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After Wang An finished speaking, Wu Dong said with a big smile:
“One greenhouse weighs over 300 jin, and you have a total of 7 greenhouses, right? That's over 2,100 jin.”

Wang An quickly interrupted:
"Stop, stop, stop, Brother Wu, we don't have that much. We have to set aside some of our spinach for our own consumption. We'll only sell a hundred or two hundred catties at most. We're not going to sell it all."

When everyone was planting in greenhouses, Wang An suggested to his relatives that they plant spinach, rapeseed, and leeks, but in fact, Wang An's greenhouses were not included in that category.

Because Wang Dazhu and his wife strongly agreed with Wang An's point of view: the priority should be to grow vegetables for their own consumption, and then they should consider selling them. After all, they weren't short of money from selling vegetables, so they might as well let the vegetables go directly to the dinner table and add a few more dishes to the meal.

Therefore, Wang An's greenhouse grows a wide variety of vegetables. In addition to chives, spinach, and rapeseed, there are also eggplants, peppers, cucumbers, persimmons, lettuce, scallions, cilantro, cantaloupes, and a whole host of other things. It's quite a complete selection.

However, it's important to know that the space inside the greenhouse is limited, only about 200 square meters in total. So, if you're growing other vegetables, you naturally have to plant less spinach and rapeseed.

After Wang An finished speaking, Wu Dong still smiled and said:
"If you don't sell that much, then you must have at least 2000 jin (1,000 catties) in total, right?"

Wang An nodded and smiled:

“That’s amazing! My family’s spinach was already being harvested a few days ago, even before it was ready to be picked. Every time we harvested it, we had to weigh it by the square meter. My dad said that one square meter of spinach should weigh about 6.7 or 6.8 jin. Now that it’s grown for so long, one square meter of spinach should weigh at least 7.5 jin.”

After a pause, Wang An continued:
"Those families all planted about 50 square meters of spinach. If you do the math, they'll easily get 350 or 360 jin (125-180 kg)."

As we all know, fresh vegetables contain a lot of water, and spinach, given enough water and fertilizer, grows at an astonishing rate.

It's no exaggeration to say that in just a few days, each spinach plant can grow several more large leaves.

Of course, once it grows to a certain size, it will start to sprout shoots and then flower, at which point the entire spinach plant will be ruined.

Wu Dong laughed heartily and nodded, saying:

"Great, great, fantastic! Over 2000 jin (1,000 kg), our unit will get over 1600 jin (800 kg), that's more than enough, hahaha."

Suddenly, Wu Dong stopped laughing and asked Wang An:

"By the way, it's almost the New Year, and fresh spinach in Harbin costs 8 cents a pound. How much do you want to price it for me?"

Wang An said subconsciously
"It has to be cheaper than Harbin, right?"

After thinking for a moment, Wang An tentatively said:

"How about 7 cents a pound?"

Wang An's idea was to sell it for 5 cents a pound, because that price was already quite high for that era.

But that's just how things are; there's no need to make yourself and your relatives suffer.

Most importantly, it was because Wu Dong's workplace bought the groceries, not because Wu Dong paid for them personally.

After Wang An finished speaking, Wu Dong gave him a thumbs up and said with a smile:
"Alright, that's nice of you. Otherwise, I really wouldn't know how to shut them up, hahaha."

Wang An didn't know, nor did he want to know, who exactly was being silenced; in any case, it was definitely a power struggle among his colleagues.

Wang An reminded him:
"Brother Wu, you should definitely pack plenty of old quilts and straw mats in the car, otherwise, with this temperature, the food will all freeze into popsicles before it even gets there."

Wu Dong laughed:

"Don't worry, the logistics guys in our unit are experts at hauling vegetables in winter," Wang An nodded.
"Okay, we'll cut and tie all the vegetables up tomorrow morning, and then we'll weigh and load them onto the truck as soon as you arrive."

Wu Dong said:

"Yes, we'll definitely be there around 10 a.m. tomorrow."

After chatting for a while, Wang An took Wang Yi home.

On his way back, when passing by the supply and marketing cooperative, Wang An also stopped at the hardware store and bought a hook scale and a weighbridge.

The hook scale starts with a 300-jin (150 catties) capacity, while the weighbridge starts with a 1000-jin (500 catties) capacity.

Wang An felt that both the hook scale and the weighbridge were things he would use frequently in the future, so buying them would definitely not be superfluous.

After returning home, Wang An told Wang Dazhu that Wu Dong and the others would be coming to pick up vegetables around 10 a.m. the next day. Upon hearing this, Wang Dazhu immediately went out to inform the relatives who grew vegetables in greenhouses.

Wang An then drove to Mu Xue's house again to tell his father-in-law's family about preparing vegetables for the next morning.

When Mu Hua, the father-in-law, heard this, he was naturally very happy. He had been busy building greenhouses and planting vegetables for two months, and now he could finally see some returns.

To be honest, the person who has changed the most since Mu Hua's family got rich is his sister-in-law, Mu Xueting.

Although Mu Xueting used to be very pretty, she didn't look very fresh and vibrant because of her dry, yellow hair and petite figure.

But now, Mu Xueting's hair is no longer dry and yellow, and she has grown much taller. Most importantly, she looks exceptionally radiant now, just like a little princess described in a fairy tale—beautiful, cute, lively, and innocent.

It is foreseeable that in the future, Mu Xueting will likely catch up with, or even surpass, her older sister Mu Xueqing in terms of beauty.

It's fine for Wang An to hold his 8-year-old sister-in-law in his arms and show her affection, but if he waits another two years, it won't be appropriate for him to continue to do so.

From the moment Wang An entered the room, Mu Xueting, his sister-in-law, snuggled into his arms. Even after Wang An left, Mu Xueting remained in his embrace, saying she wanted to go visit her older sister for a few days.

So Wang An carried his sister-in-law into the car and drove her straight to his home.

It's normal for Mu Xueting to want to go to Wang An's house. The main reason is that Mu Xueting finally has a winter vacation. If she stays at home all the time, she can only play by herself. But if she goes to Wang An's house, she will have Wang Xiaomei and Wang Xiaoli, as well as Xiao Lai, to play with her. How can that be the same?

The next morning, Wang An and Huang Zhong got up to practice martial arts as usual, while Wang Dazhu and his wife went straight into the greenhouse to cut spinach after getting up.

There were about 100 kilograms of spinach in total; I don't know why this couple was so enthusiastic.

However, the answer was revealed after breakfast.

After breakfast, Wang Dazhu said to Wang An, Mu Xueqing, and the others:

"Your mother and I will go to your great-uncle's house to lend a hand, so that the car doesn't arrive too late."

Wang An was taken aback upon hearing this, then remembered that his great-uncle Wang Dashu and third brother Wang Gan had built two large greenhouses, and subconsciously said:
"Should I go over there too?"

Wang Dazhu casually remarked:
"I think they've almost finished harvesting these days, so the two of us can go. You don't need to." (End of Chapter)