Chapter 702 - A Sense of Loss
In a jiffy, the two of them had bought five mountains for their own use. By the time Imperial Prince Xu and his wife leisurely returned back to Jinling, it was already time for the autumn harvest. The experimental rice fields in Jinling were a beautiful golden color and the plants swayed gently, resembling a golden ocean.
They had found the sterile rice plants with great difficulty and they had been planted in the breeding fields. At this time, at harvest, they really couldn't see a huge difference between those plants and regular rice plants. However, in the hybridization fields, where they planted the two complementary plants, there were rice tassels that were large and very plump. Each rice ear had around two hundred rice seeds in them.
Official Wu now had hope that they could produce high yielding rice plants in the future. After he saw Xiaocao, he was unable to restrain himself and cried like a child in front of her. Although they were still a bit away from making true hybridized rice crops, they just needed to persevere longer. After all, now he had hope, right?
Yu Xiaocao praised Official Wu a few times and saw that he became even more eager and excited about researching on how to produce hybridized rice. Within her heart, she admired this man, who worked wholeheartedly for the people and was throwing himself into 'scientific research', even more.
[In actuality, this divine stone could just use a bit of power and these rice paddies would get up to a thousand catties per mu without any issues. Furthermore, the seeds used for next year will also have the same high yield.] The little divine stone sensed its master's thoughts and proclaimed in a somewhat arrogant manner.
"No need, if it's too eye-catching, it'll be hard to explain to outsiders. They will start believing that I'm a monster or something!" Yu Xiaocao refused the little divine stone's good intentions, "The people's potential is endless. As long as we give them a direction, I believe that they will very quickly get some results."
[You're willing to waste a few more years to get the exact same outcome? That's up to you then!] The little divine stone suddenly felt that it had lost its meaning and felt a bit at a loss.
Xiaocao, who was intimately linked to it, naturally could sense its somewhat downcast thoughts. She comforted it, "Little Glutinous Dumpling, you possess great powers, but there's no need for you to interfere in something that humans can do on their own--that's right, in the past, you told me that when you regained all of your cultivation, you could alter seeds permanently. Doesn't this mean...that you have already gained all of your lost powers?"
The little divine stone's voice echoed prominently in her mind as it stated in a proud manner, [That's right! This time, when we went to the border between the Great Ming Empire and Myanmar, this divine stone came across a great opportunity. All of the fetters that the Goddess of Spirits had left upon me are now gone. Now this divine stone could fly up into the heavens in full glory, ha ha ha!]
"Congratulations!" Xiaocao happily congratulated the stone at first. Suddenly, she became downcast, "Then...doesn't that mean that you will be leaving this mundane world soon?"
When she transmigrated over, the little divine stone had given her earth-shattering powers to turn her life around. On the day before she got married, she remembered the 'dream' that seemed very real that her younger brother had told her.
In his dream, the delicate and weak Yu Xiaocao had passed away after getting hit on her head before Doctor You had the chance to treat her. Her callous grandmother wrapped her dead body in a bunch of broken straw and threw her onto the burial mound at the South Mountain before her father had come back from hunting. By the time her father went there to retrieve her corpse, her dead body had already been torn into pieces by wild dogs and even her face had been gnawed in half. It was truly a horrifying sight.
