After breakfast, Lin Cheng brought Lin Momo to the outside of the accommodation area.
The visibility during the day was much better than in the evening, and Lin Momo finally saw the entire farm.
"This place is really big." Lin Momo shook Lin Cheng's hand, holding back her sigh, and whispered, "It's like a park."
The expression on Lin Momo's face also attracted a burst of laughter from the audience in the live broadcast room.
Haha, Momo’s expression reminded me of a word: Granny Liu visiting the Grand View Garden.
To be honest, I have the same expression on my face as Lin Momo right now.
It was too dark to see clearly yesterday, but looking at it again today, it seems quite strange. It is called a farm, but the inside, especially the area near the accommodation area, is built according to the standards of a resort.
Indeed, apart from the fact that the surroundings look a bit run-down because they haven't been cleaned for a long time, the whole environment is actually quite good.
If I knew that this farm is now a negative asset, I would be very happy, happy for Momo.
I'm from City Z. Yesterday, I booked a room for 3 days before the price went up. Haha, although I have to wait until the weekend when the farm and resort hotel are completely tidied up and officially open to the public before I can go, I'm already looking forward to it.
I've placed an order too. Lin Cheng, please hold on and don't let the farm go bankrupt!
I booked the earliest date, which is this Saturday. I am now extremely afraid of receiving a text message from the platform suddenly canceling the order.
…
Through the live broadcast camera, they saw that the overall condition of the farm was not as bad as they had imagined. At least the audience who had booked the "Happy Bowl Farm" hotel online last night began to look forward to it.
However, thinking about Lin Cheng's negative operations last night, everyone began to wonder whether this farm could operate smoothly.
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At this time, in the live broadcast, Lin Cheng and Lin Momo came out of the hotel accommodation area and arrived outside the amusement park closest to the accommodation area.
"This small amusement park covers an area of approximately 40,000 square meters. It has eight amusement facilities for children over 14 years old and six amusement facilities for children over 4 years old. In addition, there are leisure and entertainment areas, performance areas, a small water park, and a micro-cinema..." Xu Yi introduced to Lin Cheng.
"How is the operation of the facility?" Lin Cheng asked.
"When the farm was first opened, all the amusement facilities here were opened and used. However, in the past year or so, these facilities have basically not been opened. We don't have enough staff, and we can only carry out simple patrols on weekdays. It is hard to say how the operation is going on now." said the staff member who stayed in the farm and was responsible for managing the amusement park.
"How long will it take to clean and maintain the interior of the amusement park and contact the equipment manufacturer to conduct a safety inspection and CNC debugging of the facilities?" Lin Cheng asked.
"From inspection to maintenance and debugging, it takes about 3 to 5 days at the fastest." Xu Yi opened the notebook in his hand and answered.
After a pause, Xu Yi continued: "However, the operating cost of the entire amusement park is relatively high. Considering the recent situation of the farm, the burden is relatively heavy. Boss, do you think we can start some facilities that are simple to operate and manage first, and then slowly debug the rest. We can gradually open them after the farm is running stably in three months?"
Xu Yi's suggestion is not wrong, but...
Lin Cheng lowered his head and glanced at Lin Momo beside him, and did not miss the expectation in her eyes.
“A maintenance inspection will be arranged as soon as possible to ensure the entire playground is fully operational by Friday this week.”
Hearing Lin Cheng's final decision, Xu Yi had no choice but to nod and said, "I'll arrange it right away."
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On the other side of the playground is a small zoo.
"The zoo covers an area of nearly 20,000 square meters. It has planned small zoos such as ostrich park, crocodile park, alpaca park, peacock park, rabbit guinea pig park... a total of 27 kinds of animals are raised in the area. There is also a small oceanarium, which mainly provides guests who come here for vacation with an opportunity to relax, interact with their children, and get close to animals." Xu Yizhao introduced the contents of the information to Lin Cheng.
Hearing this, Lin Cheng simply glanced at Xu Yi and replied: "How many animals are left now?"
