Chapter 339

With things developing like this, the drought that started in the eighth year of Yuankang would be easy to handle!

Seeing that Yue Fuguang had woken up, the two elders happily hurried over to her bed and said, "Fuguang, you're awake?"

Old Madam Yu touched her hand, which felt nice and warm, and continued, "Everything is fine at home! You slept for four or five days straight, and us two old folks were worried sick, so we came to check on you first thing in the morning."

Hearing that she had slept for four or five days, Yue Fuguang's mind raced, and she immediately figured out the reason.

She looked at their noticeably thinner cheeks and the dark circles under their eyes. "Grandfather, Grandmother, I'm fine. You must be exhausted from these past few days. Go get some rest."

She turned sideways, opened the drawer by the bed, took out a small jade bottle, and handed it to Yu Chongshan. "Grandfather, take one pill each with Grandmother before you go to sleep."

Old Madam Yu shook her head. "Your grandfather and I are in good health. We don't need to take your precious medicine pills.

Grandmother knows your master didn't leave you many, so keep them for yourself just in case."

Yue Fuguang knew Old Madam Yu would be reluctant to use them, which was why she handed the pills directly to her grandfather. She took Old Madam Yu's hand and showed her her medicine cabinet. "Just accept them, Grandmother. Although they are rare, look, your granddaughter still has more here."

After seeing the two of them off, Yue Fuguang knocked on the system. "07, I slept for so long, why didn't you wake me up? If I hadn't been alert and taken a fasting pill before falling asleep, wouldn't I have starved to death?"

The system's lazy voice replied, "Host, you were unconscious, and I was crashed. How could I wake you up!"

"You crashed from the impact of the incense offerings too?" Good heavens, it turned out they were both offline.

"So has your data been repaired? Are there any new features?"

"Not that good. To unlock new features, we just have to wait for the system upgrade. However, after the autumn festival in two days, we should be able to upgrade to level five."

"Then what data did you repair this time?"

"The merit system and the melon-eating system have both been partially repaired." The system didn't give any further details, as it needed some time to digest everything itself.

"Oh right, Host, after this data repair, the merit system now has a spatial storage slot."

"One? What's the capacity?"

Others usually started with six or nine, so why did she only get one? At this rate, who knew if she would be able to gather nine by the time she left this world.

"Ninety-nine items, with no limit on weight or size."

Fair enough. She had a storage ring anyway, so the storage space was just the icing on the cake.

The day after waking up, Yue Fuguang took a carriage back to the city with the Yu family. The autumn festival was the day after next, and as the discoverer of the high-yield seeds, she had to attend and even occupy one of the main seats.

On the carriage ride back, Yue Fuguang looked out the window at the sweet potato vines in the fields that were starting to turn yellow. While rubbing a translucent, quail egg-sized bead in her hand like a pair of Baoding balls, she asked the system, "07, do you think this energy storage bead will work?"

"Don't worry, Host. Anything produced by the system is guaranteed to be of the highest quality." The system spoke quickly, blurting out the store's advertising slogan.

Worried that the overwhelming incense offerings might shock her soul and cause her to fall into a coma again, Yue Fuguang finally took the system's advice.

She spent a high price in the system store to buy an energy storage bead, which was said to be used by immortal cultivators to store spiritual energy, sword aura, or demonic energy.

She wanted to use it to store the power of the incense offerings that she couldn't digest.

The commoners were too enthusiastic. The autumn festival hadn't even started, and they hadn't even seen the sweet potatoes and corn yet, but they had already given her so much incense.

When the autumn festival arrived and the truth was verified, the incense offerings would definitely be much more than now, if not an astronomical amount.

Just as Yue Fuguang was thinking that the autumn festival would definitely attract more spectators than the one at the beginning of the year because of the new crops, the carriage slowed down.

She lifted a corner of the gauze curtain to look outside and saw that the shade under the trees on both sides of the road was full of people.

Yue Fuguang looked into the distance and saw Lotus Mountain. She calculated in her mind that they were still over ten miles away from the capital, so why were there suddenly so many people here?

Even if they were going to attend the autumn festival, it was too early.

Shen Chunying, who was riding a horse next to the carriage, saw Yue Fuguang lifting the curtain and leaned down to say, "My Lady, there are too many commoners along the way. To avoid hurting anyone, the carriage will have to travel slowly for this stretch of the journey."

Yue Fuguang nodded. "Why are there suddenly so many commoners here?" She then said to Yue Huaixian, who was observing the situation next to the carriage, "Cousin, go find out what's going on."

Yue Huaixian nodded. After asking someone by the roadside for the reason, he immediately ran back with a smile on his face.

Seeing Yue Fuguang waiting for his news, the corners of Yue Huaixian's mouth unconsciously turned up, revealing a proud smile. "My Lady, these commoners have all rushed over from nearby prefectures and counties after hearing about the new crops that yield a thousand catties per mu.

They came just to attend the autumn festival the day after next, wanting to see the sweet potatoes, corn, potatoes, and Your Ladyship with their own eyes."

His cousin had truly saved countless lives this time, accumulating boundless merit!

The commoners along the way looked at the several carriages and the twenty or thirty guards at the front and back, knowing that the people in the carriages had extraordinary identities.

Afraid of offending the nobles, they unconsciously dodged to the side of the road.

However, there were some people with flickering eyes among them. Looking at the approaching carriages, not only did they not hide, but they also couldn't help but want to get closer.

After the carriage convoy had traveled for a few miles, someone in the crowd suddenly shouted, "Look, that's Junior Preceptor Yue's carriage!"

Following this shout, the commoners who were hiding along the way froze in place for a moment. They quietly looked at the most exquisite and beautiful carriage in the front.

"Greetings to Junior Preceptor Yue!"

Someone in the crowd shouted, and after the first person knelt down, the others followed suit like harvested wheat, falling to the ground and bowing to the carriage.

"Greetings to Junior Preceptor Yue!"

"I beg Junior Preceptor Yue to bless my family!"

"I beg Junior Preceptor Yue to bless my family with a great harvest this year!"

These were the relatively normal wishes directed at her, but there were also some mixed in, such as, "I beg Junior Preceptor Yue to bless me with a wife this year!"

"I beg Junior Preceptor Yue to bless my wife with a baby boy this time!"

The corners of Yue Fuguang's mouth twitched. Wasn't her jurisdiction a bit too broad? They were treating her like a turtle in a wishing well!

And having a boy? She wasn't the Goddess of Mercy who brings children. Would begging her be of any use?

Yue Fuguang thought about it carefully. Uh... it seemed like it might actually be useful!

However, the fertility pill was a minor trick after all, and she wasn't prepared to show it to others easily. Otherwise, if everyone wanted to have a boy, how would they find wives in the future? If the gender ratio was unbalanced and everyone ended up a bachelor, wouldn't society be in chaos?

Hmm? Yue Fuguang narrowed her eyes. Although a few people in the crowd were acting covertly, could she not tell the difference between kneeling and squatting, even with long robes covering them?

It wasn't that Yue Fuguang liked being knelt to, but these people were obviously suspicious.

The carriage moved forward slowly. Yue Fuguang sat in the carriage, but her voice carried far away. "Everyone, there's no need for formalities. Please rise!"

Following her command to rise, the people who were still kneeling felt as if their bodies were being lifted by an invisible force. Without needing to exert any effort themselves, they involuntarily stood up along with her words.