Chapter 18 Developing His Own Farm

Susan was with him at his studio that evening and he attempting to do a sculpture with her as model.She had wanted to lie down and relax with stomach facing down wards but Teddy wanted another better angle.So he told her to stand up on her toes stretching herself straight upward,with both hands pointing skyward.The face would also faced upward looking toward the sky.This way she would have shown off her vast potential,huge boobs and her good figure.Adorably a very beautiful posture but a bit tiresome for her.

Naturally she refused saying,"It is too tiresome for me I would not do it"."Yes - you will, because this way, I can express your beautiful self better,also this posture could make this sculpture of mine a master piece",he explained."Okay.okay, I will try to be more accommodating you can post for a while when tired just relax and lie around,then continue again".Then only she claimed down and followed his advice.

"Alright if you say so",she agreed.""That is a good girl,just relax and stretched yourself to the position I required",said Teddy.She did as told and stretched herself facing slightly to the right.Teddy went near to her to adjust her position and hands pointing upwards.At this she bend over to kiss him."Oh dear not not now,later after I have chiseled a rough outline first",he stopping her short.

With her in position he quickly chopped and chiseled her figure on a piece of wood.Susan feeling a bit restless moved over to him to see what he has done."What??? Is that me?","You must be kidding???",she said."No,no, not yet- still a long way to go,I think you have to come here for at least a week for me to complete",he said.Susan holding him lovingly tight kissed him with her body closely rubbing him.

He could not resist her temptation,carried her to a nearby cough.Continue kissing back feverishly all over her.Before long they were locked in sexual acts.Soon after they laid there naked and exhausted.Susan whispered into Teddy's ear,"You know what? I am pregnant",she exclaimed."What??? are you sure?",he asked."Pretty sure,it is yours I am positive about it,what is the matter, are you not happy?",asked Susan.

Teddy was stunt and offered no reply at that instance,then he replied,"Why should I be, I love you that is all that matters,let us get married,Susan",he said."Not so fast wait for the moment I am fully divorced from my husband first",she further said.
Yes accordingly Susan had already filed papers for the divorce , citing adultery on the part of her husband.Apparently her husband wanted to marry a second wife and she disagreed. Anyway like it or not her husband was already living with her.

"Alright,we marry after your divorced",said Teddy.There was no doubt Teddy was madly in love with her although she was a couple of years older than him.With that settled Teddy told Susan of a rubber land with small acreages of durian was for sale and the locality was on the other side of the village,as such that land is far off from the farm.Susan gave her permission for him to negotiate with the land lord.Susan even suggested she financed the whole project.

Teddy was reluctant to accept her offer.She getting agitated told him," What is mine will soon be your as well,so what is the problem?I know you have some money but that could be used as we developed the property",said Susan.With that their fate were sealed with further kissings and love making.

Teddy negotiated with the owner of that land, thirty odd acres plot.With all parties agreed they finalized all details at the lawyer's office.Susan surprised Teddy with a full payment in cash.Yes,Susan was loaded,as she also had her own business in beauty consultation and boutique.Thereafter the land was now owed by Teddy and Susan.

With that land ready to be occupied he wanted to send his "kapala" over there to overseer everything when he was not around,but on second thought he changed his mindset.He cannot take somebody from the farm.Obviously that will easily maddened Rosie his Boss.However Ah Chan suggested to him another person,her cousin Ah Fong.
Well with no better choice he agreed to take her in.An introduction followed where he interviewed her.

Ah Fong was a tall woman,very elegantly good looking with extremely good figure.She had a very cheerful look on her,so after the interview Teddy offered her the job.She was to report for duty almost immediately and Ah Chan was to guide her for a few days.At the same time Ah Fong was told to help recruit some workers for that orchard.

The plot of land was four to five plots away from the main road with good access roads leading to it.The front of this land had about fifty odd durian trees,unfortunately all were seedlings.The rest of the area were old rubber and in tapping.The first task for his new "kapala" was to clear the inter-rows of the durian of noxious shrubs and some lallang.

