Chapter 53: The Regained Divine Eye

Duo Li stayed at Luo De's house for several days.

During the day.

She followed Luo De to the test field, carefully observing his novel farming method.

Unlike the standard three steps of watering, sowing, and laying Fertility Blessing commonly used in Sumeru now,

Luo De pays close attention to depth when sowing seeds.

Some seeds he buries deeper, some shallower.

Moreover, he practices intercropping, switching to another crop's seeds at set intervals, unlike the Sumeru habit of planting a single crop across an entire plot.

"Indeed, he didn't use Fertility Blessing."

Seeing Luo De merely till, fertilize, and water after sowing in the traditional way, Duo Li thoughtfully noted another point.

Besides these,

there is still another difference.

That is, Luo De regularly pours some already chopped fruits and vegetables at fixed spots in the test field.

These are all chopped by Ke Lai during the day, which Duo Li saw her preparing.

At that time she didn't understand why Ke Lai was chopping these things.

Now she understands.

Feeding the grass slime.

It's clear that Luo De is indeed following that plan.

There are some discrepancies.

But most of the steps are the same as written in the plan.

After observing the crops in the field,

Duo Li also went to check the sand where the sand eels are farmed.

However, there's not much to see on this plot.

Sand eels usually stay underground and rarely show their heads.

Plus, when she went it wasn't feeding time.

So for now she couldn't see anything.

Luo De's place for raising mushroom pigs and mushroom chickens has also started to be used.

The feed is very simple.

Same as feeding the grass slime.

When preparing each day, just make a bit more.

Duo Li doesn't mind the dirt, standing outside the pen watching Luo De bustle about.

Only after Luo De finished his chores did she frown and say, "These things would be scared to death if a sandstorm came."

In the desert.

Livestock raising is a very luxurious affair.

The biggest reason is sandstorm weather.

Adult mushroom pigs are fine; their courage and adaptability are decent, but the piglets are timid and easily frightened to death, needing careful care.

Mushroom chickens are the real trouble.

This poultry, which is raised in huge numbers in rainforest areas, is hard to survive in the desert.

Their courage, however, is not small.

The problem is that if mushroom chickens receive continuous auditory stimulation, they suffer stress-induced death.

And sandstorms usually don't end in just one or two hours.

This is exactly the weather mushroom chickens fear most.

When at Kawanyi, Duo Li had wanted to ask Luo De how to solve the problem of mushroom pigs and chickens being easily frightened to death.

She originally thought Luo De should have prepared preventive measures in advance.

But looking at it now,

this guy clearly hasn't done anything, still using the same breeding method as the rainforest people for these two livestock.

This made Duo Li feel doubtful.

After these few days of contact,

she is quite sure Luo De is a meticulous and thorough person; with such a character, how could he not know the taboos of raising mushroom pigs and chickens, then make such a basic mistake?

Regarding Duo Li's question,

Luo De hehe smiled: "Ti Nali taught me a good method."

Speaking,

he pointed to the few wooden crates in the corner and showed Duo Li: "Here, that's what's inside."

Duo Li looked over as indicated.

"Wind machine?"

"You want this for raising them?"

When Luo De placed the order, he had indeed ordered a few typhoon machines; at that time Duo Li hadn't thought of this use, so she didn't ask why.

Then,

Luo De explained: "Fully enclosed breeding, plus soundproofing materials; the air circulation issue can be handled by the wind machine, so only regular cleaning and feeding are needed, with no need to worry about sandstorms."

"Fully enclosed breeding?"

Even the well-informed Duo Li's eyes showed a hint of surprise.

The method of raising livestock in Mount Sumeru is all open-air grazing.

This is still the first time I've heard of a fully enclosed breeding method.

"Is this another suggestion from that Tighnari?"

Duoli asked curiously.

No.

This is my own idea.

Luo De smiled confidently, but he said: 'I'm not sure if this breeding method will work or not; I'm just giving it a try~'

Your own idea?

Duoli wasn't very convinced.

But taking another look at all the strange things and rules in Luo De's home, she again felt that what Luo De said was probably true.

Different from the previous bad impression.

Overall, Luo De's impression on Duoli is.

It's just two words.

Weirdo.

The kind of weirdo that's weird everywhere.

Luo De's home has many strange rules.

For example, drinking water must be boiled before it can be drunk; nails must be trimmed when they grow; rooms must be ventilated regularly; when cooking, raw and cooked meat must be handled separately; and so on.

Some of these rules Duoli also has in her wealthy family's home.

But some rules Duoli has never even seen!

Luo De, on the other hand, answers every question asked.

As long as someone asks why a certain rule was established, he will seriously give a clear explanation.

They all sound reasonable and well-founded.

Duoli had nothing to refute; after noting down these rules, she then strictly followed Luo De's rules.

After a few days.

She actually became accustomed to living under such rules.

Besides these strange rules she had never seen before.

Ke Lai's learning plan also made Duoli very interested.

This is also different from the way of learning in Mount Sumeru.

As for the rainforest area, no need to say.

They are all just empty terminals; where is there normal learning with textbooks?

The desert area hasn't even seen such a learning method.

Here, the knowledge popularization rate is inherently poor; most desert people have little interest in learning knowledge, and only learn under the strong compulsion of tribal elders.

Other countries haven't even heard of anyone using literacy cards, similar to game-style practice exercises, and even these practice sheets come with illustrations—though the drawings are a bit ugly.

As for the common language of Teyvat, at most the teaching method is just a bit novel.

What truly surprised Duoli was.

Luo De's teaching of arithmetic to Ke Lai actually used a kind of number he had never seen before.

This number system uses only ten counting symbols, supplemented by a few other mathematical symbols he had never seen before, and can easily solve all kinds of math problems in the textbook.

And when Duoli also expressed her desire to learn these symbols.

Luo De agreed without the slightest hesitation.

Recalling the scene of learning this brand-new convenient arithmetic method back then.

What Duoli remembers most deeply is.

It's her asking Luo De why he would be willing to so easily teach her the knowledge he possesses.

Luo De's answer was: 'This is something every child should learn; why can't I teach? You'd better go blame the Academy for turning knowledge into a commodity, a tool, causing those children who should be learning to only roll in the sand and dig in the dirt, worrying about their livelihood all day, completely losing the opportunity to learn knowledge.'

Oh, right.

Don't tell the Academy about this.

As a desert dweller who has mastered knowledge they don't have, I'm afraid they'll arrest me and turn me into that kind of canned knowledge that can be bought and sold at will.

Even after all these days, Luo De's words still echo in Duoli's ears.

Looking at Luo De there, proudly explaining the fully enclosed breeding method, Duoli suddenly understood something in her heart.

Then I heard her puff a laugh, and immediately after, she threw out a shiny object from her hand.

Take it.

This is the reward for your teaching me knowledge.

"Old Master Sange Mahabayi is not the type to owe people things."

During the new book period, because we have to go through the recommendation process, the update volume can't keep up, and the pace will seem relatively slow; please understand, after the book goes live, the update volume will be greater than now, and the reading experience should be somewhat better than now￣へ￣

(End of chapter)