Her Cultivation Diary-Chapter 1997 - 1752: Long-Term Development

Secretary Xiaozu thought: I’ll have to advise them to change this red bucket sooner or later.

At first, Da Wang used this bucket, and now Princess uses it too, so why can’t it be one dog, one bucket?

And it’s just standing there by the Peach Forest, filled with clear water. Isn’t this just inviting misunderstandings?

With a peach in her mouth, she grumbled and sent the matter to Song Tan.

Song Tan, who was picking peaches in the distance: ...

The big red bucket isn’t broken, so why change it?

Also, every day a dog guards the Peach Forest. You can’t expect them to carry their own bucket while guarding, can you?

Finally, why is the bucket placed here?

Because it’s close to the road where you can ride a bike, so when adding water, you can just carry the large bucket down from the bike.

Then look at Secretary Xiaozu: So many words of opinion in her phone, but in reality, she’s still biting into a peach side by side with the leader.

Not biting is not an option! Secretary Xiaozu thought it couldn’t entirely be her fault. In truth, no matter how much she eats, she never gets tired of it, so she couldn’t care about the minor details.

Just consider her a dog lover who got her mouth licked by a dog!

Princess and the others don’t eat poop.

The leader and Secretary Wang were amazed.

Their province is a major agricultural province, and you can’t get around agriculture in any job. The leaders have tasted and learned about various agricultural products and crops.

But none could match this level of taste—crisp, sweet, clean, and fragrant...

It felt like all the wonderful flavors unique to the crunchy peach were blended into this one.

Especially when eating close to the pit, the flesh there has a slightly hidden tartness, much like the wild peaches plucked from trees in childhood.

Compared to the leader, Secretary Wang hadn’t tasted wild peaches in his youth. He just thought: This peach is truly great!

Then they heard the leader ask:

"Is there any difficulty with the transportation?"

Secretary Xiaozu thought for a moment: "This is relatively easy to transport, but before they ship, they need to take them to the mountain’s cold storage. Otherwise, during hot weather shipping, the peaches will quickly become a bit soft, and won’t taste fresh."

The leader nodded, then asked further:

"I know they have a unique planting method, but this peach tree’s variety should also be quite good—what about the branches? Can they be cuttings or grafted?"

"Can you ensure the same quality? Or even slightly inferior is acceptable."

This really stumped Secretary Xiaozu.

She swallowed the peach in her mouth and sincerely said:

"These peach trees were only planted last spring, and in autumn and winter, they did only simple pruning. They’re not quite suitable for cuttings."

This is actually just the second year, and even if there is a cutting, it wouldn’t bear fruit.

As for grafting...

"You can’t ask the farmers to harm their own excellent seedlings just to provide us with data, right? Therefore, I didn’t bring it up."

Agricultural development relies on only a few directions.

Having a good variety, strengthening propagation work, spreading awareness, and increasing yield as much as possible—this is the only way to fully drive the economy of a region or even an entire province or city.

The leader’s question was entirely logical.

Secretary Xiaozu also replied earnestly:

"However, a few agricultural students on the mountain are working seriously on this."

They live here and have selected numerous seeds or seedlings of various fruit and vegetable plants for comparison.

"Currently, the only thing successfully cultivated en masse with great taste is the strawberry."

"But it’s still not advisable to promote it for now."

Because the strawberry seedlings were initially dug directly from Song Tan’s field, the price can’t be low. If planted on a large scale, the farmers would spend too much on initial costs, making it difficult to guarantee profits."

After all, strawberries spoil quickly once ripe, and high costs also mean high prices.

If not sold quickly, farmers could suffer significant losses...

Tian Tian’s is the only successful experimental data, but with pre-orders covering sales, Secretary Xiaozu would prefer to proceed cautiously for another two years rather than rush ahead.

The leader understood.

Cultivation and harvest of crops must follow climate conditions.

If the time hasn’t come, it just won’t work.

He silently instructed Wang Qing:

"Keep an eye on this matter..."

But Secretary Xiaozu wouldn’t miss this opportunity!

She quickly added, "However, leader, you can come over at the end of the year to take another look."

She truly had plans; it’s just that without data, the report hadn’t been written yet.

"This autumn, I plan to motivate local farmers to purchase Song Family’s high-priced strawberry seedlings. Since they farm vegetables, each family has already cleared their fallow land, and space is quite ample."

Building a small greenhouse for these strawberries would be perfect.

Right around the holiday season, people’s willingness to spend money will be at an all-time high, and it’s likely that during weekends, there will only be more people coming to the village to buy vegetables than there are now.

Secretary Xiaozu illustrated, "In May, the fame for selling vegetables had just been established here, and strawberry transplants were being sold by some farmers."

She raised four fingers, emphasizing:

"Forty yuan per pound, sold out in basically two hours."

This even shocked the leader.

——In May?

May and June are precisely the strawberry ripening season.

Strawberries grow rapidly and spoil just as quickly at this time.

Many strawberry fields allow people to pick on their own, and without attention, they ripen in large numbers, causing the price to plummet from the holiday’s 20-30, or 30-50 yuan per pound, to ten yuan for three pounds.

Even the best-looking wouldn’t go over ten yuan.

Yet in such an economic context, a high price of forty yuan per pound sold out so swiftly...

The leader carefully noted: "You follow up on this matter in a timely manner. I’ll come over again at the end of the year and personally taste these strawberries."

Secretary Xiaozu nodded continuously, while Secretary Wang opened a notebook and quickly jotted this down.

...

Meanwhile, in Qiaoqiao’s livestream room.

Everyone was once again enthusiastically, eagerly sending out bullet chats. If it weren’t impossible to climb into the computer, it seemed like everyone would’ve squeezed to the front rolling across the screen.

[I don’t care, I don’t care, I just want this peach!]

[If I could buy ten pounds of peaches today, this believer would willingly eat a balanced diet of meat and vegetables for life]

[Already took out a 1000-yuan bank loan, why not quickly put the peaches on sale?]

[Brother in front, you’re really bold. I’m different. I applied for a 500-yuan fruit subsidy from my parents]

[Link, link, link!]

[Oh, stop introducing, let me buy first]

Song Tan took a moment to open the livestream and saw the screen full of bullet comments waiting for the link, and she couldn’t help but chuckle.

However, it was already nine o’clock, and at most, they’d work for another half an hour, then everyone would have to pack up and go back.

As for the efficiency of this group picking peaches...

In short, the main force right now is still the university students. But if they want to put this meager supply online, it would only make the fans angry.