Xia Lunong was digging up a rose.

The rose heard their conversation clearly and was puzzled.

It suddenly asked Xia Lunong, "What good would it be if I changed my name to Summer Rose?"

Xia Lunong dug up the rose that had just been planted and smiled, "Are you tempted?"

The rose shook its leaves decisively.

Xia Lunong glanced at him and said slowly: "Of course there are benefits. If you change your name to Xia Yueji, we will be a family. Now we are still partners, and the attitude towards partners is of course different from the attitude towards family members."

Yueji didn't think there was anything wrong with changing the name. It said readily: "Then I'll change it."

"You can't change it even if you want to. Adding family members is a serious matter. All our family members have to agree." Xia Lunong pointed, "Including Xia Huajiao."

Upon hearing this, Xia Huajiao's leaves immediately stood up, and the branches swayed, making a "swish" sound, and its pride was beyond words.

The rose branch waved towards it, waved threateningly, and said depressedly: "Forget it then."

Xia Lunong held the rose with flowers and made a gesture on one of its branches, "Did I break this section?"

"You break it." The rose said, retracting the thorns as much as possible, "You can break it shorter, anyway, it will grow back slowly."

Xia Lunong followed its instructions, broke off a short branch, buried it in the pit just dug, poured water and injected supernatural power.

The branch that had just been buried also had consciousness, but the consciousness was very weak, almost falling into a state of sleep.

Xia Lunong looked at the rose in his hand and praised sincerely, "Your skill of slicing yourself is too amazing."

"It's okay." The rose admitted, "It's almost reached its limit. If I feel uncomfortable, I have to kill some of the roses in the big cluster to maintain my condition."

Xia Lunong heard it say pitifully, and raised his hand to input some more supernatural power into it.

After raising his hand, he felt the expectation and joy from the rose.

This is the natural reaction of the rose, and it can't hide this instinct.

After Xia Lunong felt this emotion, he immediately reacted that the rose just said those words deliberately to pretend to be pitiful.

"It's really perfect." Xia Lu Nong withdrew the hand that input the power, and twisted the bud on the top of the rose, twisting it until she protested with dissatisfaction, and then said angrily and funnyly, "How can you learn such a heretical way so quickly?"

"Stingy." Rose huffed and rolled his finger with a branch, but it didn't hurt him.

Xialunong ignored Yueji's complaints and just put it back into the flowerpot, returned to the armored vehicle, and prepared to return to the base.

After not coming back for several days, Xia Lunong felt quite missed when she saw the base.

The base arranged for people to stand guard on the top of the mountain. When they saw their car, the guard let them in.

The weather is cold now, and the fields are frozen. Except for a few radishes and cabbages that can barely survive, everything is bare.

The people in the base have nothing to do, so most of them go out in groups to collect supplies and hunt.

When they came in, two other teams also came in.

The other two teams did not drive a car. Some of the team members were in animal form, and some were in human form, carrying the prey back.

Xia Lunong saw the hares and sheep they had shot at a glance, and he felt a little greedy instantly.

It is inconvenient to cook outside. He hasn't eaten stir-fried dishes for several days. Now he wants to eat stir-fried dishes, preferably with steaming hot and fragrant rice.

Kong Zhi was sitting next to him. Seeing him like this, he patted his shoulder and said, "I'll go to the cafeteria with you to exchange some food later."

"Okay." Xia Lunong said, "Let's eat pickled pepper rabbit meat tonight."

After finally returning home, Xia Huajiao jumped back to the familiar pit and planted itself. After Xia Lunong made sure that it was okay, he gave it some supernatural powers. After

dealing with the summer pepper, only the rose was left.

Xia Lunong held the rose and walked around the front and back yards, asking, "Where do you want to plant it?"

"The front yard." Rose said, "I want to be opposite the summer pepper."

Xia Lunong agreed very readily, "Okay. Then I'll plant you under the tree, and your branches will grow on both sides."

Rose was also very happy to think that she would be settled soon, and her branches kept twisting and turning.

Kong Zhi and Xia Huoqu were moving things and sorting things out.

Xia Lunong was quite free. He turned around to look at the soil under his feet and asked Yueji, "What kind of soil do you like? I can mix it for you, but I'm not very familiar with gardening, so I can only mix rougher soil."

Yueji never thought that she would be treated like this after following him back. Even the soil could be specially mixed.

It was a little shy, "I don't know. I have never grown in mixed soil before."

Xia Lunong smiled and said, "Then I will do it according to the book. I will get you some bamboo soil and some fertilizer later."

Yueji had no opinion. Xia Lunong took the hoe, put on his back and went up the mountain to dig bamboo soil.

Yueji was curious about everything now and wanted to go with him.

Anyway, Xia Lunong was free, so he took it with him.

Yueji said enviously, "Your place is really nice."

"That's the result of our collective labor. When the plain at the foot of the mountain is developed in the future, the mountain will also be very nice." Xia Lunong said, "When the part of your body at the foot of the mountain grows up, help us protect that place. When that place develops, you will be a hero."

Yueji didn't listen to his empty talk and asked directly, "What are the benefits of being a hero?"

Xia Lunong didn't expect this guy to be so realistic. She smiled and said, "Of course there are benefits. If you become a hero, everyone will respect and love you. No matter what fertilizer you need or how much water you need, many people will spontaneously help you. Human emotions are very simple, and you will slowly understand."

Yueji didn't say anything.

