Wasteland Farming, Manual for Raising Human Cubs

Chapter 275 Separation Anxiety Disorder

Zhao Gang got up early in the morning. There was a fire burning in the stove in the house. As soon as he entered the house, there was warmth and it was not cold at all.

"Wash your face and brush your teeth, then have breakfast and go grow vegetables."

Zhao Gang took down the kettle of hot water and poured it into the basin filled with cold water, then signaled the cub to wash his face and brush his teeth.

Zhao Xiaoxiu hadn't tied up her shoulder-length hair for a long time. It was soft and fluffy, and the static electricity made it stick out everywhere, making her look like a hedgehog.

A tentacle took out a comb from a pile of bundles, dipped it in water, and combed the rough hair. Zhao Gang took over and braided two small braids for his daughter, which hung on her shoulders, looking playful and cute.

Zhao Xiaoxiu held the warm handkerchief against her face for a while and then reluctantly put it down. She stood on tiptoe and looked at herself in the water in the basin. She was very satisfied with her hairstyle today and the corners of her mouth curled up unconsciously.

"Dad, what vegetables should we plant today?" Zhao Xiaoxiu asked while eating hot instant noodles.

Zhao Gang said: "First plant the evolved tomatoes and the mutant onions, ginger and peppers."

The temperature in the storage room is just right, and these crops can grow quickly. Onions can be picked and eaten after a month, and grown tomatoes will bear fruit in about one and a half months, and will be fully mature in two months.

Zhao Xiaoxiu nodded, and couldn't wait to plant the crops and eat them quickly. Then the father and daughter took a small hoe and went into the storage room.

The floor of the storage room was made of soil. Zhao Gang dug several ridges, two ridges for onions and ginger, and three ridges for tomatoes.

The number of seeds is limited, and you can only plant so many now.

Zhao Xiaoxiu followed behind his father to sow seeds, cover the soil and water the plants.

Zhao Gang felt that the soil was not fertile enough, so he shoveled in some black silt from the wetland in front of his house and spread a thin layer on top.

After planting the vegetables, Sister Monkey finally left her nest and was called away by Zhao Gang to work as a transporter, carrying those straight and thick charred wood branches back home.

Zhao Gang trimmed the charred branches as thick as the men's legs into square timber and made himself wooden beds, wooden tables, wooden chairs, wooden basins, wooden barrels, and storage racks.

There were only two sets of stainless steel bowls for eating, and several small items such as wooden bowls and wooden spoons were made separately using small ingredients.

Zhao Xiaoxiu felt that her father seemed to know everything, and the furniture he made had a solemn and symmetrical beauty.

The wood splinters on the furniture have been polished very smoothly, retaining the original texture, making them look like pieces of art.

Zhao Xiaoxiu now has her own small wardrobe, which is 1.2 meters high. She no longer has to stand on a stool to get clothes from high places. She can fold all her clothes while standing.

Zhao Gang also made two wooden beds, one large and one small.

He read the parenting tips from some book, but the book said that children at the age of four can sleep in separate beds from adults.

Moreover, sleeping in separate beds helps to cultivate children's independence.

So, in the second-floor room, which was not very big to begin with, a large bed of 1.2 meters and a small bed of 1 meter wide were placed.

There is a nebula carved with minimalist lines on the headboard of the bed. It is a very abstract style, but because of the extremely simple lines, it exudes a sense of seriousness.

Zhao Xiaoxiu liked it very much, and in return, she secretly used a knife to carve two little figures on the headboard of the bed.

Two people are holding hands, and the little person has two braids on his head. You can tell at a glance that the painting is of her.

She thought her little action had not been discovered, but she didn't know that the two tentacles had already seen it clearly.

Zhao Gang could naturally know it since the tentacles could be seen, but seeing the cub's sneaky look, the old father cooperated and pretended not to know.

When I went to bed at night, I deliberately let out an "eh" and successfully attracted a little head from under the quilt, which looked over at me expectantly.

Zhao Xiaoxiu discovered that while her father had learned many skills, he had also become a bad person.

After a "eh", there was no more movement. He calmly took off his coat, shoes and socks, lay down, covered himself with the quilt, and closed his eyes. Zhao Xiaoxiu: "."

Forget it, go to sleep!
Zhao Xiaoxiu covered herself with a whole thick quilt, wrapping herself tightly, as if she was curled up in her father's warm and soft touch.

She adapted to the separate beds quickly and fell asleep in a short while. She had a sweet dream and a smile on her face.

Zhao Gang lay in bed, unable to fall asleep.

Of course, He had already slept enough at the bottom of the sea, and now He was just imitating the human schedule, not really sleeping.

But in the past, he was happy to waste the whole night lying in bed, hugging his soft cub.

Zhao Gang turned sideways, facing the crib, and looked at the cub who was wrapped in a thick quilt with only half of his face exposed. He suddenly felt itchy in his heart and wanted to get closer to listen to its healthy and rhythmic heartbeat.

As he watched, he no longer looked like a human. His dark red body limply floated down from the bed, moving around and wrapping the entire small bed.

Zhao Xiaoxiu was awakened by the heat. In a daze, she raised her hand and touched the bed beside her. She felt something warm and soft, and she opened her eyes in a daze.

What I saw was a sea of ​​blood red, that familiar body.

"Dad!" Zhao Xiaoxiu reacted and said good morning to her father with a happy smile.

The flesh did not fade away immediately. Hundreds of blood-red eyeballs blinked in the blooming flesh buds at the tentacles, and her shadow was all inside.

If someone else came, they would have been scared to tears by this horrific scene.

Zhao Xiaoxiu was used to it and just stretched out her fingers to play with them.

She guessed that her father was suffering from separation anxiety.

In my previous life, I heard from my neighbor’s grandma that when children and parents sleep in separate beds, the ones who are most uncomfortable are actually the parents, not the children.

In the midst of busy work, the new home has been tidied up and looks great.

It was the end of November. Zhao Gang looked at the recent weather and found it was cloudy, so he decided to take the cubs out hunting to store up meat for the coming snow.

Enough firewood has been collected to form four tall piles in the yard. Even if the firewood is burned non-stop twenty-four hours a day, it will last until next summer.

In order to decorate their new home, the father and daughter have recently focused all their energy on making furniture and stockpiling firewood, and they have been eating very casually for their two meals a day.

An occasional meal of instant noodles is the greatest delicacy.

Although Zhao Xiaoxiu never complained, he missed the food he had in the territory from the bottom of his heart.

Choosing a day with little wind, the father and daughter simply took two weapons and headed towards the mountains west of the valley.

Zhao Gang restrained all his breath, and the mutated animals in the forest could not detect him, so naturally they would not hide in advance. Zhao Xiaoxiu immediately noticed that there were more mutated animals appearing near him.

Before the snow falls, the mutant animals also need to gain enough fat to survive the cold winter. There are a lot of mutant animals active in the forest.

Low-level mutant animals cannot recognize, and once they discover Zhao Xiaoxiu, the delicious human cub, they can't wait to rush out and knock her down.

As a result, he failed to knock the person down, and he was caught off guard and lost his life.

Zhao Xiaoxiu held a new dagger in his hand, pointed it at the softest belly of the mutant animal, and swung the dagger horizontally. Hot blood and various animal organs fell down.

The mutant hyena that she wanted to hunt became her prey. The girl squatted down, neatly cut off the tastiest parts of the hyena, put them into a waterproof backpack, placed them on the hoverboard, and continued forward.

Zhao Gang held the hoverboard and followed behind at a leisurely pace, watching the whole process, occasionally giving instructions, but never taking any action.