Jiang Ning invited, "Xiao Xiu, if you're ever bored, come to Auntie's house to play with Sister Miao Miao. Territory No. 16 is right at the entrance of the planting area, very close to us, only a half-hour walk away."
Zhao Xiaoxiu nodded emphatically, gripping Miaomiao's hand tightly, and said, "Okay, I'll definitely go!"
"When Daddy has time, I'll ask him to bring me over to play with you," Liu Miaomiao whispered in Zhao Xiaoxiu's ear.
She envied Zhao Xiaoxiu, who had Sister Monkey as her bodyguard and could run around freely in the planting area.
But she can't. The outside world is dangerous, and her parents and grandfather would worry if she went out by herself.
So she had no choice but to stay at home obediently to avoid worrying the adults.
"Little Xiu, you must come visit me often," Liu Miaomiao repeatedly told her before leaving.
Zhao Xiaoxiu readily made a pinky promise with her and readily agreed: "Okay!"
Liu Miaomiao chuckled, finally relieved, and left the territory where she had spent the winter with her family.
The Qiu Bai couple's plot number two was at the northernmost point, but they had already established good relations with Zhao Gang's family and Sheng Qingyang, their neighbor on plot number three.
With a familiar neighbor nearby, the couple were full of anticipation for life in their new territory. They smiled and waved goodbye to Zhao Xiaoxiu, telling her to visit often with Sheng Qingyang.
Zhao Xiaoxiu held her father's big hand, and the two of them stood in front of the courtyard gate watching the tenants leave. Only after they left Territory No. 13 and entered the main road did they turn around and go home.
With half the people suddenly gone from their territory, the number of voices they heard was much less. The father and daughter exchanged a glance, both feeling a bit uneasy.
However, he only got used to it for two minutes before Meng Er's excited loud voice broke the silence.
"The sunflowers are all set up, and the sweet potato field is all cleared. Gangzi, is there anything else we need to do?"
Meng and his companion arrived before Zhao Gang, striding in from the doorway to ask for work, as they were afraid of being idle.
He said enthusiastically, "We've finished all the chores at home, Gangzi, how about we go into the mountains?"
“I see that the other lords have all left the planting area and gone into the isolation zone. There are plenty of good things in the mountains at this time of year. If we go too late, we won’t get anything good.”
Zhao Gang looked up at him: "Are you lacking food or drink?"
Meng Er hesitated: "Well, that's not it. I just wanted to earn more points."
He thought Zhao Gang had some other plans and didn't want him to go into the mountains.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Gang said the next second, "Oh, then you guys go ahead. Mo Shigui told me this morning that we should meet at the patrol station entrance early tomorrow morning to participate in voluntary labor."
"So fast!" Meng Er was a little surprised. Does that mean there are no adults left in the house?
"Where's Xiaoxiu?" Meng Er asked worriedly.
His mother was a strong-willed woman and planned to go with her two sons to the quarantine zone to try their luck and see if they could find anything.
So there's no one to look after the kids!
Zhao Gang lowered his head, "Where does Xiaoxiu want to go?"
Mo Shigui knew that his family had hired laborers, so this time he specifically instructed them not to bring their children along to work.
Although Zhao Gang didn't intend to obey, he still had to ask the cub's opinion.
Zhao Xiaoxiu thought for a moment and said, "Dad, I'll stay home and take care of the crops."
“Okay, Sister Monkey will come with you.” Zhao Gang didn’t think there were any mutated species nearby that could threaten his cubs, so he felt at ease.
Zhao Xiaoxiu was overjoyed and quickly asked, "Then can I go to see my master?"
The weather is getting warmer, and Master had promised to take her into the mountains.
Zhao Xiaoxiu dared not reveal too much in front of the Meng brothers, but her master knew her abilities, so there was no need to worry.
Zhao Gang nodded: "Okay, but let the monkey keep you company."
"Great!" Zhao Xiaoxiu was overjoyed and couldn't wait to go find her master.
Unfortunately, Master has already gone into the mountains today, so we'll have to wait until tomorrow.
The two families went their separate ways, and when Zhao Xiaoxiu turned off her alarm clock and got up early the next morning, the courtyard was already deserted.
Only the excited shouts of Sister Monkey could be heard from the back mountain.
The three members of the Meng family set off at dawn toward the nearest isolation zone. They were well aware of their own strength and did not intend to go too far. They would only try their luck within a safe area and would run away immediately if they encountered something they could not defeat.
Zhao Gang went to the patrol station to assemble, and all the lords were summoned.
Large trucks transported people in waves to the eastern rubble pile for crushing, then the crushed stones were transported to the road in Zone B and spread, and finally the road surface was hardened with specially formulated cement.
A group of people skilled in operating large machinery were sent out of the planting area to build roads through a dense mountain forest.
This is a road leading to Jiangcheng. Construction is underway on both sides simultaneously. Once the road is completed, it will only take two hours to drive from the planting area to Jiangcheng.
Zhao Gang possesses the memory of multiple people and has mastered numerous skills, making it easy for him to operate large machinery.
However, the patrol station assigned him not as a machine driver, but as a security team squad leader, mainly responsible for the safety of the road repair team members.
The mutant species that the Meng family mother and her two children wanted to encounter within the quarantine zone were readily available to Zhao Gang.
Aside from the portion handed over to the base, Zhao Gang would keep any that tasted good and take them home as snacks for his cubs.
Zhao Xiaoxiu's ability to distinguish delicious food is known only to Mo Shigui and his team members.
The soldiers from Zone B, without telling anyone, secretly brought back mutated plants and animals below level B to the planting area and asked Zhao Xiaoxiu for help in dealing with them.
Zhao Xiaoxiu originally wanted to go find her master and ask him to take her into the mountains.
To everyone's surprise, all the lords had to do voluntary labor. Only later did they realize that their master and father were both busy and had no time for anything.
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