It's April, and the strawberries at Xianyuan Farm are about to enter the ripening period.

The area of strawberries sown by Zeng Cheng on the farm was not small, 200 acres, accounting for one-twelfth of the farm's dry land area.

Because of the watering of the spiritual energy spring, coupled with good management and fertilization, the strawberries grow very well, although they are worse than the strawberries that Zeng Cheng planted in the Baicao Space, but Zeng Cheng estimates that the yield of these strawberries is still twice as high as that of ordinary strawberries. With these two hundred acres of strawberries, the output will definitely exceed 600 tons.

Strawberries are a shelf-stable product, so they basically need to be sold in April. Fortunately, there are many sales channels for Xianyuan Farm products, which can not only be sold in Yuemei Hotel, but also in Xianyuan Supermarket.

After a few months of development, Xianyuan Supermarket has opened to Xichuan, and there are now a total of 12 supermarkets in Yudu and Xichuan. As of the end of March, more than 20 branches have been opened in Yudu and Xichuan. With so many hotels and supermarkets selling channels, there is not much pressure to sell 600 tons of strawberries.

However, in order to enrich the means of strawberry sales and increase profits, Senyuan Agricultural Products carried out strawberry picking activities under the mention of Gong Yuan. Those who are wealthy in the vicinity of Shicheng, or those who are interested, can drive to Qinglong Village, enter the designated strawberry shed, pick strawberries themselves, and sell the strawberries to customers at a certain price. However, for the time being, this activity is only available to Silver and Gold members of Xianyuan Company, and ordinary members and non-members are not entitled to this privilege.

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On the afternoon of Wednesday, April 4, Zeng Min and Zeng Hui rushed back to Qinglong Village with their families, because the next day was the Qingming Festival, and the Zeng family was going to hold a tomb sweeping ceremony to worship their ancestors.

In the past, although the two sisters would also go home to worship their deceased elders, it would not be so solemn. This is all because the Zeng family is not what it used to be, and many conditions that were not available before are now available, and it is natural to attach more importance to such traditional festivals. This traditional practice, which has been followed for thousands of years, allows people to clearly understand where their roots are.

Because of the Qingming Festival, Zeng Cheng also announced that Xianyuan Farm, Xianyuan Agricultural Products and Xianyuan Barbecue and other units would have a three-day holiday, so that employees could go home to sweep the graves. Some employees who are far away from their hometowns have been given longer vacations, which is also part of the humane management of Xianyuan.

Of course, farms, supermarkets and barbecue restaurants that are suitable for people need to work hard and take turns to ensure normal operation.

On April 5th, Qingming Festival, Zeng Cheng got up early and prepared for today's sacrifice with his parents and two sisters. There are many deceased seniors who need to worship today, and there are many places that need to be run up and down.

What's more, these need to be done in the morning, and in the afternoon, the family has to hold an ancestor worship ceremony at home together, and then have a dinner, so the schedule is very tight.

However, fortunately, now not only Zeng Cheng has a car, but even the two sisters, because the business of Zeng's barbecue restaurant has been very good in recent months, and they have also made a lot of money, and they have bought cars, so it is convenient to travel.

However, the action of the three sisters of the Zeng family who drove together to worship their deceased predecessors caused quite a stir. Everyone sighed that the old Zeng family is really out of the woods, and the younger generations are all promising.

After tossing for most of the day, and finally finished worshipping the ancestors of both parents, Zeng Cheng and others began to go home and prepare for the dinner.

There is great power in many people, and it is easy to do things in many people. In addition to a few little ones playing in the yard, including the three sisters Zeng Cheng and two brothers-in-law, everyone went into battle to prepare for the dinner together. It was Zeng Cheng's parents who were driven by Zeng Cheng and them to play with the three little ones in the yard.

Because Zeng Cheng has been studying cooking skills recently, as a new chef, he naturally can't escape the fate of being in charge of the cooking himself, he picks up the big spoon and makes today's hot dishes in the kitchen.

First of all, braised carp, how to make zuò in a limited time to produce a perfect and beautiful braised fish is not an easy task for beginners.

However, Zeng Cheng is now a cultivator after all, and his learning ability is needless to say, and even his operation ability has been greatly improved.

An Rong killed about three catties of big carp fished out of Qinglong Lake on the side, cleaned it and put it in a hot oil pot to fry, until the surface was golden and then put it in a boiling sauce pot and simmered.

Five minutes later, the carp that has been flavored is taken out of the sauce pot and turned on a turntable, drizzled with hot sauce and sprinkled with chopped green onions, and a delicious and fragrant red braised carp is ready to be served.

Subsequently, Zeng Cheng made husband and wife lung slices, kung pao chicken, back to the pot meat, and a few vegetarian dishes, plus the sour radish and duck soup that had been stewed before, and Dongpo elbow, in less than half an hour, a table of sumptuous dishes has been prepared. The whole family sat together and enjoyed the food.

