Wasteland Farming, Manual for Raising Human Cubs

Chapter 223: Fragrant

Before she had farmed, Zhao Xiaoxiu had no idea what the busy farming season was all about.

Now she knows that what she is busy doing is racing against time.

With three days left before the rainy season, the planting areas immediately entered a hectic fast pace.

The lords went out to cut wood together, surrounded the evolved sweet potato fields with wooden boards, and erected a two-meter-high protective wall around the land to prevent it from being damaged by other mutated animals and plants.

While the wall was being built, it was also the rapeseed harvest time. The lord was the only one in the territory, and he was so busy that he had no time to rest and could not even sleep.

However, there were also lords who had gone to Taoyuan Base in advance to inquire about the rainy season response plan. They had prepared the materials needed for the protective wall long ago and were busy in their territory at a leisurely pace.

Zhao Xiaoxiu did not build a wall. Instead, she pinched off the branches of the Green Fairy and used the same method to build a green wall around her own sweet potato field.

Using mutant plants to protect evolved crops is unique in the entire base.

In addition to protecting the most important evolved sweet potato field, other mutated crops also need attention.

Zhao Xiaoxiu's yard and vegetable garden are full of mutant vegetables.

These vegetables are growing very well. The onions, ginger, and cabbage have all grown bright green leaves.

Zhao Xiaoxiu took Sister Monkey with them, secretly picking some cabbage leaves to taste them, and using a spoon to evenly spread the powder in the bucket on the soil where the mutant vegetables grew.

This work is not tiring. The area that needs to be spread is less than one acre and it can be completed in just one day.

When the rainy season entered the last twelve hours of countdown, Sheng Qingyang's rapeseed was also deseeded with the help of Zhao Gang and Meng's mother and son.

The protection work for other planting sites has also been completed.

After completing these farm tasks manually, everyone realized the importance of machinery.

This is just the work of one acre of land, but it has already made them busy. If they have to harvest dozens of acres of land at the same time next year, it will be impossible without machinery!

At night, after everyone finished dinner and went home, Zhao Gang took Zhao Xiaoxiu back to the second-floor bathroom to wash up and said, "After the autumn harvest, we have to buy a tiller and a rapeseed planter."

Zhao Xiaoxiu touched her father's rough big hand distressedly and nodded heavily: "Okay!"

Zhao Gang added: "Let Xiwa transform old items and save points."

Zhao Xiaoxiu gave a thumbs up: "Dad, you are so smart!"

Zhao Gang smiled, lowered his head and gently touched the cub's forehead with his forehead.

Zhao Xiaoxiu became playful, and the father and daughter were like two fighting bulls. They secretly exerted their strength until their foreheads turned red, and then they let go with a laugh.

For this fine decoration, Yin Lan brought an electric water heater and installed it in the bathroom on the second floor.

A water tower was installed on the top floor, which directly draws water from the well and stores it. Zhao Xiaoxiu can finally take a hot bath with a shower in the bathroom.

As soon as the valve was opened, hot water immediately sprayed out from the shower head. The warm water flowed over Zhao Xiaoxiu's whole body, and she hummed a song in comfort.

Now she can take a shower by herself with the shower head, but the two tentacles that come in through the crack in the door are still the same as before, one washing her hair with shampoo, and the other rubbing her whole body with shower gel.

After a while, Zhao Xiaoxiu was surrounded by white foam, leaving only her face, which was red from the steam.

The shower gel and shampoo have the same scent. After taking a shower and blowing dry her hair, Zhao Xiaoxiu's body was filled with the scent of jasmine and roses.

Zhao Gang seemed to have discovered something new. He stood around his cub and sniffed it. He couldn't control his excitement. His human eyes turned into vertical pupils in an instant and flashed frequently in his eye sockets.

Zhao Xiaoxiu looked up and asked, "Dad likes fragrant things?"

Zhao Gang nodded wildly, and the tentacles flying behind him also swung wildly in the air.

Zhao Xiaoxiu's eyes turned, "Let's go!" He took his father's big hand, pushed him into the bathroom, stuffed shower gel and shampoo into his hands, "Dad, you should take a bath too." Since he met his father, he seemed to only know how to brush his teeth and wash his face, and has never taken a bath!

"After taking a bath, Dad smells delicious too." Zhao Xiaoxiu said expectantly.

The tentacles seemed to be persuaded and immediately pushed Zhao Xiaoxiu out and closed the bathroom door.

Not because of shame, but because that's what humans do.

Zhao Xiaoxiu pricked up her ears and listened outside the door. Soon, she heard the sound of running water and white steam floating out from under the door.

Through the translucent frosted glass door, you can vaguely see a black shadow like an octopus inside, twisting around happily.

Zhao Xiaoxiu covered her mouth and laughed. She was very happy when her father was happy!
Zhao Gang took a bath for a full hour before he came out of the bathroom reluctantly.

If the hot water hadn't run out, he would probably have been able to shower for longer.

The lights were turned off, leaving only a small dim table lamp at the bedside. The father and daughter huddled contentedly on the soft, fluffy bed, sniffing and feeling that the whole room was filled with fragrance.

"Dad, how much rapeseed did our family plant this year?" Zhao Xiaoxiu asked softly, looking at the nebula map above her head.

Zhao Gang stretched out five fingers and said softly, "Five hundred kilograms."

Zhao Xiaoxiu exclaimed first, then asked what the general yield per mu was considered good.

Zhao Gang said: "The yield of mutant rapeseed is between 300 and 600 per mu."

"So our family is pretty good?"

"Ah."

"What about Master's?"

"Three hundred and fifty kilograms."

"What about the other lords?"

"From three hundred to four hundred."

Zhao Xiaoxiu rolled over, lying down, and asked excitedly, "Are we the first place?"

Although the patrol station has not yet counted the rapeseed harvest of the lords in Area B this time, Zhao Gang knows that it is true.

"Well, we're first." He turned the cub over and laid her down, imitating the movements of a human mother taking care of her child, patting her back rhythmically with his big paws.

Zhao Xiaoxiu kicked her feet happily in the thin quilt. First place!

She yawned sleepily, and was soothed by the rhythmic hand on her back. Gradually, the sound became silent and she fell asleep peacefully.

In the middle of the night, a strong wind blew down the clothes rack on the balcony, and the wind and rain blew into the room, waking Zhao Xiaoxiu, who was sleeping on the bed.

But soon, my father's gentle and soothing voice came from beside me, "It's okay, it's raining, Dad will go close the window."

Zhao Xiaoxiu remembered that she responded to her father with an "um", and then continued her date with Zhou Gong in her dream.

When I woke up the next day, the whole sky was gray. Big drops of rain were blown onto the glass by the wind and flowed down along the traces left by the water.

Zhao Xiaoxiu came to the balcony with closed windows. The heavy rain had washed the windows especially clean. She could clearly see the trees outside the window that were blown by the wind and the fallen leaves on the deserted road.

"Squeak!" Sister Monkey ran in from the next room and pointed at the sky outside the window. She was afraid of such heavy rain.

But he turned around and excitedly drew a circle in the house, expressing how happy he was to be able to stay in such a comfortable and safe house on a rainy day.

Zhao Xiaoxiu deeply agreed with this. If it were in the past, she would never dare to sleep peacefully until dawn on a rainy night.