After returning from my cultivation journey, I built a farm through fortune telling.

Chapter 42 is better than shit!

Bai Chen held his sister's slender hands, his gaze focused and devout: "Dear sister, do you think I am qualified to learn this kind of magic?"

"Ugh—you're disgusting!"

Bai Lu withdrew his hand with a chill, his lips twitching: "The most important thing for you right now is to consolidate your realm. You can't get fat in one bite; you have to take it slowly."

"So what should I do now? I feel like I'm bursting with energy!"

Bai Chen clenched his fists and pumped his heels up and down, as if he wouldn't feel right unless he did something.

Bai Wei silently went up to the rooftop and sat cross-legged.

She refused to believe that she couldn't handle a little bit of cultivation!
The egret downstairs patted Bai Chen on the shoulder with great satisfaction: "In our cultivation world, there's a cultivation technique called Body Tempering. You've probably read about it in novels, right? It's the same as strengthening your body. Once you've mastered Body Tempering, even bullets won't be able to harm you! Isn't that amazing?!"

"Great!"

"Well then—go ahead, Pikachu, the vegetable garden in the backyard needs you! Please take your hoe!"

Qin Xiu had told them to go and weed the vegetable garden and plant watermelons a long time ago, but they had been putting it off because of their unfinished cultivation. Since Bai Chen was so enthusiastic, then let's leave it to him, let's leave it all to him!

Bai Chen strode off with his hoe on his shoulder. Qin Xiu followed him a few steps, then turned back to look at Bai Lu: "Where is he going?"

"Go hoe the ground! Didn't you say you were going to abandon the vegetable garden and replant vegetables?"

"When you remember, the whole family will be starving—have you wasted four or five thousand yuan these past few days? You'll have to clean up the vegetable garden! Let him come back! He's just doing this pointless, pointless thing!"

Bai Lu didn't care: "Let him be. He's just idling around anyway. I'll tell him to go to the pigsty later, carry down a load of pig manure, and spread it as base fertilizer."

The main problem is that by this point, they can't be called back. Some people have been overwhelmed by joy and are only thinking about exercising!

Cultivators are indeed much stronger than ordinary people. Even if they have just successfully drawn Qi into their bodies, given time, they can easily take on ten opponents without using spiritual power.

“Tell him to go to the woodshed and pick some fertilizer there. If he carries a load of freshly dug fertilizer, the seedlings will all be burned to death. Why hasn’t he gone to work yet?”

"Uh...maybe I just want to spend more time with you?"

Qin Xiu: "..."

She glanced at the egret but didn't say anything. Hmph, did she really think she knew nothing?

But now the family has indeed made a lot of money from these wild vegetables. According to her experience, the season for these wild vegetables can be delayed until Qingming Festival at the latest.

That means there's still about a month left...

The money they can earn during this period is more than Bai Chen and Bai Wei's combined annual salary!

In addition, Bailu is determined to farm at home. She has already prepared forty or fifty acres of land. The family's focus will definitely be on the fields in the future. Moreover, she has gained some regular customers selling wild vegetables recently, so the produce from the fields will have a market. If the children can earn money by staying with her, no parent would want them to go out.

Qin Xiu was no exception.

The only worry is how to sell the produce from forty or fifty acres of land!
"According to your plan, the rice seedlings for twenty acres have already been sown and the land has been plowed. When are you going to plant your vegetables? Let me tell you, whether you hire help or not, you have to go to the fields to work, otherwise what are you going to do!"

Qin Xiu was mainly reluctant to pay the salary of hiring another person. Growing vegetables was fine, someone could do it for 100 yuan a day, but transplanting rice seedlings cost 150 yuan, and you'd be lucky if they even paid you!

Even if Bailu is lazy, she's still a country girl. She can still do the work in the fields, and she's more than half a person's worth of labor. That way, she can save those seventy-five yuan!

With Bai Chen and Bai Chen included, we can at least save two people!

You won't become poor from eating too much, but you will become poor if you don't plan ahead!

Qin Xiu had been meticulous in her calculations for half her life, and she was incredibly adept at keeping accounts.

"Yes, yes, I'll farm!"

Bailu never intended to give up completely, after all, she was more professional than her grandfather when it came to matters of the fields!

Qin Xiu asked, "What vegetables do you want to plant? Do you want to choose them yourself, or should I arrange it for you?"

"Anything is fine: cucumbers, tomatoes, bok choy, baby bok choy, Chinese cabbage, baby bok choy, green beans, oh right, you wanted to grow watermelons, here's an acre of land for you!"

"...Do you know how much fruit a single watermelon vine can produce?! It's enough to cover an acre of land!"

Bailu had never paid attention to this before: "It doesn't matter, as long as it can be sold. Besides, even if the watermelon gets old, it can still be used to make watermelon cloth!"

Water sponge is a dishcloth used in rural areas for washing dishes. It is very useful, does not stick to oil, and cleans very well. It is not worth much in the countryside, but in the market, a palm-length piece can sell for five yuan.

