Wasteland Farming, Manual for Raising Human Cubs

Chapter 240 Little Boss
After the father and daughter arranged the potatoes, they walked out of the greenhouse. The sun had also set.

The weather was hot, so Zhao Gang made a dish of chopped tomato and cabbage soup for dinner. He sprinkled it with scallions just picked from the vegetable jar and let it cool on the table for five minutes before drinking it. It became a bowl of sour and delicious appetizer soup.

Zhao Xiaoxiu took a sip of nutrient solution, a mouthful of appetizer soup, and a bottle of iced yogurt, and felt very satisfied.

After dinner, Grandma Meng and Da Meng came to ask for advice on how to grow potato sprouts.

So Zhao Gang took his daughter and went to Meng's house again. He repeated the steps he taught his daughter in the afternoon and taught them to the mother and son of the Meng family.

The five evolved potato seeds were regarded as gold nuggets by Grandma Meng and were treasured very much.

When she thought about the fact that her family would be able to harvest a batch of evolved potatoes by the end of the year and achieve potato freedom the following year, the smile of anticipation on Grandma Meng's face never stopped.

Potatoes are the main planting task in July, but the expansion of mutant rapeseed in winter is the main purpose of this large-scale land reclamation.

The soldiers at the patrol station have been very busy recently. Not only do they have to urge the lords to complete the large-scale land reclamation, but they also have to count the rapeseed that was not harvested before the rainy season arrived.

Eighty percent of the rapeseed produced in all territories in Zone B was bought back by the government at a price of 3.5 points per pound.

There were 15 percent of rapeseed left, and after the lord subtracted pounds of seeds, he could do with the rest as he pleased.

By this calculation, the portion that Zhao Xiaoxiu's family can freely dispose of is only 85 kilograms.

Zhao Gang gave 5 kilograms of it to the Meng family, who would plant it together with the five evolved potatoes in the land he allocated to them.

One pound of rapeseed can plant about two acres of land. The mandatory task of producing 15 pounds of rapeseed is equivalent to planting at least thirty acres.

Zhao Gang had made an accurate calculation in his mind, so the result he came up with was 32 acres of rapeseed fields.

If Xiwa can't make a tiller and a seed drill, the workload will be too much for a "monster" lord like Zhao Gang.

It is even more difficult for other lords, as most of them are alone, and they will definitely need workers to help with such an arduous planting task.

When Zhao Xiaoxiu heard her father talk about the planting arrangements, she realized belatedly that what they had done last autumn and winter and this spring were just the preparations before planting.

From now on, it’s time to truly farm!
In midsummer July, the "thump thump" sound of mechanical operation has become the most important busy sound in the planting area.

There are two tillage machines in Zhao Xiaoxiu's family working at the same time, one is driven by Zhao Gang, and the other is driven by Grandma Meng and Meng Da in turn.

One of them was rented from the patrol station. All the lords in Area B drew lots, and Zhao Gang won the first batch of quota to rent a machine. The next day, the tiller was driven home.

The current priority is to plant potatoes. The lords are divided into seven batches, and the three tillers rotate according to the batches. Each family uses one day. Even if they are not skilled in the operation and cannot complete the reclamation of the land in one day, they can rotate again after seven days, so as not to delay the farming time.

However, Zhao Xiaoxiu has her own tillage machine at home, so she doesn't have to worry about rotation problems.

On the first day, Zhao Gang drove the patrol station machine over and completed the reclamation of five acres of potato planting land by himself in one day.

Zhao Xiaoxiu found it interesting, so Zhao Gang took her on the car to experience it once at the beginning. After that, the little girl had no interest in this machine anymore.

Land reclamation is a boring job. The speed of the machine is neither slow nor slow, and the rumbling sound is particularly magical, which can easily make people sleepy.

After the potato field was cultivated, Grandma Meng and Meng Da continued to cultivate the rapeseed field and their own 20 acres of land. The mother and son took turns every three hours, so they were not bored to the point of falling asleep.

Zhao Gang would occasionally replace the mother and son and drive the car alone for a day.

As for Meng Er and Xi Wa, they continued to modify the seed drill. If there was a lack of materials, Meng Er would go out to help Xi Wa find them. Throughout July, Zhao Xiaoxiu was the idlest person in the family.

She is a four-year-old child and does not count as a labor force. She just needs to take care of herself every day.

He lies down when he is full, and gets up to eat again when he has had enough. Zhao Xiaoxiu feels that he is becoming as lazy as a pig.

The weather in July is hot from morning to night, and she has no desire to go out and play. Her only pleasure now is to look after the convenience store.

When someone came to her house, she would do business. When no one was around, she would squat by the pool that her father had helped build, turn on the water pipe from the well, and clean the mutated animal meat.

As the weather was hot, more people went into the mountains. The patrol soldiers in the planting area were divided into two groups in the morning and evening to enter the quarantine area to carry out cleanup tasks. They would carry back the low-level mutant animals and sell them to Zhao Xiaoxiu.

Then use the points you earn to buy fresh ingredients from her store.

Other lords would occasionally go to Zhao Xiaoxiu's store to buy some vegetables.

I don’t know why. Everyone is growing the same kind of vegetables, but the mutated cabbages in Territory No. 13 taste better than the ones they grow.

"Hey! Little boss, do you have any cold drinks for sale?"

A deliberately gruff voice sounded from behind the counter.

Zhao Xiaoxiu squatted by the pool behind the house and played in the water with Sister Monkey. She had separated the mutant animal meat collected today early in the morning and it was all bought by the soldiers at the Area A patrol station.

The sun wasn't as strong in the afternoon, so I took off my shoes, put on a vest and shorts, and had a lot of fun playing in the pool filled with detergent bubbles with Sister Monkey.

Hearing the inquiry coming from the counter, Zhao Xiaoxiu immediately looked up in surprise and exchanged a glance with Sister Hou.

"Coming, coming!" Zhao Xiaoxiu responded loudly. Without even putting on her shoes, she put her hands under the water pipe to rinse off the foam and immediately ran into the store.

I am short and have to stand on a stool to see the people outside the counter clearly.

"Strange. Where is the person?" Zhao Xiaoxiu looked at the counter in confusion, but didn't see anyone.

Just when I was wondering if the customer had waited too long and left, a figure suddenly jumped up from under the extended counter, yelled "Hey!", and then started laughing.

The confusion on Zhao Xiaoxiu's face disappeared instantly. She put her hands on her hips and looked at the smug little boy who thought she was scared and raised her chin with a "huh" sound. "Yang Hengjie, I knew it was you!"

When Youyou, who was bent over with laughter, heard this, the smile on his face froze instantly, and he asked in disbelief: "You found me a long time ago? Weren't you scared by me?"

"Of course." Zhao Xiaoxiu jumped down from the stool, walked out of the side door of the store, raised her hand and pointed at the green walls on both sides, "They notified me when you came."

"Oh, and there are those two people." Zhao Xiaoxiu pointed at the two familiar guards squatting under the bridge pier diagonally across the road. It would be hard not to notice them.

"Boring." Youyou snorted, puffed up his face and got angry.

Zhao Xiaoxiu then laughed out loud and said half-seriously, "Okay, okay, actually I was a little scared."

"Dear customer Youyou, would you like some iced drinks?" Zhao Xiaoxiu ran back to the counter and asked seriously while standing on a stool.

The child was heartless, and Youyou immediately said happily: "Yes!"

Happy New Year, babies!