Returning to hometown to farm: The apocalypse system arrived ten years earlier?

Chapter 21: Cultivating a Vegetable Garden, Physical Skills Come from Life
On the afternoon of the last day of the seven-day holiday, Li Xiang rode a tricycle to take Jiang Caier to the main road to wait for the bus.

Jiang Caier had quite a lot of luggage, including a large suitcase with wheels and a backpack. Mainly because the weather was going to get cooler, she brought some thick clothes.

The next time we meet will probably be in November.

Li Xiang gave her the instant coffee and asked her to take it to school. She could have a cup every morning to refresh herself and improve her study efficiency.

It is a sugar-free, zero-calorie black coffee, also produced by a foreign brand. However, its raw materials are small-grain coffee selected from Baoshan, Yunnan Province next door. It has a rich aroma and a mellow taste, which is strong but not overpowering.

Baoshan small-grain coffee is a national geographical indication product and is also well-known internationally. It is one of the best quality coffees in the world.

Since returning to his hometown, Li Xiang has been eating well, sleeping soundly, and getting enough sleep. He has also entered an extraordinary realm and no longer needs black coffee to refresh himself.

He actually doesn't like black coffee very much, he prefers tea made from wild tea leaves grown in the mountains of his hometown.

The wild tea leaves are picked from before Qingming to Grain Rain every year. Only one bud and one leaf that sprouts in spring are picked. Then they are hand-fried in an iron pan. This is one of the ancestral crafts of Lijia Village. The tea soup is bright green and sweet and refreshing.

The only drawback is that this wild tea tree has a small yield, which means it can only be used as daily consumption tea.

Li Xiang's grandmother goes into the mountains to pick tea every spring, but she is too old and weak to do so, so she can only pick some on the edge of the mountain. If she could pick tea deep in the mountains, the taste would be better, but Li Xiang has to wait until next spring to go there himself.

"Cai'er, study hard in school and don't fall in love too early." Li Xiang advised earnestly.

Although the end of the world will come, it won't hurt to learn more knowledge. In the end of the world, only one in ten humans will survive, and human technology will regress to the level of World War II, so knowledgeable people will be more precious.

Jiang Caier couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth into a charming arc, thinking that Brother Li Xiang cares about me and is afraid that I will run away with someone else, haha.

"Don't worry, I won't fall in love too early. Our teacher said that love in high school is unreliable, and there is no one in our class that I like!" Jiang Caier said with a smile.

The two were chatting casually when the rural-urban bus arrived. Li Xiang hurried to help carry the suitcase and sent Jiang Caier on the bus. He leaned over to take a look and luckily, there was a seat.

After watching the bus go away, Li Xiang rode his tricycle back.

In fact, he has always been indifferent about cars, but at this moment he suddenly felt that it was necessary to buy a car. At least, he could send Caier to school, right?
With so much luggage, it would be great if I could drive her directly to the dormitory door. If she goes to college in the future, if it is not far away, I can also drive her there.

Cars are indeed not very useful in the end times because gasoline, diesel and electricity are all regulated and it is very difficult to buy them, but isn’t there still ten years left?
In ten years, it would be nice to buy a few cars to improve your life.

And he can use his foresight advantage to stockpile some energy in advance.

……

Without Jiang Caier, Li Xiang's life returned to its original state.

He got up early, practiced his breathing and physical skills in the backyard, and then went to the kitchen to make breakfast for himself and his grandmother.

A pound of flour is added to water and rolled into noodles. He likes to eat wide noodles, so the noodles are cut to be one centimeter wide. These are real handmade noodles and are very chewy.

After it's cooked, take it out of the pot and put it into two large bowls. Pour the fried minced meat sauce and scrambled eggs with cucumber, sprinkle with a handful of chopped green onions, and serve with a dish of hot sauce, a bottle of vinegar, and a few cloves of garlic. It's salty, fresh, slightly spicy, and fragrant. I have to say, it's quite appetizing to eat this in the morning.

Grandma didn't have a big appetite, so she took out most of the food and only ate a small bowl. She told Li Xiang to make less for her next time, as the main thing was to make sure Li Xiang was full.

Li Xiang smiled and said he knew. The excess went into his stomach. He practiced breathing techniques and physical exercises every day, which consumed a lot of energy.

After eating the noodles and taking a short rest, he took the stand and mobile phone, and carried a hoe, rake and shovel to go to cultivate the vegetable garden.

Today is Cold Dew, one of the 24 solar terms. After cultivating the vegetable garden, you can sow rapeseed, broad beans, potatoes, Chinese cabbage, leeks, cabbage, radishes, etc.

Rapeseed, in particular, can not only be used to extract rapeseed oil, but when the golden rapeseed flowers are in full bloom, it is also a very rare landscape.

Imagine, in the spring when flowers are blooming, he is sitting in the pavilion in the backyard drinking sweet wild tea, with golden eyes, the spring breeze bringing the refreshing fragrance of rape flowers, and bees buzzing in the flower fields...

Before, grandma was alone at home and ate little, so she planted relatively little. The vegetable garden in the front yard was not large, so he planned to open up a small piece of land in the backyard to be used as a new vegetable garden.

When the flowers bloom next spring, he will cultivate more land and plant more grains and vegetables, because there will be more mouths to feed, but not human mouths, but chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, etc.

Grandma didn't raise any geese, chickens or ducks, and she didn't even have a single pig. Her daily rations were barely enough, and she had limited physical strength, so she really didn't have the ability.

But now that Li Xiang is back, he can try more.

In the countryside, if you don't kill the New Year pig during the Spring Festival, it always feels a little less festive. This year it's too late, so next year he plans to raise at least five pigs.

Li Xiang chose a position, fixed his mobile phone with a bracket, turned on the recording mode, and started hoeing the ground.

Originally this place was overgrown with weeds and had many short shrubs and vines. When Li Xiang renovated the backyard, he removed the weeds and shrubs, turning it into a flat land. Now he needs to turn over the soil and break it up to create a loose and breathable vegetable patch.

He swung the hoe high in the air, then brought it down hard. With a hook and a flip, a large piece of soil was lifted up and then broken up.

Repeating this action over and over again, Li Xiang suddenly realized that he was using breathing techniques and physical skills without realizing it.

"This movement is really similar to the physical technique I practiced before, whether it is the power generation or the breathing frequency..." Li Xiang continued to train, oh no, hoeing the ground, after having this new understanding, he became more and more proficient.

"Could it be that the physical skills I practiced before were derived from life? From hoeing the fields?"

It is not impossible. Tao follows nature. Many senior masters who created physical skills may have gained insights from life.

Li Xiang feels that incorporating breathing techniques and corresponding physical skills into farm work not only makes the work more efficient, but also seems to be more beneficial to cultivation.

He used a hoe to turn over the vegetable field for half an hour and felt that his breathing method and physical skills had improved, which was better than the effect of deliberate training.

Suddenly, a prompt popped up in the mind: "Congratulations to the host, you have killed three first-order mutant creatures, the Flame Ants, and are rewarded with 30 achievement points."

What the hell?

Li Xiang looked carefully and saw that the hoe had hit an ant nest. The hoe was "huge" and "fell from the sky". With just this one blow, he killed countless ants.

Among those dead ants, there were three relatively large soldier ants, their entire bodies were red. They were probably the three unlucky first-level flame ants.

(End of this chapter)