Chapter 203 Pulling out the wood struck by lightning
Busy days always pass quickly, and with the arrival of the autumn wind, there is gradually a coolness.
During the autumnal equinox, the fruits are fragrant.
In the southern suburbs of Shuangxi Town, there was originally a large wasteland near Shilipo, but now it has turned into a large farm with abundant fruits. Various vegetables are like colorful pagodas, standing high in the fields. The red, yellow and green peppers, green cabbage and purple eggplants make people happy.
However, the most commonly grown food on the farm with the highest yield is sweet potatoes, followed by corn, peppers, and then local crops such as cucumbers, eggplants, and pumpkins.
Today is a great day for digging sweet potatoes.
Cheng Long came to the farm early in the morning with Bai Susu, Huahua and Feifei, as well as more than 300 hired farmhands.
"Mr. Cheng, when will the excavation be started?"
An old farmer over fifty years old, carrying a hoe, walked up to Cheng Long and asked.
He and the more than 300 people behind him all had great expectations for the sweet potatoes in the sweet potato field, because during the planting process, Cheng Long had warned more than once that the yield of sweet potatoes was astonishingly high.
Originally, they were supposed to plant potatoes, but this thing is quite special. After a few generations of planting, there will be a return to the ancestors.
In addition, during the daily consumption of potatoes, they are easy to sprout and become poisonous if left for a long time. Cheng Long simply ate them himself and only promoted sweet potatoes, corn and peppers.
"Now."
"Yes, Master."
After receiving the reply, the old farmer immediately turned around and shouted to everyone: "Dig!"
Following the old farmer's shout, hundreds of people started working together. As soon as the hoe fell to the ground, large and plump sweet potatoes appeared in the soil.
Almost everyone dug out one or two.
This was true no matter which angle they dropped the hoe.
These farmhands had never dug such a rich harvest of food before. Just digging a hoe into the ground could actually dig out a large number of sweet potatoes, and everyone was so surprised that their jaws dropped.
"Don't be stunned, dig quickly, be as careful as possible, and dig further to the edge..."
Cheng Long's voice floated into the ears of the farmhands, and these rough guys felt relieved. The young master did not blame them, which meant that he didn't care much.
However, they still expanded the scope obediently. Although they would accidentally dig up one or two while digging, this was unavoidable.
When digging sweet potatoes, there is no way to dig them into pieces unless they are dug by hand.
About three minutes later.
An acre of sweet potato land was dug up.
Cheng Long asked people to shake off the soil, and then weighed basket after basket.
One basket weighs 45-56 kilograms and has been weighed more than a hundred times.
The yield per mu is around 5,000 kilograms!
This is a pretty scary number.
The yield per mu is 55 shi, fifteen or six times that of rice!
When this number was truly displayed in front of everyone's eyes, the entire manor instantly became silent, and everyone was so shocked that they could not speak.
"Susu, let people pick out the rotten ones, wash them, take them to the kitchen, cook them, and give them to everyone to taste."
"Hmm~~"
Although Bai Susu had expected it, she was still surprised by the sweet potato yield.
When ordering his servants to do things, his eyes were obviously dull.
The same goes for Huahua and Feifei.
About a quarter of an hour later.
In the farm kitchen, waves of tempting aroma wafted out, and the greedy men digging sweet potatoes had their mouths watering.
"Since everyone is hungry, put down the hoe, go wash up by the stream, and then follow me to the canteen to taste the sweet potatoes, and make sure you still want to eat them..."
In the past four or five months, Cheng Long has been dealing with these men a lot. On the one hand, he taught them the correct planting methods, and on the other hand, he established a majestic image of helping the world and loving the people.
……
"Hmm, sweet potatoes are so delicious!"
“It’s glutinous and sweet, so delicious!”
"The little old man has never eaten such delicious food. He can eat it with relish even if he has no teeth..."
"Master Cheng traveled thousands of miles to find high-quality seeds from overseas. Not only does it have a high yield, but it also tastes so good. I will definitely buy dozens of kilograms and take it back for the children to try..."
"Yes, you must buy some. If you plant a few acres next year, you will no longer have to worry about going hungry."
"Will the owner sell it?"
"I can't guarantee it for others, but our boss will definitely sell it. He is so kind!"
In the dining hall, farmhands were sitting or standing, gathering in small groups and talking. In the process of helping Mr. Cheng plant sweet potatoes, they had all mastered the methods of breeding, dividing seedlings, and planting. They also knew that sweet potato leaves can To eat, the boss used to let them take back a lot of it.
It's just that sweet potato leaves and sweet potatoes are two different products. Although the leaves are edible, they are not that delicious, far worse than vegetables and fruits such as cabbage and cucumbers.
Before that, they never thought that sweet potatoes could be so sweet and delicious.
It's delicious, easy to grow, and has a high yield. Planting just 30-50% of the land can ensure a family's stability for a whole year. If you don't buy some and go home, you will definitely be pouring water into your head while going home. You are confused. Arrived home.
However, when they finished a sweet sweet potato 'dinner' and were about to ask Cheng Long to buy some sweet potatoes, they got a piece of good news that made people burst into tears of gratitude.
Get sweet potatoes for free!
Every farmhand who works on the farm can pick up two baskets when he is done.
Because Cheng Long promoted sweet potatoes, corn and peppers to save the world and save the people, not to make money.
Of course, free provision is limited to the group of farmhands in front of us. Others who want it have to pay some symbolic fees. After all, few people will cherish free things...
……
A few days later.
