Chapter 85 The Snowfall Has Caused Much Harm
Cheng Mo really didn't understand anything, and ended up sweating profusely.
Cheng Zhiyu winced in pain and kicked him angrily: "Did you read all those comic books for nothing?"
Cheng Mo said innocently, "Comic books are all lies, just come directly."
Cheng Zhiyu: Damn it! Erotic comics are doing a lot of harm!
Indeed, the main characters in most erotic comics are "extraordinarily gifted".
Fortunately, Cheng Mo was clever and quickly figured out what to do. Cheng Zhiyu blushed, ...Damn, that felt so good.
Both of them were in good physical condition, and they managed to keep going until dawn. Cheng Zhiyu was so tired that he couldn't even move his fingers, while Cheng Mo, on the other hand, looked particularly energetic.
Cheng Zhiyu: "...Damn, it seems like I've already killed you."
Cheng Mo gave him a flattering kiss: "If you cut me off, how will you feel comfortable?"
Cheng Zhiyu: "..." What kind of frivolous talk is that!
Fortunately, Cheng Mo quickly resolved the issue with his hands and didn't bother him any further. He gently washed Cheng Zhiyu clean with his water-based supernatural abilities, and Cheng Zhiyu felt refreshed again.
Cheng Mo kissed him: "Go to sleep."
Cheng Zhiyu glanced out the window, then closed his eyes groggily. Before losing consciousness, he emphasized, "Don't talk nonsense, or... don't even think about coming back."
Cheng Mo naturally dared not speak nonsense.
He held Cheng Zhiyu and slept for a while, less than an hour, before leaving the room.
Tian Qiao and the others played until late last night, and they're not feeling very well right now.
Tian Qiao: "Where's Chengzi? We've had enough fun. It was too late last night, so we didn't want to bother you. Now, put the hot air balloon back in."
Cheng's mother brought out the food: "Let Zhiyu come down and eat."
Cheng Mo lied calmly, "Zhiyu caught a cold last night and is feeling a little unwell. She's still sleeping."
"Oh dear, you've caught a cold? Are you alright? I'll go check on you." Mrs. Cheng said with a worried expression.
Cheng Mo quickly replied, "No need, it's not serious, he's just feeling a little unwell."
Cheng's mother said worriedly, "We still have to go and see."
After saying that, he went upstairs.
Cheng Mo: "..."
He quickly followed. When Cheng's mother entered the room, she saw that her son was sleeping soundly, so she didn't dare to make a sound to disturb him. She touched his forehead and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that he didn't have a fever.
Then, after leaving the room, she said to Cheng Mo, "If he's not feeling well, let him sleep a little longer. I'll save some food for him later, and he can eat it when he wakes up."
Cheng Mo nodded hurriedly, letting out a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, Cheng Zhiyu was asleep and didn't notice anyone had come by.
When he woke up again, the sun was already high in the sky. Cheng Zhiyu guessed it was already noon. He got up, then frowned, his back was so sore.
He got up and went to the bathroom to wash up, and was pleasantly surprised when he saw the photo. Good heavens, Cheng Mo is a dog!
His body was covered in bite marks, but thankfully the other person was still somewhat rational and didn't leave any marks above his neck, otherwise he wouldn't know how he would face people in public.
Cheng Mo came in and saw that Cheng Zhiyu was awake, so he said, "I'll go downstairs and bring you some food."
Cheng Zhiyu quickly declined, "No need, I'll go downstairs to eat."
He was afraid that if he ate in his room, his family would guess what he was doing.
Cheng Mo reassured him, "I told Auntie you caught a cold, so I'll bring it up for you."
Cheng Zhiyu was actually too lazy to go down, but he nodded and said, "Okay."
Cheng Mo immediately ran down like a big dog, and came back up with lunch in his hand.
"I told you you caught a cold, so I specifically didn't ask you to put chili in it." Cheng Mo learned it from comics, where the main characters would stop eating spicy food after doing *that*.
Well, comics are still somewhat useful.
Cheng Zhiyu took a sip of shrimp porridge. Although there was no chili, it was nice to eat this kind of light meal occasionally.
He was sitting and eating when Cheng Mo sat beside him, propping his chin up and staring at him. Cheng Mo's stare made him a little uncomfortable, so he tapped the table and said, "Could you please stop staring at me like that?"
Cheng Mo: "Zhiyu is handsome, why can't I be handsome?"
Cheng Zhiyu: "..." Can you please stop saying such mushy things?
