Cultivating the Dao, Starting with Farming

The next day, early in the morning

Li Mu was in the yard processing the rice ears harvested yesterday.

Place a wooden roller in the center of the yard to lay a large piece of linen cloth. Take a handful of rice ears and beat it hard on it. The rice grains and spiritual rice plants will detach at once and fall on the linen cloth.

Repeatedly.

At almost noon, Li Mu harvested seven large baskets of rice, weighing about two thousand kilograms.

After all the two thousand kilograms of rice are shelled, you can harvest about one thousand two to three hundred kilograms of spiritual rice. At that time, you have to pay the sect's rent of 700 kilograms of spiritual rice, and the remaining spiritual rice will be yours.

This harvest is quite good. Under Li Mu's careful care, one acre of spiritual field has produced an extra three to four hundred kilograms of rice. For other spiritual planters, a harvest of 1,000 kilograms of spiritual rice per acre of spiritual field is considered good. The Ling Zhifu was too focused on his daily cultivation and neglected to take care of the Ling Tian. His harvest was not enough to produce 700 kilograms of Ling rice, and he would have to pay back the Lingshi to the sect.

However, Qingxuanzong was not too harsh on the "leeks" below. The rent of the spiritual fields was paid on an annual basis. After planting a season of spiritual rice in the spiritual fields rented by the Lingzhu husbands, there were still 6 months left. Plant other spiritual plants to increase your income.

After lunch, Li Mu rested for a while and then began to shell the rice.

In the rural areas of the original world, farmers shelled rice. The general steps were to dry the grains in the sun to remove the moisture, then put the rice into a strong container and pound it with a wooden stick to separate the rice husk. , or use a drying machine to roll the rice grains and remove the shells.

In this world, the steps for peeling off the husks of spiritual rice are somewhat different. The value of spiritual rice is the spiritual energy contained within it. Exposing the spiritual rice to the sun will cause the spiritual energy and water inside to evaporate together, and the gain outweighs the loss.

Li Mu took a closed wooden grain shelling box, poured dozens of kilograms of spiritual rice into it, then closed the lid of the box, injected spiritual power into the array stone on the lid, and activated the shelling array in the shelling box.

The grain shelling box buzzed, and a large amount of shell powder spewed out from the nozzle.

After the shelling box stopped operating, and the lid was opened, there were more than ten kilograms of rice, each with full grains, full of spirit, and crystal clear rice.

Li Mu quickly poured more than ten kilograms of spiritual rice into a spiritual rice bag made of animal skin, and sealed the top of the bag to prevent the spiritual energy from evaporating.

Li Mu took the trouble to shell more than ten kilograms of Linggu at a time and was busy repeatedly.

Seven large baskets, more than 2,000 kilograms of Linggu rice, were packed with twelve animal skin bags after removing the chaff. Some of the Lingmi rice was not packed in animal bags. Li Mu emptied a water tank to place the Lingmi rice, and also put the Linggu rice in it. The two rice jars were full, which was probably enough for him to eat for more than half a year.

The amount of rice that was shelled was about a hundred pounds more than Li Mu had expected.

After paying the rent for the sect's 700 kilograms of spiritual rice, you can keep some of the spiritual rice for yourself, and then sell some of the spiritual rice, which will probably earn you thirty or forty yuan.

After working so hard for most of half a year, I only earned so many spiritual stones. The profession of Ling Zhifu really has no future!

Unless you can rent the sect's high-grade spiritual fields and plant alchemy elixirs, your profits will increase.

However, if you want to rent Qingxuan Sect's top spiritual fields and medicine fields, you must not only improve your cultivation level, but also need to participate in the sect competition, pass the competition assessment, and advance from a handyman disciple to a formal outer disciple. OK.

Li Mu moved twelve bags of spiritual rice into the warehouse. Tomorrow, he will take seven bags of spiritual rice to Qingxuanzong's residence in Qing'an Town to pay the land rent. The animal skin bag in which the spiritual rice is installed was issued by Qingxuanzong. One bag is just right. One hundred pounds.

