Courtyard House: Passing through the Silly Pillar, Activating the Blessed Cave Heaven

12

After paying with the shop assistant, He Yuzhu soon received the packaged medicine and turned to leave Tongrentang.

He looked up at the sun and estimated that he would be home before noon.

After lunch, we can enter the blessed land and plant all the seeds in the afternoon.

Thinking of this, he quickened his pace and hurried back.

Along the way, he found a straight wooden stick about 1.5 meters long and as thick as a thumb in an alley. He didn't know whose "treasure" it was, but since he found it, it was naturally his.

When he got home, he glanced at the clock—he left home at 8:10 a.m. and it was now 11:25 a.m.

Excluding the time spent in Wangfujing, it takes about an hour to get from home to Wangfujing.

If this house were located in a later era, it would definitely be considered a prime location.

He Yuzhu closed the door tightly and locked it from the inside.

He poured a bowl of hot water, grabbed the cornbread he hadn't eaten that morning, sat down on the edge of the bed, and with a thought, entered the blessed land.

Inside the cave, it was as warm as early summer, around thirty degrees Celsius.

He took off his cotton-padded coat, wearing only his underwear, and sat on the Enlightenment Stone, finishing his cornbread in a few bites with hot water.

He then picked up the seeds that had been thrown in earlier and walked toward the earthen mound behind the main hall.

This was his first time climbing a mountain.

After walking uphill along the mountain stream for about six minutes, you will reach the top of the mountain. There you will see a huge rock with a circular pit in the center, about one meter in diameter, with eight springs gushing water at the bottom.

He Yuzhu bent down, cupped his hands in the spring water, and took a small sip.

After swallowing it, he sat cross-legged and waited for a while. His body showed no abnormalities. It seemed that this was just an ordinary mountain spring and did not have the miraculous effect of transforming one's body as rumored.

The only special thing about it is that the spring water is clear and sweet, even better than tap water.

He drank several more cups of wine, and then opened the three packets of seeds he had purchased from Tongrentang.

There were about a hundred camellia seeds. He picked up a shovel, dug a shallow pit, filled it with a bowl of spring water, and poured all the seeds into it.

The shriveled seeds were unlikely to germinate, so he remembered growing peanuts with his parents when he was a child and decided to let the seeds absorb water first.

The thought suddenly brought a pang of sadness—even though he had accepted He Yuzhu's identity, subconsciously he was still He Yuzhu.

He deliberately avoided the fact that he had traveled through time, treating it as a nightmare and hoping to wake up and return to his original world.

As tears rolled down his cheeks silently, he felt a little relieved: fortunately, his elder brother had already started a family and had two sons, and with the three million yuan accidental death insurance he had purchased before his death, plus his brother's care, his parents were finally able to live a worry-free old age.

While the seeds were soaking, he picked up some soil that he had turned over at the edge of the pit and rubbed it between his fingers.

The soil is moist and loose, and the water in the pit can last for about half an hour.

He stood atop the mountain and looked around. To the north, the white mist stretched as far as the eye could see, which must be the edge of a grotto-heaven.

This 200-meter-high earthen hill embraces the palace and the small lake like two arms. A magnificent palace stands on the southern slope, with a wide platform extending in front of the palace. Further south, the wilderness undulates, resembling the Mongolian grassland in winter.

Looking south, one can vaguely see a wall of fog similar to the one to the north.

He estimated that the cave was at most thirty kilometers in diameter, but the exact diameter would need to be measured on foot in the future. It would be even better if he could get a motorcycle to take a ride around the boundary.

Picking up a camellia seed and gently squeezing it, I could feel that it had absorbed enough moisture.

He dug holes every four meters and planted the seeds, finishing sowing all the seeds in half an hour.

Shouldering a shovel and carrying the remaining seeds, he hummed a little tune, "The King Sent Me to Patrol the Mountain," and walked towards the lakeside.

He Yuzhu hummed a song as he walked to the lakeside.

He used a shovel to cut off the stream and divert the water to the open space next to it. He then piled up a circle of ridges along the terrain to create a paddy field of about half an acre.

While the water was being collected, he picked up a stick he had found, poked a small hole in the ground, threw in corn seeds, and then covered them with soil using his feet.