"Are you two sisters? What are your names? How old are you this year?"
Xia Hong asked twice in succession, seeing the two women still standing motionless in a daze, he shook his head helplessly and raised his voice slightly.
The two finally snapped back to reality and hurriedly knelt down:
"Reporting to my lord, my name is Zhang Yuzhu, I am the elder sister, seventeen years old this year."
"Reporting to my lord, my name is Zhang Yuhong, sixteen years old this year."
Hearing the ages of the two women, Xia Hong shook his head and, after thinking for a moment, took out a small red porcelain bottle from the yellow mustard bag and gently tossed it into the hands of the elder sister Zhang Yuzhu:
"This is called a Blood Spirit Pill, there are 50 pieces in total inside. You are just a little short of the thirty-thousand-jin limit of basic strength, so don’t use it for now..."
Saying this, Xia Hong paused and sliced two finger-thick strips of meat from the Three Beasts Wolf Emperor and tossed them into the hands of the two, continuing, "These two pieces of meat are not for you to eat. With your current cultivation level, eating them will surely cause your bodies to explode and die. Instead, use them to make a pot of soup every day, drinking it little by little. It shouldn’t take more than a few days to reach the Earth-digging Realm Limit, then you can use the Blood Spirit Pill I gave you to reshape your skin membrane."
"Thank you for your reward, my lord..."
Kneeling on the ground, the Zhang sisters’ expressions became extremely excited when they heard Xia Hong’s instructions. Exchanging glances, they immediately began kowtowing in thanks.
"Alright, don’t kowtow for now, I have something to ask you."
But before they had kowtowed twice, Xia Hong interrupted them.
This habit of kowtowing at every turn is also a characteristic of the Moao River.
Xia Hong shook his head and asked, "This village of yours, it should be a slave village, right? Is it managed by the subordinate bureau of Yanling County?"
Zhang Yuzhu immediately nodded.
"What is that large brown area to the west of the village?"
A brown area?
Hearing this question, Zhang Yuzhu was suddenly full of confusion.
It was the younger sister Zhang Yuhong who seemed to recall something, leaning over and whispering, "Sister, the lord is probably talking about the Rice Field."
Only then did Zhang Yuzhu realize and hurriedly replied, "Reporting to my lord, that brown area is the Rice Field. Together with more than a dozen other slave villages, we are responsible for cultivating rice there."
Hearing her answer, Xia Hong’s eyes suddenly lit up.
"So that’s it!"
He didn’t e to Qingwu Village without reason; while flying north from the Blood Miasma Plain, he noticed a large brown area suddenly appear on the vast white land, which made him stop.
Rice, he had heard of it in Qinghua City, is a specialty of Chen Cang and one of Moao River’s top ingredients, known for its excellent taste.
Of course, mere cravings were not enough to catch Xia Hong’s attention.
Mainly because the food made from rice can enhance one’s vitality, even more effectively than beast meat.
More crucially, when he was in Qinghua City, he had secretly observed that before it was made into food, the rice was in powder form, looking exactly like the sorghum flour from his previous life.
Rice itself is a synonym for sorghum.
This could not help but make Xia Hong suspect that Chen Cang has the capability to grow grain.
He had already taken note of this in Qinghua City; now that he was in Chen Cang, he would naturally pay special attention to this rice to see what it was all about.
"Is your area the only place in all of Chen Cang with Rice Fields?"
Seeing the puzzled look on Zhang Yuzhu’s face, Xia Hong then realized that she was just a young girl who hadn’t even reached the Cold Resistance Level, how could she know everything? He immediately shook his head and said, "Alright, you may leave first! Go call your grandfather, tell him I have something to ask him."
The two girls, seeing the new Gai clothes before the bathtub, immediately looked troubled.
"Sir, we should help you change first..."
"No need, no need, go quickly."
"Yes, servant obeys!"
Hearing Xia Hong’s tone grow heavier, the two dared not say more and hurriedly got up and walked outside.
Only then did Xia Hong slowly stand up, quickly putting on that somewhat prickly azure Gai clothes. After putting it on, he touched the fabric, a faint smile rising in his eyes.
"How long has it been since I wore such clothes, almost ten years..."
......
"Grandfather, these are the pills and beast meat that the lord bestowed upon us..."
In a small house beside the main room of Zhang’s Courtyard.
Seeing the red small porcelain bottle and two top-grade pieces of beast meat as clear as jade and glass placed on the table by the two granddaughters, and hearing them explain the uses of the meat and pills, the elderly face of Zhang Qinggu instantly flushed with redness, his demeanor became extremely excited.
It paid off.
It paid off!
Zhang Qinggu, over sixty, his bearded chin trembling ceaselessly, looked at his two granddaughters and suddenly burst into tears, "Zhu’er, Hong’er, Old Zhang Family has finally got our chance, I’ll immediately write to Yuchuan, tell him to hurry back from the county city..."
"Grandfather..."
For the first time, the Zhang Yuzhu sisters saw their grandfather show such an expression, naturally feeling anxious, they hurriedly stepped forward to hold their grandfather’s hand.
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