"Have you heard that we have a good harvest this year? The Xu family has revealed that the land rent may be increased by 30%! And it will be collected in advance."
"What, even if our fields have a bumper harvest this year, it's not that outrageous, right? There was an insect infestation today, and many people suffered a lot of losses."
"There is no way. The Xu family and the beast-controlling Zhou family may have to fight over a fishing ground. The Xu family is now using this excuse to search for spiritual stones and prepare to recruit troops."
"Hey, why did the good guys start fighting? It's really hard for us."
"The relationship between the Zhou family and the Xu family is not good, and everyone knows it. Anyway, prepare the spiritual stone to pay the rent recently. The eastern region has already collected the land rent in advance. I heard that there are several families who can't pay the land rent. Got kicked out of Fangshi!"
"It's too cruel. We, with our low level of cultivation, can't survive outside. There are monsters and beasts everywhere outside. Tribulation cultivators..."
"Isn't it? Hey, it really doesn't give people a way to survive."
In a stall, Xu Yang felt nervous as he listened to the discussions of the monks around him.
The land rent was actually collected in advance.
Although he inherited the house from his parents, the land was rented. If he could not pay the rent, according to the rules of the Xu family, even the house would be taken back.
The annual rent for one acre of land is ten spirit stones. He has two acres of land. If the price increases by another 30%, that means he has to pay 26 spirit stones!
He frowned. He had to pay rent and buy defensive formations. The spiritual stones in his hand were simply not enough!
On the way back, I saw many Lingzhifu sweating profusely. Some bought insecticide water, and some asked familiar experts to remove the insects.
When I passed by Lao Wang's house, I saw his nephew and two friends crying in mourning inside the house.
Lao Wang has lived here with his mortal wife for decades and has no children. Now the house is cheaper for his nephew. By the way, the Lingxu grass in his field is also cheaper for his nephew.
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Xu Yang soon arrived at the door of a tall mansion.
This is the residence of an alchemist, and the insect-repelling water is purchased here.
At the moment, although the attribute points can ripen spiritual plants, the spiritual green worms in the ground still need to be dealt with, otherwise the spiritual seeds will be eaten by the spiritual green worms if they are planted next.
If you go to a big store to buy insect repellent water, it will be more expensive.
Anyway, he has bought from here before, and the effect is similar to that of big stores, except that sometimes he is short of what he needs.
But the alchemist and he were also considered neighbors, half fellow villagers. He would not be shortchanged by a neighbor, and a fellow villager would not deceive a fellow villager.
The door was open, and in the courtyard was a pair of brothers and sisters. They were both tall and thick, but they were well-dressed. They were not ordinary clothes, but expensive robes, which had a protective effect and were invulnerable to water and fire.
The alchemist is the elder brother here, and his sister helps him. Both of them have a strong aroma of medicine.
Both of them are monks at the seventh level of Qi training, and they are among the best in this area.
Seeing Xu Yang come in, the two of them looked calm, even cold.
Xu Yang was already used to it. After all, these two people were masters of the seventh level of Qi training, but he was just a low-level monk and could not catch their eyes at all.
It is already considered good if you can sell it to him without giving him a short pound or two.
Xu Yang went up and said politely: "Senior Gao Yuan."
"Well, Fellow Daoist Xu, do you want to buy insect repellent water?" Gao Yuan then raised his head to greet Xu Yang and directly explained his purpose.
Xu Yang nodded lightly: "Senior, do you know?"
"Well, early this morning, many Lingzhifu like you said that there were insect infestations in their fields and they came to buy insecticide water from me."
While he was talking, Gao Yuan's sister had already taken out a medicine bottle, looked at Xu Yang and said, "Four spiritual stones."
Xu Yang: "..."
"Ahem, weren't there three spiritual stones in one bottle before?" Xu Yang said with a dry smile.
"The price of raw materials has increased recently." Gao Yuan explained calmly, as if he wanted to buy it or not.
Sister Gao Yuan said: "There are not many bottles at home. If you don't buy it, someone else will buy it later and it will be gone!"
There was no other way, Xu Yang could only pinch his nose and take out the only four spiritual stones left on his body.
Now, I am really penniless!
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The door to the hut is closed.
Lin Yu tilted her hips slightly and was chopping firewood in the yard with an axe. She was so tired that she was sweating.
