Cultivation Starts From Planting Sweet Potatoes

In Dehua City, in the City Lord's Mansion, Baron Zhiyuan was sitting on the edge of a spiritual field, his expression was depressed, and he had long lost his former calmness.

The spiritual field in front of him is now bare.

This spiritual field is the enduring foundation for their family to pass on for thousands of years.

Now after a plague of locusts, all kinds of spiritual things in the spiritual field have been destroyed, including several elixir plants that his grandfather had cultivated since his grandfather's generation.

At that time, the locusts attacked, and the clansmen could only dig up a dozen or so plants in a hurry, and the remaining spiritual plants were eaten up in just a moment.

Even if he re-cultivated the elixir, at least in the past ten years, nothing has been produced.

Moreover, since the drought, the ground veins have been affected, causing the spiritual energy of all the spiritual veins to decline, the spiritual springs to shrink, and the area of ​​the spiritual field can only be reduced accordingly.

In addition, the dozens of elixir plants that were urgently excavated at that time did not know whether they could be replanted and survived.

Spiritual plants are very delicate, and the death rate of transplanting is very high, otherwise they could have dug out the spiritual plants and hid them early.

The only thing that can make Baron Zhiyuan feel relieved is that his family is not the only one affected by the disaster. As far as he knows, all the surrounding counties have been plagued by locusts, and no one should think about it.

Happiness can only be enjoyed alone, but pain can be shared. If you are unlucky alone, if you are unlucky with everyone, the degree of pain is completely different.

"Ugh!"

Baron Zhiyuan sighed heavily by the Lingtian. It seems that in the next few years, he can only search more from the land, otherwise how would his Guliang family survive.

In the small courtyard on the top of Qifeng Mountain, Zhang He found a demon pill in its belly when he was packing up the locust corpses in the middle stage of foundation establishment.

This demon pill is the size of a finger, exuding a wave of demon power.

Monster beasts also need to absorb spiritual energy when practicing, but human beings refine spiritual energy into mana, and monsters refine it into demon power.

These two are both derived from aura, a source of power, but they are slightly different.

For human monks, demon pills can be used not only for alchemy, but also for refining weapons, or for providing energy in some formations.

When Zhang He took the demon pill to check, the big yellow dog had already washed his blood and poked his head outside Zhang He's courtyard, looking like he wanted to enter but dared not.

"come in!"

Seeing Zhang Hechong beckon to himself, the big yellow dog got in quickly.

Zhang He checked it with his spiritual sense. This guy may have eaten a demon pill by mistake. He was blessed with great life and died without exploding. He is now a monster.

The swallowed demon pill should not be fully refined, and now it only has the strength of the initial stage of Qi training.

Since this dog has mutated into a monster, it cannot be treated as an ordinary dog. This is his territory, and he will definitely not allow an uncontrolled monster to exist.

Immediately perform the master recognition ceremony for the big yellow dog. As long as the other party does not resist, this kind of ceremony can be completed smoothly.

The rhubarb dog was not wary of humans, so the recognition ceremony was completed smoothly.

If he can't recognize the master, Zhang He may have to think about whether it's time to eat dog meat.

After confirming the master, Zhang He threw a fried locust to Rhubarb as a reward for him.

Zhang He put away the demon pill, and cut off the two hind legs of the big locust and put it away separately. Next time he went to the city, he wanted to see if he could refine it into a magic weapon.

In addition to this big locust, there are dozens of corpses of locusts in the Qi training period in the courtyard, all of which were collected by him.

Take it easy later.

Now that the locusts have passed through the border, leaving no leaves behind, he still has a lot to deal with.

"Young master, all the locust corpses on the ground have been collected, and the total amount is about 100,000 catties."

Zhang He also didn't expect that throwing a stink bomb by himself could kill more than 100,000 catties of locusts.

"Okay, let's dry and save these locusts, and since the sweet potato seedlings have been eaten, starting tomorrow, dig out all the sweet potatoes in the ground.

Taking advantage of the good sun now, shred all the sweet potatoes and dry them in the sun. "

If it grows normally, it will be time to dig the sweet potatoes in another month. If they are dug out in advance, the yield will be less, but not too much.

Under the double devastation of this drought and locust plague, food will be extremely precious for at least a year.

Therefore, this year's sweet potatoes do not plan to make wine. Anyway, the wine made in the past few years has not been sold out, and it is enough for him to sell.

Shredded sweet potatoes are the easiest way to preserve them. When you need to eat them, you can take them out and grind them, or you can cook them straight.

After Zhang He made the arrangements in Qifeng Mountain, he left Qifeng Mountain on horseback.

The big yellow dog was arranged by him to stay at Qifeng Mountain, and he will become the mountain guardian dog on Qifeng Mountain from now on.

Heishui Town is now crowded with people, and tenants from all over the country caught locusts and went to Heishui Town to exchange money or food.

Because of the previous drought resistance, Heishui Town can still harvest a little grain, but at most one-third of the harvest.

The remaining crops in the remaining villages have been eaten by locusts, and there is almost no harvest this year.

Now catching locusts has almost become their only source of livelihood.

The tenant farmers were afraid that the Zhang family would not buy any more if they came too late, so they dried the captured locusts overnight and sent them over early in the morning.

Both Wei Peng and Wen Sheng have returned to Heishui Town, and are now leading a group of people in charge of buying locusts.

"My lord, we have purchased more than 500,000 catties, do we want to continue?"

Seeing Zhang He appear, Wei Peng and Wen Sheng hurried over to inquire.

The tenants sent too many locusts. The locusts had a peculiar smell. Two days ago, a few chickens and ducks died after eating the locusts. I don’t know if they were strangled or poisoned.

They are afraid that if they collect too much, they will lose a lot if they keep it in their hands and can't eat it.

"It's okay, continue to buy, take as much as you have."

Zhang He waved his hands and promised confidently.

In fact, there seem to be many locusts, but they fly away after eating in one place. Compared with the grain production in the field, the number of locusts that are actually caught is much less.

Therefore, even if the surrounding villages and towns are added, there will not be too many locusts.

There are several million catties of grain stored in Zhangjiazhuang, which can still be supported by some locusts.

Moreover, he has already thought about the multiple uses of locusts, a high-protein food.

First of all, it can be added to the feed to feed some grass-eating livestock, such as cattle and sheep, supplementing some protein, and the growth rate can be accelerated a lot.

But it is more likely to be eaten by humans. In this world where delicious recipes can be summed up from bark and grass roots, it is not yet luxurious to use high-protein food as feed.

The reason why the tenants exchanged them was that the locusts had a special smell and some were poisonous, so the tenants did not know how to deal with them.

On the other hand, it is a matter of concept. Shareholders generally feel that locusts are not as good as food.

Zhang He processed some documents in the town office and then returned to Zhangjiazhuang.

It's been a while since I saw you, Gun Gun has grown to be about the same height as Zhang Yuan, and this person and bear play together quite well.

After playing with Zhang Yuan for a day, Zhang He took Fat Tiger out of Heishui Town and headed for Zhaoling County.