I Got Rich in Period Fiction-Chapter 540 - 534 Annoying People

Zhou Ruoruo stared openly at several peers playing together, also glaring intermittently at Qiao Qingyu.

If the child were as young as Jiao Jiao, Qiao Qingyu would have picked her up and reprimanded her.

Even if she didn’t grasp the deeper morals, surely if Qiao Qingyu told her ten times, one would sink in, right? However, with this little girl, Qiao Qingyu really felt helpless.

She only listened to what she wanted, pursued only what she desired.

Moreover, living next door, if you appeased her with laughter and softness, that was normal, but if you were ever stern with her, she would stamp her feet and instantly burst into tears, dashing into the house before you could react, all the while crying out, "Mommy, Mommy, someone is bullying me..."

Such scenes hardly required envisioning; they always happened.

Qiao Qingyu turned away, pretending not to see the child as she returned to her own home.

Standing at the Zhou Family’s doorway, Zhou Ruoruo bit her lip and glared at the tightly shut door of the He Family, tears streaming down her face.

Hateful, hateful, all just a bunch of bullies.

Zhou Ruoruo, spoiled from a young age, found everyone at the Tenghai Research Base utterly detestable.

She slammed her own front door with force; even Qiao Qingyu inside her house heard it and couldn’t help frowning.

However, this was Zhou Hai and Liu Ying’s child, a darling beloved in their eyes no matter her antics, so if she spoke out of turn, it would indeed be disagreeable.

Wu Qianyun also frowned but being a person who always practiced kindness, she suggested to Qiao Qingyu, "Should we talk to Rongrong about possibly including Ruoruo when they go out to play? Sometimes it’s really pitiful seeing her all alone at the door."

Qiao Qingyu replied seriously, "Mom, you can discuss this with me, but please don’t mention it to Rongrong."

"I know, I’m not foolish, Mom. Such things can’t be discussed in front of the children." That was He Xiuyu’s niece, after all, testing human nature like that really wasn’t acceptable; relationships weren’t easily clarified through sincerity alone.

"It’s true what they say— even an honest official finds it hard to settle family disputes."

Wu Qianyun sighed again, "Both her parents are educated and respectable, yet their parenting lacks somewhat."

"Mom, children nowadays have strong personalities. Some parents focus on their children making friends, others let things take their course, unlike in our time when we’d gather at the village entrance, a whole bunch of kids, sometimes ten or even twenty, could all play together..."

While the mother and daughter were talking, the phone in the study suddenly rang. Qiao Qingyu set down her work to answer it, only to find out that the person on the line was the manager from Gelle State, who had arrived at the Agricultural Base with two trucks.

Both trucks were fully loaded with jujube fruits.

These weren’t purchases by the base, but gifts from Gelle State.

The manager had asked for Qiao Qingyu, and by the time she arrived, a truckload of the jujube fruits had already been unloaded. These two trucks were to be loaded with sea buckthorn seedlings sold to them by the seed base.

These sea buckthorn seedlings, cultivated over four years by Professor Feng and his research team, differed from the local wild and cultivated types.

In Gelle State, some of the sea buckthorn trees were wild; now, they were gradually being replaced by seedlings from the Space Laboratory for cultivated ones, as for the wild ones, Professor Feng suggested leaving them untouched for future research and experimentation.

For Gelle State, these two years had seen no profits, only investments.

Fortunately, the laboring people are the simplest; almost all who could be mobilized had been, with farmers as the primary labor force cultivating these sea buckthorn trees and barley grass, bearing the brunt of the effort.

Labor is free, but other ensuing costs still require substantial financial expenditure.

Just the relief grain alone causes many sleepless nights for those in charge every year.

Fortunately, eighty percent of the expenses are offset by the coal produced locally.

Encouragingly, Gelle State has now reached a green area of five hundred thousand acres, and some farmers have started raising cattle and sheep.

The economic benefits are evident, as the wool processing factory affiliated with the wool mills extensively purchases the wool.

Anything available here is bought.

Thus, it appears that good times are approaching.

The comrades working in Gelle State are not just there for training, they are truly committed to making a difference.

Last year, a region had a bumper crop of dates, and the first thought of the person in charge was to give back to the Tenghai Research Base, so when they came to get sea buckthorn seedlings, they brought two truckloads of big red dates, including some juicy small-pit gray dates that were especially delicious.

These are indeed great goods, and Qiao Qingyu gladly accepted them, but also gifted them with special grade goji berries and red date seedlings produced by the Space Laboratory.

This was also a result of the collaboration between Qiao Qingyu and Professor Feng.

Currently, the Agricultural Group’s farms, including the experimental base, cover nearly ten thousand acres of usable land.

On it thrive a variety of vegetable and fruit seedlings and barley grass suitable for most areas in the Northwest.

They arrived in two trucks and, when leaving, the base sent out two more trucks filled with seedlings over ten centimeters tall.

One by one, various regions have taken away the seedlings, fruit seedlings, and barley grass seeds they needed.

With this, external sales were concluded for the time being, though occasionally, other regions would still come here seeking to purchase seeds and seedlings.

Planting trees is truly never too late, but of course, spring is the best season, though planting trees in winter also shows good results, which has now become another focus for Professor Feng together with Qiao Qingyu and two other graduate students.

In the past two years, the development of the Qiao Family Team in North City has been very smooth, it must be said that the Qiao Family Team has indeed become a high-quality breeding base for northern rice.

Of course, relying solely on rice seeds, it’s unrealistic for these farmers to become very wealthy, even with subsidies there’s not enough to go around, they must rely on other industries.

Because there’s a pig farm, a meat alliance factory was also established.

By hiring some experienced butchers who not only slaughter pigs but also process meat products like sausages, and through leadership connections, this place has become another processing point for red sausages.

So, construction has also started in Xiao Kang Village.

The provincial city felt it absolutely necessary to establish this as a model base, to turn it into a flagship, and proceed according to the plan.

As a result, the morale of the Qiao Family Team is now more united and active than ever before.

Following the principles of fairness, justice, and transparency, they held a public tender for rural villas, and surprisingly, Uncle Li’s construction crew smoothly secured the contract.

Qiao Zhihai was down for a while, watching his parents decline day by day, but he rallied and joined Li Tie’s construction crew again, and Li Tie certainly welcomed him.