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Chapter 268: Greed Knows No Bounds
Chapter 268: Greed Knows No Bounds
Yang Liping really couldn't believe what she was seeing.
The Liyuan Farm livestream showed a huge banner.
It read: "Celebrating the First Harvest of Whitening Sweet Potatoes!"
The surprise Liyuan Farm had promised was actually the first harvest of whitening sweet potatoes.
She had been waiting for the whitening sweet potatoes to mature and be harvested all along.
No one had expected the surprise to come so suddenly.
It was just as Liyuan Farm had advertised, truly a surprise.
"Ping, what's wrong?" her best friend asked, puzzled.
Yang Liping quickly said, "Quick, look at the Liyuan Farm livestream. The whitening sweet potatoes are finally ripe."
"What? Really?" Her friend couldn't believe it either. She grabbed her phone, logged into Douyin, and opened the Liyuan Farm livestream, where she saw the banner.
She exclaimed, "It's really true."
"Doesn't that mean we can buy the whitening sweet potatoes soon?" Yang Liping said excitedly, her heart beginning to tremble.
They had been waiting for this for a long time.
One of their friends had already bought whitening sweet potatoes, and in just a week, their skin had become very fair, and their appearance had improved significantly.
It wasn't just the two of them; countless people online had also tuned into Liyuan Farm's livestream and saw the banner celebrating the first harvest of whitening sweet potatoes.
Many people online were also following the progress of the whitening sweet potatoes.
Among Liyuan Farm's 20 million followers, at least a few million were female fans specifically waiting for the whitening sweet potatoes.
They had been eagerly anticipating the harvest.
The news spread quickly, causing a sensation online.
Xinlin Village was now bustling with activity.
With the arrival of Liyuan Farm's team and the start of the livestream, Liu Xian and Wei Yuan, along with the county officials and Xinlin Village's village cadres, came out to greet them.
"President Zhang, President Lin, we've been waiting for you," Liu Xian said with a smile.
Wei Yuan added, "President Zhang, we've been waiting for you to arrive so we can start the ceremony."
Zhang Lin smiled and walked into the village.
The ceremony for the first harvest of whitening sweet potatoes was held in the center of Xinlin Village.
The handover also took place there.
The villagers of Xinlin Village would dig up the whitening sweet potatoes, weigh them, and have the county officials record the weight before handing them over to Liyuan Farm.
After Liyuan Farm sold the whitening sweet potatoes, 40% of the profit would be distributed to the villagers who planted them.
The cultivation of whitening sweet potatoes was initially aimed at helping poor households. The 8 poor households in Xinlin Village who planted the whitening sweet potatoes were eagerly awaiting the sale, as they would become richer as a result.
This is why Liyuan Farm received praise in the People's Daily for this profit-sharing arrangement.
The ceremony was quite simple, mainly for show. It involved speeches by county officials, Liyuan Farm representatives, and a farmer representative.
The speeches were all about praising the good deeds and were recorded by cameras for news reports or video records for leaders to see.
Naturally, Liyuan Farm's livestream captured all of this, and the hundreds of thousands of viewers in the livestream could see it.
Indeed, the number of viewers in Liyuan Farm's livestream quickly reached several hundred thousand.
All of them were there for the whitening sweet potatoes.
After learning about the harvest, they now wanted to know when they could buy the whitening sweet potatoes.
As for the price, Liyuan Farm sold a few batches every day, so the price would remain stable.
After the ceremony, Wei Yuan began organizing people to head to the fields to start digging up the whitening sweet potatoes.
Since there were 8 families, each with 5 acres of land, the harvest would take some time and wouldn't be completed by the morning.
Even so, by mid-morning, a large pile of whitening sweet potatoes had already been gathered in the center of the village.
The people from the Agriculture Bureau had already started weighing and recording the harvest.
As expected, one acre of land could produce 1,000 pounds of whitening sweet potatoes.
At 200 yuan per pound, the yield from five acres of land would allow each family to earn a profit of over 250,000 yuan.
Considering this was just a single quarter's planting, the profit was absolutely the highest for ordinary families in Youcheng.
Moreover, even if the land was left to rest for the rest of the year and they couldn’t plant again, they could still earn a significant amount by doing other things. Diligent families could definitely earn over 300,000 yuan a year.
In a county, a family earning 300,000 yuan a year was a significant achievement—enough to make everyone envious.
It was no wonder that the farmers were all beaming with joy.
At noon, the village committee had prepared a sumptuous farmhouse meal to entertain the people from the county and Liyuan Farm.
The eight farming families, their faces full of excitement, toasted the county officials and Liyuan Farm personnel one after another.
Linyuan Bin was one of them.
He had originally been a poor household in the village, with no education and no skills other than farming.
But in today's society, farming alone was not profitable.
Growing cash crops required a significant investment.
If he had the capital, he wouldn’t have been classified as a poor household.
Fortunately, the special planting cooperation project from Liyuan Farm appeared, and he performed well enough to become one of the participating farmers, receiving a five-acre planting quota.
Now, with the whitening sweet potatoes mature, he was about to make a substantial amount of money. He could use it to renovate the old house in the village, buy things for his wife and daughter, and improve their living conditions.
So, he was very grateful to Liyuan Farm.
Without the opportunity they provided, he wouldn’t have had the chance to earn so much money.
He was now waiting for Liyuan Farm to sell the whitening sweet potatoes and distribute the profits.
At noon, Linyuan Bin drank quite a bit. After the Liyuan Farm people left and the county officials responsible for recording the harvest went to rest, he returned home, planning to take a good nap and then continue harvesting the whitening sweet potatoes in the afternoon.
However, shortly after he arrived home, he found that a few people had come to see him.
They were all from the families who had received planting quotas, which made him very puzzled.
Why weren’t they resting and preparing to continue harvesting in the afternoon? What were they doing at his place?
“Linyuan Bin, don’t sleep. We need to discuss something,” one of them said straightforwardly.
“What’s the matter?” Linyuan Bin asked, puzzled.
Another person immediately said, “We just had a meeting, and something doesn’t seem right. You see, the land is ours, the sweet potatoes are grown by us, and Liyuan Farm only provided some seedlings. But when the whitening sweet potatoes mature, we only get 40% of the profit, while Liyuan Farm, which does nothing, takes 60% of the profit.”
Another person added, “That’s true. We work so hard, sweating under the sun every day, and this just doesn’t seem fair.”
“Exactly, even if we got 60%, I wouldn’t have any complaints. But this really feels unfair,” someone else chimed in.
“Actually, there’s a more reasonable way. Liyuan Farm could provide the seedlings, and we could buy them at market price. Why do we need this cooperative arrangement?”
“This is just sucking our blood.”
Linyuan Bin’s brow furrowed as he listened to these words.
He felt that they had a point.
(End of Chapter)
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