Chapter 10: The Fragrance of Insects
When Meng Qiaoshi walked away, Ding Xing closed the door of the cave mansion and went back to the room to check the two items left by Ding Chenzhi.
That silk bag is the treasure storage sleeve that Ding Xing wanted to equip for a long time, and it must contain a lot of treasures, but now that Ding Chen is far away, Ding Xing has no interest in the baby.
He knew that the silk bag must also contain the relevant spiritual tools for taking care of the orange orchard, and accepting this bag meant that he had to put pressure and responsibility on his shoulders.
At that moment, he activated the Divine Mind Spell "Centering and Wandering Chapter" taught by Ding Chenzhi, sent a trace of Divine Thought, and took a look at it in the bag.
Sure enough, the biggest spirit tool in the bag was a 'igneous rock plow'.
When the spring of next year begins, Ding Xing will use this spiritual plough to turn over the soil of the orange orchard.
The garden soil of Jinlu Xianzhuang all contains aura, which is essentially the nutrients for feeding fruit trees, and turning the soil several times a year helps to integrate the aura into the roots of the tree and enhance the spirituality of the fruit.
If you are a lazy person and ignore the soil, then the aura will be missing, and after a few years, the effect of the fruit will be greatly reduced, and you can no longer use it to make spiritual wine.
There is also a 'cold iron scissors' in the bag.
This is for cutting branches of orange trees, and when all the fruits of this season are picked, Ding Xing will use the spirit shears to prune the branches of his orange trees one by one.
In fact, cultivating the spirit tree of the immortal realm, pruning branches is harmful to the body, and it should not be done.
But in the garden, the monks had to cut the branches in order to get the fruit as soon as possible.
All the fruit trees in Jinlu Xianzhuang are generally shorter, and the picking cycle of the fruit is one to five years, if you do not cut the branches, let these fruit trees grow wildly, then the fruit period will be slowly extended, and it will become more than five years to harvest once.
If Xianzhuang is fortunate enough to survive for more than a thousand years, and the age of the fruit trees is also so long, and the branches are not cut for generations, it will take decades or even hundreds of years to usher in a round of flowering and fruiting.
And the lifespan of most of the villagers in Xianzhuang is only a few decades, who can wait?
Pruning can inhibit the prolongation of the fruiting period.
However, there are also some peculiar fruit roots, no matter how they are cut, they are useless, such as a black persimmon spirit tree planted at the beginning of the village, and it is cut every day, and a jiazi is still a hundred and ten zhang high.
Its seeds seem to have been left over from ancient times, and if they are nurtured for hundreds of years, they may produce rare transcendent spiritual fruits.
But what was the result? The owner of the village gave an order, and directly dug it up, and the body of the tree was refined into a magic weapon.
A place like Jinlu Winery for family cultivation seeks practicality, stability, and peace, and all the bells and whistles are stifled.
Ding Chenzhi left behind a 'igneous rock plow' for ploughing the land, a 'cold iron shears' for cutting branches, a set of 'wind and frost flags' for rain, and a bundle of 'insect incense' to expel insect swarms.
The four essential cultivation treasures of the pastoral monk are complete.
In addition to these four treasures and more than 20 lower-grade spirit stones, there was only a pile of books and sundries left in Chu Bao's sleeve.
Books are all about Ding Chen's daily practice and experience.
It is better to teach people to fish, it is better to teach people to fish, Ding Chenzhi hopes that Ding Xing will slowly grow into a qualified farmer in the immortal cultivation world, be down-to-earth, and do not make vain behaviors that are out of character and risky.
Another piece of rune paper is a note made by Ding Chenzhi, and all his instructions to Ding Xing are in the rune.
