Chapter 141

As long as you don't take a big bite at once, but eat it slowly in small bites, it tastes pretty good.

Shi Wen took another bite, looked at the apple tree, and began to ponder.

The little guys huddled together, nudging Shi Wen and Yan Kexing's hands with their heads, wanting the two to pick apples for them.

Shi Wen picked out a few relatively intact ones for them to try.

They all kept eating it, complaining that it was too sour.

Only the brown cattle didn't mind the sourness, and they happily gnawed on the pieces one after another.

Shi Wen patted the brown ox's head.

Fortunately, the fruit on the tree was relatively sour, but some of the apples that had fallen to the ground were quite sweet.

Shi Wen he turned to Yan Kexing and asked, "Shall we pick some up and take them home to eat?"

Yan Kexing: "Do you want some?"

Shi Wen, "They should be able to eat it. If not, cut it up and give it to the little ones."

Yan Kexing laughed, "Then take some back with you."

Shi Wen took two large plastic bags out of his backpack, gave one to Yan Kexing, and took one for himself.

They specifically picked apples that were in relatively good condition, and if the apples on the ground were not rotten, they also picked them up and put them in bags.

These apple trees must have grown quite well when they were being tended to. Now that no one is taking care of them, they've still produced a lot of fruit, and apart from being a bit sour and small, they're pretty good.

Shi Wen I'm planning to ask around in a couple of days who owns these fruit trees, and if anyone still wants them.

If nobody wants it, they'll prune the branches, add some manure, and next year's fruit harvest will definitely be good.

Carrying so many apples is really tiring.

Shi Wen beckoned Shi Suo over and tied two bags of apples to it.

Shi Suo had no objections, but while carrying the apples on his back, he turned his head, wanting to pick up an apple and eat it.

Shi Suo's neck is quite stiff, making it a bit difficult for him to turn his head directly to grab the apple on his back and eat it.

Seeing this, Yan Shi cleverly ran over and gave Shi Suo an apple.

Shi Suo took the apple from its mouth and leisurely ate it slowly.

When Yan Shi and Shi Suo started eating, Yan Shi also picked up an apple and slowly savored it— Shi Suo bribed, Shi Suo had no objection to Yan Shi picking up the apple.

Shi Wen, watching this scene from the side, couldn't help but laugh and say, "What a clever little devil."

Yan Kexing smiled and gently patted Yan Shi's neck.

Shi Wen, "I didn't expect these herbivores to like apples so much. I'll take a bag to the Pegasus later."

Yan Kexing: "Let's share some more with the cows."

Shi Wen, "How about we bring a big bag over tomorrow and pick all these apples—no, we should ask if these apples have owners first."

Yan Kexing: "They should be unclaimed. Otherwise, with so many apples here, the owner would surely come and tend to them."

Shi Wen, "That's not necessarily true. Before, when nobody wanted them, the owner of the apple tree probably thought these apples were too sour and was too lazy to come and deal with them, so he asked us to come and pick the apples ourselves. Then the owner would have something to say."

Yan Kexing: "Then go and find out."

Shi Wen pulled his phone out of his pocket. "Okay, I'll ask in the group now and see if anyone knows."

Chapter 141

Rumors circulated widely that the Shi Wen family had incorporated the two back mountains into the ranch, but no one asked him to confirm it.

Now he's asking in the group chat whose apple trees on the back hill belong to, and everyone's asking the same question:

[Shi Wen your family really did lease out two mountains?]

Wow, how big is your ranch? It must be over 10,000 mu (approximately 667 hectares)!

[Apples? There are apple trees on these two hills? I've grazed my livestock there so many times, and I never noticed.]

[It seems to belong to Azhebieke's family, but they've emigrated abroad, so it's probably unclaimed now, right?]

Dozens of messages popped up in a single scroll.

Finally, Fu Meng came out and gave the accurate answer: [It's Azhebieke's family. They used to have a large area of apple trees, but they sold all the good ones and kept the bad ones.]

Is that even possible?

Shi Wen, with an apple in his mouth, privately messaged Fu Meng: "[Can the apple tree still be sold?]"

Fu Meng: [Yes, apple trees can live up to fifty years. They sold them after only a few years.]

Shi Wen turned the phone to show Yan Kexing: "Brother Fu said these apple trees are ownerless, so they belong to us from now on, right?"

Yan Kexing: "It should be. Didn't you say before that you wanted to hire someone to put up barbed wire on the ranch? By the way, do you have any suggestions, Fu Meng?"

"Okay." It was inconvenient to type with the apple in his Shi Wen, so he took it out, looked around, and wondered which little guy to give it to.

Seeing this, Yan Kexing took the apple from his hand. "I'll eat it, you go and chat."

Shi Wen looked down and continued typing.

Shi Wen told Fu Meng that they were going to put up barbed wire: [It's not so much to keep people out, but mainly to keep animals out. There are just too many animals in this area; it's bad for both the animals and the ranch if they come in.]

Fu Meng: [I understand, who doesn't have barbed wire fencing?]

Fu Meng: [How do you plan to install the wire mesh around your yard? I noticed the old wire mesh on the ranch is getting a bit old; should we replace it as well?]

Shi Wen: [We might only replace the older section, but the workload is a bit too large, and we haven't decided yet whether to complete it all at once.]

Fu Meng: [This is all money, too.]

After chatting for a while, Fu Meng said that it was relatively easy to find people now that it was autumn, unlike the busy spring and summer. There was still a good supply of people to do short-term jobs.

As he spoke, Fu Meng also recommended a few people to them.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing discussed it briefly and decided to arrange the job first.

Since the ranch will have to be fenced off sooner or later anyway, there's no point in dragging it out any longer, so we might as well get the work done all at once.

Shi Wen people asking if Fu Meng is free, and if he'd like me to help arrange for him to be the chief engineer.