A leisurely life in the world of cultivation

Chapter 60 Friends (Seeking first subscriptions and monthly votes!)
Inside the villa in Changzhou.

A figure stepped on the seven stars, transformed into the Big Dipper, and ran around the room.

Li Weizhou has been practicing the Seven Star Steps for over a week and is now looking increasingly professional.

Not only can it walk on the ground, but it can also move swiftly on stair railings.

With skills like that, you could easily find a job as a stuntman in Hengdian.

However, Li Weizhou still missed the feeling of being in the sea. He didn't know if it was because he had killed so many giant fish, but he always felt particularly comfortable in the sea.

That's strange. After swallowing so much pig's blood, he didn't seem to yearn for the pigsty at all...

The doorbell rang, and Li Weizhou straightened up and opened the door with his mobile phone.

A Mercedes smoothly entered and stopped in front of the passageway.

The car door opened, and Xiao Rui, Song Jia, and Xu Li got out of the car.

The temperature in the mountain city in May is unpredictable. Yesterday it was cool and rainy, but today it's already a hot 30-degree day. The three girls are dressed very summery...

Xiao Rui's short hair was cut in layers, and she wore a white short-sleeved top with straight shoulders, paired with a light blue romantic long skirt and simple white sandals, making her bright and charming in the summer.

Song Jia also knows how to dress. Her slightly wavy long hair is draped over her shoulders. She is wearing an oversized mint green short-sleeved T-shirt with the hem tied in a knot, revealing a section of her slender waist and abdomen. She is wearing light blue denim shorts and white platform sneakers.

Even Xu Li, though dressed casually in a white T-shirt and shorts, had a baseball cap that added a lot of cuteness to her otherwise plain appearance.

The three of them also saw the boss's bright smile.

Li Weizhou felt a little embarrassed, because the three oxen and horses all looked exhausted...

He welcomed him, saying, "You're back... Come in and sit down, you've had a long journey."

"what!"

The three girls laughed. Now that they were more familiar with each other and understood their boss's socially awkward and introverted personality, they became more and more relaxed.

Song Jia joked, "Boss, I haven't seen you for a few days, you've gotten even more handsome, and you've grown taller too!"

Li Weizhou would also joke: "I made some minor adjustments, otherwise it wouldn't have been able to bring out your beauty."

The three laughed again, and Xu Li opened the folder in her hand, ready to report on her work. She had just returned from Xinjiang.

Li Weizhou wasn't in a hurry and said, "Shall we go inside for some tea and a rest? It's hot today."

As expected, a boss who doesn't do any work has no authority. Xiao Rui laughed and said, "It's been raining for a week, let's dry it out. Boss, your Dragon Blood Rouge Rice, it's not really soaked in dragon blood, is it? Before, people would buy jewelry and get rice as a gift, now people are buying jewelry specifically for the rice."

Li Weizhou laughed and said, "Isn't that an exaggeration?"

While cleaning up the Fujiazhuang fortress, they discovered a storage of rouge rice in the underground vault. There wasn't much, only about three thousand catties.

According to farmers who grow Rouge Rice, the yield of Rouge Rice is extremely low, only about 100 jin per mu, while other good rice varieties can yield 500 to 600 jin.

Moreover, rice seeds are consumed in large quantities. One mu of land requires four or five jin of rice seeds, and for two hundred mu, one would need to reserve one thousand jin of rice seeds.

After deducting expenses related to social interactions, not much can be sold this year.

Xiao Rui said, "It's probably half an exaggeration, but we do have repeat customers who are willing to pay five thousand yuan for a pound of Rouge Rice. Rouge Rice only costs one or two hundred yuan online, and the net profit from selling a piece of jewelry isn't even that high."

Li Weizhou shook his head and said, "You definitely haven't done your research. The real Imperial Rouge Rice is priced at 8,000 yuan per kilogram and 4,000 yuan per jin. Moreover, you can't buy it on the market at all; it's basically all fake made from red rice."

Song Jia exclaimed, "Eight thousand a kilogram? Is it made of gold?"

Li Weizhou had done his research and readily agreed, laughing, "This Rouge Rice variety is ancient, and the seeds have never been improved since its inception. Its growing environment, including soil, water, and even rainfall and wind direction, has extremely stringent requirements; a difference of a millimeter can lead to a huge discrepancy. Moreover, its yield is very low, which is why it's so expensive."

It's not really a matter of price; the problem is that ordinary people simply can't buy genuine articles. They were tribute items during the Kangxi era, and now there are even more nobles than back then. How could ordinary people possibly afford them, even the wealthy?

Yutian Rouge Rice and Yutian Rouge Rice are two different things. Many locals in Yutian have never even heard of Yutian Rouge Rice.

Xu Li seemed to understand something, but... she asked curiously, "Then where does our company's Rouge Rice come from?" After saying that, she quickly covered her mouth and said, "Boss, I didn't mean to, it involves company secrets, I shouldn't have asked!"

Li Weizhou smiled and said, "It's nothing... It's just improved Yutian Rouge Rice. If they wouldn't improve it, I'd find someone to do it. Do you really think that all that trouble collecting pig blood is just to make pig feed? Dried pig blood powder has much higher organic fertilizer properties than chemical fertilizer. But you don't need to understand all this; it's quite complicated, even I don't quite understand it, involving manure and stuff... Want to eat Rouge Rice? I'll cook a pot for you!"

"Ugh!! Boss, you're so annoying!"

