Chapter 74: Sea Of Five Offerings Flowers! All Blessed By The Heavenly Lord!
No matter what, when the relevant county department comes to inspect, apart from the inspection itself, the Chen Clan also has to make proper arrangements in other areas. Chen Han discussed this with his junior sister.
Xiao Mi did not take part in the discussion between the senior brother and junior sister. At this moment, her attention was caught by the calf in the courtyard.
She noticed that although the calf was lying down, it had actually stretched its nose toward the orchids in front of it to smell the flower fragrance.
It was attracted by the flower fragrance.
Only then did she realize how fragrant Chen Han’s courtyard was. It was the pure natural orchid fragrance, which surprised her.
As someone who liked orchids herself, she naturally knew how unbelievable this kind of fragrance was.
Moreover, when she carefully observed, she found that the orchids filling Chen Han’s courtyard seemed more beautiful and better looking than normal orchids.
This discovery made her squat down and observe.
Sure enough, that was the case.
In terms of flower quality, flower layers, aesthetics, and so on, they were absolutely no longer ordinary orchids. Even some extremely precious orchids might not be able to compare.
After finishing discussing the reception arrangements for the inspection of the relevant department with her senior brother, Xiao Yu saw Xiao Mi examining those orchids, and she was also surprised. “Sister Xiao Mi, these orchids seem different, more beautiful. Are these still ordinary orchids?”
Previously, she had already felt that her senior brother raised these orchids very well, more beautiful than the ones in her own courtyard, but after only a short time away from his place, how had these orchids completely changed?
Xiao Mi nodded and asked Chen Han in surprise, “What did you do to these orchids?”
Chen Han was not surprised that his junior sister and Xiao Mi noticed the abnormality of these orchids, since both of them were people who loved orchids.
He happened to be planning to do Five Offerings Flowers anyway, so he improvised. “I have recently been studying that Feng Shui formation under our family estate, and I also saw in the Daoist sect books that Feng Shui can have auxiliary effects on plant growth.”
Hearing this, Xiao Mi subconsciously said, “Is it like what is said in ‘Kan Yu Dao Ji’, about ‘nurturing the earth veins, increasing prosperity and auspiciousness’?”
When Chen Han and Xiao Yu heard this, they both turned to look at Xiao Mi in unison.
Chen Han had only been making things up and had not expected the Daoist books to actually contain such records.
The key was that Xiao Mi could even accurately give an example.
Xiao Yu was both envious and admiring, looking at sister Xiao Mi with a bit of reverence.
She even understood this?
Feeling awkward under their stares, Xiao Mi said, “I have recently been reading some online books about Daoist Feng Shui.”
Naturally, Chen Han followed her lead. “More or less like that. Feng Shui has a part of its functions that can help plants grow, even allowing some transformation. I did some research and found that many places of our Chen Clan have such effects. It happens that my courtyard is one of them, so I used a special method to run some experiments.”
At this moment Xiao Yu said in surprise, “Senior brother, if that is the case, if we find other such places and plant flowers there, it could make the flowers this beautiful and this fragrant. That would definitely attract a lot of people.”
“Junior sister, you are really smart. We should indeed plant some flowers.” Chen Han had already had this plan. Once again he went with the flow and reached out to lightly tap his junior sister’s nose.
Praised by her senior brother again, Xiao Yu was obviously very happy, a smile on her lips.
Chen Han and Xiao Mi looked at her, both wearing an indulgent “auntie smile.”
This girl really cannot take praise.
“Senior brother, then what flowers should we plant?” Xiao Yu had no idea that her weak spot had been completely grasped.
“After all, we are a Daoist Sect Heritage Family. For what we present to the outside world, of course we plant Five Offerings Flowers.” Chen Han did not hesitate about this. In the Daoist sect there is the concept of the Five Offerings: incense, flowers, lamps, water, and fruit.
Flowers are one of them, and naturally not every flower can be used for the Five Offerings. There are specific requirements.
Among them, orchids, chrysanthemums, lilies, peonies, and so on are all excellent flowers for the Five Offerings.
