Shen Xinyi arrived at Lu Fan's house and was immediately stunned by the wild chickens, rabbits, and wild boars kept in the yard. She thought Liu Ruyan had exaggerated Lu Fan's abilities, but she didn't expect him to actually raise so many wild animals.
"Hey! Kid! Be honest, how did you catch this wild boar? If you illegally hunt wild animals, I'll arrest you," Shen Xinyi said abruptly to Lu Fan, looking at the wild boar surrounded by a group of piglet babies.
"Xinyi! What are you doing?" Liu Ruyan glared at Shen Xinyi. This prodigal girl, how could she scare people like that?
"Look how anxious you are. I haven't really touched your little lover," Shen Xinyi retorted, rolling her eyes at Liu Ruyan. She was really prioritizing romance over friendship; she couldn't even scare him a little. Hmph!
"Don't talk nonsense..." Liu Ruyan's face instantly turned red as she stole a glance at Lu Fan.
"Hehe! Let me show you some real skill." Lu Fan, however, was too naive to take the implied meanings of the two beauties seriously. He walked over and opened the door of the pigsty.
"Hey! Lu Fan, what are you doing? Wild boars will hurt people if they come out," Liu Ruyan was immediately frightened and rushed to stop him. She thought Lu Fan had taken Shen Xinyi's words seriously!
"Don't worry! With me here, she won't hurt anyone!" Lu Fan chuckled and shouted into the pigsty, "Second Sister! Come out for a walk!"
Inside the pigsty, the large wild boar stood up under the astonished gazes of the two beautiful women. With its belly swaying, it walked out. Upon exiting the sty, it rubbed against Lu Fan's leg affectionately.
"Hehehe! Second Sister! Go for a couple of rounds." Lu Fan patted the wild boar and said.
Indeed, the wild boar grunted and trotted around the yard twice.
"This is too amazing!" Shen Xinyi and Liu Ruyan were both stunned. Shen Xinyi, being bolder, even asked Lu Fan to bring out a piglet for her to play with for a while. If she hadn't worried about not being able to raise it, she would have wanted to buy one as a pet.
After the two women left, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening. Chen Bei immediately went up the mountain, taking advantage of the moonlight, to collect some pine branches.
On the way back from the county town, he once again reviewed the mushroom cultivation techniques. He discovered that to cultivate matsutake mushrooms artificially, one first needed to create an environment suitable for mushroom survival. Before the constant temperature room was completed, he should conduct a few small trials.
Under the moonlight, after Lu Fan had stored two barrels of water in the pine forest, he picked a large bundle of pine branches and carried them down the mountain. He found a relatively flat spot at the foot of the mountain and lit all the branches. While watching the branches burn completely, he began to cultivate.
The Shennong Cultivation Method left by Shennong Shi had allowed Lu Fan to feel its miraculous effects in just a few days. Practicing the Shennong Cultivation Method for an hour each day had made his body strong and powerful. Even with very little sleep, he felt energetic and refreshed! Moreover, he could faintly feel the flow of qi within his body.
Hehe! Am I going to become a martial arts master! Lu Fan became happier the more he thought about it.
Looking at the burnt-out branches in front of him, leaving a pile of ash on the ground, Lu Fan carefully spread the ash evenly. Then, he took out several large mushrooms that had been missed in the morning from the pine forest. He tore them apart and threw them on top.
Although Lu Fan couldn't extract the spores from the mushrooms, he believed that these large mushrooms definitely contained them.
Then, he took some humus soil from the decomposed leaves and branches nearby and covered the area, watering it.
After everything was done, Lu Fan checked the time; it was past midnight. Lu Fan hurried back home and lay down on the bed fully clothed.
After sleeping for just over two hours, as dawn broke, Lu Fan got up and rushed to the back mountain.
"Hehe! Hehe..." Seeing that the mushrooms he planted last night had grown to the size of a fingernail, Lu Fan was overjoyed, even though mushrooms had only sprouted in three spots.
The mushrooms were still very small, with many small mushroom heads crowded together, but their sprouting was a success. He had a way to make them grow. Hahaha! He was going to get rich!
Lu Fan jumped up with joy. Well! Since he was going to scale up, he wouldn't go mushroom picking today. Today, he would go look for pheasants and rabbits. He also needed to contact someone about building the constant temperature room. After all, supplying such large quantities would be too much even for Bai Xuemei's hotel to consume.
Hehe! If artificial cultivation is successful, he'll need to find other sales channels. Since he had made a promise to Bai Xuemei, this time he would go to the big city to find sales channels.
Thinking this, Lu Fan was filled with confidence and clenched his fist. Go! Show them what he could do! Hahaha!
Taking his water bottle, he watered the small mushrooms with diluted spirit liquid, and then Lu Fan went up the mountain.
Wandering in the mountains until the sun climbed above the peaks, Lu Fan happily emerged from the mountains. Following him were four rabbits and six pheasants. What made Lu Fan even happier was that two of the rabbits were visibly pregnant.
When he returned to the foot of the mountain, the mushrooms had grown to the size of a fist. The three large clusters of mushrooms weighed about ten catties. Lu Fan immediately picked the mushrooms and excitedly headed home.
Honk honk... Just as he directed the rabbits and pheasants into their cages, he heard a horn from the main entrance. Lu Fan hurried out to meet them. He saw Shen Xinyi and Liu Yiyi standing at the door.
"Sister Xinyi! Are you returning to town?" Lu Fan asked urgently.
"Yes, I'm going back to town. So, someone who prioritizes romance over friendship, who said he goes to town every day, and whose electric scooter was lost again this time, forced me to give him a ride," Shen Xinyi said jokingly, glancing at Liu Ruyan.
Liu Ruyan's small face instantly turned red.
"Thank you, Sister Xinyi! I didn't pick many mushrooms today, so I won't go to town. However, I can bring you some of the mushrooms I just picked! They're very delicious!" Lu Fan said quickly.
"Hehe! That's great! I won't be polite then," Shen Xinyi said happily. She had heard someone praise Lu Fan and his delicious mushrooms all night yesterday.
Lu Fan immediately found a plastic bag and filled it with mushrooms for Shen Xinyi, tying it to the back of the motorcycle. Watching Shen Xinyi ride away on the motorcycle, Lu Fan beckoned Liu Ruyan into the house.
"Ruyan! It's a good time, I need to discuss the matter of building the constant temperature room with you. Let's go inside and talk!"
"You're really going to do artificial mushroom cultivation? That's actually quite difficult," Liu Ruyan said as she followed Lu Fan into the yard.
"Hehe! Look, this is the experiment I did at the foot of the mountain last night, cultivating mushrooms. That's why I think it can succeed!" Lu Fan took out the mushrooms he had just picked and showed them to Liu Ruyan, saying as he spoke.
"You're really amazing! You didn't sleep all night, did you!" Liu Ruyan couldn't help but ask, looking at Lu Fan's wet clothes.
"Son! You... you... stayed up all night?" Just then, Zhao Rongrong came out of the room. Hearing Liu Ruyan say he stayed up all night, she was startled. This child really hadn't returned all night. And now he returned with Liu Ruyan early in the morning, could it be that...
*Whoosh* Liu Ruyan's small face turned red all the way to her neck... Auntie, what are you thinking?