"Well, there are still three alpacas left, and there is one sea turtle left in the aquarium..." After saying this, Xu Yi felt a little embarrassed to continue.
As they talked, they walked into the zoo area.
Looking around, the entire zoo was almost empty.
Are you sure this is a zoo
It's too ugly.
Those who don't know would have thought they had walked into some unfinished real estate project that had failed.
Zoo, I saw the zoo, but where are the animals
There are three lumps in the corner over there, which seem to be the alpaca that the administrator mentioned.
…
Here, meeting Lin Cheng's gaze, Xu Yi was embarrassed and explained: "It's mainly to save costs."
Because the cost of raising them was too high, animals such as ostriches and crocodiles were sent to nearby zoos, and the rest, some flying and some running, were sold.
The few remaining alpacas were because they looked "unregular" and could not be sold in the village. Long-distance transportation was restricted, so they became the remaining ones in the zoo.
"There are still a few there." After searching around the empty zoo area, Xu Yi finally found a breeding area with animals and said.
Lin Cheng and Lin Momo looked in the direction of Xu Yi's finger and saw a goat and a pig.
Oh shit, am I seeing that? Are those pigs and sheep
Although there should be discrimination against animals, why does it feel so inappropriate to put goats and pigs in a zoo
Report, this was obviously brought from the breeding farm to make up the numbers!
Lin Cheng looked at Xu Yi and the animal keeper beside him for a moment, then asked, "When will the four zoo managers and animal doctors we recruit arrive?"
"You can notify me this afternoon."
"Notify the personnel to arrive as soon as possible, clean up the zoo, reinforce the safety facilities, contact the nearest zoo, and temporarily transfer the animals that exceed the zoo's capacity. Contact the animal rescue station and tell them that we are willing to take in some animals, and then purchase some small animals."
"Okay, I'll arrange it right away."
"Finally," Lin Cheng glanced at the sheep and a pig over there and said, "Send those to the breeding farm."
As soon as Lin Cheng said this, everyone in the live broadcast room couldn't help laughing:
Hahahaha, Lin Cheng also discovered it!
I said those few were just brought to the breeding farm to make up the numbers!
It's killing me!
Look at the expression of this administrator. I feel like he must really want to get into the pile of alpacas right now.
Xu Yi: "... OK."
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"Is that the parent-child experiment area in front?" Lin Cheng pointed to a glass house far away from the zoo. Last night, Lin Cheng read the information about the farm and roughly memorized the layout of the farm.
"Yes, there are simulated farmlands, fish ponds, lotus ponds, ecological orchards, etc. Guests with children can experience the fun of farming inside." Xu Yi introduced.
Several people walked into the glass room.
The space inside the house is not very big. There is a small artificial fish pond of more than 10 square meters with small plastic fish in it. A few small kumquat trees and lemon trees are planted in a piece of land of 1 square meter for ornamental purposes. In the middle, there is a nine-square-grid earthen flower bed. The size of each grid is 0.65 square meters. There is a thin layer of soil on it, and there are signs hanging on it saying "corn field" and "watermelon field"...
—That’s it…
Seeing the so-called micro farm in front of them, not only Lin Cheng and the audience in the live broadcast room, but even Xu Yi had a look of astonishment on their faces.
"This place has been demolished." Lin Cheng said.
"Okay," Xu Yi agreed, and then asked, "Do we need to arrange to build a micro farm again?"
"No need." After a pause, Lin Cheng said, "There are so many fields outside, you can plant whatever you want. There's no need to plant here."
Xu Yi: “…” However, what the boss said seemed to make some sense.
Haha, Boss Lin has a broad mind.
Indeed, such a small place is like playing house, which is really boring.
I just don't like this so-called personal experience. The merchants just get some soil and a few small tools and ask you to dig it up and it becomes a farmland experience. It's not real at all.
It can also easily mislead children and make them think that farming is as easy as playing.
