With more plants, there will naturally be more mosquitoes.

Long before animals and plants mutated, there were far more mosquitoes in the village than in the city. Every night when the lights were turned on, the mosquitoes would be attracted to the light, flapping their wings and flying around the house.

The impact of insect mutations on humans is far greater than that of mutations in other animals and plants.

In just a few days, the villagers became more vigilant against these mutated insects. When they went to work in the fields, they consciously wore thick, long-sleeved clothes even in the hottest weather.

Qin Suyun squatted in the field and picked up the potatoes that she had dug out this morning with a hand-held potato harvester and put them into a bamboo basket one by one.

Hei Dou followed Qin Suyun, holding an empty bamboo basket that he had prepared long ago. Whenever Qin Suyun filled a bamboo basket with picks, Hei Dou would put the bamboo basket in his mouth on Qin Suyun's left hand, then go to the tricycle on the side of the road and pick up an empty bamboo basket, never leaving its side.

Ever since Hei Dou grew bigger, Qin Suyun felt that this big black cat seemed to be more clingy than before.

As a stray cat that had been abused by humans, Hei Dou remained vigilant at all times for a long time, even in Qin Suyun's home, and would eat up all the food she gave him every time. At first, Qin Suyun thought Hei Dou was not full. After a few times, Qin Suyun discovered that even if Hei Dou was full, he would continue to eat up all the food in the bowl, for fear that he would be hungry without food at the next meal.

Fortunately, after a period of time, the other party felt safe living at home, knowing that he would no longer have to worry about having no food to eat, and the problem of eating was gradually corrected.

But as a stray cat, Hei Dou would run away whenever he saw other people approaching.

Even though his attitude towards his owner Qin Suyun is a little better, Heidou is still more independent than Dahei and Xiaoqi. He doesn't like to cling to people. Instead, he likes to lie on the windowsill to bask in the sun. Even when Qin Suyun comes back from going out, he will just stand aside, twirling his tail and meowing twice.

Moreover, there has never been a time when she left home where he would follow her everywhere.

It was not until the animals and plants mutated that Hei Dou began to follow Qin Suyun silently.

Especially every time he saw Qin Suyun riding a tricycle and carrying a bamboo basket to the field to harvest vegetables, he would follow closely. Just like now...

Qin Suyun took the empty bamboo basket from Hei Dou with a smile, stretched out her clean right hand to scratch the soft hair on Hei Dou's head, "Thank you~!"

"Meow~!..." The big furry head rubbed Qin Suyun's palm. Hei Dou pushed the bamboo basket forward again, asking Qin Suyun to quickly collect the potatoes.

These mutated potatoes are very large, some as big as basketballs, and a basket can only hold 8 to 10 potatoes on average. Previously, each seedling could only produce 3 to 5 potatoes, but now each seedling can produce seven or eight potatoes, and some even have more than ten.

If it weren't for the potato harvester at home, Qin Suyun felt that she would be so tired that she would collapse on the ground just by digging potatoes in half an acre of land.

However, even with the help of a harvester, it is not easy to bring all the potatoes from the field home.

The road from home to the five acres of land was originally wide enough for a truck to drive in, but now this section of road has been damaged by plants, and only half of the road that was originally wide enough for trucks to drive in has been destroyed. In addition, the distance is only less than ten minutes, so driving on it is too conspicuous.

Qin Suyun just rode the tricycle obediently, huffing and puffing as she carried the goods home.

Qin Suyun had just brought home the tomatoes grown in the greenhouse yesterday. She turned her head and looked behind her. She saw eight bamboo baskets full of potatoes and sighed deeply.

"You are so young, why are you sighing? Isn't it great that you have harvested so much grain from your fields?" A strong teasing voice suddenly came into Qin Suyun's ears.

Qin Suyun raised her head and looked in the direction of the voice. She saw He Zhennan, wearing a long black coat, standing not far behind her. Hei Dou, who was originally holding an empty bamboo basket in his mouth, had already put down the basket and was staring at He Zhennan with a fierce look.

"Why are you here? Have all the wastelands over there been reclaimed?" Qin Suyun was subconsciously stunned when she saw the man.

"With the farm machinery you lent us, it's useless if we haven't cleaned up that wasteland in these few days, isn't it?" He Zhennan completely ignored the big black cat that was staring at him hungrily, and walked to Qin Suyun with a few empty bamboo baskets taken from the tricycle in his hands. He picked up the potatoes that were turned over on the ground and put them into the bamboo baskets one by one.

Qin Suyun frowned and looked at He Zhennan without saying anything. The other party said it lightly, but in fact, reclaiming the wasteland was not such a simple matter. Not to mention how difficult it was to dig the roots of those mutant plants, just the stones on the wasteland that needed to be picked out and thrown away would cost everyone a lot of effort.

