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  Song Jingru's hair was as soft and smooth as a cloud, cascading down her white shoulders. Her bright and fair face, with a slender nose and two delicate red lips that seemed to be dripping with sweetness, was framed by a pair of beautiful eyes that shone like morning stars under her curved eyebrows, giving people a sense of breathtaking beauty that made them dare not gaze directly at her.

  "Hmm, you're right, I'll let you off this time." The beautiful eyes blinked, and Song Jingru released Song Boyu's ear, but the smooth and delicate fingers lightly rubbed Song Boyu's ear as they left.

  Feeling the subtle movement of his older sister, a warm current surged through Song Boyu's heart. In fact, his older sister gently massaged his ear, which made him realize how much she cared for him. This further solidified Song Boyu's determination to protect his older sister.

  "Song Baiyu, there's something that I find very strange. The villagers of Tunzi Village spent a lot of money to hire many experts and professors to solve the problem of their polluted land, but none of them were able to do it. How did you manage to solve the problem with just one move?" Song Yuqing stared at Song Baiyu with her beautiful eyes shining with a mixture of surprise and curiosity.

  To know that Song Yuqing was the deputy county magistrate in charge of agriculture in Nanyun County before, and after coming to Jinyang City, Song Yuqing is also in charge of agricultural work. So, she came to Jinyang City for the first time and quickly got a clear understanding of the city's agricultural situation. The soil pollution in Tuozi Village naturally caught her high attention. She was worried about how to solve the sudden pollution problem in Tuozi Village. Unexpectedly, the problem of soil pollution in Tuozi Village was solved, and the person who solved it was still his own brother. This made Song Yuqing ecstatic at the same time, and also a little curious about when her brother had such magical skills.

  "Sister, have you forgotten what major I studied when I was studying in the United States?" Under the gaze of his older sister's beautiful big eyes, Song Baiyu's face turned a bit unnatural, but this unnaturalness only lasted for an instant.

  Although Song Baiyu knew that Song Yuqing was not his own sister, in Song Baiyu's heart, Song Yuqing had long become a goddess-like existence. How could any profane thoughts about Song Yuqing arise in his heart?

  "I remember your master's major was landscape design, didn't that major have anything to do with land improvement?" Song Yuqing's entire mind was absorbed by the problem of soil pollution in Tuanzhuang Village and did not notice the subtle change in Song Boyu's expression.

  Song Baiyu heard the words and a happy smile appeared on his face. Although his older sister was clever and capable, she wasn't omnipotent, at least not when it came to certain issues, where she would get confused.

  However, Song Baiyu liked his elder sister's straightforward personality, knowing what she knew and not pretending to know what she didn't know. She wouldn't be like some government officials who pretended to understand things they didn't, giving orders that were way off the mark, which would not only make a laughing stock of herself but also bring disaster to the country and its people.

  It wasn't until he saw the annoyed look on his sister's face that Song Boyu hastily retracted his smile and said, "Sister, universities in the US are different from those in our country. It's easy to get in but hard to graduate. You have to grasp some real skills to fool those professors and possibly get a diploma. I just so happen to be interested in plants and soil, so I've done some research in that area..."

  Song Baiyu had anticipated that his sister would ask him to solve the problem of land pollution when he contracted the land in Tuozi Village, so he had already thought of an excuse and said it out naturally without hesitation, which also saved him from wiping his nose. In fact, Song Baiyu did conduct in-depth research on plants and land conditions during his master's degree at Harvard University, otherwise he wouldn't have dared to speak nonsense.

  "Bo Yu, you actually have this talent, why didn't you say it earlier? Don't you know that older sister is in charge of agriculture?!" Hearing Song Bo Yu's words, Song Yuan Qing's eyes flashed with excitement. She grabbed Song Bo Yu's arm and said loudly: "Quickly tell older sister how you solved the soil pollution problem in Tuozi Village! This method not only has great practical value in production but also has extremely high academic research value. If it is made public, it will definitely cause a sensation!"

  Due to excitement, Song Yuqing's beautiful and unparalleled face was filled with a dazed and intoxicating glow. Her delicate skin, which would bruise at the slightest touch, had turned a cherry-like crimson color, and her entire face was breathtakingly beautiful. Meanwhile, Song Yuqing's undulating and enchanting figure was even more captivating, making it impossible for anyone to look away.

  "Sister, you don't think my method is universal, do you? If it were, my graduation thesis would have been published in foreign scientific and academic journals years ago. Why wait until now to announce it?" Seeing his older sister looking at him with a hopeful face, Song Baiyu's head grew bigger by a circle. The problem of soil pollution in Tunzi Village had been solved, but it was all thanks to his own Lingling Array, which did not have universal applicability. Although Song Baiyu didn't want to disappoint his sister, he couldn't help but pour cold water on her.

