He had a gut feeling that something was amiss, but since Tang Xiaoxiao was unwilling to explain further, he didn't press the matter.

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The couple acted swiftly and quickly selected a suitable location in the village to dig a fishpond.

In recent years, rural areas in China have experienced severe aging, with young people migrating to cities one after another, leaving only elderly people in the countryside. The land is left vacant and uncultivated, houses are left uninhabited, and large tracts of land are left barren.

Hou Tang Village is better off than the surrounding villages and towns because Tang Xiaoxiao built a factory here. Many local young people have gone to work for her company, so they haven't moved away.

Despite this, a small percentage of the houses are still empty.

Tang Xiaoxiao had many locations to choose from when selecting land.

The fishpond was dug on the other side of the small hill where she had initially contracted the land.

In this way, almost the entire area around the mountain became her territory, with greenhouse aquaculture on one side and fish ponds and artificial seas on the other.

It's convenient for the workers to do their work and for them to keep watch.

With ample funds, the two didn't lease any existing fishponds, but instead hired excavators to dig two of them themselves.

The villagers can understand why they are building fishponds; freshwater fish farming is very common. Apart from the fact that they dug their own ponds, which is a bit extravagant, there's nothing else to be curious about.

She already farms and raises livestock, so it's not surprising that she also raises fish.

But artificial seas... that's a bit mysterious and impressive. They've never even heard of such a thing in their small town.

Tang Xiaoxiao... she really knows how to cause trouble!

Instead of calming down after getting married, things got even worse. Her husband was just as energetic and unruly as she was!

Tang Xiaoxiao and Han Yunqi didn't care about the villagers' gossip behind their backs. Artificial seas weren't considered cutting-edge technology in China. Seafood vendors had already done it before. They would mix some of the main chemical substances in natural seawater in a certain proportion to make artificial seawater salt that was easy to use. When using it, they would simply mix the artificial seawater salt with water in a certain proportion to create artificial seawater that was close to natural seawater.

This will allow for the cultivation of marine life inland.

Tang Xiaoxiao claimed that she was going to transport seawater from the coastal city to the pool, but in fact she planned to secretly transfer the seawater out of the space after the pool was built.

She doesn't want to use those artificial chemical ingredients.

Although these methods are permitted by the state and are harmless to the human body, they are very troublesome to operate. They require filtration, oxygenation, and water quality testing every twelve hours. Only after a week, when the water quality is confirmed to be stable, can the water be used to cultivate marine life.

It's too complicated.

It was time-consuming, laborious, and thankless, so she simply cut off that connection.

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On the other hand, because the land at the K City branch was significantly larger than that at the Hou Tang Village branch, several small raw material processing plants intended for supplying the milk tea shops were built there. Tang Xiaoxiao dispatched several of the company's senior executives to take full charge of the branch's construction and also conducted a series of recruitment drives locally. With her "exclusive secret formula," the branch's planting and breeding businesses flourished, and it was believed that soon the supply to D City would no longer require shipments from A City. Tang Xiaoxiao only inspected the site twice initially and was completely relieved after finding everything was in order.

In mid-July, Tiger Girl safely gave birth to six puppies.

Because black leopards also have black backs and yellow bellies, the six cubs don't have much difference in fur color despite their parents being different breeds.

As for who she will resemble more when she grows up, it's too early to tell.