Chapter 17: Archery Hall
The more Shi Xingfa looked, the more surprised he became. He had run an archery club over the years and had trained many students, but this girl was the first time he felt he couldn't see through her!
This girl named Gu Nian is either a freak or a genius!
Shi Xingfa could only think so. Watching Gu Nian shoot arrows smoothly, each arrow hitting the center of the jackknife, he was shocked. Just three hours ago, Gu Nian's first arrow only hit the fifth ring! But in just three hours, Gu Nian was able to improve so rapidly!
Shi Xingfa did not think that Gu Nian was deceiving him. This girl named Gu Nian had indeed just started practicing archery. Whether it was the gesture of holding the bow or the gesture of drawing the arrow and stringing the bow, she made some obvious mistakes of an amateur. However, this girl seemed to have a strong muscle intuition. Once it was explained to her, she only needed a very short practice to form a muscle reaction.
Shi Xingfa had only seen this kind of strong physical fitness in some talented athletes in the national team. After this cold wave passed, this girl would be able to participate in top international competitions with just a little training... Shi Xingfa felt that after being an archery coach for so many years, this girl was extremely talented and was the first person he had ever seen.
Gu Nian was completely unaware of Shi Xingfa's shock. She just followed Shi Xingfa's instructions carefully. It must be said that this coach was very strict. He always proposed the next goal immediately after she achieved it. Gu Nian was sweating profusely without realizing it. Her arms felt as heavy as if they were filled with lead. Since she started practicing breathing techniques, this was rarely seen.
Perhaps it was because constantly drawing the bow and shooting arrows had reached the limits of Gu Nian's physical strength and concentration. In the following set of rapid shooting, she made several obvious mistakes and her aim was obviously off.
"Stop, let's stop here today. Come here to practice with moving targets at this time tomorrow." Shi Xingfa said.
Gu Nian also felt relieved. During this period of time, she clearly felt that her strength and speed had greatly improved, but she had no suitable way to display them. However, when she came to the archery hall to train archery today, she clearly felt that she was more adept at using her strength. Gu Nian was very satisfied with this.
As agreed, she took out five bags of rice from the trunk of her SUV and piled them up at the front desk of the archery hall. This was the training fee for Shi Xingfa.
"Then I'll leave. Come back tomorrow at ten o'clock." Gu Nian nodded to Shi Xingfa and prepared to leave.
"Wait." Shi Xingfa stopped her and said somewhat embarrassedly, "Can we exchange it for meat tomorrow? It doesn't matter if it's a little less."
"Canned meat, okay? Twenty kilograms of canned meat." Gu Nian asked. She was not surprised by Shi Xingfa's offer. After spending time with him today, she realized that this boss was definitely a good teacher. At least his teachings helped Gu Nian avoid many detours. Therefore, Gu Nian was not in a hurry to lower the price.
This condition was much better than Shi Xingfa had expected. He was ready to bargain with Gu Nian, after all, meat was a rare commodity nowadays. He quickly agreed.
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Gu Nian drove his SUV from Jianguan to the villa. There were pedestrians in groups of three or four on the road, all wearing official winter clothing. In such cold weather, only those wearing winter clothing could stay outdoors for a long time, or they were pedestrians wearing heavy clothes to buy supplies.
Whether it was the staff wearing winter clothing or ordinary passers-by, they all looked at the off-road vehicles with envy. In such extreme weather, some cars of inferior quality could not even start their engines, and it was difficult to drive in the snow. It was conceivable that a high-end off-road vehicle like Gu Nian's that could drive freely in thick snow was a precious means of transportation.
However, many people can only envy. Such a car is warm in the cold wind and safe to drive in the snow, but it also consumes a lot of oil. It is not easy for everyone to exchange some daily necessities now, so how can they afford to change the oil?
When Gu Nian returned home, she first went to see the greenhouse of the villa. Now, in the greenhouse of the villa, including the mutant spinach plant, there are more than ten mutant vegetables growing one after another. Gu Nian did not pull them out, but continued to plant them in the greenhouse, only recording the planting situation in the greenhouse every day. After all, she usually relies on the output of the farm for her own vegetables, and this greenhouse is just a cover to deceive people.
