Chapter 100 Animals are also rare

Ye Zhen came to the backyard. Grandpa Ye was bending over and picking blueberries under the leaves. The blueberries were round like pebbles, with a dark blue frosty surface and little sour taste. The old man picked a few and occasionally threw them into his mouth. The basin next to him was still not full after picking for a long time.

Ye Zhen: "Grandpa, aren't your teeth sore?" All the blueberries on this tree have been picked. Normally, they should be enough to fill a whole basin, but Grandpa Ye only has half a basin now.

Ye Zhen hissed and felt his gums oozing with sourness.

Without even looking up, the old man picked a handful of fruit and put it in the basin:

"This fruit is delicious. It's sweet and sour when you take a bite."

Ye Zhen: "Then take your time picking them. I'll go check on my strawberry plants first."

Ye Zhen did not disturb the old man and lived in a place with rich spiritual energy every day. The bodies of his family members also gradually improved.

Let alone eating half a basin of blueberries now, Ye Zhen estimated that the old man could finish a whole basin of bayberry, a distant relative of blueberries.

Smiling and shaking his head, Ye Zhen came to the strawberry.

These can no longer be called strawberries. Compared to using spiritual sense at night, I can now see the changes in the strawberries more intuitively.

The stems turned into small trees, the leaves became wider and bigger like small palm-leaf fans, and the whole strawberry tree grew a lot taller. At least Ye Zhen could hardly reach the top of the tree when he stood next to it!

Needless to say, the fruits have changed a lot. Each one looks like a hanging little lantern, red and white. Apart from Ye Zhen, who could recognize that these are strawberries?

Ye Zhen picked a red strawberry. The spiritual energy was gathered in the peel. He pinched the fruit and found the skin was hard, not at all like the soft strawberry.

After taking a bite, the subtle spiritual energy in Ye Zhen's body disappeared like a stone in the ocean.

The effect on Ye Zhen's body is better than nothing, the main reason is that the spiritual energy produced by the strawberry tree is more important!

For ordinary people, besides being delicious, it can also improve the body's health, so eating less is not too outrageous.

In short, these lowly spiritual fruits are actually medicines, but they are suitable for everyone.

Ye Zhen went back to the kitchen, took a small basket and prepared to pick some to mail to the kind person who helped her call to clear the area when she came back.

After picking a large basket of red and white strawberries, Ye Zhen returned to his room and told his family not to come in for the time being. Then he sat upright on the bed and began to trace the cause and effect.

Gathering the righteous energy in his breath, when the aura throughout his body is calm, he starts to dance with his hands, pinching his fingers into complex and mysterious hand gestures one after another while silently reciting spells in his mind.

As the magic formulas were chanted faster and faster, the aura around him seemed to vibrate for a moment, breaking through the barriers of time and space. His spiritual consciousness probed out, and lines of cause and effect gradually emerged from Ye Zhen's body.

Among them, there are several bright red ones connecting with Ye Ma and the others. These are the lines of kinship, which come with their own inherent cause and effect.

There were a few that flickered and reached out to the distance or even the void. Ye Zhen changed his gestures and silently recited the magic formula in his heart. Suddenly, he lightly tapped a few faint causes and effects in the distance with his fingers.

After a few breaths, Ye Zhen exhaled slightly. Most of the kind-hearted people were in Jincheng, and some were in other cities.

However, Ye Zhen frowned and looked at the several lines that extended into the void. No matter how she cast spells, she could not see the direction of cause and effect.

How strange!

Isn't this in this world?

Ye Zhen had no idea at all, maybe her cultivation level was not high enough at the moment.

There is no point in thinking too much. Ye Zhen is really kind-hearted. We will talk about the future later.

It is not certain that you will be able to succeed in cultivation in this lifetime.

Let’s solve the nearest cause and effect first!

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Looking at the time, it was almost noon and the dishes were ready. Dad Ye moved out the big round table from home. The round stools had not been used for a while, so he cleaned them with a rag and dried them.

Ye Ma looked out from the yard and saw no one coming.

"Haizi, go call Lao San and the others to have dinner. Why haven't they arrived yet?"

Father Ye put down the rag in his hand, washed his hands, nodded, and went out to call someone.

Mother Ye served the dishes, Grandma Ye followed behind to help, and Ye Zhen helped wash the fruits and took out the tea leaves from home.

They are all wild teas from the nearby mountains. Dad Ye dug up a few and planted them on the slope. There are not many, just a few. Every year around the Qingming Festival, Dad Ye picked them and roasted them himself. People in the countryside don't care about the quality of the tea. The tea he picked himself has a good flavor and is usually used to entertain guests.

When Ye Zhen came back this year, the tea leaves had already been picked. During this period, the spiritual energy that Ye Zhen spread to the slopes caused the tea leaves to sprout new buds. I was busy these days and didn't pick the tea leaves, so they have become old.

Ye Zhen was thinking about it in his heart, thinking that he should pick some for himself to drink when he had time so as not to waste it.

I put the tea leaves away and couldn’t find the cup for a long time.

"Mom, do you have any more disposable water cups at home?"

"Yes, there are some left over from the New Year. Look under the cabinet in the room. It's inside." Mother Ye sat down to take a break. She had been busy preparing meals for most of the day and didn't want to move at all.

Ye Zhen found a disposable water cup and opened the lid of the thermos. Steam was rising, indicating that the water was already boiled.

Grandma Ye placed the bowls and chopsticks. As in the past, she would arrange the food in the right direction, with the meat dishes at the top and the vegetables at the bottom. However, this time she was entertaining her own family, so she didn't care about these things.

