Wasteland Farming, Manual for Raising Human Cubs

Chapter 196 Digging potatoes together
Zhao Xiaoxiu washed herself clean and had a good sleep in her father's arms.

When the alarm rang, the father and daughter sat up from the bed in tacit understanding, yawned loudly, and stretched lazily with contentment, their movements perfectly synchronized.

Zhao Xiaoxiu said: "Dad, don't learn from me!"

Zhao Gang smiled without saying anything. He used the same movements as his daughter to lift the quilt, put on his clothes and shoes, and when she glared at him, he grinned with his white teeth, "It looks good."

"What's so good about it?" The little guy's attention was immediately diverted.

Zhao Gang rolled his pupils and said seriously, "The color is beautiful, pink and purple bubbles with tiny twinkling stars inside."

This was not the first time Zhao Xiaoxiu had heard her father describe it this way. She ran to the bathroom mirror, stepped on a small stool, and looked left and right. "Where are they?"

A tall figure appeared behind her and pointed a finger five centimeters above her head.

Zhao Xiaoxiu raised her hand and touched her head, but there was nothing. She was a little skeptical. Were those bubbles real? Why couldn't she see them?
The cub's eyes were full of confusion, and the beautiful bubbles seemed to dim a little.

Zhao Gang stretched out two fingers, poked the cub's tender face, lifted it up gently, and told her:
"Kosode should always be happy. The bubbles of happiness are as beautiful as the nebulae in the universe."

"Nebula? Nebula in the universe." She repeated what her father said and gave the person in the mirror her brightest smile.

Zhao Gang frowned slightly, "Laughing intentionally is not happiness, it doesn't look good."

The smile on the cub's face disappeared instantly. Well, this is the dad who ruins the atmosphere.

The father and daughter quickly finished washing up, and the tentacles skillfully braided Zhao Xiaoxiu's hair into two sky-high braids, one on the left and one on the right, like two antennas on her head.

Well, it's a very magical aesthetic. Zhao Xiaoxiu complained in her heart.

Today is the completion day, and all the lords of Area B have gone to the site to participate in the completion ceremony.

For Zhao Xiaoxiu, it was another day when she couldn't wait for her master to take her into the mountains.

She completed an hour of morning exercise by herself, and when she was done she called Sister Monkey. Together they got some wooden boards and followed the adults to the vegetable garden that had just been opened up yesterday.

Zhao Xiaoxiu's main role today was to serve as a companion. She sat in the pile of mutated weeds where Monkey Sister had lain yesterday. She held a small hammer in her hand and hammered on the wooden board she had brought. She wanted to make a few signboards.

The adults never thought of asking her to work in the fields. The four of them finished repairing two or three acres of land in just one morning.

After cleaning up, under the command of Grandma Meng, they pulled out all the mutated weeds growing on the surrounding wasteland and piled them in the newly opened land and burned them.

Since Zhao Xiaoxiu didn't work, Monkey Sister openly shirked her responsibilities and acted as her errand boy.

Sometimes he holds a hatchet, sometimes he holds paint, and he seems to be busier than anyone else.

Finally, the two of them made ten signboards together and placed them in the designated open spaces.

There are three acres of land in total, one acre is prepared for planting the second batch of evolved potatoes, and one acre is reserved for cutting evolved sweet potato seedlings.

The remaining one acre was divided into seven plots of varying sizes, used to grow vegetables such as evolved pumpkins, evolved cabbages, mutated cucumbers, and mutated radishes.

Zhao Xiaoxiu wrote the names of these vegetables on the sign to avoid confusion later.

Of course, professional farmers can tell at a glance which green leaf belongs to which vegetable.

Zhao Xiaoxiu has great confidence in herself and her father. She believes that she will not need to put up a sign in the future and will be able to tell the difference.

The day passed peacefully in the reclamation.

On the day of harvesting the Evolved Potatoes, Youyou, who had not been heard from for a long time, came. Yang Mei personally sent her son over, and her son stayed, picking up a bunch of flowers. He came and left in a hurry.

It seemed like sending my son here was something I had to squeeze out of my busy schedule.

Zhao Xiaoxiu and Youyou stood under the flower wall and watched her and the guards leave. Zhao Xiaoxiu couldn't help but ask in confusion, "What happened to your mother? She looks so tired."

Youyou sighed and said, "Mom has been in the lab for half a month. The assistant said she hasn't had a full night's sleep. It's like this every time she does an experiment. It's really worrying."

Zhao Xiaoxiu said "Oh" and didn't ask any more questions, because Youyou didn't know more.

She guessed that Yang Mei must have made some new discovery, which was why she was so obsessed. She just took away a bunch of flowers from her.

Could it be related to the Green Fairy?

Forget it, I have something important to do today.

"Let's go and see my dad and the others harvest the evolved potatoes!" Zhao Xiaoxiu called to Youyou to follow, and flew towards the field like a gust of wind.

"Zhao Xiaoxiu, wait for me!" Youyou hurriedly caught up, panting.

The adults have already started digging in the field. Under the clusters of large green leaves, there is a large clod of soil, and you can vaguely see the shape of an evolved potato.

"Xiaoxiu, come here." Zhao Gang handed his daughter a small hoe and asked her to knock off the mud covering the potatoes.

This first evolved potato must be seen by the cub first.

In human terms, this is called a sense of ritual.

Just like the completion of the highway yesterday and the completion ceremony I attended, it will be easier to remember it at some point in the future.

Zhao Xiaoxiu was worried about damaging the potatoes, so she carefully scraped off the dirt with a hoe. Soon, an irregular round potato with a golden color and a diameter of nearly 30 centimeters appeared in front of everyone.

"Is this the evolved potato?" Xiwa murmured in surprise.

Zhao Xiaoxiu leaned in closer and smelled it. She first smelled the earthy odor, followed by a light and fresh fragrance.

"Xiaoxiu, is it fragrant?" Seeing Zhao Xiaoxiu's intoxicated expression, Youyou bent down and got close to her face, asking curiously. He couldn't help but take a sip himself.

"Eh~" It all smells like soil!
Everyone was curious and couldn't help but come over to smell it. Everyone had a different expression and reaction.

Granny Meng smiled and said, "I guarantee that this is definitely potato. It smells the same as the potatoes I used to smell like."

Meng Da was more concerned about the other potatoes in the field. He and Zhao Gang picked up the hoe and started digging. The two of them were fast and strong, and the hoes left afterimages. After a while, they dug out a large pile of mud balls.

Xiwa was more concerned about the yield, and ran back excitedly to get bags and scales to weigh the fruits.

The first potato weighed twenty-one pounds, which was really heavy.

Youyou seemed to have thought of something, and leaned close to Zhao Xiaoxiu's ear and said, "Xiaoxiu, ask your dad to fry some French fries for us today. They will definitely be very delicious with tomato sauce."

Zhao Xiaoxiu's eyes lit up, and her nose seemed to have smelled the aroma of freshly fried French fries, and saliva began to secrete crazily in her mouth.

He swallowed his saliva secretly and called Sister Monkey. The two kids and one monkey immediately started to actively select the raw materials and specially picked out three big and round ones to take home.

Finish the cleaning and cutting work that you can do first, soak them in clean water, and wait for the adults to come back and help with frying.