Chapter 545: Hidden Killing Intent (4)_1
Old Ding’s joy also infected Mo Yan, who invited him to sit down. She smiled and said, "The person who gave me the rice seeds initially only said they were a new variety, which could save quite a few seeds; I didn’t expect the yield would be so high! About this matter, I hope Old man Ding won’t speak of it, and please also remind those villagers who helped out, lest someone becomes jealous and harms the rice."
It wasn’t that she was overly cautious, but in this era, the idea of rice yielding a thousand catties per mu was simply too incredible. If word got out, it would undoubtedly cause a great commotion, and as the owner of the high-yield rice, she would naturally become a target of others’ attention.
Although she had Yan Junyu as a backer, who would make ordinary people think twice before coveting the high-yield rice, the signboard of Young Master Yan didn’t have much deterrent effect on certain people in the Imperial Family. If someone wanted to interfere, he wouldn’t be able to stop them.
"Little boss, rest assured, I have already instructed those villagers, and they won’t talk," Old Ding didn’t ask anything and readily agreed.
Although he was just a simple farmer with not much exposure to the world, he could guess some of the potential dangers involved. In a town, he used to belong to before fleeing, there was an individual who made a delicious sauce; someone coveted the recipe for that sauce.
The person who made the sauce planned to finance a sauce workshop on his own, but as soon as the workshop was built, it caught fire, and a family of six burned to death inside the factory. It was a tragic loss!