Chapter 179 - Fear of Poaching Skills

The farm and greenhouses required daily care.

Chen Yang was now considering whether he should also hire a couple of people from the village to help manage the farm and the greenhouses.

By doing so, he could free his hands to do more things.

“This time, I’ll first set up a few larger greenhouses, and then I’ll go to the county town to talk with Li Han and her sister.”

“Since the cultivation technique for wild mountain mushrooms has matured, it’s time to consider expanding on a larger scale.”

As Chen Yang picked the wild mountain mushrooms, these thoughts were on his mind.

With the technology for cultivating wild mountain mushrooms having matured, the next step was to gradually expand and then to broaden the sales channels.

After that, he would lead the villagers of Liuhe Village to wealth together.

Although this path might seem simple when spoken of, Chen Yang knew in his heart that if it were truly implemented, there would probably be no small difficulties.

Especially expanding the sales channels was particularly important.

Moreover, this task definitely required a certain network of connections; otherwise, why would other restaurants come to buy wild mountain mushrooms from him?

The market might be scarce, but it hadn’t reached the point of complete extinction.

If he had a surplus of wild mountain mushrooms, it could even bring down the prices of the mushrooms.

That would be a loss.

This was one of the issues that Chen Yang currently needed to face.

“Looks like I’ll have to find some time to have a good talk with Li Han in the next few days, she has been in the business, running a hotel for some time now; she should be able to give me some advice in this area.”

After harvesting the wild mountain mushrooms, Chen Yang directly loaded them into his truck, then started his electric tricycle and began to deliver them to Yang Caiyun.

He made his way to the county town and arrived at the entrance of the River Fish Pavilion.

Yang Caiyun stood at the door waiting as usual.

Seeing Chen Yang deliver the wild mountain mushrooms as he always did, her face blossomed with joy.

“Yang Zi, how much did you bring today?”

As soon as Chen Yang’s vehicle came to a halt, Yang Caiyun immediately approached with a cheerful grin.

Chen Yang also showed a smile.

“The usual, about twenty pounds.”

Yang Caiyun glanced at the truck bed with a laugh, and after checking the mushrooms inside which were as fresh as always, she asked casually, “Yang Zi, how come you have so many wild mountain mushrooms?

You wouldn’t actually know how to cultivate them, would you?”

Chen Yang paused for a moment, then nodded quite naturally.

“Yeah, these are all grown by myself, do you not believe it, sis?” Chen Yang asked.

Yang Caiyun made eye contact with Chen Yang for a moment, and seeing his serious gaze, she was greatly surprised.

“No… it’s just a bit hard to believe.

Wild mountain mushrooms are notoriously difficult to cultivate, I didn’t expect you would know how to grow them,” Yang Caiyun said with a slightly unnatural expression.

“Heh, it might be difficult in the eyes of others, but not so much for me,” Chen Yang said with a confident smile, then lifted down the mushrooms.

“Sis, let’s talk inside, it’s really hot out here,” he suggested.

Yang Caiyun looked up at the rising sun and hurriedly nodded.

“Right, let’s talk inside.

You put it down; I’ll get a worker to carry it in.”

Yang Caiyun waved her hand, signalling Chen Yang to put the mushrooms down.

But Chen Yang didn’t listen and instead easily hopped down with a smile, “No worries, I can carry them in on the way, no need to trouble the worker.”

With that, Chen Yang, carrying two baskets of wild mountain mushrooms, walked into the restaurant.

Yang Caiyun followed behind, her heart fluttering as she watched Chen Yang’s tall figure and robust strength.

At the same time, she began to entertain a few small thoughts.

After delivering the wild mountain mushrooms to the restaurant, Chen Yang was eager to settle the account and then go back to prepare for the expansion of the greenhouses.

Yesterday, Kexin made a point of reminding him that Owner Lin and his party would be coming over today.

If he was late, he would probably have to endure another scolding.

Yang Caiyun noticed that Chen Yang wanted to leave quickly, and was immediately displeased.

“What’s been going on these past two days?

Why are you in such a hurry to leave?

