Chapter 14: The business of the haunted farm gradually stabilized, but...

After delivering noodles from Tamu Village, the farm's business gradually stabilized. In the spring, when sowing began, Liu Binghai did not treat himself like a pig this time. He worked hard in the fields. When he had nothing to do, he would grow flowers and fish, and occasionally play the game of "whoever loses is a turtle" with the turtle.

This time, it was Liu Hai who was not used to looking at Diligent Pig. He was worried that she would be tired and get tanned.

He thought about saving some money on the farm and taking her to the city to live a peaceful life.

But she said, why go to the city, why not eat the food God gave her? She would just be a farmer.

After saying that, she continued to work in the simple greenhouse, waving her arms. In her imagination, the white silver piled up into a mountain.

Sometimes I go to the city to chat with my mother and bring her food. My life is quite peaceful.

The person who helped deliver food to Tamaki Village returned from Tamaki Village and brought back a letter to the Ryuhyo Sea.

It was written by Mo Dongdong.

She had just finished her farm work and was resting in her rocking chair. As the chair rocked, she opened the letter, looked at it for a long time, and then remained silent for a long time.

After reading it, light a stick of incense and burn it.

Liu Hai didn't ask her what was written in the letter, nor did he ask her whether she still had feelings for Mo Dongdong. He thought, maybe she should keep a corner in her heart for the past, a corner that belonged to no one but herself.

He didn't mind, but he found that since Liu Binghai read the letter, he seemed to be less and less willing to laugh.

Although she used to be like a chameleon, sometimes she would be in a daze and sometimes she would laugh happily, but after reading that letter, she rarely laughed anymore.

More often than not, I would look at the distant mountains and feel empty when the sun sets.

Once, when she was daydreaming again, he asked her, "Why did you marry me?"

She withdrew her gaze from the distant mountainside, tilted her head to look at him, and smiled faintly, "Then why do you spoil me like an ancestor?"

He didn't say anything, but reached out and ruffled her soft hair.

Without saying anything, he continued to prepare for the wedding and all the things to do to pamper his ancestors.

Liu Hai prepared for the wedding very seriously.

Although she looked nonchalant, as if marriage was just a formality, he still felt that it should not be rushed.

After all, he is an ancestor.

So Liu Hai often asked Liu Binghai: Do you want to wear red or purple clothes?

Liu Binghai thought, there are purple clothes for wedding?

So he replied calmly: "Purple."

Liu Hai said in embarrassment: "But there are no purple wedding dresses."

"Then you ask me?"

The guy with the pot-cut hair looked dignified and said, "I just want you to be more serious."

He felt that Liu Binghai didn't take marriage seriously enough. They just talked and lived peacefully, as if they had become an old couple before they even got married.

Does she really like herself?

Liu Binghai said: "Don't bother with that. If you have money to buy clothes, you might as well build more greenhouses."

This was very sincere. Liu Hai found that she had become a money-grubber. Perhaps people are visual animals. When they see piles of banknotes put into their pockets, they can no longer restrain their obsession with money.

Liu Binghai always said that when the greenhouse made money, she would buy a few more houses, one for sleeping, and the other... for taking naps.

He looks like he is greedy for money.

However, when the payment for goods from several bosses was handed to her, she didn't take it seriously and just handed it to him after counting the money.

She said she was too lazy to manage money.

He also said that managing money is a man's responsibility.

So, making money is a woman’s duty?

Liu Hai found it funny.

He still habitually lit a few incense sticks at night, took out the talisman paper, lit it, burned it, lit it again, and burned it again. When the smoke rose, all he could see was Liu Binghai's usually calm face.

After the spring planting, the business became more stable and she was not so busy anymore. She was always rocking in her rocking chair and occasionally went to town to listen to opera.

There aren't many plays in the town, and they're just the same few, performed over and over again.

The harvest in the greenhouse was getting better day by day, but after a long period of idleness, strange things began to happen.

One night, a whooshing sound of wind came from the center of the farm.

It sounds a bit like wind, but not quite like wind.

The sound is ethereal, strange, rhythmless, and looming.

After a while, the color of the field suddenly changed, as if a huge Tyrannosaurus flew over from the distant sky, bringing with it a thick gray-black smoke. The smoke spread over the farmland, and then suddenly froze, slowly falling down with the strange sound of wind.

Liu Hai was a light sleeper. When he heard the noise, he got up in the middle of the night, opened the window, and looked at the suddenly changing farmland.

Under a crescent moon, the sounds of wind rose and fell like waves. From afar, the smoke in the center of the farm was turning from light to dark, and clusters of brown objects looked like a huge open mouth, as if to swallow up the tomatoes that were about to come out.

