Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 1205 - 380 Teaching the Girl, A Great Harvest_4

Chapter 1205: Chapter 380 Teaching the Girl, A Great Harvest_4

Fortunately, such days didn’t last too long. When the fruit on the branches was ready to be picked, Mo Yan notified Yan Junyu the day before. The next day, she started picking fruit with Zhao Mu and others, each carrying a bamboo basket on their back.

Aside from Mo Qingze, Zhenzhen, Yun Zhao, and Lizhong who were not at home, the rest of the Mo Family participated in the harvest, even the youngest Shengsheng, who, standing on tiptoe at the base of the fruit trees, picked the fruit within her reach.

At this time, the Mo Family’s orchard attracted many onlookers, some from Liu Yang Village and others from nearby villages. A few bold villagers took advantage of Mo Yan’s distraction to slip into the orchard and hastily picked the fruit, catching them in their clothes.

It wasn’t until they couldn’t carry any more that they reluctantly left. Just as these people were about to take the fruit home, planning to return later with their families to steal more, they were stopped by the guards Mo Yan had arranged outside.

Mo Yan had anticipated such situations. Previously, the poisonous snakes and big birds guarding the orchard deterred these people, but now that they were gone, some couldn’t resist the temptation to make their move.

Mo Yan had asked Lin Yong, Lin Da, and others for help, assigning them to specifically catch those looking for a quick and small advantage. If they let them off easily, others would become envious, and the loss to the orchard would be more than just a few pounds of fruit.

Lin Yong and the others didn’t make things difficult for these fruit thieves, simply asking them to pay silver according to the weight of the fruit before letting them take the fruit away.

At a minimum of three hundred wen per jin, how could ordinary peasant families afford that? A few individuals were forthright and just left the fruit behind, while others felt they had lost face and turned around, accusing Lin Yong and his group of cheating them.

Lin Yong didn’t bother to argue with these people and simply called out the Mao Tuan that Mo Yan had given him. Without waiting for Mao Tuan to open its mouth, those people hurriedly dropped the fruit and scampered away. After a few such incidents, no one dared to target the fruit anymore.

However, these people also learned the price of each type of fruit, which amazed them. They quietly calculated how much silver the Mo Family could earn from the season’s fruit yield, only to find they were not able to figure out the amount.

With more than twenty orchards, it wasn’t possible to finish picking in one day. After the first day, everyone was exhausted. Mo Yan asked Zhao Mu and the others to rest and continue picking the next day, while she asked Lin Yong and the rest to weigh the fruit overnight. In the end, they tallied up to 700,000 jin.

"Sister, we could earn more silver by making wine from these fruits, why does it pain my heart so much!" Xin Er lay atop the mountain of fruit, inhaling the tempting aroma, feeling reluctant to turn these beautiful and delicious fruits into wine.

"If not for making wine, what else should we do with them?" Mo Yan, while categorizing and keeping accounts, taught her sister some business sense, "Our family’s orchard is too large. In a couple of years, when all the fruit trees bear fruit normally, the yield will exceed ten million jin. Most of these fruits don’t keep well or store easily. Selling them only within the Jing City area will lead to a supply exceeding demand. So, the price will drop. It’s better to brew them into wine and sell to the entirety of Great Chu, making money from those wealthy people’s silver."

After thinking it over, Xin Er found it made sense. She nodded, then said with some worry, "You’re far-sighted, sister. But to brew so much wine, we’ll definitely need to hire help. What if someone leaks the wine-making recipe?"

As soon as Mo Yan heard this, she rubbed her sister’s head, "You don’t need to worry about these things. Your sister has ways to keep it safe."

As for the methods of keeping it a secret, naturally, she couldn’t tell anyone...

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