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

Chapter 73

The egret is currently researching how to save these dozen or so acres of vegetable seedlings and melon vines, as well as insect repellent arrays and weed problems.

The vegetable seeds were soaked in spiritual energy, and the spiritual energy contained in the embryo was only enough to support them until they matured. It was impossible for them to be classified as weeds, but the natural growth of weeds was inevitable.

Weeding over ten acres of land by hand would be a real hassle, but using pesticides wasn't her original intention.

If this were in the world of cultivation, it would be much easier; a single array plate could solve the problem!
It seems I need to go back to the cultivation world!

Bai Lu was busy, and Bai Jiang was helping out. He watched as Bai Lu brought over a bunch of "junk"—wood, stones, a few pieces of iron, and most ridiculously, two yellow talismans.

You know, she used to complain every day that her mother was always going to fortune tellers and consulting doctors, that it was feudal superstition and a waste of money.

He doesn't know what he's fiddling with now, he's just like a fortune teller under the banyan tree, talking nonsense, but Qin Xiu is quite interested, and she's even learning from Bai Lu!
"What are you doing?" Qin Xiu picked up a palm-sized stone, turned it over and over to look at it, but couldn't figure it out.

"Perform a ritual!" Bai Lu said, half-jokingly, "You know Master Qingxu of the Sanqing Temple, right? I went to the Sanqing Temple when I just got home and ran into him. He said I have potential and taught me a couple of moves!"

"Really?! Master Qingxu taught you?" Qin Xiu was overjoyed. "You can perform magic with just these few broken stones? It's that simple! Teach me!"

It sounds simple, but it's actually quite difficult to learn!
Bai Wei thought to herself, since she lacked the wisdom to set up formations.

Qin Xiu couldn't learn it either. What Bai Lu said sounded like words, but after a moment, she couldn't understand it at all. In the end, Qin Xiu gave up and obediently worked as Bai Jiang's assistant to Bai Lu.

But looking at Bai Lu's fluid movements, she began to believe that Master Qingxu had given her some guidance!

--Very good!

From now on, you won't need to spend money to have your fortune told outside!
But can she really believe the fortune teller's predictions? What if they're wrong? After all, she's only been learning for such a short time.
Qin Xiu began to feel troubled.

Grandpa Bai and Uncle Bai chuckled to themselves, not taking it too seriously. Every now and then, they would shoo the chicks back when they were full and about to run away.

"sister!!"

Bai Chen rushed over and saw Bai Jiang and Qin Xiu surrounding her. He quickly pulled her aside and whispered in her ear, "Something happened to Xiao Rui! She and her colleagues went to a haunted house and got trapped inside! They said there was a wedding dress that could walk on its own!"

Egret: "!!!"

When it rains, it pours. Given her current condition, how can we possibly get there to save her?

"Me! Me! I'll go!"

Bai Chen smiled obsequiously, "Didn't you bring back a lot of equipment from over there? Give me some! And some talismans too. If your cultivation isn't high enough, you can make up for it with equipment! It's just a wedding dress, it's not like it's going to eat you, is it?"

Bai Lu immediately understood what the little guy had been watching grow up was—he wanted to show off in front of his girlfriend!

"Let me tell you, you need to be realistic about your own strength! Don't underestimate any demon or evil spirit! Otherwise, you'll be going for nothing again, you understand? I told you to study hard, but you don't know anything now, are you just going to be a sitting duck? Forget it, I'll go with you anyway!"

A bitter heart leads to a bitter life.

Bai Lu examined her meridians and found that her injuries had fully healed, but her cultivation and spiritual power had not yet recovered. For the sake of her life, she decided to bring back all the useful magical artifacts from the cultivation world and leave Bai Wei at home to look after the house.

Take Bai Chen to find Qin Xiu.

"what?!"

Qin Xiu dropped the spirit stones in her hand. She was so anxious that blisters were forming on the corners of her mouth. Looking at the two children who were about to leave again, she said, "What a mess the house is in! You still want to go out? What business are you going to discuss?! There's no food left, what business are you going to discuss!"

Once the vegetables are sold, you just hand them over to the buyers!
"I have the vegetables!" Bailu said. "I'm almost done with my ritual, Mom. Go and borrow all the chickens, ducks, and geese from the whole village—"

Before he could finish speaking, Qin Xiu scolded him: "Aren't our chickens enough? Why do we have to borrow from other people's houses?! Whose fields are infested with maggots? Are you afraid that the bad news about our family won't spread? With the police and maggots, when we worship our ancestors during Qingming Festival, even the village chief will have to advise us not to participate, you believe it or not!"

"Listen to me first!" Bailu waved her hand. "Things have already come to this, and the bugs have grown. Look at these bugs, they're right here in our field. Aunt Jiao's field is right next to ours. Did you see one crawl over there?"

