Chapter 43 If you want to be rich, you must first plant the land
After delivering the plums and taking away a basket of loquats picked by Aunt Ye, Grandma Ye said that she would stay at Uncle Ye's house for the next few days and would not go back with Ye Zhen.
Only about thirty of the best fruits were left from the original strawberry trees in the backyard of the home.
Ye Zhen had already told his family that the rest would be kept for breeding.
In recent days, quite a few runners have grown from the strawberry trees, occupying most of the land. They have all been transplanted densely. If thinning is done, there will be no problem planting a few acres, but if there are too many people planting in the village, it will not be enough.
In order to save spiritual energy, Ye Zhen did not promote the birth of too many seeds. He planned to see the willingness of the villagers before cultivating the seeds.
Ye Zhen returned home and ran straight to the backyard to pick all the strawberries. Ye Zhen had cultivated these strawberries with spiritual energy for a long time, and each one was as big as a palm.
Seeing that Ye Zhen was in a hurry and left without even saying goodbye, Ye's mother couldn't save face, but was afraid that something might happen to her daughter, so she followed her to the backyard.
"You picked them all? Didn't you say you would save them for seeds?" Ye's mother asked curiously.
"Almost. Now it's useful."
Ye Zhen packed the strawberries and tapped them lightly with his fingertips. The soil, which no one could see, was moistened by spiritual energy. Wisps of mist slowly merged into the plants. The leaves of several old strawberry stumps seemed to grow greener, and the vitality of the vegetable garden reached a new level.
Beneath the surface, the roots of various vegetables, fruits and melons in the backyard quickly extract nutrients, and they will thrive as soon as the drizzle nourishes them.
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Ye Zhen found Ye's father. The fields on the slope had been cleaned up, the watermelon seedlings were about to bloom, and various vegetables and fruits were beginning to bear fruit. The trellises would be set up in the next few days.
In the past few days, there have been wild animals sneaking in to eat the vegetables and fruits. Dad Ye has stayed in the sloping vegetable garden these days and has driven away several wild rabbits and birds.
When Ye Zhen arrived, Ye's father had caught a few more hedgehogs. These hedgehogs had made a secret nest in the grass leaves. If Ye's father hadn't been weeding, it would have been impossible to see the little hedgehogs crawling out of the nest.
Dad Ye did not drive these little creatures away. Since their nest had been destroyed, Dad Ye made a nest with weeds in the corner of the field not far from the vegetables, put a few little hedgehogs in it, and picked a few small tomatoes to put in the nest.
If it were wild rabbits, Ye's father would not be so kind. Wild rabbits reproduce quickly, dig holes, and eat randomly. You can't eat them, and you can't kill them. Ye's father hates these rabbits to death!
Now we just have to wait for Ye Zhen's wolfberry branches to enclose the slope. Ye Zhen will then use his cultivation techniques to block the leakage of spiritual energy. Then Ye's father won't have to worry so much about this slope.
"Dad, didn't you say last time that the villagers wanted to buy my strawberry seedlings? Please help ask those villagers who want to follow me to plant, I will provide seedlings, but there is one thing I need to make clear to them, that is, centralized management and centralized sales. If they don't agree, forget it."
"I can talk to the village chief about this, and call a meeting with the heads of each family. But do you have that many seeds?"
Father Ye listened to Ye Zhen's words quietly, pondered for a moment, and expressed his doubts.
"Don't worry about that. My classmate and I have already ordered the seeds. They have been sent to us by express delivery. There are about 100 kilograms of seeds." There is no such thing as 100 kilograms of seeds. The first-generation seeds are only a few taels. She went back and placed the order immediately, and started breeding the seeds that night!
"One mu of land needs about one or two kilograms of grain. If we assume one hundred kilograms, that means fifty to one hundred mu of land. Our village has a small population, so we have a lot of land, but who will farm it? How can so many people farm it?"