She was allowed to recruit five workers initially,a bit too few but that was to trained her how to handle them.Well with Ah Chan's experience aiding her there, all problems were easily overcome.Within a week or so all the shrugs were dug,so were those lallang and disposed by burnt away.Her next task was to mark up those trees which were non fruit bearing and those bearing but whose fruits were below par and small.All these will take time to identify.

Next there the remaining old rubber where tapping has to continue.Those old tappers who wanted to work were retained but as usual there few who chose to leave with their previous employer.So Ah Fong had to help Teddy recruit some tappers from her village.That was easy as many villagers knew her well so quickly the recruitment were over.Very soon the tapping field returned to normal without any significant lost.

The old shed which acted as a house was dismantled.The old timber were re-used to construct a fence area for chickens to scoop in,especially for those layers.Teddy had selected an area a short distance into the old rubber.The fence area was constructed by carpenters recommended by the new "kapala".The fenced area was built strongly with top netting as well.A batch of chicken,about fifty of them were purchased and kept in that caged area for at least a week before being freed to roam about on their own.Daily feeding was done by a worker at regulated hours.

An Asli guard was recruited to guard the new farm.Actually he was a relative of the guard of Rosie's farm. A tiny shed was built for him and family but the family preferred to camp in the nearby jungle,so only he stayed at the shed when on duty.With that arrangement the property is well secured.

A small high ground was selected and leveled as the new bungalow site.It was situated near the center, by the side of a stream in the middle of the land.When clearing this site it was surrounded by old rubber trees.A contractor was employed to do the construction.Teddy had intended to built a small hut Susan made the plan bigger with two huge rooms upstairs and the ground floor will be the sitting and dinning room,coupled with a kitchen.

The "kapala" was always kept busy with her work on the durian patch and the tapping areas.Similarly all the tappers were required to coagulate their own latex and even mill them manually.However Teddy soon got them a small sheeting battery,so much manual work were cut down and certainly not so exhaustive for the tappers.All the workers finished their work early but not for Ah Fong for she had to keep some records in the office before leaving.Very often Teddy will there to meet her to see what she had to report to him.

All work went on smoothly for a couple of months before Teddy decided to have a boundary drain dug all round the property.To cut down cost he brought a backhoe for the job.A driver was recruited for the job,at the same time he encouraged one or two
female workers to learn how to operate it as well.The driver laughed at the idea but he being a bit of boaster and bragged a lot, like to show off a bit on in front of the young women, foolishly taught those women how to handle it.These women had driving license so no big deal and within two or three months they already were capable of handling the backhoe.Besides they were more gentle with the vehicle.With them knowing the trade the driver was relieved of his duties due to poor performances.So those two females took over the wheel on shifts.,one in the morning and the other in the afternoon.

"Women,where can???"was the outcry when he put them to drive that small monster but two months later they were able of handling it.No doubt they were slower but who cares and employing them were a lot cheaper and easier to control.No this and that.So that stopped and crushed those comments.

With the trench dug the soil,the soil were place back on his land and leveled into a small road for easier access around,the side nearer the trench were planted with some common varieties of pineapples and cuttings of sweet potatoes were also planted by its side.Overcrowding huh?wait,watch as they grow.Tapioca and Sugar cane were also established in rows along the other side,while seeds of pumpkins etc.were planted in between them.Well when all grow well there will be a jungle of food.Idea acceptable or not.

The durian season soon arrived and all the useless seedling trees which bore small and tasteless fruits were marked up,after taking a hard look at them Teddy decided to destroy all those trees with immediate effect.
Susan however was against it but gave way as Teddy insisted of eradicating them and have replanted with new clones.A chain-saw man was engaged to fell those trees instead of digging them up with the backhoe solely because the drivers were still inexperienced to handle that felling job.He did not want to take the risk.

The trees were thus fell with its timber stacked and covered up for future used.Then only did he send his drivers in to dig up all the rootings of those felt durian trees.
All the dug roots were stacked together in huge stacks and set on fire when dried.The dug hole were then limed.New planting hole were then lined up.Huge planting holes were dug some 10'x10' square and 3' deep.The hole was then filled with nearby top soil to the brim.

