Farming? I'm making a killing with my fairytale vegetables!

Chapter 25 Discussion

Xia Shiyu arrived home the moment she opened her eyes. She was quite happy to receive the radish seeds. Radishes are a very adaptable plant, and as long as they are suitable for the local geographical environment, they can be sown all year round.

She can plant the radishes now, but they will take longer to grow, usually 3-4 months, with a long gap in between before they can be harvested. She can only hope that the radishes Xiaobai gave her will grow faster. But thinking about how the vegetables she had grown before all grew quite quickly, she can wait patiently.

During this gap period, she can't rely solely on the previous little cabbages; she needs to find other seeds and hopefully achieve another breakthrough so she can access the Fruit Map.

Thinking of this, she asked 003, "003, what are the conditions for me to enter other instances?"

"The host only needs to grow a batch of radishes now."

After listening, Xia Shiyu thought of something and asked, "If I'm planting radishes, does that count as the ones I planted next to the thatched hut?"

After all, all she needed to do before was grow a batch of vegetables in the real world and sell them before she could start the next mission, but that would take a long time, and she wanted to get the next vegetable seeds as soon as possible.

Fortunately, she wasn't disappointed this time.

The system's voice replied, "Yes, it's okay."

"That's great, thank you 003."

Xia Shiyu felt much more satisfied now. If things went this way, she would only need to wait three or four days to get the radish seeds and then start the next task.

Xia Shiyu felt very happy and energetic. Seeing that her mother wasn't home, she ran to the vegetable garden to harvest vegetables.

There are still a few more batches of water spinach and bok choy that can be planted now, and the tomatoes are ripe. However, the water spinach season will be over in a while, and then there will be fewer vegetables. Not thinking about these things for now, Xia Shiyu picked up a tomato and put it in her basket.

Tomatoes will turn red over a large area after just one night, but they can still be stored, so Xia Shiyu plans to sell a little every day for a few days.

There's enough of these things in the city. She originally thought she could sell them in the city if she couldn't solve the problem, but now, given the purchasing power of the elderly, there's no need to worry about these issues at all.

Xia Shiyu felt that her business was developing very well and was progressing steadily, but some rumors about her gradually began to circulate in Xiajia Village.

It's already September, summer vacation is over, the kids have all gone back to school, and most of the young people who came back for summer vacation have gone back to work.

Their village is not very developed; most of the income comes from young people working outside the village, and few people stay at home to farm.

They originally thought Xia Shiyu was like that, busy with work outside and occasionally taking time to come home for summer vacation. But seeing that her vegetable selling business was doing well during this period, they realized that it might not be like that.

"Hey, have you seen Yu Juan's daughter come back to the village to grow vegetables lately?"

"I saw it. I even passed by their vegetable garden. It was surrounded by mud, but I could still tell that the vegetables were growing really well, especially their tomatoes recently, which have grown bigger than a fist."

"Although the vegetables are growing well, Xiaoyu was doing a good job in the city, so why is she doing this kind of work now? Being a farmer is not easy."

"Yes, they sit in the office, exposed to the wind and sun, which is much better than what we have here. Besides, her family worked hard to send her to college, not so that she would come back to be a farmer."

"That's not what you said. They might actually make a lot of money growing vegetables. I've run into them selling vegetables on the street before. Goodness, when I got closer, you wouldn't believe how much their vegetables cost."

"What? You even saw the price? Tell us about it."

"She sells it for eight yuan a pound."

"Hiss!" The people around couldn't help but exclaim when they heard the price. It was really surprising to them. It wasn't that they had never sold vegetables before, but they had never seen ordinary farmers' vegetables sell for eight or nine yuan a kilogram.

"Can this be sold?" Some people clearly didn't believe it.

"How could they not sell them? Didn't Xiaoyu ask Damei and the others for help before? They sold all those vegetables."

When the woman named Da Mei heard others mention it, she couldn't help but speak up, "That's true. Xiao Yu asked a few of us to help pick vegetables before, but she gave us some to eat. The taste was really worth the price. You can't say such things to slander her."

"I don't believe that either. I think she just can't find a job outside. How can you make money in a place like this?"

A group of people started expressing their own opinions again.

Yu Juan went to a friend's house to help with some chores today, and when she came back, she overheard people gossiping about her family.

Her face darkened after hearing this. People say that rural people are simple and honest, but that's not always true. She herself grew up in a village and knew that most of the time, people in the village were warm-hearted and willing to help others. The human touch was indeed stronger than in the city sometimes. However, because of poverty, there were many arguments, with people looking down on you for being poor and fearing you for being rich. There were also a lot of sarcastic remarks.

But she didn't expect the gossip to spread to her family today, which made her angry.

So when Xia Shiyu returned home, she found her mother sulking. She went up to her in surprise and asked, "What's wrong, Mom? Why are you so angry?"

Yu Juan took a deep breath and then recounted what she had heard along the way.

"In the end, they just think you're useless for coming back to farm, but my daughter is the best, and I can't let them say that."

Although she initially thought it wouldn't be worthwhile for Xia Shiyu to come back to farming, Xia Shiyu successfully silenced her with his actions, and besides, how could she talk about these things outside?

Xia Shiyu smiled. Oh, so that's what it is. She hugged her mother and made her sit down. "Don't be angry, Mom. Getting angry over these people is bad for your health."

In the past, she would have been upset and upset by these gossips, but now she has full confidence and she will no longer be upset by these comments. She hopes that her parents will feel the same way.

Yu Juan's anger has subsided now. "Sigh, Mom was just worried that you would feel bad, but it's okay as long as you don't care."

"It's okay, Mom, don't worry about it. Let's go pick some more vegetables for dinner."

Xia Shiyu reassured his mother well, inviting her to pick vegetables and eat together, so they could prepare for tomorrow.

The next morning, in order to cheer her mother up, Xia Shiyu asked her to go to the city with her to sell vegetables.