Seeing that it clearly didn't believe her, Xia Lunong was not in a hurry. After all, there was a long time to go, and they could slowly let Yueji experience these things in their daily interactions.

When Xia Lunong carried the bamboo soil back, Kong Zhi and his friends had already packed their things.

They had to boil water and chop wood to prepare dinner, and the house hadn't been cleaned for several days, so they had to clean it again.

Xia Huoqu and Yan Xinian were unable to help, so only Kong Zhi came to help.

After planting the roses and watering them, Xia Lunong said to the roses, "You have a good rest here for one night. I'll come to see you tomorrow morning. Now we have to go to our own business."

Xia Lunong and Kong Zhi went to the canteen to exchange rabbit meat.

They could also ask the canteen to cook for them, but they were tired of it every time they came back. Today they were not tired, so they simply took the rabbit meat home and cooked it themselves.

There were pickled peppers in the pot in their utility room.

These pickled peppers had been soaked for half a year. They were sour, spicy, and bright red, much better than the pickled peppers in the canteen.

The people in the cafeteria saw them taking the rabbit meat and asked, "We harvested a new crop of Chinese cabbage and radishes today. Would you like some? They are all vegetables that have been frosted and are very sweet."

"Give me some." Xia Lunong asked again, "Do you have any big bones for us to exchange today? We can use them to make soup."

"Yes, but not pork bones. Do you want beef bones?"

These cows are all mutant cows. If they are not handled properly, the bone soup will have a slightly bitter taste.

Xia Lunong thought about it and decided to take some.

We will add some dried mushrooms to stew them together. The taste will be very mellow. Drinking such soup in winter is the most comfortable.

Xia Lunong's speed of doing things is not very fast, but he is methodical and looks very meticulous.

Kong Zhi didn't say anything, but just stayed by his side silently. Watching him wash vegetables and cook, he felt very peaceful in his heart.

Xia Lunong is a good cook. The pickled pepper rabbit and beef bone radish soup in the evening are a perfect match.

Yan Xinian drank three bowls in one breath, and then touched his stomach and said, "Fortunately, we often go out hunting and collecting supplies now, otherwise I would have become fat if I ate such delicious food every day."

Xia Lunong smiled while holding the bowl of soup, "Brother Xinian, you are exaggerating. If life is stable and everyone's life is on the right track, you must be a fitness fanatic and you will never get fat no matter how much you eat."

Yan Xinian said, "That's true. The main reason is that I, your brother, haven't found a partner yet, so I have to keep in shape."

Xia Lunong didn't answer after hearing this, but glanced at his brother first.

His brother tapped the back of his hand lightly with the tip of his chopsticks and said calmly: "The soup is cold, why don't you drink it?"

Xia Lunong immediately understood that his brother Xinian probably wouldn't have to think about a partner for a while.

After dinner, Xia Huoqu and Yan Xinian washed the dishes and went back to the next door, while Xia Lunong and Kong Zhi went to take a shower.

It was cold today, and there was no heating in their room. It would be warmer for the two of them to take a shower together, and they could also rub each other's backs.

Of course, since they finally had the opportunity and time to be alone, a shower for the two of them was not just a simple shower.

Xia Lunong ate very full that night, full in every sense of the word.

After eating, he paralyzed in bed and didn't want to move. Kong Zhi cleaned up everything, and he slept until almost twelve o'clock the next day.

He got up, put on his down jacket, scratched his hair, and went outside to see Xia Huajiao and Yueji.

Yueji saw him and said faintly, "Come see me in the morning."

Xia Lunong: "..."

Xia Lunong coughed uncomfortably.

He didn't expect that he would sleep too late yesterday because of some things, so he naturally got up late today.

If he had known, he would not have promised.

Xia Lunong was much thicker-skinned than before. Hearing this question, he said, "I was too tired from going out, and I got up late accidentally. I will definitely not be that late tomorrow."

"Isn't it just breeding behavior? Why are you lying? I heard it all last night." Yueji despised him, "You are still making excuses saying that you are tired from going out. Didn't you sleep in the car the whole time?"

This brat!

Xia Lunong couldn't stand it no matter how thick his skin was. He blushed and poured some water on Yueji, pretending that he didn't understand what Yueji said, "I went to the backyard to water the honeysuckle."

Yueji was unwilling to give in and wanted to pull him aside to talk more.

Xia Lunong ran away in a flash.

Roses have many branches and flowers on them, unlike summer peppers, which can jump out and run behind Xia Lunong when they are small. They can only reluctantly retract their branches.

Simple honeysuckle and summer peppers are much easier to fool.

They don't understand anything. After Xia Lunong finished watering, they rubbed Xia Lunong's fingers affectionately.

Xia Lunong took a long breath. They are all mutant plants, but these two little guys are more relaxing.

After watering the fields, Xia Lunong returned to the front yard. Kong Zhi happened to come back from outside the yard. Seeing him come out, he reached out to take the water bottle from his hand and asked, "When did you get up? Have you finished your meal?"

"I was planning to go back to eat. Where have you been? Where are my brother and the others? Why are none of you here?"

Kong Zhi said, "I went to the fields to see. Brother Huo Qu and the others went to a meeting. Tomorrow they will lead a team out and drive back various tool vehicles to form a small fleet."

"This is too efficient." Xia Lunong shook his head. He used to think that his brother was a workaholic.

Kong Zhi said: "We should do something while there is still some time before the New Year. We should have a good rest after the New Year and prepare for the spring."

Xia Lunong asked: "If that's the case, should we also seize the time to prepare to go out and have a look?"