The rice seeds were precisely optimized by Shuzhen on purpose, and the community members treated them like treasures, pouring worm castings into the fields as if they were free. A thriving growth was inevitable.
Even the corn and soybeans, ridiculed by old members in secret as pure nonsense, not reliable at all, were intercropped with corn, potatoes, and cabbage three times a year, now growing vibrant and lush. Planting a few rows of soybeans followed by a couple of rows of corn didn't result in the anticipated mess; the soybean pods were densely packed, and the corn stalks mostly bore two ears at the top, both quite long, thick, and big, promising a good harvest.