Wasteland Farming, Manual for Raising Human Cubs

Chapter 118 Landlord
Zhao Xiaoxiu's excitement was visible to the naked eye.

Mo Shigui arranged for the two new families to get in the car. Zhao Xiaoxiu immediately climbed onto the back seat, patted the seat next to her, looked at Liu Chuan expectantly and said, "Sister, you can sit here."

Liu Chuan looked at his wife Jiang Ning, who smiled apologetically at Zhao Xiaoxiu and explained:
"Sister isn't feeling well. She has a cold. I'm afraid she might infect you, so I'll let her sit in the back of the truck with dad. When she gets better, I'll let Sister play with you."

As he said this, he asked the couple Qiu Bai and Wang Xiang from Territory No. 2 to get in the car, and said that his family of four would sit in the bed.

The two families walked together from the city. On the way, Qiu Bai and Wang Xiang saw that Jiang Ning's family had both old and young, and took the initiative to take care of them along the way.

It was the same now. The couple rejected Jiang Ning's suggestion, helped Grandpa Jiang into the car, pushed Jiang Ning and her daughter in, and called Liu Chuan to jump into the truck.

Jiang Ning was very embarrassed. Qiu Bai and his wife had taken good care of them along the way. She wanted to take her daughter out of the car and let Qiu Bai and his wife come in. She kept saying, "Children can easily infect each other. I'd better take Miao Miao to the back."

Zhao Xiaoxiu said loudly: "Auntie, I'm not afraid of infection. I'm in good health! Just let my sister sit in the car."

The little girl's big round eyes were sparkling with anticipation, which made people feel soft-hearted.

Wrapped in a thin blanket and held in her mother's arms, Liu Miaomiao looked at Zhao Xiaoxiu with sparkling eyes, but when she noticed that Zhao Xiaoxiu was smiling at her, she immediately turned her face to her mother, revealing only half of her eyes to look at her curiously.

Zhao Xiaoxiu made a naughty face. Liu Miaomiao was stunned and couldn't help but smile with a blushing face.

The young lady is so shy, Zhao Xiaoxiu thought to herself.

Mo Shigui said, "Just sit like this and let's go."

Zhao Xiaoxiu cheered silently in her heart: Oh Yeah!
The stationmaster made the final decision, and Jiang Ning no longer mentioned taking his daughter to the back seat. To say that again would seem pretentious and deliberate.

She looked at the people in front of her with gratitude, and felt that her decision to lead her family to the planting area was the right one!

The people here are much nicer than she imagined.

The word "human touch" was as far away from her as before, but now it is as close to her as before.

Grandpa Jiang took out a raw chestnut from his torn cotton jacket and handed it to Zhao Xiaoxiu kindly, "Good boy, Grandpa will give you something delicious, a slightly mutated raw chestnut, sweet and crispy, have it."

Seeing Liu Miaomiao's surprised reaction, Zhao Xiaoxiu guessed that this small chestnut was a very precious thing to their family.

But she did not refuse Grandpa Jiang's kindness. She thanked him generously and took it.

With a little effort, the little hands easily separated the shell and the flesh, and the flesh was divided into two halves. He ate half himself and gave the other half to Liu Miaomiao.

Liu Miaomiao glanced at her mother and saw no objection from her. Then she stretched out a thin, red hand from under the thin quilt, took the chestnut and put it in her mouth.

"Is it sweet?" Zhao Xiaoxiu asked softly.

Liu Miaomiao nodded and ate half a chestnut in small bites to prolong the sweetness.

She was like a snail cautiously sticking out its tentacles to the outside world. She looked at Zhao Xiaoxiu enviously as she ate all the chestnuts in one bite with a happy expression, and said, "You are so strong."

She couldn't even break open the hard shell of the mutant chestnut with her bare hands, and had to use her teeth to bite it open.

Sometimes, the thing was too hard for even my teeth to bite through, so my grandfather had to use a hammer to smash it open.

