Chapter 277 Five Years Later
Zuo Shan glanced at Xiao Bai and felt as if his mother's face had been slapped repeatedly by this brat!
She was just discussing with Xiaobai the topic of not being too greedy, and then Bao Bao pulled this stunt.
In order to monopolize all the gifts, he not only created a mental cage, but also used his stealth skills on this mental cage.
Then he smiled and spread his hands at his mother, meaning that there was nothing there, and the baby didn't take anything!
Children's thoughts are too simple; they never think that their little skills could possibly be hidden from everyone's eyes.
Zuo Shan didn't know whether to praise him for being so capable or just grab him and spank him.
However, the baby's subsequent performance surprised everyone.
He first toddled over to Zuo Shan with his short legs, then quietly took out the amber-colored flower-shaped stamp sponsored by Xiao Bai from his hidden mental prison and stuffed it into his mother's hand.
Then she took the peace amulet that Grandma Gu had given her and put it back into Mommy's hand. These two things are the most precious of all the toys, so of course they have to be given to Mommy!
After giving Mommy two gifts, he delivered them one by one. First, it was his fathead fish, then Uncle Chestnut and Panda, Aunt Lele and Uncle Xiaobao, Hanhan, Madam Gu and the old housekeeper.
Enemy Number One and Aunt Mina, Uncle Matt, and Uncle Monton.
The reason why the baby sorts things this way is quite simple!
Mommy is the most important person to the baby, definitely number one, and the best treasures should be given to Mommy.
The fathead fish was inseparable from him. Although they often quarreled, the fathead fish spent the most time playing with the baby.
Uncle Mao Li and Panda are always by the baby's side. Uncle Mao Li always reads to him and plays fun educational games with him.
Panda's older brother makes him all sorts of delicious and nutritious porridges, and his skills are much better than Mommy's!
Aunt Lele is busy refining weapons every day and rarely has time to play with him. Uncle Xiaobao is busy absorbing metal to improve his superpowers and also spends less time with him than before.
Hanhan, Madam Gu, and the old housekeeper always met the baby whenever they went to the plantation; they all liked the baby very much.
As for the number one enemy, although he spends more time with the baby now than before, he always likes to compete with the baby for Mommy's attention, so he has to be ranked last!
The order in which babies are born may not be clear to everyone, but it's perfectly normal for babies to be closest to their mothers.
Only Xiaobai was heartbroken. In the baby's heart, his biological father was ranked so low. Hadn't he done enough in the past few months?
Zuo Shan naturally noticed Xiao Bai's grievance, so he smiled and covered up for his son: "Baby treats you like one of his own, so he put you at the back."
Xiao Bai wanted to ask, "Why is your mommy ranked first?" But then she thought about it again and realized that her baby was right. Back then, wasn't his mother the most important person in his heart as well?
As for his father, he was not very close to him since childhood. The two seemed to be natural enemies because they both tried to prove that they were the most important person in their wives' (mothers') hearts.
So Ah Chen's current actions are probably exactly the same as his actions back then.
Sigh! Is this kind of thinking ingrained in our genes? Is it hereditary?
Ah Chen kept three gifts for himself: gifts made by his mother, which still carried his mother's scent, so of course the baby couldn't bear to give them away!
It's not surprising at all that the baby kept the kaleidoscope and rabbit doll on the left; it's perfectly normal for children to like these two things.
But the baby even kept the calligraphy brush she made, which shows that he really values the gift his mother made by hand.
Zuo Shan was utterly shocked. Having arrived in this strange world, she was forced to accept the baby in her womb, but in reality, A Chen was not the fruit of her love with her sweetheart, but rather the result of an accident that happened to the original owner of the body.
Her love for her baby was gradually cultivated through the daily bond of blood and flesh, and it also stemmed from maternal instinct.
But she never expected that her baby, so small, would love her, his mother, so deeply.
He knew he shouldn't keep all the gifts for himself, so when making his choice, he rejected all the seemingly novel and fun ones and ultimately chose to keep all the gifts that bore her scent.
Zuo Shan was very pleased with this; her baby wasn't greedy, and her baby loved his mother very much.
If she were to choose between returning to Earth or staying here, she would only choose to stay where she has her baby.
