Chapter 8 08. Traction Technique? Nothing!

Alas, the village, which originally had more than 100 households and more than 500 people, now has only about 30 households left. I'm afraid there are less than 100 people. There are too many abandoned fields.

There is not even a single contractor in the mountains. Agricultural companies would rather spend more money and contract the fields on the flat land rather than the fields on the mountains.

However, Luo Yihang's spiritual roots in earth and wood require him to practice in a place with soil and plants, and he cannot live in the mountains.

There are too many wastelands in the village, which is not conducive to spiritual practice. It would be best to plant something on every inch of land.

Of course, the reason he had this confidence was because Luo Yihang discovered this morning that the Spirit Gathering Array had begun to take effect. After a night, Luo Yihang felt that the concentration of spiritual energy within the coverage area of ​​the Spirit Gathering Array was about 5. After crossing the threshold of 5, the spiritual energy in Luo Yihang's body began to recover. In simple terms, it could automatically recover mana.

No matter whether it takes a month or a year to fully recover, as long as the mana can be recovered, his Spirit Gathering Array can continue to be set up until it covers the entire village.

The only problem is money, that's a small issue.

There is no need to rely on the family. The amount of money his parents earn every year is limited. In the past few years, they paid for Luo Yihang's schooling and spent whatever they earned. Luo Cheng also had to go out to work to supplement the income.

Only in recent years, since Luo Yihang started working, have they been able to save some money, but it's only about 100,000 yuan at most, which cannot be touched.

Luo Yihang himself has been working for three years and has a good income in the Shanghai Stock Exchange, but his expenses are also high. Luo Yihang is a bit extravagant with his money and has only a little over 20,000 yuan in savings. This money is gone after he uses it to rent land, reclaim wasteland, and water it.

Therefore, Luo Yihang never considered the idea of ​​using his own savings and his parents' retirement money from the beginning.

It doesn’t matter if you are short of money, just get some.

So, where do we get the money?

Use magic.

The gift pack for beginners of cultivating immortals includes five major spells: the body cleansing spell, the cleaning spell, the spirit gathering array, the machine pulling spell, and the ritual scripture.

There is a slightly different style of painting.

The names of the first three are plain and simple. To put it bluntly, they are too basic and no effort was made to name them.

The fourth technique, "pulling the mechanism", is even more powerful. It has its own high-sounding technical term, which means pulling the mechanism, and its function is to predict good and bad luck and deduce the future.

The last one doesn’t count. The Li Dao Jing has a bigger name, but it is more like a moral education class in the world of immortal cultivation.

As a great gift package for novices, the advantages of the traction technique are that it consumes less spiritual energy, is easy to use, and does not require any qualifications.

The disadvantage is that it is not very reliable.

For example, if you want to calculate where there is a treasure, it will calculate the east, but it is not certain whether it is two or three meters to the east or twenty thousand miles to the east.

If I want to be more specific, I will get stuck...

Therefore, in the world of immortal cultivation, the art of pulling machines is generally used as a weather forecast.

Isn’t it much more advanced than taking a bath, sweeping the house and cooking?

As for cultivating immortals, it is equivalent to using spiritual energy as food. There is nothing wrong with treating the spirit gathering array as a cooking stove.

But now they are on Earth, and Luo Yihang has no other choice but to make do with what he has.

After breakfast, Luo Yihang took Ding Xiaoman and went up the mountain again, trying to create favorable conditions as much as possible, because the only place to make a fortune nearby was in the mountain.

By the way, he also brought a telescope. This is called the combination of metaphysics and science.

After climbing up the hillside and arriving at the valley which the locals called "Taizi", Luo Yihang circulated the spiritual energy in his body, chanted some magic spells, and asked where there were treasures that could be sold for money.

Sing.

With this broken physique, I have to sing to release the spiritual energy no matter what I do.

The traction technique requires the release of spiritual energy to be slow and steady, so Luo Yihang chose an old song.

"The sun is about to set in the west. I play my beloved pipa and sing the touching ballad quietly on Weishan Lake..."

After the song was over, the traction technique took effect. Luo Yihang felt something in his heart and raised the telescope to look in the direction he felt.

