My experience of grinding in another world

Chapter 222 Miasma of Confusion

In the low hill courtyard, Chen Mu sought out Old Hao to inquire about the situation.

"It wasn't this lively in previous years." Old Hao frowned, puffing on his cigarette.

“Something’s not right this year. Even the carefully tended medicinal herb fields haven’t been spared.” Old Hao was also very worried.

"How did you deal with it before?" Chen Mu asked.

"There are animal-repelling powders and intimidating magical artifacts, and it is also possible to tame exotic beasts to fight against hunting and killing."

"Like Supervisor Song?"

“Yes.” Old Hao nodded: “It is said that Supervisor Song used to tame strange insects to assist in cultivating medicinal herbs.”

Even now, Supervisor Song still frequently collects and domesticates exotic insects.

Chen Mu nodded.

That red cloud of insects that covered the sky back then truly broadened his horizons.

“Our little land isn’t worth using magic tools for.”

"Buy some animal repellent powder and patrol and hunt them down yourselves," Old Hao said helplessly, exhaling a puff of smoke.

"Fortunately, the creatures that ran in were all ordinary herbivorous beasts."

"Otherwise, we'll have no choice but to run."

We've only had a few days of peace.

Chen Mu's expression was also not very good.

"Looks like we'll have to patrol a few more times tonight."

……

Three days later, late at night.

On the west side of Aishan Mountain, in the newly rented ten mu of yellow sprout rice field.

A bronze bell tolled.

Dozens of fist-sized red-haired rabbits suddenly staggered around as if they were drunk.

Puff puff……

Black and red pellets, each the size of a soybean, flew in.

The rabbit, whose fur was as hard as metal, was instantly pierced through by a bullet.

"This little bit of meat isn't even enough for one bite, and it's a hassle to prepare." Chen Mu held a rabbit by one ear in front of his eyes.

Immediately, black smoke billowed, and the red-haired rabbits scattered throughout the field were devoured by the five ghosts.

Just as he finished dealing with it, a group of red-haired rabbits appeared in Wu Gui's line of sight, forcing him to dart to the yellow rice field on the other side of the low hill.

"Did you stir up a rabbit's burrow?"

Until the dead of night, when all was quiet, Chen Mu left two ghostly spirits to stand guard in each of the two fields.

He yawned and returned to the courtyard in the low hill to rest: "If this continues, it will be too exhausting."

For the past five days, strange beasts have appeared intermittently every night, so I haven't had a good night's sleep.

Old Hao's yellow rice field next door is also being attacked by red-haired rabbits. To facilitate timely detection and handling, Old Hao has been living in the field.

"If I can't sleep well every day and keep going like this, even a master of the Armored Soul realm will develop sleep disorders." Chen Mu shook his head.

……

The next day, after breakfast, Chen Mu watered, fertilized, and weeded the yellow sprout rice field as usual.

After asking Old Hao to look after the fields for a bit, I headed straight for the Tongtianfang Scripture Transmission Academy.

They stayed there all day, until it got dark, before hurriedly returning to the Aishan Courtyard.

"If you don't come back, I'm not going to care anymore." Old Hao glared at Chen Mu.

"Thank you so much, Mr. Hao!" Chen Mu said with a smile. "Let's go, let's go eat."

Old Hao was tempted, but then sighed and shook his head: "Let's talk about it after this storm has passed."

He wanted to eat it, but he was afraid that a strange beast would appear and destroy his yellow rice field while he was eating.

After seeing Mr. Hao off, Chen Mu ate dinner hastily.

He took something out of the Five Ghosts Bag and started fiddling with it.

He spent a whole day at the Buddhist Academy studying various animal-repelling powder formulas.

As a result, their pharmaceutical skill proficiency increased by seventy or eighty points.

"We still have to rely on the drug."

After a day of studying and browsing, combined with his experience in pharmaceutical technology, he had already developed a preliminary plan.

……

Two days later, at night.

The full moon hangs high in the sky, and the stars shine brightly.

Chen Mu appeared at the yellow rice field at the foot of the low hill.

Place a copper basin in the center of each acre of land.

Inside the basin, a pile of medicinal powder slowly smoldered, and wisps of white smoke, resembling dry ice smoke, rolled out of the copper basin and spread in all directions.

Soon, the entire field was filled with a thin white smoke that was one and a half meters high.

The smoke, like cotton, was heavily embedded among the yellow rice sprouts, condensing and not dissipating.

As white smoke billowed, the chirping of insects quickly disappeared, and the field became completely silent.

Chen Mu stood on the ground, looking down from the perspective of the Five Ghosts.