Only when you raise children do you realize the love and care your parents have for you. But at the same time, only by giving birth to and raising your own children can you understand that in a mother's heart, her children will always be the most important.
Even if doing so would make her feel guilty towards her parents who raised her, she would rather bear that guilt and resolutely stay by her child's side.
After the baby's first birthday celebration, everyone appreciated the baby's good intentions, but in the end, they returned all the gifts to him.
Ah Chen, holding a huge pile of gifts, blinked at his mother, as if to say: Are all these things really for me?
Seeing Zuo Shan nod with a smile, Bao Bao finally happily hid them all back into her mental prison.
Zuo Shan couldn't help but ask Matt, "How long can Ah Chen's last?"
“This mental prison can last for at least half an hour if it is not attacked,” Matt said.
Speaking of this, he couldn't help but feel ashamed. When he first used his mental net, its range was only about the size of a room, and it only lasted for a few minutes.
But at that time he was already a fourth-level superpowered being and was over eighteen years old.
Sigh! We can't compare, we really can't compare!
The adult was already a monster, but unexpectedly, his son was even more of a monster!
Of this family, only the wife could be considered somewhat normal, but she was just too good at farming!
Speaking of planting, the first batch of mutated rice in Zuo Shan's plantation matured two months ago.
From sowing to harvest, it took a total of three months, and a full hundred mutant rice seeds were harvested!
Preliminary estimates suggest that the yield per mu could reach over 2,000 kilograms.
The first batches of mutant wheat, mutant mung beans, red beans, peas, soybeans, and soybeans have all matured one after another.
High-starch crops such as sweet potatoes, pumpkins, and potatoes have also been successfully cultivated.
Based on this trend, it will only take five years to promote large-scale planting.
According to news from the family, the seeds that the adults handed over to the central district officials were not growing well; 30% of the first batch of seeds failed to germinate.
Of the 70% that successfully germinate, their growth is not very good. The first batch of seeds harvested is mostly of poor quality. If we want to continue to cultivate the next generation of crops with such seeds, the seeds we get will probably get worse and worse.
As things stand, the promotion of these crops depends on the wife's efforts.
Xiao Bai regretted it when he heard the news. If he had known this would happen, he should have left all the seeds for his family's fan.
In this way, the time required for large-scale promotion of crops can be shortened by at least one-third.
However, Zuo Shan had no complaints about this. There's a saying among Blue Star investors: "Don't put all your eggs in one basket, it's too risky."
If we had given all the seeds to her back then, and she had failed, wouldn't we have lost everything?
If you cultivate them separately on both sides, the probability of success will be higher.
In fact, without Sui Sui injecting life into the seeds, without Wanwan helping to reduce radiation, and without Panda helping to prepare the nutrient solution, she wouldn't have been able to get such a good harvest.
But no matter what the process was like, the result was ultimately good, and that's lucky enough.
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Time flies, and five years have passed in the blink of an eye.
During this period, Zuo Shan had successfully cultivated crop seeds obtained from the underground seed bank and promoted their cultivation on a large scale.
The eleven districts, including the inner ten districts and the central district, mainly cultivate unmutated, low-radiation varieties developed from the left fan.
Such crops have relatively low yields and are more expensive, but they pose almost no harm to the human body when consumed.
The crops grown in districts 11 through 50 are mutant crops cultivated by the left fan. These varieties have high yields and short growth cycles, but their fruits are mainly moderately irradiated.
However, high-yield crops can quickly solve the problem of food and clothing for the masses, and now scavenging in the wild has become a thing of the past.
The official team purchased affordable seeds from Zuo Shan and distributed them to various districts for free. They also distributed the planting methods summarized by Zuo Shan for free.
Anyone who was willing to put in the effort to do farm work ended their difficult years of hunger within just one or two years.
Xiao Bai once had Mina pilot the aircraft, specially carrying Zuo Shan to each district to overlook the scenes of harvesting crops in various places.
The two men looked at the golden waves of wheat, the large orange pumpkins in the field, and many vegetables they hadn't seen since the great catastrophe, and felt incredibly proud.
