Chapter 44: Pigs Destroyed the Melon Patch (Page 1/2)
My cousin is neither young nor old, and it would be too early for her to get married. If she follows me to the countryside, she would suffer a great loss. I don’t know when she can return to Beijing.
When the time comes, I will marry a local native on the island. My aunt and uncle will definitely not be happy about it if I marry so far away.
My two cousins are fourteen and twelve years old respectively. They are both still young and it won’t be too early for them to get married in ten years.
Manman said that this farce would not truly end until ten years later, and it was impossible for her cousin to get married at the age of twenty-six.
He didn't interfere in his cousin's affairs, he just wanted his aunt to have a better place to go.
After leaving Liao's house, Huo Qingci went to the department store and bought a few bottles of good wine, two packs of cigarettes, and four cans of malted milk, because he was going to the countryside with his grandfather to visit his two uncles in the afternoon.
This time they will go to the island and won't be back for at least one or two years, so they have to say goodbye to their uncle before leaving.
After grandma passed away, her only relatives from her mother's side were her two uncles. Grandpa always took good care of his two brothers-in-law. He would visit them in the countryside once a year, bring them some food, and give each of them some money.
Although they all have children, they have separated and do not live and eat together. They still have to work in the fields when they are over 60 years old, otherwise how will they eat.
Lin Man had just finished drying the quilt shell and quilt cover when Huo Qingci came back, carrying a bag of vegetables in his left hand and a pair of white sandals in his right hand.
"Manman, I bought you a new pair of sandals."
"Are you going to the department store?"
"Well, go buy some cigarettes, alcohol, and malted milk for my uncle and the others."
"Where's that thing?"
"Put it in the car. We'll go to the countryside together after lunch."
"Oh, what vegetables did you buy in this bag?"
"Bean sprouts and spare ribs. Didn't Li Yong send two chickens yesterday? I stewed the remaining chicken for lunch today, and then stir-fried a plate of bean sprouts and braised a bowl of spare ribs."
It was only half past eight, so it was definitely too early to cook. Huo Li took Huo Qinghuan to the park to find someone to play chess with, and Lin Man called Huo Qingci back to the room.
"Qingci, it's time to go in and feed the pigs."
Huo Qingci then remembered that the four piglets in the space had not been fed yet, and he didn't know what had happened to the chickens, ducks, and geese.
The two entered the space. Lin Man looked at the vegetables in the field and exclaimed, "Oh my God, where did those piglets go? Aren't they in the basket?"
Huo Qingci was also confused. There was clearly a basket for a piglet, but where was the pig? The chickens, ducks, and geese were all sitting quietly in the baskets.
"I guess he got hungry, so he dug it out of the basket and went to the vegetable garden to eat vegetables."
The two ran to the vegetable garden and saw four little mud pigs, grunting and chewing on radishes and watermelons.
"I only planted dozens of watermelons, and I didn't even ripen them, so how come they all got ruined?
Fortunately, they didn't go to the medicinal spring pool. If they had, wouldn't we have to bathe in the same pool with the little pigs? "
Huo Qingci chuckled, "Manman, should we throw them into the mountains to raise them, or put them in a pigpen?"
"Okay, I'll build a wire fence, and we'll enclose some grassy area and keep them there."
Anyway, there are quite a few barbed wire fences in the space warehouse, which were used to keep out wild animals before, but are now used to raise pigs, chickens, ducks and geese.
Lin Man wanted to enclose a larger area so that she could raise cattle and sheep in the future. It took her three hours to enclose a total of three acres of land.
After the fence was built, the dirty little piglets were thrown in, and dozens of damaged watermelon plants in the field were thrown in, along with the vines and watermelons. Since they liked to eat them, they were allowed to eat their fill.
"Manman, with such a large fenced-off area, we can really raise a few sheep there."
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"You can't buy a lamb?"
"I'm going to visit my uncle's house this afternoon. They used to raise a few black goats."
"Let's fence off two more acres of land to raise chickens, ducks, and geese tonight."
"Aren't you tired?"
“I’m not tired!”
"Since you're not tired, let's stay up late tonight."
Lin Man agreed without thinking. It would definitely take another two or three hours to install the three acres of fence, which would definitely be too late to go to bed.
Since I plan to raise chickens, of course I have to build the fence as soon as possible. I will send my grandfather back to the army the day after tomorrow, and then visit my fourth uncle and younger uncle's homes, and stay at my parents-in-law's house for a few days.
After rounding up the pigs, Lin Man went to the fields to cut some vegetables to feed the ducks and geese, and fed the chickens directly with millet.
Huo Qingci looked at his watch and saw it was already past eleven o'clock, so he said to Lin Man, "I'm going to cook. Manman, you can play in the space!"
"Okay, I'll plant twenty more watermelon trees, and this time I'll ripen all the watermelons."
Huo Qingci smiled and said, "Then plant more. If you can't finish it, give it to the pigs. Pigs should enjoy eating watermelon."
"Okay, I'll plant two acres first. The watermelons that don't grow well can be thrown into the fish pond for the fish to eat."
Huo Qingci went out to cook, while Lin Man stayed in the space to plant watermelons. Once they were ripe, she would stop and let them grow on their own. She planned to ripen a few more watermelons tomorrow when her powers recovered.
Lin Man hadn't played with the robot butler Xiaozhi for a long time, so she entered her own storage space from Huo Qingci's planting space.
When Xiaozhi saw Lin Man coming in, he quickly moved over and said, "Master, you're finally here."
[Xiaozhi, there are still wood-type crystal cores in the warehouse, right?]
[Yes, this world isn't the end of the world, and your body hasn't mutated. If you want to absorb the supernatural power within the wood crystal core, you must first purify the explosive factors and viruses within it. Only then will it absorb without harming your body.]
"I understand. The water in the medicinal spring pool should be able to purify the crystal cores. Can you help me clean the crystal cores and count how many lightning crystal cores there are?"
"Master, there aren't many Lightning Cores, only a few dozen. You can wait for thunderstorms and absorb the natural lightning to level up faster! Even if you absorbed all the Lightning Cores in the space, you'd only level up by two at most."
Now her lightning ability is at level two, and her wood ability is at level three. If she is asked to absorb the lightning from nature, her ability will upgrade quickly, but if she is not careful, she will be struck to death by lightning.
[The lightning ability is fine as long as it's usable. There's no need to upgrade it for now. I want to upgrade the wood ability first.]
[You can naturally absorb wood-type energy. The crystal core has an explosive factor. If you absorb too much, your personality will become irritable and angry.]
[Xiaozhi, don't worry. I'll soak a few wood-type crystal cores in medicinal spring water to see if I can remove the explosive factor.]
【Oh well! 】
[We should also have healing crystal cores, right?]
[Well, a little less than the Wood Cores. But the Healing Cores are all high-level. What are you going to do with them?]
Of course, she would give it to Huo Qingci to see if he could absorb it. If she was struck by lightning, she would go straight to Huo Qingci to treat her.
Lin Man took five third-level wood crystal cores and three first-level white healing crystal cores from her own space and returned to Huo Qingci's planting space.
He directly scooped up two cups of medicinal spring water with a glass and soaked the wood crystal core and healing crystal core separately.
After a while, pinhole-sized bubbles continued to emerge from the glasses on both sides, and it seemed that the explosion factor was purified very successfully.
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