Jiang Zhan was naturally not polite.

He took the earliest flight to the provincial capital of Yue Province, where Zhang Qi drove to pick him up.

The car drove all the way to Taoshui Village.

After getting out of the car, Zhang Qi walked into the house and poured a glass of water for Jiang Zhan.

"Mr. Jiang, you can sit under the persimmon tree and take a rest. Qingzhi has gone to the back mountain to deliver water to everyone. Aunt and uncle are also busy in the back mountain. Please don't be polite, just treat it as your own home."

Zhang Qi rubbed his hands and entertained the guests as if they were his own family, as if they had become non-staff members of the Xu family.

Jiang Zhan took a sip of water, pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, and asked, "Can I go to the back mountain to take a look?"

"Of course." Zhang Qi raised his hand and said, "Mr. Jiang, this way please."

Walking towards the back mountain, which is only a few hundred meters in total, you can see people busy working everywhere.

Zhang Qi led him to move forward so that he could see more clearly.

Jiang Zhan looked at such a large mountain and thought it was not easy to take it all in. He visited many farms abroad and found that they were very convenient because they were located on plains and fully mechanized.

This is a hilly area, and except for the flat land below which can be operated by machinery, the enclosed mountains have to be constructed manually.

The round sun emerged from the top of the mountain, and the sunlight sprinkled on the earth. The sun was not too strong at the moment, and there was a cool feeling standing near the mountain.

Jiang Zhan couldn't help but take a deep breath. The air here was much better than in Kyoto.

Zhang Qi found Qingzhi's figure and quickly stretched out his arms and waved them, shouting, "Qingzhi, Qingzhi, I brought him back."

Xu Qingzhi is preparing the land for planting strawberries next month. He has already cleared the weeds and debris on the surface, plowed the land, and applied a small amount of chicken manure fertilizer. Strawberries are not tolerant to fertilizer, so not too much fertilizer can be applied.

Today we are making ridges and furrows. We need to plow deeply and make high ridges. The width of the ridges is 60 cm, the height is 30 cm, and the distance between ridges is 40 cm.

Strawberries are planted in two rows per bed, with a row-to-row spacing of 25 centimeters. About 10,000 plants are planted per acre.

The strawberry seedlings in her space had many runners, enough to plant three acres of land. They were good seedlings grown in the spiritual space, and with the spiritual spring water and the spiritual array, there was no need to worry about the strawberry yield, and it would be no problem to produce 6,000 kilograms per acre.

Hearing Zhang Qi's voice, Xu Qingzhi turned around and saw Zhang Qi and the man next to him.

She waved her hand to indicate that she heard it, and walked back with the empty kettle.

He walked to the side of the road and took two or three steps up from the ridge.

"Hello, boss. I'm Jiang Zhan, Jiang Xiao's younger brother." Jiang Zhan was wearing a black suit, gold-rimmed glasses, and his hair was meticulously groomed. He exuded a three-part elegance, three-part dignity, and four-part wisdom from the ups and downs of the business world. He extended a hand in a very businesslike manner.

Xu Qingzhi extended his hand and shook it politely, "Hello, Xu Qingzhi, just call me Qingzhi."

"Qingzhi." Jiang Zhan called her, his thin lips curled up, his voice very gentle: "Then you can call me Zhan Zhan, my friends around me call me that."

Xu Qingzhi rarely hesitated about such meaningless things as addressing others, so he said, "Okay, have you had breakfast?"

Jiang Zhan shook his head, looking a little embarrassed: "I was in a hurry to get here, and I didn't have time to eat on the way."

"I'm just about to go have breakfast. I have some porridge and side dishes at home. If you don't mind, you can have some together." After Xu Qingzhi finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Qi next to him and said, "Zhang Lu, would you like to have some too?"

Zhang Qi touched his belly and said with a grin, "I was just thinking about coming back for breakfast."

He no longer felt like eating anything outside. The Xu family's clear porridge was made with the new rice harvested this time. It tasted like rice after being boiled.

In order to entertain some villagers who came to help without having time to have breakfast, the family listened to Qingzhi's advice and made breakfast a self-service model.

This way everyone can eat whatever they want and use public chopsticks to put the food into their own bowl, which makes it clean and hygienic.

On a row of long tables, there are scallion meat buns, brown sugar buns, porridge, boiled eggs, stir-fried water spinach, spinach, and cold cucumber salad...

The dishes and chopsticks were placed next to it.

Xu Qingzhi opened the lid of the porridge, which was still hot. She scooped a bowl of porridge, put a meat bun and an egg in it, and took it aside to eat.

Zhang Qi couldn't wait to take a large bowl and fill it with porridge, then put a little bit of everything on the plate, filling the plate so full that there was no room for boiled eggs, so he just took two in his hand.

Jiang Zhan was shocked when he saw how full Zhang Qi's bowl was.

He also served the porridge and took a little of everything, but not much.

He took a bite of the water spinach and it still tasted the same.