After finishing his meal, he complained to Cheng Mo: "Why are you like a dog, biting everywhere?"
Cheng Zhiyu pulled open his clothes to show Cheng Mo: "Look what you bit."
Originally, he wanted to reprimand Cheng Mo and tell him to be more careful next time, but the other party's eyes changed. Cheng Zhiyu had seen this look before when Cheng Mo came several times yesterday and wanted to come again.
He swallowed hard, then quickly put on his clothes and buttoned them up.
Cheng Mo was somewhat disappointed: "Zhiyu..."
Cheng Zhiyu: "It's daytime now, and you're being too fierce. You need to control the frequency in the future."
Cheng Mo: "How many times a day?"
Cheng Zhiyu was speechless, and angrily slapped his head: "Several times a day, once a week."
Cheng Mo felt like the sky was about to fall, and managed to say, "Zhiyu, you're joking."
Cheng Zhiyu: "I'm not joking."
Cheng Mo: "Zhiyu..."
Cheng Zhiyu rubbed his aching back, coldly and ruthlessly saying, "Being coquettish won't work. I don't fall for that."
"Really?" A pair of black ears popped out from Cheng Mo's head.
Cheng Zhiyu said with difficulty, "...Really."
Cheng Mo fawned over him as she searched his waist: "Zhiyu, I think this matter needs to be discussed further."
Cheng Zhiyu squinted comfortably: "Hmm...how do we discuss it?"
Cheng Mo: "How about once every two days?"
Cheng Zhiyu: "No."
Cheng Mo could only reply, "Once every three days?"
Cheng Zhiyu: "It still doesn't work."
Cheng Mo: "Once every four days, no less."
Cheng Zhiyu thought for a moment: "Once every five days, and it depends on your performance. If you're too fierce, we'll adjust it."
Cheng Mo: "Zhiyu..."
Cheng Zhiyu: "Otherwise, we'll just keep doing it once a week."
He felt great; actually, he felt quite comfortable last night.
Cheng Mo could only agree. Five days was a lot, but he had only said it once, and he couldn't really do it all at once.
Having just tasted the sweetness of meat, Cheng Mo suppressed his desire, hugged Cheng Zhiyu, and gently inhaled his scent: "Zhiyu, you smell so good."
Cheng Zhiyu emphasized again, "That's the smell of laundry detergent. I've told you so many times."
Cheng Mo: "It's not the smell of laundry detergent, it's the smell of you."
Cheng Zhiyu lowered his head and smelled it: "That's the smell of shower gel. We both use the same one."
Cheng Mo said like a big dog, "But yours smells really good."
Cheng Zhiyu reached out and pushed his head away: "Alright, I have to go now."
Fortunately, everything at the base went smoothly, otherwise he wouldn't have shown up for half a day...
"It's already December, and it's still so hot." Lin Kang sighed, "I think the weather will probably stay like this from now on."
The temperature is over 40 degrees Celsius during the day and drops to below -10 degrees Celsius at night.
People have gradually adapted to this temperature.
Cheng Zhiyu shook his head: "This is fine too. Although it's uncomfortable, at least there's no disaster."
Although it's hot at over 40 degrees Celsius, it's bearable. When it drops to minus ten degrees Celsius, it's just like the weather in winter before, and everyone is used to it. Every household has a kang (heated brick bed), so you just need to heat it up.
"That's true." Lin Kang nodded after thinking about it.
The two discussed a few more things, and after finalizing everything, Cheng Zhiyu left.
He doesn't like staying in the office all the time; it makes him feel stifled. He usually just sets aside time each day to finalize the decisions that need to be made.
The base is developing steadily now, and things are actually not particularly chaotic.
As long as the general direction is determined, that's fine.
Before we knew it, it was late December, and all the sweet potatoes in the fields had been harvested. While harvesting the sweet potatoes, someone caught a plump little animal, which looked like a rodent.
Cheng Zhiyu went to see him; he had small eyes, two long teeth, and was chubby.
The person who caught the small animal said, "We were digging sweet potatoes when it sneaked over, trying to steal some. I caught it red-handed. I grabbed it, and it even tried to bite me."
Cheng Zhiyu felt a lingering fear when he saw the other person's long, sharp teeth.
I don't know what this little guy is, but if I get bitten, I don't know how many germs it could carry.
"What should we do?" someone asked, poking at the little groundhog with a twig.
Hmm... let's call it groundhog for now, although it doesn't look quite like a groundhog.
But in this apocalyptic world, there are all sorts of strange creatures, so people don't bother to investigate them.
