DF Chapter 39

Chapter 39: Now, Sleep

Chapter 39 Now, Sleep

The pig farm’s dormitory was better than everyone imagined.

Liu Yishan used the money left over after renovating the pig farm’s equipment to decorate the employee dormitory. The interior was basically solid wood bunk beds with desks underneath, and it was built some distance from the factory.

Sheng Jia and Song Ji’an stayed in the same room, while the remaining three-person room was occupied by Su Zhaolin and the others.

The three-person room was actually more spacious and faced away from the sun. Even in October, Camel Ridge was still scorching. Although the sun-facing rooms had good lighting, they could bake people.

The two-person room was much smaller, with the beds almost touching each other, but there was a small living room for storing clothes.

This trip was only going to be two days at most. They would be leaving on Sunday afternoon, so there was hardly any time to worry about these small matters. All of their attention was focused on how to help Song Ji’an achieve her goal.

After putting down their luggage, they weren’t in a hurry to tour the place. The tour was scheduled for eight o’clock in the morning, so they had time to wash away the fatigue of the journey.

Su Zhaolin and the others almost fell asleep as soon as they finished washing up, but Sheng Jia and Song Ji’an couldn’t sleep in the cramped room.

Song Ji’an stared at the sky outside the window and turned over.

“Sheng Jia?” she suddenly whispered.

After a while, Sheng Jia slowly asked, “What?”

“The stars here are so beautiful,” Song Ji’an replied. “Are the night skies in the countryside always this beautiful?”

Sheng Jia: “You’ve been here before.”

Song Ji’an: “Last time I came with my mom, I was careful the whole time. Back then, the scale here was half of what it is now, and it was dirty and chaotic everywhere. We were busy with inspections, and then we talked to Sister Zhou about the cooperation model. We left as soon as we finished talking, so there was no time to look at the sky.”

“Back then, Mom was even busier than she is now. She took some time out to come with me, and I regret it now. We stayed here for a total of ten hours and then left. Afterwards, my mom flew directly to Beijing to discuss business without even resting.”

“This time, we’re here on our own, and finally not so nervous,” Song Ji’an smiled. “And finally in the mood to look at the scenery outside.”

“Not nervous? Then why aren’t you asleep yet? And why are you talking so much?” Sheng Jia bluntly exposed her lie.

Song Ji’an’s sleep has always been good, and she rarely has insomnia. At least at school, Song Ji’an can fall asleep instantly when she naps on her desk.

Moreover, according to her personality, she would never abruptly call out someone’s name and disturb their sleep without making sure that Sheng Jia was asleep.

It was Song Ji’an’s turn to be silent.

“There is a little bit,” she turned over again in bed.

She was indeed very nervous. Although she had made many investments before, those only required her to move her fingers and look at the other party’s reports. The main test was her eyesight.

This time was the first time she was in charge of the overall situation on her own. What she had to do was to understand the place in a limited time and get the conditions she was satisfied with within her budget.

In fact, even if her investment failed, this amount of money wouldn’t even be a drop in the bucket for the Song family, but Song Ji’an wasn’t used to failure, especially since this cooperation was initiated by Song Ningqiu, and she didn’t want to fail even more.

What’s more—

Tonight, she and Sheng Jia were sleeping in the same room. Turning over, she could feel the scent of laundry detergent on the other person’s body. The space between the beds was so close that every move was clearly audible.

This undoubtedly increased her tension, and even the croaking of frogs outside the window could be heard clearly and was hard to ignore.

“Song Ji’an,” Sheng Jia said, turning her back to her and raising her hand to pull the curtains shut.

The starry sky was gone, and so were the rolling mountains and farmland. Only the sounds of nature continued to disturb the mind.

“Yeah?”

Song Ji’an raised her head subconsciously.

Sheng Jia had turned to face her at some point. A little moonlight from outside the window penetrated the gaps in the curtains and fell on Sheng Jia’s face, causing Song Ji’an to be slightly stunned.

“Now, sleep,” Sheng Jia ordered.

“But I can’t sleep.” Song Ji’an’s eyes fell on Sheng Jia’s face, and she couldn’t help but lick her lips. “Sheng Jia, why aren’t you asleep either?”

“Because you keep tossing and turning,” Sheng Jia said. “But the employee handbook you gave me says that assistants have an obligation to provide the boss with help in their life.”

“…I wrote that for fun,” Song Ji’an’s face turned red. “I didn’t really want you to do these things.”

Along the way, she treated it as if she had come to discuss business with her friends. Everyone was equal, and no one really took the things she had written for fun at the beginning seriously.

“Yeah, I know,” Sheng Jia replied. “But I took it seriously, otherwise I’d feel a little sorry for the salary you paid.”

As soon as Sheng Jia finished speaking, Song Ji’an felt her breath gradually approaching in the darkness, scaring her so much that she quickly raised her hand to cover her mouth. “What are you doing?”

Sheng Jia didn’t speak. Her upper body moved past Song Ji’an and patted the left and right sides of her head. A pleasant fragrance immediately spread from where she patted.

“Sleep aid patches,” Sheng Jia explained after returning to her original position. “I heard that the essential oils inside can help you sleep. See if it works.”

As she said that, she looked at Song Ji’an strangely. “What did you think I wanted to do?”

