Chapter 897
Lin Ran saw this but smiled.
“If Mr. He is not satisfied, I can find someone else to talk to, after all, the village has to develop can’t ask for unlimited, we also have our own plans!”
“Never, what is this for, little friend Lin Ran? I just think we can totally cooperate in depth no!”
He had been in the town for so many years that he naturally had a scale for the production and quality of herbs in the town.
Although the total amount of herbs provided by Lin Ran was not that much, they were all guaranteed natural wild herbs, and this alone was no less profitable than other herbs.
Moreover, looking at the situation, Lin Jiawan should be looking for development, and there would be other aspects of cooperation in the future, so how could he be willing to push Lin Ran, the money-spinner, out of the country.
“In that case, then there is no objection, and if there are other things that our village wants to sell in the future, we will naturally be happy to negotiate with Mr. He!”
Lin Ran said with a smile.
“Good! Good!”
Old He was busy smiling along.
While the people were talking, Cao Delei had already run off to bring the contract.
“We have this three-way contract, it’s kind of like having our herb market to buy it first, and then selling it to Old He, come and sign the contract!”
Cao Delei said impatiently.
Although this cooperation was not profitable for the time being, it was definitely a very cost effective contract in the long run.
Lin Ran and Lao He also took what they needed, so naturally there was no problem, and the three of them signed the contract right away.
And according to the contract, every year Lin Ran had to provide the herb market with at least 500,000 catties of snake tongue gra*s and 400,000 catties of honeysuckle, and this was still the very beginning, and if it increased later on, they could also continue to provide.
“Alright!”
Lin Ran signed his name and then pressed his handprint.
“Right Lin Ran, I have to ask one more thing, are you planning to do this alone in the future?”
Cao Delei asked.
Lin Ran smiled at his words but said.
“The co-operative, I’m here on behalf of the co-operative in our village!”
“Co-operative?”
On the side, Dalong was stunned at his words, when did Lin Jiawan have a co-operative, how come he didn’t know about it.
“Co-operative? So it’s best, for the village not for the people, then I’m also relieved!”
Old He smiled, the co-operative was at least a village collective, any accidents would be more secure than just Lin Ran personally.
“Right, Lin Ran, I see in the contract you said there is a mountain closure period, how did you arrange this time? I can also make preparations for it!”
“Every year, the mountain is closed in winter, no herbs will be taken out and collected, and the supply will continue in the summer of the following year!”
Lin Ran said.
It wasn’t without reason that he arranged this, after all, the village had to develop, it couldn’t keep asking for more, it had to give the mountains time to breathe, and closing the mountains in winter and spring was the best option.
For one thing, the mountains were full of snow in winter and people couldn’t get up there, while winter would allow the herbs to recover properly and not affect next year’s harvesting.
“Well, if there’s nothing else, then we’ll take our leave, I’ll have the first herbs ready in three days!”
Lin Ran got up and smiled.
“Little friend Lin Ran wait a moment!”
Old He suddenly remembered something and spoke up.
“There is something I don’t know if I should talk about!”
“But there is no harm in saying it!”
Lin Ran laughed, in fact he had already guessed what it was about.
“I’ve always wondered, how did little friend Lin Ran know that the two bags of herbs provided by Cao Wang were mouldy inside when he wasn’t in the office earlier?”
“Right! I had almost forgotten about this!”
Cao Delei was also bewildered, he was also curious as to how Lin Ran knew about it, had this kid secretly changed it?
Lin Ran couldn’t help but laugh as he looked at the two men’s confusion.
“Is that hard to understand? One of you two is in the herbal medicine business, and the other manages the herbal medicine market, and you don’t even understand this?”
After saying this, the two of them looked at each other, still at a loss, and Lin Ran said helplessly.
“The two bags of herbs provided by Cao Wang are dry herbs, which are not suitable for long periods of time to be stacked, plus the warehouse inside this office backs up to a water station, the environment inside is humid, he stored the herbs here, it would be strange if they didn’t get mouldy!”
“This …..”
Cao Delei was stunned, while Cao Wang at the side was completely wilted, sitting paralyzed on the floor looking at Cao Delei, looking at Lao He, not holding in a word for half a day.
“Young friend Lin Ran, you are indeed a hero! I have learned a lot!”
Old He arched his hand at Lin Ran, he himself was in the herbal medicine business, but he had never thought that he would not even understand this truth, he was really a bit embarra*sed.
“Mr. He is joking!”
Lin Ran laughed lightly, then chatted with Old He Cao Delei for a few more minutes before leaving with Dalong.
Looking at Lin Ran’s back as he left, after taking a look at this own nephew of his, Cao Delei was furious.
“Tell me about you, people are about the same age as you, why do you only know how to play games, can you learn more from them!”
Cao Delei hates iron.
……
Leaving the herb market, Lin Ran took Big Dragon straight to Song Nuan.
This ninny had been working all morning and had finally completed all the formalities and gotten some information about the village.
“Well?”
