Chapter 193: Another Mountain

The salary payment for Shanbei Village that day was a huge amount. If the higher-ups had not been paying attention to the village and had not given advance notice, things would not have gone so quickly.

This is a thousand good things, but it's different when the money is in hand and put into practical use. The whole village has been excited these days.

If we say that when Ye Zhen just came back the whole village was empty, the fields were desolate, the forests were lonely, there were few people and it lacked vitality, then in the middle period it began to come to life like a lit fire, and now Shanbei Village is like the whole village dancing in the square, full of passion, strength and spirit.

Ye Zhen finished his meditation and came down from the back mountain. He could hear the villagers laughing and talking from far away on the mountain.

The New Year is almost half a month away. The north is already covered with ice and snow, so people have to wear thick cotton-padded jackets.

However, Shanbei Village has geographical advantages. Although the temperature has dropped, it is still warmer than the climate elsewhere. In addition, Ye Zhen has been transforming it for so long that the effect of spiritual energy is strong.

The move has been completed and the whole family has moved into the new house.

There are enough large rooms with good orientation. The two bedrooms on the first floor are reserved for the old couple and Ye's father, while Ye Zhen and Ye's younger brother live on the second floor.

At this moment, Ye Xiaodi was slumped on the sofa in the living room on the first floor like an uncle, eating a small bunch of grapes in his hand.

The grapes are snow-white and crystal clear, and are as round as longans. The grains are not big, but the flesh is different from other grapes. The inside is snow-white like milk and tastes milky.

This is a new variety that Ye Zhen came up with on a whim. He used curd aloe and grapes from the yard to cultivate the grape variety, which is called curd grapes.

The skin is slightly hard, but when you bite it open it feels like popping bubbles, with a milky and fruity aroma. Most importantly, it has no seeds. Little brother Ye couldn't stop eating it after he came back. He hadn't digested the grapes from yesterday, and he was about to burp after eating so much this morning!

Ye Zhen looked disgusted and said, "Aren't you afraid of eating too much and getting full?"

Little Brother Ye was fearless. He grabbed a few more fruits and stuffed them into his mouth, muttering, "You don't know what I eat at school. How much pain my mouth has suffered!"

The school has a communal dining system, and the canteen is contracted out to someone else, so there are no professional chefs cooking at all.

Not to mention how good it tastes or how fresh the ingredients are, the food they cook is just edible enough to deceive your stomach.

According to Brother Ye, the people who prepare banquets in the village used to cook better food than the one in the canteen.

It's tasteless. After eating it, my stomach feels full but my mouth is still hungry.

The food that we brought from home was eaten up by the hungry wolves in the surrounding area within two days.

When his sister came to pick him up yesterday afternoon, he had already thought about what to eat to comfort his stomach at home over the weekend.

But he didn't expect that she was taken directly to the new home by her sister, and he was shocked when he saw her.

What a speed! Even if it’s just moving, a few people can finish it in a day or two.

But the fruit trees were as tall as two stories high, and they were full of all kinds of fruits and beautiful flowers. He was like a country bumpkin entering the city or Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden, and he didn't even blink for a long time.

I don’t recognize any of the flowers and trees, the beautiful rockery, flowing water and fat koi. Is it still the time for the lotus to bloom?

Anyway, Brother Ye stood by the pond for a long time, stunned by the lotus flowers blooming in front of him.

"What are you standing here for? You have your own room to arrange, and the bed isn't even made yet. Are you going to sleep tonight?"

Seeing Ye Yang looking like an idiot and not moving for a long time, Grandma Ye frowned and asked.

Ye Yang's room is next to Ye Zhen's. The basic facilities inside have been installed. He has also bought a new bed, as well as other tables, small sofas, curtains and so on. Ye Zhen generously replaced all the old things in the family.

After buying a new four-piece bedding set, Ye Zhen didn't know which one Ye Yang liked, so he let him choose the quilt himself.

As for other displays, he has to arrange them himself and place them however he likes.

"Grandma, is this a lotus? Isn't it almost New Year's Day? Why are there still some?" Logically speaking, shouldn't we clean the pond and dig lotus roots in the middle of winter?

Not to mention the lotus flowers, even the lotus leaves have dried up.

But Grandma Ye acted as if it was nothing new and gave little brother Ye a look that showed he was surprised.

“This is a special variety that blooms all year round.”

"What about these trees? And those fruit trees?" Ye Yang pointed at the lotus tree and other flowers and plants.

"It's impossible that he grew so big all of a sudden, right?" He is not stupid!

"Oh! I've told you that this is a new variety bred by the country. It cost a lot of money. If you have money, can't you buy anything? We've even moved the mountain to you, let alone some fruit trees?" Grandma Ye became impatient and lied to fool little brother Ye.

Ye Zi said that she would wait until the New Year to build her foundation and then find a suitable opportunity to tell Brother Ye.

Brother Ye immediately shut up, well, her sister has a lot of money, so it seems like she can ask someone to dig the seeds.

Ye Xiaodi tried his best to comfort himself and ignore the abnormalities.

