Chapter 27 – Fishing for Worms
Chapter 27 – Fishing for Insects
Lu Xuan still had to be busy preparing dinner for the sake of the two of them, so he and Xu Wan just chatted a little before entering the kitchen.
The edge of the Spirit Spring.
Zhang Xiuyuan probed his head and looked motionlessly at the red-bearded carp that was swimming leisurely in the spring.
Occasionally, he stretched out his small hand and hesitantly tried to grab those two slender red whiskers, but in the end, he was not bold enough and quickly retracted.
“This is a red-whiskered carp, it’s not aggressive, its red whiskers are nice to look at, aren’t they?”
Steward He came beside him at an unknown time and introduced him to the red-whiskered carp.
“Good looking, I didn’t realize that Uncle Xiao Lu actually kept three such good looking spirit fish, how awesome!”
The child exclaimed with heartfelt admiration.
Behind him, Xu Wan secretly nodded her head.
Unlike her son, Zhang Xiuyuan, who only cared about whether the red-bearded carp looked good or not, she saw thought of more.
With a spirit field of such a large area and a spirit spring, the spirit stones required behind it were a bit hard for her to imagine.
She didn’t have much contact with Lu Ping, and her impression of Lu Xuan came from her husband Zhang Hong occasionally talking about it.
From Zhang Hong’s mouth, she learned that Lu Xuan’s qualifications were ordinary, his character was quiet, and he was not good at socializing with people, but he had a good heart, practiced hard, and cultivated spirit plants diligently.
He is an ordinary Spirit Plant Master who is a good person.
And now, first helping her own family to clean up the pests, then bringing Zhang Xiuyuan to earn spirit stones, and that night’s fight without knowing the circumstances, plus the financial strength to rent such a compound, all of this makes her a little impervious for a moment.
“Lu kid has changed quite a lot during this period of time, I didn’t expect that the previous silent and stubborn and petty teenager who was like an iron rooster had grown to this point without realizing it.”
The skinny old man on the side was equally emotional, a trace of a gratifying smile appeared on his face.
“Dinner is served!”
Not far away, Lu Xuan’s voice rang out.
“Braised spiny dolphin meat!”
“Small Fried Savage Cow!”
“Hand-torn green leaves!”
A dish that was full of color and flavor was brought to the table.
“Wow! It smells so good!”
Zhang Xiuyuan said in an exaggerated tone, causing Lu Xuan to lose himself in admiration.
Steward He as well as Xu Wan were much more reserved, but the action of glancing a few times from time to time showed that both of them were attracted by the dishes in front of them.
Lu Xuan gave each of the three of them a bowl of steaming Spirit Rice, and poured each of them a bowl of Orange and Yellow Spirit Brew.
“Thank you Steward He, Sister-in-Law Zhang, and Xiao Yuan for coming over and celebrating the relocation of my new home, come on, cheers!”
Steward He as well as Xu Wan sent their blessings, and several people drank in one go.
When the Spirit Brew entered their throats, they first felt a pungent sensation, and then, a mellow warmth came from wherever they passed through, warming all their limbs and bones.
“Gudong!”
Putting down the wine bowl, a loud bang came from Zhang Xiuyuan’s abdomen, causing Lu Xuan’s trio to hold their tongues.
“Eat up, eat up, guys, you don’t have to be polite.”
Whether it was Spirit Beast Meat or Spirit Rice, they all lived up to their prices, with delicious flavors and the slightest hint of Spiritual Qi.
The four of them feasted in large chunks and winded up the table, finishing off all the food on the table.
After resting for a while, Xu Wan’s mother and son as well as Steward He resigned one after another.
Steward He lived not far from here, and was much stronger than Xu Wan and the two of them, so he traveled to his home alone.
As for Xu Wan and Zhang Xiuyuan, they lived at the edge of the North District, where there was a mix of fish and dragons, plus their strength was low, Lu Xuan escorted them back.
When he returned to his home, it was already late at night.
The night was low, and the moon stars were sparse.
Lu Xuan removed the talisman in his sleeve as well as the Split Silver Blade and looked at the night sky, having more expectations for his future.
