Chapter 283: Universal Planting System (22)

"The delicious food is here!"

At this moment, Xie Ting ran out from the house happily, holding a large metal lunchbox in his arms, and lifted his proud little head to announce:

"My mommy made delicious food for you all. She said since today is the first day, she's giving you an extra meal."

Delicious food?

Upon hearing there was delicious natural food, everyone forgot that they had been retching and feeling nauseous just a second ago, and they swarmed over in a flash.

"Is it that fresh and savory soup from yesterday?"

"Nope." Xie Ting opened the lunchbox with his furry little hands, "It's even better than the fresh and savory soup!"

"There's something even better?"

"Wow! It smells so good!"

"What is this made of? It's so fragrant! I really want to eat this every day!"

"Yeah, if the boss gave us a bowl of this food every day, it wouldn't be unbearable to wash those gross intestines."

Xie Ting giggled, revealing two cute little tiger teeth: "But this delicious food is made from the stinky trash you're washing right now!"

"!!!"

Wh-what!

The delicacy they were currently tasting was actually made from livestock offal?

For a moment, they didn't know whether to spit it out or swallow it.

Regardless of how they eventually accepted it, the result was good in the end—

From then on, Xie Yang had an additional logistics team of sixteen people.

With Xiya Ma and the sixteen newly recruited helpers to assist, Xie Yang could finally let go and cook, and the listing volume of her Xingwang-xiaodian increased significantly.

Checking the Star Coin balance and tallying the day's turnover before going to sleep every night was the most wonderful thing.

At the same time, she could also free up time to tend to the vegetable patch in the backyard.

It was also at this time that Chi Dahu and the others realized their boss hadn't been daydreaming—she had truly grown things!

The discarded seeds picked up from the ecological garbage dump had actually been grown to life by the boss!!!

At this moment, the look in Chi Dahu and the others' eyes as they watched Xie Yang was filled with fanatical worship.

Their boss was not only a Cooking Master, but also a Planting Master who excelled at turning waste into treasure!

To be able to grow discarded seeds that the Agricultural Reclamation Star threw away as trash—what kind of ability was this!

They must have been blind to have dared to provoke the boss back then!

Fortunately, the boss was magnanimous and didn't hold it against them, but instead hired them.

They were willing to go through fire and water for a dual-master of Cooking and Planting!

"Boss, if you need us to do anything, just say the word!"

"That's right, Boss, just give us your orders."

Xie Yang pointed at the Flying Vehicle: "Continue to District 1 to haul back livestock trash."

"..."

That stuff, livestock offal, really made one want to decline with thanks.

But thinking of the delicacies the boss made from it, they felt that if it was stinky, so be it.

If it weren't stinky, it probably wouldn't be their turn to pick it up; the residents of District 1 would have already snatched it all up.

Chi Dahu pointed to a few underlings to set off for the Zone 1 Garbage Dump to scavenge for fresh livestock trash and relatively plump discarded seeds, while the others spontaneously picked up iron shovels and hoes, continuing to reclaim wasteland or dig irrigation ditches.

It was a bit tiring, but thinking of the 500 Star Coins per month and the reward of one meal of natural food every day, they felt this life had more to look forward to than before.

Xie Ting hadn't been watching them work for the past few days; he had found something that interested him more:

Watching the automatic sprinkler on the Robot's head was very interesting, like the Robot was constantly crying, with tears spraying out, just right for watering the vegetable patch. So he looked at Xie Yang longingly, wanting her to install one on his head too.

Xie Yang had no choice but to scavenge a lightweight and simple automatic watering can on the Star Net and tie it to his head.

He ran back and forth in the vegetable patch with the self-watering can on his head, playing while watering the patch, occasionally lifting his little paws to play in the spray, giggling with joy.

Xie Yang: "..."

As a mother, she couldn't bear to look... forget it, as long as he found it fun.

