Chapter 27 Resigning to Go Home and Farm (4)
What kind of customer group would a group of vegetable seeds target?
What kind of service feedback should I receive from a group of vegetable seeds?
How do I get five-star reviews for a bunch of vegetable seeds?
This was a question that Bai Ye had never been able to understand before, but after a terrifying night, he finally understood.
In this bizarre world, not only humans can mutate, but even plants can.
So, what about animals?
Bai Ye was suspicious of the rooster pacing around the yard. It was this guy who, instead of sleeping in the middle of the night, sneaked out and lifted the plastic film, pecking around inside.
Bai Ye was filled with regret at the thought of losing a small batch of rapeseed.
"They're all customers! My customers, they're not even fully grown yet, how can you bear to hurt them?"
Bai Ye grabbed the rooster by the neck, lifted it in his hand and shook it violently. The rooster struggled wildly and made strange "cock-a-doodle-doo" noises.
If Ge Guifen hadn't passed by, Bai Ye would have already been ready to use the knife.
"Xiao Fan, we only have one rooster at home, and we need it to hatch chicks. If you want to eat chicken, I'll kill a hen for you later."
Bai Ye immediately let go, smiling innocently, and said, "Grandma, I didn't want to eat chicken. This chicken pecked at my vegetable shed last night and knocked out a lot of seeds."
Ge Guifen nodded, waved her hand, and chased the rooster away.
Then he moved a small stool and sat down with a thud. "Xiao Fan, that place in the backyard was originally a chicken coop. You scattered vegetable seeds there, so you have to be careful and precious with them. You have to check on it every few days."
"Is it too late for me to move now?" Bai Ye immediately regretted it; she shouldn't have been so greedy for that fertile land.
Ge Guifen: "Okay, you can dig a hole in the front yard and transport the rapeseed and soil over there."
Bai Ye expressed his understanding and took the opportunity to choose an auspicious spot in the front yard.
After looking for a long time, the land turned out to be hard and barren, making it almost impossible to work on.
Of all the houses in the yard, the soil around the chicken coop under the peach tree was truly the most fertile.
While watering the seeds, Bai Ye couldn't help but ask, "Hey everyone, I'm thinking of moving you to the front yard, is that alright?"
Some things could be done alone.
But now that the customers have "woke up," everything must still revolve around them.
"Here's what I was thinking: this chicken isn't very obedient. It will take at least half a month for you to sprout and grow leaves. I can't watch over you 24 hours a day, so I—"
"No, I'm not going."
"No, no, I'm not going. I'm going or not, I'm not going."
Two fist-sized infants emerged from the ground, one of which had already grown two soft, white hands and grabbed a spoon.
It hung there, half-suspended in mid-air, swaying and baring its teeth, saying, "Living here is fat, fat."
The fist-shaped infant followed behind, struggling to keep up, repeating indistinctly, "Fatty, Fatty, stay, stay."
The emotions are reflected in these two aspects.
Even though it was just a vegetable seed, it was still strange, and Bai Ye was quite wary of its sharp teeth.
Finally, I found a basin and put the two inside.
Then he drove to the front yard and personally inspected the terrain.
“Take another look. This piece of land is actually not bad. If you think the soil isn’t fertile enough, I’ll go to my second uncle’s place and dig up some cow dung!”
"The backyard not only has chickens, but also blocks the sunlight. You need not only warm and moist soil to grow and sprout, but also sunlight."
"Think about it, when the weather is nice, I lift up the plastic film, and you all crawl out and lie down to sunbathe, sunbathing here and there, sunbathing every corner of your body."
It's unclear which word touched these vegetable seeds, but the fist-shaped baby, which had already grown hands, cried out and the seeds that had been sleeping in the soil began to crawl out one after another.
Before long, the front yard was completely filled with this bunch of things.
This was the first time Bai Ye had seen so many strange things in the sunlight; they were bizarre in appearance, even ugly.
But they are quite harmless, if you ignore the sharp teeth.
"How can you survive running out like this? I mean, you're still seeds, you shouldn't be staying in the soil."
The question was answered quickly.
When Baiye was moving the vegetable seeds, she discovered that all the ones she had sown the day before were still there.
They were soaked with water and had become stuck to the surrounding soil, making them easy to move.
However, "So what are you? These things I moved over are just shells?"
