Chapter 331.
Come by yourself?
Chen Anhe suspected that there was something wrong with his ears.
Although it was said that Purple Mansion cultivators were not considered precious in the Western Sea Spiritual Domain, and there were a lot of Purple Mansions in Wan Cheng, but after all, they were the top of the hall, who would want to manipulate the crop work.
Even if it is a spirit planting husband of the Purple Mansion rank, it is impossible to personally plow the field and weed the grass ah!
As a matter of fact, Chen Anhe had already prepared a tenant farmer for Wang Duan, specifically responsible for the cultivation of the 100 mu of paddy fields.
So that Wang Duan can comfortably sit and enjoy, stay in the village house to cultivate peacefully, do not have to meddle in the affairs of the people.
Chen Anhe even thought of hiring sharecroppers at his expense!
As a result, Wang Dust was completely out of line, which instantly made him a bit paralyzed, but there was no reason to object.
After thinking about it, Chen Anhe still summoned an old man over.
Introducing him, he said, “This is old Yuan Tou, who used to be in charge of looking after the Shetian.”
Chen Anhe had already thought it through, since Wang Dust was willing to toss and turn, then let him toss and turn as he pleased.
As long as he didn’t jeopardize his own and other people’s major events, it would be fine!
Old Yuan Tou was in his sixties or seventies, with the third level of qi cultivation, and dark skin and a weathered face.
He bowed to Wang Chen with fear and trepidation, “Junior cultivator Yuan Fang, pay my respects to Your Excellency.”
“Hmm.”
Wang Dust nodded and said to Chen Anhe, “Go and get busy.”
“Yes.”
Chen Anhe respectfully said, “Then, Junior Cultivator will leave first.”
Only after he left did Wang Dust leisurely “inspect” the shetian that belonged to him.
Although the location and quality of this hundred mu of paddy field was not the best, among all the spirit fields in Dada Village, it should not be a problem to be categorized as middle to upper class.
Wang Dust knew very well that the best spirit field in the village would inevitably be the Huang family’s!
He wouldn’t bother with that for the time being.
Since the Shetland had been deserted for two years without being plowed, the land was covered with weeds that were more than half a man’s height.
Wang Dust squatted down and grabbed a handful of soil.
The black oil was quite fertile.
He sprinkled the soil in his hand, got up and said, “It’s a pity.”
The old Yuan Tou who followed him was terrified, “The young cultivator only has the qualification of a caretaker, he has no authority to touch a single blade of grass or tree in the field, please forgive me, my lord.”
This old cultivator thought that Wang Dust was unhappy.
Wang Dust smiled and said, “I know.”
Through inquiries, he learned that this old Yuan Tou belonged to the category of widows and orphans, and was also an outsider, which was why he had been arranged by Chen Anhe to watch over the Shetian.
Two years ago, after Wang Chen’s predecessor disappeared into the mountains, the position of the village chief was left vacant, and until a replacement arrived, the Shetian naturally couldn’t continue to be cultivated, and was thus abandoned to this day.
Old Yuan Tou’s task was only to keep an eye on the shetian, preventing other villagers from coming here to steal the land for private cultivation or to graze the sheep and cows.
Because every blade of grass and tree in the Shetian belonged to the village chief!
After walking along the boundary line, Wang Dust told Old Yuan Tou to step back a distance.
He urged his mana to rise up into the air and hovered ten feet in the air.
In the next moment, a hot flame condensed on Wang Chen’s palm and rapidly expanded.
Huffing!
A large fire crow was born from the fire, suddenly spreading its long wings and swooping down towards the spirit field below.
The moment it approached the ground, it trembled violently and instantly transformed into countless small fire crows.
A rain of fire rained down from the sky, and a single fire crow leapt into the grass, instantly setting off a continuous sea of fire!
The extremely tenacious weeds were instantly set ablaze, and the blazing flames rose to the sky.
Those insects and small beasts inhabiting the bushes were immediately devastated, and they desperately tried to escape, but they were put down by the flames and high temperatures.
The fire grew bigger and bigger with the addition of the wind, and soon engulfed a hundred acres of shepherd’s field!
Countless weeds turned into ashes as the high temperature flames licked at the soil, penetrating deep into the earth to destroy the roots of the grass, while also killing the bug eggs lurking in the soil.
In just half a tea’s worth of work, the hundred acres of Shetland was surprisingly cleaned up.
All the weeds, as well as countless bugs and small animals, all turned into ashes and spread a thick layer.
Old Yuan Tou was dumbfounded as he watched!
Cultivators abounded in cultivating spiritual fields, and using spells to burn and remove weeds was a very normal thing.
However, he had never seen one like Wang Chen, who easily took care of a hundred acres of spirit fields.
The old cultivator looked at Wang Dust in the air with awe, the latter’s powerful image had been deeply imprinted in his heart.
However, Wang Chen wasn’t done yet.
He clenched his hand and continued to perform the Cloud and Rain Technique.
The surrounding water vapor gathered around at an astonishing speed and soon formed rain clouds above the Shetian.
A light rain descended.
The rain that contained abundant spiritual qi dampened the warm ashes on the ground, moisturizing the thirsty land.
The black soil became more oily.
Wang Dust landed back on the ground.
He handed Old Yuan Tou a storage bag, “Go find a few people and help me plant all the wheat seeds inside.”
These seeds were purchased by Wang Chen earlier in Wancheng.
There were more varieties of spiritual wheat planted in the spiritual fields of the Western Sea Spiritual Domain, and he chose a kind of wheat called “Broken Silver”, which was of the same grade as the yellow sorghum rice.
Old Yuan Tou received the storage bag with both hands and hesitantly said, “Sir, it’s already past the sowing season.”
Spirit wheat is sown in spring and harvested in fall, and can only be planted for one season a year, and right now it was already the height of summer.
Other people’s spirit wheat had started to bear ears!
Although it was said that cultivators could use spells to ripen the wheat seeds, it was not cost-effective at all.
Wang Dust did not explain, “Just do as you are told, how much you need to spend is as you are told.”
Old Yuan Tou did not dare to refute the village chief and agreed in a panic.
Wang Dust circled around one more time before returning to the village head’s house.
Since there were still quite a few spirit fields in the vicinity of the sheaf, many farmers were working in the fields, so they all saw Wang Dust casting spells to clear the fields.
Thus the news that Wang Chen was going to personally plow the Shetian spread throughout Dada Village in an instant!
Everyone felt that Wang Chen’s head seemed to have been kicked by that big green donkey of his.
Otherwise, a dignified Purple Mansion Lord would actually do the work of a mud legged man, wouldn’t this be a disgrace to himself?
It felt like this village chief was very unprofessional.
Of course, the villagers were all just secretly slandering, no one dared to talk about it in person.
But there were also some who felt that this new village chief was quite grounded, without that kind of high and mighty lordly demeanor.
And as a foreign ruler, they were instinctively repulsed and wary of Wang Chen.
In short, everyone’s feelings towards Wang Dust were quite complicated.
But Wang Dust didn’t care what others thought of him, after Old Yuan Tou found someone to sow all the wheat seeds, he would come to the field every day to make clouds and rains to ripen the planted seeds.
It could truly be said that he was back to his old ways.
Of course, every move he made in the village was passed on to Huang Deqi and Chen Anhe and the others in the first instance.
Several people were also a bit confused, not understanding whether Wang Dust was serious about farming or just bored and looking for random things to do.
Seeing Wang Dust do this every day, they couldn’t help but be a little less wary of him.