Chapter 13 The Glory of the Sect Belongs to You

Jian Ning was abandoned by her biological parents on the roadside when she was four years old. When she was crying helplessly, her grandparents happened to be passing by and took her in and raised her.

Adults always say that children don't remember things.

But Jian Ning remembered that her parents disliked her and deliberately abandoned her.

Grandpa and Grandma had a son who wanted to be her father, but his new wife disagreed. So Jian Ning didn't have a father or mother and called them uncle and aunt.

My uncle and aunt bought a new house in the provincial capital a few years ago.

After my grandfather passed away from illness a few years ago, my grandmother lived with my uncle and aunt.

The old house wasn't made of brick; it was made of large, bare blocks of yellow mud stacked together, over a meter high, with wooden beams supporting it and black tiles on top. After being left unused, it collapsed in less than a year.

The old house is connected to the kitchen and chicken coop behind it, with a stream flowing down from the mountain running through the middle of the house.

During the high-water season each year, there are also small fish and crabs in the water.

Deep-fried, they're crispy and incredibly delicious.

Jian Ning had no toys in her childhood; her happiest moments were splashing in the stream in the summer.

Therefore, her ideal home must have a stream.

She was very satisfied with this self-circulating landscaped stream, even though there was no source of water here.

Over the next few days, the system did not issue any tasks, and Jian Ning did not rest either.

She explored the entire resort.

Actually, there are still roads inside the villa, but when she first came, the location was wrong, and the paved road was covered by weeds. She cleared the road out when she had nothing else to do.

Exercise daily, draw qi into the body, and practice techniques diligently.

The weather was gloomy, and as she turned her fingers, a large dark cloud slowly drifted in from the horizon.

The rain was falling in a light drizzle.

She washed the entire mountain villa thoroughly, and released the previously grown hydroponic sweet potato leaves, along with the fertile soil, into the villa, where they are now growing wildly.

With a little practice and further refinement, Jian Ning felt she could command the wind and rain.

Of course, this consumes a lot of spiritual energy.

Jian Ning will probably need two or three days to recover from today's move.

She rubbed her dizzy head, a side effect of overexerting her spiritual energy, and muttered to herself, "I'll have to be more careful next time."

The system, which hadn't been seen for several days, reappeared.

[The sect's land was barren, but you diligently and skillfully transformed it into fertile soil with a little rain. The sect's glory belongs to you alone!]

[Mission triggered!]

[Task: Reclaim one acre of spirit field and successfully cultivate spirit plants.]

[Reward: Beginner-level spell "Reclaiming Land"]

With so much high technology available today, Jian Ning had no intention of personally hoeing the ground.

She still had some money, so the next day she went to the farmers' market, rented a tractor, and hired a professional driver to cultivate a piece of land near the golf course.

The land, which has not been tended to for so long, has sturdy grass roots, but there is nothing that modern machines cannot do.

One acre of land was plowed in less than half a day.

She cut down the weeds, which were half a person tall, and burned them into ashes. She then asked several elderly people to help her ridge the land, which took several days.

It rained for several more days.

She waited until the weather was sunny and pleasant before going out to the seed shop to buy seeds.

"Boss, do you have any vegetable recommendations for planting right now?"

Although Jian Ning grew up in the countryside, she wasn't particularly clear on what vegetables to plant at what time of year. She only knew that there were plenty of soybeans and cucumbers to eat during summer vacation and plenty of Chinese cabbage to eat during winter vacation.

Grandma didn't grow a wide variety of vegetables; she mostly ate the same few kinds. The shopkeeper, seeing she was a young woman, asked, "You also won the lottery to rent land in the neighboring community, right?"

Jian Ning didn't deny it, she just nodded.

The boss chuckled and said, "It's strange these days. Before, it was mostly older people who liked farming when they had nothing else to do, but now a lot of young people like it too. I heard your community got a hundred plots of land this time, and there must have been over a thousand people who drew lots. You're lucky to have won. Land in the north of the city isn't cheap. The community's land rental is relatively cheap, five hundred a year, right?"

"You can start by planting these fast-growing bok choy and lettuce. They grow quickly and you can eat them in less than a month. You can also plant some garlic and shallots. You don't need to live in the rented place; you can just plant them in a pot at home. In this weather, they'll sprout in three days. Just cut them when you want to eat them, and then fertilize them. The shallots outside have Bordeaux mixture on them, so it's cleaner to grow your own."

The shopkeeper's fingers swept over several packets of seeds as he examined them and continued to make recommendations, "It's still hot now, but once it cools down a bit, you can plant things like tomatoes, spinach, and radishes. It's fine now too, but since it's hot, you'll need to water them more often. It's not as hot here as it is in the south of the city."

Jian Ning listened attentively.

She has awakened her wood spirit root and is also blessed with magic. As long as it doesn't go too far against common sense, she shouldn't be able to grow dead vegetables.

With that in mind, she bought all sorts of vegetables: bok choy, lettuce, tomatoes, spinach, cilantro, radishes, pea sprouts, celery, rapeseed shoots, lettuce, cauliflower...

Jian Ning is not a picky eater and loves to eat everything.

So she bought some vegetable seeds.

Of course, the land of the resort was also taken into consideration, since it covers a total area of ​​more than 600 acres, enough to plant whatever one wants.

Seeing that she bought a lot, the shop owner gave her extra shallots and leek roots as a gift.

"By the way, young lady, you're so young, do you like flowers? Would you like to buy some seeds?" The shopkeeper could tell from the sight of her buying so many seeds that she definitely owned land and wasn't renting it out.

The rented plot of land is only a few dozen square meters in total, so why would we need to buy so many seeds?

Jian Ning thought for a moment, "Won't the flowers die in winter?"

Upon hearing this, the boss immediately perked up, "Let me tell you, if you plant flowers properly, they can bloom from beginning to end all year round, making winter feel like spring."

Jian Ning thought about her wallet balance and asked, "Does the boss have any flower varieties to recommend?"

"You can plant things like marguerites, white daisies, pansies, lilies, sunflowers, bougainvillea, poppies, geraniums, anemones, and columbines; they're all quite pretty."

Jian Ning said, "Then I'll take them all."

The boss smiled broadly, "Alright, I'll pack it up for you right away."

Jian Ning bargained down the price, and the shop owner readily agreed, even giving Jian Ning some extra organic fertilizer as a gift.

Jian Ning left, dragging a woven bag that was full of stuff.

Next, she went to a farm tool store and bought some basic farming tools such as hoes, shovels, and gloves.

Her wallet was almost empty; she couldn't squeeze out another single banknote.

The next morning, she got up early and evenly scattered the vegetable seeds in the vegetable garden, covering them with a thin layer of soil.

Then, using magic, some water was poured on it.

There are no progress indicators for the task.

Jian Ning always exploits bugs like this, I don't know why it didn't work this time.

Perhaps the timing wasn't right, or the method wasn't correct?
She didn't take it too seriously; if it didn't work, she could try another method later.

Her life is good enough now; she is not greedy and is content.

The system was the icing on the cake for her life.

On the way back from the vegetable garden, we passed the artificial lake that was originally planned for the golf course.

Taro grows naturally by the lake.

She dug some up, intending to make taro and pork rib soup.

After the sweet potatoes were released, they grew so much that the ground was covered with sweet potato leaves among the weeds. There was no way she could eat them all, so she picked some of the tender leaves and took them with her.

Passing by those sour pomelo trees again, just thinking about the sour taste made her saliva secrete like crazy. Not believing it, she picked another pomelo to take home and see just how sour it could be.

(End of this chapter)

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