Chapter 13: The Gift of Spirit Insect Master (Patreon)

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"Fourth Brother, don't you believe me?" Wang Luojing's small face was slightly drooping.

"Fourth Brother, I suggest you listen to that girl," Wang Luotong, who was a bit older, also chimed in, "Although Luo Jing is young, she has been very interested in insects since childhood and has a deep understanding of them. Moreover, she has a special talent for attracting insects."

"This is interesting~" Wang Shoujie's spirit was suddenly lifted, his eyes shining brightly, "You can tell Fourth Brother about it, how you solved the honeybee problem, don't rush, we have plenty of time."

"In recent years, I've always heard Grandfather complain about the honeybees being too many, and the harvest not being as good as before," Wang Luojing said weakly, "So I thought, if I could help Grandfather solve the honeybee problem, Grandfather would definitely be very happy. Then I could ask Grandfather to spare my sister from marriage, I don't want my sister to leave~"

Wang Luotong's face turned pale, and she lowered her head, not daring to speak. This was not something she could decide on her own.

"If you can really solve the honeybee disaster, Fourth Brother promises to protect you," Wang Shoujie solemnly promised, "As long as you don't want to get married, you won't get married."

"Thank you, Fourth Brother," Wang Luojing's face lit up with joy, "Actually, I had already seen it in the 'Insect Classic' that ancient people used lacewings to control honeybees, but in recent years, lacewings have become fewer. Last year, I raised some honeybees and lacewings, and it was effective, so this year I asked my brother to catch two lacewing kings in the mountains. I spent some effort to tame them..."

"Wait a minute..." Wang Shoujie's face changed, "What is this 'Insect Classic', and how can you tame lacewing kings?"

"The 'Insect Classic' is just an ancient book I found in our family's library," Wang Luojing said innocently, "The 'Insect Classic' has methods for taming insects, and it's not very difficult, Fourth Brother can learn from me if you want."

Not very difficult?

Wang Shoujie's face turned black, and he recalled the memories of his past life. In the mysterious martial world, there were a few people who liked to use spirit insects to produce or fight, usually known as Spirit Insect Masters.

However, the threshold for becoming a Spirit Insect Master was very high, even higher than that of an Alchemist. The reason was simple: ordinary people could barely learn alchemy with great effort, but the achievements were limited.

But for Spirit Insect Masters, if you didn't have the rare gift of communicating with spirit insects, you couldn't even touch the door.

Therefore, Spirit Insect Masters were very rare, and ordinary young masters of wealthy families had never even heard of it. According to Wang Shoujie's knowledge, only the Changning Xu Clan and the Shanyin Liu Clan had secretly cultivated two Spirit Insect Masters.

If Wang Luojing had the gift of a Spirit Insect Master...

At this moment, Wang Shoujie's heart was racing.

"Fourth Brother, Fourth Brother, what's wrong?" Wang Luojing waved her hand in front of him, pouting, "Don't you believe me either?"

"Believe, believe," Wang Shoujie nodded vigorously, "Our Luo Jing is the smartest, Fourth Brother is very interested. Let's go a bit further, and you can demonstrate it for Fourth Brother."

"Okay, the two lacewing kings are on Fourth Brother's carriage," Wang Luojing said happily after being recognized, "I'll go get them with my sister."

Wang Shoujie suddenly remembered that when he saw the two sisters this morning, they were each carrying a strange large box, and he had thought it was their personal belongings, so he didn't ask. Now it seemed that they had already planned to try it out at the farm.

"Let the family servant go," Wang Shoujie waved his hand.

The family servant, who was waiting in the distance, immediately ran over quickly and respectfully said, "Clan leader, what are your orders?"

"Wang Wu, Wang Yong. Go to the carriage and bring back the two boxes belonging to Miss Luo Jing."

"Yes, master."

The two house servants rushed off at an incredible speed. In less than 15 minutes, they returned, each carrying a box.

"Wang Gui, Wang Wu, you guys go to Fourth Elder's place and see if you can lend a hand." Wang Shoujie sent them away, figuring that Wang Xiaozhi was probably also trying to find a way to use plant ash solution to control aphids, and they were short-handed anyway.

