Chapter 1433 - 559: Pumpkin Chips and Sweet Potato Chips Fresh from the Oven! Chen Shaokang: Sweet Potato Chips Are Delicious!

Chapter 1433: Chapter 559: Pumpkin Chips and Sweet Potato Chips Fresh from the Oven! Chen Shaokang: Sweet Potato Chips Are Delicious!

Plus, the scenic area is beautiful, the benefits are good, and you can exercise every day. Isn’t that better than sitting in the office all day with backaches and leg pains?

Lin Hongqi just wanted to cheer everyone up, but he didn’t expect the employees to be so excited.

In the past, when business was poor, everyone just muddled along. Even Chen Meijuan was constantly reflecting on whether the decision to leave and manage the scenic area was too hasty.

Ever since the scenic area became popular last year, everyone started to see a future, and the scenic area found its direction for development.

It seems like ever since her son secretly opened a noodle shop after graduating from college, everything has started to become better.

Truly grateful for the favor of fate!

Lin Hongqi urged everyone to eat more dishes, then sat down and quietly discussed with Chen Meiliang whether they should merge the scenic area with the Horse Farm’s holding company.

The Horse Farm was not directly controlled by Shen Group but was established by Shen Guofu and Yan Lin jointly funding the Feima Group as the actual controller.

Although at present, Feima Group was just an empty shell, with Chen Meiliang almost holding half of the company’s positions alone, in the future, when the Horse Farm is operational, Feima Group would establish its own ticketing company, operations company, catering company, horse feed company, etc.

By splitting all the businesses into individual companies, it allows for vertical management of the company, avoiding redundancy in personnel and inefficiency.

Currently, Lin Hongqi wants to merge the scenic area into Feima Group, which would help better with ticket management and promotion in the future.

But Chen Meiliang refused:

"Let’s not put all our eggs in one basket, and even if we merge, the scenic area should merge into Fat Dundun Company from Xiaoxu, or establish a Fat Dundun Group with a Beijing prefix, which would be more beneficial for the scenic area."

While saying this, he did not avoid Shen Guofu.

This was also what Shen Guofu intended to say.

In case the Horse Farm doesn’t work out later, we can directly cancel Feima Group, and any bad debt can be transferred.

But with the scenic area, dealing with it becomes problematic.

After all, it’s the family’s hard work, canceling it together would be irresponsible, right?

He said to Lin Hongqi:

"You go ahead with your scenic area work slowly; if funding is insufficient, I can invest again, but merging is unnecessary. Besides, now it’s not trendy to develop into a large conglomerate but to have small companies with vertical management. You just focus on managing the scenic area without worrying about other things."

Lin Xu picked up a chopstick full of goose intestines, resembling noodles, and put it into his mouth, chewing slowly, savoring the chewy and rich flavor of the goose intestines.

He couldn’t really insert his opinions into these matters and wasn’t planning to either.

Whether it’s his uncle or father-in-law, both have unique insights into business management, and there’s no need for him to show off his trivial skills.

It’s better to cook honestly since that’s the foundation of livelihood.

After the meal, the employees continued with their respective tasks.

The water park’s facilities need reinforcement, the zip lines in the jungle need replacement, the drop tower requires comprehensive maintenance, and with the newly expanded areas, there’s a lot of work, but everyone is full of energy.

With a promising life, who wouldn’t be motivated?

Save up money for a few years, add in the housing fund, and you can afford an apartment in the city, something unthinkable in the village before, but now it’s reality.

In the restaurant courtyard, Chen Meijuan peeled all the steamed sweet potatoes, then sliced them vertically into slightly thicker pieces.

She laid them out on the newly-bought, freshly cleaned bamboo racks in the courtyard.

These bamboo racks were bought new, and they even received a brush scrub in the morning.

Laying them out in a well-ventilated, sunny spot for drying.

Lin Xu asked:

"How long do these need to dry?"

"Two or three days is fine. The longer they dry, the sweeter they’ll be."

"Then we won’t be able to taste them today, will we?"

Lin Xu was waiting to taste this preparation of dried sweet potatoes, but it seems he won’t get to today. Fortunately, the pumpkin candy is already baked and currently steaming in the cabinet.

Once it’s fully steamed and baked a little more, it’ll be ready to taste.

He grabbed a knife, getting ready to peel and cut the remaining pumpkins into small pieces to make pumpkin candy, determined to finish this task before leaving.

Pumpkin candy is friendly to older people, effectively controlling high blood pressure, clearing heat and promoting diuresis, and helping with endocrine aspects, but it shouldn’t be eaten too much.

After all, it’s sugar, the most easily absorbed fructose, and eating too much can damage the body.

Chen Meijuan, hearing that her son wanted to eat, suggested:

"Light a little charcoal under the bamboo racks, not too much, just enough warmth to accelerate the evaporation of the sweet potato jerky. If we’re lucky, we can eat it today."

Lin Xu said:

"I’d better put them in the oven. During production, these bamboo racks might have been treated with chemicals, so there’s no need to take risks."

He carried the cut sweet potato slices to the kitchen and placed them in the oven to bake.

By this time, the pumpkin candy steaming in the cabinet is ready. As he brought it out, he smelled the uniquely sweet scent of pumpkin, which was very comforting and even had a healing feel.

After a morning of baking, the pumpkin jerky had shrunk and thinned considerably.

Lin Xu tasted a piece. The flavor was nice, sweet and fragrant, but the texture was too poor, like eating a soggy pumpkin cookie.

Looks like it needs more baking.

Using chopsticks, he took the pumpkin jerky out of the steamer, laying it on a bamboo sieve to air.

Then, he took the remaining pumpkins into the kitchen to start boiling pumpkin candy.

This is a time-consuming process.

The pumpkins need to be thoroughly cooked into a mush, then filtered, boiled into pumpkin soup again, and once the moisture is sufficiently evaporated, the pumpkin candy is completed.