So after spending half a day wandering around the farmers' market, Yun Zhaozhao returned empty-handed.
Finally, Tang Li gave her an idea. "Didn't you have a partnership with the school before? You could try to find connections there! Rice, flour, and eggs are essential for the cafeteria. If we can really establish a relationship with the school, we might even be able to expand our planting scale!"
Yun Zhaozhao nodded. "That makes sense."
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Of the schools that have connections with Clear Breeze Temple, the one with the closest cooperation is probably the rural primary school where Teacher Liu works.
However, this school was the first one Yun Zhaozhao ruled out. It was because the school was too small, with only about 100 students in total. Moreover, since it was a primary school in the village, the students usually went home to eat, and the school didn't have a canteen at all.
The largest canteen was the University A canteen where Xu Tingting and Xie Yu worked. Zhang Gang, the disciple of Daoist Chang Kong, also worked in this canteen, which Yun Zhaozhao felt could be considered part of Clear Breeze Temple's network of connections.
However, after a brief private conversation with Yun Zhaozhao Zhang Gang, Zhang Gang Yun Zhaozhao was persuaded to quit using practical reasons.
Simply put, working in the school cafeteria is a lucrative job. Whether it's securing supplies or operating the cafeteria, you need strong connections to get it. A lowly cook like Zhang Gang has absolutely no say in the cafeteria, so his connections are best left unmentioned.
Undeterred, Yun Zhaozhao went to see her teachers at her alma mater.
Yun Zhaozhao had previously returned to her alma mater to attend a graduate employment guidance lecture. Later, she also established a friendly employment exchange relationship with the college that cooperating with her alma mater, which is the school where Xiao Yao and her classmates are. So Clear Breeze Temple has a deep connection with the school.
Teacher Chen was also willing to help Yun Zhaozhao, and she also provided Yun Zhaozhao with a new idea: if Yun Zhaozhao simply wanted the school to help her Clear Breeze Temple Yun Zhaozhao handle the cafeteria supply business, the success rate would be very low, because as Zhang Gang said, there were many businesses vying for this business, and school leaders sometimes even needed to hold a bidding process to make a decision.
If Yun Zhaozhao wants to achieve this goal, she needs to negotiate a collaboration with the school. For example, Clear Breeze Temple could designate its tea gardens, rice paddies, or wheat fields as " Agricultural College Research Bases," allowing Agricultural College students to conduct independent scientific research on Clear Breeze Temple's farmland. Furthermore, Clear Breeze Temple could provide the school with a certain number of internship and employment opportunities each year...
Yun Zhaozhao was a smart girl and understood immediately. She knew that Teacher Chen meant that one shouldn't just think about what to take from the school, but also what one could offer the school. If one offered enough, why would one have to worry about securing a supply chain for the school cafeteria?
After talking with Teacher Chen that day, Yun Zhaozhao and Tang Li worked through the night to create a PPT, listing all the resources that Clear Breeze Temple could provide to the school.
The two even spent a long time researching which majors at the junior colleges could be related to Clear Breeze Temple.
For a moment, Yun Zhaozhao felt as if she had returned to the time right after graduation, because back then she was just like now, desperately trying to embellish her resume, wishing she could write it in the most beautiful way possible, just hoping that the person receiving the resume would give her a chance.
Fortunately, Yun Zhaozhao had good luck this time. Because she and Tang Li had included several videos in their PPT introducing the planting process of rice, wheat, and tea gardens at Clear Breeze Temple, and even several clips of Grandpa Lin raising wild pheasants, the school was very satisfied with Clear Breeze Temple's food safety. Secondly, the price offered by Clear Breeze Temple was reasonable. Most importantly, Clear Breeze Temple could provide the Agricultural College with 20-50 internship opportunities every year.
In addition, Teacher Chen kept speaking up for them, so the school cafeteria finally decided that Clear Breeze Temple would be included in the supplier list for the following year.
With a long-term and stable supply channel, Yun Zhaozhao no longer needs to worry about Clear Breeze Temple planting or raising too many animals and then having them become unsaleable. It can be said that this has completely solved Grandpa Lin's worries.
Grandpa Lin even wanted to lease several hundred more acres of land and raise several hundred more chickens, ducks, and geese...
However, Yun Zhaozhao was concerned about Grandpa Lin's health. She said that he could take care of him, but he couldn't do everything himself like before. Moreover, Yun Zhaozhao thought that perhaps they could consider cooperating with the villagers in the future. After all, although there were many elderly, weak, sick, disabled, and pregnant people in the village, they couldn't do heavy physical labor. There were still many villagers who could do lighter physical labor such as tea picking and animal husbandry.
Previously, they did nothing because they hadn't found suitable sales channels. Now, with Clear Breeze Temple as their backing, they can work part-time at Clear Breeze Temple's plantation based on their strengths, or choose to raise or grow their own livestock. Then, Yun Zhaozhao will purchase the crops and poultry grown by these villagers in the name of Clear Breeze Temple.
In this way, the villagers can not only acquire the ability to make a living, but Clear Breeze Temple can also solve the problem of insufficient manpower, which can definitely be considered a win-win situation.
