Chapter 79 Organizing Manpower "Thunder Force, right?" The playful people laughed...
"It's the power of thunder, right?" Xi Mingren said with a smile.
"Now we just have to wait for the camellia flowers to fall." Ye Lu nodded with satisfaction.
The ghost scholar also saw the flowers all over the mountain, and the fragrance that hit him was particularly strange. After thinking for a moment, he couldn't help but frown and said, "It's a pity that there are so many flowers. It would be great if there were bees to collect nectar."
No matter how omnipotent the big rabbits are, they cannot do the job of collecting honey, nor can they do the job of removing insects from the tea plants. There are too many of them and they are too dense, covering the entire mountain and field. The rabbits are not able to pound the medicine, and they also have to take care of the laurel trees and work in the fields. Weeding and insect removal have long been left to the group of little birds.
Ye Lu shook his head and said, "It's not that simple."
"Goucha is a strange plant. The flowers it blooms have strange power. With the strange power of resistance, many bees cannot collect the honey. Even if they manage to collect the honey, they will easily be choked to death. Only bees that are similar to strange beasts or half-strange beasts can collect the honey. This kind of bee is much harder to find than strange plants." An example is the golden wood beetle. Hecun didn't dare to recognize it even after finding it.
Insects are small in size and it is difficult for them to store strange power, so it is even more difficult for them to become strange beasts.
When the ghost scholar heard this, he also frowned. He could imagine how difficult it was. Strange plants were hard to find, let alone the strange beasts that could be produced. He was afraid that there would be nowhere to buy them.
There was no way out, the ghost scholar could only give up his idea with regret.
Time passes by little by little.
The flowers on the tea leaves also start from buds, then flourish, and then wither. After a few days, small green fruits emerge from the branches, clustered together.
The birds that were flying up and down in the sky also began to move. They flew down from the sky and jumped onto the branches of the tea tree to pick the unripe fruits and eat them.
The Ximing people watched for a long time and thought that these birds wanted to hurt Gou Cha at first. The dominoes had already been taken out, and Gou Cha's spiritual consciousness immediately stopped them and said: "No, no!"
"The bird is moving!" Gou Cha spoke slowly. His talent was not high, and he and Xi Mingren were not companion plants. The connection between the two was not deep, and Xi Mingren could only barely hear what Gou Cha meant.
At first, some people may even misunderstand what you say, but after a while, they will understand a little bit.
"You mean? These birds are useful?" Ximing put away the dominoes, understood Goucha's meaning, and did not take any action.
The man gave up his guess and looked at the birds again and found something was wrong. These birds seemed to know something. They often fell on the branches, looking for weak and bad fruits in the clusters.
Look! This is the reward for the birds.
This can also help the tea fruit grow better.
Are you interested in this? You will understand it instantly when you get here.
"These birds don't have any magical powers, right?" Ximingren looked at these little birds in confusion. He didn't sense any magical powers. How could these birds eat the fruit of the Goucha tree?
Ximingren moved his hand slightly, wanting to catch a bird to study it, but he saw that Goucha's consciousness had no intention of leaving. He hesitated for a moment and finally gave up. If it affected Goucha's fruit production, the Taoist master would really kill him in the fields.
For a bird, not worth it.
The fruit grows bigger little by little, and its color slowly changes from green to red.
Ye Lu would occasionally go to the southern hillside to check on the tea-growing plants and see how the tea-growing fruits were ripening. The strange blood on the ground at the roots of the tea-growing plants had not yet dried. Ye Lu looked at it for a moment, frowned, and said, "It's a little slow."
Are these fruits still half red? Some are red, and there are also many green ones.
"Ah Xi, ask Gou Cha if he feels that his ghost power is not enough?" Ye Lu looked up and asked Xi Mingren. The ghost scholar has been really busy recently. Except for the time when Gou Cha started to bloom, he came to see it once. The rest of the time he was thinking about his new weapon. At present, only Ye Lu and Xi Mingren are busy in Chongshan.
The playful man nodded, and then used his spiritual sense to ask about the tea.
The reply given by Gou Cha's consciousness was even more confusing than Xi Mingren's: "Why is the strange power not enough? Hasn't it always been like this?" Gou Cha still felt that the strange meat was sufficient this year, and he ate quite full.
"Your fruits are slow to ripen." Ye Lu didn't need to say this, everyone knew it and spoke up to help Gou Cha explain.
Gou Cha couldn't explain why.
The playful man paused for a moment, then paraphrased, "Do you feel that the blooming flowers have been absorbing your magical power, and you feel a little weak?"
Gou Cha gave an affirmative reply, saying: "Yes!"
"But Ah Xi, you've already fed me a lot of flesh and blood!" Gou Cha Guizhi was also a little confused and didn't understand why he was still weak.
The playful man raised his eyebrows and said nothing.
Ye Lu looked at the messenger and asked, "How is it?"
