Farm Girl's Manor

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.