They ran up to ask.

To everyone's surprise, a group of people suddenly appeared in the open space.

Then a group of people rushed up and dragged the bewildered group of people out of the open space.

Nearly 300 people were transported in batches, and the process was completed in ten separate trips.

After the lively farming activities, the manor quieted down again after the Xing Shu Sect disciples left.

The farm, however, remained as lively as ever.

Because starting the next day, the entire family of the villagers would have to get busy.

They're not just busy turning the world upside down and planting crops.

We also have to busy harvesting sunflowers.

Good, after a month, the sunflowers have finally ripened.

During this period, although everyone was busy harvesting wheat every day, they did not forget the sunflower field.

The sunflowers in the field were not forced to grow and continued to grow normally according to the original schedule.

Every morning, the farmers rush to water the plants as soon as they get up.

After the wheat harvest was completed in the evening, groups of people went to weed.

With the added bonus from the formation, the sunflower seeds have grown significantly in size over the past month, and even seem to be a little bigger than the ones the owner had before.

The farmers were extremely excited.

After collecting these melon seeds, the family earned several dozen taels of silver.

This year has truly been a bumper harvest; the granaries are overflowing, and we have no worries about money.

All the farmers went into the fields and first helped their landlord harvest the sunflowers.

Anyway, the weather is nice and warm now, so there's no need to race against time.

Fifty acres of sunflowers were harvested in just one day.

For the next three days, every household was busy harvesting sunflower seeds.

After the sunflower seeds were harvested, they were carried into the farm in bags.

They then headed toward their fields.

Each household only has one mu (approximately 0.16 acres), so the harvest is quick; they can harvest and knock down crops in a single day.

On the day they had all finished packing up the melon seeds, Li Chengzhi came to inform them.

Then, those who wanted to sell sunflower seeds gathered at the entrance of the manor, carrying bags or baskets of seeds, and lined up in a long queue.

Just like when he was collecting grain, Li Chengzhi sat behind the table, spread out the account book, and placed an abacus next to him.

Two large boxes were placed on the table. One was filled with stacks of copper coins, and the other was filled with gleaming silver ingots, making everyone both nervous and excited.

The yield of sunflower seeds per mu this time is indeed higher than last time.

Each mu yields at least 650 jin.

Apart from keeping a few dozen kilograms for the New Year, each household chose to sell the rest to the landlord.

I'll buy it for 80 coins.

600 jin is 48 liang!

“Li Shangcai, 642 catties, totaling 51 taels and 36 cash, take 50 taels of silver ingots and one string of 36 cash.”

As Li Chengzhi read out the amount, the man at the front of the line gasped for breath, his breathing tightened, and he stared intently at the large silver ingot placed on the table.

Good heavens, he's never held such a big gold ingot in his entire life.

Li Shangcai's family members almost popped their eyes out, wishing they could step forward and help count the coins.

Fortunately, the coins were all strung together beforehand, usually in bunches. After counting the 36 loose coins, the rest were taken out directly.

Not to mention Li Shangcai's family, even the villagers queuing behind and watching from the sidelines couldn't help but gasp.

Li Shangcai lifted his clothes to catch the heavy string of coins, clutching the large ingot tightly in his hand, his gums showing as he grinned.

"Wife, let's go to town later and buy meat and cloth to make new clothes for the kids—no, for the whole family!"

"Okay!" Li Shangcai's wife was overjoyed, and the whole family swarmed around him as they hurried home.

They were afraid that if they ran too slowly, their money would be stolen.

Not only them, but almost all the farmers who received the silver did the same.

After all, this is a huge sum of money.

With money and food in hand, one has nothing to fear.

The farmers are getting busy preparing for the New Year.

So for a while afterward, you could see villagers going out and coming back in groups, carrying baskets on their backs, or driving oxcarts and donkey carts back and forth.

Everyone who returns brings with them a large amount of supplies.

For a period of time afterward, the entire farm was filled with the rich aroma of braised meat almost every day.

This year, Dongyang Tianzhuang almost monopolized the pig supply of several neighboring villages.

At first, the villagers thought it was the owner of Dongyang Farm who wanted it.

It wasn't until a farmer let it slip that they realized it was actually what they wanted.

Those who heard it at first did not believe it, until their daughters and sons-in-law who had married into other villages returned home for the New Year and saw rows of cured meat and sausages hanging under the eaves of every house, and then they believed it.

But what shocked them even more was the temperature in Dongyang Village and the green wheat seedlings sprouting in the fields.

Of course, that's a story for another time.

The money earned from this year's sunflower seeds is not the last income for the farmers.

After the sunflower seeds are harvested.

Li Chengzhi came to inform us again that the employer was hiring laborers to go up Qingshan to collect fruit.

On the green hills, all the fruits and vegetables planted on the entire hillside were ripened using artificial methods.

These fruits are protected by spiritual energy and can be preserved for a period of time.

But it can't stay in the ground forever.

One hundred strong laborers, men and women, all carried baskets on their backs as they went up the green mountain.

Even from a distance, you can see the mountain laden with fruit.

But when they saw it up close, they found it even more spectacular.

The rich aroma of fruit filled their nostrils, making them unable to resist swallowing.

Then they picked them in groups of several.

As I picked them, I couldn't help but look at them with curiosity.

Because they didn't recognize many of these fruits, or had never even seen them before.

For example, those fruits that grow on tree trunks, are bigger than watermelons, are golden yellow all over, and have many small bumps.

There are also those pink fruits that look like small gourds.

The variety of oddly shaped fruits overwhelmed them.

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