Chapter 652: The Peasant Girl’s Splendid Manor,
Chapter 652: A Premonition in Dreams (1)
After harvesting and drying the rice from the 130 acres, Mo Yan didn't have it weighed but instead piled it into the empty rooms in the front courtyard, filling three entire rooms. Guan Yu and fifty others spent nearly an hour weighing all the rice with more than twenty scales. The final tally shocked everyone!
145,000 jin—exactly 145,000 jin! This means the yield per mu was over 1,100 jin, more than 100 jin above the estimated 1,000 jin per mu, and 800 jin more than the average yield of rice in the Da Chu.
This yield was within Mo Yan's expectations. If it weren’t for the new terraced fields’ poor soil quality and her concerns about others noticing, she would have dared to water the fields with spirit water more generously, possibly increasing the yield by another 200 jin.
Hearing the exact yield, Yan Junyu was overjoyed. He immediately sought Mo Yan’s opinion on whether he could transport all the rice to use as seed to cultivate more rice, which would then be planted throughout the Da Chu.
Mo Yan had intended to promote the high-yield rice throughout the Da Chu to help the impoverished people suffering from hunger, a noble and beneficial cause she wouldn’t refuse.
However, Mo Yan had another purpose in growing the rice: to openly extract the grains from her space. Every time she secretly took grains from the warehouse, she was risking a lot. It was manageable in the short term, but over time, someone might notice and suspect something was amiss.
After all, seeing the grains being taken out of the warehouse without knowing how they got in would make anyone with a brain doubt that the grains appeared out of thin air!
While Mo Yan was troubled about how to transport the grains from the space without raising suspicion, she suddenly heard Snowball's voice in her mind: “Yan Yan, leave this to me. Just make sure to get a bit more silver; we can’t make a loss on this deal!”
Snowball’s initial comment delighted Mo Yan, though she chose to ignore the latter part. The benefits of freely providing high-yield rice were far more than a few hundred taels of silver!
This time, Yan Junyu unusually did not insist on staying for lunch. After thanking Mo Yan sincerely, he returned to the capital with the first batch of transported rice.
The matter of high-yield rice was crucial. He needed to get to the Jing Mountain villa quickly to strategize on how to leverage this opportunity to boost Chu Heng’s reputation, solidify his position as crown prince, and severely suppress the Lin family.
Eager to return to her room and consult Snowball on the method, Mo Yan was unaware that the high-yield rice would become entangled with politics. Holding Snowball’s small body with her left hand and poking its soft belly with her right index finger, she asked, “You said you have a solution. How exactly are we going to do it?”
Snowball, initially intending to act coy to gain some perks from its master, found itself ticklish from the pokes and wriggled around, trying to avoid its master's mischievous fingers. Unable to escape, it finally surrendered and disclosed everything.
It turned out that after Snowball developed its main body, it learned many human spiritual techniques in the cultivation world. One of these techniques was the "Dream Insertion Technique." The practitioner of this technique would first create a virtual event or person and, while the subject was asleep, use spiritual power to insert this into another person’s mind, making them firmly believe it was a real event or person, similar to psychological suggestion.
This technique, originally used as a playful trick among friends in the cultivation world, could only be used by someone with higher spiritual power on someone with lower spiritual power. The duration of the effect varied based on the power difference. If used on an ordinary person and not a cultivator, this suggestion could last for their entire life.
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