As a lord, I was forced to farm

Chapter 964 Five Ants

Agriculture is the foundation of a nation, and food crops are the foundation of that foundation.

After taking office, officials in the major counties under Chaolian and Tianchen actively promoted red crystal wheat, planting it on fields that were originally used for ordinary wheat.

Nowadays, it can be said that wherever people live, the tender shoots of red crystal wheat can be seen swaying in the wind.

If these red crystal wheat are harvested successfully, it will be a great thing for the people of Dasu.

However, beneath the plants where spiritual energy flows, another group of creatures are filled with worry.

That is the ordinary wheat spirit whose planting area has been reduced.

After annexing Chaolian and Tianchen, Dasu now has seven wheat-type spirits, including two wheat spirit monsters and five wheat spirit worms.

To avoid them competing for nutrients, these wheat spirits were distributed to various county towns.

"Yomi..."

A wheat spirit with drooping wheat ears fluttered its nimble wings and darted through the spring wheat sprouts, looking quite content.

Suddenly, the sound of human footsteps and voices rang out in the fields, and the instinct to protect itself made the little spirit quickly hide.

“7&*&…” The Wheat Spirit couldn’t quite understand human speech. It poked its head out from among the grass and trees, secretly watching human activities.

The humans stopped next to it—in another field where red crystal wheat was grown.

The humans looked at the spiritual plants with great reverence and were scattering something into the fields.

After staying here for a while, the monster knew that those things were good. Every time humans sprinkled those white substances in, the plants next door would grow more lushly.

"Yomi yomi..." Why doesn't anyone throw that white substance at me?

The little fairy let out a weak cry, looked at the incredibly strong plant next door, and then at its own wheat, which was shorter than the one opposite, and drooped its wings in disappointment.

"Yomi..." Humans will take care of me.

"Yomi..." Master said it!

A beautiful human face flashed through the little demon's mind; the contract and memories told her that it was her master.

Its master is very powerful, and all these humans have to obey its master!

The clever little demon thought of this and suddenly mustered up the strength to emerge from the grass and trees and fly into the air.

"Oh my god, it's a spirit! It's so beautiful and cute!"

Someone immediately noticed the flying demon and exclaimed in surprise.

The little monster called out "Yo-mi-yo-mi".

However, humans simply cannot understand what it is trying to say.

"Is it sick? It keeps meowing." The farmer tried to touch the spirit, but the spirit swiftly dodged him.

"Don't touch the spirits." Someone said disapprovingly, "The adults say that spirits are very fragile, and we should try to avoid touching them."

"...*%&...）" The Wheat Spirit couldn't understand what these people were saying. It gestured for a long time, but these humans still didn't scatter the white substance on its field. It was so angry that it stomped its feet and flew away in a flash.

It was still unwilling to give up.

The instinct to evolve and become stronger is ingrained in the spirit's bones. It flew to the boundary between the two types of wheat, looked at the tall red crystal wheat plant in front of it, and swallowed hard.

Red crystal wheat... these wheat grains imbued with spiritual energy, it can devour... that's what its instincts tell it.

But another instinct told it that if it approached the wheat, it would offend a much more powerful demon—the Red Crystal Wheat Monster, who was also the owner of the wheat.

These red crystal wheat grains all bear the scent of this red crystal wheat monster, meaning it frequently comes here to sprinkle phosphorus powder that promotes wheat growth...

"Yomi..." I... I only ate a little bit, it shouldn't notice, right...?

The little monster comforted itself like this, stretching out its tiny feet and cautiously stepping into the field... "Yomi..." Since it's already eaten, and that bright red demon isn't here, it'll eat a little more now, and then run away when it comes...

"Yomi!!!" \^o^/ Five ants!

……

It was early morning, and the sky was still faintly bright.

A bright red demon spirit flew out from the demon spirit ring.

Jiang Ran opened her eyes and found that it was the Red Crystal Wheat Monster.

Jiang Ran has some close spirits, most of whom have been with her from the very beginning.

These spirits are used to coming to the spirit ring from time to time to play with the familiar little spirits.

Jiang Ran noticed that the Red Crystal Wheat Monster had been acting strangely lately.

It appears and disappears mysteriously; sometimes it takes days to find any trace of it.

When it flew away, its red eyes seemed to glow with fighting spirit. When it returned, it drank the spirit food prepared by the local spirit master and then slept soundly in its spirit ring, as if it had just experienced a great battle.

After briefly replenishing its energy here, the little demon spirit would not stay for more than two hours before hurriedly flying away again.

Jiang Ran wanted to ask what the Crimson Crystal Wheat Monster had been doing lately, but this most obedient spirit unusually evaded the question.

A belated rebellious phase?

"Is it true that spirits have a rebellious phase?"

After the Crimson Crystal Wheat Monster disappeared from sight, Jiang Ran pondered for a moment, then said, "Chun Shu, go and call Li Lingjian over."

Chunshu is Chunya, Jiang Ran's personal maid.

After she entered the Spirit Refining Realm, Jiang Ran was very pleased to see how hard she was cultivating and said she wanted to reward her. However, she refused everything and only felt that her name was not very nice and wanted to change it.

Jiang Ran then named her Chunshu.

"Yes!"

Before long, Li Yinian, dressed in a vermilion official robe, hurriedly arrived at the door.

"Come in." In the study, Jiang Ran was reading a book about demons and spirits.

"Greetings, Your Highness."

After the new official system was established, Da Su established the Demon Spirit Temple, with Jiang Nancheng as the chief official, the Demon Spirit Temple Minister, and three deputy officials, the Demon Spirit Supervisors, Li Yiniu, Sun Yaoxu, and Gao Litang.

The latter two were still busy and stressed in the Xiangling Secret Realm about the Demon Fire Tree, the Flame Rock Flower, and the Azure Flower Ancient Tree.

Jiang Nancheng went to Mingxiao City yesterday to negotiate regarding the destruction of the ancient tree.

Currently, only Li Yiniu is the adjutant in Suling, assisting Jiang Nancheng in managing all the demons and spirits within the county.

The responsibility of monitoring the spirit fields and demon spirits, as well as assigning tasks to the newly recruited demon spirit masters of the Demon Spirit Temple, fell on Li Yiniu's shoulders.

'Why does it feel like I have even more work to do now that the county has so many more spirit masters?'

Li Yiniu had very dark circles under his eyes. He was still in bed when the Imperial Guards dragged him out. His family thought something had happened.

"The Crimson Crystal Wheat Monster has been acting strangely lately. Do you know what happened?"

Upon hearing this, Li Yiniu immediately sobered up, terrified.

If His Highness the Prince says so, then it must be true.

Red Crystal Wheat Monster... Nowadays, the number of demons in the county is increasing day by day. Yesterday, he heard that a new little demon had appeared in the field he was managing, and he went to see it with great excitement.