On the second day of the Qingming Festival, the eldest sister and the second sister did not return to the city immediately. Now that the barbecue restaurant is on the right track, they have no problem not going to the restaurant for a short time. They haven't been home for more than a month, and they just take the opportunity of this Qingming Festival to spend more time with their parents at home.

On this day, after breakfast, Zeng Cheng decided to take a few nephews to the strawberry greenhouse to see how the strawberries were ripe.

When he heard that he was going to pick strawberries in the strawberry field, he immediately made several nephews excited.

When Zeng Cheng and his entourage passed by the hatchery, when a new batch of chicks and ducks came out of the shell, the cries of thousands of chicks and ducklings gathered together, and it was also very powerful.

When Zeng Cheng and his entourage came to the gate of the farm, they also entered the disinfection room like everyone else, and removed some dust, germs, and so on from their bodies. This is also a table of increasingly strict farm management, in order to avoid the impact of various germs and plagues on the farm, all people entering and leaving the farm must strictly abide by it.

After entering the farm, Zeng Cheng first inspected several small lakes nearby to see how the newly introduced salmon and other valuable fish species were living.

Of course, the most important thing that Zeng Cheng inspected was the hairy crab farm at Xianyuan Farm, which would be a very important source of income for the farm.

After Su Yuemei, the woman, heard about the fish that Zeng Cheng was breeding in the pond, she asked him why he didn't try to breed hairy crabs since he even raised saury. Zeng Cheng thought about it, and then he sent someone to Su Province and bought a million hairy crab seedlings back.

Judging from the situation for more than half a month, with the help of the aura spring water, these Chinese mitten crabs that originally lived in the Jiangnan area did not show any discomfort, and their growth rate was extremely fast, and their life characteristics were good.

Now, looking at the small buckle crab surging in the shallow water, Zeng Cheng had already thought of the red steamed hairy crab in autumn, and his saliva flowed out.

"Uncle, why can't you see the big crab?" An Li lay on the shore, looking at the small crab that was only the size of a fingernail, a little confused. The little guy remembers that he cooked a big red crab at home, and it was delicious.

"Like Lili, these crabs are still small. But when they grow up, they will be big crabs!" Zeng Cheng said with a smile, then picked up the little guy and continued to move in the direction of the strawberry farm.

Compared to when it was first built, Xianyuan Farm is now gradually becoming larger, with chicken coops looming in the fields, duck sheds by the creek, and workers trying to take care of these hungry guys who are chattering all day long.

Today, the entire farm ground is no longer bare ground, and the ever-spreading and expanding pasture grass can not only provide a lot of business for the chickens and ducks, but also beautify the scenery of the farm.

As soon as the current Xianyuan Farm progresses smoothly, it is waiting for a large amount of output to provide Zeng Cheng with a steady stream of income.

When Zeng Cheng rushed to the strawberry field with the three little guys, he found that there were already many figures busy in the strawberry field. Among these busy figures, there are not only farm workers, but also customers who come to experience the joy of picking.

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Just as Zeng Cheng and them were rushing to the strawberry farm, a Mercedes-Benz car was also driving on the road from Shicheng to Jiuli Township. Today, 80 percent of the more than 40 kilometers of the road have been reconstructed, and the driving speed is much faster.

The driver was a young man in his thirties, and while he was driving, he was talking to two women, one big and one small, sitting in the back seat from time to time. The two people in the back row, one is a twenty-seven or eighteen-year-old beautiful young woman, and the other is a little Lori who looks like a third or four-year-old. Needless to say, there is a family of three in this car. If Zeng Cheng was here, he would find that these two women, one big and one young, were the mother and daughter he met last summer when he was selling vegetables at a stall outside the family courtyard of the district government.

The beautiful young woman's name is Wu Yue, next to her is her daughter Liu Yingying, and her husband Liu Haohong is driving. His family is also a big family in Shicheng, and he has been in the tea business for several lifetimes, and now he is the largest tea merchant in Shicheng. After graduating from university, he returned to Shicheng to inherit the family business and served as the company's deputy general manager. This time, I happened to have a successful business in hand, and I was about to relax. But I heard from my wife that Xianyuan Company provided strawberry picking activities for VIP members, so I decided to participate in it.

It turned out that Wu Yue had become a staunch fan of Xianyuan Supermarket since he first tasted the watermelon sold by Zeng Cheng last summer, and had been buying vegetables at Xianyuan Supermarket. Later, Xianyuan Company launched a membership card, and she was one of the first to become a silver member, and even the first to become a gold member. In the past six months, the amount of money their family has spent in Xianyuan Supermarket and Zeng's barbecue restaurant has exceeded one million. (To be continued.) )