The Lao'ao chicken farm is quite large, but it is not a professional modern chicken farm, but the kind of free-range chickens that are raised using traditional methods. After being raised, they are sold directly to high-end hotels in the city.
Those hotels don't dare to collect chickens from retail investors for fear of receiving chickens that have grown up eating garbage. Although Lao'ao doesn't look like much, it is actually absolutely clean and you can buy it with confidence.
But today seems a little different.
"Hey, where are the chickens?" Xiao Hei turned around and asked the old man sitting behind him, "I remember chickens usually run all over the yard. Why don't we see chickens today?"
"What kind of chickens are there? All the chickens are dead." The old man said angrily, "They all died a few days ago, which made Boss Duo very angry. Didn't I go downstairs to get him medicine?"
"All dead!?" Xiao Hei and Fang Ze were shocked and quickly asked, "How is Lao Ao's health?"
"I was coughing all night when I came down. I don't know what's going on now. But I guess it won't be much better."
After listening to the old man's words, Fang Ze and Xiao Hei quickly got out of the car and walked towards the room where Lao Ao was.
Fang Ze and Xiao Hei walked to Lao Ao's room, and then saw Lao Ao lying on the bed with a white cloth on his head. Xiao Hei became nervous when he saw it, and immediately jumped in front of Lao Ao and screamed to the sky and the ground. Said, "Lao'ao, Lao'ao, what's wrong with you, you must not leave us. Just hold on, I will take you to the hospital in the imperial capital immediately. If the hospital in the imperial capital cannot save you, I will take you abroad for treatment. , don’t give up hope, I will definitely cure you.”
"Get lost." Lao Yao's angry voice came from the bed, "I'm not dead yet. You're just like attending a funeral. When will you be more serious?"
"Let me be more serious." Xiao Hei pinched his nostrils and looked at Lao Ao and said, "When I came in and saw you like this, I knew that there was nothing serious about you. You should be alone and sulky. Just curse at others. ”
"So you are still considerate and came here on purpose to get scolded, right?" Lao Ao and Xiao Hei quarreled for a while. The old man just handed a bottle of medicine to Lao Ao, and Lao Ao took a few pills casually, and then He sat up from the bed.
"Actually, it's nothing. Don't worry. I'm really just too angry to figure it out." Lao Ao knew that although Xiao Hei was not serious, he did care about him. I guess this guy just wanted to test whether he still had energy.
Now it seems that there is still no problem.
"It's okay. It scared the two of us to death." Fang Ze walked over and patted Lao Ao on the shoulder, and then said to Lao Ao, "It's because of the problem with the chicken farm. If it doesn't work, just leave it alone." Well, your video work is pretty good now. When the time comes, I will find some connections to get you some ads. You can set up a duck neck shop or some other shop in the city, and find someone to take care of it for you. You can go there every day. A few glances will not reduce the quality of life too much."
"That's not the problem." Lao Ao waved his hand, and then said to Fang Ze, "My batch of chickens are about to be released, but they died overnight. If it doesn't involve other people, I will simply leave this place. No matter what. But I have signed contracts with several stores here. Now that I can’t provide them with chicken, I have to pay liquidated damages. This money is not a small amount. "
"Moreover." Lao Ao walked to the window of the house and pointed to a few elderly people who were playing cards in the yard opposite and said, "These are all my employees. I will not run the chicken farm anymore. These elderly people can't be found elsewhere." To work, I have to find a way out for these people, otherwise some of them will really have to beg for food.”
"Didn't you think about not running a chicken farm before? What did you think at that time?" Fang Ze asked.
"At that time, I planned to give the chicken farm directly to these old people, so that they could rely on this chicken farm for their retirement. But now the liquidated damages add up to almost 100,000. You have also seen this chicken farm. It is valuable. There are only chickens, and other items, even scrap metal, can’t be sold for much money. How can I have the nerve to say now that I’m leaving and leaving the chicken farm to them?”
"Wait a minute." Fang Ze told Lao Ao not to say anything, and then thought of two key points and asked Lao Ao, "First, the liquidated damages are a bit high. How much do you get for selling chickens at one time? The liquidated damages are actually 100,000 yuan. The second thing is, from what you just said, are all the chickens in this game dead?"
"They are all dead." Lao Ao answered Fang Ze's second question first, "There are thousands of chickens in total. Regardless of big chickens or small chickens, basically all of them are dead. Only a dozen are still alive now."
"And the penalty for liquidated damages is not much to be honest. I raise a local chicken for 180 days before it is ready for slaughter. The cost of raising a chicken including labor is about 50 yuan, and we sell it to a hotel for 80 yuan. Ten yuan. I have to sell close to two thousand chickens at one time, and the payment I receive is hundreds of thousands."
Lao Ao paused for a moment and then said, "And I sell these chickens to those high-end hotels. When the time comes, these hotels will send their own cars to pick them up. You said that the time is almost here, but it turns out that the chickens can't be given to them. . Some hotel specialties are made with local chickens. If the chickens suddenly run out, they will suffer huge losses."
"I've been thinking about it these past few days. How about selling the house, paying off the liquidated damages, and getting rid of my people."
"Where will you live after you sell the house?" Fang Ze asked Lao Duodao immediately.
"Stay here with me." Xiao Hei, who was standing behind, raised his hand with a smile, "I told you earlier that it was because of something. I thought you had other gay friends because you haven't been seen for several days. It can be solved with money. It doesn’t matter, you sell me your house and I’ll lend it to you to live in.”
"I'm not a hypocritical person. If it was really just about money, I would have called you and asked you to lend me your wife's book. But there are other reasons."
"Are you saying that there is another secret behind the death of the chickens in the chicken farm?" Fang Ze looked at Lao Ao and asked.
"Yes." Lao Ao nodded and said, "Although I don't stay here often, I am also familiar with raising chickens. If you say that I didn't prevent the disease well, if these chickens got sick, seven or eight hundred of them would die, or It’s normal for more than half of them to die. But if almost all of them die, there’s definitely a problem.”
Lao Ao looked at the chicken farm outside and sighed, "I don't understand this matter. I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep well in the future."
As soon as Lao Ao finished speaking, an old man who was not very old walked in and said to Lao Ao, "Boss Ao, there is a boss outside and he wants to discuss a business with you."
"Okay, I'll go out and take a look." Lao Ao heard someone coming and was about to go out and leave.
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Fang Ze and Xiao Hei looked at each other, and then they quickly followed Lao Ao out.
(End of chapter)