Zhao Xiaoxiu washed herself clean and snuggled in her father's arms for a good night's sleep.
The alarm rang, and the father and daughter sat up in bed in perfect unison, yawned widely, and then stretched lazily with satisfaction, their movements perfectly synchronized.
Zhao Xiaoxiu said, "Dad, don't be like me!"
Zhao Gang smiled without saying a word. He did the same things as his daughter: he lifted the blanket, put on his clothes and shoes, and when she glared at him, he grinned, revealing a set of white teeth: "Beautiful."
"What's interesting?" The little guy's attention was immediately diverted.
Zhao Gang, his pupils gleaming, said earnestly, "The color is beautiful, pinkish-purple bubbles with tiny, twinkling stars inside."
This wasn't the first time Zhao Xiaoxiu had heard her father describe it this way. She ran to the bathroom mirror, stood on a small stool, and looked left and right, asking, "Where are they?"
A tall figure appeared behind her, pointing to a spot five centimeters above her head.
Zhao Xiaoxiu raised her little hand and touched the top of her head, but there was nothing there. She was a little doubtful; were those bubbles real? Why couldn't she see them?
The cub looked utterly confused, and even the beautiful bubbles seemed to dim a little.
Zhao Gang stretched out two fingers, poked them on the cub's chubby cheeks, gently lifted them, and told her:
"May Xiaoxiu always be happy, and may the bubbles of happiness be as beautiful as nebulae in the universe."
“Nebula? ...Nebulae in the universe.” She repeated her father’s words, flashing her brightest smile at the person in the mirror.
Zhao Gang frowned slightly. "A deliberate smile doesn't look happy; it doesn't look good."
The smile on the baby's face vanished instantly. Well, the dad is number one at ruining the mood.
The father and daughter quickly finished washing up, and then the caterpillars deftly braided Zhao Xiaoxiu's hair into two high braids, one on the left and one on the right, like two antennas on her head.
"Hmm, it's... a really strange aesthetic sense," Zhao Xiaoxiu thought to herself.
Today is the completion day, and all the lords of Zone B have gone to the site to participate in the completion ceremony.
For Zhao Xiaoxiu, it was another day when she would never see her master take her into the mountains.
She finished her one-hour morning exercise by herself, then called over Sister Monkey. The two of them got some planks and followed the adults to the vegetable garden that had just been cultivated the day before.
Zhao Xiaoxiu's main role today was to keep someone company. She sat in the pile of mutated weeds where Monkey Sister had lain yesterday, holding a small hammer and tapping on the wooden planks she had brought. She was going to make a few standees.
The adults never thought of asking her to work in the fields. The four of them could finish repairing two or three acres of land in a morning.
After cleaning up, under Granny Meng's direction, they pulled up all the mutated weeds that had grown on the surrounding wasteland and piled them up in the newly cleared land to burn.
Zhao Xiaoxiu didn't do any work, so Sister Monkey openly shirked her responsibilities and became her errand girl.
He was busy with a machete one minute and paint the next, looking busier than anyone else.
Finally, the two of them made ten standees and placed them in the designated open space.
There are a total of three acres of land. One acre is reserved for planting the second batch of improved potatoes, and the other acre is reserved for cuttings of improved sweet potato seedlings.
The remaining acre was divided into seven plots of varying sizes to grow vegetables such as evolved pumpkins, evolved cabbages, mutated cucumbers, and mutated radishes.
Zhao Xiaoxiu wrote the names of these vegetables on the standees to avoid mixing them up later.
Of course, professional farmers can tell at a glance which green leaf belongs to which vegetable.
Zhao Xiaoxiu has a lot of confidence in herself and her father. She believes that she will no longer need to put up signs to distinguish them in the future.
The day passed peacefully amidst the clearing and cultivation.
On the day the evolved potatoes were harvested, Youyou, who hadn't been heard from in a long time, arrived.
Yang Mei personally brought her son over. He stayed, grabbed a bouquet of flowers, and left in a hurry.
It seems like sending my son here was something I squeezed out of my busy schedule.
Zhao Xiaoxiu and Youyou stood under the flower wall, watching her and the guards leave. Zhao Xiaoxiu couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong with your mother? She looks so tired."
Youyou sighed and said, "Mom has been in the lab for half a month straight. The assistant said she hasn't had a full night's sleep. It's like this every time she does an experiment. It's really worrying."
Zhao Xiaoxiu said "Oh" and didn't ask any further questions, because there were many more things Youyou didn't know either.
She guessed that Yang Mei must have made some new discovery to be so engrossed. He had just stolen a handful of her flowers.
Could it be related to the Green Fairy?
Never mind, I have important things to do today.
"Come on, let's go see my dad and the others harvest the evolved potatoes!" Zhao Xiaoxiu called to Youyou to follow, and they flew towards the field like a gust of wind.
"Zhao Xiaoxiu, wait for me!" Youyou hurriedly followed, panting as she caught up.
The adults were already digging in the ground. Underneath a cluster of large green leaves, there was a large clod of soil, and you could vaguely see what an evolved potato looked like.
"Xiaoxiu, come here." Zhao Gang handed his daughter a small hoe to her, asking her to knock off the mud covering the potatoes.
The first evolved potato must be the one that the baby plants see first.
In human terms, this is called a sense of ritual.
Just like the completion ceremony of the highway yesterday, it's easy to remember it someday in the future.
Worried about damaging the potato, Zhao Xiaoxiu carefully scraped off the soil with a hoe. Soon, an irregularly shaped, golden-yellow potato with a diameter of nearly 30 centimeters appeared before everyone's eyes.
"Is this the evolved potato?" Xiwa murmured in surprise.
Zhao Xiaoxiu leaned closer and took a sniff. First, she smelled the earthy smell of soil, followed by a fresh and delicate fragrance.
"Xiaoxiu, does it smell good?" Seeing Zhao Xiaoxiu's intoxicated expression, Youyou bent down and leaned close to her face, asking curiously. He couldn't resist taking a puff himself.
"Ew~" It all smells like dirt!
Curious, everyone couldn't resist coming closer to smell it, and each person's expression and reaction were different.
Grandma Meng smiled and said, "I guarantee this is definitely a potato, and it smells just like the potatoes from before."
Meng Da was more concerned about the other potatoes in the field. Together with Zhao Gang, they picked up hoes and started digging. The two of them were fast and strong, and the hoes left afterimages as they swung. In no time, they dug out a large pile of mud balls.
The little girl was more concerned about the yield, so she excitedly ran back to get bags and scales to weigh the produce.
The first potato weighed 21 jin (approximately 10.5 kg), a truly heavy weight.
Youyou seemed to have thought of something and whispered in Zhao Xiaoxiu's ear, "Xiaoxiu, let's ask your dad to fry some French fries for us today. They'll be especially delicious with ketchup."
Zhao Xiaoxiu's eyes lit up instantly, her nose seemed to smell the aroma of freshly fried French fries, and her mouth began to salivate wildly.
They swallowed hard, called over Sister Monkey, and the two kids and the monkey immediately started selecting raw materials, choosing three big and round ones to take home.
First, I would finish the washing and cutting work myself, then soak the food in clean water and wait for the adults to come back and help me fry it.
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