Chapter Thirteen: Free and Easy Wandering, Feng Shui and Treating Fruit Trees' Diseases

  Xiaoyaozi calls a person whose body's energy and blood reaches 100% as "complete man" or "perfect man", and the "complete man" can reach the state of "body xiaoyao".

  Zhaoyang can understand the concept of "whole person" because he has a visceral experience of reaching 10% of his energy, but what is "body relaxation"?

  But when his energy and blood reached 100%, he immediately understood the reason for this title: After his body's energy and blood reached perfection, Zhao Yang felt like he had shed a burden, becoming much lighter, as if his entire body was transparent, every breath seeming to reach his fingertips and toes!

  This is because the five internal organs have reached a state of perfection, and all the organs are in harmony with each other. In this state, people will eat well, sleep well, and their bodies will not get sick.

  Such a state is naturally "free and easy" for the body!

  At the same time, the fullness of his breath also made him more sensitive to his surroundings!

  When he returned home at noon, Zhao Yang walked around the house and said to Sun Zhenxiang: "Mom, let me clean up the house for you!"

  Zhao Bingxing hasn't come back yet, but Sun Zhenxiang has already finished cooking. She covered the dishes with a bowl and said, "Clean up the house properly."

  Sun Zhenxiang is a diligent person, and her home has always been tidy. However, Zhao Yang insisted, "Mom, don't bother, I'll do it myself!"

  After he finished speaking, he started taking action, moving some grocery bags from the east house to other rooms, and shifting tables and cabinets.

  Sun Zhenxiang folded a newspaper into a paper hat and put it on Zhao Yang's head, scolding: "You child, what are you messing around for?"

  She also took a broom and swept away the dirt from the corners.

  The house is still the same, and the furniture is also the same, but after Zhao Yang's adjustments, the room looks much brighter. Sun Zhenxiang smiled: "Hey, you can't say that this way, it feels much more spacious!"

  Zhao Yang walked around in the house, closed his eyes and felt it for a while, and finally adjusted the position of the bed again.

  Although it was just a slight movement, in Sun Zhenxiang's feeling, it seemed very comfortable and didn't need to lie on it to feel much more at ease. She smiled and said: "My son is really capable!"

  After she finished speaking, she continued sweeping the ground that had just been moved, and unexpectedly gained a surprise: in a shoe box, she actually found 900 yuan!

  "This must be your dad secretly hiding a portion of the money from selling peaches this time! I said it felt a bit off, usually if he sold so much, he would definitely take tens of dollars for pocket money, but this time not a single cent!"

  Zhao Yang saw Sun Zhenxiang pick up the money and was about to put it in her pocket, so he hastily coughed and said: "Mom, why don't you leave this little bit of money for Dad?"

  Sun Zhenxiang said in puzzlement: "Why? He didn't spend money on anything!"

  Zhao Yang didn't say a word. He thought of his male colleagues at Hai Chen company, who would always try to curry favor with their female colleagues after receiving bonuses, hoping that when their wives asked, they would say they hadn't received any or had received less. Although he wasn't married yet, he understood this behavior very well!

  Sun Zhenxiang thought that this year's orchard income would definitely be very high, so she hummed and said: "Since my son has spoken, let's leave it for this old thing! I'll see how he spends it!" She also said: "Yangyang, you don't know, it's not that Mom wants to hold onto the money. When we first got married, Mom didn't want to manage the finances either, but your dad was like that, as soon as he had money in his hands, he didn't know what his surname was, spending money lavishly and couldn't save a penny..."

  Zhao Yang naturally expressed understanding and support for Sun Zhenxiang, and also listened to some of their experiences.

  Zhao Bingxing returned, and as soon as he saw that the things in the house had been moved around, his face changed color. He told Sun Zhenxiang to go to the kitchen to fetch food, then chased Zhao Yang out, closed the door, and started rummaging around inside by himself.

  After two or three minutes, Zhao Bingxing came out and found that Sun Zhenxiang and her mother were already sitting at the dinner table eating, looking as usual. He patted his pocket and couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

  When Zhao Bingxing sat down, Sun Zhenxiang smiled and looked at him: "Today Yangyang cleaned the house for us, how do you feel?"

  Zhao Bingxing sat on the stool, motionless, and said calmly: "Alright, hmm, not bad!"

  Sun Zhenxiang smiled and stopped talking, his face showing some surprise and uncertainty.

  Zhao Yang looked amused and changed the subject, asking: "Dad, is everything okay with the fruit trees?"

  Although there are no various pests in the orchard, it will still get sick and cause great losses if you don't pay attention.