"The Goucha strange plant doesn't know that it doesn't have enough strange power. It's probably because the big rock bear didn't know how to raise it at the time, so it thought that using its strange power and flesh would be enough." Generally speaking, in areas like the Forbidden Stone Mountains where strange power is not particularly abundant, when the strange plant matures, in addition to strange object flesh and blood, some strange beads will be added to supplement its strange power.
How could Big Rock Bear afford to raise a strange plant when he was just a bear cub? The cultivation experience was probably learned from him by peeking at humans or from the Goucha strange plant itself.
The bear and the strange plant have been confused for so long.
Ye Lu was a little surprised after hearing this, his expression showed helplessness. This was really unexpected. They were in the process of cleaning.
"I'll go get some strange beads. At least we can't let Gou Cha grow according to his original habits. This will easily weaken his foundation, and over time, his cultivation level may even drop." The most classic example is the Yangteng fruit in their He Village, which was planted at almost the same time as the laurel tree in Ye Lu's hand. The Yangteng was still a seedling, and the laurel tree was a seed. Now a batch of laurel trees have matured, but the Yangteng fruit is still recuperating.
There is no way. My foundation has been depleted too much and I need to take good care of myself.
Ye Lu was glad that they discovered it early. With Gou Cha's personality, he might not even know what happened when his level dropped.
"I'll go with you."
The two of them took out the mysterious beads that had been stored for Laurel, and took out more than half, nearly seven thousand pieces. The remaining four or five thousand pieces were left for Laurel in case of emergency.
Anyway, let the tea bloom and bear fruit first and then sell it. The Guizhu will be returned sooner or later.
The strange bead was crushed, and the strange power floated in the air, and was then absorbed by the Gou Cha fruit. The broken pieces of the strange bead fell to the ground, and were eaten by the tree roots that came out of the ground in an instant. It was not until five thousand strange beads were crushed that the Gou Cha strange plant's eating speed slowly decreased, and the Gou Cha fruit slowly turned red.
All seven thousand pieces were crushed, and the powder of the strange beads fell on the ground at the roots of the Goucha strange tree. It stayed there for a while and was not swept away immediately. Ye Lu knew that it was almost done.
Ye Lu stood up straight, clapped his hands, squinted his eyes and looked at the fruits of the Goucha strange plant. After estimating for a moment in his heart, he turned his head and said to Xi Mingren: "In another three or four days, the Goucha fruits will be ripe. You should keep an eye on them more these days." The Goucha strange plant is not a laurel tree, nor is it as rare as the latter. Considering that there is also the Bronze Mirror Lady in Chongshan, there are few strange beasts who have the courage to break through by force.
"I don't think we, plus the big rabbits, can pick all the fruits. You go down the mountain tonight and talk to your uncles to see if we can ask the villagers for help. We will offer a hundred Goucha fruits and three kilograms of white millet and ask them to help pick the fruits." Ye Lu looked at the fruits, thought for a moment, and then stated his request.
There is no way, the tea plant is too big and too wide.
There really aren't enough people in Chongshan.
Unfortunately, most of the tea plants mature at once and hang on the branches. The strange power condenses and disappears in a flash, so time is urgent.
"Only cunning men!" Ye Lu saw the man nodded in agreement and added emphatically.
"I know." Ximingren waved his hand and said seriously. He also knew about this. After all, he was a stranger. The Goucha strange plant would definitely have a subconscious reaction. The attack of the Qingyou-level strange plant, even if it was unconscious, was not something that an ordinary person could dodge. It would require a strange warrior to avoid it.
This price is enough to make the people of Hecun work for a day and a night, which can be said to be full of sincerity.
The confidence of the playful people? Full.
In fact, this is true.
When Xi ordered his men to go down the mountain to find He Sijiu and told them the purpose of their visit, He Sijiu was a little surprised at the generous conditions.
"Ah Xi, are you sure it's really that much?" Fourth Uncle He asked in surprise. Just now Xi had ordered his men to tell Ye Lu the function of the Goucha Fruit that he had guessed. It can refine the physique and increase the size of the body to a certain extent. It is a good food even in a caravan, not to mention it is of the Qingyou level.
At least one or two magical beads plus three kilograms of white millet. Once my fourth uncle says this condition, there will definitely be many magical people in the village who want to do it.
"Yeah." Ximingren nodded and said, "Brother Lu feels that he received a lot of help from the village when he was a child. Now that he has the ability, he can give back." Ye Lu didn't say anything. Ximingren also understood what Ye Lu meant. Anyway, a hundred Goucha fruits were nothing to Ye Lu now. A batch of Goucha fruits was worth tens of thousands.
Fourth Uncle He choked. Indeed, this was what his nephew did.
Fourth Uncle He was helpless with his nephew's soft heart and gratitude, and it was difficult for him to persuade him now. He couldn't help but let his child repay the favor. Secondly, many families in the village had just settled down and did not have enough white millet to eat. Many families with talents were also in difficulty and urgently needed this opportunity.
"Any requests?" Fourth Uncle He took note of what happened to Ye Lu this time and prepared to go back and talk to the village elders about it. His nephew must do things without a name, and at the same time, he was prepared to do everything well for his nephew.
