For several days afterwards, Xia Lunong did not ask to go out.

His brother, on the other hand, would take him out for a walk every day, and would also take him to Dr. Ou for supernatural treatment.

He gained more and more strength, and after three or four days, he could slowly walk from home to the medical facility without his brother carrying him.

That day, after the examination, Dr. Ou said to the brothers, "Xiao Nong's body is almost healed, and he just needs to rest. There is no need for further treatment."

Xia Huoqu said cautiously, "Then if we continue the treatment for a while, can we improve his foundation?"

"Not much effect. Xiao Nong needs to eat better now, exercise properly, and slowly rehabilitate."

Xia Huoqu was still pondering.

Xia Lunong said hurriedly: "I feel almost well. I haven't felt tired in the past few days. I don't need to trouble Doctor Ou from now on. Doctor Ou has so many patients here--"

Xia Lunong is now completely unable to make a living, and everything in the family depends on his brother.

Most of the supplies his brother brought back were handed over to the medical hospital.

Xia Lunong really felt sorry for his family's supplies.

Xia Lunong said she would never go to the medical hospital again.

After Xia Huoqu asked Doctor Ou to examine him carefully, he temporarily agreed, but he first explained that if he felt uncomfortable somewhere, he could not just endure it, and must find Doctor Ou as soon as possible, otherwise he would have to stay in the medical hospital for a while.

In order to avoid having to live in the medical courtyard, Xia Lunong worked very hard during this period, picking wild vegetables on the ridges of the fields, serving meals in the canteen, doing housework at home, etc. He did everything in a very good manner.

On this day, Xia Lunong brought the meals for the two brothers back from the canteen, divided the bowls and chopsticks, and discussed with his brother, "Brother, you should take back some of the fields at home." Xia

Huoqu raised his eyes and looked at his face, saying, "Brother can support you."

"It's not a question of whether it can be kept alive." Xia Lunong quietly covered a piece of diced meat under the cabbage and scooped it into his brother's bowl. "I'm a guy, and I do nothing at home every day. If I continue to keep doing this, I'll become useless. Brother, please find me something to do."

Xia Huoqu picked up the diced meat from under the cabbage with his chopsticks and accurately picked it out and gave it back to him. "Farming is hard work. The environment is not good now. There are many insects and weeds in the fields, and occasionally there are aggressive mutant plants. Tomorrow I will take you to Liao Cheng's fields to work for a day and you will know."

Xia Lunong did not refuse the diced meat, but stuffed it into his mouth, squinting his eyes and chewing happily, and taking advantage of the meat flavor, he stuffed a big mouthful of bland sweet potato into his mouth.

After listening to his brother, he said vaguely with bulging cheeks: "If I am busy at Brother Liao Cheng's house tomorrow, will you bring back a small piece?"

Xia Huoqu glanced at him and put the only two pieces of meat cubes in his bowl, "Let's talk about it after tomorrow's work."

Xia Lunong refused to eat the meat, put it back into the bowl, swallowed the food in his mouth, and slurped up the remaining porridge in the bowl, "Brother, you must keep your word."

Xia Huoqu cleaned up the remaining food, "Okay!"

Xia Lunong went to bed very early that night, washed his feet and went to bed as soon as it was dark.

At dawn the next day, he was awakened by the strong biological clock, took the meal ticket from home, went to the canteen to get breakfast, and came back to work after eating.

His brother prepared a straw hat for him, and asked him to tie up his trousers and heels with rubber bands, as well as his hands. He had to wear long sleeves and labor insurance socks.

Xia Lunong let his brother torture him obediently, while muttering, "No need to be so strict, right?"

He had some experience in weeding in the garden, and if he dressed so strictly, he would get hot soon.

Xia Huoqu said lightly, "You'll know in a while."

The two of them cleaned up the house, and Xia Huoqu put on a bamboo hat for him.

The bamboo hat was woven with bamboo strips and stuffed with dry bamboo leaves. It was quite heavy when worn on the head.

