"That's right, our village has really made something of itself this year!"

"It's all thanks to A-Zheng's wife. If it weren't for her, would we even have enough to eat?"

"That's right, if you ask me..."

The villagers chattered amongst themselves as they gazed at the rice paddies, their heads bent low by the weight of the plump ears of grain.

A breeze swept by, and waves of rice rippled across the fields. The heavy ears of rice looked like gold, a gift from nature, and were a sight to behold.

At Village Chief Li's command, the harvesters wielded their sickles with incredible speed, everyone eager to know just how much rice they could harvest from such a large quantity.

Jiang Qinyu didn't go to the fields, but seeing the scene in her own rice paddy, she couldn't help but feel excited.

While everyone was busy harvesting rice, Jiang Qinyu simply opened the system shop and spent another two thousand points to buy random high-yield seeds.

As it turns out, the system didn't trick her this time; whether it was winter wheat or anything else, the system's output was indeed high-yielding.

In addition to the plan finalized with Wei Chengzong yesterday, purchasing seeds is a must.

Two points for a high-yield grain seed gift pack, and Jiang Qinyu bought a thousand of them in one go, which was quite extravagant.

For some unknown reason, Jiang Qinyu's gift pack of a thousand high-yield grain seeds only contained three crops: sweet potatoes, wheat, and rice.

Perhaps these few have already reaped a bountiful harvest in this world? Jiang Qinyu guessed that was probably the case.

But none of that matters. The total of two thousand catties of grain seeds, plus what Dingshui Village had harvested before, is not enough.

Jiang Qinyu looked at her points balance with worry; she had less than 500 points left. It seemed she had to hurry up and complete the task to get the third floor out first.

The third floor of her shopping mall is the men's clothing and sports equipment section, with many brands. Unfortunately, even if this area is unlocked, it's not very useful and can only be used as a warehouse.

The only benefit is probably that it allows you to accumulate points.

She had just sorted and put away the seeds she had received when Village Chief Li's joyful voice came from the field.

"The harvest is finished! Everyone, go to Old Meng's field to continue harvesting. I'll take some people to thresh these rice ears first."

The threshing tools were brought over and placed by the field early on, and threshing has already begun while the harvest is being carried out.

Jiang Qinyu also joined in helping with the threshing.

Nowadays, rice is threshed using a rice hu (pronounced with a second tone), which is all done manually. It can be done by at least one person, but usually two people work together. One person passes the bundled rice ears and seedlings, while the other stuffs the rice ears into the rice hu.

Such tools are naturally not as efficient as modern threshing machines, but their advantage is that only Jiang Qinyu's family's rice needs to be threshed at present, and all five rice threshers in the village are here.

About an hour later, Jiang Qinyu had finished processing all the rice in her acre of land.

Without Li Village Chief's prompting, Chen Shao and Liu Yazi hurriedly began weighing the items.

"You two rascals, pay attention, don't make a mistake," Village Chief Li urged, wiping his sweat.

Chen Shao grinned and said, "Don't worry, Uncle Village Chief. Liu Yazi and I are very familiar with this matter, so there's definitely no chance of anything going wrong!"

"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up!" Village Chief Li said with a laugh, though he was actually quite impatient.

Even without knowing the specific data, just looking at the piles of rice on the field, one can tell that the yield of this rice is definitely much better than what they used to grow.

Jiang Qinyu was also eager to know how much the high-yield rice seeds provided by the system would produce, and just as she was looking forward to it, she heard Li Dachui's urgent voice.

"Village chief, it's A-Zheng's house! A group of yamen runners have arrived outside the village! You must go and see!"

Dingshui Village still maintains the habit of daily patrols and guarding the lookout tower at the village entrance to prevent any further accidents.

Village Chief Li and Jiang Qinyu exchanged a glance. Neither of them panicked, since they had just met Magistrate Wei from the county government yesterday and knew he wasn't a bad person.

“My dear niece, why don’t you come with me to take a look?” Village Chief Li said, looking at Jiang Qinyu.

Jiang Qinyu thought for a moment, then shook her head. "No, Uncle Village Chief, why don't we just have them come directly to the fields?"

“Alright, we haven’t done anything wrong, there’s nothing to be afraid of.” Village Chief Li paused and nodded, then said to Li Dachui, “Dachui, go and bring the police here. We can talk about it here.”

"Huh? Isn't this a bit inappropriate?" Li Dachui hesitated. "Wouldn't that be too disrespectful?"

Jiang Qinyu smiled and said, "Uncle Hammer, don't worry. Nothing is more important than the harvest in the fields these days. The officers will definitely understand."

She believed that Village Chief Li, like her, wanted to be the first to know the rice yield, so he didn't want to leave the fields.

"Okay then, I'll be right there." Seeing that she said that, Li Dachui stopped hesitating and turned to run away as fast as he could.

Chen Shao and Liu Yazi quickened their pace in weighing and recording the rice. After another quarter of an hour, they finally finished weighing the rice harvested from this acre of land.

"Ah Shao, have you figured it out yet?" Jiang Qinyu asked impatiently.

Chen Shao was about to answer excitedly when he looked up and saw Li Dachui leading a group of yamen runners and a middle-aged man in official robes approaching from not far away.

"Sister-in-law Lu, is that the magistrate coming?" Chen Shao changed the subject, looking ahead as he asked.

Jiang Qinyu turned her head and exclaimed, "Huh? What brings Lord Wei here?"

As she was thinking this, Village Chief Li called out to her to hurry up and go to meet him.

"Greetings, Madam." Wei Chengzhong bowed respectfully to Jiang Qinyu.

Jiang Qinyu smiled slightly and curtsied, "Greetings, Lord Wei."

Village Chief Li and others also bowed to Wei Chengzong.

Wei Chengzong said, "Gentlemen, there's no need for such formalities. I've come today to check on the conditions in the fields of Dingshui Village."

To be precise, he wanted to see what kind of high-yield crop could earn him a special reward from the imperial court for being a county magistrate.

“Well, sir, you’ve come at the right time,” Village Chief Li said with pride, having become somewhat familiar with Wei Chengzong yesterday. “We are harvesting the rice we planted last year.”

Wei Chengzong glanced at the rice that had already been threshed and laid out on the ground, as well as the damp straw neatly arranged in the field, and couldn't help but show a bit of surprise, "How can you harvest rice at this time?"

Village Chief Li chuckled and said, "These seeds were all found by my eldest niece, or rather, by the General's wife. They can be planted in winter."

Hearing this, Jiang Qinyu couldn't help but sigh. In fact, the rice seeds provided by the system could be sown at any time of year, and the time from sowing to harvest varied from three to five months depending on the temperature.

Modern rice is divided into early, mid, and late rice varieties, and systematic rice seeds can also be classified according to this. However, last year was a special case, so Jiang Qinyu didn't pay too much attention to it and just planted them first.

However, she underestimated the reliability of the system's products. She didn't expect the one-click after-sales function to be so powerful. Even with the current weather, the rice has been safely harvested.

"Oh? So you've calculated the yield of this rice?" Wei Chengzong asked.