Zhao Xiaoxiu smiled and encouraged her: "If you eat more, you will become stronger and recover faster."

No, as soon as she said this, the snail that had just extended its tentacles to the outside world immediately retracted its tentacles back into its shell.

Liu Miaomiao lowered her eyes and said in a low voice: "The nutrient solution is very expensive. I can only drink half a bottle a day. It takes a lot of points to eat a full meal. Mom and Dad will be very hard. I don't want Mom and Dad to suffer."

Afterwards, perhaps because she was sick and didn't have enough energy, Liu Miaomiao soon fell into a deep sleep as the car bumped along. Zhao Xiaoxiu faced the window and pouted at the little girl reflected in the glass, feeling a little depressed.

The new girl is so weak. I hope she gets better soon.

However, the cub is still full of anticipation when he thinks that he will have an extra playmate in the future.

We set out to pick people up at nine in the morning, and it was already past three in the afternoon when we returned to Area B.

Mo Shigui sent the person to the entrance of Territory No. 13, told the newcomer to listen to the landlord, and drove away.

The two families who had just arrived at the territory were obviously not used to this desolate feeling and did not feel safe at all.

Zhao Xiaoxiu explained the situation in his territory to the new tenants like a little adult, and together with his father, he led them to rows of houses that looked like dilapidated houses, but were actually dilapidated houses.

"You can choose any of these houses." Zhao Xiaoxiu said generously with her hands on her hips.

Wang Xiang from Territory No. 2 asked in shock, "There are no walls here at all. Will there really be no mutants that suddenly break in?"

Zhao Gang: "The patrol station performs cleanup tasks near the isolation zone every day. Generally, there will be no mutants above level B."

"what!"

As soon as Zhao Gang finished speaking, Qiu Bai suddenly let out a sharp explosion, raised his gun and pointed it at the back of everyone, and shouted: "A mutant has appeared!"

Two angry roars were heard, scaring everyone.

The Jiangning family immediately adopted a defensive posture, and Liu Chuan immediately stepped forward to stand in front of his family, raising his weapon.

Zhao Xiaoxiu slapped his forehead and said helplessly, "Don't be afraid, that's my friend Sister Monkey."

Sister Monkey, who was again mistaken for a mutant, jumped out angrily, beating her chest and stomping the ground, stirring up a large cloud of white snow, which frightened Liu Miaomiao, who had just woken up from her sleep, so much that she froze.

Zhao Xiaoxiu rushed forward angrily and punched Sister Monkey, "I told you not to show up suddenly, or you'll scare the kids to tears."

Sister Monkey punched Zhao Xiaoxiu back, but it was a light punch, because the moment she raised her fist, Zhao Gang's eyes, as sharp as a knife, swept over her.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak!" Sister Monkey expressed her grievance and was frightened by this group of people.

Zhao Xiaoxiu: "Okay, okay, it's my fault that dad and I didn't tell you in advance that there would be new guests at home. Don't be angry."

Sister Monkey: “Squeak!” That’s closer.

It held Zhao Xiaoxiu against its chest and strode to the families of Qiu and Bai in Jiangning. It bared its teeth in a friendly manner, scaring the two families so much that their faces turned pale.

Zhao Gang explained expressionlessly: "This is an evolved macaque. Don't call it a mutant, or it will get angry."

Sister Monkey looked at Zhao Gang with emotion. That’s right, only the cub’s father understands her.

Zhao Gang continued, "As long as you are within my territory, you will not be harmed by the mutants."

"There is a pond not far from the house. It's covered with snow. To avoid falling into it and being eaten by my little Peter Pan, it's best to go through the main road when you get water."

"The poplar forest to the east also belongs to my family. I just happen to need some wood to make furniture. If you can help cut down the trees, I can give you the branches as firewood."

"Also, there is a vegetable field at the entrance, please don't destroy it."

(End of this chapter)