Do I have a big tiger here that could eat you up?” Yang Caiyun said with a hint of annoyance.

Chen Yang gave a sheepish laugh, “Haha, no sis, I’ve just got some family matters to deal with urgently.”

But Yang Caiyun’s expression didn’t improve.

“You kid, when there’s nothing going on, you cling on and refuse to leave.

Now that something’s come up, you’re in such a rush to take off,” Yang Caiyun gave him a look, feeling quite dissatisfied inside.

However, she didn’t have any way to keep Chen Yang around.

Chen Yang hadn’t been thinking about that lately, and she couldn’t exactly keep Chen Yang for that, could she?

So, although she felt dissatisfied, she still took out the computer and began to settle Chen Yang’s bill.

Chen Yang definitely knew about Yang Caiyun’s little scheme.

But today he really did have something important to attend to, and he felt bad making Boss Lin and Wu Kexin wait, so he could only pretend not to understand Yang Caiyun’s intentions.

“Haha, sis, I won’t be this busy after a while.

When that time comes, there will be an even larger supply of wild mushrooms, and your little diner here might just make a fortune,” Chen Yang said with a grin.

Yang Caiyun was originally in a rather unhappy mood as she was calculating the bill behind the counter.

But at Chen Yang’s words, she suddenly became interested.

“What?

More wild mushrooms to come?

Don’t tell me you’ve been cultivating wild mushrooms these days?” Yang Caiyun asked in surprise.

Chen Yang nodded firmly, “Yeah, wild mushrooms are so expensive, of course I want to cultivate more.”

Yang Caiyun was secretly shocked, but then immediately smiled and asked in a low voice, “Then, would you mind taking me along to have a look?

I’m quite curious about how you manage to cultivate these wild mushrooms.”

Upon hearing this, Chen Yang fell silent for a moment.

Then he immediately shook his head and jested with a smile, “That won’t do.

The method for cultivating wild mushrooms is my exclusive secret recipe.

If you learned it, how would I make a living in the future?”

Yang Caiyun was startled at his reply, then her face immediately flushed red.

With a red face, she glanced around apprehensively, and after making sure that the employee cleaning the store hadn’t heard, she breathed a sigh of relief.

“You kid, how can you be so brazen?

If others heard this, could I still keep my reputation as the proprietress?” Yang Caiyun glared at Chen Yang and said.

Chen Yang’s face was full of an awkward smile.

“Well, no one heard it, right?”

“Hmph, you stingy brat, just going to look at wild mushrooms and you think I’d steal your secrets.

If cultivating wild mushroom techniques were that easy to steal, they wouldn’t sell for such a high price,” Yang Caiyun’s train of thought shifted abruptly back to the topic of wild mushrooms.

“Haha, don’t take it seriously, sis, I was just joking.

It’s just a bit inconvenient lately.

I’ll invite you over to my place for a visit another time,” replied Chen Yang, still with an awkward smile on his face.

Lately he’d been busy, and Nizi had been in the clinic all the time.

If he took Yang Caiyun back with him now, he surely wouldn’t gain anything from it.

So he thought it’d be better to find a time when nobody was home to take Yang Caiyun back for a visit.

That way, not only could he introduce his wild mushrooms, but he could also create an opportunity to handle a significant personal matter.

As for what Chen Yang was thinking, Yang Caiyun of course had no clue.

But since he put it that way, Yang Caiyun could only nod in agreement.

“Alright then, make sure you send me a message when you’re free.

I’ll come over to your place and see just how these fresh wild mushrooms are grown.”

“Sure.”

Chen Yang nodded, and after the two of them settled the bill,

Chen Yang left the diner, hopped onto his electric trike, and headed back.

Racing the wind, he arrived back in Liuhu Village in less than thirty minutes.

Since he had gotten up early today, it was just past nine-thirty when he got home.

After parking the electric trike in the backyard and seeing no cars in front of the house, Chen Yang heaved a sigh of relief.

“Looks like Boss Lin and the others haven’t arrived yet; otherwise, coming back late would earn me a scolding.”

Chen Yang muttered to himself, charged the electric trike, and then headed to the clinic.