Qin Xiu no longer wanted to speak.

Bailu added, "Oh, right, buy some rat melon seeds! They produce a lot of fruit and taste good! Is there anything else you'd like to grow?"

"That's all. Just plant some bitter lettuce for the pigs to eat; it'll help reduce their internal heat!"

Speaking of her two senior brothers, Bailu also plans to raise a batch of spirit pigs. She thought for a moment and said, "In that case, we should also plant corn and sweet potatoes. When the sweet potato vines grow, the young ones will be eaten by people, and the old ones will be eaten by pigs!"

"Go wash up and go to bed. The sweet potato seedlings that people eat are not the same variety as the sweet potato seedlings that pigs eat!"

"Then let's plant both! By the way, do sweet potato seedlings that people eat grow sweet potatoes?"

"What do you think?"

"I think it's long!"

Qin Xiu: "..."

She closed her eyes briefly and held out her hand: "Give me the money, I'll go buy vegetable seeds!"

"how much?"

"I'll have to pay for my own time and fuel, so asking for a thousand isn't unreasonable!"

Egret: "..."

You're not just going too far, you're going way too far!

If you raise seedlings on one acre of land, you'll get at most one pound of seeds. If you don't raise seedlings, you won't even need half a pound. You're making a huge profit from the price difference, you middleman!

But what can we do? We just have to give it to them!

Luckily, she had a million. If she only had two hundred thousand, her mother would have taken it all away in no time with various excuses!

Qin Xiu rode off happily on her little electric scooter, wearing a helmet.

Today I made over 500 yuan again!
Bai Lu smiled and shook her head, then turned and went back to the kitchen. Bai Jiang was chopping pig's feet. He raised the cleaver high and chopped down heavily. A small bone was sent flying towards Bai Lu, who flicked it with her finger and sent it back onto the cutting board.

Looking at the pig's trotters that had been chopped into evenly sized pieces, she said, "Dad, let's have ginger pig's trotters tonight!"

Pigs have four hooves; the front ones are called pig's hands, and the back ones are called pig's feet. Pig's hands taste better than pig's feet and are more expensive!

"Okay, just do it your way!"

Bai Jiang wasn't picky about food; as long as he could fill his stomach, he was fine. After chopping up the pig's feet, he started processing the pig's head. The pig's head was enormous, with two rows of teeth bared menacingly. The pig's teeth were filthy, covered in plaque.

Therefore, every time Bailu's family processes a pig's head, they remove all the meat and then discard the pig's head bones.

Pig's head has a complex structure and is prone to accumulating dirt and grime, making it extremely troublesome to process. However, it tastes delicious. Not to mention cold pig's ears, even cold pig's head meat is a very tasty cold dish.

Bai Jiang had already soaked the pig's head in clean water for an hour, then poured out the bloody water. He then took the pig by the ears to the yard and used a blowtorch to burn off the hair on the pig's head and ears, making sure not to miss the hair on the eyelashes, ear canals, and chin. After that, he soaked the charred pig's head in clean water for another half hour, and finally scraped off the charred material on the surface with a steel wool pad. He then pulled over a tap and started rinsing it.

Just then, Qin Xiu returned on her electric scooter. Seeing Bai Lu watching her father chop up a pig's head so closely, she shouted, "You're standing so close and you're not even wearing an apron! Do you even want your clothes anymore?!"

Egret: "..."

By the time she found the apron and put it around her neck, Bai Jiang had already split the pig's head open, dug out the brain, cut off the ears, removed the eye sockets, removed the nose, removed the tongue, and scraped off the tongue coating.

"Alright, you guys decide what to eat tonight!"

Bai Jiang handed over the kitchen to Bai Lu.

Wearing an apron and with her hands on her hips, Bailu has been back in the modern world for days, and all she can think about is cultivation and food.

She's already come up with a whole recipe book for this pig in her head.

Tonight I'll make a dish of braised pork trotters with sand ginger, pork blood and chives, cold pork head meat salad, stewed pork brain with gastrodia elata, and a soup with ginkgo nuts and pork heart!

Both pig's trotters and pig's head meat need to be blanched. Bai Lu put them in a pot of cold water with cooking wine, ginger and scallions to remove the fishy smell. After boiling, remove the foam and cook for a while longer before taking them out and setting them aside.

Next, wash the pot and add fresh water. Put the pig's trotters and pig's head meat in, along with a small amount of salt, cooking wine, Sichuan peppercorns, star anise, and bay leaves. Cook over high heat, then reduce to low heat until the pig's head meat is cooked through. Remove the pig's head meat and put it in ice water to freeze. This way, the pig's head meat will be crisp and not greasy!
If you're making cold ginger-dressed pig's trotters, you should also rinse them in ice water. Then, chop the unpeeled ginger, add minced garlic, shallots, scallions, and cilantro, along with sugar, chicken powder, and salt-baked chicken powder. Pour hot oil over the mixture to release the aroma, and finally pour the prepared sauce over the pig's trotters. Massage it evenly and then refrigerate it for one hour!
That smell, slurp—

There is another way to cook pig's trotters with sand ginger. You need to use a clay pot. Mince sand ginger, garlic and shallots, then add cooking wine, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, soy sauce, sugar and salt, mix well and marinate for half an hour. Then add water to cover the pig's trotters, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat. Finally, reduce the sauce over high heat until it becomes thick and dark.