Ding Xing took the rune paper, and after injecting mana, a layer of spiritual light flashed on the paper, and the voice of Ding Chen, which was originally stored in the rune, also spread:
"Ah Xing, don't worry, Ancestor I went to the north this time, it may not be a bad thing, the disciples of the Shangzong are prosperous, so they go north to open up Binghua Mountain, and when the territory is stable, they will inevitably prepare to build a new winery, and if they make meritorious contributions, they may be rewarded with private land." ’
This 'prosperity' actually means 'excess'.
The Great Wei Kingdom has been peaceful and easy for hundreds of years, the population of the mortal world has exploded, and the number of disciples of the major sects in the immortal cultivation world has also increased, even if the cave heaven blessed land that gathers the essence of heaven and earth cannot withstand the squandering and devouring of the ant-like monks, and the spiritual veins are gradually decreasing, which is not conducive to cultivation, so it is imperative to open up new territories.
The success of the expansion is good for the sect, and the failure of the expansion is not all bad for the sect.
"I have paid the fruit tax to the village for three years in advance, you can practice with peace of mind, as for taking care of the orchard, you can use the spirit stones I left behind to hire servants!
There are people from other places and even foreign countries in the Golden Dew Winery, and most of them do not have their own land, and they are all willing to accept employment, which is also the origin of the helpers.
'You are still young and single, and if you are bullied by the idle villagers, you can go to your uncle Wu Shiqing, who will not stand by for the sake of your deceased aunt. ’
Ding Chenzhi is in the village, and he has no children under his knees, but he also has relatives, but he usually doesn't move around much, but in order for Ding to wake up, he made a special trip to ask Wu Shiqing before leaving.
If you really don't want to stay in the winery, you can give the treasure sleeves I left behind to the estate, and then leave after returning the orangery, don't run away from the village without permission, remember, remember!"
This time, Ding Chenzhi was in place of Ding Xing.
Ding Xing will never run away, and he will be trapped in Ding Chen's danger.
On the contrary, he worked harder and harder than in previous months.
In the following ten days, Ding woke up early and returned late, picking ripe Huofeng oranges in the orchard all day long.
But for some reason, there are more and more pests in the garden, except for the beetle scorpion, poisonous scoop, and white aphid that Ding Xing knows, the others are some strange and strange insects, and they drive away a wave, another wave, which makes Ding Xing tired.
His family's orange orchard totaled 40 acres, and he roughly estimated that one-tenth of the fruit trees showed signs of pests.
Although it is currently in the harvest period, it is common for demon insects to patronize, but there are too many of them, after all, it is not a plague of insects.
Ding Xing was anxious, but he couldn't drive it away, so he found his neighbor Meng Qiaoshi for advice.
Meng Qiaoshi told him: "In the past, demon insects flew in the orchard, and everyone tacitly killed them in their own garden, and they would not let them cause trouble for the neighbors, but in the berry farm on your right, those servants may have driven the demon insects to your house in order to curry favor with their employers." ”
Wu Zhaoying's berry orchard occupies a hundred and ten acres of land, and there are already many demon insects attracted, and it will definitely be difficult for him to deal with Ding Xing at once.
Meng Qiao's proposed method is: "If your uncle left you a worm incense, you'd better light it, once the demon worms are piled up, they will gather more and more, and they must be removed as soon as possible, the longer the delay, the more troublesome it will be!"
As a last resort, Ding Xing was reluctant to use the insect incense, which was expensive and was purchased by Ding Chenzhi at a great cost to deal with insect plagues.
Every few years, there will be an insect plague at Jinlu Winery, which is much more terrible than the locust plague in the mortal world, because the locust plague only eats food, and the insect plague even eats people.
If Ding Xing consumes the insect incense now, if the insect plague arrives next year, he will have nothing to resist, and the orange trees at home may be uprooted by the insect swarm.
But if you don't use it, you can't get rid of the insect infestation in front of you.
Meng Qiao's said very clearly, the habit of demon insects is to gather more and more.
After thinking about it, Ding Xing decided to wait for a few days, the harvest of the berry farm on the right will be over soon, and when those servants no longer drive the demon insects over, maybe the situation will improve.