"Just do as you see fit!" The playboy said readily. Before he went down the mountain, Ye Lu had told him to come and see Fourth Uncle He, because he trusted Fourth Uncle He's careful character.
"The only requirement is that the strange plant must be of the Qingyou level and be accompanied by strange beasts all year round. As you know, strange beasts are thick-skinned and tough, so we need to find some stronger strange warriors." The Ximing man paused and added: "The fruits of this batch of strange plants have also been ordered with the caravan, and they cannot be disclosed for the time being."
"Please, when Fourth Uncle is looking for someone, please find someone who keeps a tight lid on their words."
"Don't worry about that. No matter how the people in our village laugh and play, the children are very tight-lipped and never tell outsiders about the village's affairs." He Sijiu said affirmatively, then frowned and asked, "How high does the cultivation level have to be?"
The people in He Village were indeed honest about this. Fourth Uncle He was not bragging, and Xi Ming was also sure that the last time he and Ye Lu went to Huoshan Village to buy things, the people there didn't even know how many strange plants there were in their village. They only knew about one green millet, and there was no information at all about the laurel tree on the mountain where they had rebuilt.
I just vaguely knew that the three of them were busy.
You have to know that many of the He Village ghosts have a good relationship with the people from Huoshan Village, and they all know the situation on Chongshan Mountain. There has been no news for such a long time, so it can be said that they are very tight-lipped.
Xi Mingren scratched his head, estimating the strength and speed of Gou Cha Gui Zhi's usual beatings on him, and he said, "At the very least, Bai You top level, and if you have a combat talent, you can go down to Bai You mid-level, Huang Li level is even more welcome."
"Okay!" Fourth Uncle He listened to the request of the playboy, and at the same time, he searched for the young men in He Village who met the requirements, and also those who came from poor families. After calculation, including the young men and the candidates from the eliminated guards, he could squeeze out about a dozen people.
"About a dozen. If there are more, I can reduce the number." After a moment, Fourth Uncle He asked again.
"That's enough. No need to reduce. This number is barely enough." When Xi Ming heard this number, he reluctantly breathed a sigh of relief. That's enough. The big rabbits are digging the soil and harvesting well. As for picking fruits, they are not fast enough because rabbits' claws are not as flexible as humans and there are few of them.
The man looked up and saw the surprised expression on Fourth Uncle He's face. He sighed slowly and said helplessly, "Didn't you see the current state of the tea-growing plants? The entire southern half of the mountainside is now occupied by them, and the fruits are ripening in batches. This number of people is really just right. Fourth Uncle, please notify these strange people to go up the mountain in two days."
"Also, there's no one to cook on our mountain, so please bring your own dry food. Don't worry, we'll use white millet to supplement it!" Anyway, the big rabbits are first-rate farmers. Besides bay leaves, they only grow millet stalks, and white millet is regarded as their staple food. They grow it more diligently than Ye Lu and his three companions.
Now there are nearly ten large vats in the granary that are full. Soon, a new batch of white millet will be ripe. Ye Ludu is going to use the white millet to exchange for some good things from the caravan to send to the green millet. It will be a great honor for his hard work.
Xi ordered his men to return to the mountain.
Uncle He went door to door looking for families that met the requirements.
Chen Yuanli's family is one of them. After so many days, the boy's wounds have healed, except that his left arm is still broken. He is in much better spirits. The golden wood beetles can eat by themselves and don't need others to clean up. Apart from feeding the beetles, he has nothing to do. He is at home staring at the newly planted saplings near his home.
He also dug the saplings from the mountains, looking for the saplings that the golden wood beetle liked.
"Uncle He!" Chen Yuanli heard the sound, and then saw He Si knocking on the door. He immediately stood up. Behind him, an elderly couple also leaned out in surprise.
"What do you want from me?" After finally explaining to his grandparents that it was not about him going up the mountain, Chen Yuanli asked embarrassedly after watching his grandparents leave.
"I remember that your cultivation is at the top level of Baiyou level, and your talent is sharp five senses, right?" He Sixian asked.
Chen Yuanli nodded.
"Then I have something for you to do, and you will be rewarded!" He Si slowly told Chen Yuanli that there was a strange plant on the Chongshan Mountain that needed to be harvested. He did not ask Chen Yuanli to pick all the tea fruits: "You have a special talent. In addition to being able to pick fruits, please use your talent to take a look at the strange plant."
Chen Yuanli was just about to refuse. Why should he ask for payment for one hand, especially when Brother Lu helped him a lot? Then he heard what He Si said and hesitated. Using his talent would consume a lot of his magic power. He really needed the magic bead.
"It's possible, but..."
Fourth Uncle He said in an unquestionable tone: "It's OK if he can. Lu Wazi doesn't need this little bit of food. He really wants to help, and you have a really good talent. If you feel embarrassed, you can give him some of your golden wood beetles when they are produced in the future."
After these words were spoken, Chen Yuanli had nothing more to say.
Fourth Uncle He quickly said goodbye as he had to go to the next house.
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