Forced to marry a disabled man in the countryside? I'll repay you tenfold!

The next morning, Su Wanqing caught several chicks and roosters and hens produced by her space.

Seeing that Su Wanqing wanted to catch chickens, Uncle Ding simply gave her a basket, put all the chickens in it, and said:

"Wanqing, what are you going to do catching chickens? You're pregnant, it's not good for you to handle these things. Where are you taking them? I'll go with you."

Su Wanqing said, "It's alright, Uncle. Xiuer and the others will go together. We'll have them get it in a bit. By the way, what's going on outside in the backyard? Why are they running the machine so early in the morning?"

She got up early in the morning because of the loud noise outside, and that's when she saw the backyard bustling with activity.

Uncle Ding laughed: "Hey, didn't that bureau chief say yesterday that this area was being allocated to us? He went to submit the report that very afternoon, he was too hasty. This morning he sent people up to start working right away. Look, they're laying the foundation, putting up iron railings, building a protective base."

Su Wanqing opened her mouth: "Isn't there a need to be in such a hurry?" The formalities haven't been completed yet, have they?

Looking at the yard full of red-bellied pheasants and domestic chickens fighting and pecking at each other, a scene of chaos and scrambling for food, Uncle Ding said:

"I guess they saw the two types of chickens being raised together yesterday and thought it wouldn't be good for the golden pheasants, so they want to build a new enclosure as soon as possible. But it's actually quite good; clearing out these golden pheasants will allow them to make the horse pen bigger. I don't know when the horse will give birth, and it'll take up space when it does."

Su Wanqing said, "The horse still needs a few months to build, so let's keep building it. I'm going to work now."

"Okay, go ahead."

Su Wanqing easily took a few chickens and went to meet Chen Xiuer in front. Then the four of them, along with Xiao Nannan, went to the Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

Today, the group decided to take the bus. It was a newly opened route, and there weren't many people. Aunt Wang didn't really want to take the bus, especially knowing that it cost money even for one person, but she thought that Xiao Su was pregnant and didn't want to walk, so she got on the bus.

As soon as she sat in the car, she felt a sense of novelty. This thing was new to her. Aunt Wang sat by the window, enjoying the breeze and looking outside, feeling happy.

Su Wanqing felt that it would be most comfortable to take a leisurely ten-minute ride in a tricycle.

"Director Su is here?"

"Hello, Director Su!"

Many people greeted him.

Su Wanqing responded with a smile and led the group to the mushroom cultivation base.

The little girl was standing in the basket on Grandma Wang's back, and everyone looked at her curiously.

Aunt Wang said, "Goodness, this is a big city. The breeding base is so big, and they've grown so many oyster mushrooms."

Chen Xiuer picked up a mushroom bag and looked at it, then shook her head: "Although the base is large and grows a lot, the yield is not as good as ours, it's too sparse. The mass production is probably only one-third of ours, it's such a waste of space. I think the mycelium quality is not good, the sterilization method is not right, and the mycelium is not completely sterile."

Chen Jianhua and Old Master Chen happened to overhear someone saying that Su Wanqing had arrived. Upon hearing this, Old Master Chen immediately asked:

"Is your output really only one-third of yours? We're also following the same method. Can you explain how you sterilize? And how do you achieve complete sterility?"

Chen Xiuer turned around and saw someone coming, feeling a little embarrassed—after all, she had been overheard talking badly about someone behind their back.

However, since she had heard it, she didn't hesitate and said a few words.

Grandpa Chen and Chen Jianhua's eyes lit up: "No wonder your output is so high, this method is indeed excellent. Although it's a bit troublesome, adding an extra boiling and sterilization process can increase the output, so it's worth it."

Chen Xiuer said shyly, "I learned all of this from Dr. Su."

Chen Jianhua looked at Su Wanqing, his eyes filled with genuine admiration.

Su Wanqing nodded to the two of them: "Since you're here, let's get started quickly. Try to finish this in the morning, then we'll take care of the chickens, and then we'll go check out the house over there at noon. By the way, these two will be in charge of handing over the auxiliary materials from now on."

Grandpa Chen readily agreed, "Sure, no problem. Then call all six of them, including Xiao Li and Xiao Wang. We've prepared all the ingredients, so let's start planting shiitake mushrooms and white fungus today."

Mr. Shen is not here today; he went to give a speech.

Yesterday, their old classmate, Director Wang, was busy with other things, so only a few people are here today. The area for growing shiitake mushrooms has been prepared, and various necessary materials have already been piled up next to it.

Once everyone had arrived, Chen Xiuer and Aunt Wang took out the mycelium they had brought. This was already propagated mycelium, ready to be directly mixed with the auxiliary materials and bagged.

Grandpa Chen and Chen Jianhua were utterly astonished by the sight of the thick, snow-white mycelium.

They had seen shiitake mushroom mycelium at that stage when they visited the central government before. Compared to that, the ones there looked withered and half-dead, while the mycelium here was like freshly squeezed cream, full of vitality.

Now, both of them believed it! Even with poor cultivation techniques, such good mycelium could still produce a considerable yield!

Aunt Wang and Chen Xiuer quickly demonstrated the planting process. Their technique was simple and skillful, with each step following a fixed procedure. The cultivation of oyster mushrooms was similar, except that the temperature requirements were slightly different.

The two worked quickly, and soon finished planting the mushroom bed, which was more than ten square meters in size. Then they began to instruct the other six people on how to plant the mushrooms.

After looking at it, Chen Jianhua was still a little confused, so he asked Aunt Wang, "Auntie, your spawn is so densely packed together, won't it stunt its growth? After all, we always leave some space between them here."

Aunt Wang said, "How would I know the principle behind this? I just do whatever my daughter tells me to do. As for the poor development you mentioned, I've never seen that. Anyway, I just plant them all together, and the mycelium grows very well."

Chen Xiuer explained from the side, "No, Director Chen. Our previous planting sites were only a few dozen square meters, and we squeezed them together to save space. Later, we found that this helped to retain moisture and warmth better, and the yield was also greater."

With a "smack," Old Master Chen slapped his son again.

"Look at them! They can grow such high yields of mushrooms even in such harsh conditions. And look at you! You have such good conditions, thousands of test tubes are sent to you each time, with the best supplements and the largest facilities, and what's the result? You're not even a third as good as them!"

Chen Jianhua said helplessly, "Dad, I've only been in charge for a few days. I think you were in charge of this before?"

Old Master Chen was taken aback, then realized what he meant, coughed, and seemed to agree.

He snorted, "Anyway, when you were in the central government, you had been researching oyster mushrooms for decades, but your yield was still lower than that of a small village. You're the source of this problem, so you should reflect on yourselves."

Chen Jianhua said, "Dad, I've never studied this. I'm a rice researcher."