Chapter 274 Preserving the Feelings of This Moment

Perhaps because the timing was suitable for seed germination, all three batches of seeds planted on the left side germinated one after another.

The slowest growing of them were the seeds planted in the planting box, which was more in line with Zuo Shan's expectations.

After all, the most suitable environment for plant growth is still the soil beneath our feet. Although there is soil in the planting box, the space is too narrow and cannot compare to the free extension of plant roots in real soil.

So Zuo Shan decided to abandon this planting environment.

The remaining two batches of seeds, planted in our own yard, are growing extremely well thanks to the nutrient solution prepared by Panda.

However, they lack a thermostatic layer to protect and filter solar radiation, and more than 70% of them have mutated, becoming thicker and taller, with leaves increasing in size to about 5 to 20 times their original size.

The mutated plants also have a shorter growth cycle. For example, rice enters the jointing stage in just 25 days. At this growth rate, it should be able to head in another 10 days.

However, due to the high intensity of solar radiation, the vast majority of them have changed from seedlings with zero radiation to plants with moderate radiation.

If this continues, by harvest time, it is estimated that more than 30% of the fruit will be highly radioactive and inedible.

The seeds planted in the plantation, thanks to the constant temperature greenhouse filtering solar radiation and the presence of mutated poplar trees planted nearby, resulted in 50% of the plants mutating.

Of the mutated plants, 50% became moderately irradiated, and it is estimated that more than 10% of the fruits will be low-radiation at harvest time.

To Xiaobai, this ratio was already shocking enough, considering that she had only used an ordinary constant temperature greenhouse and had not used expensive radiation protection materials.

The cost of such a common constant temperature greenhouse is not very high, and it can be widely promoted. After all, the ultimate goal of crop cultivation is to meet the needs of the public.

However, Zuo Shan was still not satisfied. What she wanted was at least 50% low-radiation fruits so that ordinary people could afford low-radiation food in the future.

With a sufficient supply of low-radiation food, women can conceive normally, and fetuses are more likely to survive, thus preventing the planet's population from continuing to decline.

With people, this planet has a future.

Seeing how dedicated she was to planting, Panda also devoted all her free time to preparing nutrient solutions.

Nowadays, not only the plants in the yard are using nutrient solution, but the plants in the plantation are too.

He also prepared what he called a low-end version of nutrient solution to irrigate the wild vegetables in the Zuo Shan plantation. As it turned out, he was really amazing, and the yield of these wild vegetables increased by 30%!

While watering the wild vegetables with nutrient solution, he said with a look of disgust, "Sigh! Civilization has really regressed by several hundred years. Now even these wild vegetables that livestock used to despise have become treasures, and people are even scrambling to buy them."

Zuo Shan coaxed him patiently, saying, "After this batch of wild vegetables is harvested and sold, you'll get half of the increased income. You can buy whatever you want then."

"Hmph! Shouldn't it all belong to me? But since you're my new master, I'll give you half as pocket money."

My database says that men should be generous to women, especially when it comes to pocket money; they should never let women suffer.

Panda immediately saw through the fact that she had withheld half of his income, but he generously didn't hold it against her.

Xiao Bai took the opportunity to raise his wristwatch, wanting to transfer some living expenses to Zuo Shan, but she refused to accept it. Then he used the excuse that a father should give child support to demand that she accept it.

As a result, Zuo Shan directly grabbed the baby's chubby little hand, pointed the bracelet at him, and said, "Since it's for your son's child support, then do as you please."

Then she turned and left without even glancing back.

Xiao Bai was extremely frustrated. It wasn't that he didn't want to transfer money to his baby, but that his baby hadn't learned to use the watch to pay yet, and there were official regulations that for infants under the age of three, the account only had the function of transferring money in, and transferring out, spending or querying were prohibited.

In other words, even parents do not have the right to check their child's account; they can only transfer money into the child's account.

