Chapter 77: Hard Mouth
Father Ye listened to Zhang Shuiying's daughter-in-law's slanderous remarks. He was not good at speaking and managed to utter a sentence after a long while:
"Dayong wife, my family doesn't have any messy dishes. We have tested these dishes, and we don't rely on you to say anything."
Huang Xi'e rolled her eyes:
"Who knows?"
Then he urged Zhao Feng, "Hey, hurry up and weigh them. My vegetables are very good. The vegetables you just harvested are five times the price in the market, right?"
"In that case, I am also in the wrong. The dishes were indeed not cleaned up properly. Otherwise, you can just give me four times the amount. How about that?"
After saying this, she stared at Zhao Feng. Zhao Feng felt uncomfortable being stared at by her. He carefully moved away and said politely:
"Auntie, I'm sorry, we have standards for harvesting. Your vegetables don't meet the standards. Why don't you take them to other places to ask?"
Huang Xi'e stared at him angrily and asked:
"Aren't these vegetables the same? My vegetable garden and his are all planted in the same place, what's the difference?"
"Even if his dishes are better prepared, aren't the prices of my dishes already cheaper? What else do you want?"
These words made the surrounding villagers frown, and some of them couldn't stand it and said rudely:
"Dayong's wife, why don't you understand that your dishes are obviously not good? And you still want to compare with Ye Minghai's family?"
"Look at how good other people's dishes are. Your dishes look so filthy. And you said to use water to wash away the mud. There's still a lot of mud on it. Did you wash it clean?"
"Besides, how did you get the mud onto the vegetable leaves? You were just trying to take advantage of the weighing."
"That's right. Forget about the standards for picking vegetables. Vegetables like yours can't even be sold at the market!"
"You want to imitate Ye Minghai's family and sell it several times more. Why are you so shameless?"
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The villagers around her were talking to each other. Huang Xi'e blushed and turned pale. She ignored what they were saying and continued to ask Zhao Feng:
"Then I'll make it a little cheaper, maybe three times as much."
The surrounding villagers were shocked by her shamelessness, and even Ye Zhen couldn't help but look at her with admiration. What mental quality, what a talent!
Having said that, Zhao Feng no longer hesitated.
"Auntie, your dish doesn't meet our standards. Please take it back. It's getting late and we need to go back."
After saying that, he greeted Ye Zhen and the others, said goodbye politely to the surrounding villagers, and got in the car and left.
Huang Xi'e called out anxiously:
"Well, then double the price and take a look. They are obviously vegetables from the same field, why don't you buy them?"
Not to mention double, Zhao Feng and his friends wouldn't even want one times the money, as they had already driven away quickly.
Huang Xi'e's vegetable plot is indeed next to Ye Zhen's. There is a small ditch separating them and they are surrounded by wolfberries. Logically, they are the same plot of land, but can Ye Zhen's plot be the same as hers?
Not only did Ye Zhen spread spiritual energy onto the slope, but in order to prevent insects, Ye Zhen also often used a simple formation of stone cloth to prevent the leakage of spiritual energy and kill insects.
The replaced stones are piled up, otherwise the dishes in Ye Zhen's house would not be so neat.
It has been crawling with insects for a long time. After all, creatures in nature can best sense the quality of spiritual energy.
Zhang Shuiying was busy looking after the strawberries in the field at home. Although Ye Zhen said that they didn't have to check on them every day, she couldn't stop her curiosity and expectations.
After the strawberries were planted, they walked around the fields every day. Today they grew a leaf, and tomorrow they sprouted a bud. All of this made the villagers excited. Look, these strawberries are growing rapidly and have begun to bloom.
Originally, the villagers were worried about whether these open-air strawberries needed to be artificially pollinated like greenhouse strawberries, and they even came to ask Ye Zhen.
Ye Zhen just told the villagers not to worry, there were many wild bees on their side of the mountain, and those bees could do it themselves.
Sure enough, after everyone saw that the strawberries started to bloom, many bees and butterflies were there collecting nectar, and everyone felt relieved.
Here, Zhang Shuiying is happily looking at her two acres of strawberries, and lovingly looking at the bees that are working hard to pollinate them.
She also heard that Zhao Feng would come to Ye Minghai's house today to purchase the second batch of vegetables, and she was happy for them. Now she was looking forward to selling the strawberries in the field at a good price after they ripened.
Unexpectedly, her daughter-in-law got involved again. When she heard others say how shameless her daughter-in-law was and how she wanted Zhao Feng to accept her vegetables, Zhang Shuiying's face immediately turned black.
This idiot really thinks everyone is stupid.
Especially when I heard that she even sprinkled water on the vegetables just to weigh them, I couldn't help but be furious.
Everyone is still waiting for the strawberries to be harvested. What if Zhao Feng thinks their village is dishonest because of her behavior?
What should we do if we feel that their village is doing something dishonest and refusing to accept strawberries in order to sell them at a high price?
You have to know that the treaty was signed with Ye Minghai's family, not with the village, so they have every reason not to accept it.
She even heard that the idiot had slandered Ye Minghai's vegetables for spraying pesticides...
Zhang Shuiying's good mood was instantly wiped out. She stood up and rushed home angrily.
When she got home, she saw a cart parked in the yard. Zhang Shuiying went forward to take a look and was shocked. She even disliked the vegetables that were full of worm holes.
Huang Xi'e was angrily holding a vegetable basin and preparing to pick vegetables. The vegetables had already been picked, so there was no point in leaving them there.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I walked out of the kitchen, I was met with my mother-in-law's eyes filled with anger.
"How can you be so shameless that you have the nerve to bring this dish to someone's door and ask them to collect it?"
"It's a good thing Ye Minghai is kind-hearted. If it were me, I would have kicked you out a long time ago."
Zhang Shuiying's daughter-in-law was not convinced when she heard this, but she was doing it for the family.
Ye Minghai's family made so much money from selling vegetables. If she sent the vegetables to them, maybe they would buy them. Then she could earn money for the betrothal gift.
"Mom, who am I doing this for? I am doing this so that your grandson can get married and you can have a great-grandson sooner."
"No, stop it. If you really want to do good for your family, put away your little thoughts. I asked you to grow strawberries but you didn't. Now you are quick to do these little tricks."
Zhang Shuiying said that it was not enough, staring at her daughter-in-law and scolding her again:
"I'm telling you, if you do this again next time, when everyone else makes money growing strawberries, no one will take you when you want to grow some."
"With a heart like yours, everyone despises you."
Who knew Huang Xi'e would curl her lips and say, "The strawberries are not ripe yet? You're already thinking about making money? Everyone can brag."
She had gotten into a dead end. She just didn't believe what she saw and insisted on her own ideas. She just didn't think growing strawberries was possible.
Zhang Shuiying took a deep look at her stupid daughter-in-law and sighed in her heart, thinking that the older she got, the more confused she became. She was not as thoughtful as an old lady like her.
"Okay, just wait for your whole life of poverty! If you get jealous of Strawberry again, don't ask me to plead for her. You've already offended her. I'm telling you, I'm not that shameless."
Huang Xi'e replied stubbornly:
"I won't!"
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