I'm really looking forward to growing things in a real field!
Me too!
…
"Keep the external structure of this place and clean up the inside." Lin Cheng ordered again.
"Boss, do you have other arrangements?" Xu Yi asked with some surprise.
"Yeah." Lin Cheng nodded.
—
Several people left the parent-child experience center and took a working sightseeing bus to the outer area of the farm.
This place is much larger than the internal holiday and leisure area.
"The external area mainly consists of several large areas, especially the farmland cultivation area, which covers an area of 300 mu, about 200,000 square meters, and the orchard covers an area of 120 mu, about 80,000 square meters. There is also a 30,000 square meter breeding area and four 5,000 square meter fish ponds..." Xu Yi introduced to Lin Cheng and Lin Momo while driving the car.
"Boss, how about we go over there and take a look first?" Xu Yi asked.
At this time, Lin Momo pulled Lin Cheng's hand and said, "Can we go and see where the farmland is first?"
Lin Momo was still thinking about the various farming strategies she had written down in her book "How to Get Rich".
"Okay," Lin Cheng nodded, and told the driver: "Let's go to the farming area first."
"OK."
Soon, the driver brought them to the farming area.
"Currently, this area is the main farming area, and there is a small area further back." The driver introduced the father and daughter.
"Before, corn, soybeans, several kinds of melons, eggplants... most of the empty land here has not been planted yet. The vegetables over there have rotted in the field because no one has harvested them. The field to the left was also planted before and is ripe this month. If it was delayed a month later, it would probably have rotted in the field too."
The driver introduced the car to everyone skillfully and did not notice Lin Momo's completely stunned expression.
Seeing the farmland in front of her that seemed to stretch as far as the eye could see, Lin Momo was completely dumbfounded. Lin Momo didn't have much idea about the '300 acres' that Xu Yi had mentioned before. She only knew that it should be a large piece of land, but she never expected it to be so big.
"How long will it take me to finish planting such a large area?" Lin Momo muttered softly.
Hearing her words, the driver beside her laughed and joked: "You still want to be a race? With your skinny arms and legs, you will probably not be able to finish your job until next year."
Lin Momo: “…”
Seeing Lin Momo's expression that said "I must have opened it the wrong way", Lin Cheng couldn't help but smile and asked Xu Yi: "Have all the farmers been recruited?"
"We have already found the number of people that are needed. Three people have been temporarily arranged in the orchard, and the remaining nine are on the farming side." Xu Yi replied.
When it comes to recruiting, his subordinates are very efficient. Last night they found a dozen villagers in nearby villages who were willing to come and work.
Early this morning, the workers had already arrived to work.
Xu Yi gathered a few people and brought them to Lin Cheng.
Several people had just come from the fields, and they were still wearing their farm clothes - the men's clothes were relatively simple, while the women were wearing standard farm clothes, such as large flowered elastic pants, large flowered sleeves for sun protection, and woven hats with large brims. Some of them also had towels and water on them.
This set of equipment can be said to be exactly the same as Lin Momo's outfit, but there is also a huge difference.
Oh shit, is our Momo wearing the same clothes as these older sisters
We can't say they are very similar, we can only say they are exactly the same.
Hahaha, it shouldn’t be like this. It’s unexpected that we can wear the same clothes as each other.
I felt that Momo’s outfit looked a little familiar. It turns out the same style is here!
This is the brainchild of the big sister of Mathematics Farm! Hahahaha.
…
Here, seeing several aunts in front of her dressed the same as herself, Lin Momo was stunned for a moment, then she smiled and took out her own pants and said to them: "Our pants are the same!"
“Really…” Seeing the kid in front of them dressed like a typical worker, the older sisters were a little surprised.
"What's going on? You found a child laborer to work with us?" an older sister asked jokingly.
Lin Momo quickly shook her head and explained: "I am just a child laborer, but I can help farm with you."
Lin Momo's serious words made everyone present laugh.