The next day, Lu Xuan had already gotten up when the sky had just dawned. After cultivating for a week in bed, he washed up and went to the Spirit Field in the light mist.
In the Spiritual Spring, three red-bearded carp were swimming in a zigzag pattern in the pool.
Lu Xuan’s mind pooled on it.
A thought appeared in his mind.
“How can one grow up by drinking water yesterday, drinking water today, and drinking water day after day?”
“You don’t know enough when you have spiritual spring water to drink.”
Lu Xuan disliked on his lips and ran back to the inner room, grabbing a handful of spirit rice in his hand.
Seemingly sensing the faint spiritual energy coming out of the spiritual rice, the three red-bearded carp swam a few points faster obviously, moving with Lu Xuan’s movement.
Lu Xuan sprinkled a small half of it, and instantly, the water surged and bulged, and six long thin red whiskers appeared and disappeared like thin threads.
After a few breaths, the water returned to calm, and the three red-bearded carp slowly swam, only their heads kept favoring Lu Xuan’s direction.
Lu Xuan’s mind was focused on the red-whiskered carp’s bodies.
“Please, please, more mimi!”
A thought flashed through his mind, and he proceeded to spill a small half of Spirit Rice.
The surface of the Spirit Spring water stirred again.
Lu Xuan sprinkled all the Spirit Rice into the Spirit Spring, and the Red Bearded Carp ate every last grain.
After eating and drinking, the Red Whiskered Carp stopped moving around Lu Xuan, with a high and cold look that loved no one.
Lu Xuan then went to inspect the many spirit plants in the spirit field.
He adjusted the Blood Jade Ginseng that had shifted in position, and then according to the needs of each Spirit Glow Grass, he supplied the Spirit Rain in a targeted and quantitative manner, so that they could be maximized and nourished.
After that, Lu Xuan maximized his Spiritual Sense and carefully searched each piece of spiritual soil.
“Found you.”
The Earth Drawing Technique operated, the spirit soil changed slightly, and a small grayish-white worm was squeezed out.
He continued searching and found several more small insects of different shapes, and even tumbled out a tiny, colorful foreign insect from the spirit soil.
These small worms lurked in the spirit soil, and when they came out, the larvae would feed on the branches and leaves of the spirit plant, affecting the normal growth of the spirit plant.
There were many sources of these small insects, some were eggs lurking in the spiritual soil, some were accidentally brought into the spiritual field, and there were also some foreign insects that were secretive and had great concealment ability, and were able to pass through the protective formations on their own and invade the spiritual field.
As a spiritual planter, one must always check the spiritual soil of the spiritual field one belongs to, and before the foreign bugs harm the spiritual plants in the spiritual field, one can strike first and clear up the trouble.
The new spiritual field was busy due to the fact that he had just moved in, and it was not until today that he began a large-scale search for and removal of insects.
As his spiritual sense plowed through the entire spiritual field, Lu Xuan eventually turned up seven larvae.
He brought the larvae to the edge of the Spirit Spring, pinched up a fat white worm, and threw it towards the center of the Spirit Spring.
A long thin red whisker shot out like lightning, wrapping the white worm tightly around it and sending it into the fish’s mouth.
“Yo, moving so fast!”
Lu Xuan looked at the red-whiskered carp that was still reminiscing about its larvae and found it a bit interesting.
The other two Red Whiskered Carps that were a bit farther away also swam over, moving with Lu Xuan’s hand movements.
Another larva fell.
Six long, thin red whiskers popped out in unison, vying for the right to belong to the larva.
Then, almost simultaneously, they retracted back to the red-whiskered carp’s head, and one of them was lucky enough to wrap its long whiskers around the larva and bring it into its mouth.
Lu Xuan was so playful that he either threw one of the larvae up high or made a fake move to lure the red whiskers of the red-whiskered carp.
He waited until the last foreign insect was eaten, and he was still a bit unfulfilled.
“Haha, the long whiskers next to that red-whiskered carp’s head look like a fish line, so it seems that if a person is fishing, how can a fish not be fishing for insects, it’s a bit interesting.”
(End of chapter)