Chapter 195 194. Fragrant Stone
This afternoon.

Luo Yihang is checking the growth of the mushrooms in the mushroom house.

Suddenly I received a call from Zhang Guiqin, saying that someone was looking for me and his surname was Zheng.

Luo Yihang was surprised to hear this, because he didn't know anyone with the surname Zheng. There was someone with the surname Zheng among his elementary school classmates, but he hadn't been in touch with him for a long time.

When Luo Yihang came home, he saw a fat middle-aged man with a pot belly sitting on the sofa in the living room, drinking tea with a smile on his face like Miro Buddha.

Zhang Guiqin was accompanying him.

As expected, I don’t know him.

When Zhang Guiqin saw Luo Yihang coming in, she waved to him and said, "The guest has been waiting for you for a long time."

Then he said to Maitreya Buddha, "This is Luo Yihang. If you have anything to say, just talk to him directly."

After saying this, he gestured and left, leaving the house to Luo Yihang.

When the "Maitreya Buddha" saw Luo Yihang, he struggled to stand up, stretched out his hand, and smiled before saying anything: "You are Boss Luo, young and promising, young and promising."

Luo Yihang took two quick steps forward and shook his hand, looking puzzled. "Excuse me, who are you?"

"Excuse me for coming here. My last name is Zheng, Zheng Huan. I have a small factory in Chenggu County. Zheng Haowei."

Then he handed over a business card.

Luo Yihang took it and looked at it. It was Zheng Huan, the general manager of Chenggu Zheng Haowei Food Co., Ltd.

Luo Yihang also took out his business card and handed it over with both hands.

The titles written on their two business cards are similar. Luo Yihang's business card states that he is the general manager of Qingyin Agricultural Development Co., Ltd.

Business cards were exchanged.

Luo Yihang asked Zheng Huan to sit down first and picked up the kettle to refill his water.

Zheng Huan took out a brocade box from his bag, put it on the coffee table and pushed it in front of Luo Yihang. "It's a pity for you to come here. This is just a small gift. It's not a respect."

Luo Yihang opened the box and saw a palm-sized Qilin lying in the box. The material looked like stone but not stone, like jade but not jade. The carving was quite delicate.

It looks very valuable.

Luo Yihang closed the box and pushed it back in front of Zheng Huan. "It's too valuable. I can't accept it."

Zheng Huan opened the box and said with a smile: "It seems that Boss Luo doesn't play with stones. This is just a small ornament. It's not worth much, but the material is interesting."

"Oh? Is this a stone?" Luo Yihang asked with a smile, "Please tell us more about it, Boss Zheng."

Zheng Heng picked up the little Qilin and put it in Luo Yihang's hand, introducing it, "This is a kind of stone produced in Micang Mountain, called Xiangshi. Smell it, it has its own fragrance, and it smells like chocolate."

"So magical?" Luo Yihang put the little unicorn under his nose and smelled it. It really was there, a bit of chocolate flavor, and a bit of milk fragrance.

Seeing Luo Yihang's surprise, Zheng Heng smiled happily and continued to introduce: "This thing is actually a kind of serpentine marble. Stone should be inorganic, but this fragrant stone, for some reason, contains organic matter, so it smells good."

"So, in ancient times, it had another name, called the fragrant jade, which means "more eloquent than flowers and more fragrant than jade." This is what it means."

"I don't know if it's true or not, but that's what the stone seller said, so I just followed Boss Luo's lead."

This Zheng Heng is quite talkative.

Since it was a stone, Luo Yihang accepted it.

With this fragrant stone as a foundation, Zheng Huan naturally broke the unfamiliarity of the first meeting and started to talk about business.

chili.

To be exact, it is chili peppers with oil.

The incident at the Sishui noodle shop was noticed by Zheng Huan as soon as it happened.

Because his Zheng Haowei makes instant noodles.

With monthly sales of more than 600,000 bags, Chenggu County and even the entire Tianhan ranks first in the industry.

To be honest, with monthly sales of 600,000 bags and 7 million per year, it is already the number one in the industry. The scale of the instant noodle industry is a bit unworthy of the name of Tianhan Noodles.

Zheng Huan's Zheng Haowei has been open for ten years. In the beginning, the business was going well and he was quite proud of it. However, starting from the year before last, he gradually reached a bottleneck.

Sales volume is not increasing and profits are declining year after year.

Two big problems have been bothering Zheng Huan.

He also tried many methods, such as changing the formula and launching new products, etc.

As for the results, to put it in an EQ way, there will always be new challenges on the way forward.

There are just a lot of challenges.

His annual profit of more than 6 million is almost gone...

Although Zheng Huan appears to be smiling like a Maitreya Buddha on the surface, he is actually so worried that he is irritated all the time and his mouth is full of blisters.

Getting angry in the physical sense.

This time, he keenly discovered the Sishui noodle shop incident that happened right under his nose.

The key to breaking through in product development is to have quality that far exceeds that of your competitors. Every entrepreneur understands this, but often fails to do so.

There are only three core elements in dough: the dough itself, vinegar, and chili.

