Chapter 48 The Survival Wisdom of Female Flower Fairies - The Wind Rises
Shu Xin remained silent for a moment, silently repeating "flower fairies are not human" several times in her mind, before calmly raising her question:
Why do more and more flower fairies become pregnant as the harvest season approaches?
Faced with the Flower Fairy's various confusions and bewilderment, the two subordinates, who were usually able to provide specific explanations, were unusually speechless this time. They only knew that this phenomenon existed, but they did not know what caused it.
Peng Peng'an: "Your Highness, I am not married yet."
Nonori: "...Your Highness, I am not married either."
Okay, it seems this is a blind spot for these two bachelors.
Finally, it was the cook, Meimeilin, who gave the explanation. The female flower fairy with an apron around her waist smiled and said, "Of course, it's because there's not enough food until after the harvest month!"
Upon hearing this answer, Shu Xin was stunned for a moment. When she came to her senses, she couldn't help but slap her forehead. How could she not have thought of such an obvious answer!
After carefully questioning Meimeilin, Shuxin learned some basic information about female flower fairies—
Theoretically, the normal lifespan of a flower fairy is around one hundred years. However, not many flower fairies die of old age. Compared to male flower fairies who cannot conceive, female flower fairies who receive the "blessing of the flower goddess" will be "protected by the flower goddess" during pregnancy. Therefore, under normal circumstances, their lifespan will be longer than that of male flower fairies.
Flower fairies reach adulthood at the age of twenty-five. Before adulthood, neither males nor females possess the ability to reproduce. After reaching adulthood, female flower fairies can choose whether or not to have offspring. If they wish to have offspring, female flower fairies will begin to choose a partner at this time. If they do not wish to, they can remain single and neither form a family nor have children.
However, female flower fairies share a consensus: if they wish to conceive, it is best to do so before the age of sixty-five, and their chosen partner should ideally be between thirty-five and sixty-five years old. If a female flower fairy conceives after the age of sixty-five, or if her partner is younger than thirty-five or older than sixty-five, the female flower fairy will still receive the "blessing of the Flower Goddess," but the children born will often have very low magical talent.
—Shu Xin later took the time to ask about the ages of the two subordinates. Sure enough, Nuonuo Li was already ninety-two years old, and Peng Peng An was exactly thirty years old. Neither of them were within the range of female flower fairies' mate selection.
The reason why more flower fairies become pregnant as the harvest month approaches is also due to a consensus among the female flower fairies.
According to Meimeilin, this is because after the harvest month, the flower fairies receive the most food of the year after paying their taxes. This ensures that newborn children can have enough to eat and avoid dying young.
After learning that female flower fairies only have a three-month pregnancy period and do not breastfeed, Shu Xin almost instantly understood why the female flower fairies had this consensus.
However, the cook Memeline only described the situation of the flower fairies who were commoners. As female flower fairies who were slaves, they would not receive more food even after the harvest month. Why did they make the same choice?
Shu Xin quickly thought of the alien monsters that would attack during the Harvest Month. In fact, around the time of the Harvest Month, alien monsters would start sneaking over. The patrol teams would protect civilians but not slaves. Female flower fairy slaves who chose to get pregnant at this time could use the "blessing of the Flower Goddess" to gain a much stronger physique than usual, thus enabling them to better avoid and survive attacks from alien monsters.
These so-called consensuses, in essence, are all survival wisdoms explored by female flower fairies.
Even though the pregnant flower fairies were blessed by the Flower Goddess, Shu Xin still ordered that their workload be reduced and their meals increased.
Nuonoli and Pengpengan's faces were filled with unspoken words, but under the Flower Fairy's absolute command, the two officials silently obeyed the arrangements.
From now on, all the pregnant flower fairies will only need to work half a day, and they can also drink an extra bowl of sweet jelly soup every day. This sweet jelly soup, specially for pregnant women, was specially made by Shu Xin using her pulverizing magic after opening her warehouse. She also specially instructed the cook, Mei Meilin, to cook it with golden honey wheat flour. Every bowl is overflowing with magic.
When Shu Xin opened the underground warehouse and took the wheat seeds from Jinmi Wheat to make wheat flour, both Nonoli and Pengpengan had extremely sad expressions, especially Pengpengan, who looked like he was about to faint from heartache.
To be honest, Shu Xin herself was a little guilty. After all, given the state of magic recovery in the Land of Sin, it shouldn't be long before the golden honey wheat, golden crisp wheat, and brown crisp wheat could be planted. However, there are priorities. Compared to the magic tax that needed to be paid after the harvest month, the little lives in the pregnant women's wombs were more important right now.
Shu Xin also knew that there wasn't much food left in the Land of Sin, otherwise she wouldn't have targeted the Golden Wheat to prepare special meals for the pregnant women.
She chose Golden Honey Wheat for two reasons. First, it contains the most magical properties and has the best taste. Second, it was the least amount of Golden Honey Wheat among the wheat seeds she purchased initially. She mainly purchased Golden Crispy Wheat and Brown Crispy Wheat. If she used Golden Honey Wheat to cook flour soup for the pregnant women, even if it consumed a lot of energy, it wouldn't have a significant impact on subsequent grain planting.
As Shu Xin continued to study the petals of the ground-attached grass, she eagerly hoped that Xi would return as soon as possible. However, before she could figure anything out and before Xi arrived, the wind rose in the Land of Sin.
Shuxin once again discarded all the petals of the creeping violet in her hand. She got up and jumped off the terrace, passing by the green buds sprouting from the branches of the tree of life, and landed familiarly on the pink and white flower carpet by the Sun Spring.
Hovering in the air, Shu Xin reached out to pick a flower, but before her fingertips could touch the swaying branches, the antennae on her head were blown slightly backward by the wind.
Shu Xin straightened up involuntarily. This was the first time she had encountered such a situation since she came here to pick flowers. She cast a concealment spell on herself and flew into the sky.
Even under the Tree of Life, the usually gentle breeze had become stronger. The further away from the Sun Spring, the stronger the wind blew. The once tranquil wheat and flower fields were now rippling with gentle waves.
The civilian settlements were all within the coverage of the Tree of Life, and the triangular straw houses were firmly fixed to the ground, seemingly unaffected. However, the slaves' tiny round houses were all hanging in the bitter wheat fields outside the Tree of Life's coverage. When Shu Xin flew over, she saw the dew-like round houses violently shaking and swaying among the undulating wheat waves.
Despite having already erected a high-level defensive barrier at the border of the Land of Sin, the raging storm that had subsided in the Land of Sin seems poised to return.
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