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"Rumble—rumble—"

The tranquility of Jiangjia Village was shattered early the next morning by a deafening roar of engines!

The villagers thought it was an earthquake, and they all ran out of their houses in their pajamas.

However, when they saw the huge convoy approaching on the newly built Jiangwanshan Avenue at the village entrance, everyone was dumbfounded.

Leading the way were two yellow excavators, each taller than a house, their tracks making a creaking sound as they pressed against the asphalt road.

Following behind were bulldozers, road rollers, heavy trucks... one after another, forming a line hundreds of meters long. The scene was even more exaggerated than when the county was building a national highway!

"My God! What... what's going on? Is our village getting a high-speed rail line?"

"Judging by this direction, they're heading towards that wasteland behind the mountain! Didn't Chenwazi say he was going to build a greenhouse to grow vegetables? This...this is making a huge commotion!"

The villagers were buzzing with discussion, all following the convoy towards the back of the mountain, eager to see what kind of "greenhouse" required such a grand display.

Jiang Jianmin, the second uncle, was also mixed in with the crowd. He stood with his hands behind his back, looking like an expert, and curled his lip as he looked at the brand-new construction vehicles.

"Wasteful! Pure wasteful junk!"

Jiang Jianmin said sarcastically to the people beside him, "That piece of land is so bad, I can barely even scratch it with a hoe. But he's got an excavator and a bulldozer going on, burning through fuel and money!"

"Once those cabbages are grown, I reckon each cabbage will sell for a hundred yuan, and that won't even cover the cost!"

Those around him listened and thought he made sense, but no one dared to agree with him.

After all, Jiang Chen has created too many miracles, and no one dares to make any definitive statements.

At this moment, Jiang Chen was wearing a white safety helmet, holding a huge engineering blueprint, standing on the hillside, directing the site.

Standing next to him were not the village bricklayers, but a group of technicians wearing blue overalls with "China Construction Third Engineering Bureau" printed on their chests.

The project manager at the head of the group was respectfully reporting to Jiang Chen:

"President Jiang, rest assured! As per your request, we will first level and irrigate this fifty acres of land, and then, according to the blueprints, lay thirty-six load-bearing foundations to ensure it can withstand a magnitude 10 earthquake and a category 12 typhoon!"

Jiang Chen nodded and pointed to a spot on the blueprint: "The drainage system here must be of the highest standard. I want to ensure that within a hundred meters of the greenhouse, there will be absolutely no standing water, even in a downpour."

"clear!"

At Jiang Chen's command, dozens of machines started up simultaneously!

The excavator's massive iron arm moved up and down, precisely digging trenches.

The bulldozers roared, smoothing the hard rocks and uneven ground until it was as smooth as a mirror.

Immediately afterwards, a line of concrete mixer trucks drove up and began pouring the foundation.

The villagers had never seen anything like it!

In their minds, building a greenhouse is just a matter of a few bamboo poles and a plastic sheet.

But what we're seeing now is digging foundations and laying reinforced concrete. This... this isn't building a greenhouse, it's clearly building a military fortress!

Jiang Jianmin stared at the concrete, which was deeper and thicker than the foundation of his own house, and his eyes twitched violently.

He couldn't help but mutter another sour remark:

"Nonsense! Utter nonsense! Who builds a cement road right to their fields before they start farming? They're burning money!"

Jiang Chen completely ignored the gossip.

After the foundation was laid, an even more outrageous scene unfolded.

Heavy trucks arrived, carrying bundles of special steel that gleamed with a silvery metallic luster!

With the help of a crane, the workers began to build the framework of the greenhouse.

The massive steel beams were hoisted into the air and precisely connected and welded, and a huge dome, full of modern industrial aesthetics, rose from the barren land at a speed visible to the naked eye!

The sunlight shone on the steel frames, reflecting a dazzling light.

By the afternoon, the main steel frame had been erected.

Another convoy drove up.

But this time, the truck wasn't carrying steel bars and cement, but rather enormous boxes of glass, carefully secured with wooden frames!

"Glass? He...he's going to use glass to build a greenhouse?"

A villager exclaimed in disbelief.

