Chapter 45 Daily Life of Growing Vegetables

The next morning, Li Chang'an got up, opened the door, and saw an empty basket and a bamboo tube under the eaves.

He paused for a moment, then smiled and took the basket and bamboo tube back into the house.

It seems that Blade & Soul was quite satisfied with last night's meal.

Since the Mid-Autumn Festival, Tianxuan and Chajing have both developed a love for eating. Every day at mealtimes, they start squatting by the dining table, waiting for the meal to be served.

They stopped fasting, but their cultivation levels remained unaffected.

Sometimes, the sword spirit would come out to eat something when Li Chang'an called it.

With more people sharing meals with him every day, Li Chang'an was greatly encouraged, and his enthusiasm for cooking grew even stronger.

If he were eating alone before, he would probably just cook some cabbage or bok choy to go with his rice, or cook some noodles and eat it.

But now he studies recipes more often every day, and he doesn't get tired at all when he uses his spiritual power to control the cooking.

In addition, now that he has reached the Golden Core stage, Li Chang'an has even more to learn, and the sword spirit watches over him and provides guidance every night.

He simply prepared a room for the sword spirit as well. At first, the sword spirit only stayed occasionally, until ten days later when it finally settled in permanently.

At first, Cha Jing was a little afraid of the sword spirit. When the sword spirit was around, he was always hesitant and couldn't let go. Later, seeing that Tian Xuan, whose cultivation was much lower than his, could get along with the sword spirit naturally, he mustered up his courage to look directly at the sword spirit and would occasionally take the initiative to talk to the sword spirit.

The sword spirit, who outwardly appeared cold and aloof, never showed any anger towards him. Aside from occasionally giving him a cold look, it never used force.

Tea essence can therefore be used more freely.

*

Li Chang'an stopped cultivating the terraced fields of Wolushan Mountain when he had cultivated 600 mu (approximately 40 hectares) of land.

The 600 acres of land were divided into nearly 800 plots, and the spiritual essence of the tea tree branches had been used up.

We'll have to wait more than four months for the next batch of branches.

Six hundred acres of land sounds like a lot, but from a distance, these fields only occupy one-fiftieth of the foothills, so they don't actually feel like much.

Of the 600 mu of land, Li Chang'an planted 100 mu with spirit rice. On the remaining 500 mu, he planted 50 mu each of spirit-grade Chinese cabbage and cabbage, 50 mu each of ordinary-grade Chinese cabbage and cabbage, 50 mu each of sweet potatoes, pumpkins, eggplants, cauliflower, and white radishes, and 50 mu of spirit-grade soybeans.

The field ridges were all arranged with formations and planted with tea trees.

There are also more than 17,000 tea trees, which is far from enough for Li Chang'an to buy in the tea mountains.

It was the tea spirit that used its spiritual power to encourage branches to grow on those ordinary tea trees, allowing Li Chang'an to plant the fields according to his plan.

Otherwise, if a section of the paddy field is missing a bit, it will always look strange.

Of the five grains, Li Chang'an only planted spirit rice and spirit-grade soybeans on a large scale; spirit-grade millet, yellow millet, and wheat have not yet been planted.

The latter three grains are not selling well, and he plans to expand the planting scale later when he develops agricultural by-products.

With the reclamation of terraced fields temporarily put on hold, Li Chang'an went to two breeding farms near Ling'an City to buy chicks and ducklings.

However, due to the recent hot weather, the farm has not hatched many chicks and ducklings, and can only sell 1,000 each to Li Chang'an.

Li Chang'an then bought another thousand fertilized chicken and duck eggs and took them back to Xuanling Immortal Mountain to incubate them himself.

Li Chang'an placed the chicks and ducklings from the cage into the chicken coop and duck shed, gave them water and feed, looked at the eggs, pondered for a moment, and then took the eggs to the West Floating Island.

He tried placing an egg on the ground and observing the bird's reaction.

A bright bird walked up, looked at the egg, poked at it with its beak, and looked up at Li Chang'an.

"Um," Li Chang'an cleared his throat, "could you please help me incubate the eggs?"

The bright bird understood his words, spread its beautiful wings, and chirped twice to the sky.

Then, a bright red bird flew over and chatted with the chirping bird for a while. Then it dug a small hole with its claws, bent down and moved the egg on the ground into the hole, and then put the whole nest on top of it.

It appears that the redder ones are females, while the ones with more purple feathers are males.

A faint reddish-purple light appeared around the female Mingyi bird, and a few minutes later, Li Chang'an heard the chirping of chicks.

The female jaybird stood up and walked to the side. The egg in the small pit had already cracked, and a chick with wet feathers chirped as it crawled out of the egg.

The female Mingyi bird called out to Li Chang'an, as if to say, "The eggs you asked me to help incubate are now hatched."

Li Chang'an quickly stepped forward, used his spiritual power to wrap the newly hatched chick, and then picked it up and placed it in a basket lined with soft padding.

Li Chang'an then looked at the Mingyi birds and revealed the six large boxes behind him.

The large box contained neatly stacked chicken and duck eggs, stored in egg cartons.

These fertilized eggs are also considered living things, so they couldn't be put in the storage bag. He used his spiritual power to carefully carry them up.

He said softly, "Actually, there are still so many eggs left, and I'll have to trouble you all for that too."

As soon as he finished speaking, the two bright birds suddenly froze, staring at him without moving.

