Chapter 8: 8 Spiritual Field Preliminary Test
8 Spiritual Field Preliminary Test"Manager Hu, my granddaughter has already chosen everything. We will just keep the same price. You can just deduct the money for the seeds."
Shopkeeper Hu smiled and waved his hand.
"Since you are so forthright, I, Old Hu, will give you this seed as a gift. However, if you find Polygonatum of this age in the future, please continue to sell it to our Hundred Medicinal Products Store."
Zhang Huaishu also smiled and cupped his hands, "Thank you very much, Manager Hu."
After paying the money and taking the seeds, the grandfather and grandson left the medicine shop.
After they left, the clerk said to Shopkeeper Hu with some confusion: "Shopkeeper, why don't you ask them where the Huangjing comes from? This year, the Qiyan Sect is in great demand for Huangjing that is more than ten years old!"
Shopkeeper Hu looked at the grandfather and grandson who left and said, "What's the point of asking them? They are old, weak, sick and disabled, and it was just a chance acquisition. But I know this old man. He is the teacher of Yunshui Village and Linjiang Village. This Huangjing must have been obtained from the back mountains of these two villages."
"Next, let Lin Shan and Lin Shui go to the mountains behind these two villages to see if there is any more Polygonatum odoratum."
"Yes, sir!"
After Luo Mingyi and Zhang Huaishu left, they went to have lunch first. Each person had a bowl of plain noodles, which tasted delicious.
Next, Zhang Huaishu took Luo Mingyi to buy some ink. At Luo Mingyi's request, he also bought ten kilograms of meat, a basket of eggs, and some white flour and rice.
Luo Mingyi took Zhang Huaishu to the clothing store and bought two new sets of clothes for her grandfather and herself.
This cost two taels of silver, and Zhang Huaishu felt a little distressed, but Luo Mingyi didn't think so. This was just the beginning, and she would definitely let her grandfather live a better life.
Before going back, Zhang Huaishu bought some pastries and snacks for Luo Mingyi, which touched Luo Mingyi. Grandpa himself was reluctant to eat and wear, but he could not bear to treat her badly.
Because they bought too many things in the town this time, they couldn't wait for a car on the main road, so they had to rent a carriage, which cost another fifty cents. Only then did the grandfather and grandson return home safely.
After putting everything in place properly, Zhang Huaishu then remembered the medicinal seeds that Luo Mingyi had bought during the day.
"Girl, we don't have any land at home. Where do you want to plant these seeds?"
Luo Mingyi naturally knew that his grandfather would ask this question, so he said what he had prepared.
"Grandpa, isn't there a mountain behind our house? Not many people go there. I thought, if I plant these seeds there, after a few years, when they grow up, I can sell them for money, hehe."
Zhang Huaishu couldn't bear to hit it. It was indeed a child. Although the seeds of this medicinal herb were cheap, they were difficult to plant and grow. Forget it, she is just a child. She should be allowed to try it herself before she will understand.
"The girl in our family is very smart, so I'll do as you say."
"Hehe, thank you grandpa!"
After Luo Mingyi finished cleaning up, she went to cook dinner with her grandfather. They cooked a pot of sweet potato porridge and added some big meat buns bought from the town. Both the grandfather and grandson were very satisfied with the meal.
After cleaning up the kitchen, Luo Mingyi mixed another cup of water with spiritual spring water for his grandfather, but this time, the amount of spiritual spring water was greatly reduced, only one tenth of a cup of water. It's not that she couldn't bear to do it, but the scene of her grandfather having diarrhea last time was still vivid in her mind.
Put less and feel more at ease.
After drinking the water, Zhang Huaishu did not have diarrhea this time. Instead, he felt sleepy early and went to bed with his clothes on.
After washing up, Luo Mingyi returned to the room, locked the doors and windows, and came into the space.
She held three bags of seeds in her hand. Luo Mingyi took a small hoe and planted all the seeds in the spiritual field. The spiritual field is very large, and only one fifth of the one acre of it is used.
There were thirty seeds in total. After little Luo Mingyi planted them all in the soil, he was already sweating and exhausted.
She took out two more Polygonatum sibiricums from the spiritual spring. During her last trip to the back mountain, she obtained a total of three Polygonatum sibiricum plants, all of which were about the same size.
According to the shopkeeper, that plant of Polygonatum sibiricum is fifteen years old, so the other two plants of Polygonatum sibiricum in her hand are naturally fifteen years old as well.
Now we have Polygonatum sibiricum, but not Ironbone Grass and Earthroot Grass.
Luo Mingyi plans to go to the back of the mountain again tomorrow to explore and see if he can dig up high-grade Polygonatum and two other medicinal herbs.
After figuring it out, Luo Mingyi left the space, went to the bed, and fell into a deep sleep.
The next day, Luo Mingyi woke up early before dawn. She habitually entered the space to check around, but the scene in front of her made her stunned instantly.
In the spiritual field, thirty small seedlings have grown to one foot high. Luo Mingyi was instantly ecstatic. The surprise and shock that this space gave her were truly endless.
It's incredible that these seeds have grown so big in just one night.
Originally, she bought the seeds just to avoid wasting these three acres of spiritual fields, but now the problem that had been bothering Luo Mingyi seems to be just a matter of time.
But now the Divine Phoenix had fallen into a deep sleep, and she wanted to ask about the three acres of spiritual fields, but there was no way she could do so.
Although Luo Mingyi had never grown medicinal herbs, he knew from his five years of living in the countryside that it usually takes at least three to four months for a rice plant to mature from sowing.
But Luo Mingyi couldn't judge the growth speed of the medicinal herbs in the spiritual field at the moment.
At this moment, an idea came to her mind. It is summer now, the time to plant potatoes and sweet potatoes, and the cycle is short, only about four to five months for them to mature.
Luo Mingyi flashed out of the space and came to the courtyard. There was a faint fragrance emanating from the kitchen. Luo Mingyi walked in. Grandpa had already cooked porridge and steamed big meat buns. When he saw Luo Mingyi coming in, he waved.
"Don't come in now, the meal will be ready soon, go wash up."
Luo Mingyi was naturally happy when she saw her grandfather with a rosy face and full of energy. She responded with a smile and went to the yard, where she washed up happily with the cool well water.
After breakfast, Luo Mingyi did not go to the school in the neighboring village with his grandfather, on the pretext of going to the back mountain to plant medicinal herb seeds.
After his grandfather left, Luo Mingyi strolled along the country paths. The path is surrounded by land where a variety of crops are grown.
Soon she found a field planted with sweet potatoes, in which a rural woman was checking the seedlings with sweat on her forehead.
"Hello, Aunt Chen. I'm Luo Mingyi from the Zhang family." Luo Mingyi trotted over to the woman.
"Oh, it's you, little girl. You're getting prettier and prettier."
"Hehe, thank you Aunt Chen. Aunt, your sweet potato seedlings are growing so well. Can you give me a seedling? I want to try to see if I can grow it." Luo Mingyi's voice became smaller and smaller, and she was really a little embarrassed.