Communicate with furry animals without any barriers, and take the farm to the next level

Chapter 307 The Fruit Ripens
"You mean we'll hire another fifty people this time?" Oswin asked, stroking his chin thoughtfully.

“That’s a good idea. With enough staff, everyone’s experience will be better.” Oswin agreed, nodding in approval.

"Okay, then I'll go all out. With more people, you won't have to do everything yourself. Otherwise, why would we hire so many people?"

"Okay, I understand."

As the number of employees increased, the management became more difficult. Oswin no longer approved everything himself before letting his subordinates carry it out. Instead, he assigned different management levels and only needed to oversee the overall situation.

The fine-leaved locust trees are growing more lushly than last year, with clusters of small white bell-shaped flowers hanging from the branches, attracting many wild bees from the shimmering forest. As a result, the white-haired bumblebees have fought with them quite a bit.

However, the bumblebees outnumbered and outmatched the attacking honeybees, who mostly fled back into the forest in disarray.

However, the thriving bee colony attracted some other "bad things," namely the two-stinged wasps and the giant mandible wasps that Josh had always been afraid of encountering.

Whether these wicked creatures were too cunning or the brown-headed crow vultures were too busy to notice, Josh only discovered them when she saw the scattered corpses of white bumblebees under the acacia tree.

Faced with her anxious questioning, the bumblebees were not afraid. Dying to defend their home was an honor, and there was nothing to be afraid of.

"Buzz buzz buzz," Josh, look, we've torn them to shreds too.

Led by a bumblebee, Josh arrived at a secluded spot near the tree roots, where several dead white bumblebees lay scattered. Josh couldn't bear to look closely, but then he noticed a two-spined wasp being held tightly by several white bumblebees in the gaps between the tree roots.

Josh's tears started flowing uncontrollably at first glance. These little white chubby creatures didn't have any powerful attack methods, not even the most basic stinger of a bee.

Faced with such ferocious insect enemies, they actually pounced on them. Josh saw several bumblebees whose bodies had been bitten in half.

It took Josh a while to calm down.

"Next time you encounter an enemy insect that you can't defeat, just hide, okay? You have me and the brown-headed crow vulture. I don't want you to get hurt. You don't need to risk your lives to defend these locust flowers, okay?"

Josh's sadness drew a crowd of white bumblebees. They seemed a little lost. Defending their home against enemy insects was in their nature, and while these chubby little creatures were certainly intelligent, they still didn't quite understand the complex emotions of humans.

But they know what Josh is saying, they will listen, and they will protect themselves next time they encounter them, and seek revenge on the brown-headed crow vultures.

Upon learning the news at noon, the Brown-headed Crow Vulture flew directly into the Dawn Forest, located the wasp nest that was harming the White-furred Bumblebees, and used its wind blades to kill every single wasp inside and out.

As for the giant-jawed venomous wasps that were eager to provoke the white-haired bumblebees but hadn't had a chance yet, the brown-headed crow vultures preemptively destroyed their nests, causing them heavy losses.

"Quack quack~" I'm sorry Josh, I'm sorry little bees.

For the first time, the brown-headed raven vulture, a forest ranger, felt it had failed in its duty and was deeply apologetic. "It's not your fault. It's all because I told you to keep an eye on the Twilight Commercial District that this happened. It's not your fault," Josh said, also feeling guilty.

However, the brown-headed crow vulture still kept this in mind. It found its lapdog, the pink-feathered pelican, and entrusted it with the task of patrolling the Glimmering Commercial District. The pelican then devoted itself to guarding the Magic Fruit Forest and didn't want to leave for even a moment.

While Josh and the brown-headed ravens remained silent and sad, the white bumblebees were already working as if nothing had happened. They weren't sad; at least dying for the colony wasn't a sad thing.

Of course, Josh wasn't the type to get discouraged by the smallest things. He cheered up in just a few days. The farm was surrounded by lush, shimmering trees. These kinds of things were bound to happen sooner or later. The sooner they happened, the sooner they could be dealt with. It was all right.

Just then, the emerald lychees ripened, which diverted Josh's attention, and she stopped dwelling on the matter.

The Emerald Lychee, with its emerald-green flesh, was purchased from Professor Lu Man's garden last year. After a year, the tree doesn't look very tall, but the fruit has grown quite a bit.

The branches were laden with heavy, emerald-green lychees, making Josh afraid of breaking them.

Even Josh couldn't tell whether the emerald lychees were ripe or not during his first harvest, since their skins all looked the same color whether they were ripe or not.

Fortunately, the leaf ants can distinguish the ripeness of the jade lychees. When the jade lychees are ripe enough, they will use their powerful mandibles to cut the branches and then carry them to the basket that Josh has placed in advance.

Aside from needing help with the uneven arrangement, which required the assistance of a golden kiwi, Josh didn't need to worry about anything else.

Mature jade lychees are already high-end fruits, and with Josh's careful management, each fruit is plump, with small pits and thick flesh, bursting with juice with every bite.

Josh divided these Emerald Lychees into three grades. The lowest quality loose fruit was poured into the sales box, the slightly lower quality fruit was kept on the farm to be used to make canned lychees, and the highest quality fruit was sent to the Weiguang specialty store for passing merchants to purchase.

Thanks to the powerful chilling technology of the big-tailed yak, the harvested jade lychees will not spoil within half a month and will not affect the best taste within seven days, so Josh can sell them with confidence.

Since its opening, Weiguang Specialty Store has only sold processed farm products and has rarely sold unprocessed fruits. Therefore, the Emerald Lychee was snapped up as soon as it hit the market.

As a result, they received a lot of criticism.

Fortunately, the lychees Josh sells in his shop are all of the best appearance, taste, and ripeness. No matter how much they nitpick, they can only criticize the price and packaging, not the taste or quality. This inadvertently promotes the farm's lychees.

Next to ripen are the butter fruits, each about the size of a small light bulb. Once you remove the pit, all that's left is the delicate flesh.

Chaoyang City has a tradition of eating butter fruit, but the ordinary butter fruit has a bland aroma, a lot of pulp, and doesn't taste smooth and delicate.

The farm's butterberries are a superior variety improved by Teacher Luman, which cannot be compared with those wild common varieties. As soon as they hit the market, they were instantly swept away by passers-by.

Of course, it's not to say that everything in the Weiguang specialty store sells so well. After this period of operation, the public is no longer so curious about the Weiguang commercial district, and sees it more as a slightly upscale free market.