Chapter 81 Fishing
Chapter 81 Fishing (Super long chapter! More chapters)
6 month 15 day.
The sky is clear and the sun is setting.
The concrete pavement of the highway is releasing the heat from the sun throughout the day, making the temperature on both sides of the road seem a little hot.
A modified three-wheeled vehicle with a rear cargo box drove out of Magong Town in the afterglow of the setting sun and drove slowly along the road.
Xiao Li was chewing gum, the evening breeze gently blowing on his face, and the heat all over his body was blown away by the wind.
Just a few minutes out of the town, the company's Shiomachi eel breeding base is right in front of us.
As he was driving, he subconsciously glanced at a fisherman on the side of the road and thought to himself: "What's so good about fishing in these ditches? There are only a few ditches. I might as well go fishing at the beach."
Suddenly he saw the fisherman walk into the ditch, then climb up again with a bottle of mineral water in his hand.
"Strange? Why does this guy look a bit sneaky? Could it be?" Xiao Li pulled the handbrake and stopped the tricycle at the entrance of the breeding base, waiting for the security guard to open the door.
Xiao Li turned his head and looked at the fisherman in the distance of the ditch. He saw a familiar-looking fisherman and discovered that there were more than a dozen mineral water bottles around him. He immediately realized that something was wrong.
Then he saw several drains that were releasing water, and suddenly he understood something.
After the security guard opened the door, Xiao Li tightened the ignition switch on the handlebar and drove towards the restaurant entrance of the base.
When he arrived at the location, he pulled out the car key, flipped sideways and jumped down, and at the same time shouted to the two breeders who were lying flat in the restaurant: "Azhe, the food is here, come and bring it in, where is Manager Zhang?"
Azhe, the breeder, who was lying on a chair in the restaurant playing with his phone, yawned: "Huh... the manager is in the office, right? Are you looking for him?"
"Yeah!" Xiao Li didn't say anything and trotted straight to the manager's office.
bang bang bang...
There was a rapid knock on the door.
Zhang Xincheng looked at the screen in the monitoring room and said without raising his head, "Come in."
Xiao Li opened the door and said hurriedly, "Manager Zhang, I saw a fisherman sneaking around. He seemed to be stealing water from the fish pond."
Hearing this, Zhang Xincheng immediately raised his head and found that it was the deliveryman Xiao Li. He smiled and nodded: "It turned out to be Xiao Li! Good observation, I also noticed that this guy was sneaky just now."
"Then let's call everyone and I'll break his legs..." Xiao Li immediately rubbed his hands together.
"Okay, now we live in a society ruled by law, stop shouting for war and killing all day long." Zhang Xincheng smiled and waved his hand, then opened the drawer and took out a box: "You did a good job in this matter today, take this."
Looking at the stainless steel medal handed over by Zhang Xincheng, Xiao Li quickly took it over excitedly.
This stainless steel medal is a special item within Hailufeng Company and is also a new attempt by the company to supplement the employee grade promotion system:
Medal reward system.
This system is mainly issued to internal employees to reward employees for their special contributions to the company. It is divided into five major categories and twenty minor categories, namely stainless steel medals, aluminum alloy medals, brass medals, silver medals, and gold medals.
The stainless steel medal in Xiao Li's hand is engraved with the Hailufeng Company logo and company name, as well as a traditional Chinese character "一", indicating that this is a first-class steel medal.
Of course, the reason why Xiao Li is so excited is that this medal is not just an honor, but also brings real benefits.
For example, the first-class steel medal in his hand means that he can get a bonus of 1000 yuan this month, and it can also be used as a reference for future promotions.
"Don't tell anyone about this. My boss and I have already made a plan. Just pretend you don't know and don't alert the enemy, okay?"
Hearing this, Xiao Li nodded quickly: "I understand."
"Well, go and distribute the food!"
"Okay, manager, you're busy."
The reason why Zhang Xincheng can directly award the medal is because he is Jiang Miao's brother-in-law. Other department heads do not have this power.
Even if it was Zhang Xincheng, he would need to report the matter to the company's attendance department afterwards. After all, every medal was not given out casually.
The reason why he gave Xiao Li this medal was because the other party cared about the company and would report to him promptly if he saw anyone doing something sneaky.
Naturally, there were people inside the breeding base who saw these sneaky fishermen, but some chose to report them, while others chose to stay out of it.
Zhang Xincheng awarded medals to all those who chose to report, and asked them to keep it confidential in the near future. As for those who turned a blind eye, although he did not say anything on the surface, he was still a little more wary and distant towards this group of people in his heart.
Those employees who chose to report were arranged by him to help him feed the eels. These people were also the few employees who had access to confidential feed.
There was no way. Zhang Xincheng and his father-in-law Jiang Dahai were simply too busy to handle it. After all, these were hundreds of acres of fish ponds. Even with a tricycle and a special machine for spraying feed, they were still unable to cope.
Employees who choose to come and report are naturally more trustworthy.
However, this kind of trust is also limited. Zhang Xincheng agrees very much with what Jiang Miao said, that betrayal is just a matter of insufficient benefits. As long as the benefits are big enough, most people cannot resist their inner greed.
