The mutated weeds in the planting area were growing wildly. After successfully delivering the edible meat to Mo Shigui, Zhao Xiaoxiu put on her rain gear, picked up her small hoe, and went with her father to the planting area to weed.
The rain lessened considerably today, the dark clouds dispersed, and the sunlight streamed down, making the sky bright and clear. My gloomy mood, which had been dampened by days of heavy rain, instantly lifted.
The crops and the rampant mutated weeds in the two acres of planting land have merged into one, and at a glance, everything is green, making it impossible to distinguish which is the crop and which is the weed.
The field was protected by the branches of the Green Fairy, and there were no signs of damage from animals. Zhao Gang inspected the area and repaired the blocked irrigation ditch.
As she entered the vegetable garden, Zhao Xiaoxiu used both hands simultaneously, bending over and pulling weeds in the sweet potato patch that was almost as tall as her. She pulled with all her might.
A bright smile spread across Zhao Gang's lips. Seeing that his little cub was about to pull up the stems and leaves of the evolved sweet potato along with the weeds, he calmly stepped forward and took the evolved sweet potato leaves from the chubby little hand.
After her mistake was corrected, Zhao Xiaoxiu gave her father an embarrassed smile.
Zhao Gang: "Xiaoxiu is great, she can even help her dad with farm work now."
"This is praise?" Zhao Xiaoxiu was flattered and worked even harder from then on.
By the afternoon, all the weeds in the one acre of sweet potato field and one acre of vegetable field had been completely uprooted.
Without rivals vying for soil fertility, the crops immediately perked up, frolicking joyfully in the drizzle.
Zhao Xiaoxiu was covered in mud. Zhao Gang called out, "Let's go home." The little girl wanted to grab another lump of mud and skipped along behind him. She played in the mud all the way to the doorstep before reluctantly throwing it away and going to the bathroom with her father to wash her hands.
The father and daughter washed their hands and faces, then went to the backyard to clean their hoes, sickles, and mud-covered rain boots before putting them away in the tool shed.
Zhao Xiaoxiu stood under the eaves of the woodshed back door, a candied tomato still shivering from being taken out of the freezer, with a candied tomato stick dangling from her mouth, watching her father work.
Monkey Sister has run off somewhere, but Peter Pan is over at the pond, using his newly learned skills to try and move the piranhas that have taken over his home out one wave at a time.
Zhao Xiaoxiu pricked up her ears and could hear various sounds coming from afar: gunshots, explosions, the roars of mutated animals, and the sound of cars driving and wheels splashing over muddy ponds.
The little body, which had been lazily leaning against the door frame, suddenly straightened up, turned around and ran around the kitchen and living room to the steps in front of the house. Looking up, it saw the familiar patrol car from Zone B speeding towards it from the entrance of the planting area.
"Uncle Mo is back!" Zhao Xiaoxiu perked up, watching expectantly as the patrol car drove towards her territory and came to a steady stop at the entrance.
"Dad!" Zhao Xiaoxiu called out towards the backyard, turned around, took down the raincoat hanging by the door, put it on, and happily went out to greet him.
However, as soon as he rushed out of the flower wall, his hurried steps came to an abrupt halt.
"What's wrong?" Meng Da and the others who came out to see what was going on asked in confusion, all looking at the patrol car.
Mo Shigui jumped out of the car and waved to them. Then the back door opened, and two people in black raincoats helped another person out of the car.
The person being helped seemed to be injured, and Zhao Xiaoxiu smelled a faint scent of blood.
"Who is this?" Granny Meng came out next and asked in confusion.
Upon hearing her voice, one of the men in black suddenly looked up and shouted, "Cousin!"
Granny Meng was startled; she recognized the voice very well!
He quickly called the Meng brothers and rushed to the patrol car. Upon closer inspection, he exclaimed, "Chen Que, what are you doing here? Who is this?"
The person, completely covered in a black raincoat, raised their head, revealing silver hair on their forehead. Their pale face was pulled at the corners of their bloodless mouth, and they managed a bitter smile.
"Grandma Silver?" This time it was Zhao Xiaoxiu's turn to be greatly surprised.
No one expected to see members of the Qinghe Hunting Group so suddenly at this time and place.
Seeing that they indeed knew each other, Mo Shigui secretly breathed a sigh of relief and explained to Zhao Gang, who had remained silent and expressionless:
"The temporary camp was attacked by a horde of mutated animals at noon, but the situation has been resolved now. However, there are too many injured people to accommodate them all, so they have been distributed to the planting area."
“These people are from the Qinghe Hunting Group. The group leader is injured and needs to recuperate. He said they know a lord in Area B, so I brought them here.”
As he spoke, he quickly took down all the luggage and equipment of the three of them and stuffed it into Meng Da and Meng Er's hands. He then winked at Zhao Xiaoxiu, implying that they could split the bill later and get in the car and leave immediately.
Once someone has been arranged here on the 13th, it's difficult to make further arrangements. For the wounded who are brought over later, let him think about which family would be the best place to house them.
The patrol car made a U-turn at the end of the road, passing right between Territories 11 and 6. Mo Shigui glanced over and saw Bai Cailing studying a bunch of mutated plants in front of Room 6.
This is great!
Mo Shigui suddenly remembered that Bai Cailing studied traditional Chinese medicine and should be very skilled at taking care of patients, so he secretly added several wounded soldiers to the list of Territories No. 6.
After that, the patrol car made round and round trips, bringing back more than a dozen wounded people who needed to rest.
Meanwhile, at Zhao Xiaoxiu's house, after Shen Que and another companion settled the injured Granny Yin at Granny Meng's house, the companion left.
Knowing that Zhao Gang was a lord, Chen Que said apologetically, "I'm sorry to have bothered you."
Zhao Gang didn't speak, but he didn't object either.
He has learned a lot about human relationships now. He and the cubs were taken care of by these people before, so it's no big deal for him to take care of them in return.
Seeing that Zhao Gang didn't speak, Shen Que wasn't surprised. On the contrary, she felt that this person was still as relaxed as before.
"The commander is seriously injured, and the temporary camp doesn't have a medical pod. The battle just ended, and the camp hasn't been cleaned up yet, which isn't good for the wounded to recover, so we had to arrange for them to be sent to the nearby planting area. I saw your name on the list, so I came over," Shen Que explained.
Zhao Gang nodded, took Zhao Xiaoxiu's hand, who was talking to Grandma Yin by the bedside, packed some things and handed them to her to take.
Zhao Xiaoxiu nodded and became her father's errand boy, lifting the heavy basket with a "heave-ho" and running to the neighboring bungalow.
"Sister Chen Que, here!" The little girl lifted the basket high and handed it to Chen Que, who was sitting by the bed taking care of the leader.
The basket contained ten vials of nutrient solution, four bags of tomato sauce, two bottles of yogurt, half a fresh potato, a bundle of mutated cabbage leaves just taken from the refrigerator, two pounds of mutated animal meat, and a plump mutated blackback fish.
It was obvious how heavy it was. Chen Que hurriedly got up and took it, immediately feeling the sturdy weight of the basket.
She looked at the tiny child in front of her, who wasn't even as tall as her waist, in surprise. "So heavy, did you carry this all the way from home by yourself?"
“Yes!” The little girl clenched her fist with great pride. “I’m very strong.”
Even Grandma Yin, lying on the bed, couldn't help but laugh.
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