Liao Cheng chatted with them for a while and then left.

Kong Zhi took Xia Lunong to the cafeteria to get food.

Xia Lunong is a cat-like person, and it is easy for people to feel uncomfortable eating at the table in the cafeteria, so they usually eat at home.

Xia Lunong has no opinion on where to eat. The only thing that makes him depressed is that the food in the cafeteria tastes too ordinary.

Even if Kong Zhi ordered dry fried fish for him, it couldn't save his appetite.

Xia Maomiao finished his meal with no attachment to life and paralyzed on the sofa.

Kong Zhi touched his back, "Take a rest first, don't you want to go to the fields in the afternoon?"

Xia Maomiao stretched out his soft cat claws to grab his wrist, "Meow."

This means agreement.

Kong Zhi carried him to Xia Huoqu's room, shook out the quilt and made a nest for him. After settling him down, he went back to his room to sleep.

It was late spring and it was quite hot outside.

But because there was only one floor in the house and there was soil under the floor tiles, the coolness rose from under the feet and the whole house was cool and refreshing.

Xia Maomao slept on the quilt and soon fell into a long summer dream.

In the afternoon, Xia Maomao was awakened by the sound of talking outside.

He stretched his four paws in four directions, stretched his waist hard, then rolled out of bed and ran out the door lightly.

The person who came was Liao Cheng again.

Liao Cheng saw him coming out, raised his hand and said, "I've brought your chickens back. Remember to feed them. I think they're about to lay eggs."

Xia Lunong got on all fours, ran to the door and stretched her neck to look at the side of the house. Sure enough, there were two hens in the chicken coop on the side of the house.

The two chickens were bigger than when they left. It seemed that Liao Cheng had taken good care of them. They would probably lay eggs in a few days.

Xia Lunong nodded to Liao Cheng.

Liao Cheng smiled when he saw the sweet-looking cat making such a serious expression, "I've also given you guys the farm to look after. When you were away, I picked a few red tomatoes and ate them all."

"Meow." Eat whatever you want.

Liao Cheng said, "There has been a big earthquake and heavy rains in the past few days. Everyone in the base has to take turns to go out of the base for missions. I haven't had time to take care of the land. Many peppers and tomatoes have fallen over. When you go to see them, remember to cut some bamboo and bring it over to prop them up in time."

The bamboo forest on the mountain belongs to the base.

The bamboo shoots inside cannot be dug, but it is okay to cut one or two bamboos occasionally.

As long as you don't cut down a large number of bamboos, no one will say anything.

Xia Lunong only remembered to wander around the base in the morning and completely forgot to check his fields.

Hearing Liao Cheng say this, he looked up and "meowed".

Got it.

Liao Cheng said, "Okay, I just came to give you some hens and remind you that I have to do the base mission this afternoon. I won't say any more to you. I'm leaving now."

"Meow."

Xia Lunong watched Liao Cheng go out, walked to Kong Zhi's feet, and hooked his trouser legs.

He remembered that Kong Zhi was injured, raised his head and looked at him worriedly, and wrote on the ground with his paw: Do you want to go to the field to have a look?

Kong Zhi and Xia Lunong's eyes met, and he quickly understood what the cat meant, "No, go cut bamboo first, I'll cut it with my left hand."

Xia Lunong scratched him with her claws, "Meow."

The left hand won't work either.

Kong Zhi said, "The injury has almost healed, it doesn't hurt."

Xia Lunong didn't believe it.

Kong Zhi didn't want to explain. He bent down and picked him up. He went to the kitchen to get a hatchet and took a roll of hemp rope and stuffed it into the backpack. "Let's go."

Kong Zhi knew roughly where Xia Lunong's field was.

He held the cat, went out, locked the door, and then walked along the path to the mountain behind the house.

After a while, they arrived at the bamboo forest.

The bamboo swayed in the wind, making a rustling sound, and the fragrance of bamboo floated out layer by layer.

It had rained several times recently, and rainwater accumulated in the layers of fallen leaves in the bamboo forest. Kong Zhi stepped on it and the edge of his shoes was wet.

Xia Lunong was about to go down to the top, but when he saw this, he retracted his tentative cat claws, his whole cat face was full of disgust, and he shrank into Kong Zhi's arms again.

Kong Zhi looked down at him and said nothing.

To cut bamboo, you have to choose denser places to cut, and do work similar to thinning seedlings.

Kong Zhi walked around in the bamboo forest and quickly selected a target. After placing the cat a little away from the bamboo to be cut, he took the machete in his left hand and started to chop the bamboo.

Xia Maomao crawled on the ground, turning his head around to see what was happening in the bamboo forest.