It is much more difficult to clean up the numerous plant roots, large rocks, and various weeds and shrubs in the wasteland now than before the rainstorm.

"You are looking at me like that, are you worried about me?" He Zhennan didn't look up. It was just a simple sentence, but the other party said it with a hint of sarcasm.

"No... I'm just a little curious..."

Qin Suyun pursed her lips, tightened her right hand, and felt a little at a loss. She didn't know if it was her illusion, but she always felt that the atmosphere was a little weird, and her feet involuntarily moved to the side.

He Zhennan glanced at Qin Suyun's movements without saying a word, the corners of his mouth curled up unconsciously, and his hands continued to pick potatoes without stopping. "What's so curious about it? It's just land reclamation. This time, Pang Xiong and I opened up 15 acres of wasteland. Wanxi Village is small, and there are not many suitable wastelands. After a while, if we find more suitable land, we may go to reclaim some... Otherwise, there is too little land, and I may not be able to get married in this life. After all, these days, no woman would be willing to marry a man who has no house, no land, and no food. Don't you agree?"

Qin Suyun subconsciously moved her feet to the side, and she herself did not realize her subconscious movement. She always felt that the question He Zhennan asked was even stranger than the previous one, but Qin Suyun always felt that she was thinking too much and was a little nervous.

She frowned, picking up potatoes quickly and saying, "Certainly, food is quite valuable these days. During the recent snowstorm, everyone was frightened by hunger, so it's normal to have such a request... But don't worry... Grain production has increased significantly now, so everyone can easily eat their fill even if they have to rely on wild vegetables. It's easy to get some food back... And Mr. He is a good shot, so catching rabbits and pheasants in the mountains is no problem. If we can kill rabbits and pheasants, we can exchange them for enough food... I'm sure there are many women in the village who are willing to marry Mr. He. Mr. He, don't worry."

"Really? Since you said so, I feel relieved." He Zhennan looked at Qin Suyun's somewhat unnatural expression, chuckled twice, and said nothing more as he buried his head in picking up potatoes.

Qin Suyun brought quite a few bamboo baskets this time, fifteen in total.

Unlike other people in the village who had the habit of piling up the harvested potatoes and sweet potatoes on the ground, Qin Suyun did not like to pile them up in the corner of the basement. She used to pack the grains in large boxes or sacks.

However, the potatoes that had just been harvested were relatively damp and not suitable for packing in sacks, so Qin Suyun put them in bamboo baskets first. After drying the potato skins, she would find some sacks for grain, put the potatoes in them, and store them in the basement.

Two people are much faster than one person. The work that we thought would be completed by six or seven o'clock today was finished at just four o'clock.

Qin Suyun stood up, rubbed her sore waist, and walked over to the tricycle carrying a basket of potatoes.

However, just as the potato basket was being lifted, He Zhennan stopped Qin Suyun, stared at her with deep eyes and said with a smile: "Leave this potato work to me, you just rest here."

"Isn't this a bit inappropriate? You just helped me a lot, how can I let you move so many potatoes by yourself?" Qin Suyun shook her head and wanted to refuse.

"I'm a man, and physical work like this should be left to me." He Zhennan did not give Qin Suyun this opportunity. He smiled and pulled the potato basket from Qin Suyun's hand, carrying the basket of potatoes and walked over to the tricycle.

A tricycle could only hold four baskets of potatoes. After Qin Suyun tried to move the potato baskets three times without success, she had no choice but to hand the task over to He Zhennan and sat aside to drink water and rest.

Seeing the other party riding the tricycle full of potatoes to deliver them home, Qin Suyun subconsciously touched her burning ears.

hiss……

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Wanxi Village, by the stream in the village.

Qiu Jiayue was walking from the fields, one step deep and one step shallow, to the west, ready to wash her feet and hands. She pursed her lips and her face looked a little ugly, especially when she looked down at the wound about two or three centimeters long on her palm, her face looked even uglier.

The wound was not too deep, but it looked a bit shocking. There was all kinds of mud and sand mixed in the bleeding wound.

Qiu Jiayue felt a lump in her throat and felt extremely aggrieved.

"Hey, big sister, what's wrong with you? Your hand is injured and bleeding! Wash it quickly first, and then go back and apply some alcohol or iodine to disinfect it... The medicine in our village and at the doctor's office is almost used up now. It would be terrible if the wound gets infected and inflamed!" An auntie, who was carrying cabbages freshly cut from the fields on a basket, came over and immediately noticed the injury on Qiu Jiayue's palm. She said with concern, "You city kids didn't do farm work before, so it's normal to get injured. You'll get used to it after a while..."

However, before the aunt could finish her words, Qiu Jiayue's tears started streaming down her face.

"Hey hey hey?!... Little girl, why are you crying for no reason? Tell me quickly, what's going on?... Don't cry, don't cry, you're such a grown-up, why are you crying?!"