The leisurely life of a reborn dad

When Cao Shujie returned to Caojiazhuang from the factory, he looked like a general who had just won a battle.

Everyone in the village who saw him smiled, and some gave him a thumbs up.

They really thought Cao Shujie did a great job. The company made 5 billion in half a year, and the news spread. He also gave employees salary increases and bought provident funds. He was really awesome.

Cao Shujie was also not in a hurry about Yiling Hemielda Food Company's high price to purchase agricultural and sideline products grown by farmers.

For Cao Shujie, Xuemeng Food Factory has been purchasing fruits from fruit farmers at a price equivalent to the market wholesale price for many years, which is much higher than the price that those fruit wholesalers take from the fields.

If those fruit farmers value immediate interests and think that Yiling Hemielda Co., Ltd. can give them higher returns, Cao Shujie thinks they can go there and there is no need to rely on Xuemeng Food Factory alone.

As for how Hemielda will operate in the future, Cao Shujie no longer cares about him. He will develop Xuemeng Food Factory first.

Even in Cao Shujie's view, maliciously purchasing raw materials at a price higher than the market price is itself a price war.

For a healthy and mature company, engaging in a price war is a very stupid behavior, which is pushing its own company to a dead end.

Whether from the perspective of sustainable development or the development direction of the entire industry, this behavior is not desirable.

Since Hemielda Food Co., Ltd. is willing to spend money to do this, Cao Shujie supports it. After all, it can allow the people to benefit in the end, which is a good thing, but Xuemeng Food Factory will not do this.

From the beginning of production to the present, Xuemeng Food Factory has always insisted on purchasing at the market wholesale price. This price itself is higher than the price that fruit wholesalers or middlemen purchase in the fields. Xuemeng Food Factory uses this to purchase high-quality fruits. He has never deliberately suppressed the price of the people even once, and the people have also obtained much higher returns from him than before. They are running in both directions.

Xuemeng Food Factory mainly adheres to the principle of product quality as the first principle. Only high-quality fruit raw materials can make better quality products. This equal relationship will never change.

Besides, Xuemeng Food Factory's purchases are nationwide. What can Hemielda Food Co., Ltd. do even if it acquires Hongda Agricultural Products Co., Ltd.?

Hongda Agricultural Products Co., Ltd.'s own production capacity is not enough compared to Xuemeng Food Factory. How much fruit raw materials can it purchase?

Can it stock up thousands of tons like Xuemeng Food Factory does now?

Cao Shujie thinks that if there is no problem with this company, from the perspective of the company's normal sustainable development, they can't do it.

After all, their production capacity is there, and the real product storage demand cost is very high. For example, Cao Shujie has now built a piece of cold storage, and the cost is very high during the construction period.

As far as Cao Shujie knows, there is no second agricultural and sideline product processing factory in Yiling City that can have a large number of self-built cold storage like Xuemeng Food Factory.

Even if the original Hongda Agricultural Products Co., Ltd. also has cold storage, the quantity is too small, and they can't store fruit raw materials on a large scale like Xuemeng Food Factory.

From this aspect, it can be inferred that the American Hemielda Food Co., Ltd. has now acquired Hongda Agricultural Products Co., Ltd., but it is impossible for it to play the trick of turning water into oil, let alone to create a row of cold storage with bare hands.

The problem here is big.

Yiling Hemielda Food Co., Ltd. issued a notice, saying that they would purchase fruit raw materials at a high price, so how much could it purchase?

If you think about it carefully, you will find that the other party has never come out to make it clear at any link.

When I first saw the other party's notice, factories like Cao Shujie who do deep processing of agricultural and sideline products were indeed a little panicked, because the other party was openly going to fight a price war.

It sounds like the other party is a large agricultural and sideline product processing factory in the United States, very rich, with assets of tens of billions of dollars or even tens of billions of dollars.

It seems that they will spend a lot of money to fight a price war in the next period of time, and use this method to destroy other competing companies in the same industry.

This is the normal thinking of people, but when Cao Shujie calmed down and thought about it, he found that the result of his thinking was very naive.

Even if the American Hemielda Food Co., Ltd. is very rich, it is impossible for it to invest billions or even tens of billions of funds in the small branch of Yiling Hemielda Food Co., Ltd.

Cao Shujie felt that even if the other party was crazy, he could not do this.

That is not business at all, that is irrational and impulsive.

This is not a business competition that a idiot thought up, this is a real business operation, and there are not many fools who can achieve their scale.