After entering the villa, Gu Nian locked the door of the villa tightly through the security system, and then entered his own farm space.
As soon as she came in, it was the cat Lotus who greeted her with her tail wagging as usual. Gu Nian picked up Lotus and felt her hands sink. She felt that the cat was getting fatter and fatter... It seems that the cat food she brought for Lotus is indeed nutritious, Gu Nian said with emotion. She scratched Lotus' chin for a while, and then let Lotus lead the way.
Now Gu Nian has opened up two neat farmlands in front of the cabin, each with twelve plots of land. The farmland on the left is planted with various vegetables, and the farmland on the right is planted with various Chinese medicinal herbs. Gu Nian has read a lot of information on crop planting during this period. She knows clearly that various vegetables and Chinese medicinal herbs have different requirements for soil, humidity, and light. However, in the farmland in front of her, all the plants have swaying branches and leaves, looking very uncomfortable.
Gu Nian could only sigh once again at the magic of the farm space.
She turned on the system screen and checked her spiritual energy coins. The system screen showed that Gu Nian now had 3,000 spiritual energy coins. These were all the spiritual energy that Gu Nian had saved from practicing breathing techniques every day.
Gu Nian opened the kitchen page and chose to buy the recipe for cold injury ointment.
With a loud bang, the system deducted 5,000 spiritual energy coins from Gu Nian, and the light screen slowly displayed the formula of the cold injury ointment.
Cold Injury Ointment: Safflower (miraculous medicine quality), Salvia miltiorrhiza (miraculous medicine quality), Gallnut (miraculous medicine quality), Angelica sinensis (miraculous medicine quality), Capsicum (miraculous vegetable quality), Rhubarb (miraculous medicine quality), Cinnamon (miraculous medicine quality), Raw Sichuan Aconitum (miraculous medicine quality).
Gu Nian's usually calm black pupils also showed confusion. She knew peppers, and she also knew other Chinese medicinal herbs. They were all very common varieties. They were among the Chinese medicinal herbs that Gu Nian had purchased during this period, but how to explain the spiritual medicine quality and spiritual vegetable quality marked behind them? Gu Nian also tried to put the Chinese medicinal herbs she collected in reality into the system backpack. The system only prompted the name of the Chinese medicinal herbs, but always showed that they were of ordinary quality.
Gu Nian called Lianhua and asked, "Lianhua, do you know how to grow this medicinal material of spiritual medicine quality?"
"Master, if you use spiritual fields to plant them, you can grow them meow~ The vegetables produced in spiritual fields are spiritual vegetables, and the medicinal herbs are spiritual medicines. But the fields that the master has opened up now are only ordinary fields, there are no spiritual fields meow~" Lotus replied meow.
Spiritual fields? Gu Nian suddenly remembered the kitchen waste left over from making cold-resistant soup last time. The detailed description of the kitchen waste at that time said "waste rich in spiritual energy". Why not try to fertilize the farmland today?
These days, after practicing breathing techniques and judo every morning, Gu Nian would come to the farm space to water his farmland, but today was the first time he fertilized the farmland.
Gu Nian took out two portions of kitchen waste from her backpack and put them into the bucket. A black paste appeared in the bucket, which was the result of the failed attempt to make cold-weather soup last time. She picked up the bucket and took Lotus to the farmland.
Gu Nian chose a field to plant Chinese cabbage. Chinese cabbage is the easiest vegetable to grow and only takes two days to mature. She dumped the kitchen waste in this field to observe. Even if something unexpected happened in the end, Gu Nian would not feel bad.
She picked up the bucket and poured some kitchen waste onto the ground.
"Ding, kitchen waste is detected. Do you want to apply fertilizer to the farmland (Chinese cabbage)*2? Yes/No." The familiar prompt popped up on the light screen again.
Gu Nian chose yes.
The soil suddenly moved. The brown soil squirmed, wrapping the black paste deep inside, and then all of a sudden, a large part of the newly grown cabbage seedlings was pulled out!
