Chapter 28
Chapter 28
When all fields were taken back, Xiao Jingting became a small landlord in the village.
After the crops in several medium-grade fields matured one after another, they left enough for themselves to eat and sold other spiritual plants for more than 300 taels of silver. With this amount of silver, Xiao Jingting no longer needed to do everything by himself. For example, he found a few families in the village who didn’t have much land, but had abundant labor force to work for him.
To cultivate the spiritual plants in a few lower-grade fields, Xiao Jingting hired two second-level masters of spiritul plants from the village to take care of them, and only went to see them once every ten days or half a month.
The wages given by Xiao Jingting were not low and he also provided a good meal. So the people who took care of the land of the Xiao family were very grateful to Xiao Jingting.
As the old saying went, “A prodigal who returns is more precious than gold.” Xiao Jingting suddenly became an inspirational role model in the village.
The improvement of his reputation had also brought Xiao Jingting a moderate amount of troubles. For example, women who used to see Xiao Jingting lock his children in the house would now pester him and ask him if he was still looking for someone to work for him. The young boys and girls who used to look at him scornfully in the past now called him brother Xiao sweetly. In the past, Qiu Bai was indifferent to him but now he always came to him and showed concerns about him.
“Green Cloud Grass?” When Xiao Jingting returned from the field, he was grabbed by Xu Muan to talk about what he had seen in the back of the mountain.
Xiao Jingting searched in his memory for this spiritual plant and there was really no impression of this kind of spiritual plant in his mind. Many plants in this world were different from his original world and the original body owner was ignorant and incompetent. Xiao Jingting was dragged down by the original body owner so he knew nothing about these things.
Seeing Xiao Jingting’s bewildered appearance, Xu Muan patiently explained, “Green Cloud Grass is a spirit plant that can help third and fourth level people and demonic beasts advance. Green Cloud Grass has no effect at all until it matures, and when it is close to its maturity, it will emit a strong fragrance. This fragrance will attract all the third and fourth level demon beasts around it, only when Green Cloud Grass is fully mature, will the fragrance disappear.”
“When I went over there today, there was already a third-level demonic python guarding the area, I did not dare to startle it, so I retreated. The Green Cloud Grass should still need six or seven days to mature. It is not far away from our field. If it triggers a battle between demonic beasts, it will easily affect our field.” Xu Muan said.
Xiao Jingting thought for a while and said, “You said that the Green Cloud Grass can also improve the strength of practitioners and help them through a breakthrough.”
Xu Muan nodded and said, “Yes, when Green Cloud Grass matures, crystal clear grass seeds will fall. Taking this seed with water can help one break through the bottleneck.”
“Can we lure that demonic python away and transplant the Green Cloud Grass out of the jungle?” Xiao Jingting asked.
Although he had hired a number of people to help him, Xu Muan was considerate enough to do the household chores and reduce the burden on him. However, Xiao Jingting was still busy all day long. His ability to plant medium-grade fields was limited, no to mention planting high-grade fields.
There were a few third-level Spiritual Plant Masters in the village, however they asked for higher payment. Moreover, they all had their own spirit fields to look after, so it wasn’t cost-effective to invite them over.
Seeing that there was an opportunity to improve their strength right now, Xiao Jingting was reluctant to give it up.
Xu Muan hesitated and said, “Generally speaking, it is hard for Green Cloud Grass to survive after transplanting.”
“Then we better lure the demonic python away and destroy the Green Cloud Grass, it won’t be good if there is an additional advanced monster in the jungle.” Xiao Jingting said.
Xiao Jingting said so, but what he thought was: Xu Muan said that Green Cloud Grass would have a problem to survive after transplanting, which didn’t mean it couldn’t be done! He could try transplanting Green Cloud Grass to then bank of his spiritual spring. Spirit Spring was good! After several careful studies, Xiao Jingting found that the crops he planted could grow well as long as they were irrigated by his spiritual spring.
Xu Muan nodded, pondering over it, and finally saying with some regret: “All right.”
As a matter of fact, Xu Muan was very attracted to Green Cloud Grass. Recently, the food Xu Muan ate, all had strong spiritual energy. Not only Xu Muan’s meridians got healed, but also he had a vague feeling of making breakthrough. However, when Green Cloud Grass matured, it would attract at least five or six third-level or even higher level demonic beasts. Xu Muan weighed up the situation and felt that it was too risky to seek to seize the Green Cloud Grass after it matured.
“Muan, you know a lot!” Xiao Jingting thought it was a little strange. Xu Muan was from a farming family and after marrying Xiao Jingting, he had been living in seclusion. Xiao Jingting didn’t expect Xu Muan to be so knowledgeable and versatile.
Xu Muan hesitated for a moment before confessing: “You have the complete collection of books about spiritual plants in your room, I’ve occasionally flipped through it.”
There was a library in the Xiao Jingting’s room, with many books inside. Most of them were filled with erotic pictures and songs. However, there were still some normal books, a complete collection of books about spiritual plants was one of them.
Although Xu Muan was Xiao Jingting’s wife in name, the original Xiao Jingting didn’t take Xu Muan seriously. In order to survive, Xu Muan always tried to improve himself. In fact, Xu Muan was not allowed to enter Xu Jingting’s study, so Xu Muan would always calculate the time and sneak in when no one was around.
Hearing Xu Muan mentioning the library, Xiao Jingting suddenly remembered those porns and immediately blushed. The original body owner was really too ignorantand didn’t know how to use them.