Chapter 1236: Harvest is Imminent

"Ye Yaodong is truly filial..."

"Indeed. Once he opens his company, he even wants to put his father's name down as the representative. That's incredible."

"Right, does being a representative mean he'll have to attend big meetings often? Will he get to see some leaders? That's surely better than being in the newspaper, isn't it?"

The boatmen passing by with cargo all said with smiles.

"This 'legal representative' title sounds extraordinary. Old Ye is getting on in years, he's going to enjoy his life now..."

"Congratulations, congratulations! Yaodong has made something of himself. Even while building his career, he still thinks of you. He's so filial..."

Ye Yaodong had originally just made a teasing remark, knowing his father didn't understand what a legal representative was, and was just trying to have some fun with him.

He hadn't expected everyone to take it seriously. They didn't know what a legal representative was either, but they kept flattering his father.

It made his cheeks ache from laughing, and his stomach hurt, but he didn't dare bend over, fearing he'd show too much.

If a legal representative title goes wrong, it's easy to skip over the commodity grain and straight into government-provided rations, eating the state's food.

Not only would there be people to serve him, but also company, and he wouldn't have to worry about accidents. There would even be medical teams to give the elderly regular check-ups. He could walk straight into a happy retirement life without having to risk his life going out to sea with him anymore.

It's just that he didn't know if his father would be so angry he'd drop dead once he found out.

Ye Fu had just finished listening to everyone's flattery and had been humble for a few moments, but seeing him laughing until he was doubled over, he felt a bit puzzled.

"What are you laughing at, Dongzi? Why are you laughing like that?"

"Nothing, just thinking that the policies should loosen up in a few years."

"It's good if the policies loosen up. Only when they loosen up can everyone have a good life."

Ye Yaodong looked at his father's beaming expression and couldn't help but want to laugh again, so he quickly changed the subject. "Has the harvest been alright these past few days?"

"It's been okay. We sold a batch of cargo to the fresh-collection boat out at sea. The cargo list and the money are with me."

Ye Fu dug into his pocket, looked left and right, avoided people, pulled his jacket open to cover it, and then handed it to him.

"You keep it safe. You've rested enough these past two days. When we get to the market later, I won't go sell the goods with you. I'll go straight to the factory to rest."

"Alright. You guys go straight to rest. I'll have two others come help me move the cargo. Anyway, there are plenty of people; if they come a bit less to collect goods, it doesn't matter. They should be familiar with the wharf by now anyway."

"Good... I'm at this age now, and I've seen enough glory. In the village, who doesn't envy me for raising such good children? I know you're filial. Anyway, the Shunfeng boat has already given me a share, which is enough for my retirement. If you want to build a career, just use your own name. Don't think about me. Otherwise, if something happens later, the assets will be unclear. You brothers will be fine, but your sisters-in-law will nag."

Ye Yaodong had originally thought his father was daydreaming about how many people would envy his future, but he hadn't expected him to turn around and say this.

His playful expression vanished, and he stopped teasing his father.

"Understood." I was just joking.

However, it was good that his father was so happy. As long as he didn't know what a legal representative was, he could stay happy like this.

After Ye Fu finished speaking, he felt immensely comforted and continued to work hard moving the cargo.

A-Guang leaned over. "You're really something. Just a few words and you've got our dad so happy."

He hadn't known what Dongzi was talking about originally, but after listening to the workers' chatter, he knew.

"Otherwise, should I let you be the legal representative?"

A-Guang's eyes widened. "Really? Then I won't be polite!"

"Don't be polite."

"Forget it, I'd be too embarrassed."

"No need to be embarrassed. We're brothers."

A-Guang patted his shoulder. "Good brother, I knew it wasn't a loss to have known you in this life."

"Of course."

"You gave me a sister, and now you're going to give me a company."

Ye Yaodong's smile vanished instantly. "If I register a company in two years, I'll definitely put your name down as the legal representative."

"Just having that intention is enough. Hurry up and move the cargo, it's pitch black out."

After A-Guang finished speaking, he happily went to move cargo, leaving Ye Yaodong gritting his teeth, glaring at his back, and cursing silently in his heart.

Some of the cargo was meant to be kept for drying into fish jerky and wasn't suitable for moving off the boat. They left it in the fish hold to bring back tomorrow, which saved them the transport fee and meant they didn't have to haul it to the city or pay the market's commission.

