Transmigrated as A Farm Girl Making Her Family Rich-Chapter 149 - 148 Over a Year Passed

Chapter 149: Chapter 148 Over a Year Passed

County Magistrate Meng eventually found out, keeping tabs on every slight movement within his jurisdiction, and he consulted Mrs. Meng.

Knowing it was his own daughter’s doing, County Magistrate Meng was at a loss. A little over a year ago, his only three-year-old daughter had started making money. Was this a good or a bad thing?

As a parent and an official who knew the law, there seemed to be a loophole here. If others copied her idea, it couldn’t technically be called imitation since there was no legal provision for trademarks – they were merely a merchant’s name.

The products that were produced couldn’t sell the original, and if someone imitated or produced high-quality counterfeits, they couldn’t sue.

As an official, he knew that knowingly breaking the law was not acceptable. He couldn’t stop what his daughter had been doing previously through ignorance, but now that he knew, he would definitely prevent her from imitating others.

Under the dual pressure from her parents, Meng Zhaojun’s inspiration faded even further, and with the factory boss urging her for new designs, she became gaunt and thinner.

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The Ye family had now moved into a new house, which was built from scratch on purchased land, with green tiles and large bricks, containing many rooms, and they had already employed long-term workers to help out.

The Ye family not only built houses on the land they bought but also farmed vegetables and fruits.

They had become one of Bushen Village’s landlords, the largest in the village.

Hongji, the young factory owner, had bought the land deeds for those properties.

There had been significant changes in Bushen Village over the past year. The lazy men who had nothing to do saw that the diligent ones were able to build small new houses, and so they started to work hard.

Those who worked in the factories now had a stable income, moving from apprentices to full-time workers, and managed to earn a little money for their families.

Families with several members working in factories had earned quite a sum of money over the year, enough to add rooms for the sons’ new houses, which was perfect timing with the money at hand.

The changes in the Ye family were the greatest amid everyone else’s transformations. Ye Shuzhi had gotten married, to the son of a small business owner in town, but she did so with the support of a considerable dowry.

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Supported by her dowry, her husband thought of opening another shop to make money, and the couple rented another storefront to run their business, which, if not wildly successful, was at least stable enough to provide their meals. On top of that, she was already five months pregnant.

Ye Shuzhen had also gotten engaged, planning to marry in August. Her husband-to-be was the son of the Tang Family Store’s Shopkeeper, with decent looks and a knack for business.

Ye Shuying’s husband, Ye Senhai, acted as the site foreman in the construction of the factory a year ago. Later, he didn’t want to become an apprentice in the factory, so he formed a team during his time as foreman, establishing a small construction crew that took jobs within the county.

He took on tasks from the Tang Family as well as from his father-in-law. With so many people in the village building houses over the year, his services became so sought after that he could barely keep up.

The brothers, after making money, naturally wanted to build an extra house for the younger one to get married. Having only their old mother at home, the brothers didn’t think of splitting the family, so they added a room in the family yard to serve as the younger brother’s new house, leading to a cozy and thriving life.

Mrs. Li had resigned from her job as a wet nurse a year earlier to return home and focus on her husband and children. Last year, she fell pregnant again and gave birth to a chubby son two months ago.

The grandfather, who had never bothered to name his granddaughter, chose a name for his grandson, “Ye Wenjie.” The old man believed that the character for “copper coins” could lead to success—Wenjie, meaning one who is both learned and martial.

Mrs. Lai, initially furious at being unable to handle the money her son kept bringing in, gradually calmed down when he built a large house for the family and her daughter-in-law became pregnant. Hoping for a grandson, she started treating her daughter-in-law better.

After ten months of pregnancy, the family’s expectations were finally met with the birth of an eight-pound baby boy.

With money in the house and a grandson to boast, Mrs. Lai and her husband felt like they were walking taller, striding through the village with limitless pride.

With long-term workers taking care of the labor, the couple had more free time; Mrs. Lai took on the demeanor of an Old Dowager landlord, directing the workers in their tasks.

Hongji’s father couldn’t sit idle. Abiding by the principle of doing as much as one can, he felt it was his fate to toil. Even as a landlord’s Old Master, he couldn’t stay idle and would move his hands and feet daily, practicing his craft.

In a little over a year, Hongji’s five daughters grew. The eldest daughter, now ten, was developing into a slender beauty.

The younger daughters were also growing up. With the family’s circumstances improved, the three sisters, who previously toiled miserably, now only worked occasionally.

The family bought more hills and paddy fields, starting to plant fruits and vegetables. The most restless was the youngest, Ye Shiqi, who would go to the fruit and vegetable plots every two or three days.

The Ye family’s fields were quite different from others; whether fruits or vegetables, theirs were much tastier, a puzzle to the villagers.

When someone succeeds, others often follow. Landowners previously only needed to grow rice, and if there were no vegetables, they’d pick wild greens.

Ever since buyers started coming to the Ye family for fruits and vegetables, seeing the family’s growing wealth made others envious. Wealthy landlords and even smallholders followed suit in planting fruits and vegetables.

But their results were somewhat disappointing. While their fruits and vegetables sold well, and vegetables were sold in batches, it appeared that vegetable prices weren’t high.

With a large volume collected daily, some people crunched the figures and found they had recouped the money for the land within a year and were already making a profit.

Fruit and vegetable farming became popular in Bushen Village and even spread to the neighboring hamlets.

The Tang Family established a wholesale store for fruits and vegetables, aiming to market them nationwide.

No matter how hard others tried, the produce they grew never tasted as good as that of the Ye family.

Inns and restaurants in nearby counties, aware of the secret, would place their vegetable orders with the Ye family.

After more than a year, not only could Ye Shiqi speak and walk, but seeing her mother return, she longed to not have to share a single room with so many sisters.

She suggested to her parents to buy land and grow fruits and vegetables.

Mrs. Li, being a woman of the house, how could she take her youngest daughter’s words seriously?

She thought the little girl’s ideas were fanciful; with money to buy land, of course, they should plant crops. Can fruits and vegetables sell well?

Every household grows some vegetables. Their small county doesn’t have high sales volume, so could they really make money?

Growing grain, on the other hand, was different; its price would never fall.

Hongji, as a father, had taken to heart his daughter’s quiet suggestions for making money. Each hint and idea from his daughter was fully embraced by the doting dad.

Between the money from selling honey and from setting up a factory to work in, they could buy over a dozen acres of land. Ignoring his parents’ advice and with help from the village chief, he bought more than a dozen acres around a small hill, creating an estate.

They enclosed the paddy fields and hillside, planting rice and vegetables in the wet fields, and citrus, honey pomelo, and seasonal fruits on the hillside, even raising chickens and ducks under the trees.

With so much land, they needed to hire workers. Those unable to find factory work, particularly the middle-aged and older folks, now had long-term work to do.