After returning from my cultivation journey, I built a farm through fortune telling.

Chapter 20: His head was twisted off and used as a stool.
And you still want to come back to farm?
She won't starve!

"I thought you'd only pick about ten pounds to sell, why did you pick so much!"

Qin Xiu was full of complaints, but she was quick and efficient: "Wild vegetables are only appreciated by city dwellers. Country people don't like to eat them, especially this purslane. It's so bitter, who would eat it if it couldn't be sold? You want to eat it?"

"Mmm-I'll eat!"

Bai Lu is thick-skinned, and Qin Xiu said she wasn't angry.

Squatting down, I looked at these wild vegetables, nurtured by the spirit of nature. They were so lush and vibrant, so fresh and appealing. With such quality and appearance, how could no one buy them!
If nobody buys it, she'll twist her head off and give it to you as a stool!
"It's already past eleven o'clock. Go cook some noodles. Your dad will come home from work for lunch!"

Bai Lu didn't look like someone who was going to help with chores, so Qin Xiu sent her off to cook.

As the eldest sister in the family, she was the one who cooked before Bai Wei grew up. When they were little, they cooked rice over a wood fire, and she was already very skilled at baking a golden crust on the rice.

As for stir-frying, my skills aren't exactly top-notch, but they're definitely edible!

Although she hasn't cooked often since transmigrating to the cultivation world over the past ten years, she knows what to do as soon as she picks up a spatula!

So she picked up the spatula and went outside, tapping Bai Chen: "Give me a bunch of wild scallions!"

Wild onions are delicious, but they are the hardest to pick and wash, so Bai Lu went directly to Bai Chen to ask for pre-processed ones, taking a large bunch, at least half a pound.

Qin Xiu frowned, "Add more meat to the noodles! The scallions are for seasoning, not for filling your stomach!"

"It's delicious, believe me! Really!"

The egret wouldn't listen to advice. Holding the wild onion in her hand, she could still feel its vitality and subtle spiritual energy. This was a delicacy that modern people had never tasted!
Modern greenhouse vegetables have lost even the most basic vegetable flavor. The day Bailu resigned, she ate a tomato.

Good guy!
If I didn't recognize tomatoes, I wouldn't even know I was eating a tomato. It doesn't taste like a tomato at all!

High-quality ingredients often require only simple cooking methods.

Cooking noodles is simple; the soul of the dish is a handful of wild scallions, chopped to the length of a finger, before they're done cooking.

"What did your sister cook? It smells so good!"

Qin Xiu slowed down her movements as she picked out vegetables, frequently turning her head to look at the kitchen.

"I do not know!"

Bai Chen took a deep sniff, and whether it was because he was too hungry or not, he found the smell extremely overpowering!
"It smells so good! How can it smell so good?! What did my sister make for lunch today?!"

If his work hadn't been almost finished, he would have insisted on going in first to have a bowl of food.

At 12:10, Bai Jiang returned from work; he was building a house for someone in the next village.

He gets up at 5 a.m. every day to feed the pigs, goes to work at 8 a.m., comes back for lunch and rests for a while, starts work again at 2 p.m., and comes back to feed the pigs again at 6 p.m. He earns 320 yuan a day. It's hard work, but he doesn't dare to rest at all.

The family is facing a huge financial crisis.

He was restless and uneasy.

"What did you make for lunch? It smells so good!"

Bai Jiang parked his motorcycle outside the yard and took a deep sniff.

"My sister is cooking noodles!"

Bai Chen said, "We'll be done tying up this much soon. Mom, you and Dad go eat your noodles first! We'll be done in a bit."

He was tying and tying straw ropes, his fingertips stained blue with wild vegetable juice.

Qin Xiu shook her head: "There's only this much left, let's hurry up and finish picking it all so we can eat together."

Bai Jiang and Bai Lu, who had prepared the meal, also came to help. In no time, they had finished tidying up everything. There were a total of 100 bundles of the four kinds of wild vegetables, with wild onions being the fewest, at 15 bundles, and purslane being the most, at 40 bundles.

"so much?"

Qin Xiu could hardly believe it: "The three of you went out for more than three hours and came back with over a hundred pounds of wild vegetables? How good were those wild vegetables? Were they just standing there for you to pick?"

"That's great!"

Bai Chen said, "I've never seen wild vegetables grow so well in my life! And we haven't even finished picking them all! There are huge patches of them!"

Where is it?

"The area around Black Stone Pit."

"There!"

Qin Xiu nodded: "The wild vegetables there really do grow well! The vegetables grown there also grow well. It's closest to Sanqing Mountain, and some people even say it's because of the protection of the Taoist ancestor! It's just a bit far, so now the villagers don't want to bother picking them anymore. It's a good deal for us though. A hundred bundles sell for 30 yuan a bundle. How much was that again? Three thousand! My goodness! Chenchen, one day's work is equivalent to half a month's work for you!"

