Chapter 15 Chapter 15 "So this is her secret."...
[Mysterious Seed: Can grow a random special plant]
Special plants?
Ye Mian couldn’t help but think of the special ingredients needed for the three recipes. Although he wasn’t sure if there was any connection, it would be great if there was.
I’ll find a vacant lot and plant it there later!
Thinking of this, Ye Mian opened the seed gift package given as a reward for this stage.
[Get 10 radish seeds, 10 peanut seeds, 10 cucumber seeds, 10 pepper seeds, 10 garlic seeds, 10 celery seeds, 10 bitter melon seeds, 10 small pumpkin seeds, 10 eggplant seeds, and 10 chive seeds! ]
ah?
Ye Mian was stunned by the overly long text box for a moment. Then, after matching these crops one by one according to his memory, he felt a little amused.
It's really rare to be a vegetarian and eat such a rich meal.
If all of these were given to Xue Kai, he would probably jump for joy.
He had not had time to take out the supplies he had just brought back from the city, and now there were so many more bags of seeds, so Ye Mian had to readjust his position first, and then he opened the last ordinary blind box with a little comfort.
[Congratulations on winning the "Dream Brand Drink Gift Pack" (including 6 corn juices, 6 carrot juices, and 3 black snow juices)! ]
Black snow juice!
Ye Mian's eyes lit up. Isn't this one of the ingredients needed for the fruit sandwich recipe?
She didn't care about slacking off for the moment, so she opened the gift package and looked at the two drinks besides the corn juice.
【Carrot juice: a nutritious vegetable juice that can refresh the mind and improve eyesight】
【Black Snow Juice: It has a sweet and sour taste and can be drunk directly or used as a flavoring ingredient】
The former should have special effects like corn juice. As for the extent to which it can refresh the mind and improve eyesight, you will know it only after you drink it.
As for the latter, there is nothing special about it. It is just a bottle of ordinary thick juice, with black mixed with pure white. It looks like it tastes as soft and crunchy as snow.
After manually putting several special materials together, Ye Mian breathed a sigh of relief. He was one step closer to completing the side quest!
After closing the interface, seeing that Xue Kai and Dahei had harvested a lot of wheat, Ye Mian quickly squatted down to collect the wheat, first stored it in the system warehouse, and then transported it back to the room.
During this time, I took some time to look at the newly refreshed main quests and clicked to accept them all.
There are a total of five main missions this time.
【Grow ten crops at the same time (0/10)】
[Harvest three crops and reprocess them (0/3)]
[The number of additional gains in a single day reaches thirty (0/30)]
[Grow a mysterious plant (0/1)]
[Have three employees and make their loyalty reach above 80 (2/3)]
Um?
Ye Mian paused again and looked at the last task.
She had originally thought that she could take her time in finding employees, but now it seems that is no longer possible.
This task, which seems to be the fastest and easiest to complete, is actually not that simple.
After all, the farm currently has nothing except a bunch of crop seeds. Ye Mian doesn't want to just lure back any evolver he meets on the road, but still has some requirements.
For example, Xue Kai. The moment she saw his skill, she thought that a person who possessed the skill of Fortress Wall might appear to be a bit selfish and only wanted to protect himself, but in fact it symbolized a firm heart that was not easily shaken.
Plus, he could cook and farm, so she immediately decided to bring him back.
Then there was Lu Ning. What Ye Mian valued most was of course her absolute strength. At the same time, he also had some admiration for her for being someone who was willing to sacrifice her own life to avenge her companions.
Once this kind of person decides to do something, he will do it to the end and do it to the best of his ability.
I believe this is also one of the reasons why Lu Ning’s initial loyalty was so high.
So rather than saying that Ye Mian is looking for employees, it would be more accurate to say that she is looking for partners who can work with her to maintain the farm and expand it.
Both the temperament and skills have to be suitable.
