This chicken breed matures quickly and has tender meat, making it very popular in the present market.
By contrast, the free-range local chickens from our home are not as favored.
Lin Chuxia required all the poultry farms to use grain and grass feed, and the maturation time was not short, 70 to 80 days was already quite good.
She remembered that later on, with the involvement of chicken feed and hormones, these broiler chickens could be ready in 40 to 50 days, almost half the time reduced.
However, such chicken meat wasn’t healthy. Having been in the food business her whole life, Lin Chuxia hated the involvement of science and ruthless practices the most.
Therefore, she established her own poultry farm, supporting the poultry and pig farms of Qin Family Village, aiming to guarantee food quality from the source.
Lin Chuxia nodded, their food factory’s orders had increased recently, and these 1000 chickens from Qin Family Village and the chickens from their own farm could just perfectly meet the demand.
“It’s about time for the vaccination, right? Don’t forget this,” she reminded again.
“We have already made arrangements in the past few days. The village chief directly asked for support from the township leaders, and the township epidemic prevention station and veterinary station will send someone to vaccinate the chickens.”
“After all, it’s a governmental enterprise – it has its conveniences.”
Lin Chuxia joked, and Qin Jiang laughed along.
“The township leaders also pay a lot of attention to Qin Family Village’s industry. They have set Qin Family Village as a model. In the last meeting at the township, the village chief specifically called for me,” he glanced at Lin Chuxia and Su Wensong, “Actually, the village chief also wanted to invite the leaders from Xiyang, but he felt awkward to mention it.”
“What’s there to feel awkward about? If there’s such a good opportunity next time, just let the village chief mention it,” these days, individual enterprises receiving government attention can greatly benefit.
Qin Jiang was also worried that Lin Chuxia would not agree, just like the village chief’s concerns.
After all, it is a private enterprise, and the village taking advantage of it to gain a good reputation always seems a bit… shameless.
Hearing Lin Chuxia respond so generously now, he also smiled, “Alright, I’ll remember that.”
“Third Brother, we’re one family. Whatever matters affect the poultry farm, or anything personal, you can speak directly with me. Even if Qin Yang isn’t at home, we’re still family, and we can discuss and solve problems together.”
She knew that the Qin Family siblings often felt awkward to approach her directly.
Qin Jiang looked at Lin Chuxia with a touch of gratitude twinkling in his eyes and nodded, “Okay.”
He understood that his position as deputy factory manager was all thanks to Lin Chuxia’s influence. Now that Lin Chuxia had spoken in this way, she was giving him the confidence to stand firm in the poultry farm and even in front of the village cadres.
“That’s settled then, it’s getting late, let’s head back.”
Qin Jiang needed to go to the poultry farm, and the poultry farm was in the opposite direction to the Xiyang Food Factory.
Lin Chuxia and Su Wensong went directly to the Xiyang Food Factory.
Lin Chuxia first inspected the workers’ performance in the workshop. From the beginning, their food factory’s buildings were designed with scale in mind, and currently only one-third of them were being utilized.
The rest were still vacant, reserved for future allocation when the food factory expands production.
After walking around the workshop, Lin Chuxia visited Su Wensong’s office to check the recent orders and the accounts.
“The scale of the pig farm hasn’t been determined yet, but I guess it won’t be too small. Later on, see how much money can be pulled together from Xiyang’s side.”
Su Wensong looked at her with a slight smile, “I’m afraid that the size of the pig farm will ultimately be up to you, right?”
He knew Lin Chuxia too well. If she wanted to be involved, it wouldn’t be on a small scale.
Lin Chuxia gave him an approving look, “You know me well.”
The pig farm, it’s even more profitable than a chicken farm, and she doesn’t have to worry about it. She just needs to invest some money and then sit back and wait for the dividends. Why not?
“Right, how’s the wedding preparation with Lanlan going? Do you need me to give you a few days off to focus on preparing for the wedding?”
The wedding date for Su Wensong and Sun Lanlan has already been set for early next month, yet both of them are acting as if nothing’s happening. Sun Lanlan is still busy in the Bun Shop, and Su Wensong hasn’t missed a day of work.
It’s easy to handle things on Sun Lanlan’s side, with the three Sun Brothers plus Mr. Sun and Mrs. Sun, the whole family can help her out.
On Su Wensong’s side, there’s only Granny Su, and if he doesn’t make arrangements himself, she’s really worried that when the day comes, Su Wensong will simply drive their factory’s 121 vehicle to take Sun Lanlan and call it done.
She definitely wouldn’t agree to that.
Sun Lanlan is her best sister, and as her ’mother’s family’, she has the confidence to say that her sister cannot be wronged.
Su Wensong knows what Lin Chuxia is worried about, “For now it’s not necessary, Mr. Lin, rest assured, I wouldn’t wrong Lanlan or anyone else.”
How could he not care when he’s marrying the girl he likes?
“Then I’ll look forward to drinking at your wedding. But here’s a reminder, if you dare to treat Lanlan poorly, the Sun Brothers won’t just stand by idly, and neither will I.”
Su Wensong smiled helplessly, “Mr. Lin, do you understand how much pressure those uncles put on me? Please spare me, don’t chant the tight hoop spell on me. If the wedding isn’t well done, not only would the three uncles disagree, even my granny wouldn’t.”
He had already thought about it, he would ask Jia Liang, Houzi, and Pang Yongli to help him out for a couple of days.
As the saying goes, many hands make light work, and money talks.
He plans to spend all the money he saved this year on the wedding.
Lin Chuxia finally felt relieved, “That’s fine, just tell me directly when you need to take a leave.”
While they were talking, there was a knock on the office door, and Ma Yingzi pushed the door and came in.
Seeing Lin Chuxia there, the tense expression also had a touch of worry.
“What’s wrong?”
Su Wensong seldom puts on airs with the old employees, and Ma Yingzi is his brother’s wife after all.
Ma Yingzi addressed him as Factory Director Su and Mr. Lin, hesitantly starting, “I don’t know what the problem is, but I still feel like I should tell the Director that the last batch of seasoning packets was short by two packs.”
Su Wensong frowned slightly, “How could there be fewer, when did you notice?”
The seasoning packets are delivered to the food factory on a fixed schedule and quantity, which are managed by Ma Yingzi.
Recently, they had increased production of ready-to-eat foods, and accordingly, the seasoning packets also increased.
“Could it be that you remembered it wrong, or was there a mistake when adding them during the food processing?”
Although the food factory now operates on an assembly line, it’s not uncommon for an error to occur at some stage.
Ma Yingzi shook her head, “I’m not certain, but a couple of days ago my son was sick with a stubborn fever, so I had no choice but to take two days off, and the work during these two days was handed over to Qin Yufeng to manage. Today when I came back and did the inventory, I found we were short by two packets.”
She believes she has never made a mistake, but it’s not easy to say that directly — wouldn’t that be blaming everything on Qin Yufeng?
Xiyang Food’s seasoning packets are crucial, and she knows the Old Food Factory has always been coveting their secret recipe.
So upon discovering the issue, she reported it to Su Wensong first thing.
Su Wensong also became concerned and looked towards Lin Chuxia.