Chapter 36 After planting all of these...
Four or five days had passed by the time all the rice was planted. The rice had sprouted and the fields had been plowed. Cang Li carried the sprouted rice grains and scattered them into the paddy fields. Seedlings only needed to be sown in one field. Once the seedlings grew, they would be pulled out and transplanted.
Cang Li had surveyed the area. This large open space was approximately a thousand acres, possibly even more than she had estimated. There was also land on the opposite bank of the river. This batch of rice could currently be planted on about a hundred acres. Based on the previous season's harvest, the system-produced seeds had a high yield rate. These hundred acres could produce about eight or nine thousand catties of rice.
Fortunately, it's not like the ancient records say, with a yield of only two hundred catties per mu. If that were the case, Cang Li would have to do some work at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, which would be too much of a burden for her.
After sowing the seeds, Cang Li went back and drank some water. Over the course of the winter, all the meat he had stored was gone. Taking advantage of the few days of free time after sowing the seeds, Cang Li wanted to catch a family of wild boars to eat. He hadn't eaten fresh meat for over a month, and he was craving it.
Everything on the mountain is coming back to life, and birds are chirping and twittering. Cang Li picked up her axe and chopped at a big tree next to her, startling a flock of birds into flight. Cang Li laughed loudly; she just loved to "bully" the weak.
Taiqing watched from behind, wanting to say something but holding back, finally letting out a sigh. Oh well, humans are all strange, it's not like he just found out today.
Cang Li happily went up the mountain, looking around, wondering if he could find a nest of wild eggs to take back and hatch to raise chicks. Last year, the wild eggs that the others had collected were washed away by a flood before they could hatch. Children should eat some eggs to supplement their nutrition.
In reality, the cubs were fed meat at almost every meal by Cang Li and were not lacking in nutrition at all. However, Cang Li still had some old-fashioned ideas and gave them an egg every day for nutrition and health.
After walking for a while, Cang Li didn't find a pheasant's nest, but he did dig up a lot of fresh wild vegetables. There weren't many leafy greens in winter, and the dried vegetables were almost all eaten up, so these wild vegetables were perfect for him to dig up.
Cang Li quickly dug up a basket full of wild vegetables, and also found a small patch of mustard greens. Cang Li wanted to eat mustard green dumplings.
When they reached the trap, Cang Li indeed caught another wild boar.
This time, Taiqing learned how to tie up wild boars and bring them up to Cangli.
Cang Li nodded in satisfaction, a look of approval on his face, and then put the wild boar into his backpack. After that, Cang Li's eyes lit up, and he praised Tai Qing:
"Master, you're becoming more and more capable!"
Taiqing: "...No need for that. Just tell me what you want me to do." Taiqing already knew that once Cang Li showed a strange smile, it meant he needed to do something.
Cang Li chuckled, "I feel sorry for them. I wonder if there are any wild eggs about to hatch on this mountain? I want to raise some chickens to lay eggs for them to eat." Most importantly, Cang Li also wanted to eat eggs; she wanted poached eggs, boiled eggs, tea eggs, and steamed eggs!
Taiqing was silent for a few seconds before saying, "There's a nest."
Cang Li's eyes lit up and he waved his hand: "Take them all away!"
Taiqing stretched out his hand, and soon a pheasant nest flew out of the woods, containing a dozen or twenty green eggs. A pheasant followed, swooping and clucking, trying to take back the nest of eggs.
Cang Li rubbed his hands together, grabbed the pheasant, and thought, "Great! Now I have someone to incubate the eggs. I'll go back and make a bamboo cage to keep the pheasant in."
The chicken coop filled with eggs floated in the air and followed the two down the mountain.
As soon as they came down the mountain, Cang Li asked Ji Hejie to start a fire to cook the rice and wash the vegetables. She herself split bamboo and fenced off a piece of land where the nest of wild eggs that had been washed away by the water had been placed. She then built a fine bamboo fence around it, wove a lid to seal the top, and put the wild eggs and pheasants inside. This way, the pheasants couldn't escape.
By the time Cang Li returned from processing the wild boar by the river, Ren had already sorted and washed the wild vegetables, and the rice was cooked.
After Cang Li finished cooking and eating his fill, he started chopping filling and making dumplings. Being able to eat dumplings in this primitive society made Cang Li feel really capable.
The next morning, after cooking a big pot of dumplings, the five kids, who had never eaten dumplings before, stared wide-eyed and ate until they were so full they could barely walk.
Cang Li ate about ten, but felt that her appetite had decreased. Logically speaking, she should be able to eat thirty or forty after working every day. Why did she not want to eat after only ten?
Taiqing tasted a few, and seemingly discerning Cangli's thoughts, said to Cangli:
"Your cultivation level is almost at the Golden Immortal stage, so it's alright for you not to eat anything now."
Cang Li: ...
So you cured her cravings by cultivating immortality?
Cang Li didn't believe it, and insisted on eating twenty more dumplings before finally putting the bowl down, satisfied. The dumplings were really delicious.
Taiqing: ...
Well, Cang Li's strange behavior has been going on for more than just a day or two.
Once the rice seedlings had grown well, Cang Li immediately asked Tai Qing for help in teaching her how to use magic to evenly plant the seedlings in the field. After all, experiencing life is one thing, but how long would it take to plant a hundred acres of land by hand? It's better to use magic.
After planting, it's time to harvest the rapeseed. Cang Li thinks that while eating lard every day is delicious, it's still good to have some rapeseed oil in addition. Most importantly, you can't always hunt wild boars for lard, but you can have rapeseed and sesame seeds every year if you save the seeds.