The house servants were all mysterious martial artists, and their efficiency was much higher than that of ordinary farmers.

Most importantly, the situation was still uncertain, and he didn't want to spread the news.

After Wang Gui and the other four house servants left, Wang Shoujie personally carried the two large boxes, accompanied by Wang Luotong and Wang Luojing, and ran to a remote wheat field.

The several thousand acres of land were like a vast ocean. This side was empty and deserted, perfect for a demonstration.

Wang Shoujie opened the wheat ears and found that there were indeed some green aphids in the wheat field, which made him feel a bit creepy.

"Luo Jing, let Fourth Brother take a look at your skills."

"Uh, this time the honeybee outbreak is earlier than I expected." Wang Luojing's expression was also serious and worried, and she carefully opened one of the boxes.

Wang Shoujie curiously peeked into the box and suddenly felt a dense fear, his hair standing on end, because the box was full of leaves, and each leaf had a thread-like object growing out of it, covered with dense, round dots.

"Fourth Brother, sister, help me out." Wang Luojing took out a piece of "leaf" and said, "Place one leaf per square meter."

Wang Shoujie's mouth twitched, and this little girl was really bold, daring to order even the clan leader around. But his hands and feet were very obedient, and he followed Wang Luojing's instructions. With his cultivation level, he grasped a piece of "leaf" and casually tossed it, and the "leaf" landed steadily in place.

According to Wang Luojing's instructions, about several dozen leaves were needed per acre of wheat field, and she had only opened one of the two boxes, which was not enough to cover even 10 acres of land, let alone the several thousand acres of wheat field, which was just a drop in the ocean.

After finishing the deployment in about 15 minutes, Wang Shoujie and Wang Luotong stood near Wang Luojing, waiting for her instructions.

"These lacewing eggs are three-day-old," Wang Luojing explained. "They will hatch slowly in the dark box, but once they see sunlight, they will hatch quickly."

Okay, you're the expert in this field, so whatever you say goes.

Regarding his own knowledge blind spots, Wang Shoujie had always been very humble and never overstepped his bounds. Time passed slowly, and before half an hour was up, the few pieces of leaves that had been deployed started to change, and one by one, strange-looking small insects struggled out of their shells.

Those leaves were right in front of them, and they could clearly observe the small insects, which were only about 2 millimeters long, resembling long, bar-shaped beetles with two large pincers on their heads, looking very ugly.

After birth, they didn't move at all, just hanging quietly on the threads.

Then, after another half hour, they finally started moving, sliding down the leaves, slowly spreading out in all directions, as if they could sense where there was food, crawling up the wheat stalks with ease.

Suddenly!

One of them encountered an aphid, and it pounced fiercely, using its pincers to grab the aphid, and its mouthparts to suck its body, and in just a short 15 minutes, the poor aphid was sucked dry and blown away by the wind.

Later, the lacewing larva continued to crawl forward, searching for its next prey.

"Amazing!" Wang Shoujie exclaimed, "This little insect is really fierce."

"Fourth Brother, I calculated before that it can eat nearly a thousand honeybees in ten days. When it's first born, it's still small, and it can only eat about a dozen a day for the first two days." Wang Luojing had been playing with these things for a long time and was no longer surprised.

"If that's the case, then this wheat field, although it will reduce production a bit, can still be saved." Wang Shoujie praised while worrying, "But our Fenggu Farm has several thousand acres of wheat, ah."

"Don't worry, Fourth Brother, I was just testing it out." Wang Luojing opened another box, which was no longer filled with dense lacewing larvae, but with small, colorful beetles.

"Isn't that...?" Wang Shoujie saw the beetles and was surprised, "Seven-Star Ladybug?"

"Fourth Brother knows it too? But according to the Insect Classic, it's called the Nine-Spotted Beetle, not the Seven-Star Ladybug." Wang Luojing took out a fist-sized, giant beetle with nine spots on its body, fondling it happily, "From now on, let's call you the Nine-Star Insect King."

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