After settling Big Black's food and drink.
Qiao An'an scooped up another half bowl of leftover rice to feed the chickens. She first cleaned the chicken coop and washed the water box for the chicks before putting the leftover rice into the feed bowls in the coop. The chicks swarmed around to peck at the rice.
After the chicks started eating, Qiao An'an took the trash from cleaning the chicken coop and buried it in the garlic planting bucket. She hoped that the chicken manure would fertilize the soil and help the garlic grow better.
After packing up the box of garlic.
She then went to examine the box where the bok choy was planted, only to find that although the bok choy flowers had finished blooming, no seeds had been produced. After the flowers fell, only a shriveled bud remained, which had dried up and had not produced any seeds.
The planting manual seems to have mentioned that in the past, people would save their own seeds when planting grains and vegetables. Now, many vegetable seeds are artificially bred improved varieties. These artificially bred grains and vegetables have high yields, but the seed sellers have done special treatment so that people cannot use their fruits as seeds. They can only spend money to buy seeds from seed stations every year.
So even if the bok choy she planted blooms, it won't produce seeds.
Wouldn't her hope of having the little green cabbage reproduce be dashed?
Thinking that the bok choy is getting more and more bitter, and the bottom leaves are turning yellow, since it can't produce seeds, I might as well pick them in advance and put them in a refrigerator to eat slowly, so they don't get too old as they grow.
Qiao An'an pulled up all the vegetables from the two wooden boxes, picked off the leaves that could still be pinched, and threw the ones that couldn't be pinched into the chicken coop to feed the chickens.
When Ya Ya saw that Qiao An'an had pulled up all the vegetables, she clapped her hands happily: "Great! We don't have to eat vegetables anymore!"
Ya Ya danced with joy.
Qiao An'an couldn't be happy. How could she get vitamins without vegetables? She glanced at the fig, chestnut, nectarine, and persimmon trees that hadn't been cut down in the corner of the courtyard.
The chestnuts and persimmons have only just started to ripen and will be ready to eat in two months.
The fig tree has sprouted many small fruits.
It will take ten days to mature.
One or two nectarines do look like they're turning red every day; I'll pick them tomorrow and see if they're edible.
If it's edible.
This could solve Yaya's vitamin intake problem.
After Qiao An'an finished calculating, she put the vegetables in the refrigerator. By this time, Dahei had finished eating, so Qiao An'an took out soap and an unused plastic basin to wash it.
It is said that dogs must be bathed with professional shampoos and grooming products.
But the conditions are not present in the end times.
Dahei was quite well-behaved. Although it was a little afraid of water, it still stood still and let Qiao An'an soap it. The first poop in the plastic basin was blackish-red, and it took three or four washes to get clean water.
I've heard that dogs need to be wrapped in a large towel and dried with a hairdryer after a bath, otherwise they're prone to getting sick.
Just as Qiao An'an was thinking about how to help Da Hei clean itself.
Big Black suddenly shook its fur.
He instantly expelled the water from his body.
Okay, it still has to be a Chinese rural dog, easy to raise.
When Ya Ya saw the cleaned-up Da Hei, she happily went up to pet its head. Da Hei was very obedient and let Ya Ya pet it as she pleased.
A person and a dog were having a great time playing in the yard.
Qiao An'an hadn't seen Ya Ya this happy in a long time since the apocalypse.
While Ya Ya and Da Hei were playing,
Qiao An'an planned to build a doghouse for Dahei next to the chicken coop, but after searching through the firewood pile for a long time, she couldn't find a suitable size. They all needed to be sawed before they could be used. In desperation, she found a saw in the storeroom, cut out the right length, and then used nails to fix the wooden planks together to make a square wooden box.
Then use a pen to draw the size of the door on the wooden box.
They sawed the door out.
Finally, she also made a pointed roof for Big Black's house.
Considering it was getting late and it was summer, so even if they slept outside, they wouldn't get too cold, Qiao An'an only laid out a thin piece of clothing that she had previously used to cover the chicks with a cardboard box at the bottom of the wooden house.
She also thoughtfully moved Dahei's eating bowl and drinking bowl to the front of the wooden house.
After finishing all this, Qiao An'an pointed to her work with satisfaction and said to Dahei, "You'll be sleeping here from now on!"
Ya Ya clung to the fluffy big black dog, refusing to let go: "Why can't Big Black sleep upstairs with us?"
Another 100,000 Whys.
Qiao An'an could only try to explain: "Because we need Dahei to guard our house at night to prevent thieves from stealing our food again. If Dahei sleeps in the room upstairs, he won't be able to see the thieves coming into the yard."
Hearing Qiao An'an say that, Ya Ya stopped insisting and could only reluctantly part ways with Da Hei.
After going upstairs, Qiao An'an boiled water and called Ya Ya to come and take a bath.
After staying up late with Dahei, Yaya was too tired to move after going upstairs and started to act spoiled: "Yaya doesn't want to take a shower."
"Not taking a bath is unacceptable!" Qiao An'an firmly disagreed, grabbing Ya Ya and pulling her into the basin. "Even Da Hei took a bath, how can Ya Ya not take one? You're filthy!!!"
Just as Qiao An'an finished washing Ya Ya, she heard Da Hei let out a low whimper.
Big Black knew there were zombies outside, so he couldn't shout loudly. He just hissed in a low voice that Qiao An'an could hear.
Why would Big Black suddenly bark for no reason? Could it be that Big Tanuki has come again?
But she had already turned off the power when she went upstairs.
Could it be a zombie or a bad guy?
After putting Ya Ya on the bed and telling her not to go downstairs no matter what happened, Qiao An'an rushed downstairs.
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