After Xu Yang left, Lin Yu didn't know what to do, but her father had said before that when you get married, you must take the initiative to find a job and work more, so that your husband's family will be happy and treat you well.
Therefore, when she saw the firewood piled in the yard, she took the initiative to chop it.
But as a mortal, she had never practiced Kung Fu, and her body was weak. She was exhausted after just chopping for a short time, and the skin on her two little hands was also worn out.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"
There was a knock on the door and she hurriedly turned her head. She knew that the person knocking must be Xu Yang, because Xu Yang told her last night that it was dangerous outside Fangshi. If he came home, he would knock on the door with two short and one long signals. , which means he is back.
If this is not the case, don't answer the door.
There was a simple protective formation in the yard. As long as she didn't take the initiative to open the door, some low-level monks couldn't embarrass her.
He quickly opened the door and saw his man clearly before showing a relaxed smile, his pretty face filled with joy: "Husband, you are back."
She took the package from Xu Yang's hand, closed the door, and hugged Xu Yang.
"What's wrong?"
Sensing his wife's strange behavior, Xu Yang patted her back.
"I was just at the door and heard someone passing by, saying that there was a robbery cultivator here and that the whole family was killed. I was a little scared."
"Don't worry, I'm here. The one who died is Lao Wang's family. His family's defense formation was broken recently, but ours is not broken."
After hearing this, Lin Yu leaned out of his arms and said softly: "That's good, husband, what did you buy?"
"I bought spiritual rice and spiritual chicken to replenish it for you!"
The spiritual chicken here can cure illnesses and pains of anyone who eats it.
"Then I'll cook." Lin Yu smiled and prepared to leave.
"Wait, you just chopped wood?"
He glanced at the firewood on the ground, and then at Lin Yu's skinned little hands.
"I have nothing to do and wanted to help you."
"Stop doing these rough jobs in the future. This is for you."
Xu Yang took out the book of martial arts exercises: "This exercise has the effect of strengthening the body and nourishing the body. It is practiced by mortals in the secular world. If you practice this exercise, your body and bones will get better and better in the future, and you will be fat by then." Boy."
"Thank you, husband."
Lin Yu took the exercise book and read it, feeling happy in her heart. She had been worried because she was weak. Even if she had children in the future, she would be afraid that the children would be as weak as her.
Now that I have this technique, I will definitely feel much better, extend my life a little, and maintain my appearance, so that I will not be disliked by my husband in the future.
Just when she was looking carefully, Lin Yu suddenly let out a soft cry and found that she had been hugged up.
"Husband, what are you looking at?" Looking at Xu Yang's wolf-like eyes, Lin Yu felt weak.
"Let's go back to the house and do some errands."
Xu Yang smelled Lin Yu's body fragrance and felt something was about to move in his abdomen, so he carried her directly into the house.
"Husband, you just came back, how about..."
Lin Yu didn't have time to say anything, her voice had turned into a hum, as sweet as water.
After burning the incense, Lin Yu blushed and looked at Xu Yang charmingly: "Husband, you are really good at caring for others. You must be exhausted. I will cook for you."
With that said, Lin Yu felt sweet in her heart and walked to the kitchen to prepare for food.
Xu Yang found that there were no prompts on the panel, and guessed that it might be refreshed the next day.
Then I went to the ground and evenly sprinkled the ground with insecticide water.
The remaining Lingxu grass is healthy, but some weeds grow in the ground. These weeds will rob the ground of spiritual energy and are not conducive to the growth of Lingxu grass.
Xu Yang started weeding, worked for a while, checked it over, and nodded with satisfaction.
There are still 88 Lingxu Grass left in the ground. When these are harvested, he is thinking about planting some better spiritual plants, such as passion fruit, to earn more Lingshi.
Passion fruit is a kind of fruit. After eating, it has the effect of slowly restoring spiritual power, nourishing qi and blood, and can also be used to make medicine.
Many low-level monks can't afford healing elixirs, or they eat these fruits for the purpose of saving. The market is huge and they are easy to sell.
"but……"
Xu Yang frowned. According to his original experience, whenever the crops in Ling Zhifu's field matured, thieves and even birds would come to eat them.
I remember that in the past, I planted some passion fruits at home, but unfortunately a lot of them were stolen during the harvest. As a result, I lost a lot of money that year. After paying the land rent, I had very little savings left.
There are two ways to solve this.
