Chapter 59: Laurel Blossoms "I'm afraid that won't work, Fire Ghost Leader, this...
"I'm afraid that won't work, Fire Ghost Leader. It's not that I don't want to. You know, the thirty shares have already been decided. I chose Fire Ghost Mountain as the first stop for your sake." Zhu Hui said helplessly as he put away the wooden box without changing his expression. He had anticipated this step when he took out the bay leaf, so it was very easy to do.
The fire ghost leader looked a little regretful.
Although Zhu Hui is a black-hearted person, he still has some abilities.
"Then we will wait quietly for three years and see what laurel seeds will be available then." The Fire Ghost Leader also knew how rare laurel seeds were. According to the nature of the merchants in Shizhu Village, they must maximize their profits. He had said this originally, and it would be better if Zhu Hui could agree, but if he didn't agree, he wouldn't suffer any loss.
Time passes.
Ye Lu and his three companions were also constantly busy. They needed to farm and reclaim wasteland. Ye Lu once discussed with the ghost scholar whether he should also plant trees, but the ghost scholar's words interrupted his consideration.
"Master Dao, since you already have a laurel tree, and laurel trees can be transplanted by cuttings, why don't you try to take seedlings from your companion spiritual plant?" The ghost scholar asked. He was genuinely confused, and his reasons were very sufficient. He said: "Even if we fail, we can still get a piece of forest land."
“It’s also considered a profit.”
The ghost scholar's words revealed something that Ye Lu had never expected.
As soon as the white millet seedlings were raised, he worked overtime with a few people to plant the millet seedlings in the fields. Looking at the ten acres of green fields, the tired people rubbed their waists and went to clean up the woodland around the laurel tree without stopping.
Considering that the laurel tree liked this forest, the three people cut down all the trees around the laurel tree, leaving a space, and then opened up a nursery in a corner of the open space.
Ever since the laurel tree was planted on the earth, not only has its spiritual consciousness become much more active, but its size has also undergone tremendous changes. At the beginning, perhaps because it still needed to absorb the strange spiritual soil, it was useless even if Ye Lu and the others crushed the strange beads on time every day. The laurel tree still grew slowly. Until one day, the laurel tree seemed to have taken root completely, and the whole tree suddenly grew taller, changing every day.
The laurel tree often complains of hunger.
Ye Lu and the others had no choice but to change the swamp tree strange beads into three pieces a day. They were carefully piled up with swamp tree putty under the laurel tree, which was enough to satisfy the laurel tree's hunger.
In just a few months, the laurel tree has grown into a towering tree.
Of course, the laurel tree still had no intention of blooming, and it lazily stayed in the woods every day to absorb the sunshine.
Ye Lusan? People came over that day.
"Alu, Alu!" Laurel sensed Ye Lu's aura from a distance and started calling for help, his spiritual awareness was still immature.
Ye Lu looked up at the tree in the moonlight, which looked like a huge jade sculpture. Its green branches and leaves were covered with a layer of light frost in the moonlight, and the entire open space in the forest was imprinted with moonlight. When he was still in the carriage a few months ago, Ye Lu could not imagine that the laurel tree would grow so big.
"Yuegui, how do you feel today?" Ye Lu was tending to the nursery with the other two. The nursery was not completed in a short time. They came here a few days ago to weed, remove stones, and add fertilizer. They also had to turn the soil over from time to time to let it get enough sunlight. It was almost ready today.
"Very good, the moonlight is very comfortable, and there is a lot of magical power." The laurel tree's consciousness answered happily. The companion always came to find it these days, and it felt very safe.
Ye Lu was more concerned about another issue.
"Laurel, do you want to bloom?" Ye Lu couldn't help but ask the lively Laurel.
"What is flowering, Alu?" This is the confused laurel.
"Flowers are..." Ye Lu answered subconsciously, but he got stuck and couldn't help rubbing his head. Damn it, how could he explain to a tree how flowers bloom? And wasn't the flower a way for the tree to court a mate? It didn't work anymore.
In Ye Lu's opinion, the laurel tree is still a sapling that has not grown up yet.
"Well, Taoist?" The playful man noticed Ye Lu rubbing his head, stood up, and asked with his head tilted.
The ghost scholar also stood up from the nursery field, waiting for Ye Lu's words. It was obvious that the communication between the Taoist priest and the laurel tree was not going smoothly.
"The laurel tree doesn't even know how to bloom." Ye Lu said helplessly as he looked at the two of them. Of course he was anxious. He originally thought that the laurel tree would bloom once it grew up. Now the laurel tree has grown into a towering tree, and there is no tree bigger than it in the forest. However, the laurel tree is still a large green piece, not moving at all.