It is indeed on the mountain and quite far away. What could it be?

"Fuck!" Luo Yihang cursed loudly, the machine-pulling technique was indeed unreliable!

In sight is a red-bellied eagle building a nest in a tree. This thing can really be sold for money, and it is quite expensive. If you sell it, you will never have to worry about food and drink, and you will also get a pair of silver bracelets as a gift.

Damn, I got the second place in the country.

Bah, nothing.

But below that mountain... Luo Yihang suddenly remembered something and hurried down the mountain.

Ding Xiaoman let it play by itself, and it knew the way home.

……

"Dad, Dad, have you dug the Poria cocos on the mountain?" Luo Yihang shouted from a distance to his father who was working in the field.

Luo Cheng raised his head with a puzzled look in his mind, "What is Poria?"

"It was two years ago, when we planted wild boar manure on the mountain."

"Oh, it's wild boar dung. I didn't dig it up. What's going on?"

"No, I'll go check it out."

Luo Cheng and Zhang Guiqin in the field watched Luo Yihang run down the mountain, shout a few words, run into the house, grab a bag and run away again, and even picked up a hoe as he passed by.

They were left looking at each other in confusion.

Poria is a traditional Chinese medicinal material, commonly known as wild boar dung, and it looks like wild boar feces.

In fact, it is a kind of fungus, one of the eight flavors of Han cuisine and a local specialty.

A few years ago, the price of Poria cocos was very high, more than 300 yuan per kilogram. Luo Cheng followed the trend and planted some in the mountains. This thing can only grow in cool and humid wild forests.

However, Poria is a perennial fungus and takes three years to mature.

As a result, the price of Poria cocos plummeted in the second year after it was planted, and fell to as low as 5 yuan per kilogram, less than % of the high price.

Having experienced what it felt like a bubble burst, Luo Cheng was so angry that he didn't care anymore and just threw the grown Poria cocos on the mountain to fend for itself.

It has been nearly three years now, and the price of Poria has recovered a little. Luo Yihang checked the current price on his mobile phone. The fresh one is about 30 to 41 kilograms, and the dried one is more than 60. The price has recovered a little, but I don't know how big the Poria that batch of that year has grown now, and how much is left.

No matter how much it is, it is also considered extra income.

The forest where Poria cocos is planted is also on the top of the hill where Luo Yihang lives. It is higher than where the genius little pine tree was found. It is a mixed forest with half shade and half sun.

Luo Yihang easily followed the mountain path to the forest. Halfway through, Ding Xiaoman appeared from nowhere and followed him.

Then, problems arise.

Poria cocos grows underground.

This forest is so huge, which part of it is planted with Poria cocos?
I remember that Luo Cheng planted Poria cocos two years ago, before winter, when the soil on the mountain had not yet frozen.

At that time, Luo Yihang was still in the Shanghai Stock Exchange and did not participate in it, but saw it from Luo Cheng’s circle of friends.

Thanks again to the developed infrastructure, my cell phone still has signal here.

Luo Yihang opened his mobile phone and looked through his father's circle of friends. After searching for a long time, he finally found the photos he had posted three years ago.

The text was full of anticipation for a good harvest. At that time, Luo Cheng had never thought that Poria cocos could also be a bubble.

The point is not this, the point is the photo posted with the text, a selfie of Luo Cheng looking very happy.
There is a very ugly crooked tree in the photo.

There's a clue.

A tree with such "unique" features is still very eye-catching.

While other trees stand upright with their big green umbrella-like canopies, this tree's branches are twisted into an S shape, highlighting its freedom.

Luo Yihang took Ding Xiaoman to find the ugly crooked tree and pulled away the layer of fallen leaves under the tree.

Fortunately.

There are no signs of damage on the surface, which means that no wild animals dug it out and ate it.

Maybe it’s because it doesn’t taste good.

Then Luo Yihang picked up a hoe, scraped away a thin layer of soil under the tree, and looked down.

I frowned at that time.

The good news is that Poria is still there.

The bad news is that Poria cocos is not valuable.

(End of this chapter)