Chapter 26 Feed Well
Su Tai walked out of the house humming a little tune happily, and found that there were a lot more things in the main room of her house, mostly some dried wild vegetables and pickles, a few eggs and some grains wrapped in small sacks.
Mixed in with them were two pheasants and a hare. I don’t know how long they had been dead, but they hadn’t been cleaned up yet.
Han just came out of the house, and Su Tai immediately asked, "Mom, where did these things come from?"
Han was so happy that she sat down next to her and said, "It was sent by people near Moshi Town. You and your father asked Doctor Li to go into the mountains to pick herbs. You traveled back and forth in the middle of winter and sent so many herbs to the town officials without asking for anything in return. The town officials spread the good deeds you and Shen Yi did. Some of the families who were saved sent you things. Even if they couldn't give you anything, their family members came to thank you in person. You were sleeping the whole time, so I didn't dare wake you up.
Originally, your father and I were worried that the food at home would not last until the snow melted, but now we can have some time to relax and perhaps we can make it through.
The Chinese New Year is just four days away, and these things are just right for making a table of delicious food for you."
Su Zhan was so happy that he ran to the door of Su Ming's room and said loudly: "Little brother, did you hear everything? You must get better soon, so that we can celebrate the New Year together."
In previous years, the New Year celebrations at home were just so-so, with no one looking forward to it. But this year is different, everyone is taking it very seriously.
Especially Su Chunlin and Han, the couple are looking forward to the New Year to get rid of the bad luck in their family, drive away all the bad fortune of this year, and pray that everything will go smoothly in the coming year.
Because they were busy with New Year's preparations, and because of the funeral of a family in the village who had died of typhoid fever, Su Chunlin and Han were so busy that even Su Zhan was called out to help.
Only Su Tai and Su Ming, who was recuperating from illness, were left at home.
Su Tai took the opportunity to enter the Space-Time Gate Transfer Station and rented an automatic flour mill from the medium tool vending machine. She ground 20 kilograms of wheat and produced 16 kilograms of flour and 4 kilograms of wheat bran.
This kind of flour is commonly known as white flour. Generally, only rich people can eat it. Poor people like them eat flour mixed with wheat bran, which is a bit irritating to the throat, but it is cheap.
She took the white flour out and took the initiative to cover Su Ming's meals for the day.
Han didn't think much about it and just left some food for Su Tai and left it alone.
Su Tai can finally cook some delicious food.
The only seasoning in the kitchen was salt, but luckily she also grew cabbage.
Pick a cabbage, get some flour, mix them together, add water, place it around the edge of the pot, and make some cabbage noodle soup, and a pot of cabbage noodle pancakes will be ready.
When Su Ming saw the food, his eyes widened in amazement. "Sister, it's not New Year's yet! How did you make so many delicious foods?"
Su Tai made a gesture to keep quiet, and said mysteriously: "I'm telling you, these flour and vegetables were secretly given to me by your elder brother Shen. My parents don't know. I saw that you were sick, so I made them specially for you. You have to keep it a secret."
Su Ming was a little confused, "Didn't my parents and brother eat it?"
Su Tai nodded and sighed helplessly, "They have been busy in the village recently and don't eat at home. I will cook for them when I have the chance in the future."
Su Ming hesitated for a moment, but couldn't resist the temptation of the delicious food and nodded heavily.
After eating a big bowl of noodles, he felt completely satisfied.
"Sister, I've never had such a delicious meal in my life!"
Seeing that he was still not satisfied, Su Tai smiled and said, "Let's have another meal later. I'll make sure you're full."
In the next two or three days, Su Ming ate noodles with Su Tai every day, twice a day. They ate until they burped after each meal. What's more, her little face became visibly rosy.
After Han finished dealing with the affairs in the village, she discovered the changes in her youngest son. She was so happy that she kept praising Su Tai for her ability to raise a child.
The brother and sister smiled at each other without saying anything.
In a blink of an eye it was New Year’s Eve.
In order to have a good harvest for the whole family, Han killed a pheasant and made chicken soup, and used two eggs to make egg noodles.
Su Ming wanted to say something several times, but was stopped by Su Tai's eyes.
As a result, when the food was served, Su Ming discovered that half of the noodle dumpling soup was white noodle dumplings, and there was also some cabbage he had eaten.
Su Chunlin asked curiously.
Han couldn't explain it, so she looked at Su Tai, "I remember I was out for a while and asked Xiao Tai to watch the pot. Where did the cabbage come from?"
Su Tai smiled and answered vaguely, "I brought it back from Brother Shen a while ago. I remembered it these two days and found that it was not broken, so I put it in."
Su Chunlin frowned, "Why did you take your brother Shen's things again?"
Su Tai shrugged helplessly, "If I don't take it, do you still want Brother Shen to come here in person? Besides, I only take a little bit, but if Brother Shen wants to give it himself, he will give a whole rattan basket!"
Su Chunlin was speechless for a moment, took a bite silently, and praised, "It's delicious! Shen Yi is really capable! He can still grow cabbage in the middle of winter, and it's especially sweet!"
Being interrupted like this, Han immediately turned his attention to the food.
The whole family had a delicious New Year's Eve dinner. It was a rare occasion that everyone did not go back to their rooms, but stayed up until midnight before going to bed.
On a New Year's Eve, there were no lively firecrackers or children laughing. It was just the family gathering together, observing the rituals devoutly, and spending the night peacefully.
After Su Tai returned to the room, she couldn't resist the sleepiness and fell asleep.
The next day, the family hibernated again. She took the opportunity to get a shovel and sickle at home and started working in the field.
The cabbage harvest from one-third of an acre of land was a bumper harvest, which was a pleasing sight.
With one shovel, the cabbage was immediately turned out of the soil and rolled twice on the ground.
Su Tai laughed and continued to work hard.
It took her more than an hour to dig out all the cabbages. The Earth Time and Space automatically harvested half of them. She was not sure how many kilograms were harvested. She only knew that in the blink of an eye, the fields she owned in the Earth Time and Space had become larger. It was one acre of fertile land before, but now it has doubled in size, and there are two acres of paddy fields on the side.
Su Tai was overjoyed and hurried back to the transfer station to check the information.
It shows above that the Earth Spacetime has been upgraded to a higher level, becoming two acres of fertile land and two acres of paddy field. The next upgrade condition is to pay 10,000 kilograms of crops.
Su Tai clicked her tongue twice and didn't care about the condition at all. She happily bought the media tools and took all the cabbages to the transfer station. She kept a small portion for herself and sold the rest, a total of 1,500 kilograms, at 0.3 virtual coins per kilogram, for a total of 450 virtual coins.
So many virtual coins can be used to upgrade the water space-time.
She no longer hesitated and directly clicked to upgrade the water time and space.
The original water space-time had only one small spring. After upgrading to the next level, the small spring became a big spring, and the water output could gather into a pool. It cost one hundred virtual coins to use the spring once, which was twice as expensive as before. Upgrading again required two thousand virtual coins.
Su Tai was amazed. She thought she would have more than 900 virtual coins left after using 500 virtual coins, but it turned out that she couldn't even upgrade to the next level of water space-time. What was even worse was that it cost 100 virtual coins to release each time. For spring ploughing, it was necessary to release each virtual currency.
Not only did the two wells in their village need to be refilled, but the well in Zhongmen Village also had to be refilled. This cost three hundred virtual coins.
We still have to work hard to farm and make money.
After sighing, Su Tai hurriedly planted all the remaining vegetable seeds. There were currently no suitable seeds for planting in the paddy fields, so they had to be left alone for the time being.
(End of this chapter)
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