Chapter 33 Resigning to Go Home and Farm (10)
Bai Ye didn't even bother to put on a coat; he just slipped on his shoes and ran outside.
After running only two steps, my calves started to ache, and I collapsed to the ground.
A limp, two-legged shrimp is nothing special.
But time waits for no one, and it's harvest time for vegetables. Even if the vegetable grower has a high fever, he can't stop harvesting vegetables every day.
Moreover, there are more important things to do right now than harvesting.
In the darkness, Bai Ye dragged her aching legs, taking one step at a time, towards her greenhouse.
Behind him, a long, thin black shadow crawled slowly, looking like a small black snake from a distance.
As you approach the greenhouse, you'll see more and more of these small black snakes struggling to survive outside. Some of them are so thin that only a layer of snake skin remains.
Byakuya is most afraid of reptiles, especially those covered in scales and without feet.
But at this moment, he couldn't care less about being afraid; he opened the door and went into the greenhouse.
Upon entering the greenhouse, a suffocating heat hits you, a stark contrast to the cool and humid environment outside.
The temperature was unusually high today, and I also forgot to tell my grandparents about lifting the tarpaulin.
"It's so hot, so hot."
"It's so hot, I'm about to die."
"Help, help me..."
From the farthest distance, a faint cry for help could be heard.
Those are strawberries, those are the fruit monsters.
Bai Ye rushed over and first lifted the tarpaulins under all the greenhouses, but it wasn't enough. The vegetable and fruit monsters seemed to be almost steamed by the heat.
One by one, bizarre creatures in the shape of infants crawled around outside the greenhouse, but they were not as active as usual; they seemed to be wriggling with difficulty.
Their once fair and smooth skin is now dry and wrinkled.
What worried Bai Ye the most was the red blood vessels showing on his skin.
For the first time, he saw red blood vessels on the strange body, like bloodworms crawling inside it. With each crawl and wriggle, a red blood vessel would burst open.
"puff--"
Dark red blood spurted from the watermelon-sized infants.
Bai Ye was terrified, stunned and at a loss for what to do.
What should we do in this situation?
"What...what should I do to save you?"
After spending several months together, even if it was strange, feelings had developed.
These little monsters are especially cute and headless, which makes Bai Ye even happier. Seeing them in such pain, as if they're about to collapse and explode at any moment, makes his heart clench with pain.
He squatted near the strawberry field, which was among the most severely affected by the heat.
These fruit monsters couldn't even move anymore; they lay half-dead on the ground, groaning and complaining of being "hot."
Bai Ye touched it, and three or four red blood lines immediately burst open on the other person's body, which made him tremble with fear.
"Xiao Fan, I'm going to die."
A strawberry-shaped baby crawled over with difficulty, grabbed Bai Ye's trouser leg, and tried and tried again, finally managing to get close.
A withered little flower above her head touched Bai Ye's finger. "I'm so sad. It didn't even bloom and bear fruit. I wanted to give you a big, sweet red strawberry."
Bai Ye's eyes instantly reddened, and she immediately looked up to hold back her tears.
I'm not reconciled. I grew these strawberries from seed by seed, tending to them carefully every day, and they were about to bear fruit.
Why should someone just die like that?
I absolutely must eat a giant strawberry!
“You won’t die, you won’t die. Who said you have to die? I want you all to live well.”
Bai Ye opened the screen, estimated the amount, and prepared to spend five points of health.
He found a bucket, filled it with most of water, and then dripped his own blood into it.
One life point is about 10 milliliters of blood, and five life points is only about 50 milliliters, which is less than the amount of blood donated in a single donation. There are almost no side effects on the body.
The only difference is that in the bizarre world, his health points will actually decrease.
50 ml of blood was added to the bucket, stirred, and the water remained clear, except for a slightly pinkish tint.
Bai Ye took a spoon and scooped some water into the strawberry patch.
"Hiss hiss hiss—"
He could clearly hear the sounds of the strawberry babies sucking.
Before long, the shriveled, half-dead strawberry baby regained its vitality.
