"This place is pretty nice. Someone even planted a vegetable garden with cabbages and chives."
"Qing Si, you're a princess born into wealth and privilege. Do you know how to grow vegetables?"
"What's so hard about growing vegetables? Isn't it just fertilizing and watering them?"
"Heh, it's not that simple. Once you actually try growing them, you'll know how much trouble it is."
"Oh? For example..."
"Take these chives, for example. Harvest them too frequently and you can ruin them. Besides fertilizing and watering them, you also have to pay attention to the soil and pests..."
"That sounds like such a bother. Then we should plant trees instead. Some fruit trees wouldn't need much tending, and years later we'd have fruit to eat."
"Trees need ten years of nurturing, and their growth cycle is too long. They're actually even more troublesome. Still, as the saying goes, peach and plum trees speak no words, yet paths form beneath them. Even ordinary fruit trees have greater uses."
"That's true. We could plant some fruit trees here."
Behind the main peak on Nine-Wan Island.
Li Ling and Mu Qingsi were inspecting the vegetable garden of a secluded residence in a valley. With a casual sweep of his hand, he designated the place as their private Seedling Nursery.
The vegetables here had been left by the former stewards, who had grown them for their own meals. They had no intention of uprooting them for now, so they simply kept them all.
No one would have imagined that Li Ling and Mu Qingsi, the esteemed sect master and his wife, would hide here discussing farming matters, carefully counting every penny of their household expenses.
While they were talking, a servant came to report, "Sect Master, Steward Zeng outside reports that the first group of