Two years ago, only a few households in Baihua Cave followed the intercropping method. Seeing that the harvest was indeed better than their traditional planting method, last year everyone followed Su Ziling's method of ridge planting and intercropping, and the harvest increased by about 10%.

Later, I followed Su Ziling to ferment manure, and this year I used ridge planting and intercropping, which increased the harvest by 20%.

Every household had a good harvest, and everyone was smiling from ear to ear looking at the corn hanging from the beams.

After harvesting the corn, the fields were covered with green sweet potato vines. As soon as the sweet potato vines covered the ground, Su Ziling reminded everyone that it was time to turn over the vines.

In the past, when people planted sweet potatoes, they just pulled out the weeds without applying fertilizer or turning the vines, so the sweet potato yield naturally could not be increased.

On the other hand, the production of chayote is indeed high, but the sales situation is not optimistic.

Bai Shu was not good at talking, and it was his first time selling melons, and no one had ever seen them before, so naturally there were more people watching than buying.

What’s more, the melon is green and has thorns, so everyone is even more afraid to touch it.

For three consecutive days, business was terrible, but Su Ziling didn't know any of this until she heard Uncle Li mention it to her.

Uncle Li delivered snails to restaurants and also delivered konjac to his own shop.

Their shop was just across from the vegetable market, and they happened to see Bai Shu selling melons there. When he saw him, Bai Shu was stunned for a moment, and then enthusiastically took a few bitter melons and gave them to Li Dazhui.

In fact, Li Dazhui also planted bitter melon at home, but he didn't plant many, only about seven or eight trees.

Their main focus is still on konjac, tea trees, fish, shrimps and snails.

In addition, I also raise forty or fifty ducks at home, so I am really too busy to handle it and don’t plant more.

I planted a few trees, intending to eat them myself, but I was afraid that other families would have already had some. When the melons were ripe, my children looked at them eagerly.

Seeing that everyone in the market was watching, he did not refuse and took the melon. The chef also gave him two fish and pointed in the direction of his shop, asking him to go there to eat later.

Su Ziling took a look at the bitter melon in her hand. Perhaps it was due to the climate, the melon was indeed good. It looked a bit bigger than the ones she had at home.

In addition, the white trees were well maintained, and there were no bee or insect holes on them. "I told you when I was planting them. I didn't see him delivering any melons when I was harvesting them. I thought they were selling well, but I didn't expect..."

Li Dazhu took a sip of water and wiped his sweat. "I guess he was embarrassed to bother you. He and his daughter were squatting in the vegetable market, but no one was buying anything. The girl's lips were dry from the sun. She looked pitiful."

Su Ziling pondered for a moment, "I'll go over and see if my uncle has finished his meal. Let Uncle Yongan serve you a meal."

"If you have something to do, go ahead and don't worry about me. I'll naturally order something to eat when I'm hungry. I'm thick-skinned, so don't worry about me being embarrassed."

Li Dazhu waved his hand and kept urging her to get busy.

"Okay, I'll get busy now. Uncle, you take a rest. I'll come back later and we'll have dinner together."

"No, no, I have to go back soon. My family has been very busy these past two days. As you know, after we planted konjac for a year, everyone in the village started to plant it. After we sold some of the konjac, people in nearby villages also started to plant it."

"After we harvest the corn and turn over the sweet potato vines, we will start digging konjac one after another. We have to go back and watch them. You don't know that we have to watch them all day. Some people are just filling in the gaps, while others keep an eye on our recipe every day."

At this point, Li Dazhu's face was full of impatience. It was obvious that this situation had happened more than once or twice.

Su Ziling thought for a while and said, "Well, let's sign a contract with future growers. If there are any unqualified growers, we will not accept their konjac. As for those who are eyeing Fangzi, we will make an example of him and stop accepting any konjac from his big family. You don't have to do anything and someone will naturally take care of him."

Today's big families are not as simple as one's own family, but an entire surname. Generally, there are three or four big surnames in a village, and the rest of the small surnames are scattered.

The relationships among the big surnames are complicated. If you look at it from the beginning, most of the people with the same surname belong to one family. So, if one family makes a mistake and the entire surname is disgraced, Li Dazhu and others don't even need to take action. The elders in the clan will clean up the mess themselves. They won't allow anyone to cut off everyone's financial resources.

Li Dazhu scratched his head, "I've thought about this, but your grandpa said that we're all from the same village, and we'll see each other every day. If we do something too extreme, it might be bad for us in the future."

"What the hell!" Su Ziling couldn't help but curse out loud, causing Li Dazhu's eyes to widen.

Su Ziling touched his nose, smiled awkwardly, and continued, "There are always times when you are not around, and there are always times when you can't keep an eye on them. If you don't take any action, I'm afraid they will become even more aggressive."

"Have Silang write a few deeds, and then ask the growers to sign and seal. If they don't sign, we won't accept them. If they sign, they have to follow the rules. As the saying goes, there is no order without rules. If we let them do what they want, something bad will happen one day."

Hearing Su Ziling say this, Li Dazhu also became serious, "Okay, I'll go to the academy to see Silang and ask him to help write. It just so happens that we're going to dig konjac soon."

Seeing that he listened carefully, Su Ziling did not stay any longer and asked Su Yongan to serve him a bowl of ice jelly and a bowl of papaya water, and also fried him a bowl of dried mushroom rice.

Su Ziling pushed out the cart from the backyard, took out a wok, a bundle of firewood, a cooking pin, some chili dip, bowls, chopsticks and a kitchen knife, and headed towards the vegetable market.

When she arrived, there were many people buying vegetables in the market. The bitter melons picked by Bai Shu were relatively fresh, tender and juicy, but still no one bought them. Most people just stood there and watched.

"I see you've been selling this melon for a few days. Is it really edible?"

"That's right. I've never seen a melon that looks like this. It has thorns on it."

"Yeah, I've never seen it before, so I don't know how to eat it. It looks so juicy, don't get an upset stomach."

After they said that, others were even more afraid to buy it. Bai Shu was not good at speaking and was sweating profusely. "It's edible, it's really edible. My family eats it every day. It's a little sweet and delicious."

The only thing he kept saying was that it was delicious. The others continued to talk about their own things and no one listened to him. Everyone pointed and talked for a while before turning around and leaving.

Su Ziling saw this scene when she arrived. She pushed her cart and shouted, "Aunties, please make way. Please let me pass."

As she shouted, everyone moved aside, complaining, "What the hell? Pushing a cart in when it's so crowded."

"That is to say, what are you doing? It's just..."

"Miss Xiaoqing?"

Su Ziling raised her eyebrows. Oh, someone knew her.

"Hey, auntie, it's me. Do you still remember me?"

Whether you know him or not, just agree to it.

"Oh, it's really you. I haven't seen you for more than a year or two. I haven't seen you since you opened the restaurant."

"Really? I'm mainly busy, running around in the fields, and I haven't been in the county much."

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