No one answered him. The fist-shaped infants just cried and complained of thirst and heat, and as soon as they had drunk their fill, they immediately burrowed back into the soil.
As the last one crawled in, he didn't forget to turn around and remind everyone, "Fat, fat."
Bai Ye nodded resignedly and carried a sack to his second uncle's house to collect cow dung.
When Li Jianjun heard that his nephew had exchanged the rapeseed for a barren plot of land, he couldn't understand it at all. "That original plot of land was so good, why couldn't you make that decision?"
"There are chickens, and they'll steal food from us in the middle of the night."
"Tie the chicken up with a rope, where can it run to?"
"That's what I was thinking too. I'll check the situation tonight and then make a decision."
"Verification? Verify what?"
Bai Ye smiled but remained silent, offering no explanation.
As night fell, Bai Ye inspected the rapeseed field to ensure that the plastic film was completely covered without any gaps before he could go back to his house to sleep.
In the middle of the night, a grinding sound suddenly woke him up.
Bai Ye took out his phone and checked the time: 02:23.
It's weird, that chicken has come out!
"I knew it, this chicken wasn't any good either."
Despite having no weapons, Bai Ye was still incredibly bold and charged out with a hoe on his shoulder.
Protect our baby rapeseed!
Bai Ye was really going all out to earn that 6,000.
However, when they rushed to the vegetable patch, the plastic sheeting was perfectly intact, and the small traps buried around it remained untouched. Where did the chicken come from?
"Then what is that teeth grinding sound?"
Just then, a series of "puff puff" sounds came from inside the plastic film.
Then, the membrane was torn, revealing pairs of sharp, gleaming teeth.
A pair of fair, delicate hands climbed up from under the plastic, and the moment they grabbed, they released their teeth, making a "crunch, crunch" sound—it was the grinding sound they had just heard.
"What are you doing out here in the middle of the night instead of sleeping?"
Bai Ye couldn't understand why rapeseed should just sleep to germinate. How could staying up all night produce good seedlings?
"My darlings, sleep well. You need to sleep enough to grow up."
"It's hot, it's hot."
A baby with fists climbed up a bamboo pole frame and paced anxiously in circles. Its thin, downy skin was visibly turning redder and redder.
Bai Ye couldn't understand. Was this weight gain? Would weight gain cause heat?
"It's so hot! Water, hot, hot..."
"I didn't pour hot water on it!"
"Waaaaah—"
She started crying at the slightest provocation.
It was even more piercing and tragic than the sharp cries of a newborn baby that I had heard on the first night.
Bai Ye squatted on the ground, so close that the sound was almost overwhelming, making his head explode with a buzzing sound.
He collapsed to the ground, his eardrums throbbing with pain as if sharp insects were burrowing into them.
It's a bizarre attack!
These are not harmless little creatures at all; they are highly advanced and bizarre.
A simple sound is enough to make someone writhe in pain on the spot.
Bai Ye squatted on the ground for a while before she recovered, her voice weak, "Don't cry, please, don't cry."
"It's hot, it's hot."
The baby's cries subsided considerably, but he still complained of being hot.
That layer of down has turned light pink.
More and more fist-shaped babies are crawling out from underground, and a small portion of their skin has turned light pink.
Bai Ye turned his attention to the soil, thought for a moment, and boldly stretched out his finger and stuck it into the soil.
It's sweltering and scalding hot!
The soil temperature is wrong.
Bai Ye immediately understood that the vegetable seeds had been suffocated by the high temperature in the soil. It was probably because he had watered them too much during the day, exposed them to the sun for a long time, and then covered them with a plastic film at night, creating a steamer effect.
He quickly started digging, tearing off the entire piece of plastic film, and then took a small shovel to loosen the soil, trying to lower the soil temperature.
He apologized as he worked, saying, "I'm so sorry, I didn't know it would turn out like this. This is my first time growing vegetables."
"hot."
"Okay, I got it. I'll cool you down right away."
Bai Ye toiled by the vegetable garden for most of the night, finally able to breathe a sigh of relief just before dawn.
With no more babies crying, the little ones retreated back underground to sleep.
"Oh, what a delicate vegetable."
Exhausted, Bai Ye went back to her room for a nap.
In the days that followed, Bai Ye dared not sleep through the night. Sometimes she would wake up in the middle of the night and go to check the vegetable garden, occasionally reaching out to touch it to see if there was anything unusual.