Liu Hai was startled and walked into the farmland. The big brown mouth suddenly disappeared, and the strange sound of crickets could be heard from the field.

There seems to be some strange living creature in the farm.

Liu Hai turned on the flashlight, walked to the deepest part of the farm, and slowly reached out to touch the soil in the field.

The feel of the soil remains the same as before, nothing has changed.

He looked around but couldn't find where the strange sound came from.

Just as I was wondering, I turned around and was suddenly startled by the cold-faced woman behind me.

Liu Binghai stood behind him with a sullen face, listening quietly, his eyes coldly scanning the crops in the field.

Suddenly, the field rubbed twice, as if something alive was crawling.

Liu Binghai's earlobe twitched when he heard the subtle sound. He bent down and took out two things from the field.

I raised my hand and saw two snakes.

It was not very old, slender, as wide as two fingers, with tongue sticking out of its mouth and its eyes blinking as it stared at the sea of ​​drifting ice.

Liu Binghai was startled, frowned and threw himself to the side.

The two snakes were knocked unconscious before they could even move.

Snakes are intelligent, just like hedgehogs. They should not be provoked or killed easily.

After knocking them unconscious, Liu Binghai put them in a bag and threw them out from the back wall with the agility of a professional snake catcher.

Liu Hai looked at her silently.

"Just two snakes." Liu Binghai said lightly.

Liu Hai looked at her for a while and said nothing.

I knew this woman was a transformer. She was often silent at one moment and smiling at the next, making her hard to understand.

Forget about catching snakes, you might even kill a tiger someday...

But Liu Binghai was very puzzled. The snake was thrown away, but where did the light come from just now?

This went on for nearly two months.

It doesn't appear every day.

It happens every now and then, two or three times a week.

Sometimes the fields emit a green light, sometimes there are the chirping of crickets, and sometimes a huge net suddenly appears in the fields, as if trying to catch something.

The noise was so loud that it alarmed the gatekeeper and even the neighbors.

The farmland in the Drift Ice Sea was haunted, and the news spread throughout the neighborhood.

Even the naughty kids from the neighboring village came to watch the fun, but they were too timid to go near. They could only linger around the village and secretly lie on the wall to look inside.

They all recognized the good-looking sister, and they all knew that the food in her shop was cheap and delicious, especially the sweet little tomatoes.

As sweet as she looks.

Why is it haunted?

The news of the strange things happening in the field spread so widely that it affected the farm business. The people were afraid of the things grown in the field.

No one dared to eat anything from Liubinghai Village anymore. Whenever the vegetables and fruits on the stalls were from her shop, the buyers would turn around and leave, no matter how the owner tried to persuade them.

“Reject haunted fields” was the slogan of the city dwellers during that time.

Several major cooperating merchants can no longer sit still.

Boss Ma came here specially to discuss this matter with Liu Binghai. After such a thing happened in her field, who would dare to eat her vegetables in the future? Now some people are afraid to buy their goods because of this incident.

If we continue to stockpile this stuff, we will probably suffer.

Liu Binghai saw that Boss Ma was in a panic, but he was not in a hurry. He swallowed a mouthful of tea and asked, "What does Boss Ma mean?"

Boss Ma was also stumped by the question.

Although he came in a hurry, he couldn't think of any solution. Now he just felt that the loss of food was not a solution.

"How about we find a master to help us exorcise the ghost?" said Boss Ma.

Liu Binghai's fingers loosened their grip on the teacup.

I thought the merchants were using this as an excuse to lower the price, but it turns out that’s not the case.

"Have you discussed this with other merchants?" Liu Bingkai said.

"The bosses are all worried and don't know what to do. Let me come to you to discuss it first."

Liu Binghai clasped his ten fingers tightly around the teacup.

"How about this? If you feel you can't cooperate, I'll refund you the money for the last batch of goods, and we won't cooperate again in the future. If you're willing to wait, we can wait and see what happens next."

Boss Ma actually didn't want to cut off this business. After thinking it over again and again, he felt that it would be okay to wait a little longer, so he gritted his teeth and waited.

The situation showed no signs of being resolved, and its impact continued to expand. Word of the incident spread to the town and then to the city, and several merchants, besides Boss Ma, brought their previously stockpiled goods to the village, claiming they wanted to return them.

With one person taking the lead, others followed suit. Within a few days, the farm became a warehouse. Large quantities of vegetables were returned and piled up like mountains outside the greenhouse.

The goods were returned, and certainly no one was willing to pay the balance. The business that was once booming suddenly became deserted.

