Chapter 493 - Drainage on a Heavy Rainy Day
The weather in Sichuan and Shu is always related to the rain, and it has not been sunny for a few days, and it has begun to flash and thunder, and it will be a whole day. The torrential rain caused a small flash flood that washed down from the top of the hill and washed down a lot of vegetables.
None of the farm workers rested, one by one, wearing raincoats and holding small bamboo poles, they helped up the fallen seedlings, propped up the bamboo poles, and tied them together to prevent the rain from attacking again.
The water on the main road can only flow to a low place, and Li Qingyun's pond is the lowest place nearby, and the half-filled pond seems to have risen to the shore all of a sudden. Some timid fish, jumping wildly in the dirty water, will often jump to the shore and fall into the mud until they are stuck in the muddy water, plopping and being fed by passing ducks.
The main hill surrounding the small farm was originally divided into nine ponds, but this rainstorm did not settle for a day, so the nine ponds have been connected. No matter what is raised in any pond, it is already chaotic at this time, and seven or eight of the ponds are Chinese soft-shelled turtles, and now there may be how many freshwater fish are mixed in.
When Li Qingyun designed the pond, he already left drainage ditches. However, under such heavy rain, the gutters have long been full, how else to drain the water?
By the time the pumping machine was set up to pump water across the road, the nine ponds should have run out of fish and turtles. However, in order to prevent their villas from being flooded, they still have to pump water.
Li Qingyun was wearing big trousers, shirtless, holding a shovel, and digging drainage ditches while directing workers to pump water. The rain was so heavy that it was beyond the limits of the previous year, and it was time to consider whether there would be flash floods upstream.
Today, the villagers who should have been looking for people to intercede to apply for fish workers are busy working in their fields. There were no tourists today, and Li Qingyun's parents also went to the rice fields to drain water.
"Uncle, uncle......" Mao Mao, wearing a raincoat and holding a bamboo basket in his hand, ran over excitedly and shouted loudly, "What do you see I have in here?"
Li Qingyun looked into his basket, it was actually a basket of snails and a few cyan yellow eels, and immediately asked, "The snails are not small, where did you catch so many?"
"Grandma and grandpa helped me catch it, there are a lot of them in the rice fields. There is no daytime, and the rain is light for a while, and grandma will help me catch so much in a while, and she has more in her basket. I heard my grandmother say that the snails are delicious, I came to ask you, can you make them? I originally wanted to ask my uncle to help me make them, but he said that he was not free, and he had to cook for the guests. Mao Mao complained a little aggrievedly.
"Haha, what's so difficult about this, don't forget, there is a super chef living on my uncle's farm, he is the master of your little chef uncle, amazing. What flavor do you want to eat, tell your uncle?" "It's getting dark, and the rain is about to stop, so it's okay to make some snacks and make a tooth sacrifice."
"Okay, I'll eat at my uncle's place today. No, I'm going to sue SΓΉ Tongtong and invite her to come and eat too. We said that we should share blessings and hardships. After Mao Mao finished speaking, he dropped the basket and ran towards the village.
Li Qingyun shook his head helplessly, beckoned the workers, and asked them to take a while before they could go home for dinner. If you don't play tomorrow, you don't have to smoke.
At this time, Zheng Xinyan was standing by the pond, chatting with Gong Xinghe, looking at the atmosphere in which the two were talking, it seemed that they were talking well, and laughter came from time to time. A middle-aged man, standing not far away with Gong Feiyu, seemed to be a member of his own clan who had come to give them the crippled cheats.
Li Qingyun shouted with a big grin: "Lao Zheng, come and help me cook a snail feast." Old man Gong, you have been here for two days, and you have never had the opportunity to entertain you, it is my fault. If we have time tonight, let's come to my house for a few drinks and try Chef Zheng's craftsmanship by the way. β
Zheng Xinyan naturally had nothing to say, he had already accepted his fate, and when he came to Li Qingyun's house, he was a cook, and he was comfortable doing it, and he was afraid that people would not use him...... Sometimes, he himself feels that he is very cheap, a dignified master of the second realm of spiritual cultivation, who is willing to cook for others as a chef, and if he is not allowed to do it one day, he is worried about falling out of favor.
"Well, I love snails, after the heavy rain, the grass is crawling all over, and when I was talking just now, I wanted to pick up some to cook and eat. It's just that in front of the old man of the palace, how dare I make a mistake, endure it until now, but I didn't expect it to be blessed. Zheng Xinyan excitedly agreed, rubbed his hands, and didn't even care about the old man of the palace, trotted for a while, ran to Li Qingyun, and took the bamboo basket in his hand.
