Courtyard House: Purchasing Agents' Comeback from the Great Famine

Wang Feng took a deep drag on his cigarette, thought for a moment, and said, "Brother Li, as you know, I definitely can't get domestic pork. At most, I can get two big wild boars, some fish, and some wild rabbits."

Li Huaide nodded: "No problem, as long as there are 800 catties, that's fine. If it really doesn't work, we can have the workshop directors list the workers who have performed poorly this year and let this small group of people receive half a catty of wild boar meat. The worst performers will receive half a catty of fish or half a catty of wild rabbit meat."

"Okay, I'll visit a few more villages today and try my best to get you 800 catties of meat."

Wang Feng nodded in agreement. Eight hundred catties of meat was not a problem, but any more would be unacceptable; he didn't want to be targeted by others.

"Alright, then thank you for your hard work, brother. You've done Brother Li a great favor again," Li Huaide said with a smile.

Wang Feng smiled and waved his hand, then changed the subject: "Brother Li, I've learned to drive, so could you get me a driver's license?"

"Hey bro, do you know how to fix cars?" Li Huaide asked.

Wang Feng shook his head: "No."

Li Huaide thought for a moment and said, "Brother, if you can't fix cars, you won't pass the driver's license test. How about this, after the New Year, I'll use my connections to get you one. But brother, are you a good driver? Don't cause me any trouble."

Wang Feng patted his chest loudly, "Don't worry, Brother Li, even the transport team leader praised my skills."

"That's fine then."

Upon hearing that he could get a driver's license, Wang Feng was overjoyed, knowing he wouldn't have to worry about being stopped while driving.

Just as he was about to leave, Wang Feng suddenly remembered the two rooms in the backyard and asked:

"Oh, right, Brother Li, there's one more thing. Didn't Jingru get two rooms in our compound before? Do you think we could buy them?"

Without even thinking, Li Huaide said directly, "Brother, this won't work. This house belongs to the public and cannot be bought or sold now. I really can't help you with this."

Wang Feng was surprised that it didn't work; he thought it was related and there shouldn't be any problems.

But if he can't buy it, he can't buy it. Anyway, he doesn't need these two houses.

"Alright, let's do it that way then. It's still early, I'll head to the countryside first."

"Alright, brother, you'd better put in a lot of effort and get as much meat as possible," Li Huaide added.

"Okay, I'm off then."

"Go."

After leaving the factory manager's office, Wang Feng went to the office of the Purchasing Department III, but there was no one there, so he left the steel rolling mill directly.

The meat can be picked up from the factory in a couple of days. If the meat is picked up today, it will make it seem like he handles meat too easily.

Back in courtyard number 95, Wang Feng closed the door and entered the space.

Arriving at the 60-acre ginseng field, Wang Feng smiled as he looked at the ginseng plants that had all sprouted tender buds.

With a flow rate ten times higher, these ginseng plants will be able to grow new seeds in two months, allowing him to further expand the planting scale. If he plants ginseng on all 1,000 acres of land, he will have 1,000 acres of century-old ginseng in ten years. What a fortune that would be!

Wang Feng did the math: if he planted one ginseng per square meter, that would be 666 ginseng plants per mu (unit of land area), and 66.6 century-old ginseng plants per thousand mu (unit of land area), which was a bit terrifying.

Wang Feng then went to another acre of ginseng land that he had taken special care of. He irrigated this acre of ginseng land with diluted life-giving water every week. The ginseng was now two years old, and in about ten days, this acre of ginseng would be able to grow seeds.

After taking out a pound of the Water of Life, Wang Feng diluted it and then irrigated the ginseng field again. He clearly sensed that the ginseng was growing rapidly after absorbing the diluted Water of Life.

After watering the ginseng, Wang Feng watered the four tea trees as well.

During this period, he had already roasted more than 20 catties of tea leaves. He couldn't finish drinking so much tea leaves, so he stored them in his spatial warehouse.

Wang Feng visited the pig farm again and smiled with satisfaction as he watched the farm expand.

There are now more than 500 wild boars, more than 100 large wild boars, and more than 40 domestic pigs. There are also many more rabbits and fish, as well as a lot of other poultry and livestock such as chickens, ducks, and geese. There is more than enough to eat.

Fortunately, tigers eat a lot of wild rabbits every day; otherwise, if the wild rabbits continued to reproduce unchecked, even a thousand acres wouldn't be enough to raise them.

Two days ago, the tiger gave birth to three more cubs, two males and one female, bringing the total number of tigers to nine.

After leaving the space, Wang Feng brewed a pot of tea and drank it alone in the room.

......

Around 4 PM, Qin Jingru returned to courtyard number 95. Wang Feng poured her a cup of tea and said:

"Jingru, I asked Director Li about those two rooms in the backyard today, and he said that houses cannot be bought or sold right now."

"Oh? We can't buy it?" Qin Jingru was a little disappointed.

"Well, if it were a private house, we could try to transfer it to your name, but since it's public property, there's nothing we can do," Wang Feng explained.

Qin Jingru sighed, "If we can't buy it, we can't buy it. Anyway, we have a house to live in now."

"By the way, Jingru, do you like working in the factory? Now that your household registration has been transferred to the city, if you don't want to work in the factory, just quit your job. Anyway, our family isn't short of money," Wang Feng asked.

"There's one more thing I need to tell you. Those two rooms in the backyard were allocated to you by the factory. If you stop working at the factory in the future, these rooms might be taken back."

Qin Jingru was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "I quite like going to work. I don't have much to do at the factory every day. Sometimes I don't even have any entertaining duties for a whole week. I just get the food for lunch. I only get the food myself because I'm bored. Besides entertaining guests, I don't actually have to do anything in the kitchen. It's not tiring at all."

"Brother Wang Feng, I don't want to quit my job. Staying at home every day is so boring. You know my personality. I'm not like my son, who can stay at home all day. There are so many people at the factory, it's so lively."

What a joke! She finally got a job at the steel rolling mill, how could she just quit so easily? Now she has a job in the city, has even changed her household registration to the city, and has been allocated two rooms. In the whole Qin Family Village, who doesn't envy her?

If she quits her job, even if her family is well-off, no one will know. She'll be embarrassed to brag to her aunts, grandmas, and girlfriends when she goes back to Qin Family Village.

Hearing this, Wang Feng nodded: "Okay, if you like going to work, then keep going. You can quit whenever you don't want to go to work anymore."

"Yes, Brother Wang Feng, you're so good to me," Qin Jingru said sweetly.

As she spoke, Qin Jingru kissed Wang Feng on the cheek.

Wang Feng wiped his face and laughed, "Alright, I left a wild rabbit in the kitchen. Have Aunt Wu kill it. We'll have braised rabbit for dinner. Oh, and save the rabbit head for me. Make a spicy rabbit head dish for me tonight."

"Okay, I'll go right away."

Qin Jingru went to the kitchen, picked up the wild rabbit, and went to the front yard to find Aunt Wu.