  Song Yuqing was taken aback by the words, the excited look on his face gradually faded away. After a moment of silence, Song Yuqing asked with his last bit of hope: "Bai Yu, tell me your method for solving the soil pollution problem in Banzhu Village, let's see if it has any potential for promotion."

  The land pollution problem in Tuozi Village was able to be solved because it had three conditions: the first condition is that the Jinyang City Cement Factory has been sealed off, and the land of Tuozi Village will no longer be polluted; the second condition is that Tuozi Village is located at the foot of a mountain and by a river, not only does it have a constant source of running water, but also a high mountain covered with pine trees; the third condition is that I personally contracted all the land in Tuozi Village, which can be uniformly managed.

  The pollution of the land by the cement plant is mainly caused by two aspects: limestone slurry and cement dust. The limestone slurry has a weak alkalinity, which destroys the soil's acid-base balance, causing soil inactivation. Farmland polluted by cement will become cloddy and cannot be cultivated. The main component of cement dust is silicate, which spreads with airflow, making the local dust fall exceed the standard. The area is shrouded in smoke and fog every day, and the dust affects vegetation, impacting its photosynthesis.

  "The most fundamental way to improve alkaline soil is to apply silver leaf soil, which is made from the fermentation of rotten pine needles, branches and sawdust. It has strong acidity. In other places, there is generally little silver leaf soil, but Tunzi Village is different. On the mountain, there are large areas of pine and cypress trees, because for a long time, people rarely visited, so a thick layer of silver leaf soil was formed. Under the drive of economic interests..."

  Song Baiyu knew that his older sister would be particularly serious about work-related matters, so it wasn't something that could be glossed over with just a few words. Therefore, he was also more patient in explaining things, and in fact, he had done his homework in this regard to avoid raising suspicions.

  "So that's how it is, indeed it has a lot of limitations." After listening patiently for half a day, Song Yuqing's long eyelashes didn't even twitch once until Song Boyu stopped explaining. Only then did her face reveal an enlightened expression, and she spoke in a soft voice.

  "Sister, this method of solving soil pollution is very targeted, and you're not an expert in this field, so don't waste your brain cells." Seeing a hint of fatigue flash across his older sister's pale and delicate face, Song Baiyu said with concern.

  Song Yuqing heard this and smiled slightly, like a blooming green lotus, making Song Boyu feel that the light in the house was suddenly magnified.

  "When I was in school, I used to be sick all the time and had a lot of worries. Occasionally, I would follow those princelings and go crazy, thinking that was the whole of life. It wasn't until I was sent down to the grassroots level that I realized there was another completely different kind of life behind the prosperous cities. The living conditions of our country's peasants are really worrisome. They are the group that needs care the most. Since I have the good fortune to be in charge of this area of work, how could I possibly remain unmoved by the people's hardships?"

  When she said this, Song Yuqing's mature and beautiful face had a hint of fatigue, with a bit of haggardness, and her pair of captivating eyes hid a faint sadness.

  Staring blankly at his older sister, a glimmer of emotion and admiration flashed in Song Boyu's eyes. He knew that on the surface, his sister was strong and capable, but in reality, her heart was very fragile, even a bit overly sensitive. If he hadn't been so uninterested in officialdom himself, his sister would have definitely found a teaching job according to her own wishes, educating and nurturing people, and wouldn't have had such immense work pressure.

  "It's better to be a mortal with emotions than an immortal without them." This sentence inexplicably flashed through Song Baiyu's mind, it was something that a powerful cultivator from the Great Vehicle era had said to him.

  That great Mahayana cultivator had long since reached the strength of ascending to the heavens, but he lingered in the mortal world, unwilling to ascend. At that time, when the great Mahayana cultivator solemnly imparted these words to Song Baiyu, Song Baiyu didn't take them to heart. However, upon hearing his older sister's words now, Song Baiyu felt as if he had gained a new insight.

  Why cultivate the truth for oneself? Is it to increase one's power or to achieve longevity?

  If one indulges solely in the world of cultivation and completely ignores the seven emotions and six desires, then even if they ascend to immortality, what's the point?

  Scene after scene of his past life flashed through Song Baiyu's mind, cultivating and nothing but cultivating, completely ignoring everything outside, and also being ignored by everything outside, until he failed to cross the tribulation and his soul scattered, and that world didn't have anything worth staying for.

  Perhaps I should carefully consider this issue. If it's just for the sake of increasing my strength, I'll eventually end up like my past life, with a tragic outcome where my soul disperses.

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