The weather is getting warmer and warmer. The cubs took off their animal skin pants. Cang Li used a dust removal spell to clean the pants, aired them out, and put them in a bamboo box. They can take them out to air again when winter comes and then wear them.
Cang Li lay on the big rock, looking at Nuwa opposite her. The rice in the field would be ready for harvest in another month. After harvesting this batch of rice and planting the next season, she would go and wake her mother up to make babies.
Cang Li wasn't in such a hurry originally. She had only intended to make empty promises to Tai Qing to keep people here to work. However, her hands became transparent, and whenever she had the thought of not wanting to persuade Nuwa, her hands would become transparent again. When she decided to persuade Nuwa to create humans, her hands recovered. Recently, after she decided to actually persuade her, her hands stopped changing, and her cultivation level increased rapidly, giving her a feeling of being rewarded.
Therefore, Cang Li decided to urge her mother to get the person out, before the Lich War began, so that the human race could at least have some ability to protect themselves.
Cang Li thought for a moment, then got up and decided to train the kids on how to be teachers. When so many people come out at once, she won't be able to teach them all by herself, so the kids will have to help.
The five children were listening to Taiqing preach. Cang Li occasionally overheard them and knew that the five children had already passed the theoretical stage and Taiqing had begun to teach practical skills. The five children had already begun to cultivate by drawing qi into their bodies. Yu was probably too young, so his cultivation speed was slower, but his speech was much clearer than before, and he could clearly express his meaning.
When Taiqing saw Cangli come over and sit next to Jie, he felt inexplicably honored. He then spoke more profoundly about things that were appropriate for Cangli's current stage.
After Taiqing finished his lesson, Cangli pressed the children down to sit properly and said:
"Don't rush off to play, it's my turn to give you a lesson."
亼: ?
Jie: Huh?
Cang Li sat solemnly in Tai Qing's seat. Tai Qing had just stood up and hadn't left yet. He didn't know what Cang Li was up to, so he simply listened from the side.
"You've all grown a year older, it's time for you to grow up! Soon our mother will definitely expand the human race. With so many people appearing, they'll need food, water, and shelter, so my children, the task of teaching them how to survive will fall to us!"
Cang Li spoke with passion and force, and the boys instantly became enthusiastic, waving their fists:
"Don't worry, sister! We'll do our best!"
Cang Li nodded in satisfaction and began asking questions:
"Very good. Have you all learned the work I taught you during this time? How do you plant rice?"
Jie immediately raised his hand: "Soak them first, then keep them warm to germinate, scatter them in the paddy field, and when the seedlings grow to knee height, pull them out and transplant them!"
Cang Li: "Very good, when should rapeseed be planted?"
Ji: "After harvesting the last batch of rice before the temperature drops, plant it again before it snows, and harvest it next year!"
Cang Li nodded: "Not bad, not bad. You should teach what you know to your new members of the clan, understand?"
The kids nodded in unison, and even though Yu didn't understand much, he knew he had to nod along.
The little one scratched and asked:
"Sister, why do we need so many of our own kind? Aren't we a few enough? Didn't Mother Goddess decide she didn't want to continue creating humans?"
Cang Li reached out and pinched Er's cheek: "Other races have tens of thousands of people, but we humans only have six. If a conflict breaks out, who do you think the six of us can defeat?"
Er covered her face for a while before saying, "What my elder sister said makes sense, but what about the Mother Goddess?"
Cang Li hugged everyone for a while and said, "Don't worry, I'll convince Mom. You guys just need to remember how to survive here during this time."
The most important thing for a newly born human race to learn is how to survive. As for cultivating immortality, Cang Li doesn't think Taiqing will teach the entire human race to cultivate immortality. Besides, not every human can cultivate immortality. Taiqing came to educate the human race, not to take on disciples. A sage who advocates non-action will not teach many disciples. So, regardless of the version, Taiqing Daode Tianzun only has one inner disciple.
Other human races each have their own destiny; if they want to pursue immortality, they must first survive.
Cang Li was unwilling for the human race to starve to death on this continent before they had even lived a few days.
Taiqing watched as Cangli listed out the survival requirements of the newborn human race to the five children, his expression somewhat stunned. Yes, to educate the human race, the human race must first survive, and Cangli had already anticipated all of these situations.
So, was this the reason why Cang Li hadn't urged Nuwa to create the human race before? Because the conditions for survival weren't met, so he simply didn't allow the human race to appear.
Now that the conditions are met, the human race will no longer face a life of food shortages, being unable to compete with wild beasts, and being forced to flee from place to place as soon as they emerge.
Taiqing fell into deep thought. After Cangli finished explaining his plan, he led the children to the field to pull weeds. He glanced back at Taiqing, who was deep in thought. He was used to it. Taiqing often fell into deep thought, and he couldn't be bothered to care. Besides, it was pleasing to the eye to see Taiqing deep in thought.
Cang Li happily pulled weeds to feed the cows, then collected the dried rapeseed and ground it with a stone mill. Cang Li also made a tool to manually squeeze out the oil. Fortunately, she had watched a lot of videos when she was too tired and needed to relax, so she knew how to use the most primitive method to extract oil.
The advantage of this method is that it requires no technology, while the disadvantage is that the oil yield is somewhat low. However, it doesn't matter, as both peanuts and sesame seeds can be pressed for oil. You can press them repeatedly, and the remaining residue can be buried in the soil to fertilize it, so nothing is wasted.
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