Zuo Shan recalled how he had used Time Reversal to give Xiao Bai a chance to kill that strange beast, almost costing him his life, and he felt it was all worth it.
She was originally just an ordinary person on Earth, never thinking of doing anything earth-shattering. Unexpectedly, after transmigrating to another world, she accomplished such a great deed that will benefit future generations.
After witnessing the bumper harvest of crops in various districts, Zuo Shan calmed down and began to focus on improving his supernatural abilities.
Although the humans on the Algae Planet have solved their food and clothing problems, another hidden danger still exists.
That's the threat from the mutated beasts!
A planet's resources are limited and cannot simultaneously supply both humans and mutated beasts.
If humanity wants to return to the top of the food chain, it will inevitably have to accept the challenge from mutated beasts.
Since the beast tide that started in Azure Bay five years ago, more than a dozen beast tides of varying sizes have broken out in the fifty districts of the northern hemisphere of Green Algae Star.
Many low- to mid-level ability users were lost in these beast tides.
After barely solving the problem of food and clothing, humanity is once again facing a huge threat.
On July 7th, 33844 of the Gorentian Interstellar Calendar, Zuo Shan had just celebrated A Chen's sixth birthday when he received a video request from the Caesarland Shield.
Over the years, the old man would have Evan prepare a gift and send it over every year on the baby's birthday, and he would also video chat with the baby once a month through Xiaobai's wristwatch.
Apart from that, I didn't cause any more trouble for the left fan.
He didn't mention at all the promise that Zuo Shan had made to bring huge profits to the Lan Dun family, as if he had forgotten the agreement he had made with her.
Even Zuo Shan herself felt that the old man was probably just trying to scare her back then, and he probably had long forgotten what Evan had negotiated with her.
But today, he directly sent a communication request to her watch. Zuo Shan's intuition told her that this time it was definitely not simple!
However, Zuo Shan is no longer the same person she used to be. Although she still lives in District 48, it's just that she's gotten used to the life and the people here.
With her current wealth and points, it wouldn't be impossible for her to settle in the city center if she wanted to.
Therefore, she was not afraid at all, even when facing the head of the Lan Dun family.
After all, the crop seeds she successfully cultivated solved the problem of food and clothing for the entire Northern Hemisphere. Unless they plotted assassination behind the scenes, no major family would dare to openly disrespect her.
"Mr. Caesar, hello! Should I call Achen over?" Zuo Shan greeted him with a smile.
Although she was inwardly worried, she remained outwardly calm and composed, showing no sign of panic.
Seeing her composed demeanor, Caesar Lannister grew increasingly pleased with her. His only regret was that his own son was far too indecisive; more than five years had passed, and he still hadn't managed to propose.
“Miss Zuo Shan, I want to speak with you alone today. Do you still remember the conditions you agreed to with Evan five years ago?” Caesar asked bluntly.
"Which one are you referring to specifically?" Zuo Shan's heart skipped a beat, as if the other shoe had finally dropped.
"It's about Achen going back to school in the central district. He's already six years old. With his intelligence, he should have had a tutor by the age of three, which means he's three years behind his peers." Kaiser Lan Dun looked somewhat dissatisfied.
Some of his old friends' great-grandchildren have already started dating, but his great-grandson is only six years old and has not yet received a formal education.
Zuo Shan had thought about the issue of children's education many times, but with Mao Li, an education expert in the family, A Chen had already mastered the literacy game by the age of three.
Then Panda, the chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) biology and gene expert, was not to be outdone. Seeing that the baby had learned to read, she spared no effort in compiling a gene game. After three years, the baby's knowledge of genes was no less than that of college students in the same department.
Zuo Shan gets a headache every time she hears her baby talk about dominant genes, recessive genes, or pea self-crossing: Is this something a preschool child should be talking about all the time?
This breeding expert actually knows nothing about biological genes; she relies entirely on the planting experience she learned in the countryside when she was a child, plus a bit of luck.
“Mr. Caesar, what you said makes a lot of sense, and I also agree to send Achen to school.” Zuo Shan nodded decisively.
She felt it was time to free the baby from the clutches of pandas and let him spend some time with normal children and teachers, otherwise he might be raised to be another scientific fanatic.
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