I awakened the cultivation panel.

Chapter 72 Rush to Harvest and Buy
For the next few days, Chen Jingle was completely immersed in the joy of farming.

Watching buckets of diluted moon dew being poured down, the seedlings growing day by day, witnessing their growth from sowing to maturity, and finally to harvest, the sense of accomplishment, anticipation, and satisfaction is unmatched by other crops.

Or perhaps, the Chinese people, who have been immersed in agrarian civilization for thousands of years, inherently enjoy the feeling of reaping what you sow.

Every harvest season, standing on the edge of the field, one can see nothing but golden rice ears, a truly delightful sight.

There was no other way; I was terrified of being hungry.

The post-00 generation has basically no longer experienced famine, but Chen Jingle and other post-90s rural youths born before the millennium have more or less experienced the feeling of not having enough to eat after paying their grain tax.

So much so that he now likes to stock up on food at home whenever he has free time.

This includes, but is not limited to, rice, instant noodles, canned meat, canned eight-treasure porridge, etc.

Anyway, it won't spoil anytime soon, so just eat it before it expires.

Chen Jingle didn't dare to water the seedlings with too much Moon Dew, mainly because he had a limited amount of Moon Dew on hand and couldn't afford to be extravagant.

"Fortunately, the full moon will be here again soon, and then we can collect and store more moon dew."

Thinking of this, he felt a surge of joy.

There's no way around it, we're really short of them!

Moon Dew is so useful that I need it for almost everything I plant or grow.

Unfortunately, the monthly yield is limited, and no matter how hard Chen Jingle tries, he can't acquire more. This means that his planting and breeding business will be unable to expand for a considerable period of time.

If he can't expand, he can't expand. The yard and orchard are already a large area, enough for him to keep up with.

It's already quite an achievement to be able to manage both.

We'll consider other things once we've taken good care of this area.

……

Farming is actually a very hard job.

It's just that his physical condition is getting better and better, and the planting area is not large, so he feels relaxed.

In the beginning, just weeding the entire orchard was exhausting.

If you were to cultivate three to five acres of rice or other crops entirely by hand, I guarantee you'd feel like dying.

Thinking back to my childhood, I remember following the adults to the fields to plant rice seedlings, harvest rice, and pull peanuts. It would take a whole day to work on just one acre of land, and the sun would be scorching hot. It was so exhausting.

Therefore, the idyllic rural life depicted online is mostly fabricated, designed to satisfy the fantasies of countless young people.

So much so that some city dwellers believed that crops in the ground would grow on their own, that peanuts grew on trees, and that fireflies were fictional.

(Peanut tree)

Little did they know that the reality of rural life was vastly different from what they had imagined.

As Tao Yuanming once said, "I planted beans south of the mountain, but the weeds were thick and the bean sprouts were sparse. I rose early to tend the overgrown fields, and returned home with my hoe under the moon."

Farming is even harder than working 996 (9 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week), and the returns are low

If there were other options, no one would want to farm.

Of course, if someone like Chen Jingle has no worries about food and drink, doesn't need to work, and simply wants to laze around, then returning to their hometown to live a carefree life is not out of the question.

As long as you don't care about other people's opinions and aren't afraid of them gossiping behind your back.

He had no reason to mourn.

Three thousand years of reading history reveals nothing but fame and fortune; nine thousand miles of enlightenment ultimately leads back to poetry, wine, and pastoral life.

Once a person lets go of those external so-called benchmarks of success and focuses on themselves, even just standing in the fields feeling the breeze is a hundred times more comfortable than being in the bright lights and bustling city.

"Go to work? Go to work my ass!"

The most annoying thing is going to work.

What people pursue throughout their lives is nothing more than living a more comfortable life. The so-called sense of value, belonging, and even happiness can all be summarized by the word "comfort".

Chen Jingle is living a very comfortable life now, and he doesn't want to go back to the concrete jungle to be a beast of burden. He's long been tired of that kind of life.

Putting aside the hardship involved, farming is, in a sense, a good way to balance one's emotions.

Holding a hoe in your hand and standing on the ground gives you a sense of security. When weeding, you just need to mechanically repeat the action and be careful not to hurt yourself.

This feeling of mental blankness is similar to traveling to a particularly vast grassland or mountain scenic area.

The key is that it doesn't cost money and you don't have to travel far.

……

However, these easy days did not last long.

Because a typhoon is coming.

According to the weather forecast on the 10th, the first typhoon of the year has formed, and barring any unforeseen circumstances, it will once again affect the eastern and western parts of Hainan.

Although it's still a long way from the typhoon's landfall, it will still bring a lot of rain even though it's a long way away.

I haven't been able to collect moon dew for two consecutive nights, and I even missed the night of the full moon.

Chen Jingle couldn't help but feel fortunate that he hadn't poured too much diluted moonlight dew on the seedlings. Otherwise, not only would the stock be depleted by now, but if the seedlings were heading or nearing maturity, a typhoon would have basically destroyed them all.

Now that it's below knee height, I don't have to worry about being blown over.

Once we get through this typhoon, we'll consider continuing irrigation and harvesting as soon as possible.

At the same time, all the ripe fruit in the orchard had to be picked in advance to prevent it from swelling and cracking after being soaked in rain or being knocked down by typhoons.

I was planning to pick them whenever I wanted to eat them.

Now we can only rush to harvest.

Currently, there is only one mango tree and two Guiwei lychee trees left in the orchard, which are ripe. The jackfruit and longan trees are not yet ripe.

Perhaps a few will be blown down by the typhoon, but considering the large number and the fact that the moon dew is not diluted frequently, Chen Jingle is not too worried.

The key is the osmanthus flavor; he's used plenty of moon dew on it, and the taste is superb. It would be heartbreaking if it got ruined by this typhoon.

Since they're already ripe, let's just pick them all.

If you can't finish all these mangoes and lychees, you can put them in the refrigerator and save them to eat later.

The same applies to vegetables.

Water spinach and lettuce taste so good that you won't get tired of eating them every day, and they also fill some of the food gaps during typhoon season. However, meat still needs to be bought from outside.

With the wind force level still uncertain, and adhering to the principle of being prepared, Chen Jingle decided to stock up on more food, enough for at least three days.

Let's just go to the supermarket in town.

It turned out that while everyone was saying the wind wasn't too strong and it would be fine, they were actually panic buying, and many shelves were completely emptied.

Impressed!

Chen Jingle bought several kilograms of pork and beef, and potatoes as vegetables.

I called my uncle and heard that he was also prepared, so I stopped worrying.

Then you need to prune the branches of the fruit tree appropriately.

The same goes for the roses in the yard. At least trim off a few leaves so that the branches won't break when a typhoon comes. He would be heartbroken if that happened.

After all, they were all grown by being watered with moon dew, and it took them so much effort to grow this long, so they can't be wasted so easily.

At present, we only know that there will be a typhoon, but the specific path is uncertain.

By the 13th, the route was basically determined: heading north along the North Bay.

Jiangbei is sandwiched between several predicted routes, and no matter which route it takes, it will be hit hard.

(End of this chapter)