Song Ji’an blinked, looking at the ceiling. She belatedly lowered her hand, realizing that her reaction was a bit excessive, and quickly found a reason: “I thought you were annoyed that I wasn’t sleeping and wanted to knock me out.”

Sheng Jia: ………

“You’re thinking too much,” Sheng Jia said after a moment of silence. “Little CEO Song, go to sleep. It’s already eleven o’clock.”

Song Ji’an obediently nodded. After such a commotion, she felt that her tension had dissipated a little. She twisted around in bed and rolled into the innermost part with her quilt and pillow.

Perhaps the sleep aid patches worked, or perhaps Song Ji’an herself was sleepy, but she actually leaned against the wall and slowly fell asleep.

Behind her, Sheng Jia lay on her side by the bed, quietly watching her back.

When going out, Song Ji’an, a pampered person, actually had a surprisingly good ability to adapt. She changed into her pajamas and sank into the soft bedding, creating a beautiful curve of her spine.

Sheng Jia felt her breathing gradually stabilize, which was a sign of falling asleep. The moon changed its angle to shine, and this time the moonlight actually penetrated the curtains and fell on Song Ji’an’s pillow, illuminating the redness that had not yet disappeared around her ears.

Sheng Jia calmly withdrew her gaze. She looked up at the only light in the room. The second hand ticked, and when the hour hand reached twelve, she finally closed her eyes. Perhaps no one but tonight’s moon would know what she was thinking.

–

Fully automated pig farming was not just talk. The next day, after getting up early, Liu Yishan led them to visit.

She didn’t neglect them because they were a group of high school students. She brought most of the pig farm’s backbone staff to receive them, giving them full respect.

Most of the facilities here were new. Liu Yishan had even changed the ventilation system and installed central air conditioning, which could accurately control the temperature to two decimal places.

Pork doesn’t have peak or off seasons. Her site only covered around five thousand square meters, and the pig farm only covered more than four thousand square meters, but the current conditions could provide most of the developing or lactating sows with separate 80*120 steel cages, and even the pig feed was automatically transported.

This was the first time Song Ji’an and the others had entered a pig farm of this scale. It didn’t have the stench, dirt, and chaos they had imagined. Instead, most places had a high-tech sense of simplicity. Perhaps because the site wasn’t too large, it only took two hours to see everything. Moreover, they didn’t enter the inner field. Most of the time, they were overlooking through the glass in the elevated walkways. Above their heads were feed pipes being transported, and next to them were the breeding talents Liu Yishan had hired recording relevant data.

“We are now using intelligent farming. The elevated feed line has a dedicated control system. There are currently four zones: the sow area, the nursery area, the farrowing room, and the meat pig area,” Liu Yishan introduced from the side. “At the beginning, we only had about one hundred and twenty pigs here. The approximate initial cost was two hundred to three hundred thousand. Now, a year later, it has expanded to thousands of heads. Our farm mainly focuses on fattening. Currently, we purchase feed from outside, but in the future, we plan to develop the barren mountains behind and build a feed factory. We will purchase raw materials from outside and develop more efficient pig feed ourselves.”

“At the same time, we now have a professional veterinary room, which can cope with most diseases and also Preparation that pigs need to absorb during their growth and development to ensure the health of the pigs and the deliciousness of the meat. We will also build a breeding laboratory in the future to cultivate better breeds of pigs. A piece of land in the back mountain has been reclaimed to grow vegetables, some of which are used to supplement the employee cafeteria, and some of which are used to supplement pig feed. Later, we can go to the cafeteria to taste the flavors. It’s very delicious.”

The group walked and stopped, and in two hours they finished visiting the entire production line. Liu Yishan arranged to take them to the cafeteria for lunch.

The cafeteria had also been renovated. Unlike the dilapidated small cafeteria that Song Ji’an saw last year, the current cafeteria was a single building, built with reinforced steel and concrete. It was also kept at the optimal room temperature of twenty-six degrees under central air conditioning.

The vegetables from the back mountain that had just been mentioned were cooked and served. There weren’t many elaborate dishes in the countryside. Pork from the factory was a must. The cafeteria chefs that Liu Yishan had hired were a few local grandmothers who made a variety of specialty dishes. After she increased their wages, their cooking skills improved for the sake of their paychecks.

After lunch, Liu Yishan dismissed the executives who had come earlier, leaving Song Ji’an and the others plenty of time for a lunch break.

Of course, everyone knew that they wouldn’t be taking a lunch break. After visiting the factory, they would be preparing to hold a meeting in the afternoon to discuss whether to cooperate or invest. Both Song Ji’an and Liu Yishan needed to take advantage of these three hours to adjust and supplement their plans.

The group returned to the dormitory but didn’t immediately go back to their rooms. Xu Lijing looked around at the door, then closed the doors of Song Ji’an and Sheng Jia’s room. The small living room in the dormitory became a temporary conference room for them to discuss things.

At this moment, Song Ji’an showed a bit of the professionalism she had acquired through elite education. She flipped through the tablet she had brought with her. “The people who came early have already compiled the data they obtained. All the indicators here are up to standard. There are eight million in outstanding loans. The overall valuation is about twenty million.”

“Liu Yishan revealed some of her future plans in her words. I recorded them,” Sheng Jia continued, picking up on her words. “This part of the valuation still needs to be sent over for estimation, but she definitely has other conditions that she hasn’t stated. We should add more investment budget to this part of the valuation.”