There were a few brave ones who refused to believe it and thought it was a good opportunity for exclusive monopoly, so they bravely continued to cooperate with Liu Binghai.

Boss Ma was one of them, as were the two other restaurant owners in the city. They didn't want to offend Liu Binghai due to a temporary change, and since they had large fortunes and didn't care about temporary gains and losses, they just sat back and watched, wanting to see how the situation developed before making a decision.

Someone reminded me of the drifting ice sea and asked me to consult a Feng Shui master to get rid of the bad luck.

The drifting ice sea remained indifferent.

She believes in God, not the devil. Besides, a little ghost can't cause such a big fuss. Whether it is a human or a ghost, she will have to take it one step at a time.

She remained indifferent, but the rumors did not spare her. After something strange happened in the field, people outside said that the hostess of the field had summoned demons and ghosts, and she was probably not from a good background.

So the adults and children who originally liked Liu Binghai began to walk around her. When they met her, they would nod from a distance and then run away, for fear of being affected by her bad luck.

For a moment, it seemed as if the blessing that had just been established turned into dejection.

Drifting Ice Sea was indifferent. When she was only dealing with Drifting Ice Sea, hadn't she experienced much of this?

Just a few criticisms, a few rolled eyes, and a few criticisms. Why would she be afraid of this?

She disdainfully threw the rotten vegetable leaves in the warehouse into the back mountain as fertilizer, making full use of everything, if people don't eat them, the mountain will eat them.

She clapped her hands and brushed off the dirt on her palms, but the dirt on her palms could not taint her heart with any more dirt.

However, Liu Hai felt a little angry when he saw others staying away from the Ice Sea.

When had his ancestors ever been treated so coldly?

Liu Binghai found his sulking expression somewhat adorable and consoled him, "Why bother with them? If they don't eat, we will eat. Will they starve to death?"

Wasn't it originally just that I was thinking, can I have food to eat if I follow him? Wasn't it originally just that I was attracted by his seeds and thought, hugging a big tree to enjoy the shade?

Originally, wasn't it just that as long as we could have enough food to eat, that would be good enough?

If others don’t want to eat, can you stop them from eating?

"Don't worry, I'm fine." Liu Binghai was very calm.

"They're always peeking at you from behind!" Liu Hai complained, "People around you."

"Go ahead and look at me. I'm not ugly." She patted his shoulder. "As long as we have enough to eat, it's still a blessing. The ones who suffer are those who can't eat, not us."

As for the landlord, if the business is not good and there is no dividend to be distributed to him, she thought, she would provide him with food for a year to offset the rent, and she believed that the landlord would be willing to do so.

People have to make a living.

So, the first thing she did was not to find out the truth, but to negotiate terms with the old man. If there was no dividend in the future, she would give him a certain amount of food and vegetables every year to offset the rent, and she signed a receipt with the old man.

As long as her basic life is worry-free, she doesn't want to be led by the nose by those people.

Some truths will slowly surface even if you don't check them out.

So she continued to spend her free time growing flowers and raising fish, waiting for the person who was supposed to come to her house.

Even though business is not good, I still grow vegetables. I can choose not to make money, but I can still eat.

The money in his hand was enough to last for a while, so Liu Binghai ignored this matter and continued to work like a busy farmer with a headscarf on.

Some days later, when she was planting vegetables, a fat, white-skinned, bald man suddenly came to the village.

When the man came, Liu Binghai was wrapped in clothes for working in the fields, carrying a hoe, and was busy sweating profusely.

When I was swinging the hoe, I suddenly heard a few loud laughs behind my ears.

The laughter was loud and false, resounding and powerful, with a trembling filthiness that made people feel physically uncomfortable.

She turned around and saw the bald man's greasy face in front of her.

Two workers welcomed him in and brought him to the drifting ice sea.

When the fat man saw her, he looked like he was seeing an acquaintance. He extended his hand to greet her and said with a smile, "It really is that girl. Do you still remember me? It's a pleasure to meet you."

The feeling of nausea kept churning in Liu Binghai's heart.

Before Liu Binghai could respond, the bald man jokingly said, "You left in a hurry last time, and we didn't have a good talk."

Haha, what is supposed to come has finally come.

Liu Binghai snorted in his heart, threw down the thing in his hand, and walked up to the bald man.

Then, he subconsciously took two steps back.

Thinking that this was the original owner's legal husband in her previous life, and that the original owner was sleeping with this bald man... she felt nauseous.

vomit……

Keep your bodies at a distance.

She was very far away from him.

The bald man laughed twice again and looked at her with a smile.

