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

Chapter 80

When Bai Wei returned from the fields and saw Bai Lu, she was almost in tears. She went over to her sister with a pitiful expression and said, "Sister, you're finally back! I've been dreaming about insects carrying me away these past two days!"

The egret stroked her feathers: "You've worked hard—have you cleaned up all the bugs?"

"Of course! Otherwise, all my suffering these past two days would have been for nothing! I guarantee it! There's not a single live insect left in the field. It's just that there's been a small problem—"

Bai Wei pursed her lips, suppressing a laugh, and held up her little finger.

Bai Chen gently nudged her and urged, "Tell me quickly, what's wrong?"

"What else could it be? The chickens, ducks, and geese have been eating too well these past few days. According to the older women, aunts, and sisters-in-law in the village, their hens can lay up to five eggs a day, five!"

Bai Wei waved her hand in front of Bai Lu, Bai Chen, and Lin Rui: "Isn't that outrageous? I think they're exaggerating! Making eggs doesn't take time!"

"And another thing, they say the roosters crow day and night—I can vouch for that, it's so noisy! Look, listen, they're still crowing! They're always trying to run to our vegetable garden. The aunties say that no matter how high the chicken coop or duck coop is, it can't stop them from running away from home. They're always looking for any opportunity to escape, and once they get out, it'll be hard to get them back!"

Bai Lu recalled how Qin Xiu had been chasing the chickens back when she first returned. She was so busy; if the stick had been any shorter, she wouldn't have been able to catch them back.

Bai Chen: "Seriously? It's not good for them to keep running into our vegetable garden every day! They've had their share of good food, and once the vegetables grow, how could they possibly miss out on this feast at the market? Sis, do you have any ideas?"

"How about asking the aunties to close the chicken coop door a little tighter?" Bailu smiled politely.

However, Bai Wei's words reminded her that she not only needed to protect herself from insects, but also from birds.

Unlike chickens and ducks, birds are not bound by rules; they are completely free!

No!

I need to go back to the cultivation world and find the fat steward to exchange for two compasses. He already said that they are in the same boat now, so it's only right that they help each other!
Lin Rui seemed quite interested in what they were saying: "Big sister, why don't we go take a look at the vegetable garden!"

Bai Lu then looked at Bai Wei: "How are the seedlings growing?"

"It's alright, at least I didn't die."

While removing pests, Bai Wei was also learning the "Complete Guide to Spiritual Plant Cultivation" that Bai Lu had taught her. There was a technique in it that could improve the vitality of plants, but as a beginner, she was making some mistakes and couldn't possibly take care of all of the dozen or so acres of land.

So Bai Lu, who originally only wanted Bai Chen to take Lin Rui to see the seedlings, also went over and found that the seedlings were quite promising, with most of them still having a bit of green.

The simple insect-repelling array is still working. Although there are no caterpillars inside, a spider nest has been set up there, which does attract birds to some extent. However, if there are too many birds, the effect is hard to say.

Because Lin Rui was there, Bai Chen couldn't hide his desire to show off. He found the leftover pineapple top that he had been keeping in a flowerpot and insisted on performing a magic trick for Lin Rui, turning the pineapple into a living thing.

Lin Rui was indeed amazed, until the pineapple grew crooked, and the big, fat pineapple grew into a carrot!
Carrots with bulging pineapple-like eyes!!
If you gouge out the eyes, is there any flesh left?!

Bai Chen was so embarrassed that he urgently called Bai Lu to come and fix the situation.

The egrets were simply unbearable to look at.

Lin Rui also has spiritual roots, but like Bai Lu in her previous life, she had bad luck and was a useless person with five spiritual roots.

Moreover, they are the five spiritual roots with relatively low purity. The highest purity is the water spiritual root, at 60%, and the lowest is the metal spiritual root, at only 10%.

Spiritual roots are the threshold for cultivating immortality, but the purity of one's spiritual roots determines how high one can go.

If you have five spiritual roots, but the purity of each of your spiritual roots reaches 90% or above, as long as you are given enough resources, your achievements will be even greater than those of a heavenly spiritual root!

But in situations like Lin Rui's current situation and Bai Lu's past situation, even if tons of resources bury you, you won't amount to much—unless you can find a way to purify your spiritual roots.

However, this method is only legendary, and no cultivator in the cultivation world has ever found it in their entire lives.

Lin Rui knew she wasn't talented enough when she was in Dongcheng, but after thinking about it for a night, she still asked Bai Lu to teach her how to cultivate immortality. After all, how many people in modern times can resist the temptation of cultivating immortality?

Anyway, Lin Rui couldn't resist.

Although she knew that no matter how she cultivated, she could not reach the Foundation Establishment stage or increase her lifespan, she would be content as long as the spells she learned could make her life easier, such as making it easier to carry a bag of rice upstairs.