After finishing moving the cargo, Ye Yaodong gave them the cargo lists from the past few days and asked them to verify them.

Anyway, they would be selling goods in the market later, so they would know the market price and have an idea of whether the price he gave was reasonable.

"If there's no problem, after we finish selling the goods, I'll settle the accounts with you directly. If you're in a hurry, we can settle now, but I'm afraid it's not safe to carry so much cash while going in and out of the market..."

"No hurry, settling when we get home is fine."

"Right, we're not outsiders, can't we trust you? No need to be in such a hurry."

"There's still a batch of cargo on the boat to keep for you, we can settle it all together then. No need to calculate it outside now, it's just trouble."

Seeing they had no objections, Ye Yaodong nodded. "Alright then, let's sell the goods first and settle when we get home."

His business in the city had come to a temporary pause. After selling the goods, he would sail directly back to the village, taking the workers who were on rotation at the factory back with him.

At the same time, he took the cigarettes he had obtained on this trip back, as he didn't feel as safe putting them anywhere else as he did at home.

But he hadn't expected that upon returning home, there would be a pile of cigarettes and alcohol there too.

Lin Xiuqing had handed over the factory work to Pei Dongqing and followed Ye Yaodong to help manage things. She had many questions she wanted to ask and had been holding them in for several days.

"Didn't you say Lin Jishang's cousin was arrested at sea? Why hasn't anyone come to seal their house these past two days? I've been specifically watching the activity in their Xishan Village, and there hasn't been a whisper of gossip."

Ye Yaodong lifted the basket containing the cigarettes with one hand and held a finger to his lips with the other, signaling for silence.

"Let's talk when we get home, so we don't get overheard. Only we know about this matter for now, it can't be brought out."

"I haven't told anyone."

"Good."

"His wife brought over several cartons of cigarettes and several bottles of alcohol two days ago. They're all in foreign languages, I don't know what kind they are. I didn't want to accept them, but she insisted on shoving them over. I was afraid the neighbors would hear, so I didn't dare push them back and forth, so I just accepted them and hid them away."

Ye Yaodong paused for a moment before continuing forward. "She brought them over secretly?"

"Yes, she brought them over when it was dark, and specifically covered the basket with a cloth to hide them."

"Oh, then it's fine. Just keep them. It's just a small token of gratitude for us notifying them in advance."

"They're all in foreign languages, will that be bad?"

"No. Don't forget, we have plenty of overseas Chinese relatives. It's very normal to have some foreign cigarettes and alcohol at home."

"Oh, then I'm relieved. I thought these things couldn't be seen by others."

"They can't be seen when brought over, but it doesn't matter once they're in our house."

"Are they going to be arrested too?"

"I don't know. Don't worry about it blindly. It has nothing to do with us. We just notified Lin Jishang out of village neighborliness when we saw them. After all, they are relatives. We don't know anything else, that's all."

He had said this once on the phone, and now he said it solemnly again.

"Then I'll just act like I don't know anything."

"Good."

The two walked into the house and placed the basket they were carrying on the floor. Lin Xiuqing couldn't wait to lift the clothes covering it.

She had wanted to lift the clothes to see what it was when they were moving it off the cart earlier, but Ye Yaodong had stopped her, saying she could only lift them when they got home.

She had endured until now, asking about other things first.

As she lifted the clothes, Ye Yaodong went to close the door.

"Then this whole basket..." Lin Xiuqing's eyes widened, her mouth agape.

"Could it be that Lin Jishang gave you all these? So many? Could these all be stolen goods?"

"Let's use a different term: these are ownerless goods. He didn't give them to me. Didn't two boats sink to the bottom of the sea? I suppose a few crates of cargo must have been swallowed by a whale and then spat back out, so they floated up. We just happened to be in that area, so we fished them up."

"You... how come you have so much windfall luck..."

Ye Yaodong spread his hands. "I'd like to know that too. Sigh, I always run into all sorts of things. I suppose this windfall is compensation for me."

"Put this away first, there's too much." She casually rummaged through them; they were all in foreign languages, and she didn't recognize a single one.

"If we go to Wenzhou next time, take a few cartons to give to my brother-in-law as a gift. These are rare items, and foreign exchange certificates aren't easy to get."

"We should give two cartons to Godfather."

"I stayed in the city for the past two days and already sent him a canister. I didn't dare send too much. I'll send him two more cartons when I pass through the city after returning from the provincial capital next time."

