Allure of a Country Maiden
Chapter 123 - 121: Gathering 100 Pairs of Animals

Chapter 123: Chapter 121: Gathering 100 Pairs of Animals

Shangguan Xuanyi observed the preparation for spring plowing at Xiao’er’s house for two days, asked some questions about planting, and left early on the second morning after staying there for two nights. Shen Yuzhu and Shen Bao’er’s plans, both overt and covert, were not even realized, nor did they even get to meet him.

Xiao’er had him take his hidden guards away with him too, which she was unaccustomed to. Seeing this, Shangguan Xuanyi, reluctantly, decided to seek other solutions.

The days passed quietly amidst the hustle and bustle. Shen Chengyao stared at this hundred acres of newly-planted rice field with trepidation in his heart.

The weather has been fantastic these past two days, and the rice seedlings in the field were basking in the sun!

They wouldn’t all be sunburnt to death, would they?

Isn’t spring supposed to have the most rainfall? How come it’s so sunny?

Shen Chengyao gazed at the clear blue sky and frowned, "Why won’t it rain?"

Seeing Shen Chengyao’s expression, Xiao’er playfully comforted him, "Dad, there’s so much water in the field. They won’t die. Come back in a couple of days, and you’ll see that they are all thriving."

Ever since the planting of this hundred-acre field began, it has been criticized! The gossip and finger-pointing from the villagers were rampant!

Old Mr. Shen himself had scolded Shen Chengyao at least ten times, accusing him of being reckless and wasteful!

Shen Chengyao persisted under various pressures because of Xiao’er’s words.

Xiao’er said, "Dad, there can be no creation without destruction. The current grain yield is too low, and if we plant it the traditional way, we can only plant one crop a year! My method allows us to plant two crops a year. After harvesting the rice, we can plant a crop of winter wheat, and in this way, the yield from the rice fields is close to a thousand pounds per acre."

It was because of these words that he persevered, two crops a year, nearly a thousand pounds per acre!

What kind of concept is that? It’s like reaping three or four years’ worth of grain in one year!

If it’s true! Who wouldn’t have a full granary!

But if all these seedlings die, then... it is just a loss of one crop!

His family can still afford this loss now! So he’s taking the risk! He trusts his daughter, and inexplicably, he feels that things will certainly turn out as she predicted!

He recalled Master Yunfa saying: bestow blessings to the world; remembering those two grain carts, if the yield is close to a thousand pounds per acre, it’s certainly bestowing blessings to the world!

Xiao’er has a secret, he knew.

Now, except for Xi’er, who had nothing to do with it, every night in their family, everyone would study with the three brothers.

The children’s mother said, it turns out that reading and learning letters was not difficult. Oftentimes, memorizing an article three to four times would suffice.

He had read when he was young, he knew it wasn’t that simple. If it was that easy, his brother wouldn’t just be a scholar! The food at home was exceptionally delicious, mostly prepared by Xiao’er.

His daughter’s master... his daughter has a secret, he could only strive to study hard, urge the three brothers to study hard, and enable his family to better protect his daughter.

Xiao’er looked at the distant mountains. This time, the pine trees on the mountain should be in bloom. It had been a long time since she had been up the mountain. It would be nice to go up the mountain and pick some pine flowers.

Pine flowers have the effects of dispelling wind, benefiting qi, drying out dampness, reducing swelling, stopping bleeding, and clearing heat and detoxifying. They are also work well for eczema, impetigo in children, skin bleeding, bites from animals, night blindness.

Pine pollen needs to be broken down before its effects can be fully realized. Fortunately, there is a crushing machine in the kitchen space.

The next day, Xiao’er called on Xie An and the long-term workers at home to go up the mountain and pick pine flowers.

Xiao’er picked a pine flower with a long pistil that looked like a pig’s heart, and showed everyone, "You all take a look, when a pine flower looks like this, you can pick it. Be careful when you pick it, I want the pollen inside."

Everyone busily acknowledged her directions and started picking.

