I Materialized the Cultivation Game-Chapter 73 - 67: What the Heck Is a Feng Shui Room?
[Mouse Spirit Fruit: This is a special spirit fruit, highly favored by animals, capable of attracting spiritually intelligent and wise animals, because the Mouse Spirit Fruit can help animals unlock intelligence!
Limitations: Cannot be used by animals without spiritual intelligence and wisdom; using it might harm the brain or cause sudden death!]
Chen Han was a bit surprised when he saw the notes.
In the era of Changmei Daoist’s Beast Taming Sect, various spirit fruits beneficial to spiritual beasts were cultivated and sought after. It seems this Mouse Spirit Fruit is one of them.
As for why it’s called Mouse Spirit Fruit, that’s unknown. Perhaps it’s like the Mouse Fruit from Immortal Sword, becoming mature with Spiritual Qi and favored by animals like squirrels, casually given a name with ’mouse’.
It might also be possible that the game’s planner knew about Immortal Sword’s Mouse Fruit and just decided to create a Mouse Spirit Fruit on a whim.
As for why not copy directly, to avoid being accused of plagiarism.
But isn’t this just avoiding the inevitable?
However, that’s not important. The important thing is the effect of this Mouse Spirit Fruit in helping animals unlock intelligence, which is indeed very beneficial for a beast-taming sect.
A spiritual beast of the same strength, one smart, one not smart, the not-smart one will surely be outplayed.
In reality, many animals become spiritually enlightened as well, such as bears who like wearing robes and skating, dogs who like listening to music, etc.
These animals exhibit two characteristics: intelligence and anthropomorphism.
Thus, many people say these animals have spiritual nature.
This is also something acknowledged by netizens.
If someone raises such an animal, they almost have raised an internet celebrity, sometimes animals become popular more easily than humans.
However, such spiritually awakened animals are rare, and their spiritual nature is limited, incomparable to the spiritual beasts in the legends of the Taoist Sect.
Chen Han looked at the Mouse Spirit Fruit. If this thing were used for animals, their intelligence shouldn’t be worse than those bears wearing robes and skating, right?
It’s just that not any animal can eat this Mouse Spirit Fruit, as there are limitations. Animals without spiritual intelligence and wisdom will suffer brain damage or die directly.
This is much like some superpower movies where developing brain regions give abilities, but forceful development leads to just one outcome - explosion.
The key is that loose cultivators offer such things.
This made him subconsciously look at Guo Qilong and Deng Yimao, already musing over some ideas.
Just then, a number of cargo delivery vehicles appeared, entering the village, heading toward the Chen Family.
It’s the fleet from the green plant base delivering bamboo, persimmons, and red plum.
Chen Han set aside the matter of Mouse Spirit Fruit and started walking toward the parking area.
Little Uncle was already waiting there, and soon the junior sister also arrived with several attendants.
Afterwards came Uncle Dagou and Uncle Shuisheng, bringing along a group of people. Besides the employees responsible for making Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea, there was also a group of middle-aged women, their wives, called in to help.
After all, there were 300 pots ordered each for bamboo, plum, and persimmon.
Even if delivered in three installments, this time each type has over 100 pots, quite a large quantity.
"Little Uncle, Senior Brother!" Xiaoyu greeted the two as she approached.
Chen Dagou and Chen Shuisheng did so likewise.
As the delivery vehicles arrived, Chen Lin instructed people to assist in unloading, saying, "Xiaoyu, Dagou, Shuisheng, you know the placement locations, later lead the people in placing them, I’ll lead the people to move the pots over."
The three nodded.
Chen Dagou, with his robust frame, directly picked up a pot single-handedly, leading the people to the visitor center.
The middle-aged women beside him also picked up a pot, one being his wife Li Xiaoyun, who was recruited as an attendant at the visitor center by Xiaoyu in the past few days.
After their son went to college, only he stayed at home to plant some things. His wife helped during busy farming periods and worked in the county town during normal days. The expenses for their son’s college over the past three years were significant each year.
Now the clan provided a fixed job, so naturally, she returned.
Soon, many pots were moved into the visitor center, since the air-conditioned rooms were on the east side, so the items were moved to the west side to avoid affecting the guests staying there.
Chen Dagou arrived first, carrying a pot of persimmons and red plum, and his wife carried bamboo, guiding her into one of the guest rooms.
He had already understood the Feng Shui layout of the three positions before, and had long identified the central palace at the intersection of diagonal lines.
Thus, upon entering the room, he first placed the red plum and persimmon pots he was carrying at the Li Palace and Kun Palace locations.
Then, he took the bamboo pot from Li Xiaoyun and said, "From now on, these pots must be placed in fixed locations, and the service staff at your visitor center must regularly check the positions, if skewed, they must be realigned."
"What’s the point in this?" Li Xiaoyun asked curiously.
"This is a Feng Shui layout," Chen Dagou explained directly.
"Why are we fooling around with Feng Shui? Most visitors are young people; they don’t believe in this," Li Xiaoyun was a bit surprised; she had thought the pots were just for room decoration to make it more aesthetic.
"In time, they’ll have no choice but to believe. Just watch," Chen Dagou said, very confidently placing the bamboo pot on the central table.
