At the dinner table, Liu Ruyan and Wang Yan gave Lu Fan a general overview of the development of Bufan Group during this period.
Lu Fan also gleaned several key pieces of information: First, Wang Yajie had contacted several fresh university graduates during her college years, and they were now interning here. The office building was not yet completed, so the university graduates were staying at the village branch. They were currently mainly responsible for the group's financial statistics, online sales order statistics, and shipping.
Second, as the group gradually became more formalized, professional management personnel would be hired. Liu Ruyan had already hired several management personnel from the city, and they were just waiting for the office building to be completed before the management team would move in.
Third, Wang Yan did not approve of those so-called senior executives who acted high and mighty, gesticulating and spouting a lot of grand theories, explaining how to pressure subordinates to do things in various ways. If things went well, the credit was theirs; if they didn't, it was because the workers below didn't follow management. Then they would take a large portion of the company's salary and leave.
She was currently working diligently with the villagers, and her one-person management team had not made any mistakes. To put it bluntly, even the office building had been saved. If it weren't for Lu Fan feeling sorry for his own hard work and insisting on building an office building to recruit people to share the burden, she wouldn't have felt particularly tired. Even if she was tired, it was willingly so.
"Xiao Fan! My hatchery is incredibly popular now. People from all around within ten miles want to cooperate with us. Other people earn ten or eight yuan per chick, but they can earn thirty to fifty yuan per chick from our farm! And we still can't meet the demand!" Taohua interjected.
"That's great! Sister Taohua, you're a chicken queen now! Come, let's toast, Taohua!" Lu Fan raised his wine glass and clinked it with Taohua's, then downed the wine in one gulp.
"Hehe! This is all thanks to you. I'll toast you with this glass!" Taohua chuckled and finished her wine as well.
"If I had known we'd be drinking Wuliangye, I would have drunk less of that loose white wine earlier. This wine is much better!" Taohua put down her wine glass and immediately poured herself another.
Zhao Rongrong rolled her eyes. You wrote your gift money for someone else, and now you come to my house to drink. Hmph!
After the wine was finished, Lu Fan said he wanted to check on the breeding farm in the back mountain, and then he and Wang Yan headed towards the back mountain.
"Sister Wang Yan! The future Bufan Group will be managed by outsiders. What we need to do is calm down and focus on cultivation. Then, we can watch others make money for us.
Money is an endless thing; we will never be satisfied with how much we have. But the body has a lifespan, and it's easy to reach its expiration date if you're not careful. And once it expires, paying for it won't work anymore," Lu Fan said to Wang Yan faintly on the way.
He had heard the differing opinions between Wang Yan and Liu Ruyan at the dinner table, which was giving him a headache. Even people of high cultivation could not escape reality; interests often stirred up people's hearts. Liu Ruyan and Wang Yan were also mortals, unable to escape these things. He suddenly thought of the sloppy old Daoist's words: "Peach blossom tribulation!" Why was it not fortune but tribulation?
"Are you asking me to resign as village chief?" Wang Yan suddenly looked up at Lu Fan. He couldn't understand what Lu Fan meant.
"I want you to... achieve immortality! Haven't you cultivated the art of immortality!" Lu Fan quickly explained.
"Pfft! Immortality, my foot! You won't even cultivate with me!" Wang Yan rolled her eyes, then suddenly remembered something and said to Lu Fan, "Xiao Fan! Aren't you a divine doctor? Take a look at me, why can't I get pregnant?"
"Cough cough..." Lu Fan stumbled, almost falling. What does a young widow want to get pregnant for? Trying to frame me?
Roar... Roar...
Suddenly, two tall wolves with wide, round eyes blocked their path.
"Da Hui, Er Hui! Don't scare people. Come back quickly!" A voice came, and Wang Laowai ran down the hillside in a hurry, shouting as he ran.
"Da Hui and Er Hui?" Lu Fan was stunned, then looked at Wang Laowai and asked, "Uncle Laowai, these two guys aren't those two little things I picked up from the mountain, are they?"
"Hehe! Xiao Fan! They are indeed those two little things. Look how they've grown, they're as tall as adults when standing up." Wang Laowai ran over, patting Da Hui and Er Hui's heads to keep them calm, and said.
"Back then, I took care of the pheasants and rabbits on this mountain every day, and your aunt and Yajie were afraid to stay home. So I brought them back to keep your aunt company. I didn't expect these two guys to grow so fast. Now they can help me guard the mountain!" Wang Laowai said with a smile.
"Uncle Laowai has moved into your family's old house to take good care of this hillside. These two guys have been following him up the mountain every day," Wang Yan said from the side.
"Oh! Thank you for your hard work, Uncle Laowai!" Lu Fan nodded and said.
"No trouble! No trouble! Now that our lives are better, it's all thanks to you. You are a benefactor to the village!" Wang Laowai said from the bottom of his heart.
...
After walking around the village, Lu Fan returned to the villa. Liu Ruyan was drinking tea in the living room. Seeing Lu Fan enter, she rolled her eyes, "You've been out for so long, what were you talking about with your neighbor, Old Wang?"
"Alas! I told her that you are the president of Bufan Group. Sometimes you need to learn to flatter, you can't always go against your leaders. Otherwise, you'll be close to being fired!" Lu Fan walked over and patted Liu Ruyan's behind.
"Hmph! Then you're a sycophant!" Liu Ruyan finished speaking, stood up, and went upstairs. At the top of the stairs, she suddenly turned back and called out, "Aren't you coming up?"
"Hey? You... At least let me have a cup of tea, okay?" Lu Fan said, glaring. They had only been apart for a few days, and it was like a long-lost reunion.
"Hehe! This is a task your mother assigned. Hurry up and come up!" Liu Ruyan giggled and returned to the room.
"I'll be damned... The timing is wrong. Even if you tire me out until my back breaks, it's useless! If the timing is right, we won't need so many times to succeed!" Lu Fan shouted bitterly.
"Then look, is the timing right now?" Liu Ruyan suddenly turned around, her eyes like silk, and swayed her hips.
"Right... Right... I'm coming right away!" Lu Fan felt a surge of lust, put down his teacup, and ran upstairs.
...
A few days later, Lu Fan received a call from Boss Hua. A small training team of twenty people had come to Twelve Gully Village, and he asked Lu Fan to receive them. He also said it was the intention of the higher-ups!
As soon as Lu Fan hung up the phone, he heard several car horns outside the courtyard gate. Lu Fan walked out of the villa and saw several off-road vehicles parked outside the villa's courtyard. Twenty men and women got out of the cars. Lu Fan recognized some of them, Zhuge Xian, Qi Jie, Hong Xiaojiao...
Lu Fan suddenly felt an urge to spit blood... Old man! What do you mean by this? Am I responsible for all of them?