In just one night, these once healthy and quacking ducklings all looked listless and dejected.
Su Yun'er checked on the ducklings one by one with heartache, and also checked the food and water. The food and water were fine, but not much had been eaten. It seemed that the ducklings started having problems in the middle of the night.
Su Yun'er saw a question mark appear above the duck farm's sign and quickly clicked to see it.
The ducklings don't seem to be feeling well! To solve this problem, we need to build them a place to play!
Su Yun'er: "..."
Ha, a male system!
Tell me, how many points do you want me to spend this time?
Su Yun'er clicked "Next" and saw a demonstration of the operation pop up on the screen.
In short, the idea is for Su Yun'er to prepare a pond for the ducklings so they can play and frolic in it, and also to plant other crops in the pond.
Digging a pond requires 45,000 points and takes about two days.
The system points currently show that Su Yun'er has over 100,000 points remaining. This is all the money Su Yun'er has saved up over the past few months by living frugally. However, if she doesn't continue building the pond, the money for building the duck farm and buying ducklings will be wasted.
Gritting her teeth, Su Yun'er chose to dig a pond, placing it between the duck farm and the fields.
The pond site was selected and construction began in full swing, but then a red exclamation mark popped up from the duck farm.
Su Yun'er clicked on the notification and saw: [Emergency! The ducklings are in poor spirits and have little appetite; they're on the verge of dying! Quickly find a way to cheer them up!]
The way to keep the ducklings happy is to use points to quickly complete the pond.
After gritting his teeth and spending another 10,000 points, the pond was completed in an instant. Various colorful ribbons and confetti fell from the sky, and a clear pool of water appeared next to the duck farm.
Almost the instant the pond was completed, the ducklings reacted. They lined up and waddled towards the pond, jumping in one by one to preen their feathers. Their flat tails twitched, making them incredibly cute.
Seeing this, Su Yun'er's heartache finally eased a bit. Well, this money was well spent!
"Little ducklings, little ducklings, you must grow up quickly so that you can lay eggs for me to eat."
Su Yun'er watched the ducklings for a while before going back to her spatial dimension to complete a series of tasks.
With the completion of the pond, a new category was activated in the game's aquaculture manual: pond crops.
In the new category, only one variety is highlighted, which is rice; the others are all empty and inactive.
As a basic crop, rice could be planted before ponds existed, and the original land would be transformed into paddy fields after rice was planted, but this was only temporary.
Now that there are ponds, rice can be planted directly in them. The game system shows that rice planted in ponds can increase yield by 5%.
Looking at the bare pond, Su Yun'er planted some rice to see how the taste of rice grown in the pond differed from that grown in the temporary puddles in the fields.
After that, she went to busy herself with other daily tasks and stealing vegetables.
Today is the second day that my daughter has been attending school.
She arrived earlier than the other children. When she got to the Chen family home, Su Yun'er hadn't gotten up yet, while Old Mrs. Chen was having breakfast with the siblings Xiao Shu and Xiao Cao.
Gai Xue lay down beside the grass, stretched out her front legs, and closed her eyes to sleep.
Seeing this scene, Mei Ya'er felt a little embarrassed, but she could only take the initiative to greet Grandma Chen and the others.
Xiaocao and Meiya'er were childhood playmates and had always had a good relationship. Upon seeing Meiya'er, Xiaocao quickly called her to come up to the kang (a heated brick bed) and eat together.
Mei Ya'er glanced at the Chen family's breakfast table, swallowed, and shook her head: "I've already eaten at home. You guys eat. I'm going to check on the chicks in the yard!"
After saying that, Meiya ran back to the yard.
The little grass didn't notice anything amiss and continued enjoying its breakfast.
This morning, as usual, Grandma Chen cooked a pot of millet porridge. She added some baking soda while cooking, making the porridge thick and the golden rice grains didn't sink to the bottom. It was steaming hot and fragrant.
The main dishes included cornbread and steamed buns. The cornbread contained mung bean flour, making it increasingly fragrant and sweet with each chew. Accompanying the porridge and main dishes were several side dishes: salted and spicy pickled radish, sesame pickled vegetable shreds, and spicy and sour cucumber slices. All of these were made by Su Yun'er herself. She made a small batch at a time, making more as needed to ensure the freshness of the pickled vegetables without letting them ferment for too long and accumulate too much nitrite, which would burden the body. Each side dish was savory and refreshing, making it the perfect accompaniment to rice.
However, pickled vegetables are not very healthy and are only used as a side dish. Su Yun'er always told Grandma Chen to eat more fresh vegetables. Over time, Grandma Chen also made it a habit to cook at least one fresh vegetable dish for every meal.
Today I made a cold cucumber salad. I cut fresh cucumbers into thin strips, added soy sauce, oyster sauce, salt, sugar, and vinegar, along with a little minced garlic and cilantro. After mixing it all together, I drizzled a little sesame oil on top. It's very refreshing and appetizing.
This cucumber salad is one of Su Yun'er's favorite ways to eat cucumber. Sometimes she adds a big spoonful of sesame paste. Every bite of cucumber is fragrant with the rich aroma of sesame paste, to the point that the broth can be used to mix with noodles.
But the Chen family's breakfast was not over yet. When Su Yun'er was pickling preserved eggs, she also tried pickling some salted duck eggs. After pickling, each duck egg yolk could drip golden oil, and the egg white was also salty and delicious. She sandwiched the egg white and yolk of half a salted duck egg together in a hot white steamed bun. One bite and it was so delicious that it made her feel like she was flying!
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