,000 yuan, which is not much, but the operation and maintenance costs are also about the same amount of money. The cooperation period signed by Lao Zhou and the township is 35 years. In order to avoid trouble, Xia An asked Zhang Tiancheng to talk to Lao Zhou about the general contracting.

That is to say, the main body of cooperation with the township will be completely changed from Lao Zhou to candy trading. This needs to be discussed at the county committee. If you want to take over as soon as possible, Lao Zhou will have to issue a considerable amount of documents to explain it.

They also have to pay a deposit of 50 yuan to the county government.

In addition, this agricultural project with the halo of poverty alleviation enjoys national subsidies. Xia An does not want to take advantage of Lao Zhou and proposes to give the other party certain compensation.

In the afternoon, not long after Zhang Tiancheng drove Lin Jiajia's Corolla away, the decoration team arrived at the yard.

They were the group of people who decorated the two-story house for Xia An.

After a pleasant cooperation experience, you can use your experience to do the decoration.

The designer was still that gentle young man, and Xia An took him around the front and back yards, inside and outside the house.

Lin Jiajia supported her grandmother and followed behind, chirping crickets quietly.

The old lady complained to Lin Jiajia: "You just let him take care of it alone. Don't you regard this as your own family matter? Is he my grandson or are you my granddaughter?"

Lin Jiajia smiled at Xia An's gesticulating figure and lied to her grandmother, "I've already told him how to renovate it. Let him practice."

The old lady pointed at Xia An and said, "This child will have great potential in the future."

The workers who were measuring the dimensions were busy until dark, during which time the designer gave Xia An a preliminary sketch.

Xia An called Lin Jiajia to watch together.

Very satisfied.

The designer said that other aspects are not difficult, but digging wells and building an overall water circulation system may be more expensive.

Then connect the backyard to the peach orchard and do some landscaping. It may require Lin Jiajia to reduce her holdings by half.

Xia An ignored Lin Jiajia's opinion and asked the designer, "We need to pave a cement road to the village at the foot of the mountain, which is about a mile long. Please include it in the budget."

The designer frowned and pushed his glasses. It wasn't that he couldn't do it, but that he didn't want to do it. Road construction was too unskilled work.

Lin Jiajia was quite surprised, but Xia An smiled and said to her, "Grandma is old, and it's too lonely living alone in the mountains. She always has to go down every now and then to take a walk and chat. Having a road will make it more convenient, and you'll feel at ease, right?"

After her parents passed away, Lin Jiajia's life focus almost entirely on her grandmother.

After hearing what Xia An said, she had no objection.

To pave one mile of land with cement would cost at least one hundred thousand yuan.

Lin Jiajia said, "Okay, I'll sell some of my stocks after the holidays."

Xia An hissed, "The trading company belongs to both of us."

Seeing Lin Jiajia was about to speak, he added: "Grandma is also ours."

Lin Jiajia blushed suddenly.

……

At 9:30 in the evening, the construction team met Zhang Tiancheng when they left.

Zhang Tiancheng rushed back with a laptop, a wireless network card and two large bags of imported dog food.

Lin Jiajia thought that he was going to stay here to help supervise the renovation of the yard, so she thanked Zhang Tiancheng sincerely.

No matter how stupid Zhang Tiancheng was, he could see that this Miss Lin could not possibly be Xia An's sister. Considering what he had heard about lemon and grapefruit from Liu Youwei, this peach was probably also unclear to Boss Xia.

The life of rich people, Zhang Tiancheng didn’t want to explore the question of whether he understood it or not, he was really envious.

According to his in-depth analysis, judging from Boss Xia's current investment, this Sister Lin is most likely the real boss lady.

The proprietress personally served him tea, water and a fruit plate. He was so terrified that he only dared to sit with half of his butt resting on the edge of the kang.

On the side, Boss Xia was watching Country Love with the old lady. Zhang Tiancheng felt that he needed to be more discerning and find some work to do.

Without saying a few words to Lin Jiajia, he ran to the yard to pour dog food for An An.

So, Zhang Tiancheng, who had just been here for a few hours, found his place in this small courtyard and became the dog's closest friend.

After a while, he took over the task of chatting with the old lady.

Zhang Tiancheng is also from the countryside. He said that he has been away from home for many years and misses this kind of life very much.

Praise Xia An and Lin Jiajia from time to time.

While chatting, he found a broom from somewhere and swept up the fruit peels on the ground.

Lin Jiajia reluctantly pulled Xia An aside and said, "Can you please let him be more natural? Grandma noticed it and asked me if there are still such simple bosses out there?"

Xia An laughed and waved his hands, saying, "An honest person should do honest things. I think that's good."

Lin Jiajia pouted helplessly, but it was undeniable that grandma had smiled more often in the past two days.

