Farming Space Makes Me Rich

Chapter 176: Gong Tianhao's Identity

Translator: Lonelytree

The news of extremely valuable flowers at Xiao Zhengyang's family immediately spread through the village.

The entire village, young and old, came to see these few pots of valuable flowers.

They knew that these flowers were tea flowers, orchids, chrysanthemums, and so on.

Most villagers didn't even return to have dinner. Instead, the whole family went up to the mountain to dig for wildflowers and weeds.

By the time Xiao Taiyang sent out the notice, almost half of the people in the village had already gone up the mountain.

Xiao Taiyang frowned deeply, but he comforted himself. 'Since so many people are up the mountain, they should be fine.' Almost half the village was gone, so they should be able to handle themselves. Furthermore, the villagers visited the mountain often. They knew the mountain well, so there shouldn't be any accidents.

The frowning Xiao Taiyang returned to Xiao Zhengyang's house.

"Village chief, what's wrong?" Xiao Zhengyang looked at the village chief's expression and was a little puzzled.

Xiao Taiyang took a deep breath and said, "More than half of the people in the village have already gone up the mountain."

"Ah?" Xiao Zhengyang was a little surprised and said, "They move so quickly?"

"The pull of money is too strong!" The village chief said with a heavy sigh, "The orchid your family found in the mountain is worth tens of thousands. For rural people like us, we can't even earn that amount in our lifetimes."

The output for one Mu of land was about 1000 catties of rice. A hundred catties of rice was worth fifty to sixty RMB. Most families had two to three Mu of land. Paddy could be harvested twice a year. In total, they would earn around one to two thousand a year. However, most villagers planted paddy for self-sustenance. They rarely had extra to sell. Therefore, saving money was hard for rural people. Or else, most young people wouldn't leave to work in the big cities.

Xiao Zhengyang comforted him, "Since so many people are up the mountain, nothing should happen."

"I hope so!" Xiao Taiyang sighed. Then, the village chief thought of something and asked, "Zhengyang, have you sold these flowers?"

Xiao Zhengyang shook his head and said, "Yu 'Er said to give these flowers to Old Master Gong. She said since the old master appreciates these flowers, he should have them."

"Ah!" The village chief was really surprised when he heard this decision. "But these are flowers worth hundreds of thousands? Are you willing to give them away just like that? Can't you sell them?"

"Why wouldn't we be unwilling?" Xiao Zhengyang said, "Before Old Master Gong came, who knew that these flowers could be sold at such a high price? We don't understand these flowers, so they are worthless to us. In fact, many villagers used to tell us that it's better to pick off the flowers to make room for more vegetables. But now everyone in the village couldn't wait to go and find flowers.

"Besides, it'll be too shameful for us to sell the flowers. The old master came to eat and spotted the flowers on accident. He could not have told us about their real value and asked us directly to gift him the flowers. Do you think we wouldn't give it to him?"

"Your family definitely would!" Said the village chief without thinking.

"You're right! The flowers will be worth more when they are with people who know how to appreciate them." Xiao Zhengyang said, "The old master could have swindled the flowers away, but he didn't. He helped us discover the value of these flowers. Our family can't keep them, so we want to give them to him."