Gong Xinghe observed Zheng Xinyan's happy expression with great interest, as well as his willing humble actions, and he could conclude that this second realm spiritual cultivation was willing to contact Li Qingyun from the bottom of his heart and obey his orders and arrangements.
And Li Qingyun is just a martial cultivator with a particularly strong qi and blood, and his realm is not high, he is only a mid-level realm, but he has an ethereal and free aura on his body, he seems to be extremely confident, and he doesn't seem to care about anything.
"Haha, Li Xiaoyou invited, the old man is very honored. I have long heard that Li Xiaoyou's vegetables and good wine are extremely rare, and today I finally have the opportunity to taste it, not only do I have to go, but I also have to bring two juniors over, please forgive me for disturbing it. Gong Xinghe laughed, seemingly happy to be invited.
The middle-aged man in the distance was extremely surprised, and asked Gong Feiyu in a low voice: "That young man is Li Qingyun, even if his grandfather has entered the third realm of martial cultivation, your grandfather shouldn't use this attitude towards him." This tone of speech is almost the same as that of the masters of the same generation. β
"Uncle Jiu, you don't understand this, don't you? Not to mention the status and background of the rivers and lakes, just because Li Qingyun has such a farm and has elixir resources, it is worthy of his grandfather to treat him differently. You haven't tasted his vegetables and spiritual tea, which are more than one or two percent higher than our family's grade. Gong Feiyu said meaningfully.
"Haven't we tasted his vegetables in Qingheju? It's just that it tastes better, it contains some spiritual energy at the bottom, it is the best tonic for ordinary people, it can strengthen the body and prolong life, but for us cultivators, the effect is very small, it can be ignored, just these things, what special status can they have?" said the middle-aged man disdainfully.
"What kind of spirit plant is that? What kind of stupid person is willing to sell a large number of good things? After my observation, the vegetables sold outside can only be regarded as ordinary spirit plants. And what he eats at home is the real high-quality spirit plant, which is higher than the grade of our family. Uncle Nine, if you don't go, don't regret it. Gong Feiyu said, already shouting grandpa, and quickly followed.
The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, stomped his feet and said, "Just go, I don't believe that the spiritual plants grown by their family can catch up with a thousand-year-old family like ours?"
Because they knew that Zheng Xinyan and the Gong family were trading, Chu Yingtai and Gu Zhaoji did not participate in this kind of dinner, and they also knew how to avoid suspicion.
In the kitchen, Zheng Xinyan said excitedly to Li Qingyun while handling the snails: "That mutilated cheatbook is a good thing, I only looked at the first three pages, and I knew that it was related to our Mingtang Sect." What is our Feng Shui spiritual practice talking about? It boils down to eight words, looking for the dragon and the point, moving the wind and water. This incomplete cheatbook talks about the general outline of the dragon search point, for our Mingtang Sect, it is simply a shotgun for a cannon, with it, even if my realm remains the same, the attack ability can be increased by at least two times. This is the weakest Feng Shui spiritual cultivator among all types of cultivation, and it can also have the power of a domineering battle. β
"Okay, as long as it works for you. Li Qingyun flipped his hand, took out a pine brocade box out of nowhere, threw it on the kitchen counter, and said, "This is the hundred-year-old yellow essence they want, when they can eat and drink, find a suitable opportunity to trade with them." β
Zheng Xinyan was so excited that his hands trembled, he almost cut his fingers, and excitedly stuffed the pine brocade box into his pocket, and then said: "I'm so happy, I used to eat a few pieces of yellow essence, and I didn't feel precious, but today this piece is different, because it can be exchanged for a broken Feng Shui book." I don't want to thank you, my Lao Zheng will not forget my brother's kindness to me. β
"It's a pity, there are fewer and fewer elixirs, you should cherish and use them, if there is any excess, I also want to change a book of secret arts. Not to mention too precious, as long as there is a small formation or small spell that can be soundproofed. Li Qingyun pretended to sigh, as if this was the last piece of hundred-year-old yellow essence, and Zheng Xinyan's heart trembled when he heard it, and he was scared into a sweat.
"Don't don't, I also know one or two of such small formations, you don't need to change things, if you want to learn, I'll teach you." This is not the secret method of our Mingtang Sect, it is a gadget that I learned later in the rivers and lakes, and after my improvement, the effect is no worse than the sound insulation technique of our sect. Seeing that Li Qingyun really wanted to cut off his elixir supply, Zheng Xinyan's legs were frightened, and he was busy giving compensation conditions, and he didn't need Li Qingyun's coercion and temptation at all. R1152