Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 676 Framing Evidence (1)_1

Chapter 676: Chapter 676 Framing Evidence (1)_1

Driving in stakes, setting up frames, digging ditches... Everyone was working frenetically, and there was no shortage of onlookers from the village, all speculating whether this year’s greenhouse vegetables would succeed. If they ended up with losses like last year - not even recouping the original investment - more families would face famine next year.

Some went as far as to malevolently curse for another blizzard, hoping that these families would suffer a total loss and have to seek compensation from the leading Mo Family, tarnishing Mo Family’s reputation for good.

These rumors reached Mo Yan’s ears, but she simply shrugged them off with a generous laugh. Rather than wasting her breath on arguments, she preferred to use results to slap those faces – that was the true thrill.

Ninety acres had been prepared earlier, just waiting for the completion of the irrigation ditches and the construction of the insulated greenhouses before planting the seeds. Seventy workers were bustling in the fields non-stop, busy until the very last day of September.

The day before, all sorts of vegetable seeds and melon seedlings had been planted in the ground. While the melon seedlings were watered immediately after planting, the vegetable seeds still needed to be sprayed with water.

This watering process had its own techniques – it couldn’t be too heavy to avoid compacting the soil and reducing aeration, which would not only make it hard for seeds to break through the soil but could also cause them to rot underground, leading to a need for replanting – a considerable hassle.

But watering too lightly wouldn’t work either, as the seeds wouldn’t swell properly without enough moisture, making germination difficult. The best method was to use a watering can, like those used for flowers, which allowed for easy control of the water flow.

The villagers were experts in farming, far more adept at watering and fertilizing than Mo Yan, so she didn’t intervene.

Seeing that the weather was nice and that Zhenzhen and Yun Zhao had come back for a rare visit, Mo Yan planned to take the five beasts and her younger siblings for a stroll in the mountains to see if they could find more delicious wild fruits. If they found any, she could transfer the trees to the Space and cultivate them, possibly adding some new varieties to the orchard behind the hill.

However, the night before, Zhenzhen had gone out to play with some village kids and spread the word, so come morning, the Mo Family had a line of eager little "turnips" waiting for them. The kids, staring with hopeful eyes at a helpless Mo Yan, pleaded to be taken along, raising their little hands to promise obedience and not to wander off.

These kids had long wanted an adventure in the mountains, but their parents wouldn’t allow it, and they were frightened themselves. The experience of being captured by bandits a few days ago had scared them even more, and now they were determined to seize this rare opportunity to broaden their horizons.

Mo Yan couldn’t make such a decision, so she instructed the twenty-plus "turnips" to go home. She’d bring back fruit in the afternoon and invite them over to eat.

Usually, the appeal of wild fruits was irresistible to these children, but at this moment, it lost its luster. Compared to the tasty fruits, they were far more interested in the adventure of the mountains, especially with the majestic beasts coming along. The thought grew stronger by the minute, knowing they could later boast to their peers and receive a multitude of envious gazes, right?

Truly at her wits’ end, Mo Yan had no choice but to inform the kids’ parents, asking them to collect their unruly offspring. The parents hurried over and, seeing that she actually planned to take her siblings into the mountains, they smilingly asked her to include their children too, reasoning that it’s more fun when more people play together.

Fun my ass, if something happened, that would be real "fun"!

Unable to shake them off, Mo Yan didn’t want to make a big deal over such a trivial matter with a bunch of kids, so she reluctantly agreed to take them. Still, to prevent any overly daring ones from straying or the little ones from lagging behind, she only kept ten of the older kids, looking less rambunctious and over the age of seven.

Naturally, the younger ones were unhappy, pouting and on the verge of tears. Mo Yan’s head ached with the situation, so she directly threatened the ten older kids that if they couldn’t keep the little ones in line, nobody would be going into the mountains that day.

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