Shrewd wife of Lin brothers

The farm that Su Wan purchased was a barren land. It wasn't fertile and no one was willing to take care of that land. However, Su Wan had a plan. It was not a problem for her to build another farm in this city. Planting some vegetables and grain to provide supplies to her snack street would help her industrial chain.

What was more she wanted to plant something different. Half of the crops were going to be experimental and half of the other crops were going to be the ones that would be sold to the market.

Su Wan arranged for coconut fibre and rock wool with the help of Lord Pei who was willing to help her in the project of growing soilless vegetables. Even though she received a lot of criticism from the officials who were more or less bribed by the Lai family, Su Wan did not care about the ruckus they caused.

She arranged for a few of the farmers to reside on the land that was bought by her and made small houses on the side of the land for them to reside in. With Master Han helping her, the two of them came up with an even better hydroponic system that delivered water and nutrients to the plant root.

After the two of them came up with a better system, Su Wan arranged for the purchase of containers that were as big as tubs. The deeper a container was the better the plant would thrive in it.

Once the containers were purchased Su Wan asked the farmers and their families to drill holes into the containers as they needed them for the soilless farming. At the same time, she started to build the infrastructure required to protect her farm.

Though it was a difficult task, Su Wan was willing to take out a huge sum of money for the building to be built as quickly as possible.

As for the farmers who were hired by Su Wan were worried that they would not be able to receive their pay on time like the Lai family, they were willing to work hard. No matter what Su Wan said they listened to her, even though she was a woman.

It took three months for the construction of the building to be finished, though Su Wan was a bit disappointed, she knew that she could not do such things in a hurry. She waited for the construction to be finished before she arranged for the hydroponic water container, which included the necessary nutrients for the crops.

This was the step that took most of her time but Su Wan who had been experimenting with the water containers for ages, knew what to do.

"We will first start with mustard green, kale, bell peppers and other leafy vegetables," Su Wan told Han Fu. What she wanted to see was whether she could grow ginseng on this farm or not but that was something she would deal with later on.

For now, she first needed to arrange for potatoes to grow in this system.

If not then she had to think of a way and make the land next to this farm fertile.

"I understand," Han Fu nodded as he arranged for the seeds and started the process of sowing seeds.

Six months later.

Shenlin Farm started operating four months ago, it was an infrastructure that was surrounded by a large wall which stopped anyone from going inside. Unless they had the pass that was specially designed and signed by the county magistrate, they could not even cross the large metal gates that stood in front of the wasteland.

Su Wan who had been working hard on the farm finally succeeded in making three mu of wasteland fertile. She asked the servants and workers of the farm to collect recyclable garbage and turn it into manure.

A special pit was opened to make manure, which was collected and turned on the soil for months before it was capable enough to grow weeds. More organic fertilizer was made and prepared before turning the land over and over again.

This was continued until the land was fertilized enough to grow potatoes.

While it was not fertile enough to grow other vegetables, it was good enough already as the soilless farming made up for the lack of fertile land.

The rest of the two mus of land was left to grow wheat and sunflower. The wheat was hard to grow as it required a lot of water and fertilizer but the workers arranged by Su Wan were willing to work hard for Su Wan paid them more than she did to others.

Similarly, sunflower seeds were grown on the land to extract sunflower oil for cooking.

Su Wan also decided to look for a way to grow mulberries such that she could raise silkworms.

While Lin Chen who was rather fond of eating meat decided to open a livestock farm right next to the farm that Su Wan opened. Of course Su Wan had nothing to say to him either, it was also a good thing if he was willing to work and even if it was a big failure, she was going to support him.

Fortunately, Lin Chen knew how to raise pigs, chickens and ducks along with other livestock animals. He was able to grow them well until they were fattened up to the point that everyone in the Big River City was simply stunned and in awe at the sight of the plump chickens that were sold by Lin Chen's ——Sulin farm.

The business of the farm was booming.

"I think you all should start living at the farm," after Su Wan was done establishing the farm, she told the Qi siblings to take over the farm.

Qi Shuyan was getting older and soon he would be eligible for getting married. It was simply unreasonable if he was not even earning three to four taels a month before that.

When Qi Shuyan heard Su Wan's words, he was stunned. He looked at his sister and younger brother before turning to Su Wan, "Sister-in-law… this is too much for us."

"What do you mean?" Su Wan raised a brow as she looked at the young man who had turned into a fourteen-year-old boy in the blink of an eye. "Your father saved my father-in-law's life and gave him another chance at life. If not for your father, my father-in-law would have been ruined and our family would have never reunited. The least I can do is to make sure that your life is well established."

"As long as you work on the farm as the Farm keeper, I promise to treat you well. You only need to work hard and stay loyal," Su Wan told the young man. Qi Jie and Qi Zhi were growing up as well, sooner or later they would have to start working for their families.

When Qi Shuyan heard Su Wan's words, his eyes turned red. He was really thankful for Su Wan and the rest of the Lin family. When their parents died, Qi Shuyan and his siblings thought that they were going to live a life which was worse than hell.

Even though Father Lin comforted them that he would treat them like his children, the three siblings were worried as they knew that even their own uncle did not treat them well.

So how could they trust Father Lin? But they had no choice in front of them. So even though it was scary, they willingly went with Father Lin.

Who would have thought that one decision that they made would change their lives?

Qi Shuyan stood up from the chair on which he was sitting and heavily kowtowed in front of Su Wan.

"Thank you, Thank you so much sister-in-law," Qi Shuyan's forehead hit the floor heavily as he thanked Su Wan for what she had done, Qi Jie and Qi Zhi followed suit. The two of them also kowtowed to Su Wan who was too shocked to stop them.

"What are you doing?" She handed Little Feng to Lin Yan who took him, along with Little Heng who clapped his hands and gleefully shouted, "Bo Bo! Bo Bo!"

He seemed to be saying something rude because Little Feng turned to him and smacked him on the head.

Little Heng stopped clapping his hands and then turned to look at his big brother, he raised his hand and smacked Little Feng right back. His fingers knotted into the hair of his big brother as he did so.

Little Feng though calm was not to be underestimated, he too reached forward and pulled Little Heng's hair.

"You two… play nice," Lin Yan said to his sons while Lin Rui helped him take care of their two naughty sons.

"They are simply too naughty," Lin Rui remarked. He booped the nose of Little Feng who was on the verge of crying and said, "Be nice or Father Rui will not take you to the capital when he has to take Higher Secondary Scholar exams."

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