Qin Xiu went over to take a look with some skepticism, and it really was true!
“The villagers haven’t noticed because they’ve been playing cards at our house these past few days. But someone will definitely find out today. We’re not afraid of them knowing, we’re just afraid they won’t! Mom, go out and spread a word that the seeds I bought are particularly prone to insects and are very difficult to grow! That way, we can sell our vegetables for a higher price and have a reason to shut the villagers up—after all, with so many vegetables to sell, someone will eventually know that they were sold from our house.”

"You've said so much, but where are the vegetables?" Qin Xiu looked at the bare vegetable patch and felt like she was about to have a heart attack.

"The vegetables are growing!"

Even though the egret is in the wrong, it still has a strong sense of justice.

“Once you get rid of the bugs, it will grow back. I can perform a ritual, you forgot? And didn’t you see that there are still tender shoots in the center of each vegetable? It can grow! After it grows back, go out and spread the word that our vegetable garden has a spirit, and even though it’s been eaten by bugs like this, it can still grow back! That’s why we can sell it at such a high price!”

Qin Xiu was both amused and exasperated: "Only our land has spiritual energy? Are you trying to fool a fool?"

"It must be because their ancestral graves are emitting auspicious smoke!"

"These are all the ancestral graves of the Bai family, why is it only your family that's emitting auspicious smoke?"

Egret: "...If you're going to argue like this, then there's no point in it."

She paused and said, "Let's not talk about whether it's a lie or not. This is just a reason. Just keep saying it, don't worry about whether people believe it or not. As long as you say it enough, even if people don't believe it at first, they will gradually believe it!"

Why doesn't Qin Xiu believe it?
Based on her farming experience, how could seedlings that have been eaten like that possibly survive!
But Bai Lu made every possible guarantee and even asked Bai Wei to keep an eye on her.

She used all the prepared materials to simply set up an insect-repelling array in the vegetable garden, melon vineyard, and peanut field, drawing all the insects into a large, shallow pit.

It's mainly for the convenience of chickens, ducks, and geese to eat.

—Insects hurry on their way.

Have you ever seen it?

Bai Wei has met me!

She really wanted to cry!
My hands are covered in goosebumps!
Although the hundreds of chickens had already eaten quite a few insects, the swarm of insects was still dense and numerous. Their short legs were wriggling desperately. Some of them had to travel a long way and died of exhaustion halfway through. Their companions would roll over their corpses and continue onward!

In the deep pit was a fist-sized rock emitting an irresistible fragrance that drew the insects to it. They instinctively rushed over and lingered there. If insects had faces, they would be looking on with obvious enjoyment.

Formations must also follow the laws of nature.

To repel insects, either there must be something in that area that insects dislike or resist, or there must be something elsewhere that is fatally attractive to insects, drawing them there like moths to a flame.

Bai Jiang had never seen anything like this in all his years of life. He looked at his eldest daughter and wondered if Master Qingxu was really that powerful.
He looked at his little daughter, then at his son, and his intuition told him that the three of them were definitely hiding something from him and Qin Xiu.

Look at how confident they are—saying that insects can walk, that vegetables can grow, and that vegetable gardens have a spirit!
But why did he feel that these kids were so strange?

So he started trying to get information out of Bai Wei. Bai Wei shook her head.

Shake his head.

Shake his head.

If her older sister forbids her to say anything, she absolutely will not say anything.

Bai Jiang couldn't get any information out of them, so he and Bai He went from house to house to borrow chickens.

Hilarious, you can even borrow chickens.

Moreover, they would borrow the food to feed the animals and then send them back.

They dared not say that there were so many insects that it was like a mountain of insects; they only dared to say that there were a few insects, and that the chickens should eat them before replanting. In the meantime, they also carried out the task of "difficult to plant and attracting insects" assigned by the egret.

Grandpa Bai went to Old Deng's house in the village, who was a professional goose farmer, to borrow geese. He borrowed three or four hundred geese and fed them insects!
They're scared too, you know? What if something goes wrong with what they eat? The whole family depends on these geese!

They are extremely wealthy, except for animals with fur.

Poultry can get very sick.

Grandpa Bai went to great lengths to borrow the geese, and as soon as they smelled the aroma, a whole flock of geese flapped their wings and ran towards the ditch—

Inside, there was a flock of chickens that had already started eating, pecking at them one after another until they were so full they didn't want to leave, until the big white goose arrived.

The white geese were extremely domineering. When they arrived, they immediately took over the pit. The chickens refused to leave, so the geese pecked at them!

The chickens weren't going to back down either, their neck feathers bristling as they fought back. The poor insects were caught in the crossfire, some were trampled in two, others were flung out of the pit. As long as they weren't dead, they were willing to risk their lives to get back into the pit!