  Zhao Bingxing said, "No problem." Every fruit tree in the orchard was planted and grafted by him personally. As soon as this topic was mentioned, his interest immediately picked up, and he added another sentence: "Thriving!" He also sang a few lines of Yu Opera on the spot: "This year, Chaoyanggou has had a bumper harvest again, a bumper harvest..."

  Sun Zhenxiang saw Zhao Bingxing like this, and her mood softened a bit. She picked up a fried cicada and put it in his bowl, but scolded: "Eat your meal, what are you staring at!"

  Cicada shells are the pupae of cicadas. Cicadas, also known as tettigonia, multiply in summer. At this time, you start to catch cicada shells and stick them, not only can they be served on the table at home, but also sold for money if there are leftovers.

  Locals with orchards usually lay down plastic sheets under the fruit trees and can harvest a large number of cicadas every night.

  Zhao Yang's family has ten mu of land with fruit trees, and naturally there are fewer cicadas. The money from selling cicadas every year is also a major source of income for the Zhao family, usually selling for over 10,000 yuan without any problem. This year, Zhao Yang asked Shang Nianjun to help out, leaving aside two households' worth of food, and splitting the remaining money with him half-and-half.

  A few days ago, Zhao Yang dried several kilograms of sun-dried goods and found an opportunity to send them to Chen Mei, the widow of Dong Hai.

  After dinner, Zhao Yang went to Shang Bai'an and several other patients' homes, also to adjust the "feng shui" of their bedrooms.

  Some people's living habits are reasonable, such as not placing the bed opposite the window or door to prevent drafts from causing headaches. However, in some minor details, it is impossible to achieve perfection, and when circumstances change, rigidly adhering to these habits becomes inappropriate.

  Minor differences in layout, such as those found indoors, can have effects that are sometimes negligible and sometimes lead to problems over time.

  Zhao Yang is now very sensitive to the environment, and he can tell what impact the layout of furniture in every household has on the body. He just needs to take a look and walk around to distinguish it clearly. Then he helps them rearrange their furniture.

  After his decoration, every family feels that their home has become new and looks very comfortable.

  After finishing his busy work, Zhao Yang returned to the orchard.

  Under the scorching sun, the orchard watered in the afternoon looks lush and thriving.

  But Zhao Yang took a look and felt something was off. Each fruit tree gave people the feeling of being strong on the outside but weak on the inside, and even when the wind blew through the leaves, it seemed lifeless.

  Zhao Yang believed his perception of the environment, so he walked around the orchard again, and this feeling became more apparent. He had an epiphany, why not use Mirror Lake Technique to observe?

  A mirror-like surface appeared at the center of his brows, and boundless green color emerged on top!

  Plants are wood in the Five Elements, and the color they reflect is naturally green, the inherent color of wood in the Five Elements!

  But amidst all this greenery, there are threads of black air mixed in!

  As expected, these fruit trees have fallen ill!

  Fruit trees can also get many diseases, among which the most common one is rot disease. This disease, if mild, will cause branches and leaves to die, if severe, will cause fruit to rot, and the most serious one is to kill the fruit tree!

  Zhao Yang hurried back into the house to prepare medicine. He had treated illnesses for people before, and he had also treated illnesses for livestock animals. This time, he was going to treat an illness for a fruit tree!

  This time is different from last time when spraying pesticides on fruit trees. Last time it was the bugs themselves that were affected, but this time we're applying the medicine directly!

  Zhao Yang matched several medicines, some were poured on the ground, some were sprayed on the leaves, and some were used for fumigation. He first tested them separately on a few trees.

  After observation, Zhao Yang finally chose the formula for trial on the second apple tree, the one with medicinal vapor steaming.

  This formula can reduce the amount of medicine entering the plant body and has almost no effect on the land and fruit trees.

  The large pots that had been used a while ago were placed in the orchard again, and soon the medicinal vapor began to drift through the orchard.

  Using Jinghu technique, Zhao Yang could clearly feel the medicinal gas entering that patch of green. The original green was unaffected, while the black gas within was dispersed, becoming fainter and fainter until it disappeared from the green.

  When Zhao Yang came back to his senses, he found that Zhao Bingxing was standing beside him, pointing at the row of pots in the garden and asking: "What's this?"

  Zhao Yang smiled and said: "To cure illness!"

  "Is it all right?" Zhao Bingxing asked hastily.

  Zhao Yang nodded slightly.

  Zhao Bingxing let out a sigh and said: "This forest is indeed showing some signs of illness, I was just thinking of finding you to see how to deal with it!"

  As soon as it passed noon, the mountain wind came. At this time, the branches in the orchard were shaking and the leaves were rustling, making a sound that was pleasant to the ear. Zhao Yang could even feel the joy of the fruit trees and their closeness to him from among them!

  P.S: Alas, the monk has broken his promise, it was supposed to be sent this morning, please forgive me...