Chapter 166 Harvesting Colorful Corn

Zhao Feng called with a familiar laugh: "Brother Ye! Are there any fruits and vegetables ripe recently?"

Father Ye asked in surprise, "It's Xiao Zhao? Are you the one who is in charge of the fruit and vegetable purchases again?"

Wasn't it the guy named Wang from the previous times? Ye's father was very confused.

"Brother Ye, I have been transferred back, and now I am in charge of purchasing again." Zhao Feng said with indescribable joy.

Father Ye's eyes lit up. It was a good idea to change people. The vegetables and fruits at home have matured a lot recently, and the corns are ripe and as thick as an arm.

He was also worried about how to consume it. After all, corn is not a vegetable like fruit and has a short shelf life. Corn will not be sweet if left for too long.

Besides, it’s better to sell it to the supermarket. Even if there were unpleasant things before, so what?

Is it important to make money? No!

It doesn't matter who you sell it to. The key is that supermarkets have a large demand.

Father Ye congratulated him a few times and then asked:

"There are mature ones. How many do you need this time?"

"The more the better. The supermarket can eat it all." Zhao Feng was very excited. He had not made much purchases from the Ye family since Wang Xin took over.

They were all harvested from other villages, which were even more remote than Shanbei Village, and the purchase price was not high. However, the process submitted by Wang Xin to the higher-ups still showed that they were purchased from the Ye family.

The price is naturally approved according to the price of purchasing vegetables from the Ye family, and the price difference is huge.

Wang Xin thought that since they were both remote places, there was no high-tech equipment used, no special planting techniques or special crops, so the vegetables and fruits grown would be no different.

It’s just that the Ye family was lucky enough to find their supermarket to cooperate with, so it wouldn’t make any difference even if they changed the place of purchase.

These days I have been buying food from other places to supply the local Wanmao Supermarket, but I didn’t know that there are differences between different vegetables.

Some young people may not be able to see it, but the old men and women who buy groceries every day have sharp eyes.

After the vegetables purchased from other villages were put on the shelves, the supermarket's purchase volume decreased day by day.

Wang Xin had something to hide, so he rushed to buy strawberries from Country R, ​​hoping that the quality advantage would boost sales so he could go abroad as soon as possible.

Unexpectedly, his cleverness backfired and he ended up losing his job.

Zhao Feng told Ye's father about it and couldn't help sighing:

"He is so greedy that he harms others and himself." Manager Wang was demoted and had his salary cut as a result.

"Forget it, let's not talk about him, Brother Ye. Then I'll come tomorrow?"

Dad Ye didn't have any idea about this. He believed that the sooner fruits and vegetables ripen, the better, to avoid them becoming overripe and unpalatable.

"Okay, I'll have someone harvest them now, and you can just pack them away tomorrow."

Now that the matter has been settled, Dad Ye is ready to go to the village to call for help.

But Ye Zhen stopped Ye's father and said, "Dad, how many people are you going to invite?"

Father Ye thought for a moment and said, "We'll need at least ten people! The corn is ripe, there are several acres of land, and the various vegetables planted on the slopes are almost ripe. And didn't you say that the grapefruits and oranges in the back mountain are ripe? It won't be enough if there are fewer people!"

"Dad, there's no need to call for help. The back mountain is not convenient for the villagers to enter. The cornfield is remote, and I can harvest them all by myself using my cultivation skills."

Ye Zhen had his own plans. The spiritual energy in the back mountain was too rich, and the fruit trees grew very fast. Some of them had mutated and were completely different from the original fruit trees. Many villagers had been called in to plant the fruit trees, and he would be afraid of being discovered once he went in.

It is not suitable for others to know now, at least she has to build her foundation first!

After listening to Ye Zhen's idea, Ye's father also felt that it made sense. The whole family could harvest the vegetables on the slope, and Ye Zhen could find a way to deal with the vegetables in the back mountain and the cornfield.

It's still early, so Ye Zhen and his father go to harvest corn, while his mother and others go to pick vegetables, and the family goes their separate ways.

The cornfield was very large, not far from the paddy field. She stood on the ridge and looked at the corn cobs wrapped in green outer coats. The yellow to black corn silks were almost dry, indicating that the corn inside was ripe enough.

Dad Ye was quick and broke off a corn cob with a "click".

"Oh, this corn is so good. Look at the corn kernels, they are neat and plump, and they smell sweet!"

"Of course. They are all cultivated and optimized by me. They must taste good and the yield seems to be good too."

Ye Zhen observed the corn. Since it was the first time to optimize the planting, she was worried that the yield would not be too high.

But seeing that there are at least two corn cobs on one plant, there will be no problem with the yield.

I was so busy building the house and practicing cultivation during this period that I forgot about corn.

