Wasteland Farming, Manual for Raising Human Cubs

Chapter 67 Sowing
Compared with the excitement of yesterday's land reclamation, Zhao Xiaoxiu couldn't smile at all while sowing seeds today.

After actual practice, she realized that land reclamation was nothing, and sowing was the most tiring and difficult work!
To turn the soil, you just need to dig, but for sowing, you have to first dig shallow trenches, scatter the seeds, and then cover them with soil.

After repeatedly standing up and squatting down for a whole morning, Zhao Xiaoxiu felt that her waist was so bent that she could not straighten it up.

"Xiaoxiu, go home and have a rest." Zhao Gang advised, holding back his laughter.

Zhao Xiaoxiu had a bitter face, but when he heard this, he immediately smiled.

But then he immediately remembered that it was very hard for his father to work alone, so he quickly suppressed his expression and said in a tangled voice:
"There's still a lot left to plant. Can you do it by yourself, Dad?"

Zhao Gang was very pleased. He walked to the little girl, picked her up and moved her to the rape field. "How about Xiaoxiu stay beside her and cheer her up?"

"Okay!" Zhao Xiaoxiu agreed immediately and felt relieved.

She really couldn't hold on any longer, so when Zhao Gang returned to the rapeseed field, she immediately sat down on the ground without caring whether it was dirty or not.

Little did they know that after Zhao Gang no longer had to accompany them to experience farming, the sowing speed increased rapidly.

He held the seeds in one hand and sowed them, while using the other hand to turn it into a tentacle to cover them with soil, alternating the two processes, doing one row every few minutes.

"Come on, Dad!" Zhao Xiaoxiu's voice came, and the tentacles were even more motivated.

In less than two hours, one acre of rapeseed was planted.

But when Zhao Gang finished his work and looked back, he saw the exhausted cub lying on the ground with its arms and legs spread out, actually asleep.

Her face was like a calico cat, her hair was messy, the hairpin on it had fallen away somewhere long ago, her mouth was slightly open, saliva was running down her cheeks, and she was sleeping soundly.

Zhao Gang packed up his farm tools and came to the little girl, poking her bulging belly.

The little guy mumbled something, opened his eyes dazedly, vaguely remembering what he was doing, and asked in a baby voice: "Dad, have we finished planting rapeseed?"

Zhao Gang nodded and asked her, "Can you still walk?"

"Yeah." Zhao Xiaoxiu rubbed his eyes, became a little more sober, got up by himself, and followed his father.

The sky was reflected with an orange sunset glow.

The father and daughter who had just returned from the busy farming season looked at the beautiful sky and felt an inexplicable sense of happiness in their hearts.

"Dad, we'll have to cultivate more land in the future and plant all the seeds that can be grown at home. Then by next spring, we'll have a lot of delicious food." Zhao Xiaoxiu imagined.

Zhao Gang nodded and responded with "hmm", and was also full of expectations for next year.

The father and daughter returned home, took a bath and washed clothes in the hot water in the last rays of the setting sun, hung the clothes out to dry, and night fell.

After taking a shower and filling his stomach, Zhao Xiaoxiu was full of energy again.

Lying on the big bed in the bedroom with my father, listening to the ghost stories he told, I became more and more excited and couldn't fall asleep at all.

After completing today's literacy task, the father and daughter covered themselves in a warm quilt and discussed what to plant tomorrow.

The experts gave the lords five days to plant rapeseed, but Zhao Gang finished it ahead of schedule. The remaining three days were his own and he could do whatever he wanted.

The father and daughter both remembered the evolved fruit and vegetable seeds they had brought back from the temple.

There are four types: pumpkin, tomato, sunflower and cabbage.

Zhao Gang has mastered Shanyuan's memory and is able to grow these evolved fruits and vegetables with ease.

He immediately arranged: "We will find some empty pots and jars tomorrow and plant evolved tomatoes and sunflowers indoors. We can use the waterproof cloth we bought earlier to build a simple greenhouse to spend the winter."

The evolved sunflower is cold-resistant and can germinate as long as the temperature is not lower than 0 degrees. It has a short growing period and can bloom in March next year if planted in winter.

Zhao Gang whispered, "The evolved sunflower can sing. We can move it to the rapeseed field and let it soothe the mutant rapeseed that is in bloom."

"There are also evolved tomatoes. They will take root, sprout and bear fruit in one and a half months. Xiaoxiu will have vegetables to eat in winter!" Zhao Xiaoxiu's eyes were full of stars, and he kept saying nice things: "Dad, you are really an ordinary little genius in farming!"

The emotional value was given full play, and the old father instantly became full of energy.

The next morning, I dug the cub out of its bed, dressed it, washed it, gave it enough nutrient solution, took a few pears, and rode my bicycle to look for usable pots and pans around Area B.

After searching for a whole morning, the father and daughter successfully found two large pottery jars and fifteen earthenware pickle jars on the barren hill in the east where garbage was piled up.

However, the ceramic jar leaks and the vegetable jar has no lid.

But it's perfect for storing soil and planting things.

The father and daughter worked hard to carry the clay jars and vegetable pots back home, filled them with soil, and placed them on the open space in the backyard.

The house faces west and east, with plenty of sunlight. The backyard is close to the southern hillside, so it will be convenient to transplant vegetables to the hillside and develop a vegetable garden after spring.

The father and daughter are thinking long-term. They are not just thinking about this winter, but are planning to have a fruit and vegetable garden at home in the future.

The jars and pots are ready, but the most important thing left is a greenhouse.

By the way, the father and daughter never went to the poplar forest across the river again except for a single inspection on the second day after arriving at the territory.

It’s not that I’m not interested in those poplar trees, but it’s inconvenient to cross the river and taking a detour is troublesome.

Plus I was busy with expert training and had no time to deal with it.

The house was empty, without a single decent piece of furniture, and the poplar trees on the other side of the river were the best raw materials.

Logging is easy, the axe that Zhao Gang had specially exchanged for before is very useful.

The father and daughter first took a detour to the poplar forest and selected the five best trees to cut down.

But there were some minor problems with transportation.

Zhao Gang could easily carry a poplar tree that was 30 centimeters in diameter and 20 meters high.

But carrying them back one by one would not only seem stupid, but would also attract too much attention.

The greenhouses are planted with evolved fruits and vegetables that are not included in the base planting bags. If other people find out, there will definitely be a lot of trouble.

It’s not that it can’t be known to others, but at least they have to wait until they earn the first wave of points.

The father and daughter stood on the river bank with their hands on their hips, looking at the wide river, lost in thought.

Two minutes later.

A sudden idea came to Zhao Xiaoxiu's mind.

"Dad, how about cutting the wood into shorter pieces and tying them together with ropes to make a raft and float it across the river?" she asked tentatively.

The poplar forest is just upstream, and the water flows downward. If we control the direction slightly, the raft can float smoothly to the pond on the opposite side. It is simply perfect.

Zhao Gang looked at his cub in surprise and said, "Try it!"

So the father and daughter rode their bikes back home to get a rope, returned to the poplar forest, tied together 5-meter-long sections of poplar wood, made a simple raft, and pushed it into the water.

The father and daughter immediately jumped onto the raft and floated downstream, using long branches to slightly adjust the direction and successfully reached the other side of the river.

Peter Pan in the pond jumped out of the water excitedly, thinking that Zhao Xiaoxiu came to see him.

The big tail swung back and forth in the pond, causing ripples on the water.

(End of this chapter)