Looking at the bags of spiritual rice piled up in the small warehouse, Li Mu wiped the sweat from his forehead, his face full of joy and he did not feel any fatigue.

After all, this is the world of cultivating immortals, with abundant spiritual power. Li Mu's current body at the fifth level of Qi refining is, unknown to him, many times stronger than his previous mortal body.

After a hard day of farm work, Li Mu didn't feel any physical discomfort.

After cleaning and tidying up the yard, Li Mu returned to the house and started looking for books to read.

Li Mu flipped through the "Basics of Spiritual Planters" issued by the sect. It introduced the spiritual plants suitable for planting in the spiritual fields after planting the spiritual rice plants.

Li Mu was undecided between the two spiritual plants, Wind Spirit Grass and Cuiling Fruit.

The first-level wind spirit grass is a forage spiritual plant. It can be harvested three months after planting and then sold to the sect's spiritual livestock farm to feed the spiritual animals. It is simple to manage and grows quickly, so it will not delay the next season's spiritual life. The cultivation of rice is the choice of many spiritual farmers.

However, precisely because of this, Fengling grass cannot be sold at a high price. One hundred kilograms of it can only produce one spirit, and one acre of spiritual field can produce three to four thousand kilograms, which is incredible.

In addition, there is another problem. Planting wind spirit grass will damage the fertility of the spiritual field. When the time comes to plant spiritual rice, you will have to work hard to fatten the spiritual field.

Changing to Cuiling Fruit is different. Cuiling Fruit is also a first-level spiritual plant, but it is a fruit-type spiritual plant. The growing season is longer and takes nine months. The mature fruits can be eaten directly or sold. The brewery refines Cuiling wine, which is a spiritual plant with high economic value. Three or four kilograms can be sold for a low-grade spiritual stone.

Planting Cuiling fruit will not damage the field power of Lingtian, but it will miss the season for planting Lingpaddy. In addition, Cuiling fruit is more delicate and difficult to plant and manage. Many Lingzhi farmers have lost money after planting it. Lost all his money.

These two kinds of spiritual plants each have their own advantages and disadvantages. Li Mu has read through the "Basics of Spiritual Planters" and cannot find a third spiritual plant that is suitable for him to plant.

With the virtual panel, you can check the attribute status of the Cuiling Fruit at any time. Li Mu is not afraid of losing the Cuiling Fruit. By then, even if you don't plant spiritual rice, you can still harvest a large amount of spiritual stones.

However, the effect of the innate magical power - Spirit Planting was too strong. Li Mu very much hoped to continue to improve his cultivation. If he planted Wind Spirit Grass, he would be able to harvest another wave of Spirit Planting three months later, which made him very excited.

After weighing the pros and cons, Li Mu made a conscientious decision and chose to plant wind spirit grass.

This world is too dangerous. Improving your cultivation and strengthening your strength is the most important thing. If the power of cultivating spirit from the wind spirit grass is enough, Li Mu plans to stop planting spiritual rice and continue planting wind spirit grass, or even rent a few more acres of spirit rice. The field is planted with wind grass.

In this way, several more waves of cultivation can be harvested a year.

As for if the spirit stones are not enough, then you can rely on the talisman making technique to earn spirit stones.

The management requirements for planting wind spirit grass are slightly lower, and less time will be spent on the spirit field in the future. This way, more time can be spent on making talismans.

As proficiency increases, the success rate of making talismans will also increase, and higher-level spiritual talismans can be refined. In the future, you will definitely be able to earn enough spiritual stones to pay the rent.

With that decided, Li Mu thought about it and made up his mind to plant wind spirit grass.

Early the next morning, Li Mu pushed a wooden wheelbarrow carrying ten bags of spiritual rice to Qing'an Town. While paying the rent, he disposed of the other three bags of spiritual rice.