Song Jia, with her outgoing and lively personality, exclaimed, "When you say that, it feels like you're going to cook us a pot of dung!"

Xiao Rui also laughed and said, "If you can't bear to part with it, just say so!"

Xu Lidu protested in a soft voice, "We've been running around for a week, we're exhausted from running around for all the documents."

There's no way around it. Just like Liu Erdong said, even in rural towns, as soon as you roll up the curtain, set off firecrackers, and put out flower baskets to announce your opening, the industry and commerce bureau and tax bureau will come knocking that very afternoon. Urban management officials, health station staff, individual associations... and all sorts of people will show up. If you want to do business steadily, you can only follow the rules.

Those who honestly pay their dues can continue working, while those who dare to cause trouble and become troublemakers usually don't have a good ending.

Society has its own rules of operation. He's just an ordinary citizen here, trying to earn a little more money to buy pig's blood...

Of course, even if he was willing to spend the money, dealing with those people was quite tedious and troublesome.

Li Weizhou was relieved to see someone doing things so well and so quickly. He said sincerely, "I'm serious. I'll cook something for you in a bit. I'll make some rouge rice. You can try it too."

Actually, he didn't expect that his original idea of ​​finding a few tutors, which was just a spur-of-the-moment decision, would pave the way for him and save him so much trouble.

The quality of college students these days is really good.

Xiao Rui laughed and said, "Let's skip the stir-frying, it's too much trouble, and none of us know how to cook, so we can't help. Let's just cook a few bowls of rice in the rice cooker and take them to a restaurant."

Xu Li agreed, smiling as she looked at her stay-at-home boss.

Song Jia was still not satisfied and said, "It's so cheap... unless you sing another song later!"

Li Weizhou asked cheerfully, "You're going to be my backup dancer?"

Song Jia wasn't afraid: "So what if I'm a backup dancer!"

Xiao Rui missed going to the KTV for her birthday, but Xu Li went for her birthday during the day and had a great time.

Li Weizhou's once plain voice has unknowingly transformed into a mellow mid-to-low range, surprising even himself. Despite his lack of skill, he sang three songs that day and was quite well received.

I had a lot of fun. Being with these girls added a lot of color to my life.

Friends are truly a wonderful relationship; they can alleviate the boredom of life.

While waiting for the rice to cook, Xiao Rui and the other two gave a detailed report on the situation of the new stores in Sichuan, where gold shops naturally accounted for the majority.

Li Weizhou got a general idea and found that he was indeed making a fortune every day, especially since he was able to get cheap gold from Daqian. In fact, he was making more money than a money printing machine.

The large daily expense of purchasing pig blood meant that the company's cash reserves were far from being as exaggerated as advertised.

The dried pig blood powder factories in various places are invested in by different companies in Pengcheng, which belong to different financial institutions in Pengcheng. These companies also have mutual investment flows...

The accounting is very complicated, but every penny of tax payable when buying and selling gold will be paid.

In fact, Li Weizhou did not intend to keep the deception going forever. However, the current scale was just right. The daily turnover of millions of yuan was only at the level of a medium-sized gold vault in the Shuibei market. If taxes were paid in accordance with regulations, it would not attract any attention.

Xiao Rui meant: "We still need to set up a more professional finance department and integrate the gold vault in Pengcheng and the Baibaolou here. Right now, it's all disorganized, with the accounts scattered everywhere. I'm worried we'll suffer a big loss sooner or later. We don't have a single professional; we're just a bunch of makeshift people."

Li Weizhou explained with a smile, “The reason for dispersing is to avoid attracting unwanted attention. You will understand the domestic business environment more and more as you go along… It’s not a bad thing to have fewer figures on the books and smaller targets. You can search for some cases online to understand. Even pig blood powder factories will be dispersed in the future. There will be no unified integration between provinces. In short, we’ll make small profits openly, but make big profits quietly.”

What he wanted was a makeshift operation; if the accounts were too clear, it would only make things more complicated...

Li Weizhou changed the subject, saying, "Xu Li, your brother has already taken people over to familiarize himself with the place, right?"

Xu Li hummed in agreement, her eyebrows arched and her eyes round, as if even her nose and mouth were round. She said softly, "We just copied the model here. Sichuan and Chongqing are one family, so communication is easy. We pay 50 cents more for pig blood than the market price, and the slaughterhouses are all scrambling to sell to us. We use imported refrigerated trucks, which are very comfortable to drive, and they have a very comfortable job."

Li Weizhou asked, "Have they all learned the hygiene regulations?"

Xu Li nodded seriously and said, "After entering the production area, you must wear a hat, mask, disposable gloves, and disposable shoe covers. Smoking and talking are not allowed, and you must avoid spitting. If you are missing any of these items, you will be fined 500 yuan. If you are missing two items, you will be fired immediately."

Song Jia sighed, "I didn't understand before why the requirements were so strict. Now I see it's for the Dragon Blood Rouge Rice... I can understand now. I heard that foreign high-tech factories have similar requirements, is that right?"

Li Weizhou nodded inscrutably and said, "Yes, you are very knowledgeable. That's true."

After speaking, he realized something and turned to his left, where he saw Xiao Rui smiling at him. Her bright eyes were full of life, as if they could speak...

Li Weizhou smiled and looked away.

Unfortunately, he had many secrets that couldn't be revealed...

But things are fine as they are now, relaxed and comfortable.

I just don't know how we'll deal with it when these secrets have to be exposed one day.

It might be more interesting...

……

(End of this chapter)