Chapter 308: Chapter 301 ck Land_1
This was also a necessary process on the path to bing stronger.
Thews of the world are very fair, they won’t allow an insect to effortlesslyplete its metamorphosis. If that were the case, it would defy the naturalws and the principles of biological evolution. The order of the universe would be thrown into chaos.
Powerful creatures would be found everywhere.
The next morning, Qin Niu checked the Green-Head Summoning Bee; its antennae were vibrating slightly.
Had ite back to life?
He guessed that after suffering this hardship, the next time he fed it, it would likely have a psychological shadow.
It would definitely be extremely cautious.
Qin Niu decided to take over the one hundred mu of good farnd that had been awarded to him.
He also wanted to check on the locust disaster.
The sixth day of next month would be his wedding day. Before then, if he took over that one hundred mu of good farnd, the wedding could be made a bit morevish.<div>
Taking Xiao Qing and Green Ox with him, Qin Niu headed to the location specified on the title deed.
“Oh, Master Qin, it has been some days since Ist saw you.”
Upon seeing Qin Niu, Xu Zhenchang hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.
Ever since the visit from Official Lu, Young Master Fang, and others to Qin Niu’s home, the local people had held Qin Niu in even greater awe.
Since Qin Niu’s status had risen, it was only natural for people to feel intimidated.
It was like an ordinary person standing at the foot of a mountain, looking up at it, would naturally feel a sense of fear.
“Ah, Vige Chief, are you preparing to sow the seeds?”
Qin Niu saw that Xu Zhenchang was carrying a bag of wheat seeds and a few corn seeds, while Xu Zhenchang’s wife was carrying buckets of water behind him.
“It looks like the locust gue is finally letting up, and I can’t just leave my fields fallow. By the end of the year, I have to pay the rent to the Yan Family on time, and it won’t be a small sum. The first half of the year, we had floods and locust gues, and it has been a tough time for me.
Luckily, with Master Qin’s help, there was no total loss, and my losses were greatly reduced.
If the harvest in the second half of the year is not bad, then I won’t be at a loss this year.
However, facing such a year of disasters, it’s like working for nothing for a year.”
As Xu Zhenchang spoke, he was filled with grievances.
He was one of the luckier ones, at least most of the harvest in his eighty odd mu ofnd in Shuangfeng Vige was saved. It only cost him a bit of money to get rid of the pests.
Compared to other tenant farmers, he was incredibly fortunate.
In the face of such natural and insect disasters, not just him, even the Yan Family suffered heavy losses.
The Yan Family alone spent a shocking amount on Qin Niu and the other two Insect Masters for pest control.
The two Insect Masters they hiredst ended up with one dead and one fleeing, the Yan Family might even have to paypensation to the family of the deceased.
After all, it was the Yan Family who hired them, and the ident happened while they were on the job.<div>
“Farming has always been a battle against the heavens and a struggle with the earth. Vige Chief, you being able to break even without loss means you have already won against most of the farmers. I believe things will get better.”
Qin Niu chatted with Xu Zhenchang for a bit before quickly leaving.
Even after leaving the vige, they could still spot some scattered locusts, butpared to the seriousness of the disaster, these few were negligible.
Many forests and fields had be barren.<div>
Some trees, after having their leaves stripped away, had sprouted fresh green buds.
The most tenacious creatures in the universe must undoubtedly be nts.
They have an incredible ability to adapt.
Indeed, wildfires can’t burn them out, the spring breeze brings them back to life.
Qin Niu continued westward along the main road.
Cross the river and it would be Daoyuan Vige, but if he didn’t cross the river and kept going west, that territory belonged to anotherrge vige under the He Family’s control.
It was said that the He Family’s heritage was even deeper than the Yan Family’s.
In Jade Stream Town, there are only three most powerful families: the Yan Family, the He Family, and the Pang Family.
The Yan Family was a neer who rose to power, currently holding the strongest apparent strength among the three families.
But the He Family, an old established family, had been meticulously cultivating theirnd in the countryside for many years and had a thriving poption; their strength should not be underestimated.
Because Shuangfeng Vige was part of the Yan Family’s territory, the other two major families would usually consciously avoid any semnce of conflict and almost never intervene.
It was like drawing a boundary line between two countries.
If one were arger and stronger nation, one might even leave a smaller country between them as a buffer.<div>
The three major families had coexisted for many years with an unspoken understanding in this regard.
They would never foolishly engage in conflict over minor benefits or disputes.
When two strong armies shed, one was bound to be injured.
Usually, if there was a need to suppress an opponent, it was done when the opponent’s power was not yet fully developed.
Once an opponent gained significant influence and everyone’s strength was roughly equal, taking action would be utterly foolish.
Qin Niu, apanied by Xiao Qing, quickly reached their destination.
This ce had about five hundred mu of public farnd, with visible signs of cultivation.
“Separated by the main road reaching the foot of Woniu Peak and from the irrigation canal on the left to the measured boundary on the right.”
It was clearly stated on the deed.
“Why are there crops newly nted on these mu ofnd?”
Qin Niu was somewhat puzzled.
The ck Tiger Gang leader was very generous, rewarding him with a hundred mu of prime farnd that not only had convenient irrigation and plenty of sunlight, but also included more than ten mu of the finest ck soil.
This type of prime farnd was top-grade among A-gradends.<div>
Ordinary prime farnd sold for eleven taels of silver per mu, but this ck soil farnd would fetch no less than fifteen taels of silver each.
Its soil was fertile, ensuring very good yields regardless of the crop nted.
But that wasn’t all; cultivating this top-grade farnd could save a great deal of fertilizer.
It saved onbor and fertilizer with crops’ root systems developing well and growing speedily, producing about thirty percent more than ordinary prime farnd.
“Xiao Qing, go to the road and chop a dozen thick logs for me,”
Qin Niu told Xiao Qing.
“Lazy Ox, you help out too; haul the logs over here.”
Qin Niu, upon receiving this hundred mu of prime farnd, definitely needed to make some markers.
The mostmon practice was to erect boundary markers on the edges of the farnd.
If it were in his own vige, there wouldn’t be so much trouble. A simple announcement would suffice.
The vigers wouldn’t dare to offend him, the Insect Master.
Now, in what was known as the strongest vige in Jade Stream Town, and being unfamiliar with the ce, Qin Niu had to rely on old customs, erecting boundary markers to dere his sovereignty over the hundred mu of prime farnd.
Xiao Qing, having reached the peak of the Mortal Realm and been gifted a treasure sword by Qin Niu, found chopping down trees to be child’s y.<div>
Although the Green Ox was known to bezy, its strength was not to be underestimated.
It easily pulled two logs at a time without effort.
Qin Niu used his Ink de to split the logs in half, then sharpened them and drove them deep into the edges of the farnd ridge, engraving the character “Qin” on them.
This was to tell everyone that from now on, this hundred mu of prime farnd would be known by the surname Qin.
“Young man, what are you doing?”
Two farmers came walking over.
One was about fifty years old, a more elderly farmer, while the other was a man in his thirties, in his prime.
They were carrying hoes, having been working on a distant plot.
They were likely vigers from the same vige.
Or perhaps long-term workers hired by the Pang Family.
“I am Qin Niu from Shuangfeng Vige, here to take possession of the hundred mu of prime farnd gifted to me by the Gang Leader. Do you know who nted these crops?”
Qin Niu asked politely.