Chapter 1491 Young Master Wu Arrives with News
Shu Yu's carriage quickly drove towards the workshop entrance, but when it was almost there, she saw Da Niu standing on the other side of the gate, helping a strange young man onto the carriage and watching him leave.
Shu Yu got off the carriage and stood at the gate waiting for him.
When Da Niu returned, his expression wasn't good; he was frowning slightly and didn't even notice Shu Yu approaching.
He stopped abruptly when he got close enough to her. "Ayu?"
Who is that?
"The eldest young master of the Wu family," Da Niu said as he led her inside.
The Wu family?
The only Wu family that Shu Yu knew was Ding Yuehua's sister-in-law's family.
She asked uncertainly, "Is it the Wu family from Donggu County who do livestock trading and bought alfalfa from us before?"
Da Niu nodded. "Yes, that's his house."
"What does the eldest son of the Wu family want with you? They sell donkeys and horses; we shouldn't have any business dealings with them, right?"
Speaking of this, a trace of worry flashed across Da Niu's face.
The two stopped when they entered the workshop's 'office'. Da Niu closed the door, sat opposite Shu Yu, and said in a slightly lowered voice, "Young Master Wu brought us some news. He said that some people in Donggu County have already planted sunflowers."
Although the Wu family and Shu Yu had only met when they first started selling alfalfa, they had a good impression of each other. Therefore, even if they did not have any business dealings, the Wu family would always give the Lu family a good word if there was any news.
Da Niu said, "The other party is a wealthy landlord in Donggu County. They just planted them not long ago, and they are not as tall as ours yet. But the Wu family has seen sunflowers before they are fully grown. After comparing them, they know that they are sunflowers."
Shu Yu narrowed her eyes slightly, but she wasn't surprised at all.
Sunflowers are a new variety. Even if we don't consider them a food source or an oil source, people would still want to try growing them, even if they were just flowers.
Moreover, everyone now knows that this thing can bring in substantial profits, and the number of people who buy it will definitely increase in the future.
However, ordinary people don't know how to grow this stuff, since it's not grain. Unless they've negotiated a purchase agreement with Shu Yu like the villagers of Shangshi Village, and have a backup plan, they won't feel comfortable giving it a try.
Therefore, Shu Yu never imagined that she would be the only one growing sunflowers forever.
To be honest, she felt it was a bit late to hear that only the first family had started planting. She had predicted it would have happened much earlier.
She asked Da Niu, "How much land did the other party cultivate?"
"Young Master Wu said it's about three or four acres, which isn't much."
Shu Yu nodded. That was normal; only she had sunflower seeds.
Her sunflower field was always guarded, especially when it was almost harvest time. People from the workshop were even brought in to patrol and guard it. It wasn't easy to steal some sunflower seeds from her to plant.
However, apart from what she grows herself, it's all from the villagers of Shangshi Village.
However, the villagers of Shangshi Village had signed contracts with her, and they wouldn't sell the sunflowers to others without her permission, nor would they dare to. But after all, it was a village, and apart from Daqiang who cultivated about ten mu of land, everyone else cultivated only one, two, or three mu.
Even if they patrol the area, the land is so scattered that it's impossible to keep an eye on everything, so it's normal for some things to be stolen.
Alternatively, it's possible to sell a small portion.
(End of this chapter)
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