Chapter 157: It’s Yours
Early the next morning, Huai Yu picked up her hoe again and started tilling the soil with a grunt. The large bundle of sunflower seeds, which she had carefully checked and counted the night before, totaled 81 seeds.
Because the seeds were large and plump, it seemed like a lot. But considering their size, she thought the plants might grow large as well, so she needed to prepare a large plot of land for them to grow.
However, the process of preparing the land was a bit half-hearted.
She just dug out several small pits, each spaced far apart, and then dropped the seeds in, covered them with soil, watered them, and lightly accelerated their growth…
To her surprise, when she saw a tender, light green sunflower seedling emerging from the moist soil, with a slightly fuzzy texture, Huai Yu couldn’t help but feel proud.
Although she hadn’t practiced walking 10 kilometers a day, her ability to use her abilities had certainly improved!
The sunflowers were planted on the side of the house and the Rose Corridor. She was worried that if she over-accelerated their growth, they would grow too tall and robust, and would be too exposed without some coverage from the house.
After all, the vegetable garden was surrounded by tall wild grass, and the only plant that had overgrown so far was the low-lying cowpea.
Just like the time when Chen Xing and the others came and didn’t notice anything strange, it was not very noticeable from a distance, especially when people didn’t dare wander around the area.
Sunflowers, on the other hand, were different. Who knew what kind of variety they were? How tall could they grow? If from far away, someone saw a towering sunflower tree with a big, bright yellow flower, it would definitely stand out!
The sunflower in the book “Towards the Sun” had grown to 7 meters before it even mutated!
That height would exceed the roof of her house!
But since Huai Yu had only accelerated the growth of the seedlings, it probably wouldn’t be so exaggerated, right?
She picked one of each vegetable variety from the garden to accelerate its growth, watching them rapidly grow and bloom, before finally being satisfied and stopping.
This… she probably didn’t need to manually pollinate them, right?
She hesitated for a moment, but remembering that she hadn’t seen any butterflies or bees around recently, she reluctantly went back to the house and grabbed some cotton to dip into the flowers and spread around.
By the time she was done, the sun was already high in the sky.
Huai Yu thought of the ginseng from yesterday and decided to go to the backyard to check on Kuang Biao.
“Kuang Biao, did you see a mutated ginseng yesterday? If you did, please stop it.”
Kuang Biao shook the bamboo leaves, his voice a bit sluggish: “The ginseng you’re talking about, is it the one with a cluster of palm-shaped leaves on top and a bunch of red fruits, a stuttering, chubby water radish?”
Huai Yu: “…”
“Probably, but I don’t think it had that many prefixes, right?”
She looked at Kuang Biao, her eyes bright, “Did you see it?”
Kuang Biao snorted, “Isn’t that just the little stutterer? Not only did I see it, but your precious little one might have eaten it all!”
Huai Yu, “Huh?”
She was stunned. “It ate it? Did it run into the bamboo forest last night? I should have come and asked earlier.”
Well, there was no way to avoid it. Big and small cubs were so obedient. If they ate it… she could just regrow it.
Huai Yu thought casually.
As she was saying this, she saw one of the cubs, the one she couldn’t tell apart from the others, running toward her with its long legs and sharp “feathers” sticking out. It was chirping joyfully.
“Ah ah ah…”
Huai Yu quickly squatted down and patted its head—every time she patted it, its spines would gently retract, as long as she didn’t stroke against the direction, it wouldn’t hurt at all.
—So considerate, what’s wrong with eating a ginseng?
She didn’t spend much time with them every day, but the cubs were always so good!
Thinking about it, her heart melted into a soft puddle of water, and she quickly said, “Have you gotten tired of eating bamboo shoots and wild grass? In a few days, when the cucumbers start to bear fruit, I’ll accelerate their growth, and big and small cubs will have fresh ingredients.”
“Ah ah ah!”
The cub tilted its head back and chirped happily, fluttering its short wings against the bamboo beside it.
Huai Yu couldn’t help but laugh, looking up at the unmoving bamboo leaves above her head. After a while, Kuang Biao’s voice came.
“Since you don’t want to take credit, I’ll reluctantly admit it.”
“This water radish was indeed left by me.”
“It’s not very useful, it can’t run far. If it runs out, it’ll either be eaten by mutated animals or absorbed by mutated plants, so it’s better to stay here with us.”
“Just one thing, it’s too fresh. Don’t accelerate its growth into a radish.”
