Work Prophet
Chapter 295: Busy Li Yu

Chapter 295: Busy Li Yu

Li Yu had another very important reason for promoting tofu.

He was now implementing four-field crop rotation on the territory of the Double Rest Sect, increasing the land utilization rate from the original 50% to 100%. This definitely required the mass planting of leguminous plants to supplement nitrogen fertilizers.

The leguminous plants Li Yu had collected included alfalfa, peas, and black beans.

As for alfalfa, there was no need to mention it. Recognized as a green manure, it had the best nitrogen fixation ability, but alfalfa was generally used as fodder for livestock.

Humans could eat it too, but unless they were extremely hungry, people wouldn’t normally choose to consume alfalfa.

Peas, on the other hand, were more commonly eaten. On the Bratis Continent, when people talked about beans, they were generally referring to peas, which could be used in meat stew as a side dish or even as a main dish.

However, peas had a high starch content, with protein content constituting less than a quarter, making them unsuitable for making tofu.

So, the ones Li Yu truly had high hopes for were the black beans.

Like soybeans, black beans were also a type of soybean, with a protein content double that of peas.

Black beans weren’t native to the Bratis Continent and had been brought over by trading caravans.

It was unclear when exactly they had arrived on these lands, but it must have been at least a couple of hundred years ago. However, due to their average taste, they weren’t very popular and were only cultivated on a small scale in few areas.

Li Yu had now acquired a batch of black beans and planned to sow them in the spring. Before that, he could spread the word about tofu, thereby increasing the farmers’ enthusiasm to plant black beans, and securing a market for the harvested beans.

Before the second round of the contest began, Li Yu distributed a freshly made piece of black bean tofu to each of the ten contestants, asking them to mention it during their preaching.

Li Yu’s intention was to insert a commercial break, but unexpectedly, the contestants misunderstood his direction, especially the monks, who, perhaps having watched too many TikTok videos recently, ended up turning it into a live selling session.

Seeing this, the contestants who came on stage later also adjusted the content of their preaching, increasing the proportion of black bean tofu mentioned.

Hua Meiniao even composed a song on the spot, "Everyone Loves Black Bean Tofu," set to the tune of Zhang Hanyun’s 2005 song "Sour, Sweet, This is Me."

Anton continued his consistent performance. The fact that he could angle the introduction of a piece of tofu to continue mocking the Black Silver Moon Church showed that he already had no rivals on the path of denunciation.

As for Yadun, who had shone brilliantly before by using the flotation experiment, he seemed somewhat lackluster this round and couldn’t produce any miracles that combined well with the theme of a balanced diet, thus he completed his preaching in a standard manner.

On the contrary, Timo, whom Ireya and others thought relied on his looks, suddenly emerged as a dark horse.

Combining his prior experience traveling with caravans, he recounted numerous bizarre local delicacies and their varied effects, leaving many in the audience utterly bewildered.

In the end, Timo spontaneously became the spokesperson for black bean tofu, claiming that after eating a piece of tofu, his skin had improved and became much more radiant.

This claim was actually quite preposterous, but given the other delicacies he had described before, such as a type of rock that grew in volcanic craters and could be eaten when roasted, and an Elf wine that could make one forget all troubles... the beautifying effects of black bean tofu didn’t seem too far-fetched.

As a result, he scored the second-highest points of the event, only behind Anton.

Moreover, Li Yu could feel that the female followers sitting below, including Miss Rabbit, had developed a strong interest in black bean tofu.

No wonder nowadays, all the major brands like to have popular stars as their spokespersons.

As the last person completed their sermon, the final rankings of the second round were also settled.

Contrary to the expectations of many before the event, the top two places at the first Green Field Open Mic Missionary Event were not monks, and the first place, Anton, hadn’t even completed the initiation ceremony yet.

Not only that, among the top ten was a farmer named Fabre who couldn’t read. According to him, he had spent forty years engrossed in farming until two months ago when he converted to Sabbatarianism.

Being one of the earlier people to join the Double Rest Sect.

Aside from that, there was nothing special, until the announcement that anyone could participate in the first Green Field Open Mic Missionary Event, so he signed up as well.

Fabre was quite ridiculed by people in his village these days.

In the west, even children playing in the mud knew that missionaries held a special status. Fabre, a mere farmer and illiterate at that, thinking of preaching was literally laughable.

But who would have expected that once he stood on the wooden stage and grabbed the microphone, Fabre seemed transformed, shedding his usual reserved demeanor. He spoke with passionate intonation, and his words carried substance.

More importantly, the content of his sermons was understandable and related to everyday life, making it very popular.

In the end, he broke into the top ten, leaving his previous critics speechless.

His score in the first round was the fourth highest of all contestants; unfortunately, his explanation of the doctrine in the second round contained some errors, and he ultimately finished in seventh place.

Yet, he still received strong praise from the Prophet.

Although Fabre’s performance wasn’t the most spectacular, he was the missionary closest to Li Yu’s expectations—grounded, humble, and completely standing with the believers.

Traditional missionaries like Quintus might view Fabre’s preaching as overly simplistic and direct, and the man himself lacked the authority typically expected of missionaries.

But Li Yu’s vision for the Sabbath was more service-oriented, more akin to roles like couriers and waiters. Their task was simply to spread the ideas of the Double Rest Sect as widely as possible, recruiting more followers; as for showing off, Li Yu and Saturday were enough for that.

So, being a bit rustic and common was not a problem.

In any case, the two-day first Green Field Open Mic Missionary Event came to a smooth conclusion.

Through this event, Li Yu experimented and explored some new forms of missionary work and unearthed a batch of promising newcomers, thus exceeding his goals.

But he still had many tasks ahead of him.

Now that the Double Rest Sect had grown its followers to over ten thousand, he alone couldn’t manage them all, even with Hera’s help; thus, an organizational structure that had been long delayed must now be implemented.

Beyond that, winter was almost over, and the busy spring planting season was fast approaching.

This was also an excellent opportunity for Saturday to display miracles, not only to win the wager with Quintus, but Li Yu also needed to prove to everyone following him that even with more rest time, followers of the Double Rest Sect could still achieve an unprecedented great harvest.

Moreover, having spent so much money lately, Li Yu also needed to start figuring out how to boost the economy. The operations of the Double Rest Sect couldn’t rely solely on him bringing things to sell from this universe.

Especially as the number of followers grew and operations expanded, having their own output was necessary for healthy development, and later, planning for the next building projects would be necessary...

Suddenly, Li Yu realized that his list of tasks seemed to be growing, and he was almost overwhelmed; and it was at this moment that he received another message.