Xia Lunong felt heavy on his head and was not used to it.

He wanted to take it off, but his brother said, "Wear it, it can protect you from rain and sun."

"The sun is not strong in spring," Xia Lunong muttered, "I'm still wearing long sleeves and long pants."

Xia Huoqu pretended not to hear and took his brother out.

The place where they were going to work today was the private land of Xia Huoqu's friend, and the main activity was to plant rice seedlings.

When they arrived, a tall, thin, dark young man came to greet them. He told Xia Lunong in a familiar manner that his name was Liao Cheng, and Xia Lunong could just call him brother.

After Liao Cheng introduced himself, he led them to the ridge of the field, pointed to the seedlings beside him, and said to Xia Lunong, "These are the seedlings we are going to throw today."

Xia Lunong had almost no experience in agriculture before. She looked at the seedlings and then at Liao Cheng, and could not hide her surprise, "Just throw them down? What if the aim is not good?"

Liao Cheng chuckled twice, "If it is not good, just throw it again. It is very easy to throw. You will know if you try it." As

he said, he bent down and took out a bamboo basket of seedlings from the dustpan, put it in the crook of his arm, held it with one hand, and picked up the seedlings in the bamboo basket with the other hand, and stood on the ridge of the field and threw it into the paddy field in front of him.

The seedlings flew out of his hands, with their roots facing down, and landed lightly in the paddy field. Under the action of gravity, the roots were immersed in the mud.

One, two, three... In just over a minute, he had thrown all the seedlings in the tray in his hand.

The seedlings fell into the paddy field and stood firmly, without a single one falling over.

The spacing between the seedlings was just right, and from the ridge of the field, you could still see them neatly arranged in rows, as if they were playing Gobang, horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.

Xia Lunong showed a look of surprise on her face.

Liao Cheng bent down again and picked up a tray of seedlings, pulling out most of them, and handed the remaining half to him, "Try it, it's not difficult."

Xia Lunong took it, knowing that seedlings were not easy to get, and was a little nervous.

Liao Cheng smiled heartily, revealing his white teeth, "Don't worry, if you don't know how to do it, just watch us."

Xia Lunong hesitated for a moment, but still didn't throw the seedlings in his hand.

The seedlings were thin and soft, and he was afraid of breaking them.

Xia Huoqu took the majority of the seedlings from Liao Cheng and said to Liao Cheng, "You go over there and I'll teach him."

Liao Cheng smiled and nodded, "Then I'll continue to harrow the fields, and I'll leave this to you."

Xia Lunong turned around curiously and followed Liao Cheng's movements. He rolled up his trousers, stood on the ridge, kicked off his shoes, and jumped into the field with a "plop". He then pulled a wooden ladder from the ridge, dragged it across the field, and smoothed the mud under the water.

He knew a little about the principle of raking the field.

When the field was repeatedly raked and smoothed, the mud underneath was soft and smooth, and the seedlings fell in, and the roots could sink into the mud.

Otherwise, the seedlings would not be able to stand at all.

Xia Lunong also learned today that planting rice requires so many steps.

He watched everyone tidying up the fields over and over again, and a rare sense of awe emerged in his heart.

"Don't look around." Xia Huoqu held the seedlings in his hands and raised his chin gently, "Watch my movements."

Xia Lunong retracted his gaze, approached his brother and whispered: "Brother, when did you learn to throw the seedlings?"

"You will learn it after a few more attempts." Xia Huoqu said, "You throw it out, if it doesn't work, we will pick it up and throw it again a few times."

Xia Lunong nodded quickly, adjusted the position of his feet, leaned forward, and tried his best to lean out and throw the seedlings carefully.

There was mud at the roots of the seedlings, which had the function of adjusting the center of gravity. Xia Lunong threw it exactly to the position he wanted to throw.

His eyes lit up and reached out to pull his brother, "Brother, look!"

"You did a good job." Xia Huoqu said, "Try it again."

Xia Lunong picked up a seedling and repeated the previous action.

This time he threw it just right.