He is now doing his best and leaving the rest to fate.
Delay the leakage of feed formula as much as possible, and strive to give the company a longer period of high profit.
As for calling the police to arrest someone, he knew it would be of little use.
The Magong Town Government will indeed stand on the side of the Hailufeng Company. The problem is that arresting these thugs disguised as fishermen will make things even more difficult.
After all, once the people behind the scenes see that this trick doesn't work, they will definitely continue to spend money secretly and try to obtain confidential feed by bribing the company's breeders. This kind of thing is even more difficult to guard against.
Therefore, after discussing with Jiang Miao, Zhang Xincheng decided to keep their troops in place for the time being to avoid alerting the enemy.
Anyway, it will take at least several months, or even half a year, for those behind the scenes to study the confidential feed of Hailufeng Company through the discharged wastewater.
By the time the other party discovered that there might be something wrong with the sewage, Hailufeng Company had made a few more months of money.
As long as the time can be delayed, the company will accumulate more funds and will be less afraid of the negative impact of overturning the table.
In fact, Jiang Miao had already prepared a plan. Once it was confirmed that someone had successfully stolen the confidential feed, Hailufeng Company would immediately issue an announcement, stating that as long as other companies' eel fry were on the market, the price would be reduced immediately.
This move will definitely prevent most seedling companies from acting rashly.
Because stealing the confidential feed formula of Hailufeng Company is only the first step in replicating the technology.
During this period, it is also necessary to study whether there are any problems with the formula. After all, the bloody lesson of Xihai Company is there. If we don't study it clearly and bet heavily on it, once it fails, the loss will be tens of millions. Unless it is a large company with strong financial resources, the loss of tens of millions is no small matter.
Therefore, it takes more than half a year to verify the formula of the confidential feed, even if there is no problem with the confidential feed formula.
However, in order to achieve large-scale mass production, a large amount of money needs to be invested to build a fully intelligent indoor breeding farm, as well as to purchase a large number of mature eels. This will require at least tens of millions of dollars in investment, and it will take more than half a year.
After more than a year of research and investment, and spending tens of millions of dollars, we finally succeeded in mass-producing eel fry.
Then Hailufeng Company drastically cut the price of eel fry, bringing the price to a low-profit level, and asked you not to despair.
Now a small number of seedling companies are still hoping for the best, thinking that Jiang Miao will definitely not be willing to engage in a price war. As long as they can maintain the shipping price of RMB 2 per kilogram in the initial stage, they can recover their costs within a few months.
However, they didn't know that Jiang Miao had already completed the initial primitive accumulation, and the company's other businesses were developing rapidly, so he was not worried about price wars at all.
Now it all depends on which stubborn idiot dares to invest money in producing eel fry.
...
On the road in Magong Town.
Big Bird, disguised as a fisherman, looked at the pile of water bottles in the box of the electric bike with a hint of excitement on his face. He raised his head and looked at the breeding base. He didn't find anything unusual. He immediately threw the fishing tools on the bike, tightened the electric switch on the handlebar, and disappeared from the scene. In a quiet house in the dead of night.
Big Bird, who had just drunk some beer, opened the freezer of the refrigerator before going to bed. Inside were more than a dozen 300 ml plastic water bottles. After six or seven hours of freezing, the water in the bottles had turned into a smoothie-like state.
This water is the aquaculture wastewater he took from the drainage outlet of the Shiomachi aquaculture base this evening.
When you open the refrigerator's other side, you'll see several boxes of strawberries, which are jasmine strawberries produced by Nanhu Farm.
Looking at the strawberries in the box, he swallowed his saliva involuntarily, then closed the refrigerator door again. The drunken Big Bird muttered to himself:
"Why can't I even have enough to eat three meals a day? The Jiang family spends millions on a wedding, so it's time for me to get rich, hahaha..."
As he was talking, he became drowsy, lay down on the sofa beside him, and fell into a deep sleep.
Just when he was soundly sleeping.
An old lady with a hunchback walked down the stairs on the second floor tiptoeing and opened the freezer of the refrigerator. She looked at the dozen or so bottles of water with a somewhat uncertain expression on her face, and then glanced at her son on the sofa.
She sat in a chair, and under the dim light, her eyes were filled with pain and helplessness.
More than an hour passed.
The old lady sighed and said in a low voice: "It's all my fault for not raising my son well. It's all your own fault. I can't let you make the same mistake again..."
Picking up the key, the old lady walked towards the door. Before leaving, she stopped, her eyes full of struggle and reluctance.
"Hehe...A Guang..."
"I have plenty of money..."
“I’m sure to win this time…”
"Hahahaha... all the same... Hu..."
Listening to her son's talking in his sleep, a look of determination and extreme disappointment suddenly appeared on the old lady's face. She walked out of the door without looking back, closed the big iron gate, and drove her electric scooter through the alley.
A few minutes later.
We arrived at the gate of Magong Town Police Station.
The police officer on duty saw the old lady and recognized her at a glance: "Sister Xiuqin, what's the matter?"
