Orphaned and working tirelessly for three years, I finally bought my own house only to face the apocalypse. For the second time, I must endure the same catastrophic disaster.
But this time I ...
Once the two little ones confirmed that their owner had settled in the farmhouse, they ran out to play.
The agritainment business is quite large, with a restaurant, guest rooms, a breeding area, a planting and picking area, and an amusement area.
The two first arrived at the restaurant, which was actually a large rural kitchen from the 1980s and 90s. Xu Lin took out all kinds of meat, seafood, and seasonings from her space, put water in the earthen pot to boil, and blanched the chicken, duck, and ribs. She put wood at the bottom of the pot to boil the water. The two came out of the kitchen and prepared to walk around the neighborhood to see if there were any supplies they could use.
There was a storage room next to the kitchen, but unfortunately all the meat, eggs, and vegetables inside had gone bad.
The guest room contained a four-piece bedding set, a simple bed, a table, a wardrobe, etc., and Xu Lin accepted them without complaint.
After leaving the guest room, I returned to the kitchen. The water was boiling, so it was time to blanch the vegetables, such as the ribs and chicken pieces. Then came the main event.
Xu Lin went to the stove, and Zhou Pin assisted, while also learning. Because they needed to stock up, the portions of each dish were quite large. Fortunately, they had stocked up on a lot of disposable lunch boxes beforehand, so one pot of food could be divided into twenty or thirty boxes.
Just as they finished cooking a pot of stewed chicken, Beta ran back, grabbing Zhou Pin's trouser leg and running outside. The two thought something had happened to Shuke, so they followed Beta outside.
Finally, Beta stopped at the entrance of a cave on the mountaintop. This cave was naturally formed, but it later became a gimmick for agritainment, reportedly attracting many people to experience its warmth in winter and coolness in summer.
"Is Shuke in here?" Xu Lin asked Beta.
"It's inside! It's inside! Come on in and take a look!" Beta tilted his head back and shook his head.
Zhou Pin went inside first, followed by Xu Lin and Beta. As soon as they entered the cave, they felt that it was several degrees higher than outside. The cave was quite large, and it had probably been developed again, as the ground was very flat.
After walking about ten meters, I heard Shuke's voice. I shone my flashlight around and saw Shuke standing majestically in front of me, with a tuft of hair missing from his head. Further away, there were many poultry and livestock.
"Are these poultry and livestock raised at the agritainment business?" Xu Lin glanced at Zhou Pin.
"It must be because they hid in their burrows when it got cold, and Shuke and Beta found them," Zhou Pin said, looking at the animals in front of him.
"We're rich! We're rich!" Xu Lin's eyes were filled with greed.
When Shuke saw his owner arrive, he barked at the poultry and quickly ran to Xu Lin and Zhou Pin's side.
"Hey human, feeder, look how amazing I am! Can I have a snack at lunchtime?"
"Wow, Shuke, you've got to have an extra snack at lunchtime. Tell me, which one have you got your eye on?" Xu Lin was overjoyed, as if she were rewarding her child for getting a perfect score.
Shuke ran over and grabbed a chicken.
"That's it! It just pecked my head, and now I'm bald! Waaah, I'm not handsome anymore, the human will be disgusted." Shuke shook his head violently, almost biting off the chicken's neck.
"Okay, that's it. I'll stew it for lunch and give you a beta as a snack. I'll bring it to the kitchen later." Xu Lin patted Shuke's bald patch to comfort him.
The cave contained a rough count of poultry and livestock: two dairy cows, three yellow cattle, six sheep (one of which had just given birth to two lambs and was still nursing), ten pigs, more than 20 chickens, more than a dozen ducks, more than a dozen rabbits, eight geese, two horses, two donkeys, and several chicken eggs, duck eggs, and goose eggs.
Except for the chicken that Shuke was holding in his mouth, the rest went into Xu Lin's space, and the two people and two dogs went to the kitchen.
Xu Lin poured boiling water from another stove into a large basin to prepare for plucking chicken feathers, and then took out about ten processed chickens from her spatial storage to prepare a multi-course meal.