Lin Xiuqing looked at him in surprise. "Why are you going to the provincial capital?"

Ye Yaodong explained the things he had done while staying in the city for the past few days.

"I thought you had gone out to sea after hanging up the phone. I didn't expect you to have stayed in the city for so many days."

"Yeah, I hadn't really managed the city affairs much. I just left it to those people to toss around. Staying there for these few days allowed me to manage things properly. I can't leave everything to others without knowing what's going on. I've handled quite a few things these past few days."

"I'll put these cigarettes away first. Your clothes are all damp and covering them, aren't you afraid of making the cigarettes damp..."

"There's plastic film."

"It'll still get damp. It has to be put away properly. How much does one carton of these cigarettes cost?"

"One pack probably costs several yuan, or maybe over ten. One carton probably costs around a hundred."

Lin Xiuqing tightened her grip on the cigarettes she was holding and looked down. "So expensive! There are dozens of cartons here, that must be several thousand or ten thousand yuan? How much cargo must have been on that boat, my god..."

She muttered, suddenly realizing this point, and couldn't help but be shocked.

Ye Yaodong was drawing water to bathe and said nonchalantly, "It's not necessarily that the whole boat was cigarettes. If the whole boat was cigarettes, that would be excessive. Even smuggling cars wouldn't be this serious."

She breathed a sigh of relief.

"That's true, you scared me. Are there really people who smuggle cars?"

"Plenty."

"These people are truly daring, they'll do anything."

The couple stayed in the room, muttering to each other as they organized the cigarettes Ye Yaodong had brought back. The door was tightly shut, and the old lady didn't dare come in.

Ye Xiaoxi had been playing outside for a while, running and jumping, wanting to go home, but she kept being taken out to play.

It wasn't until the door was reopened that the old and young returned home.

"It smells so good, my tummy is hungry..."

Ye Yaodong was eating noodle soup, and there was a steaming bowl on the table.

"Did you come back because you smelled it?"

The old lady said with a smile, "She's been jumping around everywhere all day, she's burned off a lot of energy."

Lin Xiuqing said while untying her apron, "That bowl is for Dad, don't give it to her. She's not hungry, she's just greedy and her mouth is watering because she smelled the scent. I'll go check the situation at the factory where they're weighing the goods, and call Dad back to eat by the way."

Ye Yaodong took Ye Xiaoxi onto his lap and fed her a few mouthfuls. The old lady, however, was worried that Dongzi hadn't eaten enough, so she coaxed Ye Xiaoxi down and took her to buy candy.

Ye Xiaoxi couldn't refuse. As soon as she heard about buying candy, she climbed down immediately, took the old lady's hand, and headed for the shop.

He ate his noodles quickly. Just as he finished, his father came over, so he told his father to watch the house while he went to check on the factory.

Who would have thought that as soon as he arrived at the factory, Lin Xiuqing would ask him what a legal representative was?

"Hasn't the 'soul-bewitching soup' finished being poured yet? I said, I saw Dad walking as if he were floating just now."

"Everyone is praising you for being filial, saying you're getting better and better, that you have money, and that Dad is number one in your heart. So, what is a legal representative? They're saying all sorts of things."

Ye Yaodong coughed and then whispered to her, "I was just teasing Dad at the wharf yesterday. I didn't expect it to spread so widely, and now they're talking about it again."

"So what is a legal representative?"

"It's... if the company gets into trouble, the legal representative is the one who takes the blame. Cough, cough. They're not wrong to say it's the company's representative, anyway, if there's any accountability, the legal representative is the one who gets pursued..."

Lin Xiuqing looked at him in disbelief, wanting to scold him, but not knowing how to say it.

"Uh... don't let Dad know, or he'll be so angry he'll die."

"I was just joking."

"Dad has already been arrested twice and is still brooding over it, and you're still joking about this?"

Ye Yaodong rubbed his nose. "As long as I follow the law, Dad can still be a glorious legal representative."

Lin Xiuqing glared at him and patted him. "Improper."

"After the goods here are weighed, settle the accounts with them."

"I know, I'm just waiting for the weighing to finish here so I can get the list and settle the accounts, and pay them all at once."

A bunch of men in the factory were moving things back and forth.

The village women heard the fishing boats had returned and had spontaneously brought their cutting boards and knives over. They didn't need Lin Xiuqing to go door-to-door to call them; they were already well-practiced.

