Zhao Youcai waved his hand and said, "Start construction!"
Although this setting was suitable for saying something, Zhao Youcai also knew that in the current situation, nothing he said could compare to letting a few people eat more meat.
Before he time-traveled, what he hated most was when leaders gave speeches—they were boring and pointless. Zhao Youcai didn't have that habit.
Also, finishing my meal early will allow me to go back to my room and plant vegetables.
After all, there's no vehicle to deliver vegetables to town tomorrow, and he'll have to grow those 300 jin of vegetables on the spot. Besides, vegetable transportation is also a problem.
It's impossible for it to appear out of thin air.
The old ox in the brigade wasn't something anyone could just borrow. No matter how capable an old man from the countryside was, he couldn't possibly carry hundreds of kilograms of vegetables on his shoulders to the town.
The only solution was to go there before dawn, before the factory workers were scheduled to start their shifts.
While no one was around, they moved the vegetables out of the farm's warehouse, waiting for the factory's purchasing manager to receive them.
Although Zhao Youcai said to start cooking, no one touched their chopsticks; they all stared at Zhao Youcai with longing eyes.
Zhao Youcai was somewhat surprised. He hadn't expected this whole family to be so polite. Was this a little surprise from these exceptional people?
Then it dawned on them that the original owner had left a deep impression on them. In their memories, if anyone dared to touch their chopsticks before the original owner, they would definitely get a good scolding.
Although everyone was eager for the food in front of them, the family waited for Zhao Youcai to start eating, even the third son, who was usually a loafer, did not.
"What are you looking at? Aren't you tired after a whole day's work?"
As Zhao Youcai spoke, he took the lead, picked up his chopsticks, put a piece of meat and a piece of potato in his bowl, and ate a bite with the fragrant white rice.
"Great! I've been waiting for you to start eating, Dad!"
The third brother chuckled, and seeing Zhao Youcai pick up some food, he immediately picked up a piece of meat himself, put it in his mouth, and swallowed it in a few bites.
Seeing this, the others also started eating, holding their rice bowls and silently showing off their food without saying a word.
nonsense!
Anyone who speaks at this time is a fool!
What if you accidentally say something and miss out on a piece of meat that you could have eaten?
The whole room was filled with the sounds of people wolfing down their food and the clatter of bowls and chopsticks.
Zhao Youcai's eyes lit up when he ate the meat.
It's no wonder that in this era without technology and hard work, the pork sold by the supply and marketing cooperatives came from local pigs raised in the countryside. Even though the seasonings weren't complete, the taste was still amazing! So delicious!
Then try the farm-grown potatoes; they're soft and delicate, soaked up all the broth from the stewed pork. Every bite of potato is infused with the flavor of meat—perfect with rice!
A bite of meat, a bite of potato, paired with a mouthful of Northeastern specialty rice whose aroma wafts for miles after it's cooked—you'll eat it all without making a sound! It's so delicious!
The final result was that the whole family proved the value of the meal by finishing everything on their plates; they even poured the last bit of soup into the pot and scraped it clean with rice.
The bowls and plates looked as if someone had licked them clean; they were so clean they reflected light.
Zhao Youcai ate until he was about 70% full; he's now a very health-conscious old man.
Everyone else was fine just now, but now they're all complaining that they're stuffed.
Zhao Youcai ignored the wailing of his descendants and went back to his room, pulling the covers over his head and falling into a deep sleep.
The next day, before dawn, the whole village was quiet. The first thing Zhao Youcai did after waking up was to go to the farm and frantically plant vegetables.
I was supposed to plant vegetables last night, but I was so tired after a long day that I fell asleep as soon as my head hit the bed.
After several plantings and harvests, the warehouse was filled with vegetables, and the farm was successfully upgraded to level 4. In the process, two plots of land and new vegetable varieties were unlocked—long beans and green beans.
Seeing these green beans, Zhao Youcai suddenly remembered his best friend in college before he traveled through time. When talking about green beans, his expression would change so quickly, just like a Sichuan opera face-changing expert.
That guy was from Shandong, and his favorite saying was, "Bean peg, bean peg every day! I'm turning into a bean peg myself! Can bean pegs help me get ashore successfully?"
Bringing his thoughts back, Zhao Youcai had never felt so close to the bean curd sticks as he did now.
This stuff is much more expensive and rarer than cabbage and radish!
Just then, I suddenly discovered that the ranch had also been unlocked.
The brood of chicks that appeared after the ranch was unlocked instantly captured Zhao Youcai's full attention.
This little chick was probably given to you automatically by the system, kind of like a newbie gift pack.
However, raising chickens is much more complicated than growing vegetables; you have to feed them and clean up their droppings.
The growth cycle is not short either; it takes a full six hours for a chick to grow into a laying hen! And that's only if there's plenty of feed and water; it will stop growing when it's hungry.
Fortunately, it's just a game after all, so as long as you have time to manage it, you'll always get some output.
A pit appeared beside the pasture, and Zhao Youcai was wondering what it was for. The droppings he casually cleaned up appeared in the pit, with a line of small characters popping out from the top.
[Land-specific yield-boosting fertilizer production progress 3/20.]
Zhao Youcai's eyes widened instantly.
This...this...can it even increase production?
I guess this stuff is a bit like the fertilizer in those farming games I used to play, which can increase yields.
As more crops are unlocked in the game, Zhao Youcai estimates that the time it takes for crops to mature may become increasingly longer. This is compounded by the limited yield of each seed.
This is where the importance of fertilizers becomes apparent.
Zhao Youcai had initially thought the seed purchase restrictions were a rip-off, even though the farm was currently doing quite well for him. He felt that such limited output was far from enough to expand and thrive in this era.
How could he not be excited when a fertilizer that could increase production suddenly appeared?
At this moment, Zhao Youcai's eyes were full of love as he looked at the chicks, but the chicken coop was only so big that it couldn't fit even one more chick.
Zhao Youcai skillfully entered the pharmacy and retrieved his daily dose of muscle-relaxing and blood-activating pills. He wondered, "Does this hospital only sell this one kind of medicine? Does it have any other functions?" He guessed that he would have to wait until the hospital reached level 2 to unlock more functions.
After getting up and dressed, Zhao Youcai took the muscle-relaxing pills with water, then quietly opened the door and went out, just in time to run into his fourth daughter-in-law coming out of the outhouse.
"Dad, where are you going so early?"
The fourth daughter-in-law wanted to lower her head and shrink back into the outhouse, but since she had already come out, it would be impolite to go back in.
Thinking about how her father-in-law's behavior had changed recently, especially the delicious dinner he had yesterday, the fourth daughter-in-law gradually became a little bolder.
They even dared to ask Zhao Youcai where he was.
Zhao Youcai nodded secretly as he looked at his fourth daughter-in-law, who dared to come up to him and ask questions. It seemed that this frightened rabbit could still be saved; it hadn't reached the point where extreme social anxiety had evolved into autism.
“I’m going to town to take care of some things. School’s closed today, so your sister-in-law only needs to work half a day. Just make sure those two kids do their homework properly and don’t leave me any food.”
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