Chapter 488: How Could She Still Be the Great Female Lead of Cultivation?

The fortune of Qin Yan Hou Fu was so immense that Qin He's system sensed it and was too terrified to appear.

Fearing destruction, the system hid from this powerful fortune.

Even in the desolate wasteland, Qin He's system felt a chill of fear.

"System, system..." Qin He, unable to grow anything and worried about losing face, held the summoning artifact and called out to the system again and again: "Isn't my luck value very high? Qin Bi could grow spirit vegetables; I should be able to too."

The system stayed silent, playing dead.

Although Qin He was a transmigrated heroine, when the fortune of Qin Yan Hou Fu carried a killing aura, a system like hers could be destroyed with ease.

Protected by the Heavenly Dao, Qin He's system, being a top-tier magic treasure, should not have been easy to destroy.

However, the fortune of Qin Yan Hou Fu was mysterious and beyond the Heavenly Dao's command. Qin He's system could feel that powerful oppression; it usually hid from the Marquis's fortune.

"System..." Qin He panicked: "Why is the rain and snow I summoned getting smaller and smaller?"

Without the system, how could she still be the great female lead of cultivation?

Qin He was overjoyed to have transmigrated and possess a system; this was the standard setup for a great female lead. Once the system left, Qin He knew clearly that she wouldn't even be able to keep her position as the Young Master's wife.

Qin Han walked over: "Qin He, your complexion is poor. What's wrong?"

"Nothing." Qin He was impatient. With the system not answering, she had no mind to deal with Qin Han: "Go open up the farmland. Don't worry about me; I'll rest a bit and prepare to summon rain and snow."

Qin Han sized up Qin He: "Your complexion is poor."

"Probably just tired." Qin He had no interest in continuing to deal with it.

Before Qin Han could leave, Qin Yan and Qin Yuan arrived. They glanced at the small vegetable seedlings Qin He had planted, which had frozen to death over the past two days. Qin He had denied it, but Qin Jue took one look and said they were frozen dead.

Qin He lost face and said nothing. She had always had smooth sailing; sometimes she participated in summoning ceremonies at other households, and with Prince Xue and Prince He supporting her, she could summon small areas of rain and snow.

But coming to the desolate wasteland made it impossible. She was furious.

"The rain and snow isn't enough!" Qin Yan said this, glancing at Qin Han, then secretly sneaking a look at Qin He. These words were meant for Qin He to hear; in the wasteland, the most important thing for farming was rain.

If the soil is dry and hard, no matter how well you farm, without rain and snow, it's all in vain.

Qin He explained: "My injury from last time hasn't healed yet."

"Sigh." Qin Han sighed, truly worried.

She had hoped Qin He would grow spirit vegetables so she could get some. Qin He had promised her. Unlike Qin Bi, who was very stingy with her spirit vegetables; you wouldn't even know she'd give any unless you asked her directly.

Qin He was generous and easy to talk to.

Qin Yuan and Qin Yan were also worried. They walked around the fields, then returned to their own opened farmland. Afterwards, Qin Jue came to take a look, while Qin Yan and the others didn't bother joining the spectacle.

If Qin He had grown spirit vegetables, she wouldn't have kept it quiet. Since there was no news, she definitely hadn't grown any.

Going to check Qin He's opened farmland again and again was pointless.

"Eldest Brother." Qin Yuan went to Qin Jue's opened farmland to find him: "Sister Qin He's luck value is so high; it's not ordinary. Qin Bi could grow spirit vegetables; how could Sister Qin He not be able to?"

Qin Jue thought for a moment: "In the desolate wasteland, spiritual energy is scarce. The higher one's cultivation base, the harder it is to open up wasteland."

Qin Yuan didn't leave. After staying for a while, not knowing what she thought of, she said: "Sister Qin He has always been shouting that Qin Bi stole her fortune. Could it be that this time Qin Bi stole her fortune again, so she couldn't grow spirit vegetables?!"