And surprisingly, Ye's Ye Erbo came along, which surprised Ye Yaodong.

Because the cargo had just returned and the people coming and going were chaotic, everyone was busy, so no one was guarding the door to stop anyone.

Ye's Ye Erbo walked straight up to Ye Yaodong to greet him, and that was when he noticed him.

"Hehe, you're back? A big harvest, keeping so much cargo at home. You make a lot of money just by going out to sea once, don't you?"

"It's average. The expenses are also high. Labor and fuel costs aren't small numbers. These goods were also bought by me from their boats, it all costs money."

"I haven't given you the money for the Qingming festival expenses yet. At the time, after we got Comrade Yaohai's number, we gathered to discuss it and forgot about this matter. The next day when we remembered, we heard you had gone out to sea. I told my sons to keep the money with me, and I'd bring it to you when you got back."

Ye Yaodong watched him count the money one by one and hand it over. He didn't stand on ceremony and accepted it.

"It's been so many days, it's hard for you to still remember. I wasn't home, but wasn't A-Qing home? It would have been the same if you had given it to her."

"Didn't you say you'd give it to your father? Your father also went out to sea, so I thought I'd wait until you all got back to give it to you."

Ye Yaodong responded perfunctorily. Seeing his father coming over, he waved at him and handed the money his Ye Erbo had given him directly to his father.

Ye Fu smiled until his eyes disappeared, feeling that his financial luck had been a bit prosperous lately.

Sure enough, he still had to follow Dongzi.

For the past two months, following the eldest and second eldest, apart from his salary, he hadn't gained much else.

"I thought you had forgotten."

"This is money for paying respects to the ancestors, how could I forget."

Ye Fu didn't count the money, just slid his finger along the edge, folded it, and put it in his pocket.

"You haven't been home for these few days, I don't know how things are progressing for you? Can you contact Old Hai?"

Ye's Ye Erbo had been waiting for him to ask this. "I couldn't contact him for the first two days, which worried me to death. I thought I couldn't find him, but after two or three days, I finally made contact."

"It's Qingming, after all. It's normal for people to go home to pay respects to ancestors and stay at home for a few extra days."

"Yes, that's what I said. After making contact, I mentioned wanting to send my two grandsons abroad. After telling him the children's ages, he said he'd arrange it and told me to prepare the money first, and he'd let me know when it was ready."

"Oh, then just wait for the notification."

"Sigh, this is going to be a huge sum. You know, although my sons went to Wenzhou with Dongzi last year, they didn't earn much money..."

Ye Yaodong said, "This is simple. The cousins can help by each contributing a little. The sisters-in-law's maternal families can also be told. How can the maternal uncles not contribute money? And Ye Erbo can dig into his coffin savings. It shouldn't be much of a difference, right?"

"Sending one person abroad should only cost a few thousand, right? With so many families, if each contributes 500, and the family digs into their own savings, it shouldn't be much, right?"

Ye's Ye Erbo was choked up and had to look at Ye Fu. "Not everyone's life is that easy. To take out 500 yuan just like that, you have to consider the difficulties of other people's families."

Ye Fu asked curiously, "How much does it cost to send one person abroad?"

"Comrade Yaohai said it costs 6,000 yuan to send one person, and it doesn't guarantee success. If it succeeds, then everyone is happy, and he'll even arrange work. We're just taking a gamble."

"Ah, 6,000. That's for two children, that's not a small amount. 6,000 yuan per family, the family savings will be emptied, and they'll have to borrow quite a bit."

"Who says it isn't... Sigh, relatives and friends whose lives are better off are willing to help a little. If their lives aren't good, there's nothing to be done."

"That's true..."

Lin Xiuqing pulled Ye Yaodong forward. "The weighing is almost finished, let's check the list."

"Okay."

Ye Yaodong didn't bother with his father. Anyway, it was his father's brother, so let his father keep his brother company. He still had plenty to do.

Ye's Ye Erbo watched them return and saw they were indeed busy, so he pulled Ye Fu to talk and complain endlessly.

Ye Fu couldn't save face, so he had to listen to him talk and agree along.

Ye's Mother should be at work at this time and hadn't come over, otherwise, Ye's Ye Erbo wouldn't have been able to pull Ye Fu to talk for so long.

When Ye Yaodong and his wife went home to settle the accounts, his father was still being held back by Ye's Ye Erbo.

Who told him this was his brother? He had to endure it.

