"Xiao Fan, look quickly!"
Tian Mengyao suddenly shouted excitedly.
On the originally unchanged dirt ground, it suddenly moved, as if something was pushing upwards.
"Hey, there's actually a change." Lin Fan was overjoyed.
Under their gazes, over ten tender sprouts broke through the soil at a speed visible to the naked eye.
White stems, topped with two thick cotyledons, looked exactly like the bean sprouts they usually ate.
Immediately after, the newly emerged sprouts continued to grow rapidly, thickening and lengthening.
In the blink of an eye, a patch of green seedlings appeared before them.
"Wow!" Tian Mengyao was dumbfounded.
She saw the mung bean sprouts extending tender vines, shaking briefly, and then moving towards the corner of the wall, climbing up section by section.
The leaves and stems on the vines unfurled rapidly as if by magic, possessing a fairy-tale beauty.
"This is too fast." Lin Fan held his hand about ten centimeters above, and in just a few breaths, the tender buds at the top touched his palm.
Both of them had personally witnessed peanuts and mung beans grow from seeds into adult plants in a short period.
"Xiao Fan, it's bearing fruit."
Tian Mengyao pointed at the mung bean vine, "Doesn't it need bees for pollination?"
"You ask me, how would I know." Lin Fan pulled out a peanut plant, bringing up a large clod of soil.
On the roots of the peanut plant, plump white peanut fruits were very pleasing to the eye.
Tian Mengyao reached out and picked a mung bean pod, and after peeling it open, a row of full seeds was neatly arranged inside.
"This is unscientific!"
"Completely unscientific!"
Tian Mengyao exclaimed with wide, beautiful eyes.
"It's already unscientific enough that there are monsters in the world. I wouldn't be surprised by anything that happens next," Lin Fan said calmly.
Unscientific?
His pair of Zi Ji Ling Tong (Purple Extreme Spirit Eyes) and the spiritual energy in his dantian were clearly even more unscientific.
"Xiao Fan, our medicinal herb planting cooperative is going to make a fortune!" Tian Mengyao shouted excitedly.
"Shh!" Lin Fan made a shushing gesture, "Do you want to wake up the whole village in the middle of the night? How will you explain it to them then."
Tian Mengyao smiled like a flower, grabbed Lin Fan's arm, and said excitedly, "Xiao Fan, with your little wine pot, every household in Luofeng Village will be able to live in a two-story building, drive a car, and never be poor again!"
Lin Fan laughed, "Don't you think I'm losing out on the exchange?"
"Not at all, it's a huge profit!" Tian Mengyao was ecstatic. This wasn't some Tongtian Hu (Heaven-Reaching Pot), it was clearly a treasure bowl, an invaluable treasure!
"Alright, you're all wet. You're coming for your period in a few days, you'll suffer if you catch a cold," Lin Fan pulled her towards the house.
"How did you know when my aunt is coming?" Tian Mengyao lowered her head shyly.
"We're like an old married couple, what don't I know," Lin Fan teased.
"Annoying, you never do any proper business, just thinking about useless things."
Tian Mengyao extended a small hand, "You give me the Tongtian Hu to keep. Tomorrow I want to take it to the medicinal herb planting base to try it out."
"I feel that after diluting it ten or twenty times, the growth speed won't be so obvious, and it will be completely sufficient for large-scale planting needs."
Lin Fan affectionately tickled her little Qiong nose with his finger, "You just ask for my treasures whenever you want?"
"It's not that I'm unwilling to part with it, there's something else I need its help with."
"What is it?"
"Did you forget? Xu Zixin!"
Lin Fan smiled, "Without the Tongtian Hu, how can we make her believe it's the Mountain God manifesting his divine power?"
"You're so full of tricks."
Tian Mengyao gently hit him, "Lately Xu Zixin has been running up the mountain every day, choosing a site for the Mountain God temple. She also keeps asking strange questions, like when the Mountain God manifested his divine miracles before. The villagers all think she's crazy and try to avoid her."
Lin Fan smiled helplessly.
Xu Zixin had narrowly escaped death several times, and her heart had become empty and disheartened with life.
The Mountain God was now her only spiritual support, so such behavior was not surprising.
...
The next morning.
Lin Fan was awakened by a patient who had come to see him, and began his busy day.
Although he was a bit tired, treating the villagers had become his instinct. He would subconsciously fulfill his duties diligently.
In his free time, he would move a small stool, sit at the entrance of the clinic, and gaze in the direction of Luofeng Mountain.
Wang Xiaoli had found a new home and was hidden deep in the mountains.
After countless hardships, Lin Fan had finally resolved his biggest trouble, and he couldn't help but feel a little excited.
"The big windmill turns with a creak..."
A pleasant mobile phone ringtone sounded.
Lin Fan took out his phone and saw it was Tian Mengyao calling.
The call was connected.
"Xiao Fan, hurry up and come here. Xu Zixin has come up the mountain again," Tian Mengyao's tone was filled with helplessness.
"Okay, I'll be there soon."
The call ended.
Lin Fan went back into the house, tidied himself up, and then headed towards Luofeng Mountain with two packages in his hands.
——
Luofeng Mountain, Medicinal Herb Planting Base.
Tian Mengyao held one hand over her forehead, shielding her from the direct sunlight, and looked at a group of people about a hundred meters away.
"What is this girl up to? Yesterday she hired a Taoist priest, and today she's hired a monk, as if she's looking at feng shui."
"How would a monk know feng shui? I guess she hired them to trick people."
"Why do you say that?"
"You wouldn't understand."
A couple in their fifties walked past Tian Mengyao. The man whispered, "This is something they do in big cities when they're bored."
"Find a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters to build a temple, and then hire two monks as abbots."
"I don't know if it's the world getting worse, but city people do too many bad things, so when they see a temple, they want to worship. Not only do they want to worship, they also want to donate money."
"In a few years, not only will they get back the money for building the temple, but the temple will also become a money tree, earning hundreds of thousands a year."
"Does it really make that much money?" the woman asked skeptically.
"Why would I lie to you? When I used to work outside, there was a temple near the construction site. The monks inside were all fat and well-fed, and they even took women out at night," the man said with a smile.
"You old pervert, be careful that Secretary Tian hears you."
The woman rolled her eyes, "If it's such a profitable business, why don't we do it ourselves in the village?"
The man shook his head, "It's better to do less deceptive things. If word gets out, it will ruin the reputation of our Luofeng Village, and we won't be able to hold our heads up in the whole country."
Tian Mengyao heard their entire conversation. She thought to herself that she wasn't trying to cheat money, she genuinely believed in the Mountain God.
From a distance, a figure appeared on the rough mountain path.
This person moved as swiftly as a horse, walking through the vast wilderness.
Tian Mengyao's eyes lit up, "Xiao Fan is here."
A smile flickered in her beautiful eyes. This guy was going to play the trickster again.