Seeing this, Grandma Ye glanced away and breathed a sigh of relief.

After little brother Ye finished making his bed, Grandma Ye and Grandpa Ye were picking fruits in a specially vacated room.

Perhaps there was too much spiritual energy. Many ordinary fruit plants in the back mountain absorbed enough nutrients and continued to bloom and bear fruit. The fruits changed bigger and bigger each time, as if they all wanted to break free and become spiritual plants.

Ye Zhen would transplant the fruit trees every few days and pick the ripe fruits, and the storage talismans in his home would be full again.

Younger Ye pushed the door open and was dazzled by the huge variety of fruits.

Even though he knew that his sister had planted many strange and exotic fruit trees in the back hills, he was still shocked when he saw the various fruits.

After helping grandma and grandpa clean up, I saw all kinds of grapes. I don’t know how many kinds Ye Zhen planted. The red grapes looked like glass beads, and the purple grapes came in different shapes. Some were shaped like fingers with concave bottoms, and some were as big as chicken eggs…

There are also blue, white, snow-colored and so on.

He picked up a bunch of snow-white grapes at random, fell in love with it as soon as he took a bite, and has been eating it since he got home.

Ye Zhen came back from the mountain. This is the third string of food that Ye Zhen has eaten this morning.

A string weighs at least one kilogram.

I admire you so much!

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The back mountain is almost fully planted, and Ye Zhen has set his sights on other mountains.

How could she plant a whole mountain? She planned to plant all the valleys where she had previously planted various seedlings and plants.

That place is far enough and deep enough that villagers generally don't go there, so it's normal that some strange plants are grown there.

The remoteness of Shanbei Village has its advantages. It lacks everything else except various mountains, big and small.

The nearby mountains all belong to Shanbei Village, so Ye Zhen didn't set his sights on them.

She went to the village chief to continue the contract.

The village chief was very surprised when he heard what Ye Zhen was here for: "You haven't even produced any output from the land you rented, and you want to lease the land? Isn't the land behind your house enough?"

"Not enough, how can it be enough? I'm a food company, and I can't afford to have less varieties. There's too little land to rent outside, only a few dozen acres. You have to fight with me. You can't do anything you want."

"Dozens of acres of land may seem like a lot, but they won't be enough before we finish planting them. Besides, how can these lands be as safe as the land in our village?"

The village chief thought about it, but he was still puzzled and asked: "Is the hill behind your house full of plants?"

"It's full of plants. There are tea trees at the bottom and various fruit trees above. Now most of the potted plants have been dug up and sold. There are still many new varieties to be planted next year. How can that little mountain be enough?"

Ye Zhen paused and advised the village chief: "If our village wants to grow medicinal herbs, I suggest that we start clearing the mountains immediately and remove the weeds. Time waits for no one. As long as these medicinal herbs grow in our mountains, they usually grow very quickly. The sooner we plant them, the sooner we can make money."

"I heard that other places are also planting these herbs. If more people buy them, the price will drop."

The main reason is that Ye Zhen has cultivated too many different kinds of medicinal herbs. She has collected a large number of seeds and cultivated seedlings one after another, all of which are being raised in the valley. The key point is that the valley is not hers yet.

The village chief was anxious: "Okay, I will organize people to go up the mountain immediately without waiting for them to come up with a list."

Although the mountains belong to the village collective, each household draws lots to determine which household is responsible for which piece of land, ensuring impartiality.

But at the same time, there must be a difference in the quality of medicinal materials between sunny and shady land, and the village chief was troubled by these issues.

Even if we draw lots, some people will not be convinced.

Ye Zhen suggested: "Some of these medicinal herbs prefer shade, while others prefer sun. Prepare the land first, and then plant suitable herbs directly on it. I will write down the planting characteristics of the herbs in detail later. All you need to do is divide the land."

The village chief’s idea made sense. He was worried that different medicinal herbs had different prices, and what would he do if the villagers were unwilling to grow them?

Ye Zhen: "This mountain is collectively owned. We don't plant it like strawberries. We divide the land into pieces of similar size. Each household is responsible for one kind of medicinal herb. After picking, the village collects all the herbs and sells them. We can then divide the money. Isn't that good?"

The village chief's eyes lit up, but then he hesitated, "Is it possible to grow these medicinal herbs in a certain way?"

The villagers who were assigned to grow the herbs well will naturally feel relaxed, but what if those who were assigned to grow the herbs poorly die?

Ye Zhen smiled confidently: "Don't worry, the last time the experts tested it, they found that the soil in our village is special and the environment is excellent, which is suitable for the growth of various plants. The same goes for medicinal herbs, which are all easy to grow!"

The main reason is that Ye Zhen transformed Shanbei Village. The spiritual energy is not abundant, but it is much stronger than other places, and ordinary plants definitely grow well.

Those experts and professors did say so and also reminded the village chief to protect the environment.

Thinking of the growth rate of various plants in the village, the village chief was relieved, "Okay, I will go back and organize people immediately."