Shen Yao returned to the Shen family and found Shen's father, telling him about discovering the jùtái on the barren mountain.
Upon hearing this, Shen's father scattered his vegetable seeds all over the ground. "Really, really?"
Shen's father knew that their mountainous region had protected animals and plants, but he never imagined that the barren mountain they had contracted could grow protected plants.
"Yes, Professor Zhang said that the leaders from the forestry bureau will come down tomorrow," Shen Yao said.
She spoke with a very calm demeanor. If the leaders wanted to come, so be it. The appearance of the jùtái was clearly an accident, otherwise, there wouldn't be only one.
To be honest, if Ning Ziyuan hadn't said it was jùtái, who would have thought of jùtái, which looked almost identical to wild grass.
"No, I need to go find something to fence it off first." After speaking, he hurriedly dropped the seeds and ran back to the Shen family.
Shen Yao did not follow but wandered around the greenhouse.
She was currently in the seedling greenhouse closest to the roadside.
The entire 8-mu seedling greenhouse was already planted with many vegetables.
In front of each row, a sign was inserted, indicating the variety of seedlings.
Currently, only fruits and vegetables like melons and gourds needed to be cultivated. For leafy greens, they were directly sown into the ground and could grow on their own.
Shen Yao walked to the seedling area at the back, where a sign clearly read "Medicinal Herb Seedling Greenhouse."
This seedling greenhouse was separated from the outdoor vegetable seedling greenhouses in the middle, but it was connected.
Shen Yao walked to a sign planted with dendrobium and saw a large row of dendrobium branches inserted into the ground.
Since dendrobium could only be propagated by cuttings, Shen Yao cut the dendrobium, ensuring each segment had a node, which was conducive to sprouting.
These dendrobium plants were originally from Shen Yao's space. She specifically took them out and planned to cultivate them, planting them near the two orchards where her second brother was raising livestock.
Those two orchards were particularly rocky, otherwise, they wouldn't have been abandoned in the end. Many places on those two hillsides couldn't grow other fruit trees, so Shen Yao planned to plant dendrobium and some medicinal herbs.
Not only that, but she also planned to intercrop medicinal herbs that could grow in those developed orchards to maximize profits.
Shen Yao squatted down, pulled out a dendrobium stem that had not yet sprouted, and saw that white roots had already grown on the buried node.
Shen Yao inserted it back into the ground and clapped her hands. After all, it was something from her space, how could it be so fragile?
Once the sprouts grew a little larger and those two hillsides were cleared, they could be directly transplanted.
She looked again and found that not only dendrobium, but even ginseng, which was the most difficult to sprout, had grown to 5 centimeters tall. It was July, and they only needed to be planted on the mountain before August.
In general, ginseng cultivation involved directly burying it in loose, nutrient-rich soil after successful germination.
After observing the progress of the medicinal herb seedlings, Shen Yao knew that the next step would be to transplant these medicinal herbs to the mountain.
After exiting the greenhouse, Shen Yao saw Shen's father hurrying up the mountain with a bundle of netting and an axe, with Mo Xuan following behind.
Meanwhile, at the border of a certain city.
Shen Huaisang was ambushing in the dense forest, lying motionless on the ground, only his eyes constantly searching for something around.
Suddenly, a very faint sound reached Shen Huaisang's ears, like a small animal treading on fallen leaves.
Shen Huaisang held his breath, the sound slowly passed by him, he suddenly leaped up and struck the person's neck with an elbow.
The person had no time to make any sound before being taken down by Shen Huaisang. Shen Huaisang skillfully took out a rope, tied the person's hands and feet together, and then tightly bound several layers of tape around the person's mouth.
After confirming that it was secure, he kicked the person into the deep pit behind him.
If one looked closely, there were already quite a few people in the deep pit.
"Bang!"
A gunshot rang out, startling the birds and beasts in the forest. Shen Huaisang cursed under his breath and then sprinted rapidly towards where the gunshot came from.
He completely disregarded the thorny bushes that scratched him and the wounds caused by grass with barbs and blades.
After running for a while, Shen Huaisang heard voices, accompanied by the muffled sound of fists hitting bodies and light groans.
Shen Huaisang softened his footsteps, then leaped and climbed a large tree.
Through the gaps in the trees, Shen Huaisang clearly saw what was happening.
Below stood five burly men holding guns, and lying on the ground were three men beaten to near death.
"Damn it, these lunatics have tough mouths. Even after being beaten like this, they won't say how many of them there are!"
"Pah, ask again. If they don't answer, shoot them directly!"
Although the distance was a bit far, and they had deliberately lowered their voices, Shen Huaisang could clearly hear every word they said.
Shen Huaisang took out his gun and vigilantly watched the movements of the five men. When he saw one of them pull out a gun.
"Bang."
A gunshot rang out, and one of the men clutched his stomach and fell down.
"Bang bang bang."
After firing three consecutive shots and taking down two more men, the remaining two quickly found cover for themselves.
Those men were very smart. There were shelters nearby where they were, but the people they captured had no cover.
Shen Huaisang's position had already been exposed when he fired, so after dodging two bullets, he quickly descended the tree.
While seeking cover and hiding himself, he slowly moved towards the three men.
Fortunately, the trees here were tall enough to provide cover, otherwise, Shen Huaisang would not have been able to hide effectively.
Seeing that they could not find Shen Huaisang, the two men exchanged a knowing glance and simultaneously aimed their guns at the three men lying on the ground.
"Bang bang bang."
The bullets hit the three men, causing them to cry out in pain, followed by a shrill scream, "Er Gouzi!"
It turned out that when the two men fired, the leading man, for some unknown reason, directly shielded the other two. All those bullets hit him without exception.
Shen Huaisang's ferocity erupted, and he rushed towards the two men, taking a shot to his hand and a shot to his leg.
Shen Huaisang dropped his pistol and immediately began to fight the two men with his fists.
Fist met flesh, and each blow drew blood.
But even so, the beaten man spat blood and said, "Ha, haha, Black Eagle, you can't kill me, haha, but, but your brother is different. He's dead for sure, ha, haha..."
Seeing the other person still so arrogant, Shen Huaisang's fists clenched with a "crackling" sound. Just as his hate-filled fist was about to hit the man's head.
"Cap, Captain, don't... don't kill him!"