NOVEL NEXT Chapter 17: Fertilizing × Rain
Chapter 17: Fertilizing × Rain
After four and a half busy days, all the family’s spirit fields were finally cultivated. Li Xi stood with her hands on her hips in front of the last spirit field at home, letting out a long sigh.
“At last, all the spirit fields are cultivated! I’m so tired!”
In fact, Li Xi’s tasks were relatively easy, such as following the spirit oxen to pick out weeds from the newly plowed soil and preparing lunch on time every day. The heavier work was done by others.
But doing this for four and a half days straight was indeed tedious.
Li He rubbed Li Xi’s head, smiling as he said, “After we finish fertilizing, we can rest for a day.”
“It’s surprising that little sister has persevered until now in her first year of farming,” Li Jiang also smiled.
“Little sister has worked hard. Tomorrow, I’ll make you something delicious!” Wu Jingwan raised her hand to wipe the sweat from her forehead.
Li Xi felt a bit embarrassed, “I’m not as hardworking as you all, but if I could eat something delicious made by sister-in-law, that would be great!”
The others smiled as they watched them talk.
“This afternoon we still need to hurry and fertilize this fifty mu of spirit wheat field, then split up to fertilize the remaining hundred and seventy mu of spirit rice fields. We can’t delay it until tomorrow,” Li Shan said, standing up as he saw everyone had rested enough.
The others all responded in agreement.
The fertilizer for fifty mu of land was quite a lot, requiring everyone to carry it little by little into the field using shoulder poles.
Going back and forth like this was really troublesome. After working for most of the day, they had only fertilized one-tenth of the spirit field.
If they continued like this, fertilizing all the spirit fields would drag on until nighttime.
“Father, I see there are no other villagers’ spirit fields nearby, and it’s just our family here now. Why don’t we use big brother’s talismans?” Li Xi didn’t have to carry fertilizer herself, but she couldn’t bear to watch her family members work so hard trip after trip.
Since they had a convenient tool, as long as they were careful, there was no harm in using it!
Hearing Li Xi’s words, the family members suddenly realized they could do this, all having an “aha” moment.
In fact, they weren’t absolutely against using space talismans, they just tried not to rely on them in their daily lives, and over time they had forgotten about it.
New brains really work better!
So Li He, being young and quick on his feet, hurried home to fetch the space talismans.
The one-square-meter space talisman he had given Li Xi before was just an initial product. He now had better mid-grade level one space talismans with five square meters of space. Taking a few of these would be enough.
With the space talismans, the rest of the work became much easier.
Three people each took a space talisman, loaded the fertilizer into the talismans, then walked into the spirit field, scattering fertilizer as they went.
Although fifty mu was a large area, just walking in and scattering fertilizer was quite quick. After half an hour, all the fertilizer was spread.
“Big brother’s talismans are really useful, but it’s a bit of a waste to use them for fertilizer!” Liu Qiniang exclaimed.
As everyone knows what fertilizer is made from.
Hearing this, the others also laughed.
“It’s not a waste. As a tool, its greatest use is to add convenience for us,” Li He said with a smile.
Next, everyone began to collectively use the Dust Subtlety Technique on the spirit field.
After finishing this spirit wheat field, the group split into two and hurried to the other two spirit rice fields.
Similarly quick, after a little over an hour, everyone gathered in front of Li Xi’s small spirit field.
At this time, there were actually people on the adjacent spirit fields as well.
It was Ling Niang and her parents, Li Er and his wife.
Ling Niang was watching her parents fertilize her spirit field.
Their family didn’t have as many spirit fields as Li Xi’s family, probably just a few dozen mu, but it was all cultivated by pure manpower, so their progress was surprisingly similar to Li Xi’s family, and they met again today.
“Ling Niang! Uncle Er, Aunt, you’re here too!” Li Xi greeted when she saw Ling Niang.
Ling Niang and her parents also greeted Li Xi with smiles when they heard her voice, followed by small talk among the adults.
“Xi’er, now our spirit fields are being fertilized together, we can do everything together from now on!” Ling Niang said excitedly.
Li Xi was also in a very good mood, “That’s great, I didn’t want to be busy in the field alone either. I’m happy to have you with me. It’s our first time farming, so we can discuss things together if anything comes up.”
“Yes! I hadn’t even thought of that, there are so many benefits!” Ling Niang smiled a bit sheepishly.
But being petite and with an innocent face, she looked very cute.
Li Xi’s eyes lit up seeing this, as she liked to appreciate beautiful people and things.
Suddenly, she felt something cold hit the tip of her nose.
She quickly reached out her hand to catch it, and a few drops of rain fell into her palm. Sure enough, it had started raining.
At this time, she and Ling Niang’s family members were still helping to fertilize their spirit fields. The raindrops fell hurriedly, catching them somewhat off guard.
Fortunately, because it had rained lightly several times in the past few days, everyone had brought rain capes with them. As the fine rain fell densely, everyone quickly took out their rain capes and put them on.
The light rain didn’t stop and seemed to be getting heavier. Li Xi and Ling Niang’s homes were in different directions, so they parted ways and hurried home with their families in the rain.
Although Li Xi’s family was leading two spirit oxen, despite their muscular and strong appearance, these oxen weren’t good at running and couldn’t carry people. They were only skilled at plowing, so everyone still had to hurry home on foot.
Along the way, Li Xi’s ears were filled with the sound of raindrops falling on the rain capes, the ground, and the leaves of trees and grass.
Unlike the Li family members hurrying along, the trees and grass of early spring welcomed the falling rain extremely eagerly, rushing to replenish their moisture and accumulate more strength for growth.
Li Xi, Li Shan, and Wang Xiuniang led the spirit oxen into the house first, while her older brothers and their wives went to Li San’s house to pick up the three nephews and nieces.
As soon as Li Shan and Wang Xiuniang entered the door, they skillfully took off their now heavier rain capes that had absorbed the rain and shook them out. Seeing Li Xi clumsily struggling, they also helped her out of her rain cape.
“Thank you, Father and Mother, for rescuing me!” Li Xi looked up with a big smile after breathing a sigh of relief.
Then, she heard the laughter of her little nephews and nieces coming in.