Those planting holes near the stream were planted with D 24 and "Gan Yau",a Thai clone. The holes further from the stream were planted with Perak Champion or clone D 101? Oh my gosh! I think I am wrong here.Shall correct at an appropriate time.Other good clones like"cat mountain king" and "red shrimps" were also planted but only few.
10 ozs. of Christmas Island Rock Phosphate were mixed into the planting hole before transplanting.

A huge vegetable basket was utilized to protect the new plant from the blazing sun and strong rain.To keep the basket firmly attached a stick (over the newly planted durian) was planted in near the plant.Durian requires a lot of shed during its initial stage of growth.The basket will also be raised as the plant gain heights.
As if insufficient Teddy planted some good varieties of papayas in the same big patch of the planting hole.the same holes were also planted with tapioca,opposite the papaya.This naturally was against all planting techniques - little wander Teddy is one crazy planter,but believe me it works.

The important thing is it worked to provide the required sheds for the durian especially when the bamboo baskets rotted way after more than a year or so in the field. Besides,all these also produced some extra income for the maintenance of the durian.The tapioca and over-ripe papayas also provided food for the chickens around.With that durian actually matured earlier, bore fruits after sightly more than three years.All pruning of any branches were strictly prohibited.His "kapala did a great job adhering to that.

The old rubber trees were put into full exploitation with the introduction of slaughtered tapping with drastic application of yield stimulant.With the field fully exploited a contractor was engaged to uproot all those trees.The good contract was accepted for the felling with the contractor taking away all the existing timber.All remains were to be burnt away the cost of the contractor.Most important those trees must be uprooted by bull dozing.As the contractor was extracting the timber he was given extra time to do whatever he can to remove all the timber therein.

The burning was done in stages in huge stacks of the complete rooting systems and all the branches which were not wanted.The contractor also gave a free round of plowing and harrowing of the soil of that field.That was an excellent bargain for his land in exchange for all the rubber timber within that field.

Lining of the field followed thereafter.The middle portion of the field were to be planted with durians while the sides were planted with a number of assorted fruits,you name them they have them.Clones were those clones already mentioned.The planting of the various fruits were planted in all the four sides of the orchard.With the on set of the rainy season in late September onwards.With some extra workers they were able to fully plant up the durian before the rainy season ended.

A large varieties of bananas were also planted in the middle of planting rows.Water melon seeds were also planted in the inter-rows of the field.Other melons were also established.Seeds of pumpkins were also similarly scattered within.Not covered parts were stuffed up with cuttings of sweet potatoes.All these will soon bring in some income for the orchard.

The bungalow had long been built with a few "jambu Air" or water apple trees around the bungalow and orchids also newly planted by Susan in front of the bungalow.The entrance road towards the bungalow were planted with two rows of fragrance and some MAWA coconuts.Just at its back were two rambutan trees of red and yellow varieties.It was a beautiful sight to behold,a well established orchard.

The completion of the orchard made Susan very happy and by then she had given birth to a set of twins.However she never stayed long in the orchard only visiting whenever occasionally.Actually she had also brought a beautiful bungalow in town for her family.Teddy went back to her on week ends.Together they now have a beautiful family.Another joy was that Susan was expecting another baby in another few months.Her divorce was also finalized with her gaining a huge chunk of her ex-husband fortune.However,she and Teddy still were not married.

With the orchard running successfully Teddy proposed to her and at last they were married in secret,and non of their friends knew it.Why?.With this he had surely put many women down.Most important Rosie who was also Susan's best friend.Having made that decision he had to face it sooner and later.Can he overcome the aggressive Rosie?.Other friends like Jennifer the problem never existed as she only want to have fun with him and thus relationship continued as she only wanted to be his mistress nothing more.Janet was with Jennifer.The others left to be seen.

The orchard now had twenty workers with Ah Fong the "kapala".She was completely trust worthy so Teddy was never at that orchard until late afternoon when all operations in the farm were completed.Like the farm his chicken breeding similarly was a success.Beside the guard he also have a dozen goose running around maintain guard at the orchard. These goose made hell lot of noise in the presence of strangers.

His wife had wanted to buy another property but Teddy was not interested at that moment.However that idea was kept on hold until he makes a final decision.