It has been ten months since the Liu and Zhao Clans have fallen and completely exited the stage.
In these ten months, many joyous events have occurred in the Wang Family. The Spirit Platform banquet for Sixth Grandfather Wang Xiaohan was a lively affair. After that, it was the wedding of my sister Wang Luoyi and Chen Fangjie.
In just a few days, it will be my grand wedding.
The Wang Family is thriving, with continuous celebrations.
It is also the season of autumn harvest.
In the thousands of acres of fertile land, the rice plants, now in the middle to late stage of filling, sway like ocean waves in the wind, quite spectacular.
The tenant farmers are busy in the fields, carefully tending to the rice plants, fertilizing where needed, and identifying the barnyard grass that looks similar, sneaking among the crops.
Barnyard grass resembles rice very much and is often considered an ancestor of rice. Through generations, ancestors have selectively bred barnyard grass to create today’s rice. They grow wildly and are hard to eliminate, competing with rice for precious nutrients.
If not thoroughly dealt with, it would inevitably affect the rice’s filling process.
The tenant farmers work very hard, but this year, despite their hard labor, they all show expressions of joy.
Because this year, somehow the landlord has brought in a new variety of rice. It was said that half of Fenggu Farm’s land would be planted with this new rice.
Initially, the tenant farmers grumbled in private, fearing the new rice variety wouldn’t adapt to this land, leading to poor harvests and affecting their share.
Fortunately, the landlord promised a minimum allocation based on last year’s average profit for households planting the new rice. If there is a plentiful harvest, there would be additional distribution.
After planting this season.
As the filling stage progressed, the tenant farmers increasingly discovered the strong points of the new rice—its sturdy upright posture and larger, more abundant ears compared to ordinary varieties.
Many of the tenants are experienced farmers and realized that if things continued this way, each field might yield an extra picul of rice this year, with possibly better quality.
The price of new rice is already slightly higher, and even at the original price, every twenty acres could yield one extra Qian Gold in profit! This profit does not include taxes, fertilizers, oxen, or labor; it’s pure extra gain.
On average, each household of tenant farmers could gain thirty Large Coppers! If wheat also had a good variety, could it not mean an extra sixty Large Coppers each year?
How could the tenant farmers not be delighted?
This extra profit could be saved for future bridal money for their children. Or send the children to learn a craft, with which they wouldn’t have to toil in farming, earn more, and even find it easier to marry.
Many tenant farmers are envisioning the future, thinking they could save enough Qian Gold to buy enough farmland for their descendants to become independent farmers.
With this thought, they are even more motivated.
At the head of the field, the spirited Fourth Grandfather Wang Xiaozhi excitedly said, "Shouzhe, the Wang Family No. 9 rice variety you developed truly is high quality. If all our farms plant Wang Family No. 9, we’ll earn quite a bit more this year."
Now, the Wang Family has ample meat supplies, and even Wang Xiaozhi and the clan elders, who once lived frugally, are ordered to supplement their diet with Spiritual Food and even use Minor Primordial Cultivation Pills while maintaining diligent practice.
Therefore, Wang Xiaozhi looks good this year, appearing much younger. Although he has no hopes of reaching the Spirit Platform Realm in this life, at least he can live many more healthy years.
Wang Shouzhe doesn’t want these clan elders, who have worked hard for the family all their lives, nurturing generations of children, to end up unable to move by the age of eighty, with bleak old age.
"Fourth Grandfather, let’s plant in another field next year and observe for another season. If there are no issues, we can fully switch to Wang Family No. 9." Wang Shouzhe is very satisfied with his meticulously developed Wang Family No. 9.
The reason he could develop a rice variety stems from his mysterious and profound bloodline ability. When he discovered he could rejuvenate dead wood and make flowers bloom instantly, he thought about catalyzing Spiritual Medicine or Spirit Valley.
Unfortunately, after some research, he found he had oversimplified his thoughts.
Rejuvenating dead wood and instant blooming is only applicable to ordinary plants. Follow current novᴇls on 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵·𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮·𝓷𝓮𝓽
Moreover, without proper nutrient supplementation, rapid catalysis can deplete their life potential, causing them to wither quickly.
For those Spirit Valleys and Spirit Plants, while there is some catalytic effect,
only when hastily catalyzing a White Jade Spirit Rice ear, the produced grain husks are empty.
With normal planting and enhanced nutrition, it requires over ten days of work from Wang Shouzhe to mature and bear White Jade Spirit Rice ears fully.
And only one plant, the cost-effectiveness is extremely low.
As for catalyzing ginseng and similar Spiritual Medicine, it goes without saying that after painstaking catalysis for over ten days, at most, one could add a year’s maturity to the ginseng. Its catalysis effect is rather lackluster.
However, Wang Shouzhe estimates that it’s because his mysterious bloodline level is too low and too thin. If one day, the mysterious bloodline awakens to the extreme, perhaps it could instantly catalyze a hundred-year-old ginseng.
But with the current situation, catalyzing Spirit Seeds is genuinely too tiring and not cost-effective.
Finally, after much deliberation, he decided instead of catalyzing Spirit Seeds, it would be better to improve ordinary rice and wheat seeds first. Thus, he built a laboratory and began small-scale catalytic experiments on rice seeds.
His bloodline ability holds too much advantage over ordinary plants.