However, since the school has not yet signed a specific contract with Clear Breeze Temple, Yun Zhaozhao has not publicized this idea for the time being. She simply mentioned the idea to Grandpa Lin Grandpa Lin and asked him to look for some hardworking and reliable villagers in the village and invite them to help with odd jobs in the tea garden, rice paddies, wheat fields and chicken farm.
Then, depending on the difficulty of the task, the villagers are paid wages on a daily or hourly basis. This also fills the vacancy left by Zhang Lu and other interns.
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With Grandpa Lin, a capable assistant, overseeing things at the farm, Yun Zhaozhao doesn't really need to worry about anything.
Yun Zhaozhao only needs to provide a general idea, and Grandpa Lin will naturally help to refine and process it.
During this time, Yun Zhaozhao dressed everyone in the newly made Daoist robes, and then the crew of the short video series " Subduing Demons " arrived.
Yun Zhaozhao hadn't discussed the script with the director beforehand, so she didn't know what kind of story " Subduing Demons " was about. However, Yun Zhaozhao had promised to provide a few Daoist priests to the " Subduing Demons " crew as extras, so the task of receiving the crew was directly handed over to the four Daoist priests, Daoist Cen and Daoist Mao, who were going to be extras.
Not only the two new Daoist priests found it novel, but even Daoist Cen and Daoist Mao felt that coming to Clear Breeze Temple was truly a test of character. After all, before they came, they were just two ordinary Daoist students, but after arriving at Clear Breeze Temple, they are now all-around Daoist priests with multiple identities, including Tai Chi instructors, live-streaming content creators, and junior Daoist masters. Oh, and now they have to add another identity: short video extra.
Indeed, life is a stage everywhere, and there is wonder everywhere.
The director of " The Subduing Demons " is surnamed Shen, Daoist Cen and others call him Director Shen, just like everyone else. Director Shen also respects Daoist Cen and the others. Although Daoist Cen were just extras this time, they also had the important responsibility of martial arts instruction. So later on, not only the director respected the Daoist priests, but the actors in the short video crew also respected them very much.
The female protagonist even took the initiative to chat with several Daoist priests.
Daoist Cen asked the female lead curiously, "What kind of story are we filming this time? What are our specific roles as extras?"
Although the female lead has a face resembling a snake spirit, she still looks quite delicate and pretty, and her smile is very sweet. Most importantly, she really does play a snake spirit in this short drama.
The snake spirit heroine smiled and said, "Didn't the director tell you? I wiped out your Daoist temple right from the start, and the only survivor was him."
This so-called "him" is the male protagonist on the other side.
Daoist Cen and Daoist Mao were quite satisfied after hearing this. "He died right away? That's good."
"You massacred the Daoist temple, how could you leave any survivors? That's where you went wrong. As the saying goes, if you don't cut the weeds at the root, they'll grow back in the spring breeze!"
The female lead. "You can argue with that! But he was so handsome, I couldn't bring myself to do it."
Daoist Cen and Daoist Mao exchanged a glance and said in unison, "Being handsome really can save your life in a critical moment!"
Chapter 67
The issue of closing the temple to film short videos arises when the production team needs to shoot there.
If Clear Breeze Temple were large and spacious enough, it wouldn't be necessary to close it. However, unfortunately, the new temple is not yet completed, and the old temple is indeed quite small. Therefore, in order to ensure the filming effect, and also for the safety of tourists, Yun Zhaozhao ultimately decided to close the temple for two days.
This is where the benefits of official Weibo accounts and live streaming rooms become apparent.
Because of these unexpected events, we can notify everyone in advance on the official Weibo account and in the Jingting live broadcast room, thus avoiding the situation where everyone makes a wasted trip.
Of course, in addition to notifying everyone online, Yun Zhaozhao also specially asked Daoist Chang Kong to post a notice in front of Clear Breeze Temple in advance and asked everyone to pass it on to each other.
Clear Breeze Temple was temporarily closed. Apart from Daoist Cen and Daoist Mao and their three disciples who needed to stay at the temple as extras and cooperate with the film crew, everyone else had an extra two days of vacation.
Faced with this unexpected two-day holiday, Yun Zhaozhao let everyone choose whether to go to a nearby city for team building, with the expenses covered by Clear Breeze Temple, or simply take a two-day holiday to go back and rest.
She had assumed everyone would choose the latter, but to her surprise, everyone chose the former.
Xiaojiu's reason was that she had been in City A for so long but hadn't gone out much, and wanted to travel and broaden her horizons.
The reasons given by Daoist Chang Kong and Jingting are similar.
Jingting could understand that she liked playing Yun Zhaozhao, but she didn't expect that Daoist Chang Kong liked it too. After all, Daoist Chang Kong really seemed to be interested in nothing but food.
When asked, it turned out that Daoist Chang Kong was indeed only interested in food. Even when he went out to play, it was only to try new flavors. "Lately, I've been eating the same things I make at the temple, and I'm getting a little tired of them. Going out to play is a good way to sample different local delicacies, which is great."