Or, during the days when the fruit is ripe, stay in the ground night after night.
The second way is to arrange formations or even puppets in the ground.
While thinking about it, he activated the spiritual planting technique to inject spiritual energy into the Lingxu Grass. After a while, visible to the naked eye, the Lingxu Grass in front of him became brighter and brighter, and its branches and leaves became more and more shiny.
"Well, the effect of spiritual planting in a mature state is obviously much better."
"Husband, the meal is ready."
"Oh, here it comes."
After clapping his hands, Xu Yang went back to the house to rest.
At night.
Lin Yu's rapid breathing slowly subsided. She slowly slipped off Xu Yang, covered him with a quilt, hugged Xu Yang and said, "Husband, please teach me how to farm next. This will help you share some of the burden."
"Well, don't worry, you should practice martial arts first."
Even if a mortal doesn't have spiritual roots, he can still practice skills much faster in this spiritually rich world of immortality.
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In the next few days, Xu Yang kept testing his golden finger, and then came to a conclusion.
The core of this system is to encourage couples to live harmoniously.
Whether you live harmoniously during the day or at night, you will gain attribute values when you wake up the next day.
The attribute value is determined based on the wife's favorability and happiness.
For example, the day before yesterday, my wife's favorability was 100 and she was very satisfied. The next day she actually gained 30 points.
The day before yesterday, because I didn't take her feelings into consideration, I only gained 11 points.
Yesterday, he didn't work with his wife, and the two of them were practicing alone. As a result, they only gave 3 attribute points early in the morning, which made him very depressed.
In the morning, Lin Yu got up early and made breakfast. When the meal was served, she found that Xu Yang had gone to the fields again.
"My husband is really diligent, but..."
She thought about something and her face turned red. As a new wife, she felt that her husband did that very often. Although she also felt the joy in it, she was worried that it would delay her husband's cultivation.
Fortunately, my husband looks good and goes to the fields every morning.
She filled a bowl of spiritual rice, put it on top of some dishes, put the whole thing into the food basket, and went to the ground to deliver the meal.
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[Name: Xu Yang. 】
[Attribute: 24 points. 】
[Realm: Second level of Qi training. 】
[Skill: Proficiency in the Xu Family Qi Nourishing Technique: 0/40. 】
[Spell: Spirit Planting Proficiency: 0/20.]
[Supernatural power: Immortality. 】
[Wife Lin Yu’s favorability: 100.]
In the past three days, after the attribute value reached 44 points, he added points to the Qi Nourishing Technique to achieve proficiency.
With 24 points left in his hand, he planned to continue to ripen the remaining Lingxu Grass, earn more Lingshi, and buy some means to protect his way.
Xu Yang nodded slightly and added a little more.
After a while, 24 Lingxu grasses of one year were harvested.
You can exchange almost 30 spirit stones here.
"Get rich, get rich!"
He quickly looked around, and after making sure no one was around, he took off his coat and wrapped so many Lingxu Grasses inside his coat.
His heart was beating very fast. For him, thirty spirit stones were definitely a huge sum of money. After all, the original person had worked hard for a year and might have saved about thirty spirit stones, but he could save it in one breath. That’s all.
If the neighbors knew about him, it would be very troublesome, and it would most likely attract the covetous attention of Jie Xiu.
After taking a look at the remaining Lingxu Grass, he secretly made up his mind to buy a second-hand defensive formation after selling it.
A new defensive formation is cheap at least fifty yuan of spirit stones, but a second-hand one only costs a dozen yuan.
At this time, he saw Lin Yu coming, pulled Lin Yu and walked home.
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"Husband, I have harvested so many Lingxu grasses again. Each one grows so beautifully. I think they are much better than those grown by others."
After entering the house, Lin Yu carefully picked up a piece of Lingxu grass and couldn't help but smell it. She was extremely pleasantly surprised.
"You do know him!"
Xu Yang smiled.
"Hmm, although I don't know how to farm, I have seen people selling Lingxu grass, so I probably know which ones are of good quality."
"Dong dong dong!"
There was a knock on the door.
Xu Yang quickly asked Lin Yu to hide the things in the bedroom. Lin Yu understood and entered the house with the package.
Xu Yang then went to open the door. Standing at the door was his next door neighbor Li Dayong.
"Brother Xu, Lao Wang, his wife and nephew invited us to have a dinner. They are all neighbors. Let's go."