After the rains in the past few days, bamboo shoots emerged from the ground and grew very fast. At a glance, there were bamboo shoots everywhere, high and low, scattered among the bamboo forests. One or two of them were plump, and through the shells one could see the white and tender bamboo shoots inside, which made him very excited.

He swallowed his saliva. It was a pity that only the canteen could dig bamboo shoots.

The canteen had the right to dig, but they didn't dig much.

This bamboo forest was mainly used as economic wood. People cut bamboo to build shelves, weave utensils, make furniture, and sometimes even use it to build bamboo sheds.

Bamboo is so useful, it's a pity to dig it up and eat it before it grows up.

Xia Lunong knew the situation of the base. No matter how greedy he was, it was unlikely for him to eat the bamboo shoots in the base. There was no place to exchange them even if he wanted to.

He sighed, resting his cat head on his front paws, his face full of depression.

Bamboo is hollow, and Kong Zhi is very strong. He chopped through half of the bamboo with one stroke. With only two strokes, he chopped down the bamboo as thick as a bowl.

The bamboo fell to the ground with a bang, and the bamboo leaves touched other bamboo branches, making a rustling sound, which scared away many birds in the bamboo forest.

After chopping the bamboo, Kong Zhi dragged the bamboo down, cut off the branches and leaves with a hatchet, and cut off the end, leaving only a smooth bamboo tube.

Xia Lunong watched him from the side. It took him less than five minutes from chopping the bamboo to cutting the bamboo tube.

Kong Zhi dealt with the bamboo, put it on his shoulder, looked up at Xia Lunong who was turning her head not far away, and said, "Let's go."

"Meow." Xia Lunong stood up, tapped the bamboo leaves lightly with her four paws, and ran to Kong Zhi's feet in a few quick steps.

Just when he was about to reach Kong Zhi, his emerald eyes suddenly caught a glimpse of a brown-yellow shadow, which looked like a huge spot on a bamboo tube, or something else.

Xia Lunong was attracted and turned his head subconsciously to look.

He had very good eyesight and could clearly see the insect as big as the mouth of a cup.

The insect had a carapace on its back and was big and fat. Its long mouth poked directly into the bamboo like a straw.

Xia Lunong knew that there was something lying on the bamboo, but he didn't expect it to be such a big insect.

From a cat's perspective, this insect was actually bigger than his head!

The moment Xia Maomao saw the insect, before he could react, he had already arched his back and jumped up more than two meters high.

The cat exploded into Kong Zhi's arms like a cannonball. Before he could reach out to catch it, it climbed up his clothes on his chest with all four claws and directly onto his head.

The whole action happened in a flash. With Kong Zhi's strength, he didn't have time to react.

"Meow——" Xia Maomao was still frightened. He squatted on Kong Zhi's head and looked down at the yellow shadow.

After watching for a long time, he realized that the place where he squatted seemed to be a little wrong.

Xia Maomao looked down and saw Kong Zhi looking up at him expressionlessly.

"Meow." Xia Maomao moved his paws guiltily.

Kong Zhi stretched out his left hand and grabbed the cat off his head.

Summer Cat stayed obediently in his palm, not struggling, but just made another "meow" sound.

Kong Zhi paused, and did not take the cat down anymore, but put it on his shoulder with his backhand. Kong Zhi

still had the figure of a teenager, but he was very tall and had broad shoulders.

Summer Cat squatted on his shoulder, and it felt just right.

Kong Zhi took two steps forward and stood in front of the bamboo with the insect lying on it, several meters away.

He had good eyesight, and even from a distance of several meters, the silhouette of the insect was clearly visible.

Kong Zhi looked at it for a few seconds and said, "It's a bamboo shoot insect."

Summer Cat tilted his head, he felt that the name was very familiar.

Kong Zhi continued, "You can eat it. It smells delicious when fried."

Xia Maomao's eyes lit up and he looked up at the bug.

Looking from a distance, the bug seemed pretty good too?

Xia Maomao moved his paws and stepped on Kong Zhi's shoulders, feeling a little tempted.

He looked at it for a few more times and found that the bug had not changed much. It just had one more wing on its body.

"Meow." Xia Maomao hooked the clothes on Kong Zhi's shoulders with a kind expression. How about we catch the bug?

Kong Zhi looked at him sideways, "Want to catch?"

"Meow."

"If you want to catch the bug, get down and walk by yourself."

Xia Maomao looked at him, then at the ground, and lightly kicked his four legs, using the reaction force to jump down lightly.

After jumping down, the cat felt that it was closer to the insect, and hurriedly moved its paws back a few steps.

Kong Zhi, with a slight smile in his eyes, stepped forward lightly, pinched two fingers, and caught the bamboo shoot worm lying on the bamboo.

After the bamboo shoot worm was caught, several legs with a metallic luster were still moving around, which made Xia Maomao feel cold. He couldn't help but take a few steps back, put his hind paws on the ground, raised his front paws, and took a posture ready to fight at any time.

