Chapter 109: Grabbing Mulberry Leaves
Lin Xi nodded seriously, "In the future, you must listen to Madam, only then can you have a bright future."
Xiao Yongyan just smiled and said nothing.
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After Feng Miao went out to explore the conditions in the mountains, Lin Xi returned to the village and began his own silkworm breeding business.
She first spent 60 experience points to buy a batch of silkworms from the system and gave them to Cui Hongyue and Xue Lili.
Because the silkworms are still very young, Lin Xi specifically instructed that the freshest leaves of the day must be picked and chopped into small pieces with a kitchen knife to feed the silkworms.
This kind of work was no big deal for Cui Hongyue and Xue Lili. Every morning, they went to Dongshan together to pick mulberry leaves.
Originally, Linxi's silkworm breeding base was next to Dongshan Mountain. The two did not run into the mountain, but ate the mulberry leaves nearby.
At the beginning, everything went smoothly.
But after a few days, they found that there were fewer and fewer fresh mulberry leaves.
At first, they thought that the leaves grew slowly, so there were no fresh leaves.
It was not until a few days later that they went out a little earlier and saw a few children beside a nearby mulberry tree.
Cui Hongyue recognized that these two were from Li Qionghua's family.
Xue Lili was indignant. "Their home is obviously closer to Nanshan, so why do they have to come to our Dongshan to pick mulberry leaves? Wait, no, why do they pick mulberry leaves?"
Cui Hongyue said, "You don't know that Li Qionghua also built a house at home, saying that she wanted to raise silkworms."
"She raises them? Does she know how to do it?" It's not that Xue Lili looks down on Li Qionghua. After spending some time with Lin Xi, she and Cui Hongyue just realized that there are so many tricks involved in raising silkworms.
Now that Li Qionghua, a layman, suddenly wants to raise silkworms, she is not afraid of losing all her money.
"Do you want to talk about it?" Xue Lili asked Cui Hongyue for her opinion.
Cui Hongyue was a little scared. "After all, Li Qionghua is related to the head of the village. Even if we go to find her, she will definitely not take us seriously."
When Xue Lili heard what Cui Hongyue said, she immediately gave up her idea. They were just ordinary people with no power in the village. If they went against Li Qionghua, Lin Xi might be implicated. They couldn't do such a thing.
"Let's go a little further inside." Xue Lili said.
Few people come to Dongshan on ordinary days, and especially no one pays attention to the mulberry trees there.
Xue Lili took a few steps forward——
"ah!"
Cui Hongyue was startled and looked over quickly, only to see that Xue Lili lost her balance and fell off the platform.
This scared Cui Hongyue so much that she quickly ran over to help the man up.
When Lin Xi found out about this, Xue Lili had sprained her ankle and could only chop mulberry leaves inside the house.
She really didn't understand why Xue Lili got bruised all over when there were so many mulberry trees at the foot of the mountain and even more on the flat ground.
Finally, after Lin Xi's repeated questioning, the two told the truth.
"Are you going inside because all the mulberry leaves outside have been picked?" Lin Xi asked.
The two nodded and looked at Lin Xi with some fear.
"Dongshan is the mountain I bought. What qualifications does Li Qionghua's child have to come here to pick mulberry leaves?" Lin Xi said.
Xue Lili quickly persuaded him, "Boss, I'm fine. Although it's a little difficult to walk, I can do this job of chopping leaves."
Lin Xi frowned. Xue Lili fell and injured herself, so it was not easy for her to ask Li Qionghua for compensation directly.
But she had to make it clear to Li Qionghua that every leaf on Dongshan Mountain belonged to her, Lin Xi.
Li Qionghua's home.
Lin Xi was standing at the door. Just then, Li Qionghua's man Zhao Fuwei came out and bumped into Lin Xi. He asked in a strange voice, "Lin Xi? Looking for me?"
Lin Xi shook her head, "Is Li Qionghua here?"
Zhao Fuwei immediately had a bad feeling. Generally, people in the village seldom called people by their full names. When Lin Xi said this, it sounded like he was here to cause trouble.
"What do you want from her?" Zhao Fuwei asked in a serious tone.
"You'll know if you call her out." Lin Xi didn't want to say more to Zhao Fuwei.
Just when the two were arguing, Li Qionghua happened to come out of the house. When she saw Lin Xi, countless guesses flashed through her mind, and she instantly figured out her purpose.
"Why are you here, sister? Is there something wrong?" Li Qionghua asked with a fake smile.
Lin Xi didn't waste any words and got straight to the point. "There's something you may not know, so I came here to tell you. I've already bought the East Mountain in Taoli Village. Every blade of grass and every tree on the mountain belongs to me. Your children have repeatedly gone there to pick mulberry leaves. I've tolerated it several times, but you've done it again and again, and you've almost plucked all the mulberry leaves around me."
"Your home is right next to Nanshan Mountain. You can pick mulberry leaves here. Why do you have to come to my place? Or maybe the mulberry leaves there are sweeter."
Lin Xi deliberately stood at the door and spoke in a loud voice, and soon some curious people gathered around to watch.
Li Qionghua was exposed in front of her, and she felt ashamed. She said unhappily, "Look at what you said. Dongshan was bought by you. It's such a big mountain. I just picked some leaves from you. There's no need to be so angry."
Lin Xi smiled. Li Qionghua's logic was simply that of a robber. Her family was rich, so it didn't matter if she got robbed a little?
"You have a guilty conscience. Your family grows so much cotton. It wouldn't be too much for me to pick some from your field."
When it comes to cotton, Li Qionghua immediately gets angry, "Lin Xi, if you dare to touch my cotton, I will destroy your fields!"
"You're angry because of this. You can't bear to give up your own cotton, and you blame me for not letting you pick mulberry leaves." Lin Xi seemed embarrassed. "How about this? From now on, you can pick whatever mulberry leaves in Dongshan are for you, and I can pick whatever cotton you want from your house. In the end, I'll lose money, but I'm a generous person, so I won't bother with you."
Li Qionghua was so angry at Lin Xi's words that she fell backwards. How could this matter become her fault when she said it?
"Everyone, please give me some justice. Is it so serious to take just a few mulberry leaves? We are just a few of our children at home, so we should apologize to you." Li Qionghua said.
However, what she didn't expect was that the people around her did not support her, but instead supported Lin Xi.
"It's not like there aren't mulberry trees around your home. There are so many mulberry trees in Nanshan, but you can't pick enough. Why do you have to travel all the way to Dongshan to pick them?"
"They have already bought the mountain, so naturally they don't want you to go there. In other words, do you want others to take things from your land?"
"Put yourself in my shoes. You did something wrong this time."
Everyone was talking at once, making Li Qionghua feel very embarrassed.
"I," Li Qionghua was furious, "Lin Xi, you are so capable that you actually bribed the entire village to deal with me!"
Lin Xi spread his hands and said, "I don't have that ability. It's obviously because you are not right, so people support me."
At night, Zhao family.
After blowing out the candle, Li Qionghua lay on the bed, still thinking about what happened during the day.
"You said, it's just picking some leaves, what's the big deal."
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