Wasteland Farming, Manual for Raising Human Cubs

Chapter 154 Cows and Horses
In order to prevent his cubs from falling into the mud again, Zhao Gang collapsed a building and took the Meng brothers to pave the ground in their spare time.

He went out to work on the construction site during the day and came back at night to work overtime, breaking up waste bricks and paving the front and back yards and the roads leading to the main road.

This is no small project. The usable bricks must be cleaned out first, and then transported to the appropriate location in batches using a floating board. Only after the preliminary preparations are completed can the paving officially begin.

In order to solve the problem once and for all, the ground in the front and back yards needs to be leveled again, the low ones need to be filled in, the high ones need to be dug out, and finally when the ground is level, the bricks can be laid one by one, and they need to be hammered down as they are laid.

It is not easy to do odd jobs at the research base. After going home and drinking a bottle of nutrient solution to replenish my energy, I still have to continue working until eleven or twelve o'clock in the evening, even with a light on.

Meng Er didn’t know whether Zhao Gang was tired or not, he only knew that he was so tired that he wanted to die.

He hammered desperately on the paving, muttering to himself:

"Brother, I always heard my mom say that they were just slaves at work back then, and the only good thing about the disaster is that they don't have to be slaves anymore."

"I didn't understand what it meant at the time. I was just going to work. What does it have to do with cattle and horses?"

"A cow is a cow, and a horse is a horse. Are cows and horses mutants?"

Meng Da looked at his brother curiously, "My mom started working more than ten years ago. There were no mutants at that time."

"Yes!" Meng Er nodded seriously and said, "Cows are strong, horses are endurance, and cows and horses together have both strength and endurance. Calling humans cows and horses means that humans have both strength and endurance, which is even better than animals."

Meng Da: "Is it a beast or a mutant?"

Meng Er raised his hand and pointed at himself, "I am nothing and I am nothing at the same time. I am just an ox or a horse!"

I almost said such an uncivilized word like "I" in front of Xiaoxiu. I hope Brother Gangzi didn't hear it. Meng Er prayed in his heart, with an expression as if nothing happened.

Little did he know that Zhao Gang had already flashed behind him, raised his hand and slapped the dark back of his head.

Meng Er's whole body froze, and he felt like crying in pain. He gritted his teeth and endured it, and hurriedly explained: "Brother Gangzi, I was wrong. I won't dare to do it again next time."

Zhao Gang frowned, "Do you want next time?"

"No, no, absolutely not!" Meng Erqing slapped himself on the mouth. You are the one who talks too much, so shut up!

Meng Da watched his brother being beaten, and he showed no intention of helping. He even laughed. He kept muttering, "Oxen and horses, so this is the life of oxen and horses."

Perhaps sensing that the two men's physical strength and endurance were almost at their limit, Zhao Gang let them go back to sleep before 10 o'clock tonight. He continued to lay bricks by himself.

Zhao Xiaoxiu also didn't sleep. She sat at the door of her house, holding a pencil and a notebook, practicing calligraphy from memory, accompanying her father.

Zhao Gang was busy until midnight, then he finished work and took his daughter home to sleep.

In the dark night, the father and daughter were sitting together, and Zhao Gang suddenly sighed.

This was strange. Zhao Xiaoxiu had rarely seen her father have such big mood swings. She rolled over, facing her father from her back, and patted his arm with her little hand, "Dad, why are you sighing? Are things not going well on the construction site?"

Zhao Gang shook his head and said it was not about the construction site.

He glanced in the direction of the bungalow next door, sighed again, and then said quietly:

"It's inconvenient with so many people. They can't all come out to work together. It will take a long time to lay the bricks. It would be better if there was hardened cement."

When Zhao Xiaoxiu heard this, she immediately understood that her father also felt that it was too tiring to work alone and hoped to call out other tentacles to work together.

It seems that even if you are not a human being, you cannot escape the fate of being a beast of burden.

Zhao Xiaoxiu still felt sorry for her father and comforted him, "Dad, you can take it slow. Sister Hou and I will come to help, along with Uncle Meng and Uncle Meng. We can do a little less every day and slowly finish it. This way, no one will be too tired."

"Yeah!" Zhao Gang felt like he was being comforted. "Xiaoxiu is so nice." Zhao Gang held his cub in his arms, his big head facing the small head, his pair of vertical pupils glowing with golden green stars in the dark night, as if there was a mysterious universe hidden inside.

Zhao Xiaoxiu thought these eyes were extremely beautiful. Even though they would turn 360 degrees in human eye sockets, she would not feel scared at all. Instead, she found them very cute.

As she watched, her eyelids gradually closed and she fell into a deep sleep.

Zhao Gang looked at the peaceful sleeping face in front of him with affection, his whole body went limp, and all the tentacles hidden under the skin came out, but they did not occupy the entire room to wrap up the little person as usual.

The tentacles lay on the bed, their bright red color forming a sharp contrast with the pure white bed. They were like the tail of a fighting fish, bending and swinging, protecting her between the tail and the body.

Those tentacles climbed up the cub's body cautiously, yet trembled with uncontrollable excitement, little by little, rubbing her face, her little feet, and her little hands, as if they were treating a fragile treasure.

Zhao Gang put his arms behind his head and just looked sideways until dawn.

The sunlight shone through the window. Zhao Xiaoxiu's eyelashes trembled slightly, and she woke up from her sweet dream, stretching lazily with satisfaction.

She could feel that her father was always by her side, but when she opened her eyes, he had already gone to the construction site, and she didn't know when he left.

Zhao Xiaoxiu rubbed her eyes and sat on the bed for a while. Suddenly, the alarm she set didn't go off, so she hurriedly picked up the phone on the bedside table.

When I opened it, it was already 8:30 in the morning.

The alarm had gone off, but she was sleeping so soundly that she didn't hear it.

"It's over!" Zhao Xiaoxiu jumped up in shock, quickly put on his clothes and shoes, rushed downstairs, picked up his knife and went out for morning exercise.

Although it is a little late, we cannot miss our daily practice.

Master said that quantitative change leads to qualitative change, and persistence is victory!
If you want to practice magical skills, you can’t relax during your daily morning exercises!

"Ha! Ha!" Zhao Xiaoxiu held the knife in both hands and danced vigorously. Her hair, which she had not had time to comb, gradually became messy in the morning breeze.

In the next few days, the sun came out on time every day.

The snow had completely melted and the muddy road had become dry, but the surface was still more rugged and bumpy than when the lords had arrived.

A broadcast came from the patrol station's loudspeaker that infrastructure construction was imminent and the first priority was to harden the road surface to facilitate the entry of agricultural machinery.

At the same time, he urged the lords of Area B to start spring plowing as soon as possible and plant all the seeds that met the planting conditions.

"There are also farm machines?" Grandma Meng was pleasantly surprised. "It's good to have machines. Machines work quickly."

Zhao Gang said, "We have to rent it."

Meng Da and Meng Er added: "There is a lot of land but few machines, so you have to queue up to rent them."

Grandma Meng has a good attitude and just wants to use it.

"Gangzi, have you figured out what we're going to plant next?"

Zhao Gang replied to Granny Meng: "I'm thinking about it."

He signaled the two Meng brothers to move the "salary" they had just received from the research base into their home.

Zhao Xiaoxiu and Monkey Sister looked at each other excitedly, and curiously followed the adults into the house.

(End of this chapter)