Harvest Dinner
Ye Miaomiao happily bid farewell to Chen Hu. Watching them leave with their bags, she felt so excited that she wanted to shout, "Welcome back next time!"
But in the end, they held back. They looked shy and looked around carefully along the way, trying not to scare them with their enthusiasm.
In just a few hours in the new area, he'd already made new friends. More importantly, he'd traded his territory's local specialties for hard-to-find supplies! Ye Miaomiao suddenly felt that the virus wasn't entirely a bad thing; at least it allowed for "exchange and mutual learning" between territories, which was a good idea.
Thinking of the important supplies, Ye Miaomiao happily turned around and went to the breeding hut.
The newly arrived cattle and sheep were tied to the pillars at the door of the hut. They felt a little unfamiliar with the new environment and were pacing restlessly, especially because a huge chicken was eating freshly made rice cakes not far away and was watching with curiosity, cackling.
As soon as he saw Ye Miaomiao, the pheasant flapped its wings and pecked a rice cake wrapped in leaves for her: "Chef Zhang said it was made of new rice and it smells so good!" He had already eaten several of them and broke off a bite for each of the chicks in the chicken coop.
Ye Miaomiao peeled it and took a bite. It was a bit hard and lightly sweet, but it had the unique grain sweetness of new rice.
"Chef Zhang said that after we have a cow, we can make cakes, which he is even better at!" The chicken drooled greedily, staring at the shivering calf with a pair of eyes, wishing he could pounce on it and start biting it.
"I've been watching here for a long time, just waiting for them to drop milk so I can take it back to make a cake for Chef Zhang. Hey, Miaomiao, if I beat them, will they..."
Ye Miaomiao paused while eating the rice cake and quickly stood in front of Xiao Niu: "No." Hua Ji's eyes rolled around and looked at Xiao Niu over her shoulder with a ferocious look. Ye Miaomiao felt that Hua Ji was more and more dangerous and kept saying: "No! No!"
"Just like chickens laying eggs, it takes time for cows to produce milk. Wait! Don't hit them!"
"Oh...oh!" The pheasant clucked twice, pecked at the rice cake dejectedly, and returned to the chicken coop.
Ye Miaomiao breathed a sigh of relief and began to settle the cattle and sheep.
A first-level breeding hut can only manage two rooms. Ye Miaomiao first upgraded the breeding hut to a second-level stone house. The biggest change in the house is that there is an additional small room for producing agricultural and sideline products.
Ye Miaomiao placed the cowshed and sheep shed on both sides of the hut, and spent 100 points to buy an NPC second pig farming captain.
Wool is sheared every seven days. The lambs sent by Yunshen Yuanshun have not been sheared yet, so they can be sheared immediately today. Ye Miaomiao calculated the current output of the weaving hut -
Use cotton-padded clothes as base layers and pants, down jackets as outerwear, and wool sweaters as the middle layer, which is perfect!
Ye Miaomiao: Got the plan!
A sheep can produce two kilograms of wool, which is ten parts of wool. Three parts of wool can make one sweater... Ye Miaomiao counted on her fingers and found that ten lambs can produce 33 sweaters every seven days.
Less.
But Ye Miaomiao was not in a hurry. There were only ten sheep. If there were fifty sheep, the wool they produced in seven days would be enough for the people in the entire territory to wear, with some left over!
Chen Hu said that they had channels to purchase lambs in their territory. Ye Miaomiao silently looked forward to Chen Hu and others' next visit while turning and entering the cowshed.
The cowshed is fully equipped with small buildings and furniture, and there are iron buckets for collecting milk.
The second captain immediately said, "Lord, the breeding hut is currently only level 2. You can choose one agricultural product to produce. Since you have set the production method for eggs, you can currently produce cheese, yogurt, butter..."
After talking about a series of agricultural and sideline products made from cow's milk and goat's milk, Ye Miaomiao was distracted.
She recalled the day of the New Year shopping spree, when some little genius had snapped up all the kitchen shelves from the cake shop, and the fragrant smell of cakes and bread filled the entire territory.
The bread and cakes made with butter are very fragrant. Hua Ji just said that cakes are the Zhang Jia family's specialty, and they won't waste these...
"Butter! Let's produce butter from agricultural and sideline products!"
The second captain responded, and Ye Miaomiao happily patted Xiao Niu's head: "Come on, or you'll be beaten by Hua Ji."
After Ye Miaomiao settled the cattle and sheep, she didn't rush to the farmland. She asked Li Mu in private, and learned that it would take at least two or three in the afternoon to harvest all the crops. So she took advantage of this time and went to the warehouse first.
I haven’t had time to sort out the New Year’s goods I just harvested this morning!
Ye Miaomiao felt that she was about to fall in love with the wonderful thing of sorting out New Year's goods. Moreover, this time the Nian Beast probably wanted to complete performance targets, so most of the New Year's goods were high-value luxury goods. She had collected two boxes of Maotai alone, and there were also various other good wines.
After happily going down to the cellar, they found that the vegetables and fruits in the first cellar had already filled several wooden shelves, and the smoked meat that Zhang Jia's family often made overtime was also arranged into five or six door curtains. The two together were more than ten meters long, and it would take a few steps to reach the end.
Ye Miaomiao passed the first cellar and found the second cellar which was used to store wine. There were already many fruit wines and grain wines in wooden barrels.
After word spread that drinking alcohol could increase the efficiency of tree felling and mining, many people developed the habit of drinking before work. Fortunately, with the help of the brewing accelerator and Zuo Haohan's tireless overtime day and night, he was able to stockpile so much alcohol.
