ryethenovel Chapter 53 With the cheat code in hand, I control the market!
Chapter 53 With the cheat code in hand, I control the market!
The rooster crows at dawn.
After a few cries, the sky began to brighten.
After the bleating subsided, a series of bleating sounds came from the sheepfold.
The chickens in the coop started clucking too.
Everyone seemed to be looking forward to the start of a new day.
After getting up, Xu Ran went to the kitchen to check on the situation.
Wang Ping is cooking pig feed.
With Xu Ran's instruction, Wang Ping's skill in cooking pig feed has reached a level of nine out of ten.
The little wild boar waited expectantly nearby.
As long as I cook pig feed every day, the wild boars will always be here, and I can't chase them away.
Xu Ran, as a master pig farmer, has quite a lot of experience in pig farming.
The pigs on the farm are fat and strong, white and plump, and very well raised.
Although pigs are usually slaughtered around the Lunar New Year, that's just how pig farming is. As long as they can eat, drink, and live out their lives, it's considered a blessing.
Next, let the chickens and sheep out, and let Little Gray drive the flock to graze deeper into the farm.
The daily routine.
There isn't much work, and it's not troublesome. It doesn't require much brainpower or physical exertion; you can just work slowly.
Running a farm is actually quite tiring, with a lot of farm work, but Xu Ran hires a lot of employees, so as the farm owner, he can have some free time.
Who can blame them when the farm is doing so well!
Xu Ran arrived at the sunflower field.
The 20 acres of sunflowers are almost ripe now.
The large sunflower flower is filled with plump sunflower seeds.
Bathing in sunlight transforms into energy.
All that time spent cultivating them was worth it.
Xu Ran knew that the next step was to extract oil from the sunflower seeds.
In the countryside, pressing sunflower oil is nothing unusual. You find an empty plastic bucket, put the sunflower seeds in a machine, first press out the crude oil, then heat and filter it, and what comes out is golden sunflower oil.
Many farmers even sell sunflower oil.
They're all high-quality oils, pressed by ourselves, and they sell very well.
However, Xu Ran planted 20 acres of sunflower fields, which produced a lot of oil. If he sold it in bulk, he didn't know when he would be able to finish selling it.
He wanted to create a brand.
He had discussed this matter with Yang Kaifu, the manager of Yonghui Supermarket.
Xu Ran knew that the most important thing in making a product was to build distribution channels.
Distribution channels come first, quality comes second.
If you want to sell products, you first need to get others to see them.
He asked Yang Kaifu if he could sell it at Yonghui Supermarket or cooperate with the supermarket.
Yang Kaifu responded:
"We have a dedicated testing department, so if the quality meets the standards, there's no problem."
"However, the sunflower oil we sell here is all premium sunflower oil, produced in Inner Mongolia, with dedicated factories and farms. Ordinary sunflower oil cannot pass our tests."
Upon hearing this, Xu Ran immediately replied with a smile:
"Okay, it's settled then."
"We'll handle the sunflower oil from our farm; we just need a chance to test it."
Yang Kaifu originally wanted Xu Ran to back down when faced with difficulties.
After all, the regional division of labor in agriculture is becoming more and more obvious. It is obvious to all which region has the best sugarcane, which region has the best tangerines, and which region has the best rice.
The same goes for sunflower fields.
Sunflowers grown in areas with ample sunshine have a high oil content.
Compared to other regions, they are somewhat inferior.
Xu Ran, however, was not worried about the quality at all.
After all, his sunflowers are all top-quality sunflowers.
With cheat codes in hand, I control the market.
Now that she had a direction, Xu Ran began to get busy with the brand's affairs.
These past few days, Xu Ran has invited her parents to come and visit the farm again.
He goes to the city every day.
The first step was to register the farm as a compliant enterprise, named "You Ran Farm Co., Ltd.", which is the brand he founded.
Once you become a company, there are many support policies, and employees' social insurance and housing fund benefits are all provided in a standardized manner.
Next came the busy work of renting oil pressing machines.
Oil pressing plants are easy to find. After all, pressing sunflower oil doesn't require high-end machinery; as long as it's clean, it's fine.
If the sunflower seeds are good enough, even a small workshop can extract top-quality sunflower oil.
Even employees can rent together.
