"Ye Xiaochen, your method is really effective. My Ice Lantern Haworthia has taken a huge turn for the better."
This was a message from Li Tingting.
After Ye Xiaochen saw it, he smiled and sent a message: "I've helped you so much. How are you going to thank me?"
"Then how do you want me to thank you?"
Li Tingting sent a sly emoticon.
"Why don't you give me a present?"
Ye Xiaochen's eyes lit up as he typed a message and sent it out.
"Sure, what kind of present would you like?"
Li Tingting had been led into a trap by Ye Xiaochen.
"You'll give it to me if I tell you?"
"Of course, as long as I can do it."
"Why don't you use the pendant around your neck?"
Ye Xiaochen saw that Li Tingting had taken the bait and immediately sent a message.
After waiting for a while, Li Tingting still did not send a message.
Ye Xiaochen was depressed. It seemed that Li Tingting was unwilling!
Just as he was about to send a message to tease him, Li Tingting suddenly sent a message.
"This won't do."
Li Tingting's message revealed a kind of determination, indicating that this pendant was very important to him.
"Why not? Is it very precious? "
Ye Xiaochen was a little disappointed.
"Yeah, it's the only memento my mother left me."
After a while, Li Tingting sent a message.
Ye Xiaochen suddenly felt a faint sadness from this message.
He did not know how to continue.
This pendant was left to Li Tingting by her mother. Naturally, it had a special meaning and was very precious.
"Sorry, I didn't know that your mother had passed away."
Ye Xiaochen was silent for a moment before sending a message to express his apology.
"What are you talking about? My mother is alive and well."
Li Tingting's mother sent an angry emoji.
Ye Xiaochen was stunned. Didn't you say that the pendant was the only thing your mother left behind?
"I'm sorry, I thought …"
Ye Xiaochen quickly replied.
"It's nothing. I didn't make it clear. Actually, it doesn't matter if I tell you. My mother is now in a mental hospital. She has been there for many years. After my father divorced my mother, he found another one. He even cut off his father-son relationship with my grandfather. I've been living with my grandfather since I was young."
After a long time, Li Tingting sent another message.
However, there was a lot of information in the message. Ye Xiaochen was shocked when she read it.
He didn't expect that Li Tingting, who looked so intellectual, had such an unfortunate past.
It was hard to imagine. Her mother had gone crazy, and her father had found another woman. He didn't even want her anymore. She could only rely on her grandfather. That kind of tragic experience was really hard to imagine.
Suddenly, he felt a deep sense of pity for Li Tingting. He really didn't know how she could bear it.
"Li Tingting, you're so strong!"
Ye Xiaochen sighed and sent this message.
He didn't know what to say. Perhaps Li Tingting had been through so much and didn't need to be comforted. He felt a little pretentious.
"Anyway, I'm used to it. Okay, let's not talk about these things. Ye Xiaochen, why are you only interested in the pendant around my neck? Do you have a motive?"
Li Tingting quickly sent another message.
After Ye Xiaochen saw it, he was immediately embarrassed.
Didn't he want Li Tingting's WeChat because he wanted something?
"How could that be? Your pendant doesn't look very valuable at first glance. I just thought that since you're wearing it, it must have some special meaning. I wanted to see if you were really willing to give it to me as a gift."
Ye Xiaochen wouldn't admit it. He directly made up an excuse.
If it weren't for the fact that Li Tingting's past was too tragic and he felt pity for her, he might have said it directly.
But now, he really didn't want to hurt Li Tingting's heart.
Anyone who approached her for a certain purpose would feel uncomfortable.
"Then I believe you."
On the other side, in an apartment building in Sha City.
Li Tingting was lying on the bed with her phone in her hand. She saw the message from Ye Xiaochen and pressed the black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of her nose.
In fact, when Ye Xiaochen mentioned the pendant, she recalled the scene when she first met Ye Xiaochen.
Could it be that Ye Xiaochen was interested in the pendant around her neck and stared at her neck?
If that was the case, she would definitely be depressed to death. But now that she saw Ye Xiaochen's reply, she secretly heaved a sigh of relief in her heart.
She felt that she was thinking too much. After all, the pendant was very ordinary. It was an amulet that her mother specially bought for her when she went to Mount Heng with her mother to pray.
"Sigh, I'm still too kind."
Ye Xiaochen chatted with Li Tingting for a while more before turning off wechat. She sighed.
Anyway, the pendant was with Li Tingting. It couldn't run away. There would always be a chance.
Another three days passed.
The expert group stayed in Jing County for almost a week. They were finally ready to leave.
The main reason was that the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching. It was fine for the foreign experts, but the domestic experts attached great importance to the Mid-Autumn Festival. This was a festival for family reunions. Naturally, they had to go back to reunite with their families.
On this day, many of the main leaders of Jing County came to send them off.
Ye Xiaochen also drove them to the highway.
They would go directly to Sha City. As for Yang City, they wouldn't go. The leaders of Yang City were disappointed.
They had planned to keep the expert group for a few more days, but they didn't expect to waste all their time in Jing County.
Of course, the people of Yang City were still very happy. After all, Ye Xiaochen, a top botanist, had come from Yang City. After all, the expert group had been in Jing County for a long time and had been engaged in academic exchanges with Ye Xiaochen.
As for the teams from other cities who had been waiting in Yang City for a long time, they were even more depressed.
The next day after the expert group left, a deputy director of Yang City's Ministry of Agriculture personally delivered a stainless steel signboard with the words "Provincial Key Demonstration Farm of Yang City" and the relevant audit documents.
Although it was only a Provincial Key Demonstration Farm, it was extremely rare. In the entire Southern Province, there were very few farms that could receive this signboard. The main reason was that the threshold was too high.
Moreover, these farms were all large-scale and had strong backgrounds.
It was definitely a first for Ye Xiaochen's small farm.
To Ye Xiaochen, this signboard was very useful.
Ye Xiaochen treated the deputy director to a home-cooked meal at home.
The deputy director was very polite to Ye Xiaochen and didn't put on airs.
Before he left, Ye Xiaochen even gave him a few bags of pickled cabbage.
After the deputy director ate the pickled cabbage, he was completely addicted to the taste and was naturally very happy. It was better than giving him anything else.
"Son, isn't this signboard very good?"
His mother looked at the signboard in the living room and asked curiously.
"Of course. As long as an ordinary farm has this signboard, its value will immediately skyrocket."
Ye Xiaochen smiled.
"I see. That's great."
His mother beamed with joy.
She was happy as long as she could make the farm better.
"It's a pity that it's only a Provincial Key Demonstration Farm. It would be even better if it was a National Key Demonstration Farm."
Ye Xiaochen sighed.
For the current him, it was already good enough to get a Provincial Key Demonstration Farm.
The National Key Demonstration Farm was even higher. They wouldn't give him a National Key Demonstration Farm just because he was a top botanist.
As for the Provincial Key Demonstration Farm, Yang City probably spent a lot of money to get it for him.
Ye Xiaochen was now a representative of Yang City in the field of botany and agriculture.
Now that the expert group was mentioned, the first thing that came to mind was Ye Xiaochen.
Even a top expert like Academician Yang wanted to pay a visit. Everyone in Yang City was very proud of him.
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