Xia Lunong's eyes were filled with surprise. He had never thought it would be so easy. His enthusiasm immediately increased eight hundred times.

Xia Huoqu stood beside him and helped him to plant the seedlings one by one.

The two brothers soon planted the small field in front of them.

Xia Lunong ran over and brought back another dustpan of seedlings.

Xia Huoqu looked up at the field in front of him and said, "You stay here, I'll go over there and throw, and we'll meet in the middle."

Xia Lunong made a gesture that everything was fine, and looked up at his brother with a beautiful white tooth, "Let's see who can throw faster."

Xia Huoqu curled his lips, "Pay attention to quality."

"Okay!"

This was the first time Xia Lunong participated in this kind of competition after waking up. He was eager to win, and he grunted and concentrated on trying to beat his brother.

Xia Huoqu and Liao Chengdu looked up at him several times, and only let him throw the seedlings when they saw that he was fine.

Xia Lunong got better and better at throwing, and he didn't even feel tired. He was very satisfied with his condition.

One field, two fields, three fields.

The three of them spent the whole morning planting seedlings in three fields.

In the end, Xia Lunong could hardly lift her hands, and she felt a great sense of accomplishment.

Liao Cheng lifted the wood and put it on the ridge of the field, panting and begging, "Thank you for all the help today. I'll treat you to lunch later and we'll have meat."

Xia Lunong's eyes lit up, and she ran over to help him carry the wood, revealing her small white teeth, "Brother Liao Cheng, you're too polite."

"It's my duty. It's the rule of the base." Liao Cheng supported his waist with both hands and stretched his waist, "I still have some garlic sprouts in my field. I'll pick two and send them to the canteen for them to make stir-fried pork."

The entire base was mostly surrounded by walls, and ordinary people had no way to get firewood.

Even if you can get some rice from farming, it's not much. You can't cook more than a few meals with it, not to mention that cooking requires oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, pots and pans, etc.

Most people in the base don't cook. They either take meal tickets to the canteen to eat, or take food and materials to ask the canteen staff to cook.

Xia Lunong was busy all morning and was already hungry. Now when she heard that there was stir-fried meat to eat, her saliva was secreted crazily.

He immediately said, "Brother Liao Cheng, where is your vegetable patch? I'll help you."

Liao Cheng put his hands on his waist and stretched his creaking waist. "Look, that one in the corner, covered with a plastic greenhouse."

"Then I'll go pick it. Two, right?"

"Three, and a bunch of small green vegetables. It's the last batch of tender green vegetables. It's a pity to boil them. I have to add some garlic and stir-fry them."

Xia Lunong smiled and immediately ran to the greenhouse.

The two looked at his figure. When he ran away, Xia Huoqu looked at Liao Cheng disapprovingly. "Meat is so expensive now, why do you need to eat stir-fried meat?"

Liao Cheng smiled heartily. "Just celebrate Xiao Nong's recovery. Anyway, it's spring. After the spring plowing is over, I will go to the nearby area with the collection team to collect some things, so that I can have a little more money."

Xia Huoqu said nothing more.

Liao Cheng took out a small pack of cigarettes from his pocket, rolled them up with paper, and handed them to Xia Huoqu. Xia Huoqu refused, so he put the cigarettes back into his bag, took out a match, lit the cigarette, and took a deep breath. "Xiao Nong is well now. What are your plans?"

"We'll see."

Liao Cheng held the cigarette in his hand and said, "You will have fewer places to get food in the future. I think you shouldn't risk going to a big place to collect it. Just come with us and hunt nearby. With your ability, you won't be short of food even if you hunt casually."

"How can it be that easy? There aren't many beasts that haven't mutated yet." Xia Huo said, "Doctor Ou said that Xiao Nong's body is seriously injured and he may not be able to transform into a beast in the future. I have to find a way to make some money and take good care of him. If it doesn't work, I'll find a more powerful healer."

Liao Cheng sighed.

Xia Huo said calmly, "The hardest time has passed. Now it's nothing. Don't tell him."