Kong Zhi didn't scare him. After catching the insect, he threw it into the backpack, and then filled the mouth of the backpack with bamboo branches that he had cut down before.

Xia Maomao watched, took a few steps closer, and curiously looked up at the backpack on his back.

Kong Zhi put the cut bamboo on the spot and asked, "I just saw a few bamboo shoots. Should I catch them before going down the mountain?"

"Meow." Xia Maomao had no objection.

Kong Zhi squatted down and rubbed him, saying, "Follow closely."

Xia Maomao hurriedly followed him and went to look for bamboo shoots with him.

The bamboo forest at the base is very large. On the four sides of the mountain, from the middle of the mountain to the top of the mountain, it is all bamboo forest.

Kong Zhi led the cat through the bamboo forest and caught six bamboo shoots in a short time.

Xia Lunong thought the bamboo shoots were scary when he first saw them, but after seeing them a few more times and getting used to them, he no longer thought they were scary, but rather cute. All

food is cute.

Kong Zhi and Xia Lunong, an eagle and a cat, both have excellent eyesight.

Wherever they pass by, bamboo shoots cannot escape their eyes.

"Meow!" Xia Lunong saw another bamboo shoot from a distance of more than ten meters.

This time he called out not to warn Kong Zhi, but just to cheer himself up.

Kong Zhi looked over in the direction of the call. The long-haired cat with a silver-gray back and a white belly had already put its four paws on the ground, and was pushing off the ground alternately with its front and hind legs, and it jumped out directly.

The cat ran fast and light. Before the bamboo worms on the bamboo could react, the cat jumped and caught the worms in its mouth.

"Woo--" Xia Maomao ran to Kong Zhi's side, raised his head to ask for credit, and his emerald eyes were full of joy.

Kong Zhi bent down, took the half-dead bamboo worms from his mouth, and rubbed the cat's head. "Well done!"

"Meow."

These words were not exaggeration. Xia Lunong really caught the bamboo worms very well this time. From jumping to bumping into and picking up the bamboo worms, he did not hurt himself, did not bite the bamboo worms to pieces, and did not scare the bamboo worms away.

His movements were precise and neat, just like a wild cat.

Xia Lunong thought it was nothing, but his tail swung uncontrollably, and the swinging of his tail directly revealed his pride.

The two continued to walk through the bamboo forest, and all the big and small bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest could not escape their eyes.

But in more than half an hour, the two caught half a basket of bamboo shoots.

Kong Zhi took a look and said, "It's almost enough to eat, let's go back first."

"Meow."

Kong Zhi carried the bamboo shoots on his back and dragged the bamboo down the mountain.

Xia Maomao followed him.

The two went to the field first.

Xia Lunong saw the mess of crops on the field at a glance - beans that fell from the racks, tomatoes that were broken by the wind, eggplants and peppers that were tilted here and there, and peanut seedlings whose roots were turned up.

He was so distressed that he cried out "Ah" and rushed out to check.

Kong Zhi saw only a silver-gray arc flashing before his eyes. When he looked again, the cat was already turning around under the tomato tree, howling, and was heartbroken.

His big tomatoes!

They had already started to bear fruit, but seven out of ten were broken.

The tomato tree was too fragile, full of water, and the branches were very tender, unlike the eggplant and pepper branches, which were stronger and more resilient. Therefore, the tomatoes were the most damaged in the whole land.

Kong Zhi came over to check and said, "It's still alive. Let's build a frame with bamboo strips. Maybe it can grow well."

"Woo--"

"Move aside, I'll split the bamboo strips."

Kong Zhi gently pushed the cat away, took the hatchet, and broke the bamboo.

The hollow structure of the bamboo made it particularly easy to break. Kong Zhi cut it lightly, and the bamboo split in half, and soon it turned from a bamboo into a pile of bamboo strips.

The bamboo strips were split into several sections and inserted next to the tomatoes. Three bamboo strips were tied into a triangular frame to support the tomatoes steadily.

Kong Zhi was very careful and steady in his work. He gradually raised all ten tomato plants.

After the tomato seedlings were ready, it was almost dark.

Kong Zhi turned his head and took a look. "We'll deal with the remaining plants tomorrow. Let's go back today."

"Meow."

Kong Zhi walked to the edge of the field, put on the backpack, and picked up the cat. "Let's go."

"Meow." The cat quickly poked its head out of his arms, pointed at the pepper seedlings, and meowed again.

Kong Zhi looked at the cat in his arms: "Do you want to pick some peppers to take back?"

The cat nodded, "Meow."

Kong Zhi looked at him again, "Stir-fried bamboo shoots?"

"Meow!"

Yes!