Even if he transfers a lot more to the baby, it's just money he's saving; she can't possibly withdraw it to spend.

He held the baby's chubby little hand, thought seriously for a long time, and finally made a decision.

Xiaobai still transferred one two-hundredth of her own account balance to Baobao's account without hesitation.

As the heir to the Lan Dun family, his account balance already exceeded 100 billion, so even this 200th is 500 million.

He also set an advanced command for his account: every month thereafter, the same amount would be automatically transferred to the baby's account, and this command would last for twenty years.

If he dies during this period, the account balance will be frozen and will not be considered as part of his estate to be inherited by his family.

The financial institution will continue to execute this high-level instruction until all the balances have been transferred out, at which point the instruction will terminate.

In this way, he will have no worries. Whether he is alive or not, when Achen turns ten, half of his savings will be transferred to Bao Bao's name, and when Achen turns twenty, all of his billions in savings will be transferred to Bao Bao's name.

As for his own expenses over the past twenty years, he has naturally worked hard to earn them. In his view, supporting a family is a man's responsibility.

Only one percent of the hundreds of billions in his account came from the New Year's money given to him by his parents and grandparents when he was a child, as well as the pocket money distributed to his family members.

The rest was all earned by him over the years from hunting mutated beasts and completing various missions.

Of course, part of the credit goes to Matt, who is quite skilled at investment and financial management. Since he became his personal assistant, Matt has been in charge of managing his personal assets.

Unlike other employers, Xiaobai always doubts the loyalty of those around him, worrying that they might use his money to line their own pockets.

He completely trusted Matt, especially when it came to financial management. He believed Matt was a genius and that entrusting money to him would yield excellent returns.

As it turned out, his judgment of people was indeed excellent; since Matt started managing his accounts, his savings had almost doubled.

However, no one in the family really knows how much private property he has. He doesn't like to live a life of extravagance and never buys luxury goods, so everyone privately guesses that his private property is at most tens of millions.

For the past 29 years, Xiaobai has rarely paid attention to his account balance, which is why he didn't even count how many zeros he entered when he transferred money to Zuoshan for the first time.

Because in his eyes, that sum of money was far too insignificant.

But recently, he often went to the plantation with Zuo Shan and listened to her rambling about how the wild vegetables were ready for harvest and how much they could sell for on the Ninth Forum.

He then realized that this woman seemed to be very insecure about her finances.

In fact, she had always lived in District 50, where she lacked food and clothing, so it was perfectly normal for her to worry about not having enough money.

But she was unwilling to accept his money for no reason. She was quite stubborn in this regard and insisted on not spending a man's money, even though he considered himself her fiancé.

During a discussion about this topic with her, she said, "Even after marriage, a woman shouldn't spend a man's money too often. Once she gets used to it, she will slowly become a man's appendage."

After the initial passion fades, a man will gradually lose the respect and love he deserves for a woman who has become his appendage, and will treat her with disrespect and arrogance.

Over time, the marriage loses its flavor, and eventually the couple ends up acting like superiors and subordinates—how tragic!

Although he had never been married, he recalled that among the couples he knew, there was one whose post-marital relationship was exactly like the one she described.

And those couples, without exception, all became as she described: the husbands bossed their wives around, while the wives humbly tried to please their husbands.

Even though he feels obligated to support his family as a man, he cannot predict whether he will still maintain his original intention and continue to respect and love his wife as always decades later.

After all, every couple who once loved each other vowed to love and respect each other for life when they got married, but in reality, the vast majority of them failed to keep their vows to the end.

Since she refused to accept his money in order to maintain her self-respect and pride, he transferred all the money to the baby's name.

This way, she won't feel embarrassed, and it will also leave her and the baby with enough financial security.

Love may disappear because he dies or changes his mind along the way, and cannot be preserved forever, but at least his willingness to share all his property with her at this moment will be forcibly preserved by the instruction he set.