I Got Rich in Period Fiction-Chapter 146

Accountant Zhang had that eager-to-return-home feeling, which Qiao Qingyu understood, so naturally, she didn’t delay him any further and, after giving him a few more words of instruction, carried the data related to the batch of herbal seeds and drove off from the Tenghai Research Base in a truck.

When Accountant Zhang arrived, he had brought with him three thousand yuan in his shoulder bag, which the commune had allocated to him.

These seeds could plant two hundred acres, and Lu Ye only charged two thousand yuan, which was practically the cost price.

All the paperwork was complete, so despite her busyness, Qiao Qingyu had effectively been working for free, though she still had some gastrodia and red flower seeds left over.

Qiao Qingyu didn’t know how many qualified seeds these gastrodia and red flowers could yield.

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Three days later, because Rongrong had to go to the base hospital for treatment, neither He Xiuyu nor Rongrong returned home, offering Qiao Qingyu the chance to enter the laboratory space.

The seed cultivation room sounded somewhat rustic, but the machinery and the surrounding setup seemed like something out of a sci-fi movie.

Qiao Qingyu’s body was not exceptionally strong, but she was hardly weak. Carrying a hundred-pound sack was somewhat strenuous, but she didn’t need anyone else’s help.

Qiao Qingyu poured a hundred pounds of seeds into the seed selection machine in the seed cultivation room.

There was a button next to the machine, first she pressed the red one, then the adjacent green button to start it. Qiao Qingyu didn’t know where the power for this space came from, but it was always brightly lit whenever she entered.

When she pressed the start button, the screen beside it lit up, displaying three options: cultivation batches of one hundred pounds, five hundred pounds, or three thousand pounds.

Qiao Qingyu thought about it and chose the five hundred pounds option. She then hauled over four more sacks and dumped them all into the seed selector before pressing the start button. The seed selection machine began to operate.

Next to it was a large container about eight meters long, made from some unknown material, with lighting from above, making it possible to vaguely see the qualified seeds falling into the container.

The five hundred pounds of seeds were sorted within minutes, with the rejected seeds falling into an empty container below, while the qualified ones landed in the long container above.

After an unknown period of time, suddenly a light came on, and an electronic voice began to alert, "Entering the seed cultivation phase, please prepare seed vessels for the cultivator."

Qiao Qingyu, having no prior experience and literally feeling her way across the river by groping for stones, hurried to the end of the room and found that a door had opened, revealing five shelves.

Realizing what was needed, she rushed back to the seed space, filled the emptied bottles in wooden boxes, and after numerous trips, filled up all five shelves. Then, the shelves, filled with bottles, retracted, and the door closed.

Qiao Qingyu didn’t ponder what kind of structure or principle was at work. This space was already an unfathomable existence. What she cared about now was when the seeds could be cultivated.

The room fell still for about ten or so seconds, and then a previously dimmed glass screen on the machine suddenly lit up. The electronic voice sounded again, "Countdown starting..."

Qiao Qingyu checked the time: ninety-six hours.

Meaning, four days and four nights.

Qiao Qingyu tidied up the seed cultivation room and placed the emptied sacks in large wooden boxes set aside in a corner.

She had placed five wooden boxes here.

They were used to store anything that could be stored.

The two hundred and fifty pounds of subpar cabbage seeds were temporarily placed in a corner.

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Four days later, Qiao Qingyu entered the space to find that the two hundred and fifty pounds of cabbage seeds were all cultivated. She took them out to inspect and then compared them with the cabbage seeds in the laboratory space on the shelves.

Qiao Qingyu was surprised to find that they looked exactly the same.

So this was a cycle?

Qiao Qingyu continued to cultivate other seeds, achieving a fifty percent success rate.

She planted the successfully-cultivated cabbage and radish seeds on a plot of land outside her house’s wall to see what they would yield.

She also gave some to Sister-in-law Li. Although it was a bit late in the season, cabbage and spinach are quick to sprout, and they could be eaten after half a month.

Meanwhile, the decision on Li Zhiqiang’s punishment had come down. His previous good performance had scored him some points, and since he indeed had no relationship with Chen Dandan, he still had to bear responsibility for the severe consequences of his oversight.

The base leadership removed him from his position in charge of the Light Industry Workshop, but there was a very important project under his responsibility. They mostly produced precision parts, which were indispensable to the base’s operation.

It wasn’t that Li Zhiqiang was irreplaceable, but at this stage, it was difficult for anyone taking over to continue his work.

Nevertheless, punishment was necessary. Li Zhiqiang was relieved from all his duties and received a major demerit. He was sent to the base’s labor reform team to undergo reform through labor, but his reform location was changed to the workshop, and he had to return to the base labor reform team in the evening for education.

For Li, this was already the best possible outcome.

Director Lin was named and criticized by the headquarters, and both his position and salary were downgraded by one level.

Many others also received varied degrees of punishment.

The warehouse keeper who sacrificed himself while on duty was given the greatest benefits for his bereaved family.

Although this could not heal their emotional wounds, the situation was such that nobody could do anything—just like the soldiers who protect their country. When parents send their children to the military, they need to be mentally prepared for this possibility.

Sometimes, sacrifice is inevitable.

However, the sacrificing warehouse keeper also violated the warehouse management regulations; after all, the cardholder wasn’t Chen Dandan, and he shouldn’t have opened the door for her, no matter how convincing her arguments or desperate her situation was. As a keeper, he had to stick to principles.

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Chen Dandan was transferred to the provincial public security bureau for prosecution after she confessed everything upon seeing that woman, who turned out to be her long-lost sister.

However, that was yet another twisting, bizarre, and sad story.

Even though Chen had confessed everything, she had no idea who the person codenamed Old Mountain Eagle was, but from her parents, she knew the highest command above them was this person.

He could be a farmer, a worker, or someone else influential.

They had never had contact with him.

Chen’s target was Li Zhiqiang, aiming for the precision instruments that were to be manufactured in two months.

After obtaining the blueprints, she would have given them directly to her foster parents.

However, Old Mountain Eagle, who could give her orders, had not sent any instructions since she came to the base, so the lead ended with Chen again.

The cunning Old Mountain Eagle’s whereabouts remained unknown...