Old Man Zhao, the legendary healer of Xinghua Village!

Chapter 73 Harvesting Cherry Tomatoes

In less than twenty minutes, the pickup truck stopped in Xinghua Village, right at the edge of Zhao Dazhu's two acres of farmland.

Liu Haibo got out of the car and looked at the cherry tomatoes laden with fruit in the field, his mouth gradually opening wide.

"So, now you know I wasn't lying to you, right?" Zhao Dazhu said with a smile.

"Wow, that's amazing! Uncle Zhao, how did you do it? How did the cherry tomatoes ripen in just over twenty days, and grow so well?" Liu Haibo said excitedly.

"I used some kind of magic potion on the cherry tomatoes I grew, did that not work?" Zhao Dazhu joked.

Before Liu Haibo could say anything more, Zhao Dazhu reminded him, "You haven't forgotten our bet, have you? I won, and according to the bet, you have to buy my cherry tomatoes at twice the market price."

Without the slightest hesitation, Liu Haibo nodded emphatically: "Okay, let's do it this way!"

"So, are you coming to make the acquisition tomorrow, or are you going to make it now?" Zhao Dazhu asked.

Zhao Dazhu asked this question because harvesting cherry tomatoes takes time.

After all, these cherry tomatoes grow in farmland; they can't just sprout wings and fly into the pickup truck's cargo bed.

Liu Haibo thought for a moment and then said, "Anyway, I don't have anything to do today, so let's start now. Quickly call your family over and start harvesting as soon as possible!"

"I took the scale off the truck and weighed the tomatoes right here before loading them onto the truck. This is the best way to ensure the freshness of the cherry tomatoes."

Zhao Dazhu nodded and said, "Since you're so eager, then let's do as you say."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Dazhu took out his phone and called Li Yujiao.

"Yujiao, hurry up and go to our village to get some help. I called a vegetable vendor from the farmers' market in the county town, and he's waiting right here in our field. Call a lot of people, and tell them it's thirty yuan an hour for help. Hurry up."

So Li Yujiao immediately ran out of her house and banged on the gate of Wang Caixia's house next door.

"What's wrong?" Wang Caixia opened the courtyard gate and asked Li Yujiao with a puzzled look.

Li Yujiao quickly said, "Sister Caixia, are you free now? If you are, please come to my field and help Dazhu. His cherry tomatoes are ripe, and the vegetable vendors are waiting at the edge of the field. We need to hurry up and harvest them."

"Thirty yuan for an hour's work, settled on the spot after completion!"

Upon hearing this, Wang Caixia immediately grabbed a large bamboo basket from the yard and said, "Okay, okay, I'll go right now!"

Li Yujiao knocked on every door, repeating what she had just said to Wang Caixia over and over again.

In less than ten minutes, a large group of women arrived at Zhao Dazhu's farmland, carrying large baskets.

Seeing that Li Yujiao had actually managed to get so many people to help, Zhao Dazhu was overjoyed.

"Thanks everyone for coming to help. Enough with the small talk, let's roll up our sleeves and get to work!"

"You guys take care of the picking, carrying, and other heavy work; I'll do it!"

"Start, start, don't dawdle!"

So this large group of women carried baskets into Zhao Dazhu's farmland and quickly picked bright red cherry tomatoes.

Zhao Dazhu was in charge of carrying the baskets. Whenever a woman's basket was full, he would take it from her, carry it swiftly to the scale at the edge of the field, put it down, and then hand the empty basket to the woman so she could continue picking.

Liu Haibo weighed and recorded the vegetables here, while Li Yujiao watched closely, afraid that the vegetable vendor would cheat.

"Old Zhao, what were you doing? How come your cherry tomatoes ripened so fast?"

"Yes, I clearly remember that you planted these cherry tomatoes less than a month ago..."

As the women picked the fruit, they asked all sorts of questions out of curiosity.

Zhao Dazhu chuckled and said, "I was just lucky... Don't ask anymore, get back to work."

As they were talking, Zhao Dazhu took the full basket from Wang Caixia and ran towards the edge of the field carrying the heavy basket.

Seeing Zhao Dazhu's vigorous and agile movements, Wang Caixia's expression became somewhat complicated.

The other women working in the fields also saw this scene and started gossiping about it.

"How come Zhao Dazhu is still so healthy despite his advanced age?"

"Yeah, that basket of cherry tomatoes must have weighed at least fifty pounds, and he managed to carry it with one hand while running?"

"Even young men probably wouldn't have it as easy as him!"

"Isn't Zhao Dazhu knowledgeable in medicine? He must have prescribed some medicine for himself to make his body look fantastic!"

"What kind of medicine is so miraculous?"

"How would I know? I was just guessing..."

Despite their words, these women worked very quickly. They often worked in the fields and were naturally very skilled at these tasks.

Moreover, the commotion caused by Zhao Dazhu has already caused a sensation in the village.

Many villagers came over and stood around watching.

"Old Zhao's cherry tomatoes actually ripened? I thought it was a joke, but I never expected..."

"It hasn't been that long, I think it's been less than a month..."

"That's fucking outrageous..."

"What kind of fertilizer did Old Zhao use? The effect is simply too good..."

Zhao Dazhu, of course, heard what the villagers were saying.

What's more, some people came up to him, grabbed his arm, and asked him questions, which put him in a very awkward position.

The reason his cherry tomatoes ripened so quickly was because the combination of the Rapid Growth Elixir and the Spirit Gathering Technique had an unexpectedly powerful effect.

But this involves the secrets of cultivators, which Zhao Dazhu definitely cannot tell them.

So no matter how the villagers asked, Zhao Dazhu just laughed and refused to answer directly. When he couldn't avoid it any longer, he would use the excuse that he didn't know he was lucky.

"Fine, don't tell me then!"

"Stingy!"

"We're not robbing you, we're just asking how you did it. You're treating us like thieves, that's not very nice of you."

"We're from the same village, how could they do this..."

Many villagers were unhappy and looked at Zhao Dazhu with resentment.

This left Zhao Dazhu feeling extremely helpless.

He really can't say!

However, this also served as a reminder to Zhao Dazhu.

It's truly astonishing that the crops in the field matured in less than a month and sold for a good price.

You can't do that again, otherwise it will attract too much attention.

The tallest tree in the forest is bound to be felled by the wind. One should always keep a low profile and make money discreetly. Being too conspicuous will definitely cause problems!

Time flies, and it gradually gets dark.

However, Zhao Dazhu and his team had only harvested one acre of cherry tomatoes.

But it was too dark to continue working, so Zhao Dazhu told Liu Haibo to drive away first, and the women who helped with the harvest also went home with their baskets.

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