Xu Ran only needs to send someone here to keep an eye on things.
Then you have to go through food safety testing, which requires submitting materials to the food bureau.
The initial stage of starting a business is truly busy.
During this period, Xu Ran completed one survival mission and three timed missions.
[Survival mission complete. Reward: 1 random rare reward.]
[Congratulations, host, you have obtained: Medical Serum*1. It can treat humans or animals affected by radiation, with effects seen within three days.]
[A new survival mission has begun: Please survive for 30 days.]
[Mission Reward: 1 random rare reward.]
The reward was a bottle of serum, which wasn't very useful to Xu Ran. However, when Xu Ran sold the serum in the shop, he received a reward of 5 system coins.
This surprised him somewhat.
The buyback price is half price, meaning that the actual value of this bottle of medical serum is 10 system coins.
This is no small sum.
"It can sell for 5? Wow, now we're definitely not short of system coins."
"There are so many flowers that you can't possibly spend them all."
Xu Ran sighed.
Now he's a complete nouveau riche, with the system shop selling rare seeds every day, and occasionally some radiation-related medical items.
I browse for a while every day, and if I come across any exceptional seeds, I buy them and stock up.
The other three timed tasks are simple tasks involving watering, fertilizing, and eliminating radiation from crops. The rewards are an irrigation system, a smart temperature-regulating boiler, and fresh, un-radiated pork.
They're all fairly useful.
After a lot of busy work, I finally got all these things done.
The harvest is about to begin.
The sunflowers have fully grown, each large sunflower cake covered with sunflower seeds, their surface protected by a layer of tender green shoots.
With just a few gentle touches, these green shoots will fall off, revealing the sunflower seeds growing tightly together.
There were so many sunflowers that Xu Ran even cut off a sunflower cake, broke it in half, and started eating the seeds with one half.
Sunflower seeds are also known as melon seeds. Fresh melon seeds taste very good. They are very soft, and there is hardly any sound when you bite into them. The taste of melon seeds is also sweeter.
"Time to get busy."
That afternoon, Xu Ran gathered the employees together.
"The sunflowers are all ripe. Starting tomorrow, we need to harvest all the sunflower cakes, then knock down the seeds and dry them in the sun."
"Take advantage of the good weather and quickly dry them all before sending them to the oil press."
"Finally, the harvest is in!"
Xu Ran explained.
"Don't worry, Ran-ge!"
"We have no problem getting the work done!"
"We absolutely won't let you down when it matters most!"
Everyone responded enthusiastically.
The farm operates on a cycle of busy periods followed by quiet periods. The key to the employees' performance lies in whether they can step up during the busy times.
This is the key.
"Okay, everyone, let's do our best!"
"I'll finish everything before National Day and then give everyone a treat."
"I'm definitely not just making empty promises, everyone can rest assured!"
As the farm owner, Xu Ran made a promise to everyone.
the next morning.
The employees got busy.
Everyone wore a straw hat, carried a sickle, and had a bamboo basket on their backs.
What you need to do is actually very simple: go to the sunflower, use a sickle to cut the sunflower cakes off, and put them in a bamboo basket.
Once it's full, put it on the empty space next to it.
Meanwhile, over in the open space, Xu's parents and Wang Ping were busy. What the three of them had to do was take a stick and knock the sunflower seeds off the sunflower cakes.
The empty sunflower cakes were simply tossed aside.
That's farm work; it's purely physical labor.
Harvesting a 20-acre sunflower field bit by bit is quite laborious.
Fortunately, all the young men there were very strong.
Li Wu and Wang Hai were still competing to see who could cut faster.
The atmosphere was great, and the work efficiency was extremely high.
As Mr. Xu was pounding sunflower seeds, he looked at the large, plump seeds on the ground and couldn't help but exclaim in admiration:
"Our sunflower seeds are really good, they're all this big. I've seen other people grow sunflowers before, and the seeds they get are small and shriveled, and you can't extract much oil from them."
"Xu Ran is really capable; he raised them very well."
Mrs. Xu smiled happily and replied, "That's why I said I should give the farm to my son sooner; look how wonderful this is."
"Weren't you growing grapes at the farm a while ago? I haven't seen you there!"
Upon hearing this, Mr. Xu fell silent, but picked up a sunflower cake and tapped it silently.