Even Cao Shujie now wants to see what the other party can do.

He also hopes that the other party will take out a large amount of funds to buy raw materials. When the other party's money is almost spent, Cao Shujie will come in with a large amount of funds, and finally continue to buy raw materials at his original price. He believes that he can buy a lot.

When Cheng Xiaolin saw him coming back and asked him about this matter again, Cao Shujie no longer took it seriously.

He also confidently told his wife about what happened in the factory today and told his wife his analysis.

After listening to this, Cheng Xiaolin looked at her husband's high-spirited look, as if the old Cao Shujie had returned, which made Cheng Xiaolin like him from the bottom of her heart. She even had some emotions surging, and she wanted it.

But now time does not allow, she has to pick up her son from school.

"Shujie, is there any problem?" Cheng Xiaolin asked him.

Cao Shujie told his wife: "Don't worry, there is no problem."

Hearing her husband say this, Cheng Xiaolin did not ask more questions.

"Then you can do it, you go and rest for a while, I will go to pick up Ruirui." Cheng Xiaolin said so.

After hearing this, Cao Shujie quickly told his wife: "You stay at home, I will pick him up."

"By the way, I haven't picked him up once since I sent him to kindergarten." Cao Shujie felt a little ashamed.

When Cheng Xiaolin heard her husband say this, she thought that she had nothing to do at home, so she said, "Let's go together."

After September, the fruit in the orchard was cleared, and the kiwis in Caojiazhuang were all sold out in August. Now there are fewer people visiting Caojiazhuang than before.

And according to the rules of previous years, the orchard will be closed on October 10th every year.

For example, the barren mountain next to Mengmeng Orchard has not been completely transformed, and Cao Shujie will also take advantage of this period to continue the final transformation of the barren mountain.

Caojiazhuang is about to enter the time of recuperation.

The couple chatted and unknowingly came to the gate of Caojiazhuang Kindergarten. When the tourists saw Cao Shujie and Cheng Xiaolin, they obviously recognized them and greeted them.

Looking at the smiles on the faces of the tourists, Cao Shujie was also very happy. He felt that being able to provide such a place that makes tourists happy is a success in itself.

Little guy Cao Yirui was very resistant to kindergarten at the beginning, but now he likes this kindergarten.

He felt that he could play with more friends every day there, and after Cao Yirui had been in the kindergarten for a few days, he took the initiative to bring toys from home to the kindergarten and share them with his friends.

Li Qiuling originally thought that Cao Shujie's son would be a problem child, but after spending a long time with him, she found that Cao Yirui was quite sensible.

He was not as naughty, disobedient, and trouble-making as she imagined.

Or he might bully others and fight frequently.

However, none of what she thought happened. This kid was quite easy to get along with, and he had a strong eye and high emotional intelligence. Smart children are more likely to be liked by others.

Cheng Xiaolin was also very happy to hear Li Qiuling's praise.

It was also a good thing for Cheng Xiaolin that her son could do better.

And their child really didn't need a fool.

Whether it is the orchard or breeding farm planted by her husband in Caojiazhuang, or the travel company that Caojiazhuang is currently running, or the Xuemeng Food Factory that her husband has invested billions of yuan in Qingshi Town, or the investment outside, these are not things that an ordinary child can take over.

Cheng Xiaolin is also considering how to teach them in the future.

This does not mean that they will send Mengmeng and Ruirui to a far place. Cheng Xiaolin means that she wants to hire some professional teachers to come and provide one-on-one special tutoring for the siblings.

For them, this is just a problem that can be solved with a little money, and Cheng Xiaolin does not think it is difficult to solve.

Standing at the entrance of the kindergarten for about 10 minutes, as more and more parents came, when they saw Cao Shujie and Cheng Xiaolin and their couple here, everyone chatted with them very friendly. When talking about the current changes in Caojiazhuang, everyone's face was filled with joy from the heart.

This is not pretending.

According to the normal development trajectory of a normal rural area, young and middle-aged laborers should leave their wives, children and the elderly behind to work in the city to make a living and find new ways to make money.

Only helpless old people or lonely children are left in the countryside.

They have a special name, called left-behind elderly or left-behind children.

The elderly may squat helplessly in the corner or under a tree, numb to the real life, and their eyes may be brewing fear of the future.

Children may suffer from comprehensive physical and mental trauma due to the long-term absence of their parents, or develop autism or inferiority complex.