After doing the math, Bai Chen's heart skipped a beat. Although he didn't quite believe he could sell them all, selling even half would be good! That would still be 1,500 yuan!
1500 a day, how much would that be in a month?!

It’s been done!

In that case, Bai Wei won't have to worry about her debts!

"Sis! Keep up the good work selling them!"

Bai Chen pressed down on Bai Lu's arm and shook it: "If we sell well today, I'll pick more vegetables for you tomorrow! But we have to agree that we have to split the money from selling the vegetables equally among the three of us. No, after we split it equally, you have to give half of your half to Mom, since she picked the vegetables for you."

"Your abacus beads are practically popping into my eyes!" Bai Lu was practically dying of laughter. No matter how much she divided the vegetables, it was all going to Bai Wei. What was there to share? "We'll talk about it after they're sold. But if these wild vegetables sell well, do you want to come back and farm with me?"

"If I can make money, I'll go back!"

The premise is that it can actually make money.

Logically speaking, he knew perfectly well that it was impossible to earn 1,500 yuan a day!

Money isn't that easy to earn!

Since he started working, he has come to fully accept the saying – money is hard to earn, and life is tough!
But that doesn't stop him from daydreaming!
We should still have dreams in life!
Bai Lu was now full of confidence in her wild vegetables. She said to Bai Chen with great enthusiasm, "Then it's settled!"

"Ok!"

"Yeah, your big head!"

Qin Xiu was furious: "I disagree! I absolutely disagree!"

"Farming nowadays, you'd lose your underwear! Your sister came back to recuperate because of health issues, so what are you doing here? Riding on your parents? One person acting like this is one thing, but everyone acting like this, are you trying to kill me? The vegetables haven't even been sold yet, and you're already thinking about getting rich!"

"Wrong, wrong!" Bai Lu sullenly hid behind Bai Jiang to avoid Qin Xiu's slap.

No matter how capable you are outside, you'll become obedient as soon as your mom calls your full name a couple of times when you get home.

Bai Lu's head was buzzing. How could she tell her parents that Bai Wei also wanted to stay home and farm?

She'll be beaten to death, won't she? Oh well, let's see if we can shut them up after we sell all these wild vegetables!

Bai Jiang, protecting Bai Lu, hurriedly pulled his wife aside, saying, "This child is really being unreasonable. How much money can the whole family make from farming? This is just nonsense! We'll teach her a lesson after we finish eating! You must be hungry too, come on, let's go inside and eat!"

The egret thus escaped a disaster.

The family walked into the kitchen and looked at the dining table. There was a big bowl of ordinary lean meat noodle soup with a thin layer of oil floating on top, but it smelled so good!

"Are you sure? Wild onions are half a pound a bunch, and other wild vegetables are one pound and two ounces a bunch, all selling for thirty yuan a bunch? Child, we are indeed short of money, but we can't just rob people, can we?"

At the dinner table, Bai Jiang asked Bai Lu about her price, and his feelings became complicated.

“My sister is kind-hearted. Others rob people of their money, but my sister robs them and then gives them wild vegetables!”

Bai Chen laughed out loud as he spoke.

Qin Xiu and Bai Wei almost burst out laughing.

Bai Lu laughed uncontrollably: "Dad! I don't like hearing you talk like that! What do you mean by 'robbery'! These are normal prices, okay! You've never bought vegetables before, so you don't know how expensive organic vegetables are! They easily start at fifteen yuan. What's wrong with our pure, natural, organic wild vegetables! Look at how expensive these wild vegetables are! Once you've tasted these wild vegetables, you won't have such absurd ideas anymore! Eat, eat them all!"

Bai Jiang laughed heartily: "Then I must try it! What kind of heavenly taste is this! It's so expensive, I'm definitely not buying it."

You don't need to say the last sentence!
What's going on?! They don't even like their own stuff, what are others supposed to think?!

"Come on, come on, eat up!" Bai Lu served each person a bowl, the steam from the noodles hitting their faces and noses.

Qin Xiu picked up a piece of food with her chopsticks and asked, "What seasoning did you put in it?"

Why does it smell so good?

The egret said mysteriously, "It's just oil, salt, soy sauce, a little oyster sauce, and some wild scallions! Give it a try, trust me, it'll definitely be delicious!"

Qin Xiu had heard Bai Lu say "trust me" countless times since last night, but it didn't stop her from eating noodles. The moment she put the noodles in her mouth, she stared at Bai Lu with wide eyes.

"Mmmmmmm!"

Bai Chen didn't know if he was genuinely hungry and found the noodles delicious, or if the noodles were just naturally delicious! Either way, they were delicious!

Bai Jiang and Bai Wei ate without even looking up, and the originally cool weather turned into a light sweat after just one bowl of noodles.

The egret joined the noodle-eating army, took a sip of the soup, and felt incredibly satisfied!
Ah! The scent of spiritual energy!
She was incredibly proud: "It's delicious! I wasn't lying to you!"

It’s really delicious!