When he got into the car, Lin Ran asked straight away.
“The situation is not good!”
Song Nuan frowned sadly.
“Our Linjiawan has a total population of more than seven hundred people, about two hundred families, but do you know what the poverty rate of our village is?”
“How much?”
Lin Ran frowned.
“Eighty percent!”
Song Nuan sighed.
“And the remaining twenty percent are still very poor, and I’m afraid you’re the only exception in the whole village when you do the math, everyone else is either poor or impoverished!”
“That even?”
Lin Ran couldn’t help but laugh too.
“Can you use average? The whole village is poor, what are you going to do?”
Song Nuan couldn’t help but ask.
Lin Ran smiled at his words but laughed, while raising the contract in his hand.
“What’s this?”
Song Nuan was delighted and immediately took it over to check it out, and the entire person froze under this look.
“This …… So many herbs, where are you going to get them!”
“What do you think?”
Lin Ran laughed.
Song Nuan was instantly stunned and thought of something.
“Village Chief, do I need to say more about what to do next instead?”
Lin Ran laughed heatedly and took the contract back, before looking at Song Nuan and saying seriously.
“I don’t have much time, and the time I can spend next to you helping to develop the village is not much either, so we’ll have to do a lot of things at the same time to try to make the village change drastically within six months!”
“What do you want?”
Song Nuan asked with a serious look on her face.
“You have to familiarise yourself with the various policies as soon as possible to provide a strong policy guarantee for Lin Jiawan’s future development!”
Lin Ran said.
“Mm!”
Song Nuan nodded solemnly at her words, she found that this guy Lin Ran was very good at motivating people, she herself didn’t have much fighting spirit before, but at this moment, seeing that Lin Ran had negotiated such a big cooperation, she instantly had confidence too.
“Do you still feel lost in life now?”
Lin Ran asked with a sudden turn.
“Don’t feel it anymore!”
Song Nuan smiled, before she didn’t have much of a favorite career, after all, the conditions of her family were there, but now she seemed to feel a different trajectory in life, looking at the eager eyes of the villagers, Song Nuan also finally understood what kind of things were more meaningful to do and better reflected her value.
“Don’t worry, since you gave me the village head and the villagers didn’t object, then I will do a good job as the village head!”
Song Nuan a*sured to, her words full of determination.
Chapter 898
They returned to the village just in time for dinner.
Grandma had prepared dinner early and was waiting for Lin Ran to return.
It was a summer evening and the villagers were all gathered at the entrance for dinner, so when they saw Lin Ran and the others return, they all chatted.
“Ranzi, where have you been?”
“Yes, it’s only been a day since you became village head and you’ve been out having fun?”
“Huh don’t talk nonsense, people Lin Ran handed over the village head to his young daughter-in-law! ”
“Haha, that’s not as afraid of his wife as I am!”
The villagers laughed.
Lin Ran, however, just laughed and didn’t answer.
After dinner, the villagers all gathered together to chat and gossip, the countryside was such a pleasant place to live.
Originally, the village was full of old people and children, there was not much labour, there was nothing to do but eat and chat, they all counted on their young sons and daughters to send money back from outside.
“Hey, hey! Now give notice, all villagers have a meeting at the village head!”
Song Nuan’s voice rang out over the village loudspeaker, as the village head this voice was naturally for her to say.
But after the notice, she soon received a call from Dalong.
“Sister Nuan, no one is coming!”
Dalong was standing guard at the village head and didn’t see anyone coming at all.
Lin Ran, who was on the side, saw this, frowned slightly and spoke.
“I’ll shout!”
With that, he turned on the loudspeaker and shouted.
“I’m Lin Ran I’m Lin Ran, I’ll only say this once, this meeting is to bring everyone to make money, whoever doesn’t make money can not come! The meeting will be held in ten minutes, so everyone can decide for themselves!”
“So direct?”
Song Nuan was stunned to hear that, saying making money over the loud speaker, would anyone believe it?
“Just you wait!”
Lin Ran laughed heatedly and didn’t explain, then he dragged Song Nuan to the village head.
When the two of them arrived, the village head was already filled with people, each waiting eagerly for Lin Ran and Song Nuan to appear.
“You’re really something!”
Seeing this scene, Song Nuan couldn’t help but give Lin Ran a thumbs up.
“You have to understand what the villagers want most!”
Lin Ran laughed heatedly, then pulled Song Nuan into the crowd.
“Hey hey! Isn’t this Lin Ran and Village Chief Song? How on earth are you guys making money by shouting for the big guys to come over!”
Seeing the two coming over, the fat aunt at the front of the crowd was the first to speak up.
“Yes, wife I’m changing the baby’s nappies, how on earth are you guys going to make money here!”
Aunt Liu, who had just become a grandmother, also asked.
“I think it’s just a joke, how do we make money just in our village!”
On the other side, a very unkempt old Yu said disdainfully, he was a famous lazy man in the village, in his early forties, but he was so lazy that he hadn’t even found a daughter-in-law yet.