Liu Binghai said calmly, "What's the matter?"

The bald man felt a little strange about her indifferent attitude, probably thinking that she would rush to him and beg for help.

The bald man smiled and said, "I have some small matters that I want to talk to Boss Zhang about."

Liu Binghai took him into the front hall, where he usually discussed business with Boss Ma.

But she just sat far away and didn't even offer the bald man a cup of tea.

The two hired workers wanted to pour a glass of water, but were interrupted by Liu Binghai and kicked out.

"You guys go and do your work first and don't disturb our conversation." She said lightly.

So the bald man sat far away from the drifting ice sea, feeling thirsty and with a dry mouth.

The two workers hurried to inform Liu Hai. Liu Hai was tidying up in the shed. When he rushed to the front hall and saw this scene and the distance between the two people, he knew that the ancestor disliked this person.

The bald man saw Liu Hai and smiled at him.

"It's okay, let's talk first, you clean up the shed." Liu Binghai made a look at Liu Hai.

The fewer people there are, the simpler things are. She was afraid that the bald man would see her bangs and have all kinds of unnecessary thoughts.

I'm too lazy to bother with this bald guy.

Liu Hai cooperated very well and went back to the studio to continue packing things.

"Is there something I can do for you?" After a while, Liu Binghai came straight to the point.

The bald man saw that the girl had a strong temper, so he said directly, "Girl, let me be frank. I came here just for your farm."

Liu Binghai smiled and said, "How can you say that?"

The bald man looked at the little beauty with skin as white as snow, swallowed his saliva, and his expression changed. He continued, "I heard that something strange happened in your village and business is not good. I came here specifically to discuss business with you."

"Oh?" Liu Binghai raised his eyebrows, waiting for what he was going to say.

The bald man continued, "If your business is not doing well, would you consider cooperating with me? It's normal for a farm to have some strange things happen. You look decent and don't seem like someone who would do anything bad. Since they don't believe you, I, Baldy Wang, do. From now on, I will take care of all the fruits and vegetables you produce. Is that okay with you, girl?"

"Oh? Really?" Liu Binghai said calmly, "You want to take care of it all."

"But I have a condition," the bald man continued. "Since I'm taking over, I want to monopolize the market. From now on, you can only cooperate with me. What do you say?"

Liu Binghai smiled, took a sip of tea, and didn't answer.

Seeing her like this, the bald man's expression changed. He sighed, and a worry suddenly appeared on his cheek. He said bitterly, "Girl, you know that your village used to have a very good business. After something like this happened, I was the only one who trusted you. I am also taking risks. I dare to take this risk, and I must have benefits as bait. So, can you give me some sincerity?"

Liu Binghai looked at the ground and still didn't say anything.

"Or, if you find it troublesome, you can just sell the farm, all your melon seeds, and your methods of cultivation to me. That way, it would save you some hassles."

Haha, he even wants to take over Zhuangzi.

Liu Binghai waited quietly for a while without saying anything.

This guy has a really big belly, and he's not afraid of getting diarrhea from eating too much.

After a while, Liu Binghai asked, "Sir, why do you want to cooperate with me? Others avoid me when they hear about me, fearing they'll get into trouble. But you're not afraid, sir?"

The bald man, with a face full of righteousness, raised his hand and cupped his fist before saying, "Miss, I'm a businessman. To run a big business, you often need opportunities to pick up bargains. How could I dislike you? Besides, your business was so good before, and I trust your character and your food. I've asked Boss Ma about your products, and the quality is first-class."

Haha, Liu Binghai smiled and lowered his head.

Yes, he did ask Boss Ma some questions, not only about her business and the location of her farm, but also about her name, and then he found out about her history and past.

The daughter of a criminal... Fortunately, he knew about it in advance, otherwise, if she really became the mistress of the big boss, wouldn't that be courting death?

However, if you can't be small, you can still reap the benefits.

"How do you plan to solve the current situation of the farm?" Liu Binghai asked again.

The bald man said, "That's easy! I think once the manor falls into my hands, Baldy Wang, we will naturally find a way to get to the bottom of everything and clear our manor. As for this... please don't bother with me, young lady."

"Oh, really?" Liu Binghai smiled.

She has always had a bad temper and can be scary sometimes.

It's not that she can't stand hardship or poverty, but if she gets involved with the bald man again today for the sake of this farm, and lets her farm fall into the bald man's hands, she will be so disgusted that she will never be able to sleep for the rest of her life.

Although if she went back to a hard life, the system might punish her by ending the game, deducting points or warnings, or even turning her back to her original form, she felt that reconnecting with the bald man was more depressing than being turned back to her original form.

