In Half-Mountain City, every household was burning with smoke, and even the wind on the mountainside was filled with the sweet smell of fish.
The sound of children's laughter echoed from the river valley to the top of the mountain.
Xiao Qing hummed a song and walked into Temple with a smile. He knelt on the futon and kowtowed to the statue three times sincerely, then stood up and cleaned Temple, mumbling as if he was doing something ordinary:
"Master Thunder God, it's been a long time since we caught so many fish."
"We can't finish it! They are ready to smoke it and dry it."
"We, Half-Mountain City, haven't been so happy for a long time!"
"..."
It was obvious that she was very happy and kept talking.
Xiao Qing Let me start by saying that no one in the city has starved to death in the past two months.
He also said that he had just been stuffed with two pieces of meat by a neighbor's kid on the street. It was sticky, but it tasted delicious.
The words are confusing and have no important point.
Zheng Fa is currently viewing Heavenly Merit points on God-Investiture Register.
In the past three days, Heavenly Merit points have increased a lot, reaching more than 3,000 points.
One is that he gave the valley three sunny days according to the "weather forecast" of God-Investiture Register.
The other one is that Half-Mountain City was really hungry for the first half of the month, and many elderly people who were weak might not be able to hold on any longer.
The fish and shrimp harvested in these three days may have saved many lives.
Adding the two together, Heavenly Merit points increase faster than using Heavenly Tribulation Lightning to hack people.
While he was calculating, he listened to Xiao Qing's words, and couldn't help but feel a little relieved.
Just listen to Xiao Qing continue:
"But they don't dare to eat too much. I heard Sister Hong say that they are going to smoke the fish and put it away. If they eat it sparingly, there will be no problem if they eat it for more than half a year."
Zheng Fa was stunned and couldn't help but think of the bacon from home.
Pickled during the Chinese New Year, a piece of meat can last half a year...
Xiao Qing's mouth is still chattering:
"They said that when it is ready, they will deliver it to you first."
Zheng Fa was a little confused about what to say, "Didn't I say I don't want to make offerings?"
"I said it." Xiao Qing was also a little depressed. "But if they don't give this, what else can they give?"
"..."
Outside the door, dense footsteps sounded.
Outside the temple gate, there were more than a dozen people carrying more than a dozen bamboo baskets, filled with piles of dried fish.
I don't know if they understand that Zheng Fa likes to be clean, or if they are afraid of Xiao Qing's rejection.
A group of people put down their bamboo baskets, kowtowed twice outside the temple gate and ran away.
Not even giving Xiao Qing a chance to speak.
"Master Thunder God..." Xiao Qing stared blankly at the bamboo basket on the ground and opened his mouth. "This..."
She walked over and looked at the dried fish in the fish basket one by one:
"They brought the biggest fish to you, sir..."
"They have delivered at least 30% of the fish they caught in the past three days..."
"This... Master, should I share it with those grandpas?"
Zheng Fa pondered for a moment and said to Xiao Qing, "Take part of it and give it to them, and the other part, I have something for you to do."
"Sir, what are your orders?"
"You go find a few people who are most familiar with mushrooms in the mountains. I want to ask them something."
Xiao Qing walked away in a daze.
Zheng Fa looked at her retreating back and thought about his plan - in order to obtain Heavenly Merit points, in addition to mastering the remaining two Thunder Method, he must nourish the people.
If it were the other monks, they would probably focus on the direction of immortality.
But Zheng Fa has long realized that in addition to magical methods, directly developing productivity can greatly change the lives of this group of people.
Even if he now needs a large number of Heavenly Merit points, Thunder Method must of course be mastered.
But Zheng Fa doesn't intend to give up on this idea.
He asked Professor Tian for advice in modern times. In a place like Half-Mountain City, where there is lots of rain and humidity and little sunshine, farming is not successful.
The foundation of Half-Mountain City is too poor, making it difficult to promote any high-cost industry.
As for the rest of his Fief, it is worse than Half-Mountain City.
There is a technology that can be developed according to local conditions - edible fungi farming.
Edible fungus farming is actually not a very new technology. There are some corresponding records in ancient classics, but the yield is extremely low.
Soon, Xiao Qing found several men in the city. They were all veterans of collecting mountain products and were very familiar with the habits of the mushrooms in the mountains.
After Zheng Fa asked a few questions, he ordered them to find some rotten wood with mushrooms growing on it, and also asked them to find some sawdust and grass.
Xiao Qing and everyone else didn't quite understand what Mr. Thunder God wanted to do, but they all obeyed it obediently.
Zheng Fa was thinking about Professor Tian's words.
In fact, the biggest differences between ancient and modern edible fungi farming technologies are two points:
One is strain purification technology.
One is a sterile environment.
If these two are not properly controlled, miscellaneous bacteria will be produced and the yield of edible fungi will be reduced.
Zheng Fa asked them to put the sawdust and grass into a dozen clay pots of different types and place them in front of the statue.
This is the most basic culture medium that Professor Tian taught him.
Zheng Fa asked Xiao Qing and others to leave first. The spiritual power rotated according to the trajectory of Cloud-Rain Lightning, sending out a beam of ultraviolet light towards the pile of clay pots.
Half-Mountain City of course does not have sterilization technology...
But now Cloud-Rain Lightning can emit laser!
Bacteria purification requires more modern methods, but the main method is to use microscopy to select the most suitable strains:
What a coincidence, Zheng Fa also has Void-Piercing Spirit Eye!