The miasma covering the yellow rice resembles clouds in the sky.

Chen Mu nodded in satisfaction: "Now I can finally get a good night's sleep."

Sure enough, I slept soundly that night.

Even when a swarm of unknown moths appeared, they were instantly knocked down by the bewitching miasma, without disturbing Chen Mu's sleep in the slightest.

...half a month later.

It is unclear whether the inspection team exerted its influence or the lower house used underhanded tactics.

The turmoil caused by the monsters attacking the Lower House has subsided somewhat.

At least on Chen Mu's side, no strange beasts have damaged the yellow rice fields for two days.

Low hill courtyard.

Chen Mu used a wooden ladle the size of his fist to water the night-blooming jasmine plants, each one as tall as his forearm.

Then, using a small wooden shovel, carefully loosen the soil.

After working for half a day, Chen Mu straightened up and looked at the more than twenty tube-shaped night-blooming jasmine plants with a touch of pale yellow with satisfaction.

"After drying, we can harvest at least ten catties, enough to last another six months."

……

Back under the wooden shed, Chen Mu sat in the rocking chair and habitually checked his various skills and experience points.

Writing: 6456/10000/Second order;

Drawing: 5967/10000/Second order;

Cooking skill: 7870/10000/Tier 4;

Pharmaceutical Skill: 4657/10000/Tier 5;

Five Ghosts Moving Mountain Spell: 9121/10000/Seventh Rank;

Transformation Technique: 5737/10000/Tier 4;

Cloud Mirage Armor Technique: 8569/10000/Tier 8;

Planting: 603/10000/Tier 3;

Sand-containing spell: 9449/10000/Tier 4;

Hundred Intent Aura: 5578/10000;

"The Hundred Intent Spirit Light Technique is really slow," Chen Mu sighed, shaking his head.

No wonder the Buddhist temple sells them so cheaply.

"Luckily, I was diligent enough. If it were someone else, I don't know how many years they would have had to practice."

The Cloud Mirage Armor Technique remains as worry-free as ever.

Without making a sound, it once again approached the edge of a breakthrough.

The Five Ghosts Moving Mountain Curse, his old friend, did not disappoint him.

The technique of sprinkling sand also progressed rapidly.

"I should focus on the Hundred Intent Spiritual Light Technique," Chen Mu thought to himself.

After all, this is the fundamental thing.

After estimating the advancement time for each skill, Chen Mu got up to cook.

……

Smoked roasted meat, cold braised meat, blanched seasonal vegetables, flavored cured meat, fish ball soup, and a basket piled high with Lao Qi's meat pies.

The square table was piled high with food.

Not long after, Hao Lao and Shang Huan arrived together.

"Brother Chen, here's your 30%." As soon as Shang Huan entered the room, he handed Chen Mu a small gray cloth bag.

Chen Mu shook it and found that there were actually fifteen or sixteen white jade coins.

"Isn't this a great deal?" Shang Huan grinned smugly.

Chen Mu looked at Shang Huan with a complicated expression.

He gave Shang Huan over a hundred catties of "secret barbecue seasoning," which Shang Huan then sold for forty or fifty white jade coins.

On average, two kilograms would cost one coin for a piece of white jade.

That's real barbecue seasoning!

"Aren't you afraid of getting beaten to death?"

"The bold get rich, the timid starve, what's there to be afraid of!" Shang Huan laughed nonchalantly.

Chen Mu shook his head inwardly.

It's unclear what strange attribute Shang Huan has awakened.

When faced with counterfeiting or adulteration, this fat man always comes up with all sorts of ingenious ideas, and he's incredibly audacious.

Let's control the shipment volume a bit.

Judging by the way this fat guy is acting, it's very likely to attract attention and investigation.

"Have a meal."

……

After the meal, the three chatted while drinking herbal tea.

"Are you tired lately? You look like you haven't slept enough." Shang Huan asked, looking at Old Hao's tired face.

"How could I not be tired!" Old Hao complained, taking a deep drag on his cigarette. "It's all because of those crazy monsters."

"In the first few days, I would take a short nap and a group of black rats would eat up half an acre of land."

"After that, I didn't dare close my eyes! I wandered around the fields all night."

"Farming is really hard," Old Hao sighed. "It's not that I'm being delicate. Look at Brother Chen, he's just as young and strong as me. Just ask him if he's tired."

Chen Mu sighed bitterly, "How could I not be tired?!"

Every night I have to go to the field to set up the copper basin array before I can come back to sleep.

I've been sleeping several hours less over the past two weeks!
I'm exhausted!

Friends, there's one more chapter. It's getting late, so don't wait up, read it tomorrow.

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