Everyone was stunned by Jiang Chen's wildly imaginative idea!

Using glass to cover a greenhouse... how rich do you have to be to dare to do that! That stuff breaks at the slightest touch, it's more precious than a gold nugget!

Uncle Jiang Jianmin's mouth was wide open, and he couldn't close it for a long time.

He felt that his understanding was being relentlessly and repeatedly rubbed into the ground by Jiang Chen using money.

Just then, Jiang Chen walked up to his mother, Wang Xiuying, with a smile and personally put a red safety helmet on her head.

"Mom, come on, let me take you to see our vegetable garden."

Wang Xiuying was a little dazed by her son's actions. Looking at the "vegetable shed" in front of her, which was even more impressive than the Great Hall of the People, she felt like she was dreaming.

Jiang Chen, holding his mother's hand, swaggered into the construction site.

As soon as the project manager saw Wang Xiuying, he jogged over with a big, enthusiastic smile on his face and even pretended to pull a small notebook out of his pocket.

"Chief Engineer Wang! You're here! Quickly! Please give us some guidance on our work!"

The project manager pointed to the ground beneath his feet with a serious expression and asked, "Chief Engineer Wang, look, does the depth of the tillage and the texture of the soil meet the highest standards for our No. 1 experimental field?"

"Chief...Chief Engineer?" Wang Xiuying blushed at the title. Having never been an official in her life, she was so nervous that she didn't know where to put her hands.

But when it comes to farming, her ingrained experience immediately comes to mind.

Wang Xiuying squatted down, grabbed a handful of soil, rubbed it in her palm, and then smelled it.

She frowned, and then really put on the airs of a "chief engineer," giving orders and giving instructions.

"This soil won't do! It's too sticky!"

"We need to mix in half more sand and some fermented cow dung as base fertilizer!"

"Also, these clods of soil are too big. We need to use a rotary tiller to break them down into smaller pieces, otherwise the radishes we grow will be misshapen and cracked, and won't grow to a good quality!"

Wang Xiuying spoke eloquently, drawing upon her decades of farming experience.

The project manager was stunned. Although he didn't understand a single word, it didn't stop him from showing an expression of sudden realization and great benefit.

He quickly jotted down notes in his notebook, repeatedly agreeing, "Yes, yes, yes! Chief Engineer Wang is absolutely right! He's truly an expert! I'll have them rectify the issues according to your instructions immediately!"

Looking at the big manager from the city who listened to her so obediently, Wang Xiuying felt an unprecedented sense of satisfaction and pride welling up from the bottom of her heart.

She felt that her farming experience in her entire life had never been valued as much as it was today!

She straightened her back, put her hands behind her back, and began to "inspect" the construction site, pointing out here and criticizing there, acting like a leader.

The surrounding villagers were incredibly envious of this scene.

"Sister-in-law Xiuying is really something now!"

"Absolutely! With such a successful son, even the mother has become a chief engineer!"

Just then, another extended van slowly pulled up at the entrance of the construction site.

The doors opened, and workers carefully lifted out rows of uniquely shaped, precision-engineered machines with flashing blue indicator lights.

"Smart water and fertilizer integrated machine", "Internet of Things environmental sensor", "plant spectrum supplemental lighting"...

These terms, which the villagers had never even heard of, were moved into the enormous glass palace one by one, like props from a science fiction movie.

Wang Dagou, a childhood friend, stood to the side, looking at the complex circuits and sophisticated instruments, scratching his head vigorously, his face full of confusion.

He leaned closer to Jiang Chen, lowered his voice, and asked earnestly, "Brother Chen, I... I'm not very educated, so don't try to fool me."

"With computers and screens like this... if I want to farm here in the future, will I... will I need to get a master's degree first?"

"I'm staring at this thing, I don't even dare touch which one is the switch!"

Jiang Chen burst into laughter when he saw his worried expression.

"Don't worry, Da Gou."

Jiang Chen patted him on the shoulder, his eyes gleaming with confidence.

"No need to take the postgraduate entrance exam."

"What we need to do is make farming so simple that even a three-year-old could do it—it's foolproof!"