So it wasn't just hatching one?!

Li Chang'an felt a little embarrassed.

The Mingyi Bird must have used up its spiritual energy to hatch this chick so quickly, and it still has two thousand eggs to spare...

He quickly took out his water bottle from his storage bag and poured some water into the lid: "Here, use this as an exchange, okay?"

The kettle contained boiled water from the Ningjing River.

Fortunately, the Mingyi birds, like the mushroom spirits and tea spirits, also love the water of the Ningjing River.

The moment he poured it out, the two birds happily spread their wings, walked over, and lowered their heads to drink some.

Li Chang'an breathed a sigh of relief.

The Ningjing River water is really useful; it has helped him a lot.

As the two bright birds drank water, several more bright birds emerged from around them, curiously watching Li Chang'an.

After the two bright birds finished drinking, Li Chang'an put away the water jug ​​and said, "I'll go down and fetch you some more water. Can you help me incubate these eggs?"

"Chirp chirp." The female brightbird chirped, seemingly agreeing to the deal.

Li Chang'an smiled, used his spiritual power to take all the eggs out of the box and put them on the ground. Seeing more female Mingyi birds come forward to incubate the eggs, he felt relieved and left the West Floating Island with his basket.

He put the hatched chick in the chicken coop, drew a heat-preserving talisman, then went to the bamboo forest and cut a bamboo with a diameter of more than ten centimeters. He split it in two, removed the middle section, and made it into a water container. After that, he went to fetch two buckets of Ningjing River water.

After thinking for a moment, he also packed a large bag of spirit rice.

Returning to the West Floating Island, he placed two split bamboo stalks next to a tree, poured in water from the Ningjing River, and sprinkled spirit rice around them.

The number of Mingyi birds is not large, only about two hundred, of which more than one hundred and twenty are females.

They incubate several eggs at a time, totaling two thousand chicken and duck eggs, and the incubation process is completed in about ten minutes.

After hatching, the bright-eyed birds went to the big tree to drink water and peck at rice.

Li Chang'an used his spiritual power to pack the chicks and ducklings into a box, thanked the Mingyi birds, and then left.

After settling the two thousand chicks and ducklings, Li Chang'an filled them with water from the Ningjing River.

Hopefully, these chicks and ducklings will all grow up well.

*

By the end of October, when the weather turns cool, all the common vegetables planted on the terraced fields are ripe.

This time, the planting scale has been expanded, and the amount of vegetables harvested will be abundant. Moreover, with the help of the mountain god's antlers, the amount of vegetables has more than doubled.

Take Chinese cabbage, for example; this time, we can harvest more than 210,000 heads!

With so many dishes, Xiaoping'an Supermarket and Qingfengpai definitely can't finish them all.

Li Chang'an called Yang Hao and Xie Kuling to discuss the future vegetable supply.

When Yang Hao first arrived at Xuanling Immortal Mountain, he kept marveling at it while in the bamboo forest. When he saw Wolu Mountain, he stood there stunned for a long time.

Originally, I just thought the air in the bamboo forest was fresh and the scenery was beautiful, but what I felt at Wolushan Mountain was simply awe.

Unlike the colors of the mountains in the Cangxuan Realm, the mountains have endless peaks and vast, boundless foothills.

It wasn't until Xie Kuling called him several times that Yang Hao came back to his senses.

"The reason I called you two here today is to discuss the vegetable supply."

Li Chang'an gave a brief explanation.

Ordinary vegetables mature very quickly on inferior soil, and a harvest can be completed in less than a month.

"I'm not growing a lot of different kinds of vegetables this time. I want to grow a little more of each kind. After excluding the ones I supply to you, I want to sell the rest online."

His fans who aren't in Ling'an City have been lamenting in his comment section for a long time because they can't buy the vegetables he grows.

“In that case,” Xie Kuling pondered, “I’d like to order more each day. I’ll calculate the exact quantity when I get back and then send it to you.”

With the increase in tourists visiting Qingfengpai, the daily demand for Chinese cabbage and bok choy is also increasing.

Yang Hao said, "We should also order more from Xiaoping'an Supermarket. The shelves in the Xianshan Farm section can hold about seventy or eighty heads of Chinese cabbage or bok choy. If the cauliflower isn't that big, we can hold about a hundred. As for the remaining sweet potatoes, pumpkins, white radishes, and eggplants, I need two hundred catties of each every day."

These are the maximum number that can be placed in the Fairy Mountain Farm area at present.

After speaking, Yang Hao raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead.

If I had known Mr. Li could grow so many vegetables, I should have made the Xianshan Farm's special area even larger in the first place.

However, having this opportunity is a blessing he earned in his past life, so he shouldn't be too greedy.

At worst, once his Little Peace Supermarket opens a branch, he can order more.

“Okay.” Li Chang’an nodded. “Then we will supply according to the quantity you requested. Let me know in advance when you need less or more.”

Xie Kuling and Yang Hao both nodded.

After agreeing with the two, Li Chang'an and Tianxuan calculated the quantity that could be sold online that evening.

After the calculations were completed, Tianxuan also helped Li Chang'an find someone to create a shopping website specifically for Xianshan Farm.

The website was built in less than a week, and clicking on it showed pages for various vegetables. It also ran very smoothly.

That morning, Li Chang'an took his phone stand and walked to the foot of Wolu Mountain. After a long time, he started his live stream again.