Communicate with furry animals without any barriers, and take the farm to the next level

Chapter 284 Stealing food
Josh is never one to procrastinate; once he's decided what to do, he immediately gets to work.

After inquiring about the Oswin engineering team, he said that he did have reliable friends who could help. After discussing it, Oswin took on the task and said that he would take responsibility for it.

That would be even better.

Josh had originally thought that Josh was busy dealing with various matters in the Weiguang Commercial District and was rarely seen all day long, so he was planning to handle it himself. Since Josh still had the capacity, he decided to leave it all to Josh.

She was then able to begin developing the new product.

The bitter candy was still a bit green and not ripe yet, so Josh took out the water chestnuts that had been stored in the warehouse for a winter.

Let's start with horseshoes for our new product.

Josh has already come up with a name: Glowing Fruit Drink - Honey Water Chestnut Delight.

Similar to the popular "Radiant Flower" drink, Josh commissioned an artist to design a unique sign for the Honey Water Chestnut Drink. The sign was printed on special adhesive paper that could be stuck on the drink bottles so customers could easily spot the Weiguang Farm.

This time, the honey water chestnut drink is different from the signature flavorful, rich, delicate, and intense flavor of the ground hibiscus drink.

Josh prepared this specifically for the sweltering summer. Of course, Chaoyang City isn't just about the sweltering summer; it also has the sweltering spring and autumn. With such a long period of hot weather, Josh is confident that the refreshing and invigorating Horseshoe Delight will be loved by everyone.

So she made a slight modification to the recipe, creating a sweet and refreshing flavor. She also used a special tool to crush the water chestnuts, resulting in water chestnut pieces of the right size and minimizing waste.

Of course, since it's for commercial use, the amount of honey in it can't be as generous as before. Although I can't say that the pictures are for reference only, the actual amount has indeed been reduced by 70% to 80%.

Josh compensated for the lack of sweetness with granulated sugar and dried flowers collected from the farm.

The process of making water chestnut juice is simpler than that of making hibiscus. In just one afternoon, Josh made the first batch of water chestnut juice available for sale.

Just like the previous one, it was captured by Distant, the logistics commander of the Ninth Legion, as soon as the news was released.

They accept anything from the farm.

A few days ago, Captain Finnes sent Josh a message saying that the Legion would be sending the spoils of this year's winter expansion war to Winterstar City to participate in the Spring Festival, and would also be bringing along some specialties from Glimmer Farm, hoping to bring Josh good news.

Ask her if she would mind leaving her contact number at the Spring Festival. If any caravans were to travel to Chaoyang City for trade and were interested in the products of Weiguang Farm, it might help Weiguang Farm expand into new markets.

Josh readily agreed to this opportunity, which required absolutely no effort from him.

Josh has seen and appreciated the care that Captain Fannys has given the farm, both openly and secretly; she will never forget it.

After handing over this batch of honey water chestnut juice to the Rookie Merchant Caravan, Josh began preparing for the water chestnut seedling cultivation.

She didn't leave any farmland for the horseshoes to grow; she planned to plant them in the Nutmeg swamp.

The Squeezable Fruit Swamp is vast, much larger than the farmland Josh reclaimed. The area where the Digging Pigs previously collected Squeezable Fruit occupied at most a third of the swamp, but it was enough to supply the farm for a full season, with more than enough to last. Planting some water chestnuts there would be a minor issue. Furthermore, besides the withered grass left over from last winter and the decaying Squeezable Fruit and its stems, there's not much else in the Squeezable Fruit Swamp now, making it perfect for planting some water chestnuts to enrich the environment.

In the foggy, mysterious realm, Josh and his digging team scavenged a swamp and unearthed a considerable number of horseshoes.

Selecting 100 kilograms of high-quality water chestnuts with plump buds is a piece of cake.

Fearing he would fall into the mud, Josh piled the seeds on the edge of the swamp and entrusted them to the beavers to sow.

The farm has been busy lately, and the irrigation projects for the little beavers have piled up. We were able to call them to help today thanks to the leader of the hooded beavers, who went out to visit relatives (and recruit undocumented workers) half a month ago.

With the help of those on the other side of Moon Bay, it brought back three honest raccoons. Together with the little guys on the farm, they can manage to maintain the farm's various waterways, and today it was only just that it was able to free up some hands to help Josh.

Josh did tell it that it could bring back a few more, so that they wouldn't be too tired; more beavers mean more helpers.

But the beavers on the farm argued that if they called too many at once, they wouldn't be able to defeat the invading beavers. That wouldn't do. They'd rather work hard themselves than hire more beavers to help.

Josh said she would help them, that the foreign beavers were no match for the big-tailed yaks, but the beavers retorted that Josh was uncivilized, leaving her speechless.

Alright, the beavers are grown up and have their own ideas. They won't affect the normal operation of the farm anyway, so let them be.

She stopped interfering in their love-hate relationship.

The beavers, carrying horseshoe seeds, waded through the muddy swamp with such ease and comfort that Josh couldn't resist digging in and trying it out himself.

Of course, she is self-aware.

For raising seedlings, Josh didn't have high requirements. He just buried the horseshoes in his arms in the mud along a straight line, which was easy for the little beavers.

Of course, even with such an easy job, Josh managed to catch two beavers doing bad things.

"Is it delicious?" Josh's sinister voice came from afar. The leader of the beavers and his little brother were stunned. The leader looked at his little brother and said, "Didn't you say you couldn't see it because it was far away?"
Dou Xiaodi was silent for a moment, then gave his older brother an innocent look. "I don't know either. How can human eyes see so far?"

Before Josh could ask a second time, the two beavers swallowed the hoof whole, lowered their heads as if they hadn't heard, and quickly got to work.

The two silly foxes were sneaking around in the distance, munching on water chestnut seeds, thinking Josh couldn't see them. Little did they know that their actions of wiping the dirt off the water chestnuts were so obvious that it was impossible for her not to see them.

Most importantly, she coated these hooves with a layer of Golden-Armored Dung Beetle Special Fertilizer, the kind that won't burn the roots. It's the same kind of grime they were just wiping off. If Josh hadn't told them, they would have been eating shit. How could that be allowed?

Besides, these water chestnut seeds were selected and piled up for several days without being eaten, but they started gnawing on them while she was working. It's really annoying. Can't she just work properly?

Having learned from their example, the other beavers nearby also suppressed their restless hearts, thinking, "No, no, Josh can be terrifying when he's angry."