The longer the wine is stored, the more valuable it becomes. Ye Miaomiao looked at the more than 20 barrels of "cash cows" with satisfaction and set up a shelf specifically for storing fine wine.
Ye Miaomiao handled the New Year's goods according to the last arrangement. Some particularly exquisite but impractical luxury goods, such as ornaments and pendants, were stored on a reinforced shelf.
There are also many expensive foods with short shelf lives.
Who knows if the Nian Beast went to a five-star hotel and grabbed several large tables of food. The large plates of expensive delicacies were almost luxury goods for the current territory. They could not be stored, and Ye Miaomiao didn't know what to do with them for a while.
But she rolled her eyes and soon came up with an idea.
After receiving the private message, Li Mu knew that Ye Miaomiao was waiting for them to finish the harvest, so he urged everyone to work harder.
She had only studied a half-hearted agronomy major in college, but she never expected to pick it up again. As the only person who had studied agriculture systematically, her planting skills improved rapidly, and she even became the leader of the farming team.
The four newly recruited farmers were led by Li Mu. He first let them practice doing some odd jobs such as weeding and pest control. Now he is teaching them how to harvest crops. Once they are a little more proficient, they will start to manage a piece of land individually.
"Cut about fifteen centimeters from the ground, and be careful not to cut your hands." Li Mu demonstrated very seriously and handed the sickle to the newcomer.
Ye Miaomiao trusted her more and more, and she didn't want to betray this trust. As for the outdoors...
Li Mu thought of Li Jing who had suddenly come to see her last night and sighed. She had given her 20 points for temporary rent, an iron axe and a wicker basket, hoping that she could live well.
Putting aside the distracting thoughts in his mind, Li Mu began to work seriously again. It was not until three o'clock in the afternoon that he finally finished the busy farming work.
After she sent a message to Ye Miaomiao, she didn't receive a reply immediately. Li Mu thought Ye Miaomiao was delayed by something, but she didn't expect to see the peasant team members cheering happily the next second.
"Celebrate the harvest! Bonfire dinner! Buddha jumps over the wall! Shark fin soup! Australian lobster!"
"Look at the group notification! The leader is treating us to Maotai tonight!"
Li Mu opened the light screen in surprise. It turned out that the lord was holding a dinner to celebrate the harvest. He put some food purchased during the New Year at the dinner for people to use for free.
The joy of a good harvest spread instantly along with this notice. No matter whether they were cutting trees or mining, working or just relaxing, everyone cheered - "Great!"
"The peasant team has made great contributions!"
“Thanks for the hard work!”
"I got to eat white rice today! Thanks for the work!"
A series of thanks flooded the screen, making the farmers' team even more embarrassed: "We are just workers." Some self-deprecation was soon drowned out by flattery, and the farmers' team's subordinates worked faster.
Night soon arrived with great anticipation, and the crowd gathered around the bonfire.
Zhang Jiajia, who rarely skipped cooking, helped move the long table to both sides of the campfire, setting out all sorts of expensive delicacies for everyone to enjoy. Some kind-hearted people helped serve the food, and soon everyone had a portion of delicious food.
Before the meal, Ye Miaomiao toasted Li Mu on behalf of the territory.
The NPC only had 700 harvests per acre, but the farmers led by Li Mu increased the harvest to 1,000 per acre. This was due to her systematic learning of professional knowledge, and was inseparable from her hard work.
The remaining four farmers also quickly reached the first-level planting level. Considering the next disaster, Ye Miaomiao asked them to plant two acres of wheat and two acres of potatoes so that the territory could store more staple foods to fill their stomachs.
Thanks to Li Mu's guidance, Ye Miaomiao seemed to have seen a bright future in which the territory would never go hungry.
In front of the campfire, Li Mu's usually cold face turned slightly red, and his smile became bright from the heart.
The lord Ye Miaomiao in front of her raised the wine glass in her hand: "Thank you peasant team! Thank you Li Mu!" The people gathered around the campfire also shouted Li Mu's name, making her already slightly red face even redder.
"I...we'll keep working on it," she said seriously.
Everyone cheered, except for one person who stared at the scene intently, and the jealousy in his heart suddenly burst out like a tide.
She was not jealous of Ye Miaomiao. On the contrary, she wanted to be closer to Ye Miaomiao, preferably to win her favor, but someone obviously didn't want to.
Li Mu's words from last night echoed in his ears: "It's not that I don't want to introduce you to the lord, but we really don't need peasants now. The population is already saturated. Although the new recruits are not very capable, they are also working hard. What excuse do you want me to use to ask the lord to kick them out?"
She's also an agronomy major! Why can't she get the job? She should be the one standing in the crowd today! She's obviously more sociable than Li Mu, and she obviously knows how to please people better than Li Mu.
But now... Li Jing sneered at the center of the crowd——
The person standing next to Ye Miaomiao was Li Mu, and the crowd was also chanting Li Mu's name. She even hypocritically claimed that she valued love too much. But where was Li Mu? That tall, strong, tanned man named Hu Sanhan? Wasn't she also keeping him hooked?
She was just afraid that I would take away everything she had now, and she knew very well that she was not as good as herself.
Li Jing clenched her palms tightly. No matter how loud the noise got, her heart was like a door closing one after another. Behind the door, a seed called jealousy took root and sprouted.
At a distance of several hundred meters, the noisy laughter inevitably reached the ears of the neighbors.
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