Shen Chi thought over and over again. If he planned to run the small farm behind his house with his father, he would have to solve the current water shortage problem. He couldn't go to the river to pick water every day.
He silently calculated in his mind that as long as he upgraded the spring to three or four levels, he could barely supply all the water. However, the spring now cost more than 100,000 per upgraded level. Shen Chi secretly went into the mountain to extract the essence of the spiritual fluid. It's no longer realistic.
Shen Chi had no choice but to focus on his acre of salvia that had been growing for a year and a half.
The system evaluates that Salvia miltiorrhiza is a high-quality Salvia miltiorrhiza. According to the system standards, the spiritual energy exchanged by woody plants is much higher than that of grass plants. However, a single salvia miltiorrhiza can exchange more spiritual energy than ordinary shrubs.
At this time, it had only been two or three months since the last time I sold ginseng. Although Shen Chi gave birth to it from time to time, it was only the size of an ordinary salvia. Even if it was picked according to general standards, it was barely possible, but Shen Chi But he couldn't wait any longer. He urgently needed spiritual energy to further improve the farm.
I picked a salvia miltiorrhiza and broke off the large ginseng. I planted the small rhizome extracted from the side and extracted it using the refining technique. One ginseng was exchanged for 30,000 spiritual energy. Although it was not much more than the mature salvia miltiorrhiza, it was still valuable. It is much better than refining a wild miscellaneous tree.
So when Shen Chi had free time, he secretly went to his ginseng garden to dig out a few salvia plants, picked the big ones and planted them again.
For half a month, almost the entire ginseng field was dug up, and only 300 salvias that could be extracted were picked. The remaining ones were too small, so Shen Chi had to plant them again.
All three hundred ginseng branches were extracted, and three hundred drops of essence spirit liquid were obtained. Because the essence spirit liquid would not be extracted for a long time, ten drops of essence were put into the well, and the rest were replaced with spiritual energy. A total of Got 5.6 million spiritual energy.
Immediately upgrade the spring to level 15, which consumes 650,000 spiritual energy. The farm's energy refining ability is increased to 1900.
Taking advantage of the fact that he now had enough spiritual energy, Shen Chi cruelly exchanged the ley lines.
Leyline lv0 (0/1000000): farm building, which can be upgraded. It needs to be used with architectural drawings. Function: Purify the air in the farm and refine the essence of grass and trees produced on the farm into spiritual energy. Integrating planting skills can shorten the maturity cycle of farm crops. It is also a monitoring system for the farm, which can monitor the fertility, temperature, and humidity of the farm soil. Upgrading can activate new functions.
After reading the introduction about earth veins, Shen Chi felt a bit of pain in his heart, but he still felt a little comforted. The advantages of being expensive are not unreasonable.
Looking at the spiritual energy required for upgrade, Ling Chenchi immediately gave up the idea of upgrading. His spiritual energy had to be used to upgrade the fertilization pool.
This earth vein is a black one, more than a foot long, like a forked tree branch. Another architectural drawing was changed and the earth vein was inserted into the wasteland contracted by the family.
Shen Chi felt that the ground beneath his feet seemed to shake slightly, and then the air seemed to become fresher, and the system prompt sounded in his mind: [Ding! Activate the earth veins, the farm's plant essence refining capacity increases by 1000, and the farm monitoring function Turn on.]
Monitoring function? Shen Chi quickly opened the system panel. The air temperature, humidity, soil fertility of the farm, where watering is needed, and where fertilization is needed are all clearly marked.
"This will make the management of the farm easier." Shen Chi thought to himself.
Seeing that there were still more than 3.8 million spiritual energy, Shen Chi directly upgraded the fertilizing pool to level 20. There was no other way, the land contracted by his family was too barren and needed a lot of fertilizer.
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[Ding! The retting pond has been upgraded successfully. The level 20 retting pond produces 21 kilograms of spiritual fertilizer every day, and the farm’s daily plant essence refining capacity increases by 100.]
After upgrading the fertilizing pond, I spent another 440,000 spirit energy to bury a boundary monument at each of the four corners of my ginseng garden, so that I can accurately water my ginseng field in the future.
After dividing his ginseng field, the system prompted Shen Chi: [Should this land be designated as a test site?]
Shen Chi was stunned for a moment and then chose yes. This piece of land immediately became connected with the Agricultural Science Institute in the system function.
When you open the Institute of Agricultural Sciences, a light screen immediately appears in your mind, which shows the growth status of each Salvia miltiorrhiza. If you zoom in on the picture and click on one of them, the scanning function of the Institute of Agricultural Sciences can even scan the inside of the Salvia miltiorrhiza. The gene chains are completely displayed.
This is the true use of the Institute of Agricultural Sciences! Seeing this scene, Shen Chi was surprised, and finally understood the true use of his planting technique.
This skill is completely prepared for scientific research. What is the most lacking thing in cultivating crops? Time!
Sometimes it takes at least one year from planting to maturity for a variety to come out. If you have this skill, the experiment time will be greatly shortened.
No wonder the planting technique is very limited in terms of birth-producing ability and area. Even if Shen Chi has reached level 54, even if he adds all the talent points to his physique and life, he can only produce two or three acres. It turns out that This skill is basically prepared for scientific research.
If you want to increase farm crop production and income on a large scale, you have to find a way to improve the retting pond.
With more than 1.4 million spiritual energy left, Shen Chi didn't dare to upgrade randomly, so he had to keep it for emergencies.
After finishing the farm, Shen Chi returned to the front yard. The roar of the cutting machine came from the workshop, and from time to time there was the laughter of everyone.
Seeing that her aunt's business was getting better and better, Shen Chi came to the room with a knowing smile.
Sun Tao was not seen in the room. A half-opened textbook was spread out on the table. Shen probably went out to play with his friends in the village.
Chi himself took out a book borrowed from the library and started reading. The long-term brushing up on knowledge points had made Shen Chi develop the habit of reading. Even if he doesn't brush up on knowledge points now, this habit will still remain. Come down.
After watching for more than an hour, Shen Chi put down his textbook and came to the kitchen when it was time to make dinner, but he still didn't see his father.
Shen Chi felt strange. Now he was in charge of dinner for nearly fifty people waiting for his godmother. Even if he had to go out for something, he still had to say hello.
She felt strange but her hands quickly started washing rice and making fire to cook. Seeing that Shen Chi was cooking alone but there was no sign of Shen Changlin, Liu Cuihua sent two female workers over to help.
Halfway through the meal, Shen Changlin came back angrily carrying a load of sweet potato vines.
Everyone was curious and asked him what happened.
"These days, wild hunting has come out to harm people again. The two acres of wasteland I planted at the foot of Qi Mountain, all the sweet potatoes I planted were ruined by those beasts." After saying that, Shen Changlin angrily put down the sweet potatoes and entered the kitchen to start. Helped with chopping vegetables and cooking.
"Dad, I told you, the land at the foot of Qishan Mountain is far away and it's difficult to take care of it, so I told you not to plant it." Shen Chi took the opportunity to say.