"Ye Zi, I see you planted a lot of varieties, right?"

Dad Ye has peeled several corns. The colors of the corn kernels are different. There are purple, white, yellow, red, and dark purple with a black tint. Some of the corns have different colors on them.

These are the main colors. From Ye's father's point of view, the white color of the corn he picked is different! Some are milky white, and some are crystal clear white. How can this look like corn?

He has only eaten white and yellow ones. This is the first time that Dad Ye has seen so many colors. They are so colorful that they can make a rainbow when put together. Can this be eaten?

Dad Ye was a little skeptical.

After all, the brighter the color of some mushrooms, the more poisonous they are; the same is true for snakes.

"Don't worry, it's not poisonous!" Why would she plant it if it was poisonous? Isn't that a waste of land?

"That's good." Father Ye was relieved and became more curious about the corn. "I'll try cooking some when I get home!"

"Cook, cook, cook! Let's go back and get one of each color and see how many colors there are. I also want to know what it tastes like, hehe!"

Ye Zhen was also quite curious. She was just optimizing various corn seeds together. Perhaps as her cultivation level improved and her spiritual cultivation technique became more sophisticated, the optimization effect on the plants would be greater.

Looking at the colorful corn on the ground, it smells quite fragrant. It shouldn’t be unpalatable, right?

Father Ye rode his tricycle over. There was no one around, so he quickly asked Ye Zhen:

"How can we harvest so much corn now that there is no one here?"

"I'll come, Dad, you help me take a look, someone come and tell me."

These fields were neither big nor small. Dad Ye was watching from the other side. Ye Zhen recited the mantra silently. As his spiritual energy circulated, invisible winds gathered in the cornfield from all directions, and the air pressure dropped sharply.

I saw corn cobs being blown up into the sky by the strong wind and gathered together like a giant green dragon. After detaching from the plants, Ye Zhen controlled them with his spiritual energy and piled them up little by little. Soon, they formed a huge mountain of corn at the edge of the field.

There were mountains of corn like this surrounding the fields. When all the corn was harvested, Ye Zhen stopped, the spiritual energy gathered and dissipated, the wind stopped and the qi disappeared.

Father Ye stood there dumbfounded. It only took a few minutes and several acres of land were harvested?

He went into the field to take a look, and sure enough, the crops had been harvested cleanly.

"Ye Zi, you are such an amazing magician, this is too fast!" Ye's father was filled with envy.

"What's this? It's almost there, almost there. After I build my foundation and can check my spiritual roots, you can practice with me."

Ye Zhen acted calm and composed, but was extremely proud in his heart.

He didn't think about the next second: "I miscalculated. I should have listened to your mother and planted all the vacant land. With your two moves, the corn-harvesting machines would be out of work every minute. This would save a lot of money." Ye's father sighed.

Ye Zhen: “…” There’s no need to compare like that.

After the corn was harvested, it was carried home in batches on tricycles.

The melons and vegetables at Ye Ma's place have almost been picked, so it's just the right time to harvest the leafy vegetables tomorrow.

The whole family was naturally shocked by the corn. "Will supermarkets buy corn that looks like this?" Mother Ye picked up a dark purple corn and was very skeptical.

I really don't know if Ye Zhen can do this, so forget it, just keep it for yourself.

"It's okay, just say it's a new variety. If you don't accept it, we'll keep it and grind it into flour ourselves."

Dad Ye was even less afraid. As long as it was not poisonous, it was still food after all. If he did not harvest it, he could share the leftovers with relatives. It would not be wasted anyway.

"Let's steam it and eat it first. Come on, take one of the same color."

When the corn was ripe, everyone was determined that it was so delicious that they could eat it all themselves without harvesting it. Dad Ye had already eaten five corns by himself.

"This corn is so sweet and has a milky aroma. You should try it." Mother Ye held up a milky white corn.

"Mine is delicious, chewy and has a fruity aroma, but it doesn't stick to your teeth." Dad Ye held up the dark purple and black corn in his hand, with a circle of black juice on his mouth.

"The corn has been harvested, but the corn stalks are still in the field, right?" Grandma Ye asked.

The main thing is that the corn has been harvested, and the corn stalks can be left for the rabbits, and she is too lazy to run out to cut grass every day to feed them.

"Yes, it's still green. The corn is delicious and big, and the stalks are thick. They look like pieces of sugarcane. I don't know if the stalks are sweet or not."

While eating, Ye's father said that the corn stalks and leaves can be kept to feed rabbits, the stalks can be dried and used as firewood, and they can also be used to cover garlic when planting to help it sprout, so they are quite useful.

Ye Zhen was eating the corn and felt satisfied. Although the color was a bit off, she tried them one by one and found each one had its own unique features.

She quietly felt relieved, thinking that she was going to fail this time.