She laughed and shook her head, sighing, "It's unlucky for these two to follow you."

Xia An immediately denied it: "Just wait and see. In a few years they will realize that knowing me is the luckiest thing that has ever happened to them."

He looked deeply at Lin Jiajia while speaking. Lin Jiajia understood what he said, so she rolled her eyes in annoyance and went to pour tea.

Xia An leaned against the wall with his arms folded, thinking about the character and integrity of Zhang Tiancheng and Liu Youwei, which he had known in his previous life.

To be honest, Xia An was very proud of having these two people under his command during this period of time.

It's a feat.

On the contrary, good steel should be used on the blade, and I can be considered as the mentor of the Zhang and Liu brothers.

There are many good horses but few good horse trainers. I think I am better.

……

There is no reason to let Zhang Tiancheng sleep in Lin Jiajia's bed.

Lin Jiajia took her grandmother back to the cottage, and Xia An and Zhang Tiancheng slept on the kang.

Xia An lay down, and Zhang Tiancheng was still nervously fiddling with the computer on the kang table.

"How's things going at the Tang family?"

Xia An asked while lying down with his legs crossed.

Zhang Tiancheng stopped typing and didn't ask Xia An whether he was referring to throwing dirty water or the supermarket chain. The artificial intelligence still gave all the answers.

"Ever since we stopped our online activities, they haven't investigated any further. I heard they were distracted by the body they dug out of the community. At the Candy Supermarket, Mr. Zhang Chunmin said the Tang family offered 300 million for a 40% stake."

Xia An nodded and played with the plain hairband she had taken off Lin Jiajia's hair.

"Do you know the controlling price?" he asked.

Zhang Tiancheng said: "500 million package."

Xia An asked, "What do you think of this price?"

Zhang Tiancheng had obviously thought about this before, and he said without much hesitation: "It's much more than our initial investment, and now we don't employ too many people to run the supermarket, so in theory it's cost-effective.

However, it also depends on your positioning for this project. If you plan to operate it long-term and on a large scale, then there is no need to sell it.”

What follows is not his business, so Zhang Tiancheng stopped talking at the right time.

Xia An looked up at him with a smile and said, "Operate for another month and a half, and when the data is passed, let Zhang Chunmin manage Tang Lao Er and ask for 1300 million... Of course, this is my bottom line. If you offer more than this, you can ask for anything and we'll sell it."

In one and a half months, the value has nearly doubled...

This is a real industry, not some pretentious internet project. It's too difficult.

Moreover, Xia An clearly stated that he wanted to sell it, and Zhang Tiancheng knew that his and Liu Youwei's previous guesses were correct.

He tentatively asked, "Do you want to include retaining our own operations team as a condition of the negotiation?"

Xia An squinted at him and smiled, "You are very smart."

Zhang Tiancheng scratched his head and smiled awkwardly.

Xia An said, "I know you're wondering if the price is too high, but let me tell you, it's not.

The saying "know yourself and know your enemy, and you will win every battle" makes sense. I am well aware that the current predicament of Tang Group is that its core assets are dirty and messy, which has led to the suspension of its listing process.

Going public is an opportunity for the Tang family, which is covered in shit, to turn itself into a dragon.

That is why they are willing to make large offers and acquire companies in the supermarket industry chain in the province.

But they are stupid and still use the old aggressive fighting style, not knowing that this is no longer the era of prosperity and decline, where whoever strikes harder has the final say.

What they did was to put their purpose out in the open, thinking that no one would dare to snatch it away from them.

Hey. "

That night, Xia An and Zhang Tiancheng talked for a long time.

As the conversation got heated, Xia An sat behind him and watched him demonstrate programming and modify the functions of "Mickey Mouse 2.0".

In yesterday’s small group briefing, Liu Youwei, who had reached an agreement with the Education Bureau and the Investment Promotion Bureau in Chang’an, sent back a good news.

The local government agreed to use the Megaphone project as an example of college student entrepreneurship throughout next year and promote it in universities across the province.

It is called promotion, but in fact it means there is no threshold, allowing the megaphone to enter the school smoothly to promote the activities.

Xia An was very satisfied. The barriers of universities were very thick, and they were naturally isolated from off-campus businesses. With Binhai and Chang'an as demonstrations, it would be much more convenient to go to other provinces and cities for ground promotion.

Yes, in 2006, it was still an era when Internet companies needed to combine offline promotion to open up the market.

In other words, only by using this high-cost and more laborious method can we win back the college student users from 5Q.

Who says we are not the first website dedicated to serving college students? Xia An thought, let's wait for Weibo to come out. Then we can split it into two sections, on-campus and off-campus, and save the trouble of ground promotion.

Before going to bed, Xia An said to Zhang Tiancheng, "After National Day, let's hire more people for the technology company."

