Chapter 153 Young Master Bai is really willing to spend a fortune for the baby.
Zuo Shan felt bad about having an elderly person come every day to deliver milk, so she discussed it with the old housekeeper and arranged for her to go there every morning starting the next day and pick up the reindeer milk on the way.
As the morning light shone, Zuo Shan jogged to Old Madam Gu's house, stuffing Xiao Bao into her backpack and taking him with her.
It's rare to find a place to let loose and have friends to play with, so Zuo Shan naturally brought Xiao Bao along.
The old housekeeper got up very early. When she arrived, he was already standing at the gate waiting for her, with a little piglet circling around him at his feet.
Upon seeing Zuo Shan, Hanhan excitedly jumped up and threw himself into her arms, making the old butler quite jealous: "Hanhan, why do you like Miss Zuo so much?"
The silly thing turned around and gave him a "humph," then continued to rub against the left fan. Anyone unaware of the situation would think it was her pet.
Xiao Bao was a little unhappy. He poked his head out of the backpack, stretched out his little paw and gently shoved Han Han to the ground. Han Han got angry and chased after him, bumping his head against him. Xiao Bao then jumped away quickly.
Zuo Shan watched the two cubs chasing each other with a smile, her heart filled with joy. This scene could only have been found on the peaceful and tranquil Blue Star in the past.
The old housekeeper had already milked the reindeer, leaving enough for Madam Gu and him, about a third of the amount. The rest was put into a plastic bucket and handed to Zuo Shan while it was still warm.
Zuo Shan took out a bamboo basin of double-skin milk pudding that had been prepared in advance and handed it to the old butler. The old man asked with a smile, "Is this steamed egg custard again?"
"No, this time I've created a new dish called double-skin milk pudding. It's sweet, and its style and taste are different from steamed egg custard. I think you and Madam Gu will both like it," Zuo Shan said with a smile.
"Then I thank Miss Zuo on behalf of my master!" The old butler smiled sincerely; his master had really enjoyed the steamed egg custard he brought back yesterday.
"Who asked you to thank me on my behalf? Wouldn't I thank you myself?" Old Madam Gu suddenly walked over from the garden next door and said with a smile.
"Master, why are you up so early? Don't you usually like to stay up late and get up late?" the old butler asked with concern.
"Perhaps it's because I haven't had any good food in a long time, and suddenly life feels more interesting, so I made sure to go to bed early last night for a beauty sleep." Old Madam Gu smiled, her wrinkles spreading out.
“The elderly should indeed go to bed early and get up early, as this is good for their health,” Zuo Shan nodded in approval.
"You young lady, you know how to take care of your health at such a young age, that's rare." Old Madam Gu was a little surprised. People in the wasteland are all busy making a living, and no one cares about health issues except for food.
Zuo Shan immediately realized his slip of the tongue and quickly tried to salvage the situation, saying, "This is something I read in a history textbook. People before the Great Cataclysm paid great attention to health and wellness."
Madam Gu clearly didn't want to delve into the minor slip-up in her words, and instead smiled and changed the subject: "By the way, would you like to see for yourself what the mutated female reindeer that young master Bai sent looks like?"
"Yes!" Zuo Shan nodded excitedly.
She had only ever seen reindeer in nature documentaries; she had never seen a real, living reindeer, let alone a mutated one!
Madam Gu personally led her to another garden, where there was a huge yurt-style metal cage, surrounded by metal bars as thick as an arm, and covered with a thick radiation shielding layer on the roof.
"With this insulating layer and moderately irradiated feed, we can ensure that the milk produced by the female reindeer is kept within the range of moderate radiation," Madam Gu explained.
As I got closer, through the fence on the left, I finally saw what this mutated female reindeer looked like.
It is about 3 meters long and about 2 meters tall, not as huge as she had imagined. In addition, reindeer are gentle in nature, so it is no wonder that they can be domesticated by humans.
"It is said that before the cataclysm, female reindeer were about 1.5 meters long and only about 1 meter tall, and their daily milk production was only about 800 milliliters on average."
Even now that it has mutated, its milk production is only about 3 liters per day, but it needs at least 8 to 10 kilograms of dry feed per day to maintain its milk production.
"That young master Bai really went all out for the baby," Old Madam Gu exclaimed.
Zuo Shan had already guessed that the cost of raising this reindeer must be high from the moment he saw it, but he didn't expect that its food intake was almost equivalent to the daily meals of ten ordinary people.
It seems difficult to repay what I owe Xiaobai. Zuo Shan took a deep breath and said, "I will try my best to create greater value, otherwise I will be letting down these reindeer milk."
Madam Gu raised an eyebrow, looked at her carefully for a while, and then said, "If you really need to repay him in the future and you can't repay him in time, you can count me in."
My life, this old woman's life, is worth more than you think; you can't have saved me for nothing.
"I only helped you remove a steel bar. You used your healing magic to restore my health and also helped my sister. If we're talking about who owes whom, I owe you more," Zuo Shan said solemnly.
“You’re a good kid. You know I have the ability to change your situation, yet you still try to distance yourself from my kindness.”
I am an old widow, and besides the old housekeeper, there is only one simple-minded person in my family.
I really like your sister, and we get along quite well. That old man likes you too. He's very stingy; if he doesn't like someone, he won't help build a house even if you pay him.
Needless to say, the silly one jumped into your arms the first time we met, making me, its owner, a little jealous, haha!
"We two old folks get quite lonely living in such a big courtyard. When you have time, why don't you bring your sister to visit us?"
Madam Gu's words were tantamount to an invitation to her, and Zuo Shan was very moved.
To be fair, she only helped her a little bit, but she gave back a lot.
And they were clearly not from the same social class, but Madam Gu did not look down on her, a poor person from the bottom of society, in the slightest.
Zuo Shan wasn't one to be pretentious; she readily accepted the kindness shown to her.
"Then I won't stand on ceremony. I'll visit your home whenever I have time, and my little one can run around and play with the silly boy."
It was a pleasant chat with Madam Gu, but with little Bao, Lele, and baby Achen still at home, Zuo Shan had to reluctantly say goodbye.
As I was leaving, I happened to see the old housekeeper pulling several dead plants from the planting box, sighing as he did so, "They were doing so well, how did I manage to kill them all again?"
Madam Gu laughed and scolded, "You've wasted your earth-elemental ability. Everything you try to raise dies. You can kill even a weed in my yard. I think you should stop wasting seeds in the future."
Upon hearing this, Zuo Shan immediately thought of her father. She remembered that he always liked to bring back flowers and plants from outside, some of which were given to him by the elderly people in the neighborhood, and some of which he bought with his own money.
He likes to water the flowers whenever he has free time, and he goes to great lengths to add nutrients by using rice water and crushed eggshells.
But he just kept killing every potted plant he tried to grow. Even the hardiest cactus in his house eventually rotted from overwatering and struggled for half a year before finally dying.
Back then, her mother would always say, "You have a fire element in your destiny, you're born to be incompatible with flowers and plants."
Unexpectedly, the old butler, an earth-elemental ability user, was able to kill the plant. That's really strange!
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