The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#368 - What do you want to plant?

For some reason, Lu Jing was being targeted, and he was quite baffled.

Although there were quite a few people who were unhappy that he had won the last small competition, and many hoped he would participate in the next one to regain their lost ground.

But none of them had directly come to his door like Chen Hanqing, even threatening to give him a challenge.

After all, the two of them had no previous grudges, and for an outsider like Lu Jing, there was no issue of ancestral legacies.

Could it be that Chen Hanqing, seeing his successful foundation building and possessing a top-grade secret cauldron, was too excited and wanted to kill someone for fun, and ultimately chose him?

Lu Jing felt that there should be some hidden reason behind this, but since Chen Hanqing was unwilling to say, he had no choice but to put the matter aside for now and continue walking towards the academy's fields.

Now that the Double Ninth Festival had passed, the autumn harvest outside was almost over.

However, because the academy's fields had the help of formations, as long as they wanted to plant, they could be busy all year round, but the busy ones were others, and it had nothing to do with Wu Han.

He was currently sitting slantwise on a deck chair by the field, munching on a bag of dried bananas, looking lazy.

Lu Jing walked up to him and asked, "Why haven't I seen you busy in the fields today?"

"Because I'll soon be able to enjoy a life of leisure," Wu Han said contentedly, tossing a piece of dried banana into his mouth.

"Is your son going to take your place in planting the fields at the academy?" Lu Jing asked in surprise.

"I don't have a son," Wu Han shook his head.

"Then what kind of leisure are you going to enjoy?"

"This matter has to thank you."

"Thank me?" Lu Jing's expression was somewhat wary, "I feel like you're taking advantage of me."

"This matter really has something to do with you," Wu Han slapped the armrest of the chair and sat up straight, looking at Lu Jing with a smile, then said with emotion.

"If Chi Lai hadn't come to me, I wouldn't have known that when I asked you to go to Mirror Lake Valley, I was just trying my luck, treating a dead horse as if it were still alive, but I didn't expect you to really embark on the path of cultivation, and as a result, the farm tool that Chi promised to make for me has already been delivered."

Wu Han pointed to an iron plow beside the field that gleamed with a cold light and looked like it was made of substantial materials.

Lu Jing glanced at the iron plow, "Isn't it a bit too heavy? Can your old ox pull it?"

"It doesn't matter, Senior Ye has already promised me that she will summon a strange creature to pull it for me. I think the monkey beside her is good, with its immense strength, it's perfect for plowing."

"In addition, I haven't had time to tell Supervisor Huang yet, I think he should also have some reward," Wu Han said, "It just so happens that I'm short of a few people to help me sow and water, I can ask Supervisor Huang to send a few academy disciples who have violated the rules to the academy's fields to give me a hand, so in the future, won't I be able to enjoy a life of leisure?"

When people are in high spirits, they are refreshed. Wu Han initially only tried it reluctantly because he couldn't refuse the entrustment of so many people, and came up with the excuse of delivering vegetables to send Lu Jing into Mirror Lake Valley.

To be honest, he himself did not expect that Lu Jing could really find a way to cultivate secret power in Mirror Lake Valley, and he also gained a lot as a result.

At this moment, he found Lu Jing even more pleasing to the eye, "You came to me today, I think you didn't come specifically to admire my newly received iron plow, right? Tell me, what's the matter? As long as it's not too troublesome, I can help you."

Hearing this, Lu Jing didn't waste any more words, "I want to ask Uncle Wu and you for some advice on farming."

Wu Han was stunned on the spot, and after a long while, he said, "You want to learn how to farm from me? Why? You have just embarked on the path of cultivation, there are many things you need to do right now, and you have to hurry up and catch up with others, why do you want to spend your energy on farming?"

Lu Jing said, "I've been practicing Lush Verdure recently, and I thought that since I'm idle anyway, I might as well use this spell to plant something."

This matter was indeed carefully considered by Lu Jing. These days, he had been cultivating spells in the back mountain,催生 a lot of flowers and trees, but unfortunately, besides making a contribution to the ecological protection of the back mountain, he didn't get anything himself.

So Lu Jing had the idea of using Lush Verdure to plant something, anyway, this matter would not delay his cultivation, it was just a matter of lifting a hand, and he could still gain something, so he ran to Wu Han here as soon as school was over.

"You want to use Lush Verdure to farm?" The expression on Wu Han's face became even stranger.

"What, can't I?"

"It's possible, but no one would want to do that," Wu Han took out another bag of dried bananas from the box next to the deck chair and threw it to Lu Jing.

Then he patiently explained, "You can calculate it yourself. How much secret power does Lush Verdure consume each time it's cast? How many times can you cast it a day? And how many times can you succeed in the times you cast it? And how much can the crops grow after success? And then the next time you cast it, how successful will it be? You will dispel this idea."

Wu Han shook his head as he spoke.

"But what if I haven't dispelled it yet?"

"What is the most valuable?"

"If it's valuable, it must be medicinal herbs, especially the medicinal herbs needed for alchemy. The older the age, the more valuable it is, and even if those alchemists don't want it, you can still sell it to those outside medicinal herb shops," Wu Han said.

Lu Jing nodded, "Then I'll plant medicinal herbs. Uncle Wu, do you have any seeds here? Can you sell me some?"

"If you want it, just go and get it. It's in the cellar on the east side of the field. My seeds are all stored there."

"Really?" Lu Jing was overjoyed when he heard this.

Wu Han waved his hand, "I said let you take it, just go and take it."

He didn't take this matter to heart. In his opinion, Lu Jing's plan to use Lush Verdure to plant medicinal herbs and sell them for money was completely nonsense. With Lu Jing's secret power in his Niwan Palace, he probably wouldn't be able to cast the spell a few times before he had to rest.

In the end, he would spend a lot of effort but probably wouldn't be able to催生 a few medicinal herbs, and in a few days, he would realize how whimsical his idea was and have to give up.

Naturally, he wouldn't need many seeds, and since he was in a good mood because his new plow had arrived, he waved his hand and opened up his seed supply to Lu Jing.

As a result, Lu Jing was not polite and took a tour of his cellar, then packed about five hundred ginseng seeds and five hundred fleeceflower root seeds.

Although Wu Han used pottery jars to store the seeds, and they were all engraved with words, unfortunately Lu Jing didn't know many of them, and he couldn't be sure of the value of those relatively unpopular medicinal herbs.

But he knew ginseng and fleeceflower root, and as long as the age was good, he could definitely sell them for a good price.

Although Wu Han felt a little heartache, he had already said those words before, so it was not good to openly change his mind. Then he spent half an hour explaining the planting points of these two medicinal herbs to Lu Jing, and finally gave Lu Jing a set of farm tools.