I sell demon meat in the city

Chapter 248 Born to Farm
At eight o'clock in the evening, the courtyard of Meng Shulan's house was brightly lit and filled with laughter. After cooking the last main dish, boiled fish fillets, Meng Zichen, the head chef, ladled out two large bowls of it.

"What does the Demon King look like? He's a lion, but much bigger than the ones in our zoo. He has two golden wings on his back and can fly. His wife is a tigress, so their cubs are ligers. Sounds impressive, right? Bullshit! They're not even as strong as Big Yellow. I could kill them with one slap."

"Wang-"

Upon hearing its little owner mention its name, the big yellow dog, who was squatting by its food bowl gnawing on a bone, raised its head and called out softly. Its voice was unusually thin and long, as if it were pouting.

Meng Jiu turned her head and gave it a strange look, and Da Huang quickly lowered its head and started gnawing on the bone again.

The aroma of fish slices wafted over, and everyone quickly set out bowls and chopsticks. With Zhang Jinwu, Wei Xiaole, Dongfang Shuo, and Xia Yunsong who arrived in the evening, the table was full of people.

Meng Ziyang and Pidan were not there; the two boys were studying in Qingzhou. At this moment, they were unaware that their aunt (great-aunt) had already returned from the cultivation world.

If I had known, I would have had to skip class to come back.

Although Yu Qingge had already appeared before everyone, she still didn't like to join in the fun. However, Meng Shulan and Lin Qingquan had already taken dinner to the cabin on the mountain. She and Su Changhe sat around the stove, enjoying themselves quite a bit.

Before dinner, everyone stared wide-eyed at Xiao Qi's stories of strange tales from the cultivation world, including Meng Shulan.

There was nothing she could do. Although she and Yu Qingge had a good relationship and were very familiar with each other, every time the topic of the cultivation world came up, that ancestor would dismiss her with four words: "Extremely boring!"
How could it be boring? It's quite interesting, especially since her junior brother likes her.

With Yu Qingge absent, Meng Shulan asked gossipily, "What does your martial uncle look like?"

"Very handsome."

"Compared to your Uncle Changhe?"

Xiao Qi thought for a moment and then summed it up in one sentence: "I can only say that my master is blessed, with Diao Chan on the left and Xi Shi on the right, ah."

Before she could finish speaking, she was suddenly slapped on the back of the head, almost slapping her face into the bowl.

Xiao Qi quickly and obediently ate her food, not daring to utter a sound.

Meng Shulan was the same; she dared not ask any more questions.

Several men across from them were drinking spirit fruit wine that Xiao Qi had brought back, so they didn't pay any attention to what was happening to the mother and daughter.

Meng Jiu poured the wine that his granddaughter had brought back as a gift into bottles, and one jar contained about ten bottles.

He planned to give them away in pairs, like his second and third brothers, two bottles each would be enough.

The little girl was planning to give each of them a jar, but there's no need for that.

So he placed the remaining ten or so jars in a separate room, filling it to the brim. It looked quite impressive, like a wine shop.

She gave several bags of demon meat to Meng Zichen, Zhang Jinwu, and Xia Yunsong, keeping some for herself and selling the rest to increase funding.

The noisy meal lasted until almost 10 o'clock before everyone dispersed.

When Lin Qingquan escorted Zhang Jinwu and Xia Yunsong back, he saw the Meng family, three generations of them, squatting in a row by the wall, with a small peach tree in front of them.

That was something Shulan had dug up from the orchard Zhang Jinwu had opened at the foot of Sanqing Mountain.

I dug it up and planted it directly against the wall in the yard, and then never tended to it again.

But it survived.

Zhang Jinwu tended to them so meticulously, yet none of them survived. She casually dug a hole here and buried them, and they sprouted.

Lin Qingquan assumed the three of them were just talking about this while gathered around the peach tree, but the next second his eyes widened in surprise. Before him, the peach tree first grew taller and thicker, then its green buds grew larger, and finally, the peach blossoms bloomed in full glory. A gentle breeze blew, and the pink petals fluttered gracefully, creating a breathtaking scene.

He looked at his daughter in silence. She's really quite capable since she went out.

"So, our wood element means we can grow crops and fruit trees?"

Meng Shulan never imagined that this skill could be used in this way, and neither did Meng Jiu. However, he seemed to understand why the brothers were always so good at farming.

In Yunmeng Village, the same land was fertilized with the same fertilizer, but none of their land grew as well as their brothers'.

Some people used to mock them, saying they were born to be farmers, while others genuinely envied them.

But no matter what, food is the most important thing for people, and he felt that this ability was remarkable.

Xiao Qi clapped her hands, stood up, and said to Meng Shulan, "Mom, why don't you lease some land? I think being a farmer would be great."

Many plots of land in Sanshui Village are abandoned. Firstly, the villagers have all died, leaving the land unclaimed. Secondly, even if the state were to reclaim the land, who would be given it to, and who would dare to come and cultivate it?
"Xiao Qi's idea is feasible. I think we can take it."

As a farmer who has spent his whole life cultivating the land, Meng Jiu felt truly heartbroken to see so much land lying fallow after he arrived.

He said to Meng Shulan, "Judging from your analysis of the current situation, it seems you'll have to stay here indefinitely. In that case, let's make a good plan and take over the land in Sanshui Village. I'll manage it for you. Also, your brother, Yanping, and Yanliang—our Meng family has plenty of people, so managing a few hundred or a thousand acres of land won't be a problem."

Meng Shulan had never thought of this before, but after hearing her father say it, she felt that this method was feasible.

She turned to look at Lin Qingquan, who nodded and said, "I'll ask tomorrow to see how the land leasing process goes."

After finalizing the matter, Xiao Qi turned to her father and asked, "I haven't had a chance to ask yet, Dad, where's your dad? I haven't seen him today."

The way she addressed him made Meng Jiu chuckle, but then she pretended to be stern and scolded, "You child, you speak so carelessly. That's your grandfather."

Huh?
Xiao Qi's eyes widened in surprise. She looked at Meng Jiu and said, "Master, you two get along really well. Tell me, what benefits did Grandpa Lin give you?"

What good are they? They're just a few bottles of longevity pills.

Meng Jiu said righteously and sternly, "He is your grandfather, so isn't it only right that you call him grandfather?"

Changing the subject, Meng Qi pursed her lips and said nothing more about the issue of address.

"He went to the Grand Canyon, hoping to find the place he had visited before."

"How's it going? Any progress?" Xiao Qi asked anxiously.

Lin Qingquan shook his head. "He contacted me once the day before yesterday, but not yet."

Looking at the expression on his daughter's face, he warned, "You don't still want to go back, do you? Let me tell you, don't even think about it."

Meng Jiu nodded in agreement, "Yes, we can't go anymore. We only come back after half a year each time. If we go again, won't it take several years? Your grandpa's old bones can't take this kind of torment."

Xiao Qi said helplessly, "I'll be fine. Never mind, Grandpa, you go to sleep. I need to go find my master."

Before Meng Jiu and Lin Qingquan could react, he had already disappeared.

All three of them felt somewhat helpless. It wasn't necessarily a good thing that their child was very capable; they couldn't control him.

When Xiao Qi reappeared, she was already outside the cabin on the mountain.

(End of this chapter)