Chapter 142 - 116: Intel Worth a Million!

Just a few employees are needed to raise thousands of pigs.

This greatly saves on labor costs and achieves cost reduction and efficiency improvement.

In short, in Jiang Tao’s view, the prospects of this industry are quite limited.

Whether he invests or not is still in the balance.

If the price is right, he’ll invest; if not, forget it.

Eventually, after some bargaining.

Jiang Tao successfully reached a cooperation intention with Tian Jianming at a price of 13 yuan per pound.

cows, with a total weight of 63,600 pounds and a total value of 826,800 yuan.

Plus 280,000 yuan for feed costs.

Jiang Tao hires all the workers at the cattle farm, continuing their employment.

The compensation for the land occupied by the cattle farm for the village farmers will henceforth be made by Jiang Tao.

The total amount of 1,106,800 yuan will be settled by Jiang Tao in three installments over three months.

The first installment is 500,000 yuan, the second 400,000 yuan, and the final installment will settle the balance.

Tomorrow, Tian Jianming will find someone to draft a formal contract.

Once the contract is signed and the first payment is made, Jiang Tao can take over the operation of the cattle farm.

"President Tian, here’s to a pleasant cooperation."

"Pleasant cooperation!"

After concluding the business, Jiang Tao and Tian Jianming shook hands and said their goodbyes.

Tian Jianming escorted the two to the entrance of his home, watching them get into a Beijing-plate Mercedes GLS.

"Second Brother, how’d the talks go?"

Driver Xiao Bing asked with concern about the progress of the investment project.

Jiang Tao laughed, "Successfully secured."

"By the way, can this project really make money? Don’t..."

"Poo, poo, poo, childish innocence, childish innocence!"

"Follow Second Brother’s lead! Sooner or later, I’ll have my own big Benz!"

"Third Brother, where’re you spitting at? Disgusting."

"You’re the one who’s disgusting! What kind of brother talks to his sister like that?"

Before long, the siblings started bickering again.

"You two, never change a bit over the years, always love to argue."

Tian Xiaoguang, sitting in the back seat, looked at the two in front with a smile.

His somewhat cloudy eyes seemed to travel back in time, seeing them as children again.

More than twenty years ago, the brother and sister were just little rascals.

The sister would follow her brother around like a shadow every day.

Even if her brother teased her to tears a dozen times a day, she’d wipe her nose and tears and continue to follow him.

In a blink, more than twenty years have passed.

The brother has a family and a career, and the sister is of marrying age.

Their innocent sibling bond remains just like when they were kids.

This is family, this is sibling love!

Now he’s in his fifties, a lifelong bachelor.

Even his sister always treats him like a child.

After their parents passed, his sister cared for him even more, often blaming herself for not finding him a good match.

Marriage was something Tian Xiaoguang thought about when he was young.

But it clearly wasn’t something he could just wish for and make happen.

He started dating at eighteen, but by thirty-eight hadn’t succeeded in finding a partner, so later hardly anyone introduced him to new people.

As he got older, thoughts of marriage and family life faded.

Being a bachelor is fine, being well-fed and having no family to worry about, it’s not bad!

Evening.

Tian Xiaoguang had another dinner at his sister’s house before Jiang Bing drove him back to the cattle farm.

As he thought of the cattle farm soon belonging to his nephew.

Tian Xiaoguang felt a sense of pride and became even more dedicated.

He took his flashlight and patrolled the farm several times.

He had never been this diligent before.

...

At Jiang Tao’s parents’ house.

After dinner, Jiang Wen and Old Sun went next door to find Uncle Tianming for a game of chess.

The two nephews were in the yard setting off fireworks and sparklers with the Jiang family’s darling Jiang Xue.

After dropping off their uncle, Jiang Bing returned and sat beside them eating cantaloupe, listening to Second Brother, Second Sister-in-law, and Mom chat.

"Sigh, both your brother’s and your children are so grown now, and your uncle still can’t find a wife."

"When he’s old and can’t move, who’s going to care for him, who’ll look after him, sigh..."

The mention of her brother’s marriage brought a long sigh from Tian Xiaomei.

This issue had almost become her obsession.

As the eldest sister, after their parents’ passing, Tian Xiaomei had worried endlessly about her brother’s marital situation.

She had always wanted to support her brother, help him find a wife, but simply lacked the ability to do so.

With two sons of her own, building homes, marrying, and having children, every aspect was a financial burden.

She could only watch with guilt as her brother aged, transitioning from an older unmarried youth to what people called a lifelong bachelor.

Xu Li held her mother-in-law’s hand, offering comforting words:

"Mom, don’t think too much, maybe Uncle’s fate hasn’t come yet. When it does, he might even get married this year."

"Sigh! At his age, talking about fate, I just hope he finds a companion."

"Looks don’t matter, as long as she’s a woman and not crazy or stupid."

"Thinking of your uncle’s lonely old age makes me upset, he’s my only brother, sigh."

The initially light-hearted atmosphere became somewhat somber when the discussion turned to the uncle’s marriage.

"Mom, don’t overthink it, as your daughter-in-law said, when fate arrives you can’t stop it, and when fate isn’t there, you can’t force it."

Jiang Tao laughed and shared an example: "My landlord in Beijing, in his seventies, happened to meet an aunt from our Ping County, and they started dating in no time; Uncle’s only in his fifties, there’s still time for a twilight romance."

"Even at fifty it’s not too late, but that’s just an isolated case, not the usual way, and you, Third! Still eating over there! You’re already..."