Both methods are delicious, just with different flavors. Today, Bailu is making the first method.

The other dishes are relatively simple, except for the stewed pig brain with gastrodia elata, which takes a bit longer. But the pig brain has to be eaten fresh, and there's only one, so once you've finished it, that's it.

Today's main dish is ginkgo and pork heart soup.

The pig's heart is just an ordinary pig's heart, but the ginkgo nuts are the fruit of the ancient ginkgo tree.

From a traditional Chinese medicine perspective, ginkgo and pork heart soup is a food therapy that can strengthen the spleen and remove dampness, clear heat and replenish qi, nourish blood and heart, making it especially suitable for office workers.

Overwork causing mental strain, irritability, and palpitations?

Drink it!

Troubled sleep?

Drink it!

forgetful?

I'll still drink it!

It is also suitable for people like Qin Xiu who are deficient in both blood and qi!
The egrets have had the spirit fruit for a while now, and to prevent the spiritual energy from dissipating, they have specially set up a spirit-locking array for them!

Then--

She just forgot about it.

I only remembered this today when I was slaughtering a pig and thinking about making soup.

Making soup is very simple. Remove the outer layer of fat from the fresh pig's heart, cut it in half, remove the tendons and membranes, wash away the blood and impurities, and then cut it into large pieces.

Some people think that pig heart has a fishy smell and should be soaked and washed repeatedly, while others think that the blood in pig heart is the essence and not a drop should be wasted. Bailu's family is the latter. After processing the pig heart, they simply scald it with boiling water, wash it, put it in a pot, add ginger slices to remove the fishy smell, and finally add ginkgo nuts.

Common ginkgo nuts are nutritious but contain a small amount of toxins, so the outer shell and embryo must be removed.

However, the fruit of the ancient ginkgo is non-toxic. You only need to remove the outer shell, then cut it into small pieces and put it in a pot to cook together.

The ginkgo fruits are so big that they need to be cut into pieces; that's something else.

“It smells so good!”

Bai Chen returned home covered in dust, carrying a hoe, and was immediately greeted by a mouthwatering aroma: "What delicious food have you made?"

He rolled up his trousers, his feet covered in mud, and just walked in. Bai Lu frowned, made a hand gesture, and cleaned him up, thus preventing the dust on his head from ruining her soup.

Qin Xiu and Bai Jiang drank a lot of soup during today's meal, but they both had severe diarrhea in the evening. Bai Wei was also affected, but Bai Lu and Bai Chen were completely fine.

Diarrhea is one thing, but why is there oily discharge?

Their excrement was yellowish and oily, and it stank horribly. Anyone who didn't know better would think they had fallen into a latrine!
This is what Bai Lu wanted to see. Long-term intake of spiritual energy can improve the physical condition of the two of them, and living to a ripe old age is not a dream.

Amidst the occasional sound of the toilet being flushed, the egret was drawing talismans in the room.

The tools for drawing talismans were terribly rudimentary.

The materials needed are talisman paper, cinnabar, and a writing brush.

She bought these things in town a few days ago, and she never expected to use them today.

Begin by drawing the talisman with varying intonation and rhythm.

In just a few breaths, a talisman was created.

Early on the first day, she went to Bai Xiao's house, greeted Wang Jieying, and went into her room.

Bai Xiao was so asleep she was practically drooling. Bai Lu reached out and patted her, but Bai Xiao instinctively covered her face, saying, "Wait, wait, I'm not ready yet! I haven't put on makeup!"

Egret: "...It's me!"

Bai Xiao paused for a moment, peeked at Bai Lu through her fingers, and then put her hand down with relief: "You scared me! I was still half asleep, I thought we were recording a TV show!"

She recorded two shows, both as a supporting character. However, there was a segment where she woke up the guests. She even made it to the trending topics because of her stunning bare face, and then she was heavily criticized!
It's just because their older sister's bare face couldn't outshine her!
Her agent repeatedly told her to make herself look uglier when recording such programs in the future.

What are you doing here?

Bai Xiao yawned, patted the bed next to her to Bai Lu, signaling her to come up. Bai Lu kicked off her shoes, crawled under the covers, and took out two talismans.

Bai Xiao: "???"

Bailu: "You're going to the capital, right? My mom went to burn incense and got a lot of talismans a while ago. I'll get you a few."

"Is it for peace and safety or for finding a partner?"

"To stay safe, remember to always have your phone with you—where's your phone?"

Bailu thought it wasn't safe enough, so she put two more inside the phone case.

(End of this chapter)