Bai Lu knew about their relationship. On the day the college entrance exam results came out, Bai Chen found out that he had failed and could not go to the same school as Lin Rui. He cried like a dog in front of Bai Lu, beating his chest and stomping his feet, saying that his hands were useless. He also asked Bai Lu to call Lin Rui and ask her to wait for him and not to fall in love at school!
He was terrified that if he repeated a year of high school, the girl he had his eye on would be snatched away by someone else.

Bai Lu did add Lin Rui on WeChat and, through subtle inquiries, finally learned that the King of Xiang was interested in her and the Goddess was interested in him; the two had hit it off.

Sure enough, after Bai Chen was admitted to the same university as Lin Rui, the two got together.

Therefore, Bai Lu had no objection to Lin Rui's desire to cultivate, but having the aptitude did not mean that she could successfully draw Qi into her body. For someone like her, it would probably take several months, or even a year, to complete.

This process is very tedious.

Whether she can persevere is still uncertain.

Whether the two will ultimately get married remains to be seen.

"Egret!"

Qin Xiu called out from downstairs again: "What soup and dishes are we having tonight? Go to the fridge and thaw them yourself!"

"understood!"

Bai Lu slipped on her slippers and went downstairs. She rummaged through the freezer and found several bags of steamed buns and dumplings inside. There was also a lot of pork left. Bai Lu took out a few ribs and a piece of lean meat. After thinking for a moment, she found a pig's tongue and a piece of pork belly.

Then I went to the refrigerator and took out two bamboo shoots. As for the vegetables—I put the meat in the kitchen to thaw and went to pick wild vegetables.

The wild vegetables in the Black Stone Pit have been lacking spiritual energy for quite some time. Bai Lu made a hand seal, and specks of spiritual energy overflowed from her fingertips. The wild vegetables immediately became excited, leaning towards Bai Lu and desperately sprouting and branching out.

Once you start picking, you can't stop, you just can't stop.

Lin Rui's family is from Yangcheng City. Apart from picking wild vegetables on a primary school field trip and picking Sunshine Rose at a farmhouse, she has never picked wild vegetables like this before!

She couldn't even distinguish the different kinds of wild vegetables, but she was clever. She used her phone to scan the vegetables, and AI would tell her what kind of wild vegetable it was. So she ran all over the mountains and fields, taking pictures with her phone.

"Huh, is that Chinese toon?!" Lin Rui looked at the scan results on her phone and then looked up at the tall trees in front of her.

Honestly, this is beyond her comprehension. Whether it's the toon sprouts sold in supermarkets or the videos she occasionally sees on her phone of farmers cutting toon sprouts with sickles, she can't imagine that toon trees can grow so tall. Judging by this height, it must be at least ten meters!

"Bai Chen, can you climb trees? Pick some and fry them with eggs when we get home!"

Lin Rui looked up as she spoke and noticed that the tree's buds did indeed look very similar to those sold in supermarkets, except that there weren't many buds and they were growing quite high up.

"It really is a Chinese toon tree!" Bai Chen walked over and patted the trunk twice. "How come I never noticed before! Chinese toon sprouts are so expensive! This tree is so big, I can pick so many sprouts! Xiao Rui, you're such a lucky star!"

Lin Rui: "Hehe—"

The stench of this romance was almost suffocating Bai Lu and Bai Wei, who had just walked by.

Because the Chinese toon tree was a little distance from the wild vegetable patch, the egret had never noticed it before. Now that it had, it couldn't let it go.

Not knowing whether the tree was wild or planted by someone, Bailu called Qin Xiu. Qin Xiu didn't know either, so the call went to Grandpa Bai. They learned it was an abandoned Chinese toon tree. Bailu used her palm as a knife to cut off some small branches to encourage new shoots, hoping this would produce more new buds.

The Chinese toon tree was originally a tall tree that could grow to about 20 meters, but after humans discovered that its tender shoots were edible, every time the tender shoots were picked, the cuts made were the culprits that prevented it from growing into a towering tree!

Bai Lu and Bai Wei were responsible for using spiritual energy to encourage growth, while Bai Chen was responsible for picking the fruit. He carried a plastic bag and ran between every branch.

During this time, the egret threw him three plastic bags, and he finally managed to pick them from the bottom of the tree to the top.

The branches at the top were thin, and Bai Chen swayed precariously above them. Lin Rui watched with trepidation, afraid that he would fall, and quickly said that she would not pick the branches at the top of the tree!

How could we not pick them!

The treetops are covered with the most tender buds!

Bai Chen, relying on his half-baked agility, refused to come down until he had picked all the berries!

Finally, the egret also went up to help.

Watching the egret tread on the finger-thick branches as if walking on flat ground, Lin Rui was amazed and filled with anticipation for her future cultivation life.

