You've been reborn and you're going to go farm?

Boss Wang rode his electric scooter, bought a pack of cigarettes at the small shop at the village entrance, lingered for a while, and then, seeing that Li Shujie wasn't watching the joint planting area anymore, circled back.

He slipped down the ridge into the field, scanned the area, and quickly found his target.

He was a frequent visitor to Dongfeng Village, and he knew which people were easiest to manipulate.

"Old Jiang, are you taking a break?"

Jiang Guofu and a few others were sitting on the edge of the field, smoking with their eyes half-closed. Hearing the noise, he turned around with his cigarette still dangling from his mouth: "Oh. Boss Wang hasn't left yet."

They're all seasoned veterans; he knows perfectly well why this guy came looking for him.

He certainly heard what the secretary said, but well, everyone has their own little schemes in mind.

Jiang Guofu reached for a cigarette, and Boss Wang quickly came over, enthusiastically offering him one: "Take mine, take mine."

As he spoke, he handed out a cigarette to Jiang Guofu and several other people around him.

"Wow, the watermelons in your field look absolutely delicious!"

Jiang Guofu waved his hand, putting the Yuxi cigarette card that Boss Wang handed him on his ear, and said, "Oh dear, the village is in charge of this land now, our word doesn't count."

Boss Wang looked around and said, "That's true, but you guys still cultivated the land yourselves."

"Who we sell to is up to you."

Jiang Guofu and the others smoked in silence, without saying a word.

Boss Wang flicked his cigarette ash, put it back in his mouth, and quietly gestured with his hand to indicate two numbers: "If you're willing to sell, I'll order 10,000 jin right now, cash on delivery!"

"One dollar and twenty cents!"

The people nearby all gasped at the same time.

This is two mao higher than the price Jiang Linshou paid!

Ten thousand catties, that's two thousand yuan.

As Jiang Guofu and the others pondered their next move, their breathing became heavier.

Life has really gotten better now; even watermelons that used to be worthless are now being snapped up at high prices!

Can you earn so much more just by blinking?

Seeing that several people were somewhat interested, Boss Wang continued, "The highest bidder wins, right? If it really smells bad, just say it's been ruined by animals, or that it's cracked. Do you think the buyer would turn against your whole village for something like that?"

Jiang Guofu's eyes flickered, clearly indicating that he was seriously considering the matter.

Just then, a loud voice suddenly roared over: "Jiang Guofu, what are you doing sitting there? Have you finished turning over the watermelons in the field?"

Jiang Lin's third aunt carried a hoe, muttering as she walked: "She's in her fifties, hasn't she grown up yet? She can't even do a little work without being nagged."

Jiang Guofu threw away his cigarette and chuckled dryly, "Third Sister-in-law."

Third Aunt glanced at Boss Wang; she knew perfectly well what he was doing there—he'd been squatting there for days.

This doesn't make sense for Li Shujie coming here to mess with these guys.

Boss Wang also stood up and said with a forced smile, "Sister, let's just chat for a bit."

His aunt looked him up and down: "Talking nonsense? You're trying to trick someone into making a mistake!"

Jiang Guofu said awkwardly, "Oh dear, you can't say that, Third Sister-in-law."

"They offered this price!"

He then held up two fingers.

Third Aunt sneered, "One dollar and twenty cents? You won't even sell it for one dollar and fifty cents!"

She shoveled the hoe on her shoulder onto the paddy field ridge, her voice suddenly rising: "You pig-brain, think about it carefully! Why did he offer you such a high price!"

"A week ago, I was begging to buy it even for six or seven cents, but now I'm giving it to you for one dollar and twenty cents."

"Is the current state of the land your achievement? It was Jiang Lin who begged for it!"

"Here's a plan; the Party Secretary will personally oversee the planting!"

"What's wrong? Now that the melons are planted, you want to give them away to someone else?"

"Have you lost your conscience?"

Seeing that his third aunt's voice was getting louder and louder, and that many people were looking in their direction, Boss Wang turned around and left dejectedly.

With this person around, he dared not stay any longer.

Rural women are not to be trifled with; if they get angry, you can dig them up with a hoe in a minute.

Third Aunt spat and glared at Jiang Guofu: "Oh, so you insist on waiting until the sun is up to bask in the sun, are you?!"

Jiang Guofu didn't take his sister-in-law's insults to heart at all.

But the price of 1.2 yuan was skyrocketing in my mind.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, Jiang Guofu, along with a few quick-thinking villagers, secretly went to Li Shujie's house.

The sun was shining brightly, and the fan in the main room was creaking loudly.

Li Shujie was checking the implementation of the plan to see if there were any omissions when he looked up and saw several people. His brows furrowed.

As Jiang Guofu walked into the room, he started taking out cigarettes: "Secretary, we need to discuss something..."

Li Shujie didn't even look up: "As for selling melons in private, forget it!"

"Oh dear, wasn't this being sold before...?"

Li Shujie raised an eyebrow, then looked up, pulled his reading glasses down a little, and glanced straight down from the top of the frame.

"What, are you trying to confide in me about this?"

"Oh, no, no!" Jiang Guofu said with a forced smile, "It's like this, the price of watermelons has gone up now. Those old watermelons in town are selling for 2 yuan a pound. Our new batch of watermelons is of such good quality, shouldn't we raise the price a bit?"

He tentatively said, "It's not going up much. The vendors are offering 1.2 yuan, so let's just go with the market price."

"Jiang Lin is one of our own, we can't let our own people suffer losses."

He felt that what he said made a lot of sense, and finally urged, "Secretary, why don't you say something?"

Li Shujie took off his glasses, looked at Jiang Guofu seriously for several seconds, and then suddenly laughed.

There was no warmth in his smile. He beckoned, "Jiang Guofu, come here."

Jiang Guofu subconsciously took a half step back. "Let's be reasonable."

Li Shujie slammed his hand on the table with a "bang," startling the glasses case, notebook, and teacup on it.

Li Shujie was furious. "What are you afraid of when we talk reason? What's with the retreat?"

"What's wrong? What's wrong!" Secretary Li's wife heard the commotion and quickly came out from the next bedroom.

Seeing Secretary Li's angry expression, he quickly advised, "Hey, hey, can't you speak more politely?"

"Li Shujie, you sit in the tomb!"

Li Shujie snorted: "I'm asking you, Jiang Guofu, and the rest of you!"

"Back when it was hard to sell even at 60 cents a pound, who bought it from you for a dollar a pound?"

"Tens of thousands of kilograms of watermelons were going to rot in the fields. Who paid out of their own pocket to get them to cold storage?"

"On the day of the heavy rain, the ditch was blocked. Which person guarding the land cleared it?"

"After the rain, it'll be someone else who went to the agricultural university to ask for management plans, and then came back to teach us how to fertilize and manage the plants!"

"Look at your own conscience and ask yourself, what does your success in growing those watermelons have to do with you?"

"What does it have to do with anything!"

"Oh, now that the melons are ripe and the price has gone up, you're thinking of 'our own people'!"

"They all ran up to me, how embarrassing!"