One day I am hungover and groggy, and the other day I am anxious and uneasy. It wasn't until three days after the night drinking that Priest Mekart received the formal king's order and was fully responsible for the task of recruiting and surrendering the black snake.
The personal guard responsible for delivering the order also brought a message from His Majesty, asking him to forget the complaints he heard that night and just pretend that nothing happened.
Priest Mecat breathed a long sigh of relief. It felt like he had run around from the edge of the endless black abyss and came back alive again.
"God bless you! Accompanying His Majesty... is really like accompanying a jaguar in the jungle!..." Priest Mecat shook his head secretly, and went to find the old militiaman Chihuaco with a piece of royal order from His Majesty.
He searched around the city and then outside the city. Finally, in the nearest farming village, he saw an old militiaman squatting in a bean field in a daze.
"Mecat, you came just in time! Help me see what the divine properties of these three beans are... Oh! Which one is better for fertile fields!" The old militiaman wore a straw hat and held a long grass stalk in his mouth.
After returning from Cuba, His Majesty also gave him an errand, which was to study the planting of different crops, water and fertilizer, growth, breeding, pests... and so on.
Your Majesty calls this
"Agriculture", the position given to him is the head of the Agriculture Department of Shenwei University, which is said to be equivalent to a second-level divine priest.
In addition, His Majesty also gave him an agricultural textbook and a divinely inspired breeding book.
"Scripture", let him find a literate priest who would read to him often. Of these two books, the agriculture book is better.
He has been cultivating for so many years, so he can generally understand some of it, such as seed selection, germination, water and fertilizer, and climate, but he has not learned it in such a systematic way.
As for breeding
"God-inspired scriptures" are said to point directly to the origin of all things, but they all sound mysterious, just like the mysterious inheritance of priests.
The old militiaman asked someone to read it to him, and he felt dizzy after listening to it. What was in it?
"The divinities of light and darkness are entangled in pairs",
"The divinity of light is higher than darkness, that is, it is manifest",
"The divinities of light and darkness are freely combined and independently distributed, respectively determining the appearance."
"Twenty-three laws are gathered in the body, and twenty-seven thousand pairs of divinities are condensed into human beings"... These are mindless and very bluffing things.
When drinking at night a few days ago, he mustered up the courage to ask His Majesty again, and His Majesty actually asked him to plant beans, saying that it was
"Beans are relatively simple, and you can best see the divinity and laws"...
"Captain Qi, why are you here? I've been looking for you in the city for a long time. If Didi hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known you were here!..." Priest Mecat wiped the sweat from his forehead and squatted side by side beside the field ridge. , leaning closely against the old militiamen.
"It's better to stay in the fields than in the city! We don't have to wait for His Majesty to ask us to go out for a drink and send us any dangerous work..." At this point, the old militiaman Chihuaco shook his head, his eyes full of joy. It's sad.
I thought very well that when I came back from Cuba, I would never go to sea again even if I was killed! ...But he didn't expect that he would have to go to the distant southern continent, and he didn't know if he could come back alive... Thinking of this, he sighed again, staring at the three kinds of beans in the field, and talked about the farm work in the field that made him relax.
"Priest Mecat, you see, these three kinds of beans are the most common in the world. The thin vines that are twisting and climbing up are kidney beans, including green, yellow, and purple and black. Kingdom Ah, Alliance, we grow it in every piece of Milpari, and the village also eats it as a staple food. This thing is easier to grow, but it needs to be cooked and eaten..." Hearing this, Priest Mekart stopped talking.
He glanced at Chihuaco, an old militiaman who was attentive, and could only agree.
"Yes! The Lord God bless you! This easy-to-grow kidney bean is a crop given to the world by the Lord God... and it is also a bean for common people!"
"Hmm... Common people's beans are easy to grow and easy to grow..." The old militiaman's eyes flashed, and he stretched out his hand and touched another kind of beans next to him.
This bean has feathery compound leaves like kidney beans, butterfly-like purple and white flowers, and long, flat pods.
At first glance, this kind of pod looks like an obsidian knife, so it is also called
"Sword beans".
"This sword bean is very similar to the kidney bean. It likes warm and moist soil. But they grow much taller than the kidney beans! It can grow forever and grow taller than a person! It can also carry pests better, but Ah, just growing tall doesn’t produce many beans…”
"That's true! Blessed by the Lord God! This tall and strong sword bean is also a crop given to the world by the Lord God...it is also the bean of warriors!..."
"A samurai's beans!...Like a knife..." The old militiaman shook his head slightly, not knowing what he was thinking of. He continued to stretch out his hand and carefully touched the last bean.
This bean is very similar to the other two beans. The vines are very thin and the leaves are feathery. There is no difference.
But the pods it produces have a very smooth surface and feel slippery to the touch. The old militiaman opened a pod. The beans inside were flat and round, white or light red, and had a delicate feeling.
And he took one and put it in his mouth and chewed it. The beany smell was obviously much less.
"God bless you! These are delicious fine beans, and they are also sacred priest beans! The texture is very delicate, tender, and there is no earthy smell at all..." This time, it was Priest Mecat who spoke first.
He knew the beans and had eaten them for many years. And before he became a priest's apprentice, when he was helping his family farm in the village, after harvesting such good beans, they had to be given as tribute to the samurai team who collected grain!
"Yes! The priest's beans are very delicious...but the yield is not large, they are not resistant to pests, and birds also like to eat them..." Chihuaco, the old militiaman, nodded and handed another one to Priest Mecat.
Priest Mekart chewed it in his mouth, and was about to say something when he heard the old militiaman's faint words.
"Mecat, do you know where these beans come from?"
"Ah? This kind of beans...well, isn't it one of the crops given to the world by the Lord God?" Hearing this, Priest Mekart showed some doubts on his face.
However, he soon understood. Although everyone says it, there are indeed many crops, like potatoes and sweet potatoes, that originate from…
"Captain Qi, are you saying that this kind of beans also comes from the southern continent?!"
"Yes! Your Majesty said so..." The old militiaman scratched his hair and sighed sadly.
"Your Majesty said that this kind of thin beans, priest beans... are actually called lima beans. And in the near future, when we go south to explore, at least the destination we must reach... is the place where the legendary Lord God gave the beans! …”
"We will take the priest's fine beans and go all the way south, asking the tribes along the way...until a seaside land with a large river flowing...'Lima'! And there, we will definitely meet a prophecy of worshiping the sun. A powerful kingdom...yes, it is a kingdom, not a tribe. It will be very, very large, controlling the inland plateaus and the seashores along the coast, and will be larger than the current alliance and kingdoms combined!..."
"And the name of this kingdom... according to His Majesty... is called 'The Kingdom of the Sons of the Sun', 'The Alliance of the Four Places'... What, oh!... 'His bowl is very crispy'... Tawantinsuyo!..."