The little groundhog, disoriented from being poked, probably thought the twig was the culprit, and fiercely bit into it, snapping the finger-thick twig in two immediately.
The man who had just caught the ground squirrel was still shaken; thankfully he reacted quickly, or he would have definitely been bitten.
Another person said, "It looks plump, so it should have a lot of meat. Let's just kill it and eat it."
The little groundhog seemed to understand, its chubby body trembled, and it didn't look as arrogant as before.
Cheng Zhiyu laughed: "It looks quite cute." Ugly-cute.
Cheng Mo said sourly, "Your eyes are almost gone, how are you cute? Cheng Zhiyu, I think your taste is questionable."
Cheng Zhiyu glanced at the group who were busy discussing how to deal with the little groundhog, and secretly whispered in Cheng Mo's ear: "I think your beast form is also very cute."
Cheng Mo's ears turned visibly red, and he snorted, "Actually, your aesthetic sense is normal most of the time, but it's abnormal a few times, like now."
What's so cute about this ugly thing?
Cheng Zhiyu: Pfft...
Over here, someone wanted to keep the little ground squirrel as a pet, but Grandpa Zhao firmly refused: "No way, this guy is bound to have bacteria. If he spreads some kind of disease, everyone at the base will be in danger. Besides, these little creatures are generally not suitable for artificial breeding. Even if you keep it, you can't change its habit of chewing things indiscriminately."
A person nearby said, "I just want to raise them so I can eat them after they give birth."
Another person said, "But I think it's male."
The person next to him: "..."
It was just a little ground squirrel, so Cheng Zhiyu ignored it.
It's already January, and the daytime weather is still scorching hot. The cherries and peaches in Cheng Zhiyu's space are ripening one after another.
He picked about ten peaches and a bowl of cherries, and said, "Let's make a fruit smoothie today."
It's too hot today, I need something cold to cool down.
Cheng Zhiyu called Tian Qiao over, and the latter couldn't resist when she saw the peaches and cherries. She grabbed a cherry and stuffed it into her mouth, mumbling, "Where did you get this fruit? This cherry is so sweet."
After meeting Cheng Zhiyu in the post-apocalyptic world, he never went hungry. But he also rarely ate fruit, so suddenly eating it was quite touching.
Cheng Zhiyu said, "I'm going to make fruit smoothies from the fruits grown in the space. You can freeze these fruits."
Tian Qiao said reluctantly, "This... it's so hard to get fresh fruit."
Fresh fruit and fruit smoothies taste different, don't they?
Cheng Zhiyu: "Don't worry, there's still some in the space."
Tian Manman's eyes lit up; he always had that expression when he saw food. Then he asked, "Fruit smoothie, is it good?"
Cheng Zhiyu smiled and said, "I made a simplified version, it should taste pretty good."
Tian Manman nodded, her eyes filled with anticipation.
Tian Qiao was freezing fruit when Zhou Min and Han Ping came running back, yelling loudly. Zhou Min was yelling the most, while Han Ping followed silently behind him.
Seeing that the two looked rather disheveled, carrying a bag in their hands, as if they were fleeing a disaster, Cheng Zhiyu asked, "Where have you been? Why are you in this state?"
Zhou Min chuckled: "Han Ping and I went for a walk, and guess what? I saw a beehive!"
Cheng Zhiyu glanced at the two of them and guessed something: "You two didn't just go and disturb their beehive, did you?"
Zhou Min scratched his head: "I didn't want to take it out at first, but Han Ping said he could teleport, so we decided to give it a try."
Cheng Zhiyu looked at Han Ping in surprise. In his memory, Han Ping was calm and composed. He couldn't imagine that Han Ping would be so impulsive.
Zhou Min stated that they still have a well-thought-out plan.
Once the location of the beehive was confirmed, we returned to the base, found some thick clothes, and wrapped up our exposed skin completely.
Then, Han Ping took the lit firewood and smoked the bees out of their hive. While the bees were out, he cut off a large part of the hive, then teleported to the place where the two had agreed to meet.
Zhou Min: "How about it? Our plan was meticulous, wasn't it?"
Tian Qiao clapped: "So you guys didn't get stung?"
Zhou Min: "...I got stung."
Everyone: "..."
"I didn't expect that some of those bees would be so incredibly fast—they were actually mutated bees!" Seeing the bees chasing after them, the two of them naturally ran.
Because Zhou Min was there, Han Ping couldn't teleport anyone, so the two of them had to run on foot.