After a smooth two weeks, the first batch of rapeseed seeds finally sprouted.
One by one, they sprouted from the ground, their tender white stems topped with two small green buds, waving in the wind, looking exceptionally festive.
Li Jianjun took some time to come over and check. He squatted down, touched the seedlings, and nodded. "They're almost ready. Take advantage of the cloudy weather today and transplant them into the greenhouse as soon as possible."
In the past two weeks, Bai Ye has turned the soil in the greenhouse several times, and also made ridges and ditches. Just two days ago, he also thoroughly watered all the soil.
Now that it's finally time to transplant the rice seedlings, he's more excited than anyone else.
Li Jianjun wanted to help, but Bai Ye was more enthusiastic and insisted on transplanting each tree herself.
Watching his nephew treat him like a god, Li Jianjun couldn't bear to look at him. "How long are you going to take this?"
Bai Ye also wanted to hurry, but these little devils couldn't be rushed. One minute they were complaining that their arms were being pulled sore, and the next they were saying they hadn't slept enough and wanted to stay in the field a little longer.
If any of them gets upset, they'll turn around and take a bite.
Bai Ye had to do it himself, selecting seedlings that were ready for the right time. It was okay if it was a little slow; the most important thing was that the customers were happy.
Two loads, one filled with lettuce seedlings and the other with rapeseed seedlings.
It took Bai Ye an hour to get the first batch of customers into the car.
Before leaving, I had to remind them again and again, "Children, I'll take your older brothers and sisters to the greenhouse first. You're still too young, so stay at home for a couple more days."
"Go, go, let's go together!"
The baby with fists has grown a lot in recent days. Not only have it developed limbs, but its face is also slowly appearing. Even its size has changed from that of a potato to that of a beetroot.
Its body is round and its limbs are slender. It walks unsteadily, yet it insists on running around.
Bai Ye liked the other party when they weren't showing their fangs; for the first time, he felt that the supernatural beings were quite easy to get along with.
Seeing that two people were trying to sneak up behind him, he immediately stopped them, saying, "You two won't make it. The leaves haven't all sprouted yet. Let's do it tomorrow. I'll take you there tomorrow."
The two lettuce seedlings were unhappy, pointing to a corner of the basket, "Xi, Xi Xi, go..."
Bai Ye turned his head and saw two seedlings in a small corner that looked very similar to lettuce, yet with some slight differences.
Upon closer inspection, wow, it's the tomato seedlings from next door.
Bai Ye looked down at the carrying pole and saw two babies, each the size of a sweet potato, pressed together, pretending to be dead.
"You two are not good enough. You need to develop for another half month."
After a pause, Bai Ye added, "Anyway, it will take at least ten days. My second uncle said that the tomato seedlings grow slowly and will be the last batch to be transplanted."
For some reason, of the three types of vegetable seeds planted, lettuce was the most ferocious, with a mouthful of sharp teeth.
Bai Ye once witnessed a baby lettuce, about the size of a turnip head, crawl out of the field one night and grind its teeth loudly at the gate of the yard.
The next morning, Ge Guifen exclaimed in surprise that the wooden door to her house had collapsed.
"It must have been one of the village dogs who did it, always doing such despicable things."
Therefore, Bai Ye remained silent and did not dare to utter a single word.
The rapeseed plants love to be their little followers. They just charge forward and get things done, no matter how blind they are, as long as the lettuce gives them instructions.
The most peculiar thing is the tomato. The seedlings grow soft and limp. Despite having a mouthful of sharp teeth that are sharper than anyone else's, it can't bite anything.
One day, Bai Ye suddenly had a whimsical idea and stretched out his finger. As a result, Xiao Cai Zi turned around and hopped away.
Today, two seedlings tried to slip through the cracks, but Bai Ye didn't hesitate to grab them and replant them.
Then, he asked the remaining lettuce seedlings, "You are the eldest brothers and sisters, can you do me a favor and find all the tomato seedlings mixed in with your rapeseed fields?"
If two can sneak in, then there must be dozens or even hundreds more.
They were planted separately, but these little monsters like to run around and make a mess in the middle of the night.
Unfortunately, all the rapeseed seeds looked almost identical when they first sprouted, and Bai Ye couldn't tell them apart at all.
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