Qin Xiu blew on it to cool it down a bit before putting it in her mouth. The noodles were homemade, as were the oil, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar. The pig was slaughtered and put in the refrigerator by herself a while ago. It didn't taste like this when she cooked it herself!
Could it really be this wild onion?!
No way! Wild onions never tasted like this before!

"Of course it's because of these wild onions! Didn't you say that the area closest to Sanqing Mountain is full of spiritual energy? Of course, the vegetables grown there are better!" Bailu said, half-jokingly. "Do you still think thirty yuan a pound is expensive? Sanqing Mountain is a place where immortals once lived!"

"Expensive!" Bai Jiang said honestly, "Even if it's so delicious you'd want to swallow your tongue, it still won't stop it from being expensive!"

Bai Chen clutched his stomach, having eaten two large bowls and was stuffed: "That's why they say luxury goods don't rip off poor people! It's delicious, but vegetables that cost three yuan a pound can fill you up too!"

"Your analogy is inappropriate! Our dishes are indeed a touch of luxury among dishes, but they're not the kind of fancy but useless luxuries. Our dishes are very nutritious! Haven't you noticed that after this meal, your backaches and leg pains have subsided? Even your chronic bronchitis, which you've had for years, is cured?"

Bai Chen: "Watch fewer ads, watching everything will only hurt you!"

Egret: "."

These days, nobody believes you if you tell the truth!
If it weren't for her low cultivation level, preventing her from scaling walls and rooftops, she could easily scare you to death with her flying high and low!

The whole family needed to catch up on sleep since they got up so early in the morning. Bai Jiang sat on the recliner and scrolled through his phone for less than two minutes before falling asleep, while Qin Xiu obediently went back to her room and lay down. She was very focused on resting now.

Five years ago, she underwent surgery to remove a benign breast cyst. A year and a half later, she had a hysterectomy, and two years ago, she had a mastectomy, which severely damaged her health.

If Bailu hadn't used her spiritual energy to treat her, I don't even know how old she would have lived.

Bai Lu doesn't need to sleep; she diligently cultivates, striving to break through to the second level of Qi Refining as soon as possible, so that she can use more spells.

Putting everything else aside, a cleansing procedure is absolutely necessary!

The other two, of course, needed to catch up on sleep. They were exhausted and in the sun, so they lay down on the sofa in the living room and fell asleep as soon as they lay down.

When Qin Xiu woke her up at three o'clock, she looked at her eldest daughter, who was meditating with her eyes closed, and Qin Xiu's brows furrowed so deeply she could practically crush a mouse: "What are you doing?"

What serious incident happened to this child outside?

Is he really going to become a monk?

#What to do if your family finds out you're practicing Falun Gong#
The egret remained completely unfazed: "I'm meditating! I've recently become fascinated with Taoist culture!"

"Do you want to become an immortal?" Qin Xiu thought of the Taoist robe she was wearing when she returned yesterday.

"You could say that, after all, who wouldn't want to become an immortal! Right!"

The egret raises its palms upwards, gathers them above its head, and then slowly pulls its hands back from its chest.

Qin Xiu: "." Talking nonsense.

But why do I feel so comfortable in this child's room?

I feel incredibly relaxed.

Wearing plaid shirts and black pants, with their hair in a large braid, Bai Lu and Bai Wei had simple, honest smiles on their faces.

Bai Chen was utterly disgusted: "Do you two really need to dress like this just to sell wild vegetables?"

Bai Wei covered her face. She didn't want to dress like this either. She didn't know where her sister had found the clothes her mother wore five years ago while working on a construction site.
Bai Lu, her hand twirling her black braid, looked at Bai Chen and said, "So, tell me, aren't you simple and honest?"

"You may be honest and simple, but the vegetables you're selling aren't! What honest farmer sells vegetables for thirty-one yuan a pound? Are you desperate for money? Hurry up and change your clothes! It's ten degrees today, aren't you cold?"

Bai Chen couldn't bear to look; his eyes were burning with spiciness!

The egret really wanted to say, "I've cultivated immortality, I'm not cold!"

But Bai Wei is cold!
But she didn't change; she simply put on a down jacket over it. To avoid looking out of place, Bailu also put on a down jacket.

"Keep a few more bunches of wild onions; they're delicious in fried eggs or fish soup."

The egret originally intended to keep some wild vegetables for its own family to eat. Such good things, if it doesn't keep some for its own family and instead sells them all, it would be truly insane!
But in Qin Xiu's eyes, this was all money. If she could sell it, she would definitely sell it for money. Thirty yuan a pound, that was almost enough to buy her life!

The egrets had no choice but to take them all away. If all else failed, they could just say they hadn't been sold!

It's such a simple thing!

All one hundred bundles of wild vegetables were loaded into two baskets and carried to the trunk. Qin Xiu said with concern, "Don't be so stubborn. 30 yuan a bundle is indeed too expensive. If you can't sell them, then 20 yuan a bundle, 10 yuan is fine, or even 5 yuan a bundle is better than bringing them back."

(End of this chapter)