All realms have enabled me to achieve the Great Dao.

After the meal, everyone helped clean up. Once that was done, the women of the village sat together by the fire, chatting.

Zhou Yongcheng and some other young people went to play cards, since the New Year was coming soon and they wanted to have some fun.

On the other side, the older men sat together chatting and discussing what Zhou Yongcheng had just said.

“What Yongcheng did is a bit unfair. I invested so much and built such a large breeding farm, and he actually pulled this stunt,” Zhou Guoqiao said.

"Guoqiao, don't be too greedy. Even if you raise thirty cows, you can still make several million a year. Although you've been in the stone industry all these years, can you make that much money in a year? To put it another way, if you had such a good feed formula, would you sell the feed to the villagers so cheaply?"

Zhou Guohua is Zhou Guoqiao's older brother. He speaks his mind and is not afraid of offending his younger brother.

"He should have made it clear from the beginning. Coming here now is just blatantly preventing us from making money."

Although Hu Xilin also raised about fifty cattle, he didn't say much. He knew that if he displeased Zhou Yongcheng, the village might not have any feed to use next year.

At that point, let alone making money, whether or not farming will even be possible will be a question.

He is not Zhou Guoqiao. Zhou Guoqiao was too greedy and had no long-term vision. He only cared about making a lot of money quickly. No wonder he couldn't make a big profit in the stone industry. Many of his clients may have been taken advantage of.

“Guoqiao, if you can’t drink, don’t drink too much. If you drink too much, go back to sleep. There are some things you can’t say carelessly. Yongcheng didn’t force you to invest so much money in the livestock farm. Last year, he made a lot of money and came back only because he saw that our village was poor, so he let us raise cattle so that we could earn some money at home. That’s his way of thinking. You’ve been out there for so many years and have millions in assets, but I haven’t seen you spend a single penny to install streetlights in the village or do any good deeds.” An elder spoke up.

This grandfather used to be a village official. Although he is old, he still sees things very clearly.

Zhou Guoqiao has been away from home for most of the years, not returning for more than ten or twenty years, only occasionally coming back for the Chinese New Year in recent years.

Not long after they started talking, Zhou Guoqiao's son, Zhou Yongdong, came over and pulled his father away.

"I really don't know what to say about Guo Qiao. He always wants to get rich quick. There's no such thing as a free lunch."

"Too selfish, only thinking of himself."

When he returned home that evening, his second uncle relayed what Zhou Guoqiao had said. Zhou Yongcheng listened, smiled, and said nothing more.

The next day, people drove up early in the morning to buy fish.

"Boss, is there a purchase limit on fish this year?"

"No, as long as you can fit it in, two or three hundred pounds is enough to sell," Zhou Yongcheng said with a smile.

When the guests arrived at the dam, they were startled to see the fish in the fishpond.

"Boss, what do you feed these fish? How come they're so big?"

"It's a kind of nutritious feed. The fish you bought last year were fed this way too. I don't need to say more about how it tastes."

"Two, please."

The first person who bought fish had just left when several cars arrived.

Since there were no purchase restrictions this year, many people bought a lot of fish, mostly over 100 jin (50 kg), indicating that they were not short of money.

Some people weren't so extravagant; they only bought half, and even half weighed several dozen kilograms.

On the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, people still came to buy fish, and Zhou Yongcheng did not refuse them. He sold them directly. There were too many fish in the fishpond, and he only sold about 10,000 catties. Only about 10,000 catties yielded a little over 100 fish.

The main problem is that he didn't advertise. Most of the people who came to buy fish were his old customers from last year, and the rest were people referred by them.

"Yongcheng, there are too many fish, and not many have been sold. If we put them back into the fishpond to feed them, they'll probably grow into giants," Uncle said.

"What's there to be afraid of? Let them grow and see how big they can get."

"Brother, aren't you afraid the fish will be too big and you won't be able to catch them?" Zhou Yongming said.

"We'll catch even the biggest fish," Zhou Yongcheng said with a smile.

Around noon, Zheng Daonan arrived at the village by car.

Zheng Daonan saw the posts on Zhou Yongqiang's WeChat Moments and learned that Zhou Yongcheng's fishpond was catching fish. He still vividly remembered the taste of the fish from Zhou Yongcheng's fishpond.

Later, Zheng Daonan learned from Zhou Yongcheng and others that the fish in the fishpond were fed pure feed. Zheng Daonan also took some feed produced by the feed factory in the town for testing. The test results showed that the feed was extremely nutritious, even more nutritious than human nutritional supplements, and contained some unknown substances that could not be detected.

It's worth noting that the cattle and sheep raised in Qingshui Village are only fed a portion of their feed, with the majority being ordinary grass. The quality and taste of the beef are already worlds apart, and the fish raised on pure feed have an even more exceptional flavor.

So when he saw Zhou Yongqiang catching fish on his WeChat Moments, he called to ask and found out that the fish were available for purchase. Only then did he come to Qingshui Village to get some fish to take back, whether for his own consumption or as gifts for friends.

When Zheng Daonan arrived, Zhou Yongcheng and the others were having a meal. His second uncle offered him some food, and since Zheng Daonan had become familiar with his second uncle and the others, he didn't stand on ceremony.

After the meal, Zheng Daonan explained his purpose.

"How many fish do you want?" Zhou Yongcheng asked.

"It all depends on how much Mr. Zhou is prepared to sell," Zheng Daonan said confidently.

Zhou Yongcheng scanned the fishpond with his divine sense. There were still many fish in the pond, and the fish that had been sold were only a drop in the ocean.

"The two fishponds together weigh over a million catties, and we won't sell any fish weighing less than 20 catties. Can you eat that much?"

Zheng Daonan did the math in his head. Even if it was a million catties of fish, at a price of a thousand yuan per catty, that would be a billion yuan, which is a bit too much.

Can I buy it in two separate transactions?

"Okay, next July then."

The fish in the fishpond are growing too fast from the feed, so they need to be disposed of.

Zheng Daonan immediately made a phone call and had ten large trucks specially designed for transporting fish sent out from the city.

In the afternoon, Zhou Yongcheng called his brothers to catch fish again. With many hands making light work, they caught more than 500,000 catties of fish in a day or two. This time, they finally managed to bring up all the fish in the fishpond that weighed more than 60 catties. Only those that weighed less than 60 catties were left. They will grow to be big fish weighing more than 100 catties by June or July next year.

After Zheng Daonan and the others left the truck carrying the fish, he also had someone transfer the money to Zhou Yongcheng's account before leaving by car.

One-third of the fish in the fishpond have been sold, and Zhou Yongcheng asked his second uncle to buy a batch of fish to put in next year.

At the end of the year, my second uncle and his family settled the profits from the fishpond with Zhou Yongcheng. The money mainly came from the fish caught by some lucky anglers, as well as from the sale of tea.

Zhou Yongcheng gave one-tenth of the money earned from the fishpond to his second uncle, which amounted to more than ten million yuan.

Uncle Er and the others refused to accept the money, but Zhou Yongcheng said that they would have paid the same amount to others anyway, so why should they let others earn the money? So he forced Honghou to transfer the money to Uncle Er.

Another year has passed, and the village is even more lively than last year. After the New Year, people come and go. Zhou Yongcheng took Lü Su and his brothers to visit his aunt's house. On the ninth day of the first lunar month, his second uncle's daughter, Zhou Yaya, got married.

After Zhou Yaya got married, Zhou Yongcheng and the others returned to the city. They spent a day or two socializing in the city, and some of their close friends hadn't gone out yet, so they wanted to get together and have a few drinks.