The couple went straight home to get busy and didn't bother with his father.

After they finished calculating the accounts, they sent the money to each family.

Except for Zhou Da's brothers, the other fishing boats all had his shares, but they all settled accounts at the end of the month. Every time they sold goods, they would calculate how much money was earned, and then calculate the dividends together at the end of the month.

Although Ye Yaodong had stayed in the city and hadn't gone out to sea on this trip, he had also stayed up all night selling goods.

After finishing his work, he went straight to sleep. The finishing work was left to the boatmen, and the supervision was left to A-Qing.

He didn't wake up until the middle of the night, and it was pitch black outside. Not long after waking up, he continued to close his eyes until the next morning.

But the next morning, before he had time to ask his father what Ye's Ye Erbo had said yesterday, Chen Shuji ran over in a hurry to find him, saying that the kelp might be ready for harvest soon, and asked him to go take a look.

Ye Yaodong was also full of joy when he heard this and quickly ran out with Chen Shuji, asking about the situation as they ran.

Chen Shuji also had a face full of joy.

"Two workers said it's almost ready for harvest in these two days. The leaves are already very large. Just in time for the weather to warm up, if we harvest and dry them for a few days, we can even get the white 'shuang' (mannitol powder)."

"I heard you returned yesterday. Seeing that you must be very busy just after returning, I didn't come to tell you until this morning."

"If you hadn't returned these two days, we probably would have decided to harvest and dry them first. Since you're back, it's just right for you to take a look."

"The two workers also said that the water flow here is quite suitable, and the yield this year is quite good. It should sell for a good price. This past half-year hasn't been in vain."

Ye Yaodong also said with a smile, "I'll go out to sea to take a look, and after looking, I'll make a phone call to ask about the price. We've been busy for half a year, just waiting for this moment."

"Indeed, we're just counting on this moment of harvest. Every time the villagers meet me on the road, they have to ask when the kelp will be harvested. Everyone is looking forward to the harvest."

"This is the first step toward prosperity for our entire village. Once the goods are harvested, we can plant collectively in the second half of the year. We can learn how to plant first, and those who want to participate can send one person from each family, which can also share the risk. Once everyone knows how to plant next year, they can plant as individual family units."

"That's what I said. You go out to sea to take a look first. Although the two workers said it's ready for harvest, I still want to hear your opinion. There's no one in the whole village more knowledgeable than you now."

"Where is that? If we're talking about experience, it still has to be the two workers we hired."

"You were the one who proposed the farming, and you've also guided us a few times. Let's go take a look first."

Ye Yaodong talked with Chen Shuji as they walked to the wharf, drove his own boat, the No. 7, out to sea, and headed toward the farming base, which was just along the coast, not far away.

However, after looking, he still suggested leaving it for another three to five days.

Looking at the size of the leaves, although they couldn't compare to the optimized ones from his previous life, they were already much stronger than the wild ones growing on the reefs.

He asked the two workers to adjust the position and height of the fixers to prevent the kelp from being too dense, which would affect sunlight and nutrient supply.

He also asked them to remove the floating mud and miscellaneous algae from the fixers to prevent the kelp from being polluted or suffocated.

With some management, it could grow a bit more.

Now that it was almost time for harvest, the daily growth was changing. Leaving it for one more day meant it could grow a bit more.

As long as there was no disease, there was no fear of it rotting if left for one more day. There wouldn't be any typhoons this season either.

After Ye Yaodong made this suggestion, the other two hired workers also adopted it, feeling that adjusting it and leaving it for another three to five days was fine.

When they returned, Chen Shuji said, "Then why don't you come with me to the village committee later and make a phone call to ask about the price?"

"What's the rush? It'll take three to five days to harvest, and drying will take several good days. The price for this kind of harvest changes day by day. It's higher when it first comes out, and once the quantity increases later, the price will definitely drop. If we ask in advance, it won't be accurate, and won't there be a gap in expectations?"

They might think he was deliberately suppressing the price, giving one price when it was first produced and another price when it was harvested.

"That's true. Then let's wait. We'll ask when it's harvested."

"Okay."

He thought he would make a phone call to ask first, and then ask again when it was harvested to see if the price change was significant.

He also had to calculate how much the purchase price should be.

Last year, it was purchased at 6 cents per jin, and he was able to sell it to Boss Zhou for 15 cents.

In this day and age, goods were scarce, so the price fluctuation shouldn't be large.