So the Chen Clan would also plant these flowers.
Next was the issue of planting area.
Because the Hundred Flowers Palace Spirit Jade needed to be fully replenished with spiritual energy before it could be used, and only the daily Maoshi hour spiritual energy rinse of the Special Spiritual Aperture could replenish it, it could only be used once a day.
Before the renovation, experiments had already been done. It could only renovate the family’s type of 50 cubic meter pond, for irrigating the sea of flowers. According to online data, with an irrigation depth of 10 millimeters and irrigating once a day, it could irrigate a flower sea area of at most 3,000 to 6,000 square meters.
Using scattered spray irrigation, reaching 4,000 square meters was no problem.
Now they faced a problem: whether to plant the flowers scattered throughout the Chen Clan Ancient Architectural Complex or to concentrate them in one place.
The benefit of the first option was that the Spirit Plant Dew Water would transform all these flowers, surrounding the entire Chen Clan Ancient Architecture in a single flower fragrance. For tourists, this would be an unimaginable experience and could raise the basic standing of the Chen Clan Ancient Architecture by another level.
The benefit of the second option was that it could add a new ticket-based source of income.
In addition to the 100 yuan ticket, they could charge an extra Flower Sea Ticket for the Five Offerings Flowers. At that time, they could place a statue of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation in the middle of the flower sea and say that these Five Offerings Flowers were planted as offerings to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation, and that viewing them would bring good fortune.
With the transformation by the Spirit Plant Dew Water, these Five Offerings Flowers would become completely different, more beautiful, with better aesthetics, and with richer flower fragrance. Such flowers would basically not be seen elsewhere. After seeing the Five Offerings Flowers planted among the Ancient Architectural Complex, visitors would surely be attracted and want to see the flower sea of Five Offerings Flowers.
Moreover, these Five Offerings Flowers were different from those outside. The fact that they could be so beautiful could be said to be all thanks to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation’s blessing.
At that time, they could place some cushions outside, so that people could worship the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation and pray for blessings. In an instant, this flower sea would give people a different feeling, full of a sense of sacredness.
Charging a 100 yuan ticket for this would not be excessive, right?
Besides, this money would ultimately be used to upgrade the sect residence. The system loved to do charity so much that it donated everything.
If one day it became necessary to reveal this publicly, it would be explained as transactions by the Chen Clan in strict obedience to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation’s protection of all beings and support of the weak, helping everyone do good deeds. Tourists who had bought tickets for this flower sea would each have a share of merit. Merit is not exclusive to the Buddhist sect; it originally comes from the Taishang chapter.
If this were in a game plot, then as the Chen Family Head he should be able to attain sainthood through merit.
Of course, the main thing was that an additional 4,000 square meters of Five Offerings Flowers could at least provide more than ten job positions for the clan.
In the end, he decided to have both: use 2,000 square meters to build flower beds planted throughout the Chen Clan Ancient Architectural Complex, and use the remaining 2,000 square meters to create the flower sea.
This would make the irrigation system more complicated and require spending tens of thousands more.
However, compared with the resulting benefits, this amount was nothing.
This matter still had to be handed over to his uncle, so he immediately called his uncle.
After Chen Lin arrived, he asked, “Xiao Han, what do you need me to do?”
Chen Han repeated the story he had just made up for his junior sister and Xiao Mi to his uncle, then continued, “So, our Chen Clan needs to plant some Five Offerings Flowers. Uncle, you also know that this Feng Shui Array can speed up plant growth. We had better buy mature Five Offerings Flowers, so that we can ensure our Chen Clan is surrounded by the flower fragrance of the Five Offerings Flowers before the National Style Event begins.”
“We will need to recruit quite a few people then!” Chen Lin’s eyes lit up.
He had personally experienced that the Chen Clan’s Feng Shui Array could accelerate plant growth. Previously, over at the Vegetable Garden, when he saw cauliflower sprout overnight and those vegetables blossom all at the same time, he had almost gone neurotic.
Now that it was confirmed the family did have a Feng Shui Array, he felt this was all perfectly natural.
The next chapter is coming right away