She had recently soaked the Micro-active Seeds scavenged from the Zone 1 Garbage Dump until they sprouted and planted them in the ground.

The inactive seeds had been replaced with substitutes given to her by the Sub-system.

Don't even mention it, the quality of seeds produced by the Universal Planting Space was truly extraordinary! They sprouted after soaking for half a day, and after two days in the ground, they were already shooting up, now a patch of lush green.

Looking around her small vegetable patch, the vegetable garden of about half a mu was divided into five plots of equal size, planted with a dazzling array of crops.

The middle plot was all spices, the two plots on the left and right were one for ornamental flowers and plants and one for edible leafy vegetables, and the two plots on the edges were for melons and vegetables that would need trellises later.

Currently, the ones growing best were the lichen, alfalfa, pothos, and the Bitter Vegetable that could be picked and eaten.

She had already eaten two meals of the tender leaves of the Bitter Vegetable, blanched and served as a cold dish; the bitterness was fine, and it was mainly for clearing heat and detoxifying, so eating a little properly could detoxify the body. Even Xie Ting liked it very much.

The lichen was suitable for alkaline soil; once it propagated more, she would transplant it to the side of the Ice Lake.

The alfalfa would be transplanted to the land the underlings had cleared; after maintaining it for a year or so, when planting other things, the soil fertility would be much better.

The pothos was a vine plant; when she had time, she would tie a fence around the shelter, and it would be perfect for beautifying the fence wall.

In addition, the ancient lotus had also sprouted; although there were only two seeds, the sprouts were very sturdy.

Xie Yang used a metal plate scavenged from the garbage dump to make a rectangular flower stand and nailed it under the back eaves, drilled rows of tiny drainage and ventilation holes at the bottom, filled it with soil and watered it thoroughly, then transplanted the two trembling ancient lotus sprouts there, and set up a very thin irrigation pipe on the metal flower stand to keep the soil moist so the ancient lotus could grow sturdily.

The sea coconut sprouts also needed a lot of water for irrigation, but she planned to transplant those to the side of the Ice Lake.

Speaking of the Ice Lake, she hadn't gone to collect today's portion of sea salt yet.

Xie Yang said a word to her little beast-cub son, the walking sprinkler who was playing happily, and carried the sea coconut sprouts with soil to the Ice Lake.

The Bobo Ball-mimicking Sub-system had been bouncing around in her sea of consciousness:

【Host, Host, the coconuts in my space have ripened, do you want one?】

【Host, your sea coconut seedling is only this big, how long until you can eat it! You might as well come to my space and eat a fresh, big coconut!】

Xie Yang rubbed her temples: "..."

Coconut juice that makes one live in a drunken dream and die in a dream, with the time it takes to sober up depending on individual differences—does she dare drink it?

【Host, you can dilute it with water! Dilute it ten times, and the effect won't be that strong.】

Xie Yang: "..."

If she drinks coconut juice diluted ten times, what is she even aiming for?

Even if it could aid sleep... on this Garbage Star with no entertainment, she isn't lacking sleep anyway.

Before bed, aside from going on the Star Net to check on her little shop, she has no other pastimes, so her schedule is much more regular than in the Modern Plane.

But the Sub-system constantly chattering in her sea of consciousness is annoying too, so she said: "Fine, I'll try it when I get back."

【No need to go back, I've already diluted it for you, Host! Catch!】

The cheerful electronic voice had just fallen when a large coconut with a wooden straw stuck in it suddenly appeared in Xie Yang's hand.

【Host, am I thoughtful? I heard you need to pick a Sub-system that has been repaired at the factory to take to the Immortal World to be an immortal; can you pick me? I will always be this, this thoughtful!】

Xie Yang glanced at the large coconut in her hand that was completely out of place on the Garbage Star, then looked up, locking eyes with a cold, stern young man standing under a Giant Cactus dozens of meters away who was not wearing an Anti-Radiation Suit.

"..."