Chapter 178 Three-Hour Work Schedule During Dry and Rainy Seasons
The harvest month has ended, and the temperature has dropped somewhat as the magic concentration has decreased, but the weather is still quite hot. However, with the miniature garden magic working steadily, the indoor temperature is relatively comfortable, although the magic consumption is quite high. Shu Xin originally wanted to store some of the magic gems she mined, but now it seems she won't be able to save much...
These days, the desserts have all been replaced with snow dragon fruit ice cream, fruit smoothies, and ice grass cake. The flower fairy only cooks soup for breakfast and lunch. At lunchtime, refreshing vegetable salad has completely replaced hot soup. Shu Xin eats cold dishes and drinks dried fruit and cold tea for all three meals a day. If it weren't so bad, Shu Xin would have liked to eat the acorn bread cold too.
If the weather keeps getting this hot, Shu Xin is thinking of building a satellite city on the Shuangyue Snowfield for summer retreat!
Regardless, we still have to thank magic. With ice magic, making and obtaining ice is so convenient and quick. Otherwise, Shu Xin would still have to study how to make ice. Now, with a wave of her staff, a pile of ice blocks appears, which is perfect.
The Land of Sin is located in the northernmost part of the Kingdom of Garnar, and the weather is so hot. Even without the cheat-like seasonal magical tide phenomenon of the Harvest Month, the natural conditions of the Garnar Plains should be able to produce three harvests a year.
As the vegetation cover increased, the Land of Sin was no longer so dry, and the clouds in the azure sky gradually became more numerous. Shu Xin always felt that it might rain during the next harvest month—white clay is afraid of water! If it really rained, even a light rain, the magic workshop built with white clay would very likely collapse.
Shu Xin had already prepared a contingency plan. If it really rained, the most crucial thing was to evacuate people in advance to prevent casualties. If the magic workshop collapsed, it could be rebuilt, which would be a good opportunity to rebuild all the previous mini workshops, since more and more flower fairies would be returning to their normal forms. However, not all of them could be newly built into large workshops. Some small workshops needed to be reserved for commoners and slaves in their flower fairy forms to use temporarily. As for how many to reserve, it would depend on the specific situation at that time.
After inquiring with the two subordinates and the servants in the Flower Castle, Shu Xin learned, unsurprisingly, that the climate change in the Land of Sin was becoming similar to that in other territories.
Under normal circumstances, the seasons on the Garnar Plain are only divided into a rainy season and a dry season. The rainy season begins after the first harvest month and ends after the second harvest month. Shu Xin understood that this means the first half and the second half of the year are dry seasons, and only the middle half of the year is the rainy season.
Currently, the Land of Sin has entered the middle half of what is theoretically the rainy season. Previously, the Land of Sin had extremely scarce magic, making it a dry season all year round. Not only was there no rainy season, but the temperature difference between day and night was also greater than in a normal dry season. It was only after Shu Xin's arrival that the temperature began to change slowly as the magic situation improved. However, even now, it cannot be said that the climate of the Land of Sin has been completely restored.
Only when the land of sin, which has entered the rainy season, begins to rain, does it mean that the climate of this region has truly recovered.
...So the flower fairies are actually afraid of the cold but not the heat. Many commoners fell ill with fever after being relocated to the land of sin because they could not adapt to the low temperature. It was only after everyone was given a reed cloak and a long reed blanket that the number of flower fairies running to the medical room decreased.
Even now, the flower fairies still put on reed cloaks in the early morning and evening, and naturally cover themselves with long reed blankets when they sleep.
While Shu Xin woke up in the morning and sat at the dining table to throw ice cubes into her glass, the flower fairies were still cooking soup as usual; while Shu Xin was happily eating cold dishes, the flower fairies were still drinking steaming hot soup; while Shu Xin changed her elaborate long dress into a short sundress, the flower fairies were still wearing long sleeves, long pants, and capes.
When she went to sleep at night, Shu Xin would just pull a corner of the blanket over her stomach and that was it.
Shu Xin didn't know if it was because the flower fairy herself wasn't as heat-resistant as the flower demon, or because she was influenced by her soul and that's why she was so afraid of the heat—there was nothing she could do, she was a native northerner in her original world, and summers in her memory had never been this hot.
Although the flower fairies weren't particularly bothered by the heat, Shu Xin still adjusted her work schedule. Considering that everyone got up very early, she allocated the three hours with the highest temperature around noon to her lunch break.
In this way, after the flower fairies wake up and have breakfast in the morning, they can work for three hours while the sunlight is not too strong and the temperature is not too high. When the sun rises high in the sky and the temperature rises, the flower fairies can go back indoors to eat and rest. In the afternoon, when the temperature begins to drop and the sun begins to set, the flower fairies can go out and work for another three hours.
As the weather got hotter, the flower fairies finally put away the reed cloaks they used to wear in the mornings and afternoons, and then the number of flower fairies running to the medical room suddenly increased dramatically.
Shu Xin shrunk her size and went into the medical room to check on the situation.
After transforming into the form of an ordinary flower fairy, Shu Xin suddenly realized that the discomfort caused by the high temperature was not so intense. So, whether or not one is afraid of the heat is related to body shape?
...It seems that smaller size does indeed lead to faster heat dissipation? This is true for warm-blooded animals, could it also apply to magical life forms? Shu Xin didn't know, but if this is the reason, then this magical world is quite scientific!