Now there is a kind of chili that is so effective that it seems like something has been added. A small shop hidden in the vegetable market relies solely on this chili. The price has increased five times in a few days, but the supply is still insufficient, and its competitors have to report to the police.

What effect would it have if something like this could be used in instant noodles?
The identity of Luo Yihang, the owner of the chili peppers, is not difficult to find out for a local entrepreneur like him.

Then, Zheng Huan carefully prepared gifts, drove himself, and visited alone.

The matter was of great importance, he did not trust the second-hand information relayed by others, and he also needed to seize the initiative.

He was close to the water and got the news first.

But Tianhan is not the only one making instant noodles.

Generally speaking, chili peppers are used by too many food factories and are all potential competitors.

After arriving at the old Zheng family in Ping'angou, he met Luo Yihang smoothly.

The gift was delivered successfully.

Smoothly explained the purpose of the visit.

Unfortunately, the journey ends here.

Zheng Huan offered the price several times, but Luo Yihang just said that the production was insufficient and he could not supply the goods.

Zheng Huan was forced to make a suggestion, asking him to contact upstream companies to help with processing, and he would pay the processing fees.

But Luo Yihang asked back why Zheng Haowei didn't produce chili peppers itself?
He was thinking, who wouldn't want to get involved in all the upstream and downstream industries and control the industrial chain himself?

Isn't that impossible? Funding is one thing, energy is another, and management is another.

All in all, Zheng Huan tried his best to talk the deal but still failed.

In the end, he had no choice but to leave the Luo family with a can of chili oil as a return gift from Luo Yihang.
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Luo Yihang saw Zheng Huan off and did not go to the mushroom house again.

Instead, he went back to the living room and lay on the sofa, playing with the little incense stone unicorn in his hands, thinking about what happened today.

Luo Yihang had a good first impression of Zheng Huan, who came to him today.

He is a man who gets things done.

Although it felt good, Luo Yihang still didn't tell him the truth.

What if he suddenly comes to my door?

You can never go too far wrong.

At the very least, you have to get in touch with him again, visit his factory, and find out whether his factory is really strong, and then talk further.

If all conditions are right, Luo Yihang thinks that selling a batch to a food factory would be a good idea.

A batch of peppers have been harvested these days. After calculation, 20 acres of pepper fields can eventually produce 2.3 to 2.5 tons of dried peppers.

The average yield is just over 100 kilograms per acre.

If you follow the recipe modified by Master Wang, 40 grams of dried chili peppers are used for one pound of chili oil, and 80 grams are used for one kilogram.

2.3 tons of dry chili peppers can produce 28.9 tons of chili oil.

With such a large quantity, it would be nice to sell it in batches to recover the funds.

Zheng Haowei doesn’t make spicy food himself…

After thinking about all sorts of things, Luo Yihang felt more and more that something was wrong with the little Qilin he was playing with.

This thing...seems...

Luo Yihang made a spell with his hands, circulated the spiritual energy in his fingers, and pointed it at the little Qilin. "Hurry!"

No magic was used, just a wisp of spiritual energy was sent to push the little Qilin of Xiangshi forward.

But the little Qilin absorbed this spiritual energy smoothly.

Just like the Pinus tabebuia tree in front of the Poria cocos forest, just like those two trees.

No, even smoother than trees.

Luo Yihang sat up suddenly, staring at the little incense stone unicorn in his hand.

"Smell the fragrant jade, smell the fragrant jade!"

"Could this be the elusive array jade?"

But this kind of fragrant stone has never been heard of in the world of immortal cultivation.

Could it be a specialty of the Earth that can also contain spiritual energy and produce the same effect as the array talisman jade?
When he just came back, Luo Yihang thought that the mutton-fat white jade on Earth was the jade used to make talismans in the immortal world.

At the beginning, I had no money and no need, so I found a replacement wooden talisman.

But after reaching the fourth stage of Qi training, the spiritual energy was insufficient, and the wooden talisman's spirit gathering array was not effective, and it just so happened that he had money.

Luo Yihang went to jewelry stores and jade shops to have a look, deciding to grit his teeth and buy a set of jade talismans.

Even if we just set up a jade spirit gathering array, it would be at least an improvement.

But after going to see it, I found that they were not the same thing. The jades in the jade shop, whether cheap or expensive, could not be integrated with spiritual energy.

Then there is no way to make a jade talisman.

I didn't expect that the fragrant stone, the gift from Zheng Huan, would be so useful.

Also.

In a broad sense, stone is also earth. Well, jade is also stone.

There are organic matter in the fragrant stone. Broadly speaking, organic matter is also considered living things and also considered wood.

There is earth and wood, which is a perfect match for the dual spiritual roots of earth and wood.

"This thing should be mine!" Luo Yihang muttered, hurried out, got in the car and headed straight for the jade market.

Zheng Huan said that this thing is not expensive and it is a specialty of Micang Mountain. Isn’t Micang Mountain in Tianhan? It is also a local specialty.