In that instant, a refreshing sensation appeared, spreading throughout their bodies.
Li Xiaoyun sensed it and looked incredulously at the bamboo bonsai, "Honey, the room suddenly feels cooler, is this the influence of that Feng Shui setup?"
"I’m telling you, our Chen Family was amazing back in the day, do you think those legends are false?" Chen Dagou said, moving the bonsai away, and the coolness disappeared immediately, replaced by a wave of heat.
When Chen Dagou placed the bamboo bonsai back on the table, the cool and comfortable feeling returned once again.
Li Xiaoyun was completely stunned, "So magical? Why didn’t we do this earlier?"
She had been married into the Chen Family for over 20 years and didn’t know any magical things like this existed.
The elderly in her clan used to talk about those mysterious things, but she dismissed them as remnants of feudal superstitions, thinking that the Chen Family was more like the remnants of a suppressed landlord class.
And indeed, it seemed so.
The Chen Family had indeed been oppressed in the past.
But suddenly today, she felt like her worldview had been turned upside down.
Chen Dagou sighed, "Because no one knew how to do it before. Oh, and from now on, show some respect to Xiaohan, you all need to call him Patriarch."
The title of Patriarch is not common in modern times. To outsiders, it seems out of place to still be using it, considering the times; after all, reality is not the same as filming videos.
However, the title of Patriarch also represents respect.
Li Xiaoyun realized that her husband meant this Feng Shui setup was related to Chen Han, so she subconsciously nodded.
The two left the room and ran into Xiaoyu and Chen Shuisheng, who were also bringing people out from other rooms, all of them with looks of amazement, clearly having witnessed the magic of the Feng Shui setup.
At the same time, it’s inevitable that they felt a sense of awe toward the young Patriarch.
After all, having been in the Chen Family for so long, suddenly seeing someone create such a Feng Shui setup was understandably shocking.
In the following time, Xiaoyu and the others placed the bonsai they had moved into those rooms, spending half a day transforming those 100 or so rooms.
This way, all the rooms would be sufficient for the tourists coming later; otherwise, even if that group of 34 couples left, there were still a dozen more people arriving today, and in the following three days, there were 21, 18, and 27 people respectively with reserved tickets.
Some of these people would stay for 2 days, others for 3 days; the rooms with air conditioning wouldn’t be enough.
Now that’s no longer a concern.
"Everyone tidy up these rooms, get the daily necessities ready, and then arrange for the tourists to stay." Xiaoyu instructed directly, as Master had applied for a tourism support fund from the county, and these rooms were already simply renovated.
Now, without the need to install air conditioning, they could be used after some cleaning and organizing.
Moreover, when they were first renovated, they seemed a bit crude, but now they didn’t feel crude at all; they were entirely marks of time, with a classic and elegant atmosphere, looking both aesthetically pleasing and comfortable.
Indeed, as time passes, one’s perspective on things can change.
How did it seem crude back then?
Xiaoyu thought, taking out her phone to log into the Tiao Yin ticketing backend.
The previous ticket price was 200 per room per night, with tickets 100 for adults, free for three children not meeting legal height, and meals cost 100 for adults, half-price for children.
However, this 200 for accommodation was for rooms with air conditioning; the new rooms can’t be the same price as air-conditioned rooms, right?
Her instinct was to raise the price, considering that the Feng Shui room is unique to the Chen Family and should have its own prestige.
After all, it certainly couldn’t be priced lower than rooms with air conditioning costs.
She decided to initially set the price at 500 yuan per night.
If this price was posted online, it might be criticized, considering a village tourist spot with such housing prices?
So she adjusted it to free choice: you can choose an air-conditioned room or a Feng Shui room — purely voluntary. So, apart from the 200 per night option, there was now a Feng Shui room option for 500 per night.
She edited the facility conditions: shower, daily necessities, bed number... etc., naturally excluding air conditioning.
Clicking confirm, the interface changed, and she planned to experiment like this for two days first to see how it goes, then make changes if necessary.
Then, she also sent an information update to the tourists who had already booked tickets, allowing them a choice.
Almost simultaneously, those who had booked with the Chen Family received the information.
Wang Bing was one of them. He felt quite foolish, as he had watched Patriarch Chen’s video, thinking that ’Yuanyuan is not stupid’ was just for fun, so he shared it with his girlfriend for amusement.
Who knew that his girlfriend would enjoy watching the abstract videos of Patriarch Chen endlessly, and then she stumbled across Xiaoyuzha promoting a video about the ancient architecture of the Chen Family and got captivated.
In a series of questions like ’Should we go?’, ’Is it good?’, ’Do you love me?’, he promptly booked the tickets and headed over, even needing to transfer trains to Linhe County.
Just after getting off the train, Wang Bing suddenly received a system message from the Chen Family: "Due to changes in Chen Family housing conditions, a new Feng Shui room accommodation is now available, current booked tourists can freely choose to switch accommodations."
"Feng Shui room???" Wang Bing was momentarily stunned.
He had traveled to so many places, stayed in water rooms, sea view rooms, hillside rooms, air-suspended rooms..., but he had neither stayed in nor heard of a Feng Shui room.