Flying into the medical room under the cover of invisibility magic, Shu Xin quickly found the commonalities among these flower fairies who had developed fevers, using detection and clairvoyance magic. Not only were the magical fluctuations they emitted chaotic, but the magical power accumulated in their bodies was also far beyond what was usually seen, even excessively high.
It was obvious that the excessively high concentration of magic in their bodies exceeded the flower fairies' capacity, which caused them to develop a fever.
However, the flower fairies' daily diets are not much different, and their lives are very regular. Why is it that only this part of the flower fairies experienced a magical "overload" while the other flower fairies were not affected at all?
After realizing something, Shu Xin returned to Flower Castle and asked Nuonuo Li to compile a list of the job positions of the flower fairies who had recently gone to the medical room. It turned out that they were all working in the commercial district, without exception.
Is there something different about the commercial area compared to other areas?
This time, Shu Xin used confusion magic. First, she followed the flower fairy working in the agricultural area, diligently cultivating the land for a week. Then, she followed the flower fairy working in the commercial area, earnestly building houses for a week. After spending half a month in total, Shu Xin discovered the cause of the flower fairy's fever—
It was sunlight!
It's currently the rainy season, and although more than two months have passed and the clouds in the sky are indeed becoming more and more numerous, it still hasn't rained in the Land of Sin. The incredibly intense and magical sunlight is relentlessly pouring down on the ground.
Before the temperature was this high, the flower fairies would wear reed cloaks when they went out, which blocked some of the sunlight for them. But now that the temperature is already quite high, Shu Xin has drawn a small freezing spell in her bedroom, so the flower fairies have taken off their reed cloaks, which were mainly for wind and cold protection.
Without the cloak to shield her, the flower fairy was now directly exposed to the sunlight.
Flower fairies who go to the education district study indoors, while those who go to the industrial district work indoors. Only flower fairies who go to the agricultural and commercial districts need to work outdoors for long periods of time.
When Shu Xin followed the flower fairies to water, weed, and repel pests in the agricultural area, she noticed that the flower fairies felt uncomfortable under the scorching sun. They assumed it was because they were casting spells too frequently and were getting tired, so they would fly to the golden cherry trees by the field to rest briefly and then continue working once they had recovered.
In reality, the flower fairies were feeling unwell because they had absorbed a high intensity of the magic in the sunlight!
However, because the flower fairies were also expending a high amount of magic power at the same time, and would rest in the shade of the trees in between, the magic power in the flower fairies' bodies was kept within a reasonable range and not too unbearable, so they did not develop a fever.
Under this intense training without their knowledge, the flower fairies who went to work in the agricultural area all had their maximum magical power that could be accumulated in their bodies increased to a certain extent.
The flower fairies in the commercial district were also exposed to the magical sunlight. Under the scorching sun, they felt uncomfortable as well. However, the commercial district was originally a wasteland. Shu Xin and Lan Jiao had not arranged to plant golden cherry trees as green belts and light strips for beautification. In addition, in Lan Guo's design, the buildings in the commercial district were to use large areas of grass-fruit glass to create the effect she wanted, "in line with the natural and elegant temperament of the riverside fairies." What the flower fairies had been doing was to pave glass tiles into the air. As a result, the flower fairies had nowhere to cool off at all—even hiding under the tiles was useless, as these tiles were all transparent!
Furthermore, the flower fairies working in the commercial district don't need to use their innate magic. They do physical labor, enduring the scorching sun day after day. Even humans can get heatstroke from the sun, let alone the flower fairies who are magical beings and can absorb magic from the sunlight.
Shu Xin's feelings were very complicated, extremely complicated. If the flower fairies had been even a little lazy, or even just arrived late or left early, they wouldn't have ended up in the medical room in droves from the sun.
As for why the flower fairies outside the Land of Sin didn't experience this situation, Shu Xin thought about it and her feelings became increasingly complicated. It was the rainy season, and other territories would definitely be cloudy and rainy frequently. Even if it stopped raining and the sun came out, the flower fairies would have to work under the scorching sun. They usually didn't have enough to eat, so basking in the sun was a way to replenish their energy...
In the end, Shu Xin made special adjustments to the working hours in the commercial and agricultural areas. Before sunrise, the flower fairies could work outside for an hour and a half, and after sunrise they had to rest until sunset. Then the flower fairies could work for another hour and a half, which meant they would work three hours a day. If any flower fairy wanted to work overtime and exceeded three hours, they would be forced to take a day off. One hour overtime meant one day off, two hours overtime meant three days off, three hours overtime meant five days off, and if they dared to exceed five hours, they would be given a half-month off!
After the three-hour workday was implemented in the agricultural and commercial areas, the medical room was no longer as bustling as a market, which made Shu Xin very satisfied.
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Author's Note: When I was writing about cold bread salad, I suddenly had the idea to search for it, and I actually found something—the uploader steamed dried baguettes, cut them into pieces, and made a cold salad with cucumber strips. When I saw the IP address was from Germany, well, I instantly understood...
I've been getting increasingly stuck while writing lately. The story is halfway through, and I feel like I'm sitting amidst a jigsaw puzzle, or in front of a tangled mess of threads. The top left corner of the puzzle has a pattern and color, but most of the rest is buried among the pieces. The rope has formed a rough shape, but there's still so much more to weave. I'm worried about ruining the puzzle and getting stuck with the loose threads. My typing speed is already slow, but it's gotten even slower, especially with my period. Ah, thank you, ibuprofen!!!
But don't worry about me dying in everyone's phones [...]. I can work from home, and I'm trying my best to adjust my schedule. I'll continue to work hard to update on time with quality and quantity!
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