Greenhouse vegetables made the Lin Family wealthy, and many in the village envied them.
Anning clearly understood that others also wanted to grow greenhouse vegetables but lacked the technology.
Since they were all fellow villagers, Anning naturally didn't want to keep it to herself, and she readily agreed to teach the villagers how to grow vegetables.
Aside from greenhouse vegetables, Anning had some other ideas.
She discussed them with Lin Aiguo.
"Father, I want us to contract the mountains in our village and also that big pond in our village."
Lin Aiguo was solely focused on the greenhouse vegetables and didn't want to get involved in anything else.
"Why contract those?"
Anning smiled, "We can't just grow greenhouse vegetables forever, right? While we've made good money by pioneering this, growing these vegetables doesn't require highly specialized skills. Give it a few years, and everyone for miles around might start growing them too, and then we might not be able to sell them at a good price anymore."
"So what would we do with the contracted forests and mountains?"
Lin Aiguo still didn't understand.
Smiling, Anning explained: "We could plant fruit trees. There are many fruit trees on our village's mountains. I was thinking of contracting them and grafting good varieties, and in a few years, we could have fruit. We could sell it or make our own canned fruit, juice, dried fruit. This is more sustainable than growing greenhouse vegetables. Plus, we could use the pond to raise fish and shrimp."
Lin Aiguo considered Anning's suggestions for a long time before making up his mind.
He was naturally conservative and hesitant about trying new things.
Seeing his hesitation, Anning suggested: "Why don't you talk it over with my uncle?"
Lin Aiguo nodded, "Alright, I'll discuss it with your uncle later."
While they were talking, they heard a thumping sound at the gate—it seemed someone was knocking.
Anning quickly stood up to open the door.
When the door opened, Anning saw Lin Anjie wearing a bright red down jacket standing outside.
Instantly, Anning's face darkened, "What are you doing here?"
Lin Anjie flipped her hair with a somewhat smug smile, "I came back to visit. What, can't I return home?"
"This isn't your home."
Lin Aiguo, hearing the commotion, came out and saw Lin Anjie's infuriating demeanor. Unable to restrain himself, he grabbed a broom and swung it at her.
Lin Anjie jumped in fright.
While dodging, she quickly said, "Dad, why are you hitting me? I've earned some money outside, and I just wanted to come back and take care of you."
"Get out!"
Lin Aiguo threw the broom at Lin Anjie: "We don't need your care. I'd be afraid of being poisoned by whatever you've bought."
"Dad."
Lin Anjie called out again, "I really did make money. I made quite a lot. I... I just wanted to come back and visit, and also to pick up my residency booklet."
"Your residency booklet is with the Su family."
Lin Aiguo pointed to the door, "I've already cut ties with you. Don't call me father anymore, and I don't have a daughter like you. Take your things to the Su family."
"The Su family?"
Lin Anjie frowned.
Suddenly recalling the greenhouses she saw in the fields when entering the village, she ventured a guess, "Dad, who planted the vegetables in the greenhouses?"
"Why are you asking?"
Lin Aiguo gasped for breath, turning around to grab another stick.
"I... I was just thinking..."
Before Lin Anjie could finish, Anning smiled and said: "It was planted by dad and my uncle. During the summer holidays, I read some books on agriculture and thought that growing greenhouse vegetables could be profitable, so I learned the technique. Later, my uncle thought it was a good idea, so he bought the materials to test it out."
Anning said this deliberately.
She had guessed Lin Anjie's intentions and said this to make her regret and feel miserable: "I am studying agriculture at university now, and in the future not only will I help dad grow greenhouse vegetables, but I will also help our family grow tasty fruits, raise pigs and fish. In a few years, our Lin family will become wealthy."
Anning spoke with a lifted chin, feeling quite proud.
Lin Anjie was startled and disbelief filled her eyes as she watched Anning, whose eyes sparkled with knowledge of planting and breeding.
How could it be?
How is it possible?
The greenhouse vegetables were actually suggested by Anning? And it was farming technology she learned?
"Exactly."
Anning smiled again: "You might not know yet, but Brother Xue Feng also got into university, a university in the Capital, studying computer science. Now, he's really good with computers."
Lin Anjie's face quickly changed.
Her complexion turned pale, a hint of pain flashing across her eyes: "No, you're lying, how could you grow greenhouse vegetables? You..."
"It was Anning who learned it first."
Lin Aiguo, holding a stick, hit Lin Anjie: "Anning is good at studying, she learns everything quickly. It's just greenhouse vegetables, what can't she do?"
"How could this be?"
Lin Anjie still couldn't believe it, shaking her head vigorously: "Impossible, impossible... If that's true, then what's the point for me..."
Anning sneered in her heart.
She knew she had guessed completely correctly.
"Don't wail at our doorstep."
The stick in Lin Aiguo's hand hit Lin Anjie, she almost couldn't feel any pain.
She walked towards the Su family, lost and devastated, while continually mumbling about it being impossible.
After Lin Anjie left, Anning dragged Lin Aiguo back into the house.
She brewed a pot of tea, in a very good mood, she poured a cup for both herself and Lin Aiguo. Holding the teacup, she drank tea and cracked sunflower seeds, living a truly leisurely life.
In contrast to Anning's good mood, Lin Anjie was feeling extremely miserable.
She thought a lot on her way to the Su family, her emotions particularly unstable.
She recalled many things from her past life.
When she returned to Xiaogou Village in her past life, she only knew that Su Zhiqiang made a fortune and saw that he was particularly good to Anning, so she thought Su Zhiqiang was capable and treasured his wife, a rare good man.
But only after she married Su Zhiqiang did she realize that this man was only dominant at home.
He was just an ordinary rural man, only adept in farming, with no grand abilities.
Furthermore, he was foolishly filial and didn't know how to cherish his wife, really having no good qualities.
Su Zhiqiang couldn't compare to Xue Feng, at least in her past life Xue Feng initially was especially caring towards her, but Su Zhiqiang never said a sweet word to her.
She originally thought, for the sake of leading a good life later, money she couldn't spend in a lifetime, all these she could bear.
But now she knew, it wasn't like that at all.
In her past life, Su Zhiqiang was able to become wealthy because he married Anning.
Originally, whether it was growing greenhouse vegetables, or later contracting mountains to plant fruit trees and starting a factory, these were all Anning's ideas. The Su family's industry, originally, was all driven by Anning.
Without Anning, with the Su family's personalities, it would be impossible for them to become wealthy.
Lin Anjie thought, she struggled for such a long time, spent so much effort to marry Su Zhiqiang, what was the point?
Without Anning, Su Zhiqiang couldn't possibly become wealthy, and following him, she would only endure poverty her whole life.
Moreover, what Lin Anjie couldn't accept the most, was that Xue Feng, after not being with her, actually went to university.
Xue Feng learned computer science, a highly popular technology in the future. If Xue Feng mastered it, he could also earn a lot of money.
She...
Actually, for that scumbag Su Zhiqiang, abandoned the genuinely caring Xue Feng, ending up deserted by all, with nothing left.
Lin Anjie painfully clutched her hair.
Only now did she realize that in her previous life, it wasn't that Anning snatched away her good fate, but because her own selfishness harmed Anning for a lifetime.
If she hadn't eloped, Anning would not have married Su Zhiqiang.
Then, Anning would have gone to university, with Anning's intelligence and diligence, her future would have been better than in her previous life.
Thinking all this, Lin Anjie laughed.
She laughed incredibly bitterly, the laughter filled with mockery.