Next are the other vegetables, which don't have much water and need to be distributed evenly; they're only good for emergencies.
But the effect was remarkable, and all the vegetable monsters were back to their energetic selves.
Bai Ye finally saw clearly that the dark little snakes under the moonlight were not actually black, but green, a clear, bright green.
It's still a snake, but it's changed from a black snake to a bamboo viper.
The cowpeas finally came back to life, and to express their gratitude, they all climbed onto Bai Ye. You wrapped them around his arms, I wrapped them around his calves, and wherever there was a gap, they would wrap themselves around him.
Bai Ye's face turned deathly pale, and his heart pounded wildly.
Finally, he was so frightened that he closed his eyes and started chanting "Amitabha".
The next morning, Bai Ye's steps were unsteady, each step an effort to pull his rising soul home. Finally, the soul was pulled down, thankfully without ascending to heaven.
"What's wrong?"
Ge Guifen opened the door and saw that her grandson looked as if he were dead. She asked worriedly, "Did you go out for a stroll? Did you encounter a ghost?"
Bai Ye opened his mouth, murmured twice, but couldn't speak.
More terrifying than ghosts, and more terrifying than eerie creatures.
Hundreds and thousands of bamboo vipers, what a tragedy! There was no indication that long beans would grow up to look like this.
This is so embarrassing for me!
...
Nighttime water shortages and sweltering heat in the middle of the night are common occurrences in early summer.
Furthermore, as temperatures rise, thunderstorms become more frequent, occurring almost every two days.
Bai Ye simply built a thatched hut next to the greenhouse and lived there.
Life points are precious. It's okay to use them once in an emergency, but it's not good to do it often. No one would want to be a blood bag.
The two elderly people were reluctant to part with the vegetables, but seeing them growing faster and faster in the greenhouse, they had no choice but to give up.
After all, the second son went through the same thing. A few years ago, in order to take care of all the vegetables, he would live by the greenhouse for two or three months at a time.
Even now, that little wooden house is still there.
“Xiao Fan, if you keep growing vegetables, after this harvest, let’s build a decent wooden house next to the greenhouse, just like your second uncle.”
Li Dashi walked back and forth with his cane, slowly but very seriously, "It's on that ridge of the field, that's the driest place, the wooden house would have to be suspended in the air with all four legs off, our land is too damp."
Bai Ye didn't know when his mission would end, but since the old man had said so, he agreed.
"Okay, Grandpa, I'll do whatever you say. When winter comes, my eldest and second uncles won't be busy, and I'll ask them for help."
My grandson is going to stay in this small mountain village forever.
Li Dashi felt a warmth in his heart, but didn't show it on his face. "Okay, take your time, no rush. I brought you some rice cakes; your grandma just came down the mountain to buy them today."
Inside the thatched hut, Bai Ye ate a rice cake in one hand and flipped through a dynamic spreadsheet in the other to check how many vegetables could be harvested the next day.
All the other vegetables were fine, but there were two kinds of vegetables that were not quite right.
Bai Ye pulled out two forms, one with green beans and the other with cowpeas written on them.
The data in the table showed that half of the long beans and green beans should have been harvested the next day.
The problem is that by the third day, half of the crops were ready to be harvested.
On the fourth day, another third had passed.
Day 5, Day 6...
These beans, I don't know what's going on, seem to just keep growing.
Bai Ye suspected that there was a strange error in the data, which was possible, since the energy required to operate a small world was extremely large.
Moreover, each instance world is connected to the main world, and there are even intricate connections between the two.
But as it turns out, the bizarre never goes wrong.
On the second, third, and even fifth and sixth days, Bai Ye would get up in the middle of the night every day, harvest the mature lettuce and rapeseed, and then walk around the greenhouse frame, manually picking long beans that were longer than himself.
These beans are incredibly fast growers; not only are each one extremely long, but they also reproduce at an exceptionally rapid rate.
That's right, it's about reproduction. If you're not careful overnight, little cowpeas, each 20 or 30 centimeters long, can sprout up on those shelves.
Well, green beans are just as impressive; they sprout out three or four centimeters overnight.