"I'm here to report the case." Zhou Xiuqin's voice trembled slightly.
The police officer on duty frowned and asked quickly, "Sister Xiuqin, what happened?"
"Oh... my poor son, he sneaked into the Yanmachijiang family's breeding farm these days and stole more than a dozen bottles of water. I, Zhou Xiuqin, have been an honest person all my life, but how could I give birth to such a son! Wuuuu... what a sin!" Zhou Xiuqin said with tears streaming down her face.
Upon hearing that the breeding farm of Hailufeng Company was involved, the police officer on duty suddenly became serious and quickly asked for details.
It took the police officer on duty more than twenty minutes to get the whole story from the crying Zhou Xiuqin. He did not care that it was already past eleven o'clock in the evening and picked up the phone to call the director Yang Chenggang.
beep...
"Hey...Xiao Wu, what's the emergency?"
"Director Yang, something big has happened. Please come to the station immediately. It's about the case at the Shiomachi eel farm..."
"Shiomachi eel farm? Is it the one owned by Hailufeng Company?" The voice on the other end of the phone suddenly became louder.
"Yes."
"I'll be there soon..."
In less than twenty minutes, a black Toyota Corolla appeared at the door of the police station. The director Yang Chenggang pushed open the car door and hurried down.
Before this, three police officers whose homes were in Magong Town had received the notice and arrived earlier.
This included the police officer Lao Zhou who had persuaded Cai Wen's family to leave. He was also a distant relative of Zhou Xiuqin. After reading the case record of the police on duty, Lao Zhou cursed:
"He doesn't know what's good for him. This kid is hopeless. Sister Xiuqin, you are right. He is obsessed with money. Now things are not irreversible. Otherwise, he will be sentenced to three years."
As soon as he entered the door, he heard Lao Zhou's voice. Yang Chenggang shouted, "Lao Zhou."
Lao Zhou leaned over and whispered, "Director Yang, I think this matter can be a big deal or a small one. That kid Big Bird..."
"Qingmin, stop talking and let Director Yang deal with him severely!" Zhou Xiuqin interrupted Lao Zhou's good intentions with a very determined expression on her face.
Yang Chenggang looked at Zhou Xiuqin's red eyes from crying, not knowing how to answer for a moment, and looked at Old Zhou again.
Old Zhou was also a little surprised, and then asked uncertainly: "Sister Xiuqin, have you thought it through? If the punishment is severe, Da Niao will be sentenced to at least three years."
However, Zhou Xiuqin looked ashen, sitting on the iron chair in a daze, and said with helplessness and sorrow: "You have helped him so many times, but when has he ever changed his ways? I am afraid! I am afraid that he will continue to make mistakes and be taken to target practice... After being locked up for a few days and released, he will definitely not change his bad habits. If he commits the same mistake again, can you still protect him?"
Pity the parents of the world.
Zhou Xiuqin knew her son too well. He had done a lot of sneaky things in the town before. She had apologized to others many times, paid compensation many times, and begged for help many times.
This time she had made up her mind that she would send her son to jail, even if it meant severing the mother-son relationship.
"Oh! Okay!" Old Zhou also sighed helplessly.
"In that case, let's arrest him!" Yang Chenggang had originally planned to give Old Zhou some face. Since Zhou Xiuqin had decided to sacrifice her own family for the greater good, he naturally had no objection.
Soon, red and blue police lights were flashing on the only street in Magong Town.
The big bird, who was still dreaming of getting rich at home, was awakened from his sleep by the slap.
"Who?" The big bird was half asleep. He opened his eyes and looked around at the blurry situation. He couldn't react for a moment: "What are you doing?"
After more than ten seconds, he finally came to his senses. Looking at the handcuffs on his hands and Lao Zhou and others beside him, Big Bird was still a little at a loss: "Uncle Qingmin? What are you doing? Why are you arresting me?"
"Okay, stop playing dumb here, your trouble has been exposed." Lao Zhou looked disappointed.
"What's the matter? Don't wrongly accuse a good person..."
Lao Zhou resisted the urge to slap him: "What did you do near the Yancheng Farm of Hailufeng Company this evening? Do you want me to remind you?"
"This..." Big Bird broke out in a cold sweat and begged for mercy: "Uncle Qingmin, for my mother's sake, can you let me go? Please..."
Old Zhou had already discussed with several police officers who knew about the situation and decided to conceal the fact that Zhou Xiuqin had reported the case. He reported the matter in the name of an informant of the police station in order to preserve the last bit of dignity for the mother and son.
Therefore, he was determined to be the villain, and he directly scolded him righteously: "Stop talking, this matter is supervised by the Municipal Bureau, I am just a small policeman, I can't help you, a big thief."
"me…"
"take away!"
Zhou Xiuqin sat there in silence, looking at her bewildered son with tears streaming down her face, but she still did not regret it.
In addition to taking away more than a dozen bottles of waste water from the refrigerator, the police also packed up and took away all the mobile phones, computers, USB flash drives, books and other items in Big Bird's room.
If we want to deal with it strictly, we need solid evidence.
(End of this chapter)