Pastoral Daily Life

Gao Yongliangs mood during this period of time could be described as a roller-coaster ride of sadness and joy.

First, Sequoia Investment suddenly withdrew its investment in him, which was like a bolt from the blue. Before he could digest the news, Dezhi Investment, which had rejected him before, approached him, saying that it was willing to reconsider the project, but Dezhi Investment must have an absolute controlling stake in Gao Yongliangs company. Gao Yongliang flew abroad for this purpose and the two sides tussled over the shareholding for a few days before Gao Yongliang finally relented and took 49% of the companys shares, while Dezhi Investment took 51%.

Having solved the problem of funds, Gao Yongliang returned to China and focused all his energy on Lu Lingxi, spending almost every day in Tiny Garden. After a period of time, Yan Yue couldnt bear it and agreed to cooperate with him. Not cooperating with Xue Yongtong, but directly with Gao Yongliang. Tiny Garden would become Gao Yongliangs supplier together with Luxuan Gardening. Yan Yue made it clear in the cooperation that the number of “mutated” begonias was relatively small, so Tiny Garden could only provide the quantity for Gao Yongliangs experiments in the early stage, and that large-scale production would have to wait until next year. Knowing that it was true, Gao Yongliang had no choice but to agree.

Throughout the cooperation process, Gao Yongliang and Tiny Garden were very happy, but Xue Yongtong was a little bit depressed. In the end, he still didnt know what was going on with these begonias. He had originally thought that Tiny Gardens plant nursery was not large enough and that if they wanted to cultivate begonias on a large scale, they could only work with Luxuan, but he didnt expect that Qiu Jun would suddenly have an accident and sell off Qiu Tian Gardening with the speed of lightning, and the person who bought it would be Yan Yue. Now it was also Tiny Gardens plant nursery, and Xue Yongtong had nothing to do with it. What made Xue Yongtong even more frustrated was that he had just owed Yan Yue a huge favour and he couldnt show his depression, so he could only smile at Lu Lingxi with a kind face and continue to go crazy over the begonias when he turned away.

Xue Yongtongs private depression was unknown to Lu Lingxi, whose entire focus was on reproducing evolved begonias.

Under normal circumstances, begonias are propagated mainly by sowing seeds, cuttings and tissue culture. However, as begonias are the offspring of hybridisation, seed propagation is highly variable and has a legacy of instability, so seeds are rarely used for sowing and most begonias are propagated by cuttings and tissue culture. Cuttings method was the most familiar to Lu Lingxi. Select young shoots of about ten centimetres, remove the base leaves, wait until it is dry and insert it into a soil bed. It will take about three weeks to root and grow into a brand new plant. In addition to cuttings there was another fast way of propagation, tissue culture propagation. This method of reproduction was used to reproduce a large number of flower seedlings in a test tube. Specifically, a small piece of tissue from a flower plant, such as a leaf or stem node or flower bud, was cultured in a nutrient medium and, after continuous cutting and propagation, thousands of new plants could be produced in a relatively short period of time.

Compared to cuttings, Lu Lingxi was not very skilled at the latter method. Although the plant nursery of Qiu Tian had a corresponding culture room, Lu Lingxi chose to use cuttings in the early stages and slowly multiply the number of begonias. Of course he also gradually began to learn how to use the culture room in preparation for large-scale propagation in the future.

This process was also a bonding process between Lu Lingxi and the workers at the former Qiu Tian Gardening plant nursery. The Qiu Tian Gardenings plant nursery was too large to be taken care of by Uncle Li and Yu Xiaojuan alone like the Tiny Garden plant nursery, and workers had to be hired from outside. Yan Yue didnt make any major changes among the original workers, only dismissing some he felt were unsuitable. The rest were regarded as being skilled and honest.

Among them, Lu Lingxi was most impressed by Lu Guoxing. Lu Guoxing was in his forties, with a long face, slightly dark skin and a tall body. He was only an ordinary worker in the plant nursery, but he was the only one who could see that the begonias cultivated by Lu Lingxi were different from ordinary begonias. After Yan Yue investigated Lu Guoxings background, he simply promoted him. When Lu Lingxi was around, he was Lu Lingxis assistant, and when Lu Lingxi was not around, he was the person in charge of the plant nursery.

By the time this series of things got on track, it was already early October. Xiao Feng heard from somewhere that Wang Shuxiu was worried about the supply of vegetables in winter, and after taking Tiger and his men to inspect the vegetable market in Fengcheng, he decided to turn Qiu Tian Gardenings plant nursery into a vegetable garden, with the greenhouses used for growing vegetables. It was under Xiao Fengs name, and he had only just begun preparations when several small restaurants near the original card and chess parlour immediately approached him, wanting to cooperate with him. To put it bluntly, they also wanted Xiao Feng to cover them.

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