Spring comes to the desperate place

It is not customary to pay New Year's greetings on the first day of the Lunar New Year. People have to go back to their parents' homes on the second day. However, Song A'ma and Song Qin's parents' homes are thousands of miles away, so they cannot go back even if they want to. It is customary to visit relatives on the third day of the Lunar New Year, but the Song family has few relatives to visit. Song Dazhuang took the children to visit the head of the neighborhood, the village chief, and several elders in the village to pay New Year's greetings. After a visit, they returned.

Song Chunlin and Song Chunsheng held Song Xiaobao's hands. The three brothers' chests were bulging with red envelopes given by their elders. The three of them returned home hand in hand. Song Qin had already heated up lunch. They had nothing to do in the afternoon, so Song Chunlin decided to go back to the space and continue to plant corn.

The corn watered with spiritual spring water in the space has matured seven or eight times. The ears produced have changed from one to occasionally two. The seeds of two ears are not stable enough. Song Chunlin observed the ones that were not watered with spiritual spring water. The ones that were not watered at all have only been planted three times, and the ones that were watered with space water are already the fifth round. Both are still stable with one ear of corn.

Song Chunlin estimated that by the beginning of spring, the two ears of corn should have stabilized. If three ears of corn appeared by then, he decided to plant all three ears.

The corn kernels at this time were already a circle larger than the corn kernels of the original plant. Song Chunlin took them out and compared them with the corn kernels he had preserved before. Grandpa Song also found it amazing when he saw them.

"This seed is so different from the original one. Chunlin, how many rounds have you planted this?"

"It's probably the eighth round. The ninth round has already gone to ear, and only a few plants have three ears."

Grandpa Song understood: "It's only been seven or eight cycles and it's already two ears. This is quite fast. I have been farming for so many years, and I would specially select the best and fullest seeds every year, but the results are minimal. The yield will ultimately depend on God's will."

Song Chunlin certainly understood that Grandpa Song and his people relied on the weather to farm the land. He used the cheat of space to get two ears of corn so quickly. If he really experimented outside, he might have to wait until he had many children and grandchildren before he could grow corn like in later generations.

While the grandfather and grandson were still discussing how much corn to plant outside, Song Dazhuang had already returned from the fields. As soon as he came back, he started yelling, "Dad, I think the land in the south thaws faster than in the north. If the weather is better, we can plow the land after the fifteenth day of the lunar month."

When Grandpa Song heard that he could plow the fields on the 15th, his face immediately lit up with smiles.

"That's good. The south thaws faster than the north. If we want to plow the land on the 15th, we need to prepare the wooden plow."

Song Dazhuang patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, Dad. I went to the carpenter's office early this morning to make an order. I guarantee that we can plow the land after the 15th."

After getting his son's assurance, Grandpa Song was so happy that he ate half a bowl more of dinner.

On the fourth day of the first lunar month, Gu Fengyue brought Gu Fengyun to the Song family's home. The Song family was flattered and ran to the door to greet them. Except for Grandpa Song and Grandma Song, no one else knew why Gu Fengyun came to their home, so Song Dazhuang and his wife seemed a little restrained.

Gu Fengyun was helped by his younger brother to get off the carriage. After a year, he seemed to have lost some weight, but his complexion looked much better than before. This was thanks to Song Chunlin's uninterrupted supply of spiritual spring water. Gu Fengyun was born with a congenital deficiency and was sick since birth. In addition, since the death of the old Marquis Gu, he had worked hard for the Marquis' Mansion and his younger brother, and he was in a lot of financial difficulty.

In the later period, Gu Fengyun had been relying on elixirs to survive. As the saying goes, all medicines are poisonous. He had taken many pills, and the toxins in those pills were all accumulated in his body. He drank a lot of spiritual spring water before he was able to excrete those toxins little by little.

That's why Song Chunlin felt that his spiritual spring water was very useless. In the novels, the spiritual spring water in the protagonist's space was almost omnipotent. Drinking one drop could cleanse the bones and marrow, and drinking two drops could prolong life. But his was different. Gu Fengyun drank almost a bucket before his health gradually improved.

Song Chunlin has said too much about his envy for his son. If it weren't for the fact that the space was quite useful for storage and planting, he would have been depressed to death by this space.

Gu Fengyun came this time to pay New Year's greetings and to thank the Song family for saving his life again, so it was not only his carriage that came, but there were also three carriages following behind, all filled with New Year's goods for the Song family.

Grandpa Song welcomed the guests in, and Gu Fengyun sat at the top. The servants outside filed in one after another, unloaded the gifts and placed them in the yard.

Seeing that the yard was about to be filled with more, Grandpa Song hurriedly stood up and called for a stop: "No, Lord, the gifts you sent are too many and too expensive. We are just ordinary people, how can we use so many things?"

Gu Fengyun smiled gently: "Don't worry, old man. If you can't use it up, just put it in the warehouse. Besides, my brother often comes here to eat and drink for free. You can just regard it as my food expenses paid for my brother."

Speaking of food, Gu Fengyue's eyes suddenly lit up: "Grandpa Song, do you still have the soup you sent over last time? Hehe, that pot of soup was so fragrant and delicious, my brother and I couldn't drink enough."

"Hahaha, then you've got the wrong person. That soup was made by Chunlin. It took him several days to make it. You can't eat it today."

The Gu Fengyue brothers immediately looked towards Song Chunlin. Song Chunlin shuddered all over at their wolf-like eyes and smiled awkwardly.

"Haha, do you believe me when I say I just randomly cooked it?"

Gu Fengyun smiled: "I didn't know Chunlin had this skill. I don't know whose kid will get the benefit in the future."

When the Song family heard this, they just laughed and joked. How could they bear to let Song Chunlin get married and cook for someone else's brat?

Gu Fengyue asked Song Chunlin how to make Buddha Jumps Over the Wall. Song Chunlin simply brought over a pen and paper. As he spoke, Gu Fengyue took notes. Gu Fengyun also came over curiously.

“…chicken, duck, pork bones and trotters are used as the soup base…topped with shark fins, abalone, and prawns…” Gu Fengyun looked at the recipe and realized why Song Chunlin had asked Gu Fengyue to memorize it so easily. So much meat was used for a soup base, not to mention abalone, sea cucumber, shark fin, and fish maw. Any one of them would be an extremely expensive ingredient if taken alone.

It's just a small pot of soup, but the ingredients alone are worth a fortune. If you are not a royal noble, who would dare to cook like this?

The more Gu Fengyun looked at it, the more he felt something was wrong. How did the Song family know how to eat those abalone, ginseng, shark's fin and fish maw? Even though he was a marquis, he didn't often eat these seafood. He only tasted them at palace banquets. However, the seafood prepared by the imperial chef was always very fishy. He had a light diet and didn't want to eat anything that was too fishy. Song Chunlin's Buddha Jumps Over the Wall was a rare seafood that whetted his appetite.