Even if miscellaneous bacteria appear again, Zheng Fa can kill them in time.
"Once you divide these fish, Xiao Qing don't go near this place in the future."
Zheng Fa What we need to do now is to see which culture medium works best and select the most productive strains.
Xiao Qing and others left Temple in confusion.
"Xiao Qing, what does this Thunder God master... want to do?"
Xiao Qing didn't quite understand it either. After thinking hard for a long time, he suddenly clapped his hands and said:
"My grandfather said that Mr. Thunder God will consecrate it!"
"Consecrate the mushroom?" Others were stunned. "What can you do?"
"How would I know?"
"What about the light?"
"That light cannot be seen by mortals!"
Xiao Qing is plausible.
Stop talking about that person.
Zheng Fa thinks what she said makes sense...
There have been a lot more monks in the Myriad Treasures Hall these days.
They were talking while looking at the spiritual materials on Jade Stele.
"Let me tell you, if it weren't for this Myriad Treasures Hall that could be exchanged for some spiritual materials, I would have left Heavenly Stele."
"Who says it's not the case? With those two here, does this Heavenly Stele still belong to us?"
"Don't talk about us, didn't you see that Yan Wushuang didn't come this time? I'm afraid I was hit by Fairy Lingye and Zheng Fa."
As soon as he said this, everyone nodded.
This time when I entered Heavenly Stele, anyone who was interested discovered that Yan Wushuang was not there at all.
There are rumors that Yan Wushuang has given up on Heavenly Stele.
"What do those genius things have to do with us? It took me several months to save up one hundred Heavenly Merit." A man shook his head and said, "It's not a loss to redeem one ten-year Purple Lightning Flower."
"I have a little more Heavenly Merit. I have saved one hundred and twenty, and I can exchange it for a piece of Thunder-Struck Wood."
"The Heavenly Merit points you want for Thunder-Struck Wood are a bit expensive. Junior brother, if you want to practice treasure, I recommend this to you, and you can save ten points Heavenly Merit."
Because there is no competition, the relationship between this group of people has become very harmonious. We started discussing each other, thinking about how to save Heavenly Merit points and exchange them for more spiritual materials that we need.
A figure walked in from outside the hall.
As soon as everyone's voices stopped, they all looked at the person coming.
Who is this person other than Xiao Yuying?
Xiao Yuying didn't jump in line, just waited behind them, as if he was ready to wait until they finished exchanging the spiritual materials.
But she was originally trained as Nascent Soul and had a good reputation. The people in front of her didn't dare to delay. They quickly changed the spiritual materials they wanted and gave up their position to Xiao Yuying.
Xiao Yuying nodded towards them, walked in front of Jade Stele, and began to browse the types of spiritual materials, seeming to be thinking about what he should exchange Heavenly Merit points for.
The other monks looked at each other and stopped, looking at her curiously.
She didn't care, she just moved her fingers around on Jade Stele, sometimes stopping on this spiritual material, sometimes stopping on that spiritual material, as if she was thinking about which one to choose, as if she had difficulty choosing.
But there was an inexplicable feeling of enjoyment and indulgence in her expression. It seemed that she had to look at each spiritual material for a long time, and she was calculating every Heavenly Merit point carefully.
She had a lot of Heavenly Merit points, but she chose slowly and took a long time.
The monks on the side looked at it with a feeling of soreness in their hearts - there were so many of them, and the total amount of spiritual materials they could redeem was less than half of this Xiao Yuying...
When Zheng Fa walked into the Myriad Treasures Hall, Xiao Yuying was still wandering between the two spiritual materials.
Zheng Fa glanced at her, then at the monks on the side, arched his hands towards them, and waited behind Xiao Yuying.
Xiao Yuying The expression on her face was very familiar to him. She was the kind of woman who spent a long time shopping on the shopping app, looking at 800 sets of clothes, but ended up not buying any of them.
They probably like this process...
After half a day, Xiao Yuying seemed to have not decided which one to change. She seemed a little embarrassed and turned to Zheng Fa and said, "You go first."
"It's okay, I'll just wait."
"I have to think about it again." Xiao Yuying insisted. "No delay."
Zheng Fa nodded gratefully to Xiao Yuying and said, "Then I will do it as soon as possible."
Everyone watched as he walked up to Jade Stele.
Zheng Fa first selected two spiritual materials needed to practice the <Divine Firmament Thunder-Commanding True Method> secret method.
Then, Zheng Fa turned Jade Stele to the first page, which was the page with the cheapest spiritual materials. He clicked from top to bottom without missing a single page.
He now needs a lot of spiritual materials to raise his own Fusang Wood and Thunder Field - and he doesn't choose at all, buying whatever is large or cheap.
His movements are quite as heroic as going to a restaurant and telling the waiter, "Please give me a menu."
Behind him, Xiao Yuying watched this scene, his lips gradually pursed.
Several monks on the side looked at Zheng Fa's operation in stunned silence. Then they saw Xiao Yuying's sour face. They looked at each other and suddenly felt that they felt much better:
We are sour, and Fairy Lingye is also sour, so aren't we on the same level as Fairy Lingye?
Zheng Fa quickly finished selecting the spiritual materials, looked back at Xiao Yuying and said with a smile, "I've finished changing, Xiao Fairy, come on."
Xiao Yuying glanced at him silently and moved his fingers casually on Heavenly Stele.
He also muttered, "I'm not in the mood anymore."
(End of chapter)