Chapter 163

"I can't even think about it?"

The dozens of riders arrived at the edge of the fields.

Diao Chan, holding her hoe, watched Duan Yu leap off his horse and walk straight toward her.

"Didn't I tell you? You don't need to do this kind of rough and tiring work anymore."

"Look at your hands."

Upon reaching her, Duan Yu took the hoe from Diao Chan's hands.

Diao Chan smiled gently: "Someone has to plow the family's land; Aunt said this is our root, it cannot be abandoned, in case one day..."

Duan Yu smiled and reached out to lightly flick Diao Chan's small, delicate nose: "There is no 'in case'."

"Our days will only get better; when our family has thousands, or tens of thousands of acres of land, are you going to plow it all yourself?"

"Wouldn't you be exhausted to death?"

Diao Chan ignored the sweat on her forehead, instead reaching into her bosom to pull out a handkerchief that still held the warmth of her body, and gently wiped the sweat from Duan Yu's forehead.

"If we really had that much land, I certainly wouldn't plow it myself."

Duan Yu grabbed Diao Chan's hand and took the hoe.

"Good, good, my Chan'er is a good girl who doesn't forget her roots."

"You go sit down; I'll finish plowing this land, and then we'll go home to eat." Duan Yu said, rolling up his sleeves.

Diao Chan became anxious upon seeing this and hurriedly said: "No, husband, you are an official now, how can you plow the land?"

Duan Yu chuckled and said: "When is your husband not in the mood for 'plowing the land'?"

Hearing Duan Yu's teasing, Diao Chan's face turned bright red instantly.

Duan Yu didn't waste any time, swinging the hoe to start plowing.

Once!

Twice.

Three times.

One hundred times.

Tie Shitou and the others stood in the distance.

Smiling as they watched Duan Yu joking with Diao Chan in the field.

Tie Shitou and the others would certainly not interrupt such private time.

In the field, Duan Yu swung the hoe vigorously, one stroke after another.

However, at the one-hundredth stroke.

A system synthesis sound suddenly rang in Duan Yu's mind.

【Ding, 【Tenfold Entry】 effect triggered, host has plowed the land one hundred times, effect increased tenfold, congratulations to the host for obtaining the new entry 【Fertile Land - White】.】

Eh?

Duan Yu, about to swing the hoe again, was stunned.

This works too?

Plowing the land can also yield an entry?

Fertile land?

What does that mean?

【Fertile Land - White】: System prompt, land plowed by the host will become exceptionally fertile, increasing crop yields!

Duan Yu: "..."

Good heavens, the system can be used like this?

Plowing land can also plow out system entries.

Duan Yu looked at the piece of land around him.

The land he plowed would become exceptionally fertile, and crop yields could increase.

It sounded like a pretty good thing.

But...

But where would he find the time to plow the land?

There were already countless things waiting for him all day long, and now this plowing thing appeared...

Just as he was thinking.

A flash of surprise appeared in Duan Yu's eyes.

No.

This 【Fertile Land】 is only a white entry.

What if it upgrades?

What if it upgrades to gold?

What are the three elements of war?

Grain, population, and money.

As the saying goes, troops and horses move, but provisions come first.

Without grain, no matter how powerful or well-equipped the troops are, it's all in vain.

Weapons might be backward, but you can still fight; but without provisions.

Then what are you fighting with?

Therefore, grain must naturally be placed first.

After that comes population, which is the soldiers.

But soldiers are also closely related to grain.

More land, more grain, means you can support a larger population.

With a larger population, you can have more soldiers.

Finally, there is money.

Used for purchasing weapons, iron ore, horses, and other strategic supplies.

Thinking of this, Duan Yu's eyes lit up.

This is absolutely not a useless entry, but one that transcends individual martial prowess and will definitely have great use in the future.

Duan Yu immediately looked inward at the system interface.

【Name: Duan Yu】

【Age: 25】

【Height: 191CM】

【Weight: 95KG】

【Entries: 【Tenfold Speed - Gold】, 【Arrows Like Beads - Purple】, 【Strength of Nine Bulls - Purple】, 【Cutting Water with a Blade - Red】, 【Fertile Land - White 0/1000】】

Over these ten-plus days, besides going to Jinyang to familiarize himself with the tasks Dong Zhuo gave him, he spent the rest of his time accompanying Diao Chan and Dong Yi.

He also had to supervise the training of Tie Shitou and the others.

Only then did he have his own time to upgrade his entries.

Through the system, he discovered that he wasn't sure before if his body had undergone a second growth spurt because of the system.

Now he was certain, it had.

With strength and constant training, his body had indeed undergone a second growth spurt.

Not only had his weight increased, but his height had also increased.

His appetite was even more astonishing.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say he ate a dou of rice per meal, and he also needed large amounts of meat.

Only in this way could he satisfy his body's consumption.

Over these ten-plus days, besides improving his archery and strength entries, he also took time to improve his swordsmanship.

After all, he would be fighting on horseback in the future, so he definitely needed to know a thing or two about long blades.

After glancing at the system, Duan Yu swung his hoe.

He wanted to see if this plowing entry, after upgrading, would be as he imagined. ===== CHAPTER 165 =====