But those bees were clearly holding a grudge, and they relentlessly pursued them, stinging the two of them several times.
Finally, they ran to the riverbank and jumped into the water. The bees buzzed around for a while, but probably couldn't find their target, so they had to leave in a huff.
After the bees flew away, Zhou Min and Han Ping came out of the water. They removed the bee stings left on each other's bodies, and then Zhou Min used his supernatural ability to heal the bee stings on both of them.
These bees are really fierce; they can sting people even through such thick clothes.
Wearing their thick, water-soaked clothes was too uncomfortable, so they took off their outer clothes and carried the beehive back. Because of the high daytime temperature, the short sleeves they were wearing had dried by the time they got there.
He didn't look so disheveled at that moment, but his hair looked messy and his face had some ash on it, I don't know if it was left from smoking out the beehive.
"Luckily, Han Ping threw the bag of beehives far away before he jumped into the water, otherwise all our work would have been for nothing." Zhou Min was still thinking about his beehives.
After saying that, Tian Qiao, who seemed to be freezing fruit, asked, "What are you doing? Where did you get this fruit?"
Tian Qiao then spoke.
Zhou Min clapped his hands: "That's great! I have honey here, we can make fruit smoothies too."
Cheng Zhiyu nodded. He had been thinking about what to use instead, since there was no yogurt, and he couldn't just have ice and fruit, could he?
He even considered adding some white sugar, but it always felt a bit strange. Now that he's replaced the white sugar with honey, it feels much better.
However, he couldn't help but say, "You guys should be more careful about safety in the future, and don't just do things on a whim."
Zhou Min nodded: "We know, we know, we'll definitely remember."
Han Ping touched his nose, feeling embarrassed. He rarely acted so impulsively, but when Zhou Min eagerly asked for honey, he agreed without thinking.
Looking back now, I don't know what I was thinking at the time.
Tian Qiao: "Yeah, it's pretty dangerous. Your abilities aren't really suitable for dealing with bees. Call me next time, hehe, I'll just freeze them into ice cubes."
Cheng Zhiyu: "...Go ahead and freeze your fruit."
Zhou Min glanced at it with envy and quickly said, "Then I'm going to take a shower. Remember to call me when you're done!"
As she spoke, she pulled Han Ping along, saying, "Come on, come on, we need to hurry up and wash, or we'll be late!"
After the two left, Tian Qiao had already frozen the fruit, and Cheng Zhiyu took out the blender from home and asked Tian Qiao to freeze some ice cubes as well.
He had already removed the pits from the fruit. He added the fruit and ice cubes to the blender, and then added some honey.
Blend it in a high-speed blender and it becomes a fruit smoothie.
Tian Qiao had already called her family over, and everyone was eating shaved ice from small bowls.
The fruit has a rich aroma and is very sweet. With the addition of honey, the fruit smoothie is refreshingly cool, which is absolutely appealing on such a hot day.
Cheng Zhiyu ate the peach first. After taking a bite, he squinted his eyes and said, "Delicious."
Cheng Mo ate both, eating very quickly, finishing one bowl and then having another. Although he ate quickly, he didn't eat in a messy way.
Tian Qiao completely abandoned all pretense of decorum, holding the bowl and finding it too troublesome to scoop out the food bit by bit, she simply poured it into her mouth.
Cheng Zhiyu's teeth hurt from looking at it. Doesn't he feel cold in his teeth?
Perhaps Tian Qiao herself possesses ice-based superpowers and has a high tolerance for ice?
Zhou Min and Han Ping arrived late, and seeing that there was still shaved ice, they quickly made a bowl of it.
After eating one bowl, Cheng's mother and the others said they wouldn't eat anymore, fearing they would get diarrhea. The remaining shaved ice was completely devoured by Cheng Zhiyu and his friends.
Cheng Zhiyu also picked some fresh fruit, which was a completely different experience from the smoothie. Cheng's mother and the others were able to eat more of it, and everyone ate some peaches and cherries.
——
The breeding farm at the base.
Cheng Zhiyu and Han Tingting happened to be passing by and decided to take a look.
Han Tingting has adapted very well to her job as a veterinarian at the base. She said with a smile, "The sow is definitely pregnant. It's been more than a month, and she should give birth in another two months."
Cheng Zhiyu went to take a look and found that the sow's belly was indeed a bit bigger. She was lying there lazily. Perhaps she recognized Han Tingting. When she saw Han Tingting coming over, she looked up at her and then continued to hum and sleep.