So, she didn't bother to pay any attention to him. If the cheap system insisted on punishing her for this, she would just give it a few slaps in the face and then argue with it. The world has its own rules, so it was up to a system to define the meaning of "happiness" on its own.

At this moment, letting this bald man go back and respecting the original owner's body will bring you happiness.

As for the future, she doesn't care. It's not like she can't even make a living, it's just a meal.

"Forget it." Liu Binghai retracted his gaze and rolled his eyes at the bald man. "I'll leave it to fate and wait for the outcome to unfold naturally."

The bald man was surprised that she refused so bluntly. "You're not going to take this free business?"

"No." Liu Binghai offered the bald man another cup of tea and ordered him to leave.

"My farm has never done anything harmful. The sudden change of buyer seems to be an admission of fact. If there is any conspiracy, there is any conspiracy. If there is no conspiracy, there is no conspiracy. I will wait for the consequences."

She had no fundamental trust in the bald man. Even if she didn't consider the original owner, if she only considered the food she had eaten, cooperating with him would be like trying to defraud someone and causing a loss of life.

Besides, his ambition is bigger than the sky. He even wants to take away her territory and job. Can she let him take over her and take everything away from her?

"Please go back. Thank you very much for your trust."

After saying that, Liu Binghai looked at the fat pig head indifferently.

She still remembered how the original owner was beaten by this bald man after her past life was exposed.

She saw the bald man out, then lowered her brows, unwilling to look at him again.

The bald man was obviously unhappy. He looked at the drifting ice sea with his fat and gloomy face, snorted, and left.

Those who were supposed to come had come, and those who were supposed to leave had left. Everything seemed to be going smoothly and peacefully.

After a few more months, the strange things in the fields gradually disappeared, the little ghosts and snakes also disappeared, and everything seemed to have returned to its former peace.

But business is still bad. Once bitten, one will be afraid of the rope for ten years. The former merchants are still watching the situation in the fields.

In the past few months, Liu Binghai took all the vegetables that had been returned to the city and donated them to the needy people. They were a little hesitant for a while because they were afraid of ghosts.

Liu Binghai said with a smile: "Eat it. If anything goes wrong, it's my fault."

They ate her food and were safe and sound, so they naturally felt relieved and were filled with gratitude to Liu Binghai.

So now, she is sending some of her vegetables and grains to needy families as usual. It has been proven that eating her fruits and vegetables keeps people healthy and no one is in danger of death.

The rumors gradually faded, and the mayor even presented Liu Binghai with a banner that read "Good Products and Good Farmers."

The haunting incident gradually passed, and several major merchants began to contact Liu Binghai to continue discussing cooperation.

She still didn't raise the price or sign an exclusive contract, everything remained the same.

Business gradually picked up again, and occasionally when she had dinner with the merchants, she would hear them praising her for her ability.

However, a few months later, suddenly one day, all the dishes were returned.

The vegetables that were returned this time were different from the last time. They gave off a strange smell and were completely different from what she grew.

She had her own vegetable delivery driver, who always delivered the goods to several major merchants, and there had never been any mistakes.

The dishes that were returned were clearly not the ones she had sent away.

Now, some people started to scold Liu Binghai as an unscrupulous farmer. The vegetables he grew were poisonous and disgusting, but he still had the nerve to send them to the city in batches. Did he want to make the city residents sick?

Everyone brought up the haunted incident again and couldn't help but imagine that the previous events must be related to the black cabbage.

What delicious food can be grown in a haunted field?

No wonder it’s haunted, it turns out it’s because of Black Heart!

Overnight, the farm was caught up in the "black heart vegetable" scandal. This time, even Boss Ma did not dare to come to the fields, because some children in the city had already suffered from vomiting and diarrhea because they had accidentally eaten something from the drifting ice sea.

Liu Binghai looked coldly at the batch of returned vegetables, and vaguely felt that something seemed to be about to come to light.

She rushed to Xuanzhou.

Xuanzhou is very dry in the summer, but people's hearts are even drier. People in every alley are talking about the black cabbage in the fields. Some children go into the toilet holding their stomachs and come out holding their stomachs because the toilet is already overcrowded.

She looked at the people coming and going and felt that people were cold and indifferent.

She wanted to go to Boss Ma's store to take a look. Among the major merchants, Boss Ma had the best character and the widest network of connections.

The alley was filled with the pungent smell of rubber, as if something had been set on fire and was being roasted, burned, and smoked.

Halfway through the journey, she was suddenly stopped by several people. Her neck suddenly hurt, her vision went black, and she lost consciousness.