Her Cultivation Diary
Chapter 714 - Chapter 714 706. The young man is down-to-earth_1

Chapter 714: 706. The young man is down-to-earth_1 Chapter 714: 706. The young man is down-to-earth_1 The leader didn’t know what to say anymore.

Although he had intentionally hitched a ride, he also wanted to indirectly learn about the specific situation of Yunqiao Village.

But as it turned out, one was silent as a clam while the other was a chatterbox, and no one mentioned a thing about the village; they were completely fixated on romantic entanglements.

After thinking it over, he praised Wu Lei without changing his expression, “I think this young man is very down-to-earth.”

In their system, being sparing with words is considered a virtue for the young. Of course, there might be some shortcomings in enthusiasm, but when he complimented someone, naturally he focused on their strengths.

The term “down-to-earth,” if Wu Lan and Song Sancheng were to hear it, would probably take them by surprise. After all, a few months ago when Wu Lei had come to his home, the guy was as jittery as an unsettled half bottle of water, restless as could be.

It goes to show that sometimes, breaking up is not necessarily a bad thing.

With such praise, Zhang Chen also couldn’t come up with much to say. If Wu Lei truly had no good qualities, would he be hanging out with him?

The man was indeed honest.

At this moment, the procurement officer asked Wu Lei, “Young man, what exactly do you do at your relative’s place?”

Wu Lei finally turned his head and answered with huffs and puffs, “A bit of everything, I guess! Picking vegetables, picking watermelons, weeding, hoeing…”

To put it simply, he didn’t stick to the core tasks at all!

However, the leader wasn’t there to pry into their secret recipes; he just asked another question, “Then, what do you think makes crops taste so good? Is it more about choosing the right seeds from the start, or is the cultivation process later on more important?”

This question stumped Wu Lei.

“As for choosing seeds, I haven’t heard my aunt and the others use any special seeds… Oh, a professor from the Agricultural Sciences Academy recently came, providing hands-on guidance. He mentioned there would be many channels for seeds and seedlings from his side in the second half of the year.”

“As for the cultivation method…”

There really wasn’t anything special about it; it seemed as if the plants at home grew even better than those elsewhere.

After thinking for a moment, he said, “I guess, it depends on the God of Soil.”

Zhang Chen, who was drinking water while driving, almost couldn’t hold back his laughter.

Secretary Wang was also startled, wondering how on earth farming got tangled with superstition.

The leader, however, was very composed, “What do you mean by that?”

Wu Lei looked as if it were obvious, “Don’t I know my aunt’s land? It was either previously barren hills, with no one farming it for many years, or it was just that tiny piece of her own land.”

“When I was little, they used chemical fertilizers and urea, but I never saw them making any money from farming.”

“Now that my cousin Qiaoqiao came back, she isn’t schooled in agriculture. She just tries out whatever comes to her mind when planting; the fertilizers are just some chaotic mix of mushroom fermentation concocted by Uncle Zhang from the mountain… And just casually planting things, the taste turned out to be so good.”

“My aunt herself said, it must be a blessing from the God of Soil.”

He wasn’t completely foolish; he had his own interpretation, “Just look at those lab-cultivated bacteria. You cater to this and that, pampering them as if they’re your ancestors, and they might just die if they feel like it. But look at the bacteria thronging in a kimchi jar, growing in heaps. How do you make sense of that?”

“When it comes to farming, it still depends on fate.”

As he spoke these words, everyone in the car fell silent.

How to put it? It was quite bizarre, but it seemed to make some sense, too.

The more he spoke, the more the leader listened, and a sense of enlightenment began to dawn in his heart.

That was because — the family in question wasn’t professionally trained in agriculture, but their decades of farming experience should never be underestimated!

Besides, without some skills or connections, as well as certain collaborations, what kind of incentive would prompt the agricultural experts from the academy to bring their students there to stay? There had to be some big affairs involved, either private or not yet made official.

Thinking this far, he somewhat understood and didn’t probe much into these matters anymore.

He then asked, “So how does your aunt’s family usually sell their agricultural products? Is it all through live streaming?”

Speaking of live streaming sales, that really struck a chord with Wu Lei —

Lili had worked so hard for so long, yet she had barely accumulated a few tens of thousands of fans! Yet his cousin Qiaoqiao effortlessly gathered hundreds of thousands of fans, not even giving them a proper look during the broadcasts… Who could he even complain to about this?

But Lili was no longer his girlfriend, and Qiaoqiao was closer to him, after all.

He grumbled, “My cousin calling that live streaming sales? That’s just putting up a notice. He just has to say there’s something available, and the customers will scramble for it on their own, no need for him to sell anything.”

“The primary sales indeed rely on online channels — we don’t have many wealthy people in Yun City, and the demand for watermelons and vegetables during early summer was just about enough.”

“Later on, firstly, transportation was a problem, and secondly, the customer base wasn’t that large, so local supply was suspended in the summer.”

“Oh right, the peaches were taken by wholesalers from other places. The two bosses stayed in the Peach Forest and joined forces to buy up all the stock, saying they’d return when it was chestnut season.”

The leader nodded pensively:

“So, as long as the reputation of agricultural products is solid, the sales channels aren’t too restricted…”

But the problem is, many agricultural products, even though of slightly better quality, don’t have such a big gap, and they lack enough popularity to become well-known.

In their case, they still needed the support of rural policies to slowly persevere towards success!

This venture was indeed a long and heavy responsibility!

No sooner had this thought crossed his mind did the seat underneath him give a “clunk,” and he jostled about in his seat, while Secretary Wang was jolted up sharply and struck his head against the roof with a loud “bang!”

“Ouch!” He clutched his head, dazed and confused, jolted back to reality.

Up front, Zhang Chen was also squawking, “Wu Lei! Why didn’t you say your hometown’s roads were this bad to drive on? Ouch, damn it! Another big pothole — I’ll try to avoid it. You guys in the back, buckle up and hold on tight!”

Wu Lei too was jolted.

It had been over a month since he last traveled this road and he couldn’t help but mutter, “I forgot… but your driving skills aren’t as good as my cousin’s. She doesn’t jostle the car like this when she drives.”

Was this really a question of driving skills?!

The two in the backseat, all jumbled up, opened their eyes wide to look ahead — only to see the old concrete road, barely two to three meters wide, with either bulges here or large cracks there.

Around the bend ahead, even the soil from the hillside had washed onto the road during the last heavy rainfall…

This road… was really too difficult to navigate!

The two in the backseat felt their stomachs churning, and they quickly took deep breaths and sipped some water, struggling to speak and shift the topic.

The leader asked, “With the roads this difficult to travel, is this how you usually transport goods? Aren’t you worried about damaging the produce?”

“Not really worried.” Wu Lei was an honest man. “We thought about that when we plant, you see. With the road being so rough, we just don’t grow the expensive stuff that can’t handle a few knocks.”

“My cousin said, we’ll consider those when the road’s fixed.”