As a core member of the project, Zhang Tiancheng knew that the megaphone had reached a stage of wild growth.

Hearing this, he secretly got ready to fight.

He asked Xia An, "Is there a cost cap?"

Xia An smiled faintly.

After the holiday, I saw the golden-haired Venus from the United States. Once the domain name was sold...

"No."

However, the payment for the domain name requires a relatively complicated process, and it is estimated that the node will have to wait until after New Year's Day.

After thinking for a while, he said, "I know you're considering the investment issue. It's okay. I'll handle it myself first. If I can't handle it anymore, I'll find a venture capitalist."

Zhang Tiancheng stated, "Old Liu and I have discussed this. There's no rush to get our salaries... We think your funds are spread too thinly."

"I appreciate it."

Xia An smiled and said, "Is your combined salary enough to fill up the gas tank in that car outside?"

Zhang Tiancheng laughed foolishly.

Xia An said, "The salary is for you to eat. As for making money, wait for the dividends."

……

There is no need to wait for design drawings for the construction of drinking water circulation and biogas tanks.

The next day, the construction team brought people to dig wells and pits, and built a simple wooden house a little further away in the backyard.

Zhang Tiancheng, who got up earlier than the old lady, suggested to Xia An that there were safety risks with so many men in the mountains.

Especially since Lin Jiajia still lives here.

Xia An thought about it and felt that it made sense.

Although Lin Jiajia will have to go back to the city to work in a few days, Zhang Tiancheng cannot live in the countryside every day, so he has to find a reliable supervisor to keep an eye on it.

He found Lin Jiajia and told her about this. After thinking about it, Lin Jiajia said that he could ask a few uncles from Hewan Village to come and watch over it.

The young and strong labor force in the village have all gone to work in the city, and only a few couples who work as helpers in Taoyuan are left behind.

At noon, the old lady came out and called two middle-aged couples.

Lin Jiajia said that she would give them an extra 500 yuan to help watch over the construction during this month. The men didn't have to do any work, just supervise the construction. The women could help cook two meals for the workers, and the grocery money would be charged separately.

The two couples insisted no.

An old man said, "I heard you're going to build a road up the mountain, but we can't help you. I'm worried about taking this money."

Repairing bridges and roads was a major undertaking, and in ancient times the entire village had to raise funds.

Lin Jiajia planned to build a one-mile road on the mountain without saying a word. The news spread among people in Hewan Village, and everyone knew about it last night.

Although it was built for their own family, it is more convenient to use a small truck to transport peaches up and down the mountain.

Taoyuan Township holds shares, and the whole village benefits.

They are grateful.

"Jia Jia has made it big," the village woman said. "My cooking skills are pretty good. I'll help you in the kitchen, but I don't dare ask for money. We don't have many mouths to feed, and our own vegetable garden is enough."

Lin Jiajia was surrounded by them, glancing at Xia An with a helpless look.

Xia An also looked at her with a smile, pouting her lips and making a "mua" sound.

……

Early in the morning of October 10, the county party committee office called Zhang Tiancheng.

It has to be said that Lao Zhou is very efficient.

Xia An originally thought that this matter would not be able to be implemented on November 11, but unexpectedly, only two days later, Lao Zhou faxed the information to the county.

Full of apologies to Lin Jiajia, Lao Zhou repeatedly pleaded with the county to speed up the implementation.

This caused the county committee to hold an extra morning meeting.

Proposal, vote by show of hands, no objection, passed.

Zhang Tiancheng drove there in a Bentley and brought back a signed and stamped meeting minutes.

Then, after the holiday, it will be passed down layer by layer, stamped by several departments, and the money will be paid, and it will be completely done.

In the evening, Xia An took Lin Jiajia to the cabin alone.

Show the meeting minutes.

"Just right, the gift I told you about the day before yesterday is not late," he said.

Lin Jiajia took the thin document and glanced at it for a few seconds. Her eyes became more and more confused. She looked at Xia An, opened and closed her lips several times, but couldn't say a word.

Xia An pointed at the twilight outside the window and said, "Before it gets completely dark, why don't you go out and see the Taoyuan that truly belongs to you."

Lin Jiajia nodded blankly.

Xia An led her to the backyard, but Lin Jiajia refused and walked to the top of the mountain.

The dark gold and white low fruit trees stretch as far as the eye can see, emitting bursts of fruit fragrance.

Xia An couldn't help but admire, "Wait until next spring, and peach blossoms will be everywhere. Tsk, tsk, imagine that scenery. Doesn't it look like your own special Ten Miles of Red Makeup?"

Lin Jiajia was surprised: "What did you say?"

Xia An tilted her head, Lin Jiajia's hair fell on her forehead, and her deer eyes sparkled in the golden sunset.

He said: "Ten miles of red makeup."

(End of this chapter)