I have to find time to go out again. It would be best if I could take on an exploration side quest at the same time, so I can kill two birds with one stone.
After making up his mind, Ye Mian temporarily put the task aside and concentrated on harvesting the wheat.
There was a lot of work to do, so the two of them hurried and managed to harvest the entire wheat field before dark.
All the other vegetables in the house warehouse were moved to the basement first, leaving only the full pile of wheat ears.
Ye Mian rested against the door for a while, then looked at Xue Kai, who was sweating profusely but had a surprisingly rosy face.
"What should we do next?"
"Hmm..." Xue Kai looked at the wheat ears in the warehouse and hesitated for a moment, "Without a thresher, we can only rely on manual labor."
"Thresher?"
Xue Kai scratched his head and said, "Yes, it is an agricultural machine that is powered by diesel. Although it can still be used now, diesel is not so easy to find."
It sounds a bit troublesome and difficult, but it may not be impossible.
Ye Mian wrote it down first, then nodded: "Then let's put it aside for now and work on it slowly tomorrow."
Lu Ning had just finished dealing with the gray rabbit. Xue Kai said okay and went to the kitchen to prepare dinner.
Ye Mian drank a mouthful of corn juice to regain his strength, then washed his face before opening the system warehouse again and officially starting to sort out all of today’s gains.
As she happened to be on the first floor, she took out some furniture from various appropriate locations to fill up the living room which was a little too empty.
Then he tried putting a refrigerator in the corner and plugged it into the socket in the room, but found that it still could not be powered on.
"It doesn't seem to be an electrical problem..."
After unplugging the refrigerator, Ye Mian touched the material of the refrigerator before putting it back into the warehouse.
Now that the living room is done, the next stop is naturally the kitchen.
When Ye Mian came to the second floor and started to tidy up the bedrooms and bathrooms except her room, and put some clothes and shoes away, Lu Ning, who was taking a break, also joined in and selected a room by the way.
Lu Ning used to live alone. He usually had three meals a day at the boxing gym and didn’t cook much, so most of his time alone was spent decorating his own home.
So Ye Mian only needed to take out all the furniture and supplies he would use, and Lu Ning would make the detailed arrangements.
The two of them worked together very well, and in a short while, all the rooms on the second and third floors were cleaned up, so that if anyone else came, they could move in directly.
Coincidentally, the aroma of meat from the kitchen downstairs spread up. Lu Ning, who hadn't eaten meat for a few days, swallowed subconsciously, and his stomach growled twice.
Seeing her heroic face slightly reddened, Ye Mian smiled and said, "Let's go. I'm hungry too."
Since he had a fruitful trip to the supermarket today, Xue Kai made full use of his fairly good cooking skills, making a large table of dishes and a pot of fragrant rice.
There is just one problem: five out of the eight dishes are all red, as if all the dried peppers from the supermarket were used.
Seeing Ye Mian pause for a moment, Xue Kai couldn't help but cough lightly with a guilty conscience: "I thought that rabbit meat would taste better if it was cooked spicy, so I put too much in it because my hands were shaking. But I didn't put it in the stewed rabbit meat with potatoes and the braised rabbit meat, which is also delicious."
Lu Ning was not picky. He took a look at the differences in the tableware, then found his seat and sat down.
"It's okay, I... should be able to eat."
Just because her original body doesn’t eat spicy food doesn’t mean she can’t eat it.
With this thought in mind, Ye Mian stretched out his chopsticks to the plate full of red. After trying it, he was amazed by the spicy and fresh taste that he had never tasted before. The rabbit meat was cooked very chewy, and every chew filled his mouth with incredible fragrance.
The fragrance is incomparable to that of the previous vegetarian dishes.
"It's delicious, but not... ahem..."
The spicy aftereffects came up almost instantly. Ye Mian turned his head and coughed. His originally pale face immediately turned half red and he could no longer speak.
Xue Kai dodged and came back with a glass of water in his hand: "It's my pot, you take it easy first."