Qin Jue: "..."

"Qin Bi hasn't come to the desolate wasteland." Qin Jue was speechless.

Qin Yuan wilted; she couldn't even pin the blame on anyone.

She really wanted to find a reason why Qin He couldn't grow spirit vegetables. In Qin Yuan's view, if Qin He wanted to grow spirit vegetables, she certainly could. The result, however, was disappointing, and Qin Yuan instinctively felt it was impossible.

But saying someone stole her fortune when that person isn't even in the wasteland...

"I want to eat spirit vegetables too." Qin Yuan muttered.

Qin Jue sighed. He wanted to eat spirit vegetables too. Building good relations with Qin Bi and the Fourth House would allow him to eat them. However, because Qin He kept interfering in Qin Bi's marriage arrangements, the Second House and Fourth House only appeared harmonious; the path to building good relations was blocked.

When Qin Bi and Prince He first discussed marriage, Prince He chose Qin He. At that time, the problem wasn't big; the Second House and Fourth House didn't cause any unpleasantness. Who Prince He chose was beyond anyone's control.

But later, when Qin Bi and Prince He were betrothed, Qin He still fought for Prince He's favor, squeezed Qin Bi out everywhere, deliberately made Qin Bi unhappy, and even tried to become a co-wife. At that point, there was no turning back.

Who could have thought Qin Bi's fate was so noble? Qin Jue felt somewhat regretful for indulging Qin He.

Letting Qin He take things to the extreme made it irreparable.

Not far away, Qin Xiang was also talking to Qin He Shizi: "Qin He's summoning ability is poor. Don't talk about growing spirit vegetables; even ordinary vegetables, I went to check, and almost all of them froze to death."

Qin He Shizi wasn't surprised at all: "This season is simply not suitable for growing vegetables."

Qin Xiang said: "Qin He always wants to compare herself with Qin Bi."

Because Qin Bi grew spirit vegetables, Qin He also wanted to grow spirit vegetables.

In the middle of winter, Qin He insisted on growing vegetables.

Got slapped in the face, didn't she?!

"Open up farmland." Qin He Shizi held the summoning artifact and summoned a light winter rain, very small indeed. In a whole day, it could only irrigate one fen of land. Qin He Shizi said: "Register it in the records; plant things in spring."

Whoever opened up the farmland had to register it in the records.

Qin Xiang nodded: "Being able to open up three fen of land is already good."

Qin He was greedy, opening up half an mu of land, and even planted vegetables on it all, wasting vegetable seeds.

Of course, Qin He was wealthy; she didn't care about wasting vegetable seeds, and others couldn't stop her anyway.

Qin He was determined to grow spirit vegetables; she was arrogant enough. Who knows where she got such confidence.

Qin He Shizi, noble as the Young Master of Qin Yan Hou Fu, also opened up farmland fen by fen. Today he summoned a light rain to irrigate once, tomorrow he summoned another. Only after the soil was thoroughly irrigated was a piece of farmland considered opened.

As for Qin Bi, who grew spirit vegetables with just one planting, Qin Xiang hadn't seen Qin Bi clearing wasteland, didn't know how she did it, and thus couldn't criticize or be envious. Being envious and forcing oneself to grow spirit vegetables was truly unreasonable.

Thinking of Qin Bi's planting ability, Qin Xiang went to the vegetable plots of Qin Tang and Qin Xun. Qin Tang and Qin Xun were close; their opened farmlands were right next to each other. Qin Xun held the summoning artifact and summoned plants to turn the soil.

Qin Tang summoned a light rain, a very small one; the area covered by one rainfall was larger than a tabletop. Summoning for a whole day was very tiring, but it could also train the summoning ability.

"How is the irrigation with rainwater going?" Qin Xiang asked.

"It takes a whole day to water the ground thoroughly." Qin Xun replied: "By the time the Red Flame Festival arrives, we can open up at most three fen of land. It's incredibly exhausting."