At this time, Xu Yi pointed to one of the older sisters and introduced her to Lin Cheng: "This is Sister Liu. She is mainly responsible for managing this piece of land in our farm. She is usually responsible for arranging the work of the other eight people, farming, fertilizing, watering, pest control, and the final harvest... She is quite experienced in this area."
Lin Cheng nodded and greeted the other party.
After Sister Liu arranged for a few people to continue working, she came over and told Lin Cheng about the current situation.
"The more than ten acres of lettuce over there have all rotted in the ground and are of no use. And the piece of celery over there has also been eaten. We will clean up those plots of land later, leave them alone for a few days, and then plant something else to nourish the soil."
"In addition, there are dozens of acres of winter melon and more than ten acres of potatoes in the east. The edamame and eggplant in the northeast are all ripe, as are the watermelons over there. If we harvest them now, they can still be eaten. If we wait any longer, they will probably rot."
"How long can it be kept in the ground?" Lin Cheng asked.
"Those that are fully ripe must be harvested immediately in the next few days. The rest that are growing slowly must also be harvested within a month or so." Sister Liu replied.
Hearing this, Lin Cheng nodded and said to Sister Liu: "Then please help everyone and collect the ripe ones first."
After that, Lin Cheng looked at Xu Yi again and said, "The first batch of vegetables collected should be packed in boxes and put in the warehouse for cooling and fresh-keeping storage."
"Okay," Xu Yi agreed, and then said, "But there are only a few low-temperature warehouses available on the farm. It should be no problem to store one or two batches of vegetables. If we put all the vegetables in the field in there, it will definitely be enough."
"It still needs to be marketed." Xu Yi sighed.
The farm's initial vegetable output had reached the standard for long-term supply to supermarkets outside, and was retailed and sold nearby in the village. However, the cost of establishing its own sales chain was too high, which was one of the reasons why the farm could not continue to operate.
Lin Cheng stared at the vegetables in front of him and thought for a moment before saying, "Send the picked fruits and vegetables for inspection. I'll find a way to deal with the rest."
—
Lin Cheng turned his gaze to where Lin Momo was in the distance.
At this time, several farm workers have begun to continue their previous work.
In the morning, several people had already turned over the soil with the tillage equipment. At this time, several older sisters were mixing a pile of what looked like rubble in front of them beside the edge of the field.
Lin Momo helped from the side, carrying her small bucket and shovel, digging out the other half of the mixed 'soil' and imitating the others to spread the 'soil' on the ground.
Lin Momo's movements were not fast, but you could tell she was serious.
Lin Cheng walked closer and looked at it for a while before looking at the older sisters and asking, "What did you add?"
"This," an older woman shook the bag in her hand and explained, "This is a composting agent, mixed with some other things that speed up its effect. This is added to chicken manure to remove odor and pests."
"We came here early in the morning and mixed that pile. The chicken manure in your garden has dried up. With this, there's no need to wait. It will be ready in half a day. Smell it, there is no smell at all." The eldest sister chatted with Lin Cheng while working.
There used to be chickens in the farm’s breeding yard, but later the chickens were sold and ran away, leaving a pile of chicken manure on the ground.
Early in the morning, the older brothers and sisters who came to work on the farm saw them and pulled them over.
Lin Cheng: “…”
Lin Momo, who had just finished spreading a bucket of chicken manure and was carrying a small bucket back to add the next bucket, asked: "???"
"You said this, this is chicken shit?" Lin Momo froze in place, looking conflicted.
The elder sister here quickly gave Lin Momo a positive answer: "Yes, it is chicken shit."
The older sister at the side also echoed: "This is a good thing. Compound fertilizers and farmyard manure are better than fertilizers made from chicken manure. The nutrients are balanced. The vegetables grown here are, as you city people would say, ecological, organic, green, and healthy vegetables..."
The eldest sister was talking excitedly and didn't notice that Lin Momo, whose feet were stepping on a pile of chicken manure, was completely stiff at this moment.