All 200 acres of sweet potato land in the farm have been dug, and a million catties of sweet potatoes have been harvested. After excluding the 60,000 catties distributed for free to farm laborers and the 200,000 catties sold one after another, there is still 740,000 catties left.
Although currently only people from Shuangxi Town and nearby villages come to buy the sweet potatoes, the high yield and good taste of sweet potatoes will soon attract people from the entire Qu County.
The remaining 700,000 catties may not be enough to divide. But it doesn’t matter.
Cheng Long didn't plan to sell them all anyway, because he wanted to keep more than half and take them to Yunlang Town, Hu County and other places to make sweet potatoes bloom everywhere.
Otherwise, I don’t know how long it will take for this high-yielding crop of sweet potatoes to spread throughout the Central Plains.
In the next few years, Cheng Long, the three sisters Linghu, and the Mo family in Yunlang Town were all busy with this matter.
Cheng Long and Mochou's wedding was postponed again and again because of this.
However, they met twice a year, for a month at a time. Not only did their relationship not fade, but it became deeper and deeper.
……
Three years later.
The three sisters Bai Susu, Bai Huahua and Hu Feifei, who will be promoted to many areas in the north, were walking on a bustling street when a dazzling white light suddenly bloomed on their bodies. Then their bodies were uncontrollably pulled by some mysterious force and floated upward. Sky.
This scene made the people along the street scream in shock.
Soaring in the day!
In the past, words that could only be seen in storybooks actually happened before their eyes. The miraculous scene shocked countless people, who stared blankly at the three women flying higher and higher until they disappeared.
After that.
In the world of Liaozhai, there are three more fox fairies. For the sake of the people, they will not hesitate to endure hardships and endure all kinds of doubts, but they also want to promote the mythical story of sweet potatoes and blessing the people.
At first glance, it seems that all the credit for Cheng Long falls on the three Feifei sisters.
In fact, this was not the case. The benefits he received were far higher than those of Feifei and the other three.
The most intuitive change is that the golden wheel of merit on the back of the head is no longer its prototype, with only a very light golden halo, but has become a golden wheel of merit that is about the thickness of a little finger, emitting bright golden light.
Although Cheng Long's golden wheel of merit is still very thin, no matter how thin it is, it is still a golden wheel of merit.
From now on, if you encounter gods and Buddhas who cannot open their eyes, once the golden wheel is opened and the knife falls in front of your forehead, you can have someone forcefully lift it back.
This thing is more effective than a death-free gold medal.
But there is one thing that Cheng Long is still very puzzled about. The three sisters can achieve perfect merit and ascend during the day. Why is it that the golden wheel of merit has come out, but there is no sign of ascension?
Even Mo Chou followed Zhan Guang, and his cultivation speed in the past two years was astonishingly fast.
After practicing for three and a half years, he has reached the middle stage of foundation building, which is only one level lower than Cheng Long.
He has been cultivating for more than ten years, but he is only at the middle stage of Jindan.
Are demon cultivators so unpopular?
The thief, double standard, is playing very smoothly!
Cheng Long only wanted to say one word about this.
——Gan!
Boom!
Just as Cheng Long was about to raise his middle finger, he saw a thunder fall.
But the thunder did not fall on him, but struck steadily on the thousand-year-old peach tree a mile away.
For a moment, the tree trunk trembled, as if it was suffering huge pain, and the burly body looked even more tragic and vivid under the reflection of lightning.
"This thunder...is weird!"
Cheng Long frowned and suddenly disappeared.
The next moment, he came under the peach tree that was struck by lightning.
The originally green leaves turned black under the devastation of thunder and lightning, as if they were scorched by fire.
On the trunk, deep cracks are like ancient writing, recording the vicissitudes of life that this peach tree has experienced. There is a burning smell in the surrounding air, which makes people feel sorry for this thousand-year-old peach tree. .
But when he looked at this thousand-year-old peach tree that was still standing despite being struck by lightning, showing its tenacious vitality, another thought came to his mind.
"Such a big piece of wood that has been struck by lightning for a thousand years, isn't it God's compensation for me?"
It's no wonder that Cheng Long had this idea, after all, he had just finished reciting it, and the next second, a bolt from the blue happened to fall on the thousand-year-old peach tree.
Peach wood has the effect of exorcising evil spirits and avoiding evil. When struck by a thunderstorm, it is endowed with the strongest and most yang characteristics, and it directly becomes a high-quality weapon refining material.
Cheng Long had no reason not to accept it.
Without hesitation, he walked under the thousand-year-old peach tree, lowered his right hand, turned his body upside down, and pulled out the upper part of his left hand, followed by his waist...
"Fellow Taoist, and..."
"Drink~~"
Cheng Long chuckled softly, and the thousand-year-old peach tree with intertwined roots swayed and was pulled out of the ground bit by bit with its roots and earth.
"Gulu~~"
A horrified sound of swallowing came from behind.
Cheng Long then remembered that someone seemed to have come over when he was uprooting the peach tree just now! So he placed the thousand-year-old peach tree in his arms with a trunk diameter of more than one meter and weighing more than ten tons on the ground, and turned to look at the person coming.
"What did you just want to say?"
"Uh~~Nothing, nothing."
The middle-aged Taoist priest wearing a torn Taoist hat and tattered robe said with a smile: "It took no effort to pull out such a huge old peach tree. Taoist friends are really gods!"
"Oh, it turns out you were complimenting me. I thought you wanted to steal my Thousand-Year Lightning Strike Wood!"
"..."
The middle-aged Taoist priest twitched his lips, feeling extremely embarrassed.
Originally, he wanted to get a share of the pie.
But now I have no other ideas.
He hasn't lived enough yet!
(End of chapter)