Farm Girl's Manor-Chapter 253: Deciding to Make a Small Profit (5)_1

The Li Family’s land had not been irrigated with Spirit Spring Water initially, so the soybeans grew to be quite ordinary. After the harvest, Lizhong had the villagers separate and stack them before threshing them separately; the yield was also around one hundred and eighty catties per acre, and the quality was far inferior to that of the Mo Family’s.

The villagers who helped were bewildered; they had taken care of the crops similarly, but why did the Mo Family’s crops grow so well? Could it be that the Mo Family’s land was blessed by gods?

They believed that "three feet above your head, there are gods," but no one had ever seen one. This absurd notion passed through their minds in unison, then they dismissed it, still believing that it was because Mo Yan had grown vegetables the previous year.

By the time all the harvested soybeans were threshed and dried, the Mo Family’s twenty acres yielded a total of four thousand eight hundred catties, reaching a yield of two hundred and forty catties per acre.

When this news spread, it shocked the entire Liu Yang Village. Without the need for deliberate promotion, a long line of customers formed to buy seeds.

This year, most people in the village grew green beans or soybeans to rejuvenate the soil, with a few growing grains. But the land was too barren, and the grain yielded little. Careful calculations revealed that they hadn’t earned as much as they would have from selling beans.

Originally, the villagers who had grown beans to rejuvenate the soil planned to plant grains the next year. Now seeing that the Mo Family’s soybean yield was not much less than grain’s yield, and even earned more silver when converted, many people considered continuing to grow soybeans.

About five catties of soybean seeds were needed per acre, and the households interested in buying soybean seeds almost all had over twenty acres of land, which meant each household would purchase more than one hundred catties of seeds.

Just by selling soybean seeds within the village, the Mo Family sold four thousand catties. With each catty of soybean seeds priced at fourteen wen, these four thousand catties sold for fifty-six taels of silver. After deducting labor and seed costs, they had earned about fifty taels.

It didn’t seem like much, only as much as the Mo Family had made in one day from selling vegetables previously, but Mo Yan had not managed the soybean field from beginning to end. Being able to sell for so much silver, she was already very content.

Of the remaining eight hundred catties, Mo Yan planned to keep one hundred and fifty catties for seeds to continue selling the next year, reserve fifty catties to make tofu or dishes, and the remaining six hundred catties were to be sold at the seed shop.

As for the Li Family’s two thousand and more catties of soybeans, she also intended to buy them. When winter came, she planned to dilute some Spirit Spring Water for soaking and sprouting, believing that they would sell well on the market.

However, when Mo Yan proposed buying soybeans to Lizhong, he got very angry, "Those ten acres are already yours; it was you who had it tidied up in the first place. If I take these soybeans as my own only to sell them to you, what kind of person would I be?"

"Grandfather Li, that’s not what I meant! When those lands were planted with soybeans, they belonged to your family, so the soybeans are naturally yours. If you just give them to me for nothing, what does that make me?" Mo Yan replied with a smile.

Lizhong was frustrated and said sternly, "Those seeds were bought by you and sown in the field. I haven’t managed it from start to finish. It’s only natural for you to take them now. If you bring up silver again, I will get angry!"

Lizhong insisted on not taking any silver, so Mo Yan had to temporarily let go of the idea, planning to make it up to him from somewhere else later.

Seeing that Mo Yan didn’t persist, Lizhong breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "The land is now empty; are you going to build greenhouses next to continue growing vegetables?"

"Let it stay empty for now. The soil also gets tired working all year round without rest!" Mo Yan joked with a laugh.

Her words were half-serious, and it left Lizhong somewhat confused. He felt it was unlikely that this was the real reason, but having spent so much time together, he knew that this young master wouldn’t speak without reason. She had her rationale for making this decision, and he wouldn’t question it.