Chu Li said: "Zhuo Feiyang, why don't you admit defeat?"
Zhao Ying hurriedly said: "Senior Brother Zhuo!"
Zhuo Feiyang stared at Chu Li, his breathing getting heavier and heavier, disbelief, unwillingness, and anger all tangled together, tumbling in his heart.
Chu Li shook his head and smiled.
Zhao Ying said softly: "Senior Brother Zhuo!"
Zhuo Feiyang turned to look at her, and finally uttered three words bitterly: "I give up!"
"Pah, pah, pah, pah!" He slapped himself six times in one breath, with dense red marks appearing on his handsome face.
Chu Li shook his head and laughed: "Victory and defeat are common things for military strategists, so why bother?"
"You..." Zhuo Feiyang's eyes were like spitting fire.
"Senior Brother Chu, please stop saying a few words!" Zhao Ying said angrily.
"Forget it, it's useless to say it!" Chu Li waved his hand: "Go back and practice hard. Don't take the flattery seriously. You foolishly think you are a genius!"
"What you have been given today will be rewarded generously!" Zhuo Feiyang gritted his teeth and said this, turned around and left.
Zhao Ying said angrily: "Senior Brother Chu, you have gone too far!"
Chu Li shook his head and said with a smile: "Junior sister Zhao, he is very thick-skinned, not so fragile!"
"I'll bring the Moonlight Orchid right away!" Zhao Ying snorted, stamped her feet and turned away.
Watching the three people leaving in the boat, Li Yue laughed twice, but Chu Li swayed and hurriedly used his sword to support himself, his face getting paler.
"Brother?" Li Yue went to help him, but Chu Li stretched out his hand to stop him.
"It's not that serious, just too much force."
"Then sit down quickly." Li Yue said hurriedly.
Chu Li slowly returned to the green mulberry flower garden, stretched out his hand to touch a green mulberry flower, and a surge of spiritual energy suddenly poured in. He was refreshed and performed the Changchun Gong twice. He felt more energetic and all fatigue was gone.
Changchun Gong is a new mental method he has practiced. It is a Taoist Zhoutian inner elixir technique, a method of refining one's nature and prolonging one's life. It stimulates the essence of grains to cure diseases and prolong life.
"Ding..." The jade chime rang, and Li Yue ran out and quickly brought the moonlight orchid in: "Miss Zhao is really trustworthy, she delivered it so quickly!"
Chu Li looked at Yueguang Lan happily and waved.
Li Yue approached him: "Do you want to move it out?"
Chu Li shook his head.
He touched the Moonlight Orchid with his right hand, and the cool spiritual energy surged in and circulated along the Xiaomai Cleansing Technique.
In the following days, he almost always sat next to the Moonlight Orchid, feeling the Moonlight Orchid and exploring its habits and patterns.
It hates water, so dew is enough and no more watering is allowed.
It consumes a lot of fertilizer, especially when it shines at night, and the soil in the pot quickly becomes infertile.
Chu Li finally dried the mud at the bottom of the lake and mixed it with mulch to replace the soil in the basin.
Moonlight Orchid is very uncomfortable with mud and rot, like a willful child who would rather starve to death than eat disgusting vegetables.
Chu Li used the aura of green mulberry flowers to keep it alive. After a week, it slowly adapted and began to absorb fertility.
Chu Li lamented again, without the Kurong Sutra, Yueguanglan really couldn't survive!
For a month, Chu Li has been staying beside Moonlight Orchid, ignoring what is going on outside the window. A new shoot branched out from under the original Moonlight Orchid root and grew to half its height.
Under the infusion of spiritual energy, the new Moonlight Orchid grows extremely fast, which is also his newly discovered magical effect - accelerated growth.
The withered tree seems to be the king of flowers and plants. You can make them wither and flourish, and take them alive or dead.
Countless thoughts came to him in an instant. Moonlight Orchid was like this. What if it were replaced by other spiritual herbs? What about those legendary treasures of heaven, materials and earth
If their seeds can be found, the Ku Rong Sutra can make them grow and shorten the growth cycle. The benefits are unimaginable.
If you open a Qicao Xuan, you will make money like water.
Li Yue kept urging him to report to avoid being overtaken by Gu Litong, but Chu Li kept suppressing it and failed to cultivate a new Moonlight Orchid. It was easy for branches to arise and it was difficult to deal with doubters.
Moreover, the Ku Rong Sutra gave him great confidence.
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In the evening, as the sun set, Chu Li sat next to two moonlight orchids and practiced martial arts. Li Yue came back from outside and sat down on the ground.
"Brother, there is news..."
"Did Gu Litong succeed?"
"It's not Gu Litong, it's Zhuo Feiyang!"
"he-?"
"Zhuo Feiyang came out of seclusion yesterday and broke into the ninth-grade building... and he is now a seventh-grade guard!"
"Know your shame and then be brave, work hard to become stronger," Chu Li nodded casually: "It's not surprising, his talent is indeed good."
Li Yue looked at him in surprise: "Aren't you worried?"
"Worried about retaliating against me?"
"If he comes here again, he may not be his opponent!"
"Then just refuse." Chu Li smiled.
The rules of the Duke's Mansion are to protect the weak, unlike those outside the mansion where the strong prey on the weak. Of course, if you really want to live a comfortable life, you still have to work hard.
Li Yue's eyes widened: "Reject? This..."
Chu Li spread his hands: "We are guards after all, how can we compete with the guards in martial arts? They have the guts to compete with us!"
Li Yue sighed worriedly: "Brother, I always feel that something is... wrong."
Chu Li smiled and said: "Okay, just keep your heart in your stomach and report it to Baicao Courtyard tomorrow."