Dad Ye thinks it's a bit unreliable. Most of the people in the village are elderly, and the young people have gone out to work, otherwise there wouldn't be so much wasteland now.
"So what I want is to raise funds. I will be responsible for providing seeds, technology and sales channels. Everyone will provide their own fields and funds. Later, dividends will be distributed according to the investment situation, every six months. Anyone who is interested can sign up with me."
"Our village is too poor, but we have beautiful mountains and rivers! If we don't make good use of this environment, how can our village get out of poverty? You have also seen the yield and taste of the strawberries I raise. Why worry about the taste? I can sell them for 100 yuan per kilogram, and there are still many people buying them!"
When Dad Ye thought about the taste of strawberries, his mouth unconsciously became salivating. Ever since Ye Zhen stopped using spiritual energy to induce labor and the fruits had to be kept for breeding, Dad Ye had not eaten strawberries for some time.
The dried fruits made from strawberries by Ye's mother had long been finished by the whole family. Every time Ye's father went to the backyard to pick vegetables, he would stare at the remaining strawberries and drool, and it took a lot of effort to control himself from eating them.
"You just spent a lot of money on wolfberry seedlings, and now you have to spend it again! Ye Zi, you have set up such a big stall, and if you fail, this..."
Ye Zhen was really impressed. Her father always poured cold water on her and was already afraid before the fight even started.
"Dad, I just want to help everyone. Look at my uncle, how hard it is to make money? Look at Ye Ying, isn't it hard to work? Besides, if the villagers are willing to follow us, they can follow us. If they don't want to, we can grow crops ourselves!"
Ye Zhen is open-minded. She is smart and has experience in planting, but Ye's father and his family have been here all their lives and are more conservative.
So she continued to persuade, "Dad, just plant some strawberries. If it works, it's fine. If not, we can just take care of my uncle."
In fact, she mainly wanted to take care of Uncle Ye's family. They already had the seedlings, but other people in the village had also asked, and she had no choice but to give them to them. People in the same village still valued benevolence and righteousness.
So Ye Zhen came up with the idea of collective planting and risk sharing.
Father Ye was speechless. He couldn't think of anything wrong after hearing what Ye Zhen said. He could only helplessly say:
"Then ask. If it doesn't work, just give up the idea!"
Then he sighed, "Ye Zi, money is not that easy to make! If you want to do it, you have to think about how to grow money! Otherwise, our ancestors have been farming for generations, so why can you grow flowers!"
Ye Zhen was silent. She couldn’t say that she had been farming for hundreds of years in another world, nor could she say that she had spiritual energy as a golden finger. For ordinary people, whatever she planted would grow!
For a spiritual plant master, as long as the seeds are grown well and their cultivation is high enough, they can set up any kind of formation and create any kind of environment that the plants need.
Who would worry about this? Just like she had been planting in Lingyao Peak for hundreds of years, and she only worried about whether the plants grew well.
But now in the mortal world where cultivation has been cut off, ordinary people only seek a stable life. If they want to work hard, they are everywhere. If they are called upon, everyone will respond. However, when it comes to money, no one is so open-minded. They would rather keep the money in the savings account than take a chance.
"Dad, don't worry, I won't waste money."
Ye Zhen whispered, "Dad, the reason I dared to come back to farm is because my classmate told me that his family works at an agricultural college and has tested the soil and water environment in the whole country. We have good soil and water, and the food we grow tastes better than other places, but it's too remote and the investment is too big."
"The experts have said it, but we just didn't know because we didn't have the good seeds. Now we have the right time and place, so what are we waiting for?"
This sentence touched Ye's father. He had never seized the good opportunities in his life. Now the opportunity was right in front of him, so why not give it a try?
It’s not like they can’t do it. Who knows, they might even be able to renovate the house and add another layer of coverage!
Ye's father was so excited by Ye Zhen's words that he stopped working and went to the village chief's house in a heroic and high-spirited manner.
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