Chapter 14: Cooperation

After pushing the flat cart into the courtyard through the backyard, Francis filled a basin of water and washed his face. At this time, Maya was standing at the door of the hall in front. Seeing Rachel sitting in the room, she asked, "Hello, Madam, Is this Francis's home?" "Ah? Girl, are you looking for Francis?" Rachel quickly stood up from her seat. She had never seen such a beautiful girl in her life. She was even more beautiful than Madison next door, and she was more elegant. "Yes!" After confirming that it was Francis's home, Maya smiled sweetly and said. "Hey, come in and sit down quickly." Rachel hurriedly invited Maya into the main room, and then shouted to the backyard, "Francis, come out quickly. Someone is looking for you!" Hearing his mother's shout, Francis entered the main room from the backyard, and his eyes suddenly lit up. The beautiful Maya stood in the room, and the whole room suddenly seemed much brighter. "Why did you come?" Seeing Maya, Francis was also a little surprised. "What? You are not welcome?" Maya gave Francis a very charming look. "Welcome, welcome, haha..." Francis laughed aloud. He had already guessed the purpose of Maya's coming. She must not give up on the oranges he cultivated using Herbal formula. "Hmph, that's ok." Maya nodded, looking at Francis, and said, "I won't mince words. I think we can have a good talk about cooperation." After buying Francis's oranges in the morning, she sent the oranges to relevant institutions for testing to ensure that these excellent-tasting oranges did not contain any harmful substances to humans. The results were extremely shocking. This kind of orange with excellent taste was surprisingly rich in vitamin C. The content of vitamin C was thirty times that of ordinary oranges! In addition, there were some trace elements that were beneficial to the human. The amounts of these trace elements were also extremely amazing, more than ten times that of ordinary oranges. What made Maya even more delighted was that this kind of orange also had high medicinal value. This discovery was an accident. The inspector who was in charge of the test had caught a cold in the past two days, coughed badly, and had thick phlegm in his throat. As a result, after eating a few orange slices, his cough was significantly relieved, and the thick phlegm in his throat was also vomited out. A kind of orange with excellent taste was not only rich in vitamins and trace elements, but also had high medicinal value. She could almost foresee the market sensation this orange would cause once it was promoted. Therefore, she didn't delay at all and immediately drove to Francis, hoping to win the exclusive sales rights of this kind of orange. "Sorry, I really can't give you the exclusive rights to these oranges." Francis shook his head and said very directly. "Why?" Maya was puzzled and said unwillingly, "Are you not satisfied with the price I gave you? If you are not satisfied, I can increase the price to fifteen dollars per pound, or even twenty." Hearing that Maya raised the price to twenty, Francis was extremely excited. However, thinking of his plan, he still shook his head and said, "It's not about the price. The main thing is that I am going to open a fruit shop by myself. I need to use it to open up the market for these oranges.” "I didn't know that you had a plan!" She glanced at Francis in surprise. She really didn't expect that Francis, a farmer, had many ideas. Maya looked at Francis and said seriously, "If you don't hand over the agency rights for these oranges to me, it is indeed a good idea to open your own fruit supermarket." "However, this is not easy. After all, Qingyang County is so big and the market is limited. Even if you open a fruit supermarket, you will not be able to compete with my Fresh Fruits in a short period of time, let alone other fruit supermarket chains. Actually, I have a suggestion." "In this case, if you hand over the agency rights of these oranges to me, I can give you shares of Fresh Fruits. In this case, you will be a shareholder of Fresh Fruits, which means you own your industry. What do you think? " Hearing this, Francis's heart skipped a beat. The reason why he wanted to open his own fruit supermarket was that he was not satisfied with just selling oranges and could not make a lot of money. Now Maya was willing to give him the shares of Fresh Fruits, which would make more money than opening his own fruit supermarket. After all, in the entire county, Fresh Fruits was in a leading position in the fruit supermarket industry. If he agreed to cooperate with Maya, he could not only make a lot of money, but also, with Maya managing the fruit supermarket chain, he could also engage in other money-making industries. Thinking of this, Francis nodded and said seriously, "If you are willing to give me the shares, then I will naturally be very happy. However, I want to know, how many shares can I get?" When it came to how much money he could make in the future, this was what he cared about. "Twenty percent!" Maya thought for a while and said, "But the premise is that the oranges provided by you will be regarded as your capital to invest in Fresh Fruits." Maya was willing to provide 20% of the shares, which was completely beyond his expectations. In his mind, he felt that it would be great if Maya could give him 5% of the shares. After all, he just provided oranges. Now, she was willing to give herself 20% of the shares, which further illustrated the terrifying market value of the oranges cultivated by this Herbal formula. With such superior conditions, Francis had no reason to refuse. Immediately, the two signed the contract. "Francis, are you at home?" At this moment, a woman's voice sounded outside the door, and then Emily came into view. "Emily, hi." Seeing Emily, Francis took the initiative to say hello. "Um." Emily nodded, looked at Francis, and said with a blushing face, "Francis, I heard from Madison that you are back to normal." "Um!" Seeing her pretty and slightly red face, Francis's heart skipped a beat and he said with a smile, "Thank you. I returned to normal when I was at your house that day." "Ah!" Emily exclaimed, thinking of the day she asked Francis to make love. If it weren't for Tribbiani, something would have happened between them, and her pretty face turned even redder. Maya glanced at Francis, then at Emily, and showed a meaningful smile. When she came to Francis's house before, she heard the villagers talking about it. She knew that Emily was a widow. Just now Francis said that he was in her house. What could happen to a young man in the widow's house? However, this was Francis's personal matter and had nothing to do with her. "By the way, Emily, what's the matter?" Francis changed the topic and asked.