Chapter 166 (continued)

They not only didn't slow down, but they even accelerated as they approached the finish line!

Shi Wen and Zhan Chongyun watched all this nervously from the stands, the horse's lightning-fast silhouette lingering in their eyes.

Closer, closer still.

The sprint to the finish line begins!

Shi Wen clenched his fists tightly, his shout stuck in his throat, but in the end he couldn't let it out.

Just then, the first horse approached the finish line and crossed it.

It was a veteran thoroughbred that had won numerous awards in international competitions.

Following closely behind, Shi Wen's number eleven came in second, just half a body length behind.

Number 8 follows closely behind number 11, ranking third.

The moment the rankings were determined, Zhan Chongyun burst into a shout, "Ah! We won!!"

Shi Wen was almost deafened by the shout, and he turned his head to look.

Zhan Chongyun's face was flushed, his eyes gleamed with excitement, and he flashed a mouthful of white teeth as he shouted.

Seeing Shi Wen turn around, Zhan Chongyun grabbed Shi Wen's arm tightly. "Did you see that? Your horse won! We won!!"

Many people were still cheering and shouting at the scene, and Zhan Chongyun's voice was loud enough to be clearly heard by Shi Wen.

Shi Wen smiled and said, "I saw it, don't get excited."

Zhan Chongyun: "I want to buy your horses! I want to buy all of your horses! One million two hundred thousand it is!"

Shi Wen reminder: "We'll buy them back after they're retired."

Zhan Chongyun: "No problem, as long as you're willing to sell me the horse, anything is fine."

The horses had finished their race, and many people went down to greet the riders. Zhan Chongyun didn't even have time to Shi Wen much to Shi Wen; he simply clenched his fists, cheered, and rushed down to see the horses.

Shi Wen followed slowly behind.

They reached the horse.

Number 8 and Number 11 instantly forgot about the people feeding them water and massaging them, and immediately stretched their big heads over, affectionately rubbing against Shi Wen: "Hissing."

Shi Wen stroked their faces and said, "Well done, you ran fantastic today."

The two horses, perhaps sensing his appreciation from Shi Wen tone, became even more excited, snorting, "Neigh-neigh!"

For their first competition, this is already a very good result. I believe that with training, they can achieve even better results.

Zhan Chongyun had great confidence in Shi Wen's horses and also held him in high esteem.

When the two sides sat down at the negotiating table, Zhan Chongyun made concessions on many terms.

Shi Wen Zhan Chongyun make concessions, Shi Wen also made some concessions.

The talks went very smoothly.

Shi Wen that eleven stallions were sold to Zhan Chongyun for 1.2 million each.

Meanwhile, the stallion's hay was provided by the Shi Family Ranch, Zhan Chongyun would trade several thousand yuan worth of hay with the Shi Family Ranch every week.

After the delivery of these horses was completed, Shi Wen preparations were underway to begin planting corn.

Yan Kexing asked, "Aren't we planting autumn corn this year?"

Shi Wen, "Let's try spring corn first. I heard they're easier to grow. If the spring corn doesn't work out well, we can add autumn corn."

Yan Kexing: "How many acres are those?"

Shi Wen, "Three hundred mu? I feel that two or three hundred mu is the easiest to manage. We can plant it where we used to grow silage corn. There's a water source there, so watering is more convenient and less troublesome."

Yan Kexing had no objections.

The corn they planted this time was still silage variety Number Nine.

In addition to silage corn, Shi Wen also grows some sweet corn and glutinous corn.

Shi Wen's reasoning was simple. "Since we've already planted them, we need to eat some ourselves; corn is delicious."

Yan Kexing: "Plant them, and I'll make you corn pancakes when you harvest them."

Shi Wen exclaimed in surprise, "You can do this too?"

Yan Kexing: "It's not difficult; I learned some of it before."

If you want to eat corn tortillas, local old corn is the best. Although its yield and disease resistance are slightly lower, the taste is much richer and sweeter than corn bought from outside.

Shi Wen specifically asked several of his sisters-in-law for some corn seeds.

He had originally said he was going to get them, Chang Qingqing and the others offered to bring them to him. "We've always taken your seeds and vegetables, now it's finally our turn to give them to you. Take them, we have plenty over there."

Xin Xianghong said, "Ours is genuine old corn. Don't let its appearance fool you; the corn has a wonderful fragrance, and the glutinous corn is chewy yet not hard—it's delicious."

Shi Wen said, "Now that you mention it, I wish I could plant them today and have corn to eat tomorrow."

Xin Xianghong laughed and said, "No, we'll have to wait at least two or three months. Once the corn has grown, you can eat a batch of baby corn first, and then you can start preparing to eat the whole corn."

Shi Wen, "That's good."

Chang Qingqing: "When the corn is ripe, you can go for a walk in the cornfield and eat the corn that ripens first."

Shi Wen, "I understand."

They didn't plant corn last year; the last time they planted corn was the year before.

The corn roots rotted in the ground, turning into fertilizer, making the soil more fertile than in other places.

Last year, the pasture grass growing in the cornfield was very lush and tender, and their pigs, cattle, and sheep often liked to walk over there.

If we want to plant corn again this year, we need to apply a base fertilizer first.

Shi Wen a new pool of fertilizer was specially prepared.

Their family has the most sheep, and the fermented fertilizer is mostly high-quality sheep manure, mixed with some other manure. The fermented fertilizer is black and shiny, and doesn't smell at all.

Shi Wen that the fertilizer spreader was running, spreading the fertilizer evenly in the cornfield, and then a worker came over to plow it again to mix the fertilizer evenly.

The farmhands who plow the fields get two or three jobs from him every year, and they know each other very well.