Chapter 24: Chapter 24

“I heard something from the villagers.” Xu Muan said to Xiao Jingting uneasily.

“What?” Xiao Jingting asked.

“Those pieces of land we have are near the mountains. It’s okay to plant ordinary spirit plants, but if we plant high-grade spirit plants, it will easily attract the demonic beast from the mountain. It was said that demonic beast often came down the mountains in the past, and the original owners of the fields were so annoyed by them that they had no choice but to sell these fields.”

Xiao Jingting, “….” He wondered if the Xiao family gave these fields to the original body owner without knowing the situation or they did so on purpose. Considering the original body owner’s temperament, even if he started planting crops on those fields, once the crops he planted were destroyed by demonic beast, he would then become furious and lose his heart again.

“When I harvested before, no demon beasts wreaked havoc.” Xiao Jingting said.

Xu Muan nodded and said, “Yes, but those five mu of fields were inferior, whichwere not very tempting to the demon beasts, so…”

“It seems that we have to take precautions early…” Fields were hard to buy nowadays. Those few mu of medium level fields  were quite rare, so Xiao Jingting was really reluctant to give them up.

Xu Muan nodded and said, “Well, but higher level spirit plants are harder to grow, and it takes at least a month or so for this batch of spirit plants to grow up. Before the harvest, we don’t have to worry too much.”

“Before those spirit plants are mature, we should make some traps in case the monsters really come, and we won’t be caught unprepared.” Xiao Jingting thought for a moment.

Xu Muan nodded his head in approval.

In the following days, Xu Muan helped Xiao Jingting plant the seeds, and the two of them spent three or four days to finish planting the fields.

“Xiao Xu, are you busy?”

Xu Muan looked at the visitor, “Ms. Li!”

Ms. Li Cuiniang smiled at Xu Muan and said, “Mr. Xu, I heard that your husband has made a lot of progress lately and is busy planting crops everyday.”

Xu Muan nodded and said, “Yes!”

After sowing the seeds, Xiao Jingting was busier than ever. The level of spiritual plants he planted in the past was lower and it didn’t take him much trouble to take care of them. The spiritual plants in the medium level fields were different from the previous primary and secondary spirit plants. They needed to be looked after every day. There were also grapes in the yard. Since many people wanted to buy those grapes, Xiao Jingting had planted an extra mu of grapes. There were more kinds of spiritual plants in front of and behind their house.

The spiritual energy needed to generate a third-grade spiritual plant was much more than that needed to generate a second-grade spiritual plant. Xiao Jingting returned every day after consuming almost all the spiritual energy in his body.

Seeing that Xiao Jingting was busy and almost dizzy, Xu Muan couldn’t help but feel guilty.

Xiao Xiaodong was able to help with some chores, but Xiao Xiaodong’s strength was too low, and his help was limited.

Ms. Li said, “ Mr. Xu! I heard that your husband has sold that field. But he is planting crops in that field now, if someone comes to collect the land when it is due, you’ll be working in vain!”

Xiao Jingting attracted much attention since he came here. As an old saying went, although a rich family had become less rich than previous, they were still richer than a poor family. Xiao Jingting was sent here by the Xiao family, but whatever they gave him was enough for the village people to get an green- eye.

After Xiao Jingting came to this place, he ate, drank, whored and gambled. Within a few days, he spent all the money his family gave him and sold out all the fields. Those who liked to gossip in the village immediately made Xiao Jingting’s behavior known to all.

Some people in the village even took Xiao Jingting as a bad example to warn their children that they should not learn from Xiao Jingting.

“The fields have been bought back.” Xu Muan said in a flat tone.

“Huh? Bought back?” Aunt Li was startled.

Xu Muan nodded and said, “Yes!”

“It looks like your husband is diligent and making progress now.” Ms. Li said.

“Yeah!” Xu Muan laughed.

In the field, Xiao Jingting took a sip of spiritual spring water and took a short break, preparing to go home.

The medium-level field was different from the low-level field. In the past, when he took care of low-level field, the spiritual energy in his body was enough. However, after taking care of only two mu of medium-level fields, the spiritual energy in his body was almost consumed. Fortunately, he had spiritual spring water to replenish his spiritual energy in a short time.

Xiao Jingting felt that when he drank the spiritual spring water after his spiritual energy had been completely consumed, the spiritual energy in his body would rise greatly. During this period, Xiao Jingting had been using this method to improve his strength.

“It’s time to eat.” Xu Muan saw Xiao Jingting come back and greeted him.

Now the cooking had been handed over to Xu Muan. Xu Muan was not very good at it, but it wouldn’t take him much trouble to make some plain dishes.

“Are you inured?” Xiao Jingting looked at the wound that had been bandaged on Xu Muan’s arm and frowned.

Xu Muan smiled and said, “It’s just a minor injury, it doesn’t matter.” There was no one who would not get hurt when he was hunting in the mountain. He had been hurt more seriously several times before.

“Did you go to the mountain jungle again? I told you not to go there. ” Xiao Jingting said with some dissatisfaction.

Xu Muan smiled faintly and said, “Don’t worry, it’s all right. I did not go deep into the mountain.”

Xiao Jingting shook his head and said, “You’d better be careful. You are already injured.”

“Got it, by the way, I went to the downtown today to sell prey, and I made a long-term contract for the supply of grapes with several big families. Here is locations of several families and the quantity of grapes they need.” Xu Muan said.

Xiao Jingting nodded and said, “Well, that’s good.”

“How long will it take for these grapes to ripen?” Xu Muan asked excitedly.

“Just another ten days or so.” Xiao Jingting said.

Xu Muan lowered his head. His heart was filled with anticipation. When this batch of grapes was sold, their life would turn better.