Chapter 46 The High-Class Beauty Comes Down to Earth
“Master, while you were out today, Xiao Bao secretly picked some mutated lemons from the yard. But after only one bite, it didn’t like them and spat them out.”
"With food so scarce, this wasteful behavior is unacceptable. You must keep a close eye on it!" Mao Li complained to Zuo Shan.
Zuo Shan tugged at Xiao Bao's ear, and it obediently didn't dodge, even rubbing its fluffy head against her palm. Her heart melted instantly.
This is a national treasure! It used to be so pampered and cared for like royalty by its keepers. Now it's really suffering under her care.
"Little Bao, when your sister has lots and lots of money, we'll buy a big house in the city center and plant a huge bamboo forest. Then you can lie in the bamboo forest every day and eat as many tender bamboo leaves as you want!"
Oh, and we'll raise a whole bunch of bamboo rats too. I'll make you bamboo rat meat stir-fried with tender bamboo shoots every day, I guarantee you'll grow up plump and round!
Seeing Zuo Shan stroking his fur while muttering to himself, even Mao Li's mechanical heart couldn't help but feel a pang of envy.
If he had known his owner liked fluffy things so much, he should have chosen a fluffy cat as his form instead of this sleek mechanical cat.
"By the way, Mao Li, as the little prince of the mechanical race, if you fully recover, can you forge weapons? Look at this little dagger of mine, with just this tiny bit of material, it's worth a thousand or two silver coins!" Zuo Shan waved the dagger in his hand at Mao Li.
Looking at the lightning-fast blade, Mao Li shivered, afraid that she might accidentally slash his mechanical arm with the dagger. Although the mechanical race was not afraid of pain, the special metal needed to repair wounds was simply not available on this planet!
He doesn't want to live his life looking like a disabled person; that would be too ugly!
“Master, in the Flowing Light Galaxy, every weapon forged by our mechanical race needs to be registered at the Interstellar Weapon Management Center and stamped with a unified number before it can be sold.”
"Your Gorent system doesn't have a registration system, so please forgive me for not being able to forge weapons for you," Mao Li said apologetically.
"Aren't you being too old-fashioned? Please, we're on a wasteland planet in the Gorento system right now. We're building weapons to earn a living. Why are you sticking to the old rules and refusing to compromise?" Zuo Shan said angrily.
"I'm sorry, Master! We mechanical people are law-abiding by our very bones, and we would rather die than change that!"
"However, I can help you build a defensive mech for teaching purposes. It can defend against attacks from at least level eight or higher mutated beasts, but the prerequisite is that you have the money to buy the spare parts first." Mao Li continued to apologize patiently.
"Isn't what you're saying obvious? Mechs are things that require countless parts. Your master is penniless right now, and it will take forever for him to afford one."
"Sigh! It's only because you don't need to eat, otherwise I would definitely kick you out!" Zuo Shan said disdainfully. Mao Li looked hurt and squatted silently in the corner.
Zuo Shan didn't bother to care whether his little heart was hurt or not. After all, he was an old monster who had lived for more than four hundred years. Why should she, a person who had just turned 25, try to make him happy?
However, after his reminder, Zuo Shan realized that the two mutated lemon trees in her yard had ripened again. She had been too busy lately and hadn't had a chance to look at her yard carefully when she came in and out.
As darkness fell, Zuo Shan walked into the courtyard. Seeing that no one was around, he called Mao Li over to provide light. Upon closer inspection, he found that the short plant was indeed covered with mutated lemons.
This time the fruit yielded more than last time, a full 25 fruits. Unfortunately, the test results showed that only 8 of them had moderate radiation. She carefully picked them, sliced them, and dried them.
Even the highly radioactive ones weren't wasted; they were all picked and stored in sealed bags. In case the chestnuts get rusted from acid rain someday, they can be juiced and used as a rust remover.
Seeing how considerate its owner was, the chestnut's wounded little heart instantly recovered, and it was full of energy!
While picking lemons, Zuo Shan caught a glimpse of some tender leaves growing on the ground out of the corner of his eye. His first instinct was to use a cutting knife to test whether the leaves were edible.
Then she realized, wait a minute, this is her yard, the green leaves growing here must be the seedlings that she planted, right?
Upon closer inspection, she was so surprised she almost let out a squeal like a groundhog!
Good heavens! These tender seedlings actually have leaves from four different plants. She remembered that the seeds sown in this yard were one firethorn, three pagoda plants, and one hemp ball given to her by Uncle Wu Qiong.
Could it be that all four plants have sprouted? Isn't it said that planting in the wasteland is difficult?
Moreover, she only remembered to water the plants regularly when they were first planted, and recently she has hardly taken care of them at all, and the soil on the ground has dried up and cracked.
Especially that pagoda vegetable, because it was planted according to the planting method in her hometown, she couldn't water it for the first few days after planting, so she just buried it in the soil and never took care of it again.
Come to think of it, I haven't watered it even once from beginning to end!
However, she did give fertilizer twice, which was made by diluting her urine with tap water and then watering the plants together.
Because she was worried about the taste, she specifically chose to pour the sauce before going to bed, since the nights here are long and the flavor would dissipate by the time she woke up.
And... it actually survived?
Zuo Shan thought this must be because the seeds she planted were what the old people called "lowly seeds," meaning they were easy to raise!
Yes, that's it!
Thinking that these were the first plants she had managed to grow since arriving in the wasteland, Zuo Shan was overjoyed. She decided that when she moved, she would dig them all up by the roots and plant them in her new home.
Sigh! When will she be able to buy a manor in the city center? When she does, she'll definitely plant it full of different kinds of flowers, plants, vegetables, fruits, and dried fruits.
The thought of dried fruit made her rush into the house, grab a low-radiation pine nut from under her pillow, and test the sharpness of her new dagger.
When I stabbed it hard, hey! The pine nut shell really cracked open!
She's in for a treat today! She can add some crushed roasted pine nuts to her wild vegetable porridge now! Just smelling it makes my mouth water!
Half an hour later, Zuo Shan held a bowl of fragrant pine nut and wild vegetable paste and slurped it up until he was covered in sweat. Xiao Bao also got a bowl and buried his head in it, his face covered in paste.
This was the little guy's first time drinking porridge. Zuo Shan had decided not to go to the bamboo forest for a while, and she was definitely worried about letting it go out into the wild alone. So she decided to let it try human food. It had eaten bamboo rat stir-fried with tender bamboo shoots quite well before.
Watching the little guy burying his head in the bamboo basin drinking the porridge, his face covered in porridge, Zuo Shan couldn't help but sigh. From a high-and-mighty flower that only nibbles on tender bamboo leaves to a down-to-earth person who drinks wild vegetable porridge without batting an eye, there really is only a fine line between them.
It's said that some animals will vomit and have diarrhea if they eat food that isn't on their diet. Hopefully, it won't have diarrhea tonight!
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