Being small and not very tall, Xiao’er didn’t join in the fun. Besides, she had something more important to do.

Her space hadn’t been upgraded in a long time, and she still hadn’t accumulated a hundred pairs of animals!

She wanted to take this opportunity to gather some animals into her space while climbing the mountain.

Xiao’er said she would go home first, then went down the hill in front of them, and took another path up the hill, and then quickly ran towards the depths of the mountain.

"Bai Tian, Tian Bai, where are there many animals, tell me quickly."

"In the southeast direction."

"Master, release us from the space. We can attract animals into the space." Bai Tian felt that going out and about was also a good thing, always being stuck in the space was pretty boring.

"Can you do that? Why didn’t you say it earlier!" Xiao’er couldn’t help but roll her eyes, angrily looking at the two geese. If she had known earlier, she would have let them out to find animals, and then she just needed to gather those animals.

"I just thought of it now." Bai Tian bashfully stretched out a wing to cover its goose head, blocking Xiao’er’s view.

Xiao’er released them with a thought, and then the two geese immediately flew towards the deeper parts of the mountain.

"Master, I will definitely bring many animals back, wait for us..." Only Bai Tian’s voice lingered in Xiao’er’s mind.

A few days ago, it was drizzling spring rain, many mushrooms and wood ears, and other mountain treasures, had grown in the mountain.

Since she didn’t need to find animals herself, she started picking mushrooms and plucking wood ears. She picked up a couple of deadwood with wood ears and some mushrooms to plant in her space. She could eat them whenever she wanted in the future.

She put the picked wood ears and mushrooms into her space, then Xiao’er walked around to see if there were any other finds. If she saw wild vegetables, she would also casually dig up a few and plant them into her space.

Then she discovered monkey head mushrooms and bamboo mushrooms, so she planted them into her space too.

After walking for a while longer without seeing any animals, Xiao’er took out a bowl of spring water from her space to see if she could attract any animals.

She set down the water a bit far away, then went into hiding.

It really worked!

Soon a few squirrels jumped down to drink the water in the bowl. The animals were not very smart and spilled all the water in the bowl!

Xiao’er came out of her hiding place, and the squirrels scurried off immediately!

Xiao’er retrieved the bowl, filled it again with water, then held it out with her hands. A squirrel looked around for a while, then couldn’t resist the attraction and jumped down, landing on Xiao’er’s arm to drink the water in the bowl.

Xiao’er quickly put it in her space, then continued to attract the other squirrels with the same movement. Before long, another squirrel jumped down...In total, Xiao’er gathered four squirrels. She figured there should be a pair of male and female among them. She couldn’t tell the gender of squirrels!

She then changed locations and did the same thing. This time she attracted a roe deer. The roe deer was not as easy to lure as the squirrels. It had finished an entire bowl of water and she still hadn’t caught it. Xiao’er managed to catch it by using the fodder of the space!

Later, Xiao’er also took a pair of roe deers and a pair of sika deer. Then Bai Tian and Tian Bai came back.

She anticipated seeing Bai Tian and Tian Bai return majestically, with a victorious general demeanor, followed by an army of soldiers—Or rather, a parade of formidable beats like tigers, wolves, and the like.

To her surprise!

They returned with a flock of birds. All kinds of birds, including red-crowned cranes, parrots, egrets, Huang Li, peacocks, gold thread birds, wild geese, magpies, pigeons, swallows, and kingfishers...many bird species she didn’t even know the names of.

"Master sister, we’re back."

Xiao’er looked at the dense flock of birds in the sky, completely befuddled!

"Bai Tian, what I wanted was white foxes, red foxes, white wolves, tigers, leopards... Oh, and their cubs would be better. The big ones are hard to tame! Plus, wild horses, deer, wild boars, and such." Basically, animals that could be eaten or whose fur could be sold! What was she supposed to do with so many birds!

"Then you just put these birds into the space first, we’ll go look again." Tian Bai said with good humor.

Although she grumbled, she still put all the birds into the space. Then, the space notified her it was starting to upgrade.