The crowd was having a lot of fun.
Seeing this, Lin Ran sighed helplessly and immediately stepped forward to scold them.
“Stop it all! Be quiet if you want to make money, and listen to Village Chief Song next.”
As soon as he chided, the surroundings really quietened down.
Seeing this, Song Nuan knew that it was his turn to take the stage, and immediately took a deep breath and walked forward to look at the surrounding villagers and spoke.
“Villagers, since you all believe in me so much, then I, Song Nuan, will not be polite with you!”
“Today we went to the city to negotiate a big order, signed with our village’s cooperative relationship, and this contract is directly related to everyone here!”
As soon as Lin Ran’s words fell, murmurs arose from below.
“What kind of contract?”
“How big can it be?”
“That’s right, making money isn’t pulling us to do hard labour!”
On the side, Old Yu was full of disdain.
Seeing this, Song Nuan not only frowned slightly, and said.
“We have a contract, so naturally we’re not cheating everyone!”
Song Nuan took a deep breath and continued.
“From tomorrow onwards, those who want to make money will go to the back of the mountain to collect snake tongue gra*s and honeysuckle, the more you pick the more you earn, the price per catty of snake tongue gra*s is ten yuan, and per catty of honeysuckle flower is seventy-five fast!”
“What? A catty of snake tongue gra*s for ten yuan?”
“A catty of honeysuckle for seventy-five fast?”
“That’s a lie! How can it be so high!”
“Yes, I even dragged Dalong to the town to sell it before, and the honeysuckle was only twenty dollars!”
“Liar!”
The villagers suddenly murmured at the words.
Song Nuan was a little overwhelmed by the situation, it was her first time doing this job after all, and it was inevitable that she was nervous.
Lin Ran saw this and rushed straight up, scolding.
“All be quiet!”
“I’ll tell you why the price is high!”
Lin Ran swept his gaze over the crowd and said.
“In the past, our herbs from Lin Jiawan couldn’t fetch a good price, that was because the people in charge of herbs in the town didn’t know what they were doing, plus our limited production resulted in that!”
“But now it’s different, the price that Village Chief Song just said is the real deal! If any of you don’t believe me, feel free to try it tomorrow, I, Lin Ran, put my word on it, will still be here tomorrow night, you will come to me with the herbs you have collected and be paid on the spot!”
“This ……”
Hearing Lin Ran’s words, a crowd of villagers all burst out laughing and talking.
The money was handed out on the spot, then so many people were watching, Lin Ran was afraid that he wouldn’t be able to renege on his debt if he wanted to.
“Ranzi, you told the Second Grand Master that you were serious?”
In the crowd, an old man who was over sixty years old looked at Lin Ran and said seriously.
“Second Grand Master, I was brought up under your watch, do you think I look like a liar?”
Lin Ran said seriously.
“Not like that, then Second Grand Master will go pick herbs tomorrow!”
Second Grand Master said seriously.
“I’ll go too!”
Suddenly, Big Dragon spoke up too.
“I’m so poor that I can’t even uncover the pot, I’m going tomorrow too!”
Big Dragon cursed.
Lin Ran smiled at this, Big Dragon was indeed in a difficult situation, so he wouldn’t stand in the way.
“Then I’ll go too, I have nothing to do at home anyway, and if I do have money, I can still use it for my children’s school!”
The widow Liu on the side also said.
“Brother Yu are we going?”
On the side, Hei Zi, who had just dropped out of school and was at home, asked Lao Yu.
Since he had dropped out of school, Hei Zi had been following Lao Yu, and although he had nothing to do, he still wanted to seek Lao Yu’s advice.
“Go? What for? Paying for picking herbs, what a lie! I’d rather lie at home and sleep in the time I have, I’m not going.”
“All right then!”
Blackie nodded helplessly.
“Let’s go! I don’t believe you!”
Old Yu tilted his head and looked at Lin Ran with disdain.
Lin Ran didn’t get angry when he saw this and swept his gaze over the crowd and laughed.
“Those who don’t believe for the time being can go without, when they do believe feel free to come and find me, no one will be denied!”
“For those who believe, you can go ahead and try, I, Lin Ran, am also a member of the Lin Family Bay, so we will know tomorrow night if it’s a lie to the group!”
A night of hustle and bustle had pa*sed.
For this kind of result, Lin Ran actually had psychological preparation, after all, the first way to make money, the villagers also need a process, and as long as wait for tonight after the scene to give out money to everyone, I am afraid that this wind of making money will be completely up.
The next morning, early in the morning, some villagers started to go to the mountains to pick herbs. For the people of Linjiawan, who were born and bred in the mountains, almost everyone knew how to pick herbs, so it was too easy for them.
While the villagers went to the mountains to pick herbs, Lin Ran was at home with Song Nuan, discussing the next step of development.
Song Nuan frowned and asked.
“Your contract for honeysuckle is eighty dollars per catty, why are you only giving the villagers seventy-five? The snake tongue herb is not worse!”