Just because of the difference in cooks, the water spinach here seems to taste better.

Zhang Qi is peeling eggs.

A light smell of boiled eggs wafted through the air.

Jiang Zhan smelled it and found that the boiled egg was very fragrant, the kind of light fragrance that made people want to eat it.

He also peeled the eggshell and tasted the egg.

There was no fishy smell of eggs at all and it tasted very delicious. He, who usually doesn't eat egg yolks, ate the whole egg this time.

Because he manages a boutique supermarket, Jiang Zhan has to deal with major farms around the world all year round. After tasting eggs from so many families, he actually feels that none of them are as delicious as the eggs from the Xu family.

To test the quality of an egg, boiled eggs are undoubtedly the best way to cook them.

Zhang Qi finished the porridge in his bowl and wanted to get a second bowl. Seeing that Jiang Zhan's bowl was still untouched, he was anxious for others to miss out on such delicious porridge, so he reminded him, "Boss Jiang, drink the porridge. This porridge is delicious. It's made from the rice grown by the Xu family. It was just harvested a while ago. It tastes great whether it's porridge or rice."

"Okay." Jiang Zhan responded, and took a sip with a spoon to taste it. After the rice porridge went down his throat, an excited look appeared on his face, "It tastes so good."

He has tasted all the famous rices in the world. The boutique supermarkets always supply the best Wuchang rice in the country, as well as top-quality foreign rice.

However, none of them can compare to the rice fragrance in front of me, which seems ordinary but is not ordinary at all.

The rice grains are cooked to a slightly soft degree, and when you put them in your mouth, it feels like cotton rolling around on your tongue, with a lingering unique rice aroma.

Very pure and refreshing rice aroma.

He couldn't find any adjectives to describe how good it was. He just felt that if people ate this rice, no one would say it was bad.

He really wanted to ask, Boss, can we cooperate with this rice?

In the past, when he went to discuss cooperation with farm owners, basic sincerity was a must, and more importantly, it was about interests. As long as he offered enough profit, there would be basically no problem in getting the cooperation.

However, his brother reminded him that Qingzhi was different.

Jiang Zhan did not dare to speak rashly for a moment, but just asked tentatively: "Qingzhi, can you please tell me how many acres of land your family has contracted?"

Xu Qingzhi had just finished breakfast, wiped his mouth, and replied: "It's just the few acres of land that belongs to me and my grandfather. I don't own anyone else's."

Jiang Zhan was a little disappointed, but then he thought that the rice grown in this place should not taste much different, so maybe he could try the rice from other villages.

Zhang Qi was already drinking his second bowl of porridge. After hearing this conversation, he said with regret, "Qingzhi, it's a pity not to grow more of such delicious rice."

At this time, a man came in from the door, angrily threw his gloves on the table, put his hands on his hips, and there was a rare bit of anger on his honest face. I didn't know who he was talking to, but when he saw someone in the room, he started muttering, "It's so infuriating. I went to discuss the land lease a few days ago, and several people had agreed, but today they changed their minds."

Xu Qingzhi saw her father's face was red with anger, and asked in a gentle voice: "Dad, what's wrong?"

"It was Li Xiong who did it. He heard from somewhere that many people wanted to buy our rice online. The price was high, but we refused to sell it. So he went to negotiate with people to buy all the fields around us. I had already negotiated with people and offered 500 yuan per mu, and was about to hire people to plow the fields. He asked people to offer 1,000 yuan per mu. Who wouldn't want to make money? Several people called me and said they would not give me the land in the second half of the year." Xu Fuqiang was not angry because he was rejected, but because he had already negotiated, but the other party changed his mind at the last minute. Another thing was that his daughter wanted to lease a few more mu of land, but he didn't do it well, and he felt a little helpless.

He even slapped himself.

Zhang Qi was shocked.

Xu Qingzhi was frightened. She rushed over and grabbed her father's hand, saying anxiously, "Dad, what are you doing? It's fine if others don't give you a bag, but why are you hitting yourself?"

"Qingzhi, it's all dad's fault. If dad were useful, no matter how high the price Li Xiong offered, no one would change their mind. Even the area around our land on the slope has been contracted by Li Xiong. Dad knows that he sells vegetables online for 100 yuan per pound, and our customers all buy from him." Xu Fuqiang's face, which was full of smiles some time ago, now only has a deep sense of frustration.

This family has leased such a large mountain, but no one buys the crops they grow. What should they do? They have finally made a better life, but instead of making this money, they may even lose it all.

He and Yanmei had originally thought of saving money for their daughter, but now, they had lost all of Qingzhi's savings.

Xu Qingzhi didn't tell her parents about what happened on the Internet, for fear that they would worry. But she could guess that perhaps her third aunt had told her mother.

She said in a calm voice, "Dad, don't worry for now."

Jiang Zhan, who had been silent at the table, suddenly stood up and said, "Maybe... I have a way."

(End of this chapter)