The upgrading of farm buildings is the same as the upgrading of character levels. It increases from level to level. The third level requires 30,000 spiritual energy. See if you still have 50,000 spiritual energy, then upgrade again!
The spring was upgraded to the third level, producing water in all directions every day. It increased the farm's refining capacity by 400 points, and left 20,000 spiritual energy. So it spent 10,000 to upgrade the fertilizing pond to the first level. In addition to increasing the spiritual energy by one pound per day, the spring was upgraded to the third level. In addition to the fat output, it also increases the refining ability of the essence by 100 points.
After upgrading all this, Shen Chi gently walked back to the room and got into bed. After lying down, he opened the system control panel. He wanted to see how the farm's irrigation function worked.
Thinking of his father carrying water from the river every morning to water the cherry trees, Shen Chi turned on the irrigation system and mobilized his energy to water the dozens of fruit trees.
Just when Shen Chi was curious, he saw the water well displayed on the panel. White mist was constantly coming out of the well mouth. In about a quarter of an hour, the white mist formed a cumulonimbus cloud over the cherry forest. Shen Chi looked at her in shock. The cloud in the middle started to rain.
"This... this is so amazing." Shen Chi exclaimed in his heart.
As the rain continued to fall, the water in the well began to drop. Shen Chi quickly shut down the irrigation system. Don't drain the well water and there would be no water for food tomorrow.
Realizing the magic of the farm, Shen Chi fell asleep with infinite longing.
The homework became intense in the sixth grade. I had to take a test almost every ten days and a half, and the test papers were hand-engraved by the teachers.
Shen Chi's performance has always been ranked first in the class and has never wavered, while Sun Tao and Liu Peng have been competing for second place.
Seeing that Sun Tao's grades were stable, Shen Chi secretly felt relieved and began to study for the second grade of junior high school.
About ten days later, Shen Chi also received the remittance slip and his novel was accepted by "Novel Monthly".
He left his home address. He was already too arrogant at school, so he had better restrain himself.
When Shen Changlin handed the remittance slip to Shen Chi, he asked with a strange look on his face: "Who remitted this money to you?"
Shen Chi then told about his submission to the novel journal: "This is my manuscript fee."
After saying that, he took the remittance and went straight to the post office in the town with a proud look on his face. Shen Changlin took his household registration book and followed him.
"Dad, are you going to town too?" Shen Chi asked curiously.
"How can you get this money if I don't go?" Shen Changlin's words made Shen Chi's heart freeze.
As expected, the money did not fall into the hands of Shen Chi. He was young and had no ID card. Shen Changlin took out the money with his household registration book.
Fortunately, the post office did not ask Shen Changlin to prove that Shen Chi was his son.
When he came out of the post office and saw Shen Chi with a slumped face and an unhappy look on his face, Shen Changlin suddenly thought that he couldn't take all the money. What if this guy stopped writing? So he gave Shen Chi another dollar. .
Seeing the dollar handed over by his father, Shen Chi complained in his heart that this was just for begging.
No matter how small the mosquito legs are, they are still meat. It is better to have them than not. Shen Chi put the money in his pocket.
[Ding! The novel is published in a journal, and the reward is 100,000 knowledge points and 20,000 Jinxin embroidery skills proficiency.]
After taking the money, Shen Chi received a system prompt, and the system reward was better than nothing.
In the afternoon, Shen Chi bought Sun Tao a popsicle with money. The two got along, and it was Sun Tao who spent more money on Shen Chi.
"The popsicles in the provincial capital are still delicious. When can we go to the province again?" Sun Tao recalled while eating.
Shen Chi took the opportunity to induce: "Then you have to study hard and get admitted to a school in the provincial capital in the future, so that you can eat ice cream every day."
Sun Tao looked thoughtful as he listened, and seemed to have really taken Shen Chi's words into his heart.
Although the manuscript fee was taken away by his father, Shen Chi still insisted on submitting the manuscript. While writing the short story, Shen Chi was also working on the material to prepare a novel.
Shen Chi had long thought about the subject of his novel, and it was his "Spring Arrives in Qishan" that was included in the "National Primary School Student Composition Anthology".
The composition only roughly summarizes the past and present changes in Qishan and even the entire Song Town.
This time he wanted to expand his writing. The initial tone of the novel was the changes in the entire villages around Qishan during the nearly forty years from the early days of liberation to the present.
In order to prepare materials, Shen Chi pestered Shen Changlin as soon as school was over and asked him to tell stories about his childhood.
After asking the questions, his father asked the elders in the village. Among them, Grandpa Yuan San and Grandma San were the people Shen Chi asked the most about. The two elderly people were very kind and talked about the past with endless emotion.
Shen Chi recorded all the materials he collected in a notebook one by one as creative materials.
In addition to submitting short stories to "Novel Monthly", Shen Chi also submitted articles to "Story Club" and other publications.
But now that there is no bank card transfer, it is inconvenient for him to withdraw money. If he uses a pen name again, he is afraid that he will not be able to withdraw the money, so he has to use his real name.
After seven or eight consecutive articles, Shen Chi's manuscript fee was as high as more than 170 yuan. Especially for an 8,000-word article, he received nearly 70 or 80 yuan in manuscript fee. Shen Changlin was surprised when he took the money.
Of course, most of the royalties were taken away by Shen Changlin, and Shen Chi only received less than twenty yuan in total, which he also saved.
In this way, Shen Chi not only tutored Sun Tao but also contributed articles to magazines and newspapers. In the evening, he continued his long-form creation. Before going to bed, he used the system to promote the growth of the orchard and ginseng fields. During his rest, he went to the mountains to dig various medicinal materials to extract their essence for spiritual energy.
Nowadays, instead of brushing up his knowledge points, he has brushed up his aura, and his life is still tense and fulfilling.
After nearly half a semester, when the midterm exam was about to take place, Shen Chi secretly obtained 500,000 spiritual energy, which allowed him to upgrade the spring to level 10, and the daily water output reached 11 cubic meters.
Originally, the water was just enough to water the cherry trees, but after Shen Changlin sold the chickens, he replanted a hundred more trees, and now the water was not enough.
Fortunately, the output of 11 cubic meters of water every day has relieved Shen Changlin's huge burden, and he can water the orchard without even carrying a few loads.
Because he bought cherry trees and two hundred chickens, Shen Changlin didn't have any extra money to buy piglets, so he only bought two piglets.
The medicated fertilizer prepared according to ancient books already has a growth-promoting effect. In addition, two kilograms of spiritual fertilizer produced from the retting pond are diluted into it every day, and the dual effect has a stronger ability to promote growth.
Following Shen Chi's suggestion, Shen Changlin mixed the fertilizer and water into the water and used it to water the newly planted cherries. Although it would not make them start sprouting immediately, it would ensure their survival rate.
After watering all the one hundred newly planted cherry trees, the system finally prompted the farm to add one hundred cherry trees, and the farm's daily plant essence output increased by one thousand points.
This means that the trees are fully alive and therefore recognized by the farm.