There's no way to pick them all!
Bai Ye picked fruit again in the middle of the night, until his hands and feet were numb, and his heart was almost numb too.
"Can you grow a little slower?"
A small, green snake crawled up the trouser leg and coiled around Bai Ye's arm. Its head was in the shape of a baby's, grinning broadly.
"No way, as a long bean, our goal is to grow like crazy."
"Moreover, having drunk your blood, we must strive to grow even stronger. Our mission is to become the longest, greenest, and tastiest cowpeas!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a green bean-like creature crawled over from the side. It was a bizarre anthropomorphic form of a green bean, with a cute baby face.
Whether it's an insect's body with a human head, or a snake's body with a human head, even after getting used to it for several days, Bai Ye still felt uneasy.
He tried to smile at the giant cabbage worm in front of him, saying, "You green beans shouldn't grow too long, otherwise you won't look like green beans anymore."
The super cabbage worm nodded, then thought for a moment and said, "Then let's grow a lot more, and even more, and try to grow faster than cowpeas."
"What?!"
"We can't drink your blood for nothing, Xiao Fan; we must repay you."
"Yes, yes, yes, a debt of gratitude will be repaid with a debt of gratitude that is as deep as a spring."
The way these vegetable monsters chose to repay their debt of gratitude was to do their utmost to grow.
Following green beans and cowpeas, all vegetables have entered a period of rapid growth.
As the weather gets hotter and strange occurrences occur, the daily harvest of vegetables in Baiye's greenhouses increases dramatically.
One person simply can't handle it all, so I have to ask for help. But everyone else is also very busy, so who has time to come?
Finally, the two elderly people, trembling, came of their own accord.
At 1:30 a.m., just as Bai Ye began to harvest, two figures appeared; they were Li Dashi and Ge Guifen.
"Grandma and Grandpa, what brings you here? Go back to sleep in the middle of the night." Bai Ye got up and shooed them away.
Li Dashi pounded the ground with his cane, making a loud thud. "I'm not too old to move yet. I can still do the work of picking vegetables. Xiao Fan, you go cut the vegetables. Your grandma and I will go pick long beans and green beans."
Ge Guifen: "Yes, yes, yes, can we pick the loofahs and cucumbers now? I'm going to the other greenhouse."
Before Bai Ye could even speak, cheers erupted from the furthest greenhouse: "It's a human! We're saved!"
"Come quick, come quick, pick loofahs, pick loofahs, after picking loofahs, pick cucumbers."
The tarpaulin was lifted and rustled as small, plum-sized round balls bounced out.
On each sphere is a smiling face, an innocent, baby-like face, directly embedded in a green sphere, appearing both comical and eerie.
In particular, these spheres holding a mini cucumber or mini loofah, like a super mini figurine, are even more incredible.
Bai Ye was very tolerant of these two vegetables. After all, having witnessed the bizarre forms of bamboo vipers and cabbage worms, seeing these two adorable little green balls and figurines was like winning the lottery.
"Xiao Fan, hurry up, the frame can't hold up anymore, there are so many loofahs."
"There are also many cucumbers, which are crisp and sweet, and are the best-tasting cucumbers in the world."
Bai Ye was in a good mood and couldn't help but laugh. "Grandma, go pick some cucumbers and loofahs, but be gentle. They're so plump and tender that they'll leave marks if you pinch them."
"It's not that delicate, it's just a cucumber."
Ge Guifen didn't believe it, so she walked to the greenhouse next door, picked a stalk, and chewed it in her mouth.
Oh, it tastes like fruit, a sweet pear flavor.
Ge Guifen called out to her grandson, "Xiao Fan, did you graft the cucumber?"
Bai Ye was completely confused. "No, I don't know how to graft. I just bought the seeds and planted them like this."
Ge Guifen: "Come and try it, it tastes different."
Bai Ye walked over, picked a cucumber, wiped it on his clothes, and started eating it.
A green ball, clutching a small figurine, bounced excitedly on Bai Ye's shoulder, asking, "How am I? Am I the best-tasting cucumber in the world?"
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