Chapter 41: Being Cheated
With a flash of inspiration, Ye Zhen suddenly caught something!
It grows fast, has many thorns, and its young leaves are edible and its fruits can be used.
Oh no! There is a natural "net" right in front of her, how could she forget about the wolfberry?
This thing grows into a large piece. As long as it is fixed with something in the early stage, isn't it more useful than those network management systems?
Rope nets can rot and iron nets can rust!
"Dad, let's use wolfberries to fence off more than just this area. Aren't we going to raise pigs, chickens and ducks in the back mountain? Then we won't need barbed wire anymore. It's too expensive to use barbed wire all over such a big mountain. I don't even know how much money I'll have to put into it."
Dad Ye thought about it and slapped his thigh. Hey! It really works.
But it could be one thing, "Where do we get so many wolfberry branches? The mountain is so big, there must be a lot of seedlings. Besides, it will take a long time for the seedlings to grow into a net! Where can we find them?"
Ye Zhen gave Ye's father a look that said "You don't know this."
"Dad, anything that can be done with money is nothing!"
"Then tell me what solution we have. It's impossible to build the entire outer foot of the mountain with earth bricks, right?" That would indeed be time-consuming and costly, and Ye's father shook his head.
"Dad, you forgot, at worst we can just plant something at the foot of the mountain and surround it." Ye Zhen continued, "The foot of this mountain isn't that big, it's not that small, wouldn't it be fine if we plant some climbing plants with thorns around it?"
"If you want something pretty, plant some roses. They grow in large patches and have many beautiful colors. If you want something more affordable, there are even more plants, like sea buckthorn, golden cherry, wolfberry, as well as prickly ash and raspberry. These are all good."
After hearing what Ye Zhen said, Ye's father felt that this was the case, and finally said:
"It's really good, but we should plant something more practical. Roses and the like blooming at the foot of the mountain are very attractive. I'll listen to you and plant wolfberries. The climate here is suitable, and there are large areas of wild wolfberries in the valleys.
The father and daughter had a plan. Ye Zhen was a man of action, so he went home to see what varieties of wolfberries there were, and then selected one and cultivated it himself.
When I got home and told Ye's mother about it, she was so shocked that she raised her voice and asked, "What? You still need to buy that thing?"
Mother Ye found it unbelievable. In her impression, wolfberries were everywhere, even in front of the house and on the walls.
"Why don't we dig some seeds in the village first? That way we don't have to waste money buying them."
You still have to surround the mountain. Not all villagers are honest. If you really run into someone who steals, you won’t be able to find him.
Mother Ye stood up and wanted to pull out the wolfberries on the wall of her yard. This stuff is easy to grow!
"Don't be in a hurry. We have to plant it anyway. Wouldn't it be better to find a high-quality variety? The wolfberry leaves can be eaten when they are tender, and the wolfberries can be dried and sold. The wolfberries in our village are too small and can't be sold at a high price at all." Ye Zhen shook his head in rebuttal.
"What you said makes sense. What kind of variety is this? Do you have any plans?" Mother Ye thought about it and it made sense, so she continued to ask.
"Yes, yes. I'll go and compare them right away. Mom, you can go find someone with my dad to help dig the ground."
With a plan in mind, Ye Zhen planned to buy seedlings.
She didn't go to the trouble to buy mature seedlings from the base. Once the spiritual energy was applied, not only would the things that grew be different from others, but when she sold them to others, no one would know what variety they were. She wouldn't be able to answer the question and it would be difficult to deal with the problem.
Anyway, you have to keep a low profile, so you might as well buy them from various fruit seedling bases online. If something doesn't grow right, you can use the excuse that it's not the right product. Even if it grows too fast, you can simply say it might be a problem with the variety.
Who knows whether the seeds on the Internet are from foreign countries or China? Not everyone is a plant expert!
Take out your mobile phone and directly click on the shopping software, and many detailed interfaces will pop up.
Xiaxi City is the most famous region for wolfberry. A pound of wild dried wolfberry costs about 200 yuan, while wolfberries from other regions are as cheap as a dozen yuan. The price fluctuates greatly due to climate, market and variety factors.
For example, the medicinal value of Nomhong wolfberry far exceeds that of other ordinary wolfberries and it is known as "soft gold". Of course, you don't know if the seedlings you buy online are the right ones, so Ye Zhen didn't hesitate much. He placed an order directly from a store with a high rating. They were all five-year seedlings, and he ordered 500 of each variety. It wasn't outrageously expensive and only cost a little over 20,000 yuan.
With such a large amount placed at one time, the customer service kept sending messages asking whether the order was real.
Ye Zhen was still wondering, just place the order, why go through all this, just reply simply: Place, confirmed, will ship as soon as possible.
When everything was done, Ye Zhen left the house. His grandparents didn't know where they went. Ye's mother was washing and cleaning the weeds growing in the yard.
Two big fat cats followed behind her leisurely. Ye's mother kept moving and pushed the two cats away: "Go play somewhere else. You'll feel the pain if I step on you later."
Ye Zhen sneered, said hello to Ye's mother, and planned to go to the pond at home to take a look.
The pond of Ye Zhen's family was at the other end of the village, not too far away. When Ye's mother heard that Ye Zhen was going to the pond, she hurriedly called her and asked Ye Zhen to bring a basket of plums and told her to take it to Uncle Ye's house.
Uncle Ye and his wife had just finished a construction site and came back to visit Grandma Ye yesterday. The couple seemed to have become thinner.
He didn't look that haggard the last time we saw him, but he scared everyone when he came back yesterday.
The skinny couple came back exhausted, their clothes still being work clothes, all covered with dried marks of solidified cement powder.
Grandma Ye couldn't hold back her tears at that time, and she touched her little son's weather-beaten face with trembling hands.
The younger son's family is not having a good time. His parents are old and cannot help their son. The couple is so busy trying to make a living that it really makes the parents feel heartbroken.
Grandma Ye called her son and daughter-in-law to have dinner with her out of pity. At the table, Grandma Ye grabbed the sleeve of Uncle Ye, who was already quite old, and kept asking him about his work.
Uncle Ye smiled naively and tried to change the subject, but when Grandpa Ye suddenly touched Uncle Ye's hand, which was still stained with lime, he was immediately at a loss.
"Mom, we went to Guixi City this time. We thought there was a big construction site there. Lanzi and I could work with other locals and make some money. You know Ye Dong's situation. If we don't make more money now, what will happen to him when we get old? Yuanzi got divorced recently. She doesn't dare to go home with the kids. The three of us live in one house, and she relies on him to work as a waitress in a restaurant to make some money."
"We worked so hard for half a month without eating or sleeping well. We worked overtime every day carrying plaster and paint just to earn more money. But the food has been getting worse and worse. Finally, the chef was not even there to do the shopping. We were supposed to get paid soon, but the money didn't arrive. When we went to the house to inquire, we found out that the boss had run away with the money. We were all cheated!"
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