The Zhang family's story became the talk of the town in the villa area for several days afterward. Although it was a bit bloody, it was still considered "entertainment" news in the absence of television and the internet.
After Lin Yue told Li Mazi what she wanted, Li Mazi said he would keep an eye out for it. The two agreed on an exchange price, and the item they exchanged was still fish.
There's no way around it; even when Lin Yue's fish is frozen, it's incredibly fresh. Apparently, some families have had their fish thawed and then brought back to life. Eating freshly killed fish is far more delicious than eating tough, dry wild boar meat.
Therefore, many people are still asking him if he has the goods, saying that if he does, they must send them to him as soon as possible.
Lin Yue didn't offer an opinion. She was tired of eating fish and really didn't understand why anyone would fight over a fish. She couldn't empathize with such sentiments.
After finalizing the exchange arrangements, they rested for a few more days. During this time, Cang Yu went to work for a day, supposedly to explain the structure of those weapons. Lin Yue didn't understand, but the things she planted in the yard were finally ready to be harvested.
Although she had already harvested the seedlings in her space and planted the second batch, and the seedlings had grown quite tall, she was still very excited!
Lin Yue took a hoe and a shovel and first stood by the edge of the sweet potato field. After a while, she started working.
To dig up sweet potatoes, you should first cut off the excess stalks, leaving only a small section that you can pull out, before you start digging; otherwise, it will be extremely difficult.
Cang Yu had never done farm work before. The only time he had done it was before he left last time, when he turned over the soil. That was the only time he had ever done farm work in both his lives.
So now, he has absolutely no idea what to do.
However, he was a quick learner. He simply followed Lin Yue around and did whatever she did. Soon, he became quite adept at cutting seedlings.
"Cang Yu, you learn pretty quickly," Lin Yue praised sincerely.
Cang Yu is a bit slow at learning to cook, but he's like a machine when it comes to other things. He can learn something after watching it a few times and can perfectly replicate it.
"Hmm! It doesn't require much skill," Cang Yu couldn't help but say with a touch of pride.
Lin Yue couldn't help but laugh.
It's really not technically demanding. What technical skill could there be in this? All you have to do is cut.
Once Cang Yu got to work, all the sweet potato cutting fell to him. Lin Yue wanted to help cut some, but Cang Yu's movements were too fast for her to keep up with.
With the task of cutting seedlings over, Lin Yue began digging sweet potatoes.
The ridges for planting sweet potatoes are very high, so digging them up is not difficult. You can just dig from the side and below, and if you are careful, very few will be damaged.
Lin Yue dug down a large clump of soil with her hoe, revealing the sweet potatoes in the middle, which turned out to be quite large.
The largest was the size of a clenched fist, and the smallest was about the size of a finger placed side by side. Lin Yue's interest was immediately piqued. Although the ones in her space were even larger, she dug out an entire sweet potato vine in no time.
Lin Yue counted them; there were eight sweet potatoes hanging on one vine, all quite large, unlike the kind you get in supermarkets, some of which were pitifully small. She turned over the soil and found one that she had missed.
Lin Yue was overjoyed and called out to Cang Yu, "Cang Yu, Cang Yu, come here quickly."
Although Cang Yu was still cutting the last piece of seedlings, he was keeping an eye on her. When he heard her call, he immediately came over.
"Cang Yu, look." Lin Yue waved the sweet potatoes in front of Cang Yu. "A good harvest."
"Hmm! I didn't expect Yueyue to be such a skilled gardener." Cang Yu praised her generously.
"I'm a little guilty about what you're saying! Actually, I diluted it with water from my spatial dimension, but I didn't expect it to work so well. If I had used regular water or the base's nutrients, the effect wouldn't have been as good."
Compared to what other people exchanged at the supermarket, the difference is huge.
"If we take it out to exchange, it will be too conspicuous," Cang Yu concluded.
"Let's dig them all out and see how it goes." If it really doesn't work, then we can leave them all; there's plenty of space.
We can exchange it later when there's an opportunity, or we can keep it and exchange it with Cang Yu. We're family, so we should have some conveniences, right?
After thinking it through, I got back to work.
After Cang Yu finished cutting the sweet potato vines, he took over the task of digging up the sweet potatoes. Lin Yue was in charge of picking the sweet potatoes. Cang Lang and Xue Lang originally wanted to help, but when they thought about how the two of them would carry them in their mouths, Lin Yue decisively refused.
The two worked quickly, and it only took them a little over two hours to dig out the entire sweet potato patch.
When we bought them, we bought 20 jin each of sweet potatoes and potatoes. We started sweet potato seedlings, and a lot of seedlings grew. In addition to planting them in the living space, we planted sweet potato seedlings in about half a fen of the yard.
She's not really sure how to calculate it now. They said that one pound of sweet potatoes could yield about fifty pounds, so normally, twenty pounds would yield a thousand pounds.
But now, the space had already collected over a thousand catties, and this space is estimated to contain around five hundred catties, which is more than double the amount.
Lin Yue calculated and calculated, but in the end she just gave up. She didn't care how much she gained, as long as she didn't lose money.
The two worked together, a man and a woman teaming up, and the work wasn't tiring.
After eating something, we dug out the potatoes again, and they grew better than others, with a harvest exceeding our expectations.
Needless to say, the corn harvest was also a bumper crop.
They spent the whole day tidying up everything in the yard. For dinner, the two of them had boiled sweet potatoes, boiled corn, braised potatoes, and stir-fried shredded potatoes with vinegar.
Cang Yu placed everything on the dining table, and the two sat on opposite sides. Cang Yu took a sweet potato to eat, while Lin Yue took an ear of corn to nibble on.
After taking their first bite, the two looked at each other and then picked up another potato with their chopsticks and ate it together.
"The corn tastes sweet and delicious. Although it's not as good as in a normal year, it's still much better than what other people at the base grow," Lin Yue commented.
The grains grown by other people in the base were not plump and tasted bland, with a dry texture.
"The sweet potato tastes quite delicate, sweet and delicious, unlike the ones I got that had a slightly astringent taste and were a bit harsh on my throat," Cang Yu summarized the taste of the sweet potato he ate.
"The potatoes have a higher starch content than those in the supermarket. Unlike those, they don't feel like a soft rock when cooked; they're neither sticky nor crispy."
After reviewing what she had eaten, Lin Yue concluded that, under no circumstances should this food be exchanged at the base.
Putting aside the taste, it's not worth it to switch, and she can't afford to lose money.
"Should we take it out to exchange?" Cang Yu asked.
"No trade. It's too much of a loss to trade with the base's current system." She has such a good item, and she's only exchanging it for two points? She doesn't need more points!
"Okay, shall we still plant them?" If we don't plant them, he can arrange for the entire floor to be covered with cement.
"Why not plant? Although I don't want to trade with the base, I can trade with someone else if I come across a suitable one later."
As the apocalypse drags on, rice and flour will inevitably become scarcer, and these will become the main food source in the end, so keeping them will be very useful.
"Okay! I'll go exchange the seeds again tomorrow." We'll talk about the flooring later!
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