The ghost scholar was also stuck. He never expected that the difficulty of the companion spirit plant was this. Come to think of it, it makes sense. The companion spirit plant has spiritual consciousness. Having spiritual consciousness means that it can think. Of course it will be good? What is the strange flower? Thinking about it, the ghost scholar was relieved.
The only problem is how to explain it to Laurel Tree. The ghost scholar also knows Ye Lu’s dilemma and he is also troubled by it. Isn’t this too easy to explain?
It was the Hipster who gave the most concise answer. He spoke quietly beside him: "Ask if it has too much strange power and wants to accumulate it to explode."
As soon as these words came out, Ye Lu instantly thought of the time when he first discovered the Yangteng fruit. The Yangteng tree seemed to have bloomed once. It was said that it couldn't help itself, and it couldn't wait to bloom as soon as the strange power arrived. The Ximing man was also present at the time.
Ye Lu quickly asked the Laurel Tree: "Laurel, are your strange powers showing any signs of gathering together?"
"Hey? A-Lu, are you talking about those smaller strange energy balls?" The laurel tree's consciousness suddenly realized, and then it was distressed. It said: "I can't move these strange energy balls. If I'm not careful, they will gather together. A-Lu, A-Lu, do you have any way to break up these strange energy balls so that I can absorb them?"
"Yuegui, are you hungry, that's why you want to eat these strange power balls?" Ye Lu didn't know whether to laugh or cry when he heard Yuegui's words. When he heard Yuegui's words that he wanted to disperse the strange power balls, his heart skipped a beat and he asked quickly.
"No, I'm not hungry now, A-Lu, I just feel a little uncomfortable." The laurel tree denied it and said depressedly: "I don't want to explode either."
"Then do you know when you will explode?" Ye Lu heard it and thought that the laurel tree could sense it himself?
"Not the right time." Laurel gave a positive answer at this time, saying: "Not now."
"I don't know exactly when."
Ye Lu asked more questions but got no answers. He asked the laurel tree when it wanted to bloom, and the tree's answer was always "not the right time, not now," and that it had to wait. When he asked it what it needed to wait for, confusion came from its spiritual consciousness, and the laurel tree itself didn't even know what it was waiting for.
Ye Lu had no choice but to continue to comfort the laurel, telling it to grow up well and stop thinking about these things. At the same time, he picked a few branches that he liked. The branches were green and had complete buds. He picked more than ten branches in a row before stopping.
The laurel tree had already grown into a towering tree, and these few branches did not hurt it at all. The laurel tree was not even angry at all. Instead, it looked at the three people busy in the nursery field with curiosity. It also saw Ye Lu adding the black soil he used into that field.
"Alu, what are you doing?" Laurel finally couldn't resist his curiosity and asked.
In fact, the three of them were not very busy. Most of them had already finished. The only thing left was to insert the branches diagonally into the soil. Hearing Yue Gui's question, Ye Lu readily said, "Plant small trees."
"What is a small tree?"
"It's the seeds." Ye Lu answered very calmly. It was obvious that he was often asked this question, and his answer was perfectly in line with the logic of the laurel tree.
Seeds, the laurel tree knew that it had also had a seed period. When it heard that Ye Lu and the others were planting seeds, the laurel couldn't help but be curious and continued to stare at the nursery over there. Could it be that seeds could be planted from that piece of land?
After Ye Lu and his three men finished their work, they stopped. Before leaving, Ye Lu also told the laurel tree, "Little laurel, remember to take a closer look at the nursery ground over there. If anything strange happens, use your spiritual sense to notify me."
"I know!" Laurel replied to Ye Lu perfunctorily, and then stared at the nursery with curiosity.
The three Ye Lu people looked at each other, shrugged their shoulders, and returned to the cave.
At this time, the cave was almost half built. At first glance, it looked a bit like a tall two-story building combined with a cave. It had two floors in total, the upper floor was for living, and the lower floor was for sundries. The trees were all carefully cut by Ximing Ren and Ye Lu. After wasting a large number of trees, the result was quite beautiful.
The wood also has a light coat of paint.
Ye Lu exchanged these lacquers in Huoshan Village. Huoshan Village was indeed a wealthy village. Although its strength was not that great, it had three villages surrounding it that depended on it. Each of these three villages had many craftsmen. One of the villages planted a kind of lacquer tree. The number was small, but the lacquer juice was inky black.
The inky black paint juice mixed with a special herbal juice from the village will turn into a very special varnish that is waterproof, anti-corrosive and insect-proof.
The only pity is that this lacquer tree is not a strange plant and cannot resist strange creatures. It can only be used for one purpose. Once the lacquer is applied to the wooden board, the board will have a warm feeling like a light green jade under the sunlight. The ghost scholar and Ye Lu fell in love with it at first sight and bought it at a huge price.
