nycdaug #435 - Although I didn't do it well, I still hope there will be a good result.
#435 - Although I didn't do it well, I still hope there will be a good result.
Lu Jing roughly calculated his gains during this period.
He had previously obtained a total of forty thousand taels of silver notes from those eunuchs of the Pure Character Guard, as well as some odds and ends of jewelry, which he estimated could be sold for another seven or eight thousand taels, taking the upper limit to be forty-eight thousand taels.
He had just gotten another one hundred thousand taels from Zhu Xie, although he hadn't seen the silver yet, it was just a debt claim, and Chen Chao's current situation didn't look very stable, but they could still hold on for two months. Adding the three thousand taels as a handling fee, Lu Jing now had an extra one hundred and fifty-one thousand taels of silver on hand.
As for Chen Hanqing's side, Lu Jing didn't count on it at all. Although the two had made a bet, and Chen Hanqing had been fooled, Lu Jing knew in his heart that even if he sold this unlucky kid, he wouldn't get much cash.
After calculating this, Lu Jing discovered that he was still short… two hundred and ninety-seven thousand taels to pay off his debts.
Well, this number still put pressure on him, so the next morning, Lu Jing ran to the medicine field early again.
Fighting brings money quickly, but it is not a proper way after all. More importantly, this income is not sustainable. Who knows when someone will come to deliver their head again? Moreover, strictly speaking, last night's battle was not easy for Lu Jing.
If he hadn't been lucky, he might have been trapped in that strange painting. It was far safer to engage in planting, and it was also green and environmentally friendly.
As usual, Lu Jing first cast a round of Verdant Growth on the medicine field. He had now completely mastered this spell.
After all, for a whole month and a half, he was either practicing swordsmanship or releasing this spell. The cumulative number of times was already very alarming.
Perfect Foundation Establishment, coupled with a cultivation base comparable to a Second Palace cultivator, plus the secret power that would be replenished every day, had completely transformed Lu Jing into an emotionless farming machine.
If this were a game world, and he could see the skill proficiency, then he would probably find his skill experience increasing crazily every day, and system prompts would be endless.
Lu Jing even suspected that, apart from another farming freak, Wu Han, in the academy, no one else's attainments in Verdant Growth could surpass him.
The result was that his medicine field was growing gratifyingly, whether it was the ginseng, fleeceflower root, or weeds inside.
But the problem was not nonexistent. After these plants had grown so wildly, the fertility of the field began to lag behind.
Lu Jing had put a little thought into choosing these two plots of land at the beginning, at least seeing that the nearby plants were growing well, so the soil at that time should not have been a problem.
If it was normal to grow crops, it could last for several rounds, but it couldn't withstand Lu Jing constantly throwing Verdant Growth into the medicine field. Those medicinal materials and weeds would accelerate the absorption of water and nutrients while growing greedily.
Among them, water was still easy to handle. Lu Jing could just water it a few more times every day, but nutrients were more troublesome.
Lu Jing recalled the methods in his previous life to deal with the loss of soil fertility. One he could remember was fertilization, and another seemed to be crop rotation, balancing the nutrients in the soil by constantly changing the crops planted.
However, both of these methods were too troublesome for him, and Lu Jing didn't have the time. After thinking about it, he finally chose the simplest method: just change places.
Anyway, the back mountain was so big, and once the fertility of one piece of land was exhausted, he could just find another piece. It was just not so environmentally friendly, but Lu Jing couldn't care about that kind of thing now.
Compared to the chemical factories and thermal power plants of later generations, his little bit of destruction was nothing.
Seeing that the fertility of the medicine field was about to be exhausted, Lu Jing estimated that it would be difficult to have any good results with Verdant Growth in the future, so he planned to start harvesting.
He jumped into the medicine field, pushed aside the weeds that were already more than one person tall, and tried hard to find the ginseng inside. While turning over the grass, Lu Jing thought that there was too much.
It seemed that next time he had to think of some way to hoe some grass first, even if he couldn't hoe it all clean, at least don't make it so exaggerated.
Fortunately, the difference between the leaves of ginseng and weeds was quite obvious. In addition, Lu Jing had sprinkled a lot of seeds before, and he found one after not much time.
Lu Jing followed the stems and leaves all the way down, dug open the soil at the rhizome, and dug down a full seven feet deep before he completely dug out the ginseng with its roots.
Then Lu Jing followed the same method and dug out another slightly smaller ginseng, but then he didn't continue digging, but found a piece of bark, wrapped the two ginsengs, and ran to Wu Han's place.
Planning to ask Wu Han to take a look first.
Lu Jing was quite uneasy along the way. People are like this. Even if they have been fooling around when doing things, they still hope to have good results when the results are about to come out. This made Lu Jing think of his final exams in college…
Okay, that's going too far. In short, before, because the deadline was far away, he didn't have much pressure. Now that the time was getting closer, and the matter of the poison pill had been settled, Lu Jing began to pay more attention to making money.
When he arrived at Wu Han's farmhouse, Lu Jing didn't waste any words and directly handed over the bark in his hand.
Wu Han picked up the ginseng inside and looked at it over and over again, but he didn't say anything during the period.
Lu Jing didn't know what to say for a while. He couldn't tell Wu Han that it was because he planted it too roughly, completely ignoring it, and letting a medicine field of ginseng compete with the surrounding weeds for nutrients, responding to the natural law of Darwin's survival of the fittest, and finally successfully growing this kind of wild ginseng.
Moreover, Wu Han then said, "And your age is not right. Even if you use Verdant Growth to promote growth every day, there is no reason to grow so fast. Just looking at the age of this ginseng, I'm afraid it has exceeded a hundred years."