Finally, fearing that something might go wrong and the chickens might not be returned, Bai Jiang quickly herded the flock to another large, flat pit.

All the chickens, ducks, and geese in the village came out, and naturally some people came to watch the excitement and, incidentally, to ask Qin Xiubaijiang why the police had come to their house that morning.

The thousands of chickens, ducks and geese had already eliminated some of the insects, but in the eyes of the villagers, there were still many. They marveled and said to Qin Xiu, "Why did you have to be so foolish as to plant so much land? It was all good, but problems arose as soon as it was planted."

Did you lose money?

Some of these people are sincere, while others are just there to laugh at us.

Rumors were already circulating when Bailu hired someone to prepare the land. Now that the farming has failed, it will definitely become the talk of the town again.

Qin Xiu didn't argue, and even sighed along with her.

Meanwhile, Bai Lu and Bai Chen finally arrived near the haunted house.

This is an amusement park.

The haunted house is just one of the attractions; it's in a slightly remote location, but it's still quite popular!
Before emerging from the underworld, the two deliberately chose a secluded corner. The ticket seller had just let a group of people in and started scrolling through Douyin (TikTok) on his phone. A sweet, seductive female voice was playing—"Thank you for the rocket, brother! Love you, mwah!"
Nowadays, amusement parks offer various smaller tickets in addition to the main entrance ticket, and these smaller tickets are what make amusement parks the most profitable.

Bai Wei was calculating with her fingers—it couldn't be calculated.

The sharp drop in her cultivation level had a huge impact on her, so she couldn't count it. She had to find the cause herself, but she couldn't get through to Lin Rui on the phone. Bai Chen could only go to the ticket seller who was watching the young lady twist her waist: "Hello, may I ask which gate the group of three men and five women went through at 10:00 this morning?"

The haunted house has four entrances in its main hall, each representing a different theme.

The ticket seller pulled his eyes away from the young woman's legs, and looked completely bewildered when he heard this: "I don't know, I'm just a ticket checker, how would I know who's in whose group?"

Bai Chen: "..."

What he said made perfect sense, and he was speechless.

The ticket seller continued, "But do you know what theme they're playing? You buy tickets and go find them! But—it's been 10 a.m. until now…it's almost 1 p.m., they should be coming out soon, right? Why don't you wait a little longer? The tickets are quite expensive, 88 yuan each!"

...The ticket seller was quite considerate.

"If only I could get out..." Bai Chen muttered to himself, "Well, I don't know what they're playing, but there's a coffin and a wedding dress! I think it's called something like 'The Vanished Bride'?"

"Oh!" The ticket seller turned off her phone screen, drawing out her words to indicate that she knew: "The one with a coffin and a wedding dress isn't called 'The Vanished Bride,' it's called 'My Wife, Marry Me Again.' The Vanished Bride is a modern theme, not as fun as the Chinese theme. This theme is very popular in our store, we're packed every day, and every time our guests leave in tears! But they'll recommend it to their friends next time!"

My wife, marry me again?!

It has the feel of a wife-chasing-after-the-cremation scenario.

But never mind, let's go in first. The two bought two tickets and walked through Gate Number One.

The haunted house was pitch black, with all sorts of colored lights embedded in the walls. Instead of white and warm yellow, they were eerie, ghostly green, which perfectly matched the atmosphere of the haunted house. Moreover, these lights were also strangely shaped.

The two entered abruptly, their eyes still reeling from the sudden movement. Bai Lu flicked two fingers together in front of his eyes, and his specially closed Heavenly Eye opened, instantly clearing his vision and allowing him to see his surroundings clearly.

Bai Chen tried to imitate Bai Lu, but nothing happened.

The egret, who was just about to teach him the mnemonic, was speechless.

Bai Chen: "..."

How embarrassing!

But he eventually learned it, albeit with some stumbles. The green light flashing in his eyes echoed the green lights on the wall, and he found it fascinating: "Biubiubiu, it scans wherever you look, just like a laser gun! Cool!"

"You're so cool! Your little Rui's probably scared and hiding somewhere crying!" Bai Lu slapped him: "Go away!"

Bai Chen immediately became serious; compared to novelty, his girlfriend was more important.

For the first few steps, two gusts of cold wind blew in from nowhere, and the passage was filled with howling wind, like someone was crying.

Before you've walked more than a few steps, you can already see scattered bone fragments and skulls, scattered all over the ground like a flower-lined path, as if they're not worried about tripping over the guests.

It's not very realistic, but it can really affect your emotions in such an environment.

But Bai Chen wasn't afraid; he crushed a skull with one foot.

(End of this chapter)