The village only wanted food, which was their livelihood. The three of them still gritted their teeth and squeezed out some money to exchange for a large portion. Look, the entire exterior of the small building was painted with this kind of paint, and from a distance, it looked quite beautiful.
Now there is only one big door left in the house.
This big door needs to be polished carefully, so this task will be handed over to an experienced person.
The ghost scholar took into consideration that the whole building already had a light blue tint, so he simply used dark blue or dark green for the door. Paint of this color was not available, so he could only slowly apply that varnish over and over again, mixing in some other colors. After a while, the door would take on the color that the ghost scholar wanted.
There is no need to rush about this matter. Once the matter with the millet field is concluded, it will be the official slack season for farming. Then, they can do whatever they want.
Time? It passes slowly.
Soon, it was time for the first weeding in the millet field.
The lush millet seedlings stretched out their bodies, and fine fluffy grass appeared underneath them, competing with them for nutrients. Ye Lu and the other two divided into three groups and began to weed with their own strength. While weeding, they remembered to pull up the grass by the roots and put it on the ground to be exposed to the sun, so as to completely weed it.
After working for several days, the three men finally cleared all the weeds in the millet field.
Ye Lu found something wrong. Why was the village at the foot of the mountain so quiet? Normally, when they were farming, the village below was also bustling with activity. From time to time, there were scenes of the strange men from He village causing trouble for the dragon.
The house of Ye Lu and his three companions was inside the cave, which was waterproof and windproof, so they naturally did not need the leather armor of the dragon. They even disliked the leather armor because it was ugly, but other villagers still needed it. After all, there were only a few caves large enough to build a house. It must be said that this was the luck of Ye Lu and his companions.
Uncle He Qi was walking slowly towards the fields in the village. Right at his feet was a black dog. In stark contrast, the black dog had an attitude that was very serious.
"Seventh Uncle, where are the people in the village?" As soon as Uncle He Qi approached the foot of the mountain, Ye Lu couldn't help but ask loudly.
"Oh? Lu kid?" He Qijiu looked up when he heard the voice, and just in time he saw Ye Lu and the Ximing people sticking their heads out with curious expressions. He slowly picked up a straw and held it in his mouth, and said: "Why are you still here? Of course, all the villagers have gone to the mountains?"
"It's the off-season now. Don't we all have to go look for strange plants? The Yangteng fruit has been planted, and everyone is free. If we find a strange plant, wouldn't it be more profitable than planting white millet?" He Qi's uncle said slowly. After he finished speaking, he looked at his nephew with a puzzled look, and his expression was a little disgusted: "Why are you guys still here? Why don't you go out and look for strange plants?"
When Ye Lu heard this, he suddenly realized something. He said that he felt like he had forgotten something. It turned out that he had forgotten to look for the strange plant. No wonder he hadn't heard any voice from the village in the past few days. If it were him, he would also rush over.
Ye Lu slapped his head, feeling a little regretful. He decided to go back and talk to the ghost scholar and ask the three of them to go look for the strange plant as well.
"Then why don't you, Uncle He? Why don't you look for the strange plant?" Before leaving, Ye Lu asked Uncle He why he was still in the village.
Uncle He Qi answered very straightforwardly, "I have already looked for him, but today it is my turn to look after the house, and your fourth uncle will be at home in a few days. Hurry up, get busy, and look for him as soon as you are done."
"Really? You guys say every day that you're going to look for the strange plant, but when the real thing comes, none of you actually know anything." Uncle He Qi couldn't help but complain about his nephew's unreliability.
Ye Lu rubbed his solar plexus, this was really their problem, this was the disadvantage of living in the mountains, it was easy to forget things. It was estimated that Uncle He Qi came here this time to see them, but unexpectedly, they actually didn't go.
The playful man remained silent and just watched with a smile. For fear that Ye Lu would bear a grudge against him after seeing his smile, he even used dominoes to cover up his smile. However, the combination of the cloth clothes and the dominoes did not look right no matter how he looked at it.
"......!" The playful man paused, the dominoes tilted, and he looked towards a certain place sharply.
"What's wrong, Ah Xi, what did you find?" Ye Lu calmed down and asked.
"Ah Gui, Laurel Forest." The playful man said concisely.
Ye Lu's expression sank, and without hesitation he turned around and led his men towards the laurel forest. Not long after, they appeared near the laurel forest and saw the figure of the ghost scholar in the forest.
"Ah Gui, what's wrong with you?" The ghost scholar's expression was very solemn, and he kept staring at the laurel tree. Ye Lu couldn't help but ask.
"Just in time, you're here." The ghost scholar turned around when he heard the voice. He pointed at the marks under the laurel tree and said, "Come and take a look. Are these strange footprints?"
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