Her Cultivation Diary
Chapter 407 - Chapter 407 407. A skillful hand_1

Chapter 407: 407. A skillful hand_1 Chapter 407: 407. A skillful hand_1 After an hour of thrashing (including denting formations, taking photos, editing images, applying filters, publishing, and interacting with comments etc.), a series of processes, piles and piles of rice grains accumulated on the tarp, to everyone’s joy, were then collected into the baskets beside them.

Song Tan estimated the time and came to take a look, barely holding back an expression of utter dismay.

Fortunately, she managed to control herself, and her surprise was all the more apparent:

“You guys are really incredible at working, you’ve gathered so much rice in just this short time! It’s definitely enough for our dinner tonight, and you’ve also reduced our family’s labor by a lot!”

With those words, everyone else also began to wonder, “Really?”

“Indeed, we’re all young and it’s the time when we have the most energy to work…”

“Wow, my labor actually turned out pretty good, hahaha…”

Seeing it was getting late, Song Tan didn’t want to delay any further and, after highlighting a few praises, she called for everyone to pick up their own baskets: “Let’s go back and mill this rice.”

“Okay!”

The group of students, brimming with energy, each carried a basket and followed Song Tan back to the courtyard.

There was a rice thresher waiting for them.

In the rice field.

Only after the people had left did Song Youde and Song Sancheng finally let out a sigh of relief: Those troublemakers were finally gone!

“Hurry up, let’s thresh the rest.”

…

When everyone returned, Wu Lan had just finished categorizing everything, reorganizing the inventory, labeling each item with names, and setting them aside.

At that moment, seeing the heaps of rice grains in each person’s little basket, her smile froze.

But then, a cheerful grin naturally spread across her face:

“You guys really did an amazing job. Young folks like you are much faster than this old one here.”

Meanwhile, she turned on the machine: “We’re just milling enough rice for a meal, it’s very fast. Where would you like to go after this? Do you want to check out the Peach Forest on the mountainside, or the watermelons in the field to the west? You could pick a few to take back, and I’ll ask Tantan to cut them for you to eat.”

“Great, great, great!”

The crowd gulped down the tea that hadn’t been finished at lunch, their throats filled with sweetness and refreshing satisfaction, and then they became joyful once again.

Honestly, after fussing with the rice for so long, everyone was running out of patience.

Watching the machine roar to life, as light yellow rice grains dusted with a bit of powder poured out of the outlet “pattering” like scattered flowers, the group watched for a while, took a short video, and then turned to Song Tan, contented:

“How do we get up to the mountain behind us?”

Look, today’s customers… ah, students, are so savvy! Song Tan almost felt guilty.

But how does the old saying go? Heaven helps those who don’t take advantage of it! That was the exact situation!

If the students insisted on paying, she couldn’t very well refuse.

“Alright, I’ll take everyone to the melon field to have a look. There are big watermelons, and small ones too, whatever you prefer. Do you want to pick some to take home for your families? You can choose them yourselves.”

“Ah? But I don’t know how to pick melons…”

A student seemed a bit worried.

“No problem,” Song Tan pointed up the mountain: “Uncle Zhang up there will be watching over. He’s a skilled melon-picker. But don’t go around slapping the melons in the field, otherwise, if you hit them too hard and they explode, we’ll have to eat those burst watermelons.”

Remembering the sensible watermelons they had eaten at the restaurant the day before, they started to crave them again.

“I get it, I get it!”

“Don’t worry, we won’t slap them randomly.”

“It’s okay if the watermelon splits; we’ll eat it ourselves.”

“You have the cheek to say that, aren’t you afraid you’ll bankrupt Song Tan…”

“It’s also true, it would be too embarrassing to cause more trouble by staying here for a day…”

The crowd chatted noisily.

Song Tan thought to herself: There’s nothing to be embarrassed about.

The moment they reach the melon field, their hesitations would surely vanish.

While leading everyone up the hill on the newly built trail, he pointed to several buzzing beehives in the distance and said:

“Actually, our honey is famous too, indispensable to customers from Ning City to Imperial City, known for its top-notch effect on lubricating the intestines and facilitating bowel movements.”

“But we really have no stock left, so I’m afraid you’ll just crave it, and we’re simply not going to let you try it.”

Upon hearing these words, the classmates couldn’t help but think: This Song Tan, she still doesn’t know how to do business. Just because there’s no stock now doesn’t mean there will never be, right? You should let them have a taste and remember the flavor — it’s like turning away easy money!

She must be too shy.

Thinking like this, everyone felt rather conflicted.

“Oh, right,” Song Tan added, “We also raise pigs and chickens on the back hill. Do you want to see them?”

“Just a heads up, we don’t sell the pigs and chickens either. And there’s an especially large dog, but don’t worry, it won’t bite. If you’re scared, I won’t let it out.”

Wow!

What’s this? This is a treasure trove farm!

Everyone was more than happy!

Even if some were afraid of dogs, as long as it didn’t come over, nothing would stop us from catching a glimpse of just how “especially large” it was…

As the bunch voiced their opinions left and right, Song Tan smiled and said, “Alright, come on.”

As she spoke, she called out, “Big King, don’t scare anybody.”

These are the future Gods of Wealth! They needed to be treated with gentle care.

The group was stunned for a moment, only to see from behind the pig pen in the distance, a huge, huge, huge dog emerging!

How big? Roughly the size of the lions seen in ‘Animal World’ from childhood fantasies — that was about the size of this dog’s frame!

Everyone inhaled sharply!

It took the class president a long while to ask tentatively, “Song Tan… where did you get such a big dog?”

Song Tan smiled nonchalantly, “It’s a breed from abroad, a gift from a friend, it’s specifically here to guard the hill for me.”

Wow! Instantly, everyone looked upon this unassuming slope with a newfound respect.

With this dog around, who would dare to intrude without an invite?

Because Big King looked rather intimidating, they didn’t examine the pig pen and chicken coop closely and reluctantly continued up the hill on another path, behaving impeccably well.

But a few of the boys kept looking back, eyes filled with envy:

“What a huge dog!”

“So cool!”

“Wow, so imposing. If you take it out for a walk, everyone else would be so jealous.”

“Can we take a video? Hey, hey, don’t go, I’m scared to film alone…”

Seeing this, Big King quickly lay back down.

It was a weirdly hot day, and he wasn’t much for exercise anymore.

As for Big White, now that it was hot, he would just go play with the ducks by the pond as soon as the sun came out, showing no interest in lying around on the hill.

…

Song Tan also showed a hint of a smile.

It was better not to linger on the back hill; more time could be spent in the watermelon field. Who could say no to adorable watermelons?

As they watched, naturally, they’d end up buying an extra one or two, right?

On Taobao, so many people begged her to ship the watermelons, but because of the heat, she had refused.

At that moment, standing before Peach Forest, laden with abundant fruit, and gazing at the full trellises covered with snake beans, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, loofahs, and more, everyone wished they could pick a basketful of each!

The yield is simply too high!

No wonder Song Tan, known for growing good stuff, truly has a green thumb.

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