"...Thank you." After drinking half a cup of water, Ye Mian recovered a little. His tongue, which had been almost numb just now, seemed to slowly regain its sense of taste, and he felt a very satisfying and refreshing feeling.
Lu Ning suggested: "You can rinse it in water first, so it won't be too spicy, and then gradually increase the spiciness from mild to medium, and slowly get used to it."
"good."
Ye Mian immediately tried her method and found that it was indeed feasible, and the subtle spicy taste really added a lot of flavor to the rabbit meat.
Seeing that Ye Mian finally had the delicious rabbit meat, Xue Kai and Lu Ning felt relieved.
However, the two soon discovered that it was not that Ye Mian was completely unable to eat spicy food, but that... he had added too many dried chilies.
When coughs caused by the spicy food were heard one after another at the table, I don’t know who laughed first, then the second person followed suit, and the third person couldn’t help but laugh along.
By the time we finished this choking but satisfying dinner, the moon outside the window was already high in the sky.
Xue Kai cleaned up the mess swiftly, then excitedly took the rice seeds to soak them, and turned to tinker with the water pipes and the rice fields outside, busying himself without stopping for a moment.
Lu Ning had just finished his meal and was still a little dazed, feeling that everything was like a dream. It was only when he saw his busy figure that he came back to reality a little more sober.
And she somewhat understood why Xue Kai didn't want to stop. After all, it was only a moment's break, and she couldn't help but think of everything that had happened in the past few days. The memories were extremely clear scene by scene.
"I'll go help him."
Hearing this, Ye Mian remembered that there was a mysterious seed in the warehouse, so he got up and went out.
But her physical strength was not as good as the other two. After a busy day, even with the corn juice, she was still a little exhausted mentally.
So after planting the mysterious seeds alone in the open space on the side of the house, Ye Mian went upstairs to rest.
Lu Ning, who was learning to do farm work with Xue Kai in the rice fields, saw that he looked accustomed to it and couldn't help but ask, "Does she always go to bed so early?"
"Well, I don't know if it's because she's weak, but she's been going to bed early and getting up early these past few days and has never stayed up all night."
Speaking of which, Xue Kai was a little emotional: "Not at all like the young people today."
Lu Ning nodded thoughtfully: "Indeed, she is too stable and introverted, and she also has a feeling of...having nothing to do with this world."
The reason for saying this is that when Ye Mian faced the mutants, he was neither afraid nor felt any complex compassion. It was as if he just regarded them as an obstacle blocking the way forward. If he could solve them, he would solve them. If not, it didn't matter if he took a detour.
"Is that so..." Xue Kai muttered as he thought about his observations of Ye Mian these days, "She always seems to have a vague understanding of some common sense from time to time, and she looks like she has never eaten many common foods. She is even less familiar with Li City, her hometown, than I am... I almost think she is an alien."
"Besides, she didn't hide anything about her system and told me directly. She overestimated the trust between people."
Lu Ning was startled: "System?"
"Uh," Xue Kai then remembered that Lu Ning still knew nothing about the system. He said awkwardly, "You should ask Ye Mian directly about this matter. She should be able to tell you the truth."
Although Lu Ning, who didn't read many novels, didn't quite understand the specific function of the system, he understood it a little: "So this is her secret."
Xue Kai looked at her and said, "I thought you weren't curious and didn't ask anything."
“This is my reward.”
"ah?"
Lu Ning waved the hoe unskillfully, with a faint smile on his face: "Because she accepted me without asking any questions."
Xue Kai was stunned for a moment, then he also laughed.
Ye Mian treated him the same way, except that he only asked him why he appeared in the grove and never asked anything else.
It seems that those things are no longer important, and the new life that comes next is what we really need to grasp and feel.
Ye Mian went to bed early, so of course she didn't know that the two had talked so much. When she got up the next morning, she called them up with a serious expression.
"Come on, let's have a meeting."
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