The feeding troughs in the sow's pen were spotless.
Able to eat and sleep well, not bad.
In a while, the base will have a few more pigs, which is undoubtedly a good thing.
As for the previous rabbits, that litter of baby rabbits has grown white fur and is picking and choosing, eating sweet potato vines.
The sweet potatoes and vines we dug up earlier weren't wasted; they were used to feed the livestock.
The little rabbit was quite bold; when it saw Cheng Zhiyu and the others, it even came over to look at them curiously.
Its fur is all white, and it looks especially cute. It's much cuter than when it was first born; they're practically two different rabbits.
Then there are the chickens and ducks, which, under careful breeding, have already started laying eggs.
However, it was impossible for them to supply the base with their eggs alone, so when Cheng Zhiyu and his group arrived, the breeders were selecting fertilized eggs to hatch chicks.
"Do you have an incubator?" Cheng Zhiyu asked.
The breeder smiled and said, "No need. My mom said that you can incubate directly on a heated kang (a traditional heated bed). It's just not as convenient as an incubator because you need to control the temperature and turn the eggs over from time to time. But my mom used to incubate eggs like this when she was a child, so she has a good grasp of the temperature."
Cheng Zhiyu: "Is she also an employee of the farm?"
The farmer shook his head: "No."
Cheng Zhiyu said, "There will definitely be a lot of work to do incubating eggs in the future. We won't let Auntie work for free. We'll calculate her contribution points first. If she does a good job, she can apply to join the breeding farm."
Upon hearing this, the farmer became instantly excited and quickly thanked Cheng Zhiyu.
The most popular jobs at the base now are in the farming department and the breeding farm.
Putting everything else aside, once you get a job in one of these two places, it's like having a secure job; you never have to worry about not earning contribution points.
Unlike most people at the base, who are constantly changing jobs, this job is not stable.
Moreover, since the harvest, the farming and animal husbandry departments have had a canteen with two meals a day. They hardly spend any contribution points on food and use the contribution points they earn to buy other things.
Although the canteen doesn't have meat yet, if their breeding department works hard, the canteen will definitely have meat once the pigs they raise are ready for market.
Of course, even if you don't work in either of these places, you can still go to the cafeteria, but you'll have to spend contribution points, which is more expensive than cooking for yourself, so many people prefer to cook for themselves.
It's not easy to get into the farm now, but since Cheng Zhiyu has spoken up, the farmer is very excited and thinks he must go back and tell his mother that he must work hard.
——
The base is now developing steadily. More than a month has passed, and the first batch of chicks has hatched at the farm. They are bright yellow and very cute.
However, it gets cold at night, so the chicks are herded into the house to prevent them from freezing to death.
However, recently, for some reason, the animals in the farm have become a bit irritable. The chickens and ducks flap and fly around for no reason, the rabbits are so irritable that they want to bite people whenever they see them, and even the sows, who usually eat and sleep, don't eat properly anymore and grunt and squeal all the time.
As a result, even the geese guarding the farm were no longer as diligent and responsible.
Not to mention laying eggs, chickens, ducks and geese are not laying eggs properly anymore.
Han Tingting checked several times but couldn't find anything wrong, and she still didn't know what was wrong with these animals.
Seeing this, everyone at the farm was worried, fearing that something might happen to the animals they had raised for so long, and then all their work would have been for nothing.
People would check on the animals whenever they had a spare moment, and seeing that their condition was still not right, they were all quite worried.
But there's nothing I can do about worrying, and I can't find anything wrong. I just hope things will get back to normal soon.
That night, as usual, everyone heated the kang (a traditional heated brick bed) before going to sleep.
Normally, the kang (a heated brick bed) is so warm that you don't even need to cover yourself with a blanket. But today, for some reason, some people feel particularly cold at night. Even though the kang is heated and they are wrapped in blankets, they still feel a bit cold.
As night fell, it grew even colder. When they touched the kang (a heated brick bed), they found it ice-cold, and everyone sensed that something was wrong.
Cheng Zhiyu is the same. He usually sleeps with Cheng Mo, who is like a furnace, so he never feels cold. They both sleep on the bed.
But that night, when Cheng Zhiyu opened his eyes, he was woken up by the cold.
Cheng Zhiyu frowned: "What's going on? Why is it so cold?"
Cheng Mo glanced outside and said, "It's snowing."
Cheng Zhiyu immediately woke up, wrapped himself in the blanket, went to the window, opened the window, and was shocked to see that it was snowing heavily outside.
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