Witty Wife, Better Life-Chapter 813 - 803: Returning to Work after Leave

Li Hongjun had left on another work mission just a few days after, and, with Yunfang finding no joy in staying at home alone, she went straight back to work after canceling her leave.

Given that it was already Thursday and there were no more classes at the school, she headed straight to the farm first thing in the morning.

After many days away from the farm, having kept in touch only by phone, Yunfang found herself swamped with various urgent matters to attend to once she arrived at the office. No sooner had she sat down than Zhang Chunwang, Li Tuo, and Hongjie, the hired accountant, all came to see her.

"Sister-in-law, it’s good to see you’ve finally come," Zhang Chunwang said, his eyes welled up with tears of relief upon seeing the boss.

"Boss, this is the plan for developing new products. Although we are already halfway through, I hope you can take a look at it," Li Tuo brought over the plan that had been discussed over the phone for the boss to review.

Hongjie was even more straightforward, handing over her ledger directly; her entire job was contained within it.

"Goodness, you guys are really something! I’ve just started my day, and you’re not even giving me a moment to breathe," Yunfang said in jest, her hands moving quickly through the tasks at hand. "Please, have a seat. I need to go through these documents for a while longer."

The group made themselves comfortable on the sofa without any courtesies.

Yunfang quickly flipped through the plan and briefly looked over the farm and factory accounts from the recent period before raising her head to address them, "The plan is well-crafted. Our processing factory is just starting, and since the raw materials are primarily our own, the variety is a bit mixed. Manager Li, you need to focus on both production and sales."

Li Tuo nodded, "You can rest assured, boss. Although there are many processing lines in the factory, our workers are practically skilled now, so I’ve made production safety a priority and a long-term issue to focus on."

Yunfang nodded at his words. Li Tuo was a managerial talent worth every penny she paid, adeptly wielding his own methods and connections.

"As for sales, I have a preliminary idea to export our products abroad. This could definitely increase our profits significantly. I’ll draft a plan and present it once I’ve fleshed it out," Li Tuo said respectfully.

Yunfang hadn’t expected his thoughts to align so closely with her own plans, although she had intended to wait another two years before venturing into overseas markets.

"That’s excellent. Since you have this in mind, put it into writing as soon as possible and then we’ll discuss it further."

After Li Tuo reported his part, he rose to take his leave, as he was now managing the entire processing factory and was incredibly busy every day.

Next was Hongjie, who went over every single expenditure and income of the factory and farm during this period, giving Yunfang a clear sense of the financials before leaving with her ledger.

"Sister-in-law, I didn’t write anything down, so I’ll just report orally," Zhang Chunwang scratched his head, surprised by the formality of the reports as everyone else had brought written documents. Being a rough-and-tumble guy, drafting those wasn’t really his forte.

"That’s fine, just tell me," Yunfang replied, not wanting to make things difficult for him. Things on the farm were relatively simple, as were the people, so Zhang Chunwang’s current management style was still adequate.

This spring, the farm’s breeding facilities and greenhouses had been essentially completed. Accordingly, Zhang Chunwang had allocated the workforce, getting the whole farm up and running at full speed.

Because last year’s sweet potatoes and corn hadn’t sold, except for half that were taken away by the processing plant to be used as snack food raw materials, the remaining half was more than enough to feed a few hundred fattened pigs. Therefore, this year, he contacted the seedling company and rounded up a few hundred piglets. Based on last year’s situation, he prepared to raise pigs in a phased manner, aiming to ensure that each month there was a batch of no fewer than two hundred fattened pigs ready for slaughter.

Poultry such as chickens, ducks, and geese were also raised at double the rate this year. Goose and duck eggs had already started to be produced and were sent to the processing plant to be made into salted duck eggs and preserved eggs for sale.

The livestock department had sold a batch of sheep, but the cattle had not yet been slaughtered.

Shen Yunfang nodded her head, recalling that over the New Year holiday, her family had enjoyed plenty of hot pot lamb and lamb offal soup. The lamb was indeed excellent and tasted great.

Over at the vegetable greenhouse, due to the incident before the New Year, the farm had shifted its sales focus from various units to wholesale. However, because they had previously planted vegetables in a single batch, which ripened all at once like a swarm of bees, this was not conducive to the sale of wholesale vegetables. Therefore, starting this year, they made adjustments to ensure that every month when the wholesalers came to buy vegetables, there were mature vegetables available for wholesale.

In the planting department, because of last year’s lucrative Lingzhi mushrooms, they put in a lot of effort to plant corn this year, covering a hundred acres in total, which also meant intercropping a hundred acres of Lingzhi.

They scaled back on the wheat crops, which were not very profitable. In their own words, it was okay to eat less flour—as eating corn could still fill the stomach, and it was more important to earn a little extra money.

Shen Yunfang was also pleased to hear this. If the workers’ bonuses were higher, it surely meant that her income as a boss had also increased, didn’t it?

Finally, there was the mountainous area that hadn’t been fully developed last year. After spring arrived this year, Li Zhiliang took the workers to the mountain top to continue the work. freewёbnoνel.com

The main task was to dig out dead trees and plant new saplings in the cleared areas. This project was vast and would keep that department busy for a year.

With regards to construction projects, by the time spring commenced, the cold storage facility at the processing plant had been completed and was ready for daily use. Everything was going well, except that it consumed a lot of electricity.

Hearing this, Shen Yunfang laughed. The refrigeration of the cold storage relied entirely on electrical power, so of course, it would consume a lot of electricity.

There was also the issue of the perimeter wall, which they had begun to address. Sun Bin had already dispatched a part of the workforce to start building the wall from the side of the road facing the main entrance.

Shen Yunfang had seen this herself when she arrived that morning.

"Sister-in-law, we’re pretty much using everything we can on our farm. It’s just that new mushroom shed you asked to be built that’s not sorted out yet. We don’t know how to do that," Zhang Chunwang really was scratching his head; he was at a loss with these professional matters.

"Ah, it’s already built? That was fast," Shen Yunfang was quite surprised. It hadn’t even been half a month yet, and it was already done.

"Heh, you don’t know, this year at the start of spring, Sun Bin brought in another construction crew, he’s really becoming something," with more people, the duration of the project naturally shortened.

"Is that so? Well, if our farm has any projects in the future, we still have to go to him," Shen Yunfang was satisfied with Sun Bin. They had collaborated multiple times, and each project was completed well. Of course, she played an indispensable part in Sun Bin’s achievements. "I’ll take care of the mushroom shed. I plan to cultivate various fungi there and will have to find the time to make a round at the school. Then we’ll invite some professors over to give us some guidance. Later on, you can pick a few dexterous workers to learn with them, and we’ll get the mushroom segment running this year."

Shen Yunfang was quite confident about this; in her previous life, she had made her fortune by growing mushrooms, after all.