It's just that he didn't know how many jin the yield per mu could reach.

Each mu of kelp farming area had 400 ropes hanging, and each rope had over 120 kelp plants clamped. He had just lifted a rope to estimate, and expected each rope could reach over 100 jin, um... this was with water.

The specifics would have to wait until it was harvested, but looking at the growth, it was very good. If it grew for a few more days, harvesting eight or nine tons to ten tons per mu should be possible.

In his previous life, high-quality kelp could harvest twenty-something tons to thirty tons per mu.

Now, they couldn't compare in terms of technology, but they could compare in terms of water quality and weather.

At least the sea area now had no pollution.

After Ye Yaodong went ashore, he parted ways with Chen Shuji, pondering how much kelp could be harvested in this batch as he walked.

Because it was just a test field, not much was farmed, only 30 mu.

According to the labor force of an average family, it was very normal for one household to farm ten-something mu. Farming 30 mu for an experiment really wasn't much.

Once the entire village started farming, tens of thousands of mu wouldn't be a problem.

Once the whole village mastered this farming technique, supporting a village and driving the development of a village wouldn't be a problem.

"Dad..."

Ye Yaodong was lowering his head in thought. Hearing the call of a child, he looked up and saw all his children in the cherry orchard near the Tianhou Temple.

That's right, it had become a cherry orchard of some scale.

Three years ago, the cherry trees planted by his group of children had grown into small trees, and now they had even produced a small amount of scattered fruit.

These children hadn't run out less to take care of their little saplings over the past few years.

It's just that they were still very green, and they had run out eagerly.

"What are you all doing here? Have you eaten? This is still green, not ripe yet, you can't eat it."

Ye Chenghai said, "We just finished eating and it's not time for school yet, so we came out to take a look. We found someone stealing them."

"Those shameless, dog-born things who haven't eaten anything don't care if it's not ripe yet, they'll definitely come to steal them. We have to watch!" Ye Chenghe cursed.

Ye Chengjiang also said, "We saw someone stealing our cherries yesterday and beat them up."

It's true that children are greedy, and they don't care if the fruit is ripe or not. Ye Yaodong also knew this.

"It just so happens your grandfather returned yesterday. Go call him to bring a few nets, and insert some fences to surround it, I guarantee no one will be able to steal them."

"Good, then I'll go call him over immediately."

"By the way, ask him to tie two scarecrows, that way even the birds won't steal them."

They were all excited. "Great."

They had been planting for three years, and they would be able to taste the fruits of their labor soon.

At least the sea area now is not polluted.

After Ye Yaodong went ashore, he parted ways with Secretary Chen, pondering while walking how much kelp this batch could harvest.

Because it was just an experimental field, there was not much farming, only 30 acres were farmed.

According to the labor force of an ordinary family, it is very normal for a household to farm more than ten acres. It is really not much to farm thirty acres for an experiment.

When the whole village starts farming, tens of thousands of acres will not be a problem.

When the whole village masters this farming technology, it will not be a problem to support a village and drive the development of a village.

"Dad..."

Ye Yaodong was thinking with his head down. Hearing the child's call, he looked up and saw that a group of his children were all in the cherry forest near the Tianhou Palace.

That's right, it has become a cherry forest of some scale.

Three years ago, the cherries planted by his group of children had grown into small trees, and now they had even produced a small amount of fruit.

These children had not run out less to take care of their small saplings in these years.

It's just that they were still very green, and they ran out eagerly.

"Why are you all staying here? Have you eaten? This is still green, not ripe yet, can't eat."

Ye Chenghai said: "We just finished eating, it's not time for school yet, so we came out to see. We found someone stealing and picking."

"Those shameless dog-borns who haven't eaten anything don't care if it's not ripe yet, they will definitely come to steal and pick, we have to watch!" Ye Chenghe cursed.

Ye Chengjiang also said: "We saw someone stealing and picking our cherries yesterday, and we just beat them up."

It is true that children are greedy, and they don't care if the fruit is ripe or not. Ye Yaodong also knows this.

"It just so happens that your grandfather came back yesterday. You go and call him to take a few nets, and then insert some fences to surround a circle, ensuring that no one can steal and pick."

"Good, then I will go and call him over immediately."

"By the way, ask him to tie two scarecrows, so that even birds won't steal and eat."

They were all excited, "Great."

Planted for three years, they will be able to taste the fruits of their own labor soon.