The three of them soon arrived at the Village Committee of Dafeng Village.

In the conference room, seeing Lin Cheng coming over, several people from the Village Committee immediately put on friendly smiles on their faces.

“Mr. Lin, thank you for donating sports equipment to our schools,” the people from the Village Committee began thanking Lin Cheng as soon as they arrived.

“I am the Deputy Director of Dafeng Village Committee, Ren Jianbing. I’m in charge of the work matters related to the village schools. This is Yao Xia and this is Wan Pengju, who are also colleagues in charge of this aspect. In addition, the four here are representatives from the four schools. Principal…” the leader introduced everyone.

Lin Cheng shook hands with them and said ‘hello’.

Afterwards, everyone sat down and started the meeting.

“Our farm plans to supply vegetable ingredients for the students’ school meals,” Lin Cheng said straight to the point.

“I heard this from the teachers at the school,” one of the principals said, nodding his head.

Lin Cheng continued, “Currently, the farm has 300 acres of farmland. According to our business plan, all of it will be put into farming. The output can easily meet the food requirements of all students in the four schools in Dafeng Village.

“These are the business license and relevant permits obtained by the farm. In addition, here are samples of the vegetables from our farm, as well as the testing results.” Lin Cheng gestured for Xu Yi to show all the items they prepared to the other people in the conference room.

These vegetables were only just harvested and some were sent for inspection in the morning. The inspection of fresh vegetables was much simpler than that of artificial food. Therefore, after sending it out in the morning and urgent processing, they have already obtained most of the inspection reports they needed.

“There are quite a lot of types of vegetables grown on your farm,” Leader Ren said with a smile and continued reading the information.

“Of course, it would be the best thing to have these,” Leader Ren sighed.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

The school’s vegetable supply had always been a headache for them. Many people in the village either go out to work or start other businesses. There were very few who cultivate large areas of land. Even if they do, they only grow it to eat at home or to sell some in the market.

If a stable supply source could not be found, the school could only find a way to purchase it from outside. As a result, not only did the cost of food increase, but the food quality of each school also varied greatly.

“But…” Leader Ren glanced at the cameras of the [Living with Dad] crew filming Lin Cheng and asked, clearly uneasy, “I want to know whether your farm operation will continue. Or is it just during the filming period?”

After the filming was over, if things would be let go, then it would just be a waste everyone’s efforts.

“Please rest assured about this. Last week we bought this agricultural property from the operator of Happy Bowl Farm with the purpose of restoring the business. And our business scope is not just planting, we also have amusement playgrounds, fish ponds, resort hotels, and in the future, we plan to add agricultural side-product production, industrial sales chains, and breeding research. Even when I leave, the operation of the farm will continue.”

After Lin Cheng asked Xu Yi to make price adjustments to the resort rooms, currently, the hotel room were fully booked for the next two months.

“If you are still worried, we can sign a supply contract on a per semester basis.” After a pause, Lin Cheng continued, “We can readily provide all schools with the farm’s existing vegetable output that is ripe or about to be ripe. The current food supply is more than enough.”

Sure enough, as soon as Lin Cheng said these words, the expression on Leader Ren’s face relaxed.

“Of course it would be great if we could have a stable supply.”

“It’s just…” The conversation changed slightly, and Leader Ren said with a troubled expression, “According to regulations, the lunch subsidy given to each student is 5 yuan per day. Our village committee subsidizes it with another 2 yuan. Some students who do not have adults at home have to get their meals at school and pack some to take back home.

“The school does not provide dinner, but in order to prevent some students from skipping lunch to save food for dinner, we could only ask the school to prepare some dinner meals for these students. For this, we only ask a symbolic payment of 1 yuan per child from the school…”

For eight yuan a day, some students have to eat three meals from the school. It was undeniable that the budget was somewhat stretched, and some older students were barely eating enough.

“So, the amount our school can pay you for the vegetables will not be too much,” Ren said.

Lin Cheng expressed that he didn’t care about this.

“The schools can pay the farm based on an appropriate proportion of the vegetable purchase price per student, and in turn we will provide vegetables to each school based on 150% of the standard for each student’s meal, this will ensure that the dinner meal needs of some students will still be met.”

After a moment, Lin Cheng continued, ”In addition, the farm can provide fruits to the schools for free according to the ‘one fruit per student a day’ plan.”

After listening to Lin Cheng’s words, Leader Ren was dumbfounded and looked at Lin Cheng in disbelief: Can there be such a good thing?

“In this case, your farm probably won’t make any money,” Leader Ren pointed out. Not only will the farm not make any money, it would also incur some manual delivery costs.

… …

Not only Leader Ren, but also the audience in the livestream channel had the same idea:

[Can Lin Cheng still make money like this? ]

[It’s a bit confusing, even if it’s your own farm, it still costs money. ]

[Although it is good for the farm to supply vegetables to the school, what should be done if the farm loses money on this? ]

Serve as Contrast Team in a ‘Dad with Baby’ Show translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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T/N: I hope the translation made sense—sometimes it wasn’t too clear even to me what Lin Cheng was planning