He was wary, Zhuo Feiyang was not that kind of magnanimous person, and he would avenge himself.
"That's right!" Li Yue suddenly became excited: "I should have signed up a long time ago to avoid long nights and dreams. I'll go after dinner tomorrow... It's better to go now!"
He got up and left.
Chu Li's face sank, deep in thought. Zhuo Feiyang was tough enough. He seemed to have won easily last time, but he tried his best.
There are still five months to build the foundation, but Zhuo Feiyang will be even stronger in five months!
Meng Qinglin and Li Yue hurried over and saw the new Moonlight Orchid. They were overjoyed and patted Chu Li on the shoulder and laughed.
"Good boy, I really belong to you!" Meng Qinglin laughed: "You really did it!"
Chu Li smiled: "It was a lucky success."
Meng Qinglin waved his hand and sat down on the ground: "Xiao Chu, you're not faking it, are you? Don't do tricks just to win against Gu Litong!"
Li Yue said loudly: "Mr. Meng!"
Meng Qinglin rolled her eyes at him: "Why are you so excited? I'm just asking casually. This concerns the young lady's face. It doesn't matter if you don't succeed. It's even more embarrassing if you cheat!"
Chu Li sat down, touched the Moonlight Orchid with his hand, and his spiritual energy circulated endlessly: "Mr. Meng, this one was cultivated by new buds, and that one was bought at Qicao Xuan more than a month ago."
"Is it possible to buy just one plant?" Meng Qinglin asked with a smile.
Chu Li smiled and nodded.
Meng Qinglin had a smile on his face. Gu Litong bought no less than a dozen moonlight orchids and spent a lot of money, but they still couldn't survive. Chu Li only managed to survive with one plant. Such luck!
Li Yue said: "Mr. Meng, Qicao Xuan said that there is only this one this year. There is something wrong with Moonlight Island, and we have no place to buy any more!"
"Hey, how can a businessman's words be taken seriously? There are rare things to live in, so I am forcing you to buy them." Meng Qinglin said with a smile: "Do you really believe it?"
"Mr. Meng," Chu Li said with a smile, "After today, Moonlight Orchid is no longer exclusive to the Qicaoxuan family."
Meng Qinglin looked at the half-height Moonlight Orchid and rubbed his hands: "It's almost evening, I want to appreciate the beauty of Moonlight Orchid!"
It's not that he doubted Chu Li's words. Chu Li was a smart guy and would not put his own future on the line for immediate benefits.
There is no room for fraud in this matter. If the moonlight orchid is successfully cultivated, it will be spread in all the gardens in the house. You can buy one or two, or eight out of ten, but you can't buy hundreds. Qicao Xuan doesn't have that many moonlight orchids!
He asked these questions to remind them that the Xiyuan Garden lineage would never give in and would try every means to deny it and prevent Chu Li from taking the lead.
Li Yue showed off his cooking skills and made eight dishes and two soups. The three of them had full stomachs.
The night fell and the moonlight rose. In front of Chu Li and the others, there were two crescent moons. Two moonlight orchids were shining, which was incredibly beautiful.
"Alas..." Meng Qinglin looked intoxicated and sighed, "It's so beautiful!"
Chu Li smiled and said: "It's just like that after seeing it too much."
"What a shame!" Meng Qinglin glared at him and said, "I won't get tired of it even if I watch it for a hundred years!"
Chu Li shook his head and smiled. The moon is beautiful, but there are a few people who admire it every night.
"Xiao Chu, are you ready?" Meng Qinglin looked at Yueguang Lan and said.
Chu Li smiled and said, "What are you preparing for?"
"You are going to be famous." Meng Qinglin patted him on the shoulder: "You are more famous than Gu Liming!"
Chu Li smiled.
"As for entering the medicine garden, you have to be patient. The people in the West Garden will try their best to stop you, but your credit is here, they can't stop you!"
"Yes, please, Mr. Meng."
"Alas..., thanks to you, our East Garden family can finally raise its head!"
Gu Litong made Dongyuan Garden breathless. Geniuses like Gu Litong were very rare.
Gardeners are like doctors. They learn the same medical books, but their medical skills are different. The key is talent.
Meng Qinglin shouted: "Bring the wine!"
Li Yue hurriedly brought two jars of wine, and Meng Qinglin drank half of the jar happily. He soon became drunk, lay on the ground and fell asleep, and did not leave until the next morning.
Not long after Meng Qinglin left, a small boat floated over. Standing on the boat was a girl in an apricot-yellow robe. She was extremely beautiful, with full almond eyes, a straight nose, and a small cherry mouth, just like the character in the painting.
She floated lightly to the shore and struck the jade chime.
Chu Li and Li Yue appeared, and Li Yue shouted loudly: "Manager Su, some are welcome from a distance, some are welcome from afar!"
Chu Li cupped his fists and saluted. Hearing Li Yue shout so enthusiastically, he immediately knew the identity of this person, Suru, the personal maid of the third lady Xiao Qi.
He has been with the third lady since he was a child. He is called the Master and Servant and loves his sisters. He has a very high status in the house and is the manager of Yuqi Island. For the guards, one word can determine their future and destiny.
Suru pursed her lips and chuckled, waving her jade hands: "Okay, don't make such nonsense. I heard Mr. Meng said that you made Moonlight Orchid?"
"Exactly!" Li Yue nodded proudly: "Brother Chu made it!"
Suru's watery eyes fell on Chu Li's face.
Chu Li smiled and clasped his fists: "Chu Li has met Manager Su."
Suru smiled and said: "The one who can't deal with Zhuo Feiyang?"
Chu Li smiled sheepishly.