There must be a jade market!
As a result, Luo Yihang went into one house to ask if they had it, and then went into another house to ask if they had it, and still hadn't had it.

I searched the whole market, but all the big stores said they didn't have it.

A few small shops said they had the products, but when we took them out, they were not the products at all. They looked similar in appearance, but at a glance, they were all fakes.

Is it just a coincidence that the small piece Zheng Huan sent is special?

Luo Yihang didn't believe it, so he went back and looked around again, offering a high price. Even if it was for information, no one would say anything.

It’s not about not saying, not about not knowing.

Several shop owners avoided Luo Yihang's gaze and shook their heads when he asked them, avoiding the question.

There must be something else going on.

Luo Yihang left the jade market and went to several jade shops in the city, the kind that made jewelry.

This time, they knew nothing about anything. It was obvious that they really didn't know anything about incense stone.

Why is it so weird?

What is the secret of this fragrant stone?
If there was a secret, why did Zheng Huan take it out as a meeting gift and give it away casually?

no way.

Luo Yihang had no choice but to find Zheng Huan's business card and call him.

Zheng Huan was very surprised to receive Luo Yihang's call. He had just left this afternoon, and it was not yet time for dinner when Luo Yihang called him.

Did you figure it out so quickly?

But what Luo Yihang said was that he really liked the little Qilin made of incense stone given by Zheng Huan, and asked where he bought it.

Zheng Huan laughed, "This thing is really hard to buy. Are you home, Boss Luo? I'll take you there directly."

Luo Yihang reported the address.

Zheng Huan hung up the phone and came out again without saying a word.

An hour later, the two met in the city center.

Judging from the time, Zheng Heng should have returned to Chenggu when the call came. He came back specifically for Luo Yihang.

The round trip is more than 60 kilometers. Such a big boss must have a lot of things to do, and he would make a special trip just for a phone call.

Luo Yihang was strangely moved.

After meeting, exchange a few polite words.

Zheng Huan got in the car and asked Luo Yihang to follow.

Go straight to...the jade market we just visited.

It was even the first store Luo Yihang entered.

Luo Yihang had a question mark on his forehead and followed Zheng Huan into the store.

The shop owner behind the counter had a completely different attitude when he saw Zheng Huan. He stood up and greeted him from a distance, "Boss Zheng, it's been a while since we last met. Are you doing well?"

"It's okay, it's okay." Zheng Huan smiled and said politely to him.

Then the shop owner saw Luo Yihang behind Zheng Huan, and was stunned for a moment, with a trace of embarrassment on his face, but he immediately smiled, came out from behind the counter, and said politely: "Dear customer, you are here again, why didn't you tell me earlier that you knew Boss Zheng, look at this, come with me..."

Luo Yihang didn't even need to ask. The boss took the two of them out through a small door at the back of the store and went up to the second floor.

It turns out that this store has a second floor, which cannot be seen from the outside.

When I went up to take a look, I saw that the second floor was decorated like a reception room, in an antique Chinese style. In the middle was a coffee table made from a large tree trunk cut open and laid horizontally. There was a circle of wooden chairs around the coffee table, and behind the chairs stood a circle of treasure pavilions, on which were placed all kinds of strange stones and jade carvings.

The shop owner led the two of them up, asked them to sit down, and then he busied himself making tea.

Zheng Huan introduced both parties.

The shop owner made tea and poured a cup for Zheng Huan first, then for Luo Yihang, and said with a smile: "Boss Luo also likes to play with stones?"

Luo Yihang also smiled and replied, "I didn't play it originally, but Boss Zheng gave me a small Qilin made of incense stone, so I became a little interested."

"Little Qilin? Is it a hand-held figurine? That is Boss Zheng's favorite. He is willing to give it up. It seems that you two have a special friendship."

The shop owner said this with a smile.

Zheng Huan interrupted, "Old Qin, stop asking questions and bring out the good stuff. Mr. Luo is my good friend and has a big business. You won't suffer any loss."

"No, no, don't I trust Boss Zheng? Please wait a moment." The shop owner said politely, stood up, took out the key, and opened a door behind Duobao Pavilion.

It seems there is another room inside, but you can't see it unless you pay attention.

It seems that there is indeed something wrong with this incense stone.

Not long after.

The shop owner took out several stones from the inner room and placed them on the coffee table one by one.

There are several stones of different sizes, some carved and some raw.

Luo Yihang picked up a piece of raw stone and silently circulated his spiritual energy.

This time it’s right.

It feels exactly the same as that little Qilin.

　There is only one chapter today, and I will double it later.

　　I've been revising the outline and it's giving me a headache, especially for physics.

　　I was having a lot of fun writing in the morning and was a little excited. When I was almost done with a chapter, I suddenly asked myself:

　　Is it useful to write all this stuff?

　　Does anyone like to watch it?
　　There are so many negotiations, dialogues, and negotiations in the plot. Isn't it distracting from the main plot?

　　boring boring boring!

　　Just self-entertainment.

　　I simply deleted it all, changed the outline, and deleted the subsequent rounds of negotiations. I am a fool to include a business war in a farming novel!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)