15. Raising shit
As soon as he returned to the dormitory, Su Liu smelled the smell of chicken manure all over Yan Ziyan.
Yan Ziyan was on the verge of tears. "I failed the exam and was asked to clean the school chicken farm every day."
Su Liu thought, "Then can you help me carry two buckets of chicken shit every day?"
Yan Ziyan was crying, but after hearing this, her expression when she looked at Su Liu immediately became indescribable.
Su Liu said embarrassedly, "I'm not eating it."
Yan Ziyan didn't believe it and leaned back, as if she wanted to stay away from Su Liu.
Su Liu had no choice but to explain: "I went to farm, but the soil is not fertile enough, so it would be better to make some manure into compost."
Yan Ziyan finally understood a little, but she was still very resistant. "But, it stinks."
"Wait until I grow mung beans and make you some mung bean cakes."
"What is that? Does it smell like chicken shit?"
"...How is that possible, young lady?"
Yan Ziyan shrank her neck and chuckled, then said, "You can't tell anyone else."
Su Liu knew she wasn't talking about chicken shit: "But why did you come to Maha? With your status, you can easily enter other military academies, right?"
Yan Ziyan lifted her hair and said coldly, "How should I put it? I just want to get away from that house."
It was naturally difficult for Su Liu, an orphan, to understand the inside story of this family dispute.
She also saw that Yan Ziyan didn't want to say more, so she didn't ask any further questions.
The next day, Yan Ziyan brought her two large buckets of chicken manure.
Su Liu took chicken manure on the train, and everyone on the train wanted to kick her off.
When he arrived at his own field, Su Liu first dug a hole and piled the chicken manure, then went to other growers' fields.
Wherever she saw rotten leaves or roots, she would collect them, making everyone look at her with sympathy.
Even Ying Tianqing contacted her tactfully, "I heard you were picking up rotten vegetable leaves to eat?"
Su Liu: “…”
She gave a brief explanation, but Ying Tianqing didn't seem to believe it.
"You're the top student among the freshmen, so you can get plenty of white rice in the cafeteria on the fourth floor. If you're really hungry, come to me and I'll treat you to a meal."
Su Liu was unable to explain and silently endured this inexplicable sympathy.
But from that day on, everyone else had a tacit understanding and would throw rotten vegetable leaves or the like into the pit in Sulu's field.
Sometimes when the weather is hot and the fermentation in the pit is so intense, the smell is enough to make you faint.
After class that day, Su Liu ran straight to the field and saw a boy squatting beside a pit with his nose pinched from a distance.
When she looked over, she felt that he looked very familiar. It seemed to be the senior who had welcomed the new students and flattened the monster with a sign.
"Senior?" Su Liu called out, "Has something in my field mutated?"
Bi Yanmian, a sophomore in the Military Combat Department, pointed at her pit and said, "There are so many maggots."
Su Liu leaned over to take a look and saw that there were indeed tens of thousands of maggots in a corner of the pit.
Like melon seeds on a sunflower, they raised their heads in layers and multiplied continuously in the fertilizer pit. Soon they expanded from the size of a basketball to the size of a van, and were about to turn into a maggot beast and run rampant.
"It seems like it's a bit too much." Could this reproductive capacity be infected by a strange factor?
"There's a possibility of infection." Bi Yanmian really wanted to kill the maggots, but he had never done anything like that before.
If you are not careful, the feces in the entire pit will be blown all over the sky.
Bi Yanmian's lazy dead fish eyes revealed a hint of confusion: "Why do you want to raise shit?"
Su Liu sighed, "I'm composting."
In today's world where humans have spread across the stars, why are we so unfamiliar with traditional planting methods?
Bi Yanmian still found it hard to understand, "Do you have a way to kill them?"
"Normally, you can use high temperature exposure, oxygen isolation, or spray garlic water." As long as it's not an advanced mutant, it's easy to deal with.
Bi Yanmian really didn't want to slap the maggot, so he urged Su Liu to quickly get rid of the thing that might be in the prelude of mutation.
Su Liu fished out all the maggots and exposed them to the sun for a few hours, until they all turned into lifeless dried maggots.
Bi Yanmian came back from patrolling elsewhere. After seeing that there was no threat, he gave Su Liu a few more instructions.
The strange factor can cause any living thing to mutate, so you must be careful even with insects on vegetable leaves. If you find any abnormality, immediately contact the purifier or patrolling seniors.
Su Liu knew that farming was dangerous, but he didn't expect that he even had to be wary of maggots.
It seems that unless you become a purifier, even a planter can't farm as you wish.
When he returned to the dormitory at night, Su Liu learned that Yan Ziyan's weekly test results were not ideal, and she was punished by the principal to sweep the pigpen at the farm.
Yan Ziyan was also a kind person. At this time, she did not forget to get a big bucket of pig manure for Su Liu, making the whole building smell of shit, and people were howling everywhere with their noses pinched.
"Who the hell keeps shit in the dorm?"
"Who has such a bad taste? Did the sewer pipe explode?"
"I also think there might be something wrong with the septic tank. Otherwise, who would pile feces in the dormitory?"
Su Liu was slightly embarrassed.
Sorry, she's really raising shit.
In order to improve the soil and plant mung beans as soon as possible, Su Liu skipped classes for several days and asked Yan Ziyan to sign in for her.
Yan Ziyan reminded her, "You'd better not run away too much. If the teacher catches you and deducts your credits, you'll be doomed for the final exam."
"I want to deduct credits? What will happen after that?"
"Pig pen, chicken pen, duck pen, cow pen, pick one and clean it for the whole semester."
“…”
The next day, Su Liu wanted to go to class, but as soon as he arrived at the classroom door, he saw Rosa running towards him in a hurry.
"Liuliu, someone is looking for you at the north school gate!"
Su Liu was a little puzzled.
The person waiting for her at the school gate must be an outsider, but does she know anyone on Emperor Star?
Rosa didn't give her time to doubt and pulled her towards the north gate of the school.
A beautiful silver private aircraft of unknown brand was parked on the side of the road, attracting countless students to stop and watch.
The white-haired butler who had been seen at Ives's house earlier was standing upright next to the aircraft.
"Miss Su Liu," the butler bowed respectfully and said, "Please accompany me to the Ives household. The head of the household wishes to see you."
Rosa covered her mouth, surprise written in her eyes.
Who is Liuliu to be invited by the head of the Ives family?
Su Liu was also confused. He didn't expect that after delivering the letter, he would be able to interact with the Ives family.
A few hours later, she arrived at the elegant castle again.
In the study, a blond man who looked serious and a little scary was slowly stroking the signature on the letter.
He looked to be in his fifties or sixties, his deep green eyes were particularly penetrating, and the wrinkles on his face were imprinted with the composure of someone who had experienced many hardships.
Under the neat military uniform, his majestic figure is tall and strong, and the sword badge on his chest, which symbolizes military power, makes him look more resolute and courageous.
It was not until she saw this person in person that Su Liu realized that she had seen countless reports about this great man on TV.
Victor Ives, the former Grand Marshal of the Empire, was decisive, powerful, and cruel. In just a few decades, he had established "great achievements" that were feared by the entire galaxy.
Although he has retired, he is still active in the military. Even the young emperor of the empire has to respectfully address him as "Vion".
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