A few people sat down and chatted, and soon, Father Ye came over with his people.

"Third brother, come in quickly, the meal is ready!"

Father Ye opened the door and led everyone in to sit down.

"Oops, sorry to bother you!" Qian Fen was carrying some fruits and dried seafood that she had left behind yesterday as gifts.

These are all dried goods that Uncle Ye brought back from going out to sea with others, such as squid and cuttlefish.

Ye Ma took the things and smiled politely:

"Since you're here, what else are you bringing?"

Ye Zhen brought the tea at the right time. Uncle Ye beside him took a fig from the fruit bowl and asked while eating:

"Brother, where did you buy those figs? They're so sweet!" Honey is about to ooze out when you take a bite of them. They're big, so you can eat one in two bites.

"It's from home. I'll take some back later. There's plenty at home."

Dad Ye opened a bottle of wine, poured some for Grandpa Ye and a bowl for Uncle Ye, and after asking the women if they wanted to drink the rest, he happily filled his own glass.

The topics the men talked about were nothing more than the same few things, and Ye Ma and the others sat together and chatted.

"Second sister-in-law must be very busy. This dish is so delicious."

Aunt Zhou Lan looked at the dishes on the table and felt strange. They were obviously ordinary dishes, so why were those made by her second brother's family so particularly tempting?

Ye's mother grinned and couldn't help laughing:

"It's OK. It's delicious. Try my cooking today and see if I've improved."

"If nothing else, these vegetables are all grown at home, so they are cleaner than the ones you buy."

"Isn't that what they sell to that supermarket? The price is not low. You should try it today."

Zhou Lan was surprised. She had known for a long time that the vegetables and fruits grown by her second brother could be sold at high prices, but she had never tasted them.

"It's just that the food is a little better. Don't be polite when you eat food. Come on, big sister Qian, try this sour bamboo shoot duck. The bamboo shoots are picked up from the mountains and pickled by ourselves."

Qian Fen picked up some pickled bamboo shoots with chopsticks, which were fragrant and appetizing.

This place is good, there is everything on the mountain. It's not like their place, where most of the land is contracted out to other people to grow other things, so there's nowhere to get these.

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After dinner, everyone sat in the courtyard and chatted. The two twins ate fruit at the table. Their mouths were covered with juice and their lips were red and purple.

The rest of the people were sitting under the grape trellis. Two fat cats were lying on it basking in the sun. Their bellies were round and plump, and it seemed they had hunted for food again.

After feeding the two dogs, Ye Zhen checked the big dog's injury and found no inflammation.

The big and small dogs were already drooling at the smell of the food. The little dog whined and stuck its nose into the food bowl.

The big dog lay obediently beside him, and Ye Zhen was stroked. Its black and watery eyes looked at Ye Zhen.

Ye Zhen lovingly left a little spiritual energy to the big dog:

"Eat quickly, it's good to have breakfast, dear!"

Down in the yard, Zhou Lan had long been eyeing the drooping grapes. Her family had also planted them, but they were still green and unripe. However, her second brother's family had a bountiful harvest.

"Second sister-in-law, why do the grapes in your family ripen so quickly?" Their two families grow the same kind of grapes. The seedlings were bought by Grandpa Ye, and each family grows one grape. The fruits were harvested at about the same time in the past few years. Why do they ripen so quickly this year?

Mother Ye didn't know how to answer this. Could it be that her daughter knew magic and could heal the disease in just a few casts of spells?

"Aunt, this is fertilizer. My classmate's family is engaged in gardening and agriculture, so they have channels to get these. A few years ago, they knew that I went home to farm, so they specially sent them to me. I didn't expect the effect to be so good!"

Ye Zhen happened to come out and took over the conversation, attributing everything to her unknown classmate.

My classmate, can you lend me your help again?

Ye's mother breathed a sigh of relief. She didn't know how to answer, so she continued:

"Yes, the fruits are growing fast this year. It's because we used that kind of fertilizer, so they are growing well."

Zhou Lan nodded, "I see, is it the same as the strawberries we grow? I see these strawberries grow very fast too."

"Also, the growing time of strawberries is wrong. We saw people growing strawberries outside, but we didn't expect that strawberries could be grown outdoors. I always thought strawberries were grown in greenhouses."

"Of course. My classmate's family specially mailed me the newly developed seeds, which are not available anywhere else." Ye Zhen replied with a smile.

"It looks like the strawberries in our village will be ripe in a few days, but the grass grows fast, so we have to weed every now and then, and the rabbits at home have become quite fat." Zhou Lan was both happy and worried.

Qian Fen: "Isn't it good that the rabbit is fat?"

"Of course it's good for rabbits to be fat, but the grass grows too fast, which is inconvenient with two children at home."

Uncle Ye has been working in the fields these days, weeding and checking. His family has several acres of land, and it's too tiring for Uncle Ye to do it all by himself.

She also wanted to go to the fields with them because her two children were young and needed to be left alone. After all, there were small mountains and rivers around their home, and she was afraid that the children would run around without her noticing.

"Fortunately, the strawberries we grow are insect-free. I heard that all kinds of insects and animals always come to Ye Dajun's strawberry field, and many of the fruits are eaten by birds before they are ripe."

Ye Zhen turned his head away in embarrassment. The strawberry field planted by Ye Dajun that Aunt Ye mentioned was the place that Ye Dajun had contracted to plant fruit trees. It was too far away from Ye Zhen's field, and the defense array set up by Ye Zhen could not provide protection there.

So for now we still have to rely on ourselves to prevent birds and insects. After all, the optimized fruits are still quite rare.

Oh no, it's to attract rare animals!