"Ding, the quality of ordinary farmland (Chinese cabbage)*2 has been upgraded to ordinary spiritual field (Chinese cabbage)*2. Congratulations to the host for obtaining an ordinary spiritual field for the first time!"
"Ding, the quality of Pakchoy (ordinary quality)*2 has been upgraded to Pakchoy (spiritual quality)*2. Congratulations to the host for obtaining Pakchoy (spiritual quality) for the first time!"
Seeing these two tips, Gu Nian couldn't help but be surprised. To say that the land and vegetables would change after fertilization was within Gu Nian's expectations, but she subconsciously thought that fertilization might just speed up the maturity of vegetables, so she had not been in a hurry to fertilize. But what she didn't expect was that fertilization would directly change the quality of the fields and vegetables?
If there is anything special about this kitchen waste, it is only the spiritual crystal added when making the cold-proof soup. Perhaps it is this spiritual crystal that directly upgraded the land to an ordinary spiritual field. Now looking at the description of the system, will the spiritual vegetables grown in the spiritual field also have their own spiritual energy?
Thinking of this, Gu Nian's heart pounded. During this period, she searched the forum and found that many people said that as evolution progresses, the energy provided by ordinary food becomes increasingly limited to the evolvers, and they must find food that is rich in spiritual energy! Although the mutant plants that can be found currently contain spiritual energy, the spiritual energy is extremely violent to the fragile internal organs. It's okay to eat a little occasionally, but eating it every day, even the evolved people can't stand it.
The farm space is so magical, maybe the spiritual vegetables produced will be rich in gentle spiritual energy. Gu Nian thought of this and couldn't help but feel full of energy. Seeing that the experiment was successful, she quickly applied the remaining kitchen waste to an empty medicinal field.
The system popped up a prompt again. "Ding, the quality of ordinary farmland*2 has been upgraded to ordinary spiritual farmland*2!"
Gu Nian immediately buried the salvia seeds in it, intending to grow the herbs needed for the cold injury ointment. "Player Gu Nian successfully sowed 2 ordinary spiritual fields and planted 9 salvias (spiritual medicine quality). It will take 60 days to mature. You can buy props in the mall to speed up."
Just as Gu Nian expected, any Chinese herbal medicine grown in this spiritual field would be of spiritual medicine quality. In other words, the finished Chinese herbal medicine Gu Nian collected would not be used. If she wanted to make the cold injury ointment, she had to grow the herbs from the spiritual field.
However, the time it takes for these herbs to mature is much longer than that for vegetables... Gu Nian immediately decided to pull out all the cabbages that had just been upgraded to spiritual vegetable quality and use them to grow herbs. But even so, if she wanted to quickly make the cold injury ointment, she would probably have to buy a time acceleration tool from the system mall, and to buy a time acceleration tool, she would have to save up spiritual coins! Now she doesn't have enough time to practice breathing techniques! Gu Nian never thought that she would have to be so hard-working to play a holographic version of a farm management game!
At this moment, Gu Nian felt a small animal rubbing against her legs at the bottom of her trousers.
It was Lotus. Seeing Gu Nian looking over, Lotus raised her chubby face and looked at Gu Nian pitifully with her watery eyes: "Master, I can actually go to the real space to play, meow~ I only need a little bit of spiritual coins, and Lotus can go out to accompany you for a day, meow~"
Looking at the cute furry creature beside her legs, what else could Gu Nian say? She touched Lotus's little head and scratched its furry chin: "Tell me, how many spiritual coins do you want?"
Lotus cat's eyes suddenly lit up: "For only 2000 spiritual coins, Lotus can go out and play for a day, meow~"
2000 Spiritual Coins! This is not a small amount! Gu Nian thought with great sorrow.
Perhaps she noticed that Gu Nian's face was not right, Lotus lowered her head, put her two front paws together, turned her furry tail around and covered her front paws, and whispered, "Master had very few spiritual coins before, but now that I have a little more, Lotus dares to say meow~ It's okay for me not to go out to play... But when the master is not around, Lotus is so bored alone on the farm..."
Seeing her kitten so aggrieved, what else could Gu Nian, the poop scooper, say? She could only wave her hand and let the system deduct one thousand spiritual energy coins!
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