I absolutely love the whole thing about flying over rooftops and scaling walls!
I heard that expert climbers have to register with the police, like Bai Lu and Bai Chen...

After picking them all, Bai Lu weighed them up and estimated that there were about 30 jin of Chinese toon, 8 or 9 jin of bracken, and about 5 or 6 jin of shepherd's purse. The wild onions seemed to have been all picked clean, and after searching for a while, she only managed to find a small handful. However, Qin Xiu had frozen a large box of wild onion flowers in the freezer.

Now, we add wild scallion flowers to everything we eat at home. Bailu even forced some scallions and cilantro to grow, processed them all, and froze them in the refrigerator. Because of this "little trick," the vegetables frozen in the refrigerator are no different from when they were freshly picked.

But the egret originally didn't intend to sell the wild vegetables it picked this time.

After all, she hasn't had time to deal with the matter of Grandpa Zhang reporting their family yet!

But Bai Chen disagreed no matter what. He showed Bai Lu the price of toon leaves on the supermarket's mini-program: "One hundred and ninety-nine yuan a pound, my dear! Ours, selling for thirty yuan a tael isn't unreasonable, is it!"

Lin Rui thought it was outrageous. What kind of toon is this? It costs 300 yuan per pound. Does eating toon make you immortal or something?

It wasn't until she took a bite of the stir-fried eggs with toon sprouts that she realized the price was still quite reasonable!

It's only thirty yuan per ounce!

She's willing to pay!

Stir-fried pork slices with bamboo shoots are also delicious! Especially the bamboo shoots! They have a unique and refreshing aroma!
Corn and pork rib soup, cold pork tongue salad, braised pork belly with boiled eggs—they're all so delicious!
Lin Rui ate without making a sound. She was too embarrassed to ask for a third bowl of rice, since Bai Chen's grandparents, uncle, aunt and uncle were all there.

But when she saw the egret had the nerve to ask for a third bowl of rice—yes, a bowl, a stainless steel bowl the size of a large bowl—she immediately and without hesitation filled her own third bowl with rice, afraid she might want another bowl. She even packed the rice down so tightly it formed a small tent on top of the bowl!
The result was that I was too lazy to even move my fingers while lying on that bamboo recliner in Baijiang. I was so full and just wanted to sleep!

Bai Chen shook his head and skillfully pulled out a box of digestive tablets. He wasn't worried about his sister eating too much, but his Lin Rui was only human and would get sick if she overate!
Actually, Bailu ate less today because she felt the food wasn't good—not in terms of taste, but in terms of ingredients.

When we first came back, Bailu wasn't picky about food because she hadn't had a normal diet for a long time, so she didn't mind what she ate.

After getting used to eating spiritual plants grown with spiritual energy, I could always taste a murky flavor in ordinary meat.

The pork here has a very strong porky smell!
It's edible, but not very tasty!

"Mom, didn't you say last time that the sow at home was about to give birth? It's been more than half a month, why hasn't she given birth yet?"

Bailu asked Qin Xiu that she was considering raising spirit birds and spirit pigs, but the chicks were still incubating and hadn't hatched yet. As for the piglets, the sow had been pregnant for a long time, but the due date hadn't arrived yet, though Qin Xiu said it would be soon.

But she waited and waited and waited, and didn't even see a single pig hair.

"What's the rush?" Qin Xiu was watching videos when she heard this and said, "It should be in the next day or two. I saw the sows making nests when I went to feed the pigs this morning. We have to keep an eye on them tonight and tomorrow. Why are you asking this?"

Qin Xiu looked at her warily. In any case, lately, whenever her eldest daughter asked her questions, it was never anything good. Last time, she asked how much land her family had, and now her family was going to plant forty acres today.

The egret grinned and said, "I want to raise pigs. When this litter of piglets is born, will you let me raise them?"

"How are you supposed to raise them? Keep them in bed? Where in the house can we possibly find a pigsty for you? Besides, such tiny piglets need to be raised with the sow, right? And you complain about the sow's smell! What about feeding them? Are you going to bottle-feed them?"

Bai Lu waved his hand: "You don't need to worry about that, I have a way."

"Yes, yes, you have a way, you have the most ways!" Qin Xiu said irritably, "I can give you piglets, but you have to pay for them! Although the price of piglets has dropped a bit now, I won't charge you more than two hundred yuan a head."

She had originally thought that Bailu could just keep the money she had spent on buying wild vegetables, but then she turned around and bought a car, a pickup truck that she thought was not very classy!

No, she still has to help save this money!

Egret: "..."

Isn't this already overcharged?

She buys something for 150 yuan from someone else, but spends 200 yuan on her own daughter?! What a wonderful mother!

Her mother has really become obsessed with money lately, constantly trying to squeeze more money out of her!
(End of this chapter)