With the advancement of urbanization construction across the country, a city rises and thousands of villages are empty, the streets and alleys are deserted, and weeds grow in front of and behind the houses. When they return to their hometowns in old age, they feel desolate in their hearts.

Perhaps 20 years ago, rural life should be small bridges, flowing water, and people's homes, with flowers everywhere.

Chickens and ducks are in groups, cattle and sheep are in pens, and smoke curls up in the sky without clouds.

However, more rural villages have now become deserted, houses have become dilapidated due to long-term uninhabitation, many fertile fields are overgrown with grass and no crops are grown, and childhood playmates are nowhere to be seen, all drifting away from home!

To ​​be frank, Caojiazhuang 8 years ago can be compared to all of these.

But from the day Cao Shujie came back from Beijing seven years ago, whether he admits it or not, he has been invisibly and slowly influencing the changes in all aspects of Caojiazhuang.

Later, Cao Shujie became the village director under the strong expectations of the whole village. It was also from that time that Cao Shujie made drastic reforms and development for Caojiazhuang, and step by step built the agricultural planting cooperative and Zhongcheng breeding cooperative that belonged to Caojiazhuang.

Although Zhujiazhuang, Taodong Village, Qingyun Village, Yelou Village, etc. were added later, it was Caojiazhuang itself that really enjoyed the dividends.

Especially with the development of Caojiazhuang's tourism industry, every household has taken advantage of the development wave that is unique to Caojiazhuang.

There are still young and middle-aged people in Caojiazhuang who are still working outside, but there are really not many.

It can even be said that their income outside is not as high as that of the villagers in Caojiazhuang, but those people cannot return to Caojiazhuang for a while because of the constraints of family, children, studies, etc.

But more than 90% of the young and middle-aged labor force in Caojiazhuang have returned.

Everyone lives and works in this place, and because of this, these people unconditionally support Cao Shujie in many things. No matter what decision Cao Shujie makes on a certain matter, they have never thought that Cao Shujie will cheat them in this matter.

Even for some people, even if Cao Shujie cheats them, they don't care.

In Cao Shujie, they see hope.

When they met Cao Shujie, the villagers, whether they were old or young, all showed respect to him from the bottom of their hearts.

After chatting with the villagers for a while, Cao Shujie took his son after the children came out, and the family of three turned and walked east again.

Cao Shujie and Cheng Xiaolin each held one of Cao Yirui's hands, and the family of three talked about something, and Cao Yirui's laughter came from time to time.

Seeing him jumping around, he looked particularly lively and cute, and the people behind him were also happy for them.

There were also old people pointing at Cao Shujie and their backs to their children and talking non-stop.

For several consecutive days, Cao Shujie had been traveling back and forth between his home and Qingshi Town. Apart from that, he did not go anywhere else, and studied the company's next development direction in the company every day.

Cao Shujie also paid close attention to the new product proposed by Tang Jingsong last time. He has never forgotten that new product, and he also hopes that the company will innovate on the basis of traditional preserved fruit technology.

As for the movements of the foreign-funded Hemielda Food Co., Ltd. in the city, Cao Shujie had people paying close attention to it at first, but later he stopped paying attention to it and let the other party do whatever they wanted. Cao Shujie even gradually developed a master style.

He can be as strong as he wants, but I will remain unmoved!

In Cao Shujie's view, he was just a clown who could not enter the elegant hall.

For a while, Cao Shujie seemed to be hiding. Even though many people saw him every day, they felt that Cao Shujie didn't speak much.

Whether in Caojiazhuang or in the company, Cao Shujie greeted the villagers and chatted happily with the company's employees like a street kid every day, and occasionally went to talk to some female employees to say something funny.

He would also often care about the family situation of the company's employees. If he really encountered an employee with family difficulties, and asked the human resources department to confirm the authenticity, Cao Shujie would actively organize donations.

At this time, the employees suddenly felt that their boss Cao Shujie seemed to have changed overnight.

They had an indescribable feeling, but they also felt that the boss was doing really well now.

He seemed more real, with flesh and blood, and no longer the boss-level figure who seemed a little "cold, unsociable" and "high and mighty" in their eyes.

Not only the employees noticed this, but the managers in the company also noticed this.

For a long time, Cao Shujie rarely ate, drank, or boasted with them. Even a few men discussed which woman had bigger breasts, whiter skin, and a more rounded butt, and even gossiped about other people's emotional lives.

But now he is back! (End of this chapter)