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"Your vegetables are so productive! Aren't you going to save some more?"

Shi Wen casually remarked, "There will be frost and snow in a few days, so it might not be easy to save them. I've already saved the seeds; if anyone wants some later, I'll give them to you."

As soon as he agreed, everyone responded enthusiastically, expressing their desire for his family's seeds.

Shi Wen, "Then I'll take you to the seed bank to get it later."

After chatting for a few minutes, they picked up their baskets and started working.

People standing on the ground look like ants.

They picked various vegetables and piled them on the ground.

Shi Wen's family had so many vegetables that their baskets were not enough. This time, the harvested vegetables were neatly packed into plastic baskets borrowed from the factory.

Baskets of vegetables were lined up and placed at the edge of the field.

In the distance, golden hay bales lay piled on the withered earth, and greyish-white pigeons flew across the azure sky, occasionally letting out a call or two.

Shi Wen withdrew his gaze and began picking pumpkins.

The pumpkins in his yard were hidden under dark green leaves, one or two with an enticing yellow hue.

This is a local old pumpkin, fragrant, powdery, and sweet, much tastier than pumpkins from other places. It tastes amazing whether steamed with meat or used in soup.

The pumpkin leaves were so lush that Shi Wen took a machete and started cutting down the pumpkin vines while searching for pumpkins of all sizes underneath.

The cut pumpkin vines are piled up where they were. The old vines are left to dry naturally and used for burning in winter. The tender vines are picked again, some of which are sent to feed the pigs, and the rest are stripped of their fibers and dried in the sun to be eaten in winter and spring.

After all the vegetables were picked, apart from those that were sent for washing and processing, the rest were dried in the yard.

Everyone took small stools and sat in the yard, with baskets, cutting boards, and kitchen knives in front of them.

They chopped and picked the various vegetables, turning them into small stalks or pieces, and then took them to the pasture outside to dry.

Shi Wen's family didn't have a big enough drying area, so they could only lay out a plastic sheet and put the vegetables on it to dry.

So many vegetables—winter melon slices, eggplant strips, peppers, bamboo shoots, etc.—were neatly arranged on the withered yellow earth, adding a unique touch to the landscape.

It is only in autumn that such complex and vibrant colors appear.

This time there were a lot of vegetables. After Shi Wen sent all the vegetables for testing and confirmed that there were no problems, he put more than ten kinds of vegetables and dried vegetables on the mini program at once.

The customers were all stunned.

Many people took a closer look and confirmed that the vegetables were produced on his own ranch and not bought from outside, and immediately went into a frenzy of buying.

Tomatoes priced at 82 each, peppers at 130 a box, okra at 180 a small basket... customers bought them like they were free.

Shi Wen was thinking that if the vegetables couldn't be sold out quickly, he would dry some more vegetables.

Unexpectedly, they sold out within two hours of being put on the shelves. Some customers were worried that they wouldn't be able to buy them again, so they bought extra to freeze and eat slowly.

Not only that, but everyone also started a lively discussion in the WeChat group:

The pumpkin was so delicious! I used it to make a diet meal today. I originally planned to make enough for two days, but it was all eaten in one meal.

When will your potatoes be available? I miss them!

[Beans, Brother Shi, I want beans. Do you still have soy products like soy milk and tofu this year?]

This autumn has been so wonderful! So many delicious dishes, I ate them twice in a row. It even gives me the motivation to earn money!

[My goodness, their vegetarian dishes are especially delicious when they're used for a vegetarian feast; I've been eating vegetarian for days on end.]

[Yes! My cousin and her husband wanted to have a vegetarian wedding banquet. They looked for ingredients from many places, but none of them felt quite right. They finally found ingredients from his ranch, and that solved the problem. It's also great that they didn't have any purchase limits this time.]

Shi Wen at the WeChat group, but felt there was nothing he needed to do, so he just looked at it and didn't chat.

However, seeing so many people praising the vegetables from his ranch, Shi Wen felt quite accomplished.

His ranch is really doing well.

Even worldwide, it would be hard to find a better ranch than his.

This year's harvest is bountiful, and Shi Wen and Yan Kexing plan to invite Gong Jiang and the other two over for dinner.

They used to come and help quite often in the spring and summer, but as they got busier and the little ones on the ranch got smarter, they gradually stopped coming to the ranch.

Now that the harvest is plentiful, Shi Wen remember their kindness and want to invite them over for a celebratory meal.

The ranch had so many ingredients that Shi Wen kept drafting a menu, and finally decided to treat them to hot pot.

Eating hot pot is quite simple; everyone just needs to put their favorite foods into the pot, which caters to everyone's taste.

On the day of the formal meal, Ge Yue and his group arrived very early.

They also brought Shi Wen several paintings as gifts.

Gong Jiang: "Brother Shi, you have everything you need, and we don't have much to give you, so we'll just give you a few paintings. They depict scenes from the ranch in spring, summer, autumn, and winter; we painted them ourselves."

Shi Wen was surprised by their thoughtfulness. She took the framed painting and looked at it carefully. "It's beautifully painted. You all have so many talents."

Ge Yue laughed and said, "When I wanted to learn before, I asked my senior brothers to come with me, and we all learned together. We mainly drew the pasture in our hearts."

Lin Chengqian nodded. "Yes, yes, yes, mainly because our feelings are all in it."

Shi Wen carefully put the paintings away, saying, "I'll find a good place to hang them up tomorrow and decorate our ranch nicely."

After setting up the painting, Shi Wen called them over to the dining room for lunch, "It's almost ready, just wash your hands and you can eat."

Yan Kexing, dressed casually with an apron around his neck, was stirring the broth in a wok and had already reached the step of adding fermented glutinous rice to the hot pot broth.

Ge Yue took a deep breath. "It smells so good! What brand of hot pot base is this?"