Chapter Forty-Eight: Farming
I saw that in the backyard of the head of the house, there were endless crops such as vegetables, fruits, wheat, rice, etc., no, these crops were different from what Chu Du had seen, had you ever seen rice taller than him? Have you ever seen a corn stalk that grew like a big tree? There was also a fist-sized grape, Chu Du involuntarily stretched out his hand to the fist-sized grape.
"Smack" Chu Du's hand was directly opened by the master, "Don't touch it, it's not ripe yet, it will damage my heart and liver baby, and I will expel you from my door immediately." The head of the sect threatened, he really didn't want to accept apprentices, but it was a bit unreasonable to just promise those juniors and disciples to drive this kid away now.
Chu Du looked depressed, "Damn, am I so annoying?" But he still stubbornly said: "Master, there was something wrong with me during the test, I can only meditate for a long time, and I can't do other cultivation, if the master wants me to do a lot of exercise, I can't do it." β
"What, you can't do other cultivation, are you telling the truth?" asked the head with a happy look on his face.
Chu Du didn't know what he was happy about, but he still truthfully told his own problem to the master.
"No problem, you can meditate as long as you want, I don't have anything for you to do, you can find a house to live in here and try not to disturb me." The head of the house meant that Chu Du could leave, and then Chu Du saw that the head of the house carefully caught a small insect from the grape leaf and pinched it to death, and scolded in his mouth, "Tell you to eat my baby, I can't kill you."
Chu Du reluctantly left the backyard and chose a room to sleep, "What kind of master is this?" Chu Du thought about how to solve his problem over and over again, but he couldn't think of a reason, plus his consciousness was impaired during the test, and there was still a pain in his mind from time to time, which made him not really fall asleep until the middle of the night.
The next day, Chu Du yawned and walked out of the room, although he felt a little sleepy, the pain in his mind was much lighter, and he believed that he would be able to recuperate for a few more days.
Chu Du, who couldn't do anything, was extremely bored, and went to the sect to walk around but found that the people who came with him were all starting to cultivate, and he didn't want to disturb them, but he came to the courtyard of the head again, but he didn't go to the head of the house, just squatted from a distance to watch the head of the sect busy between those crops, and when Chu Du was tired of squatting, he went back to rest.
After three days like this, Chu Du's mind finally stopped hurting, so he took out the jade card, ran the law to sense the jade card, and then a piece of information appeared in his mind, Chu Du read the information carefully, and wrote it down one by one.
It turned out that after becoming a disciple of the Juyang Sect, food and accommodation were free for the first two months, and from the third month, each person had to be charged five spirit stones per month, such a short cultivation time, of course, the strength of these disciples would not be powerful, and it was naturally impossible to go out to hunt demon beasts in exchange for spirit stones, but the sect arranged some simple tasks for these newcomers to do, such as helping a senior brother or uncle take care of Lingtian, Help the alchemist pull the bellows and so on, the spirit stones earned are basically just enough to pay for food and lodging, and when the strength is improved, you can take on some tasks with high rewards, but these tasks are naturally very dangerous, but the rewards are no longer a single spirit stone, the sect will give the corresponding contribution value according to the tasks completed by the disciples, and the contribution value can be exchanged for the sect's elixir, spirit runes, exercises and other items.
Chu Du went to the place where the task was issued and came back with a gloomy face, because by the time he passed, these simple tasks had already been robbed, and even some people took on several tasks at the same time, saying that they were going to desperately earn the spirit stone and pay back the spirit rune, which would make them know that they had been deceived by the person who sold the talisman, but they didn't dare not pay back the money at all, because Senior Brother Hu also wanted to call that person's senior brother!
"I'm going to take your lungs, you profiteer didn't pit me with talisman paper, but you cheated me here!" Chu Du scolded the lean man in his heart.
As a last resort, Chu Du came to the head of the corn field who was loosening the soil with a hoe, and when he saw Chu Guo coming, the head said with an unkind face: "What's the matter?"
Chu Du plucked up his courage and said: "Master, you also know the current situation of the disciple, you can't do any tasks at all, and after two months, you will have to charge the disciple's food and accommodation expenses, where will the disciple get the spirit stone to pay for these, so the disciple came up with an idea, that is, to help the master's spiritual field weeding, loosening the soil, and killing insects, I can do all of this, I will see if the master can hand over this work to me." β
The head of the house pondered for a while before he said: "Originally, I did all these things myself, but you are also my first disciple, and I am a little embarrassed that you can't pay for food and lodging at that time, so let's do it, I will give you ten spirit stones every month, and you will do all the things in my yard to loosen the soil, but if you break my treasures, don't blame me for turning my face, this jade slip records the habits of all crops and places to pay attention to, you remember clearly before starting, and those medicinal materials don't need you to move." β
Chu Du looked at the endless yard, gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, master, I will definitely take good care of these crops." "Although this spiritual field is so big, it is hard work, but the problem of food and housing has finally been solved, and five spirit stones can be stored every month, which is not bad.
After taking the jade slip given by the master, Chu Du returned to his residence, carefully memorized the contents of the jade slip, and after spending an hour, Chu Du was sure that he was not mistaken, and began to meditate and absorb the aura, and now Chu Du has already known how much aura to absorb at a time so as not to hurt his own sea of consciousness and tendons, after he stopped cultivating, the aura in the dantian swelled a little, but it was still not the opponent of the true qi, and it was still very early to get rid of him.
The next day, Chu Du got up early in the morning, carried a hoe, found a straw hat to wear on his head, shuttled around in the spiritual field, loosened the places that needed to loosen the soil, saw the weeds were eradicated, and found that the pests were carefully caught and killed, just like that, a month passed in a blink of an eye, Chu Du felt good, although he was a little tired, but seeing that the crops in the spiritual field were getting better and better under his care, Chu Du felt very happy, and more importantly, the head gave him ten spirit stones and praised 'good'.
In the next time, Chu Du still repeats such days, as time goes by, some crops in the spiritual field can already be harvested, some crops that are easier to harvest such as rice, oh no, it is spiritual rice, the head will ask Chu Du to help clean up, spiritual rice because there are more plants, so the workload is a little large, Chu Du is also afraid that his qi and blood have increased because of a lot of exercise, and it turned out that the true qi in his body has not changed, which makes him feel at ease, after harvesting, Chu Du slashed the ground with a hoe again, and planted spiritual rice under the guidance of the master, and after Chu Du harvested the spiritual rice he planted, he has been doing farm work in Juyang Sect for four monthsγ
During this period, he understood the crop habits of the entire Lingtian clearly, and there was no mistake, the head was naturally very satisfied with this, and his attitude towards Chu Du also changed greatly, and some of the picked spirit fruits would also give Chu Du to eat, but Chu Du didn't dare to eat at all at first, and only after the head told him that some spirit fruits would not enhance his qi and blood, he dared to go down, you must know that he usually even eats less basic food, and Chu Du feels that he has lost a lot of weight.