Chapter 646: 50s Motherhood System (3)

【Yes, Host! You can select any piece of unclaimed land to deploy the vegetable garden. Once deployed, you can weed, water, and harvest with a single click via the task interface when the crops are mature. It won't take up much of your time.】

Xie Yang raised an eyebrow: "It's that smart?"

Ace asked back proudly: 【If it weren't smart, would it deserve to be called a Smart Farm?】

Xie Yang looked toward the Main System: Tsk tsk! Now I believe you aren't on the same line as it!? You make me do everything myself, but look at them—they're streets ahead of you!

Main System: 【...】

However, no matter how smart the Smart Farm was, Xie Yang had no land, so she couldn't deploy the vegetable garden.

There was unclaimed land in the mountains, but if she deployed the vegetable garden in a public area, wouldn't she be discovered?

【Host, you can set it to be hidden from the outside.】

Ace pulled up the main interface of the Smart Farm for her.

The main screen was currently displaying the map of Shili Village. Xie Yang could move the "Vegetable Garden" icon to any corner of the map at will. Red indicated that it was claimed land and could not be deployed on. Only areas showing green could be used.

Xie Yang chose to deploy it in a valley of a Jieshan mountain between Shili Village and the neighboring Wuli Cun.

In an instant, a plot of fertile nine-grid Black Soil appeared in the valley.

【Vegetable garden deployment complete. Host may choose whether to display it to the outside.】

Xie Yang chose "No."

The vegetable garden then entered "Full Stealth Mode."

The entire vegetable garden seemed to be draped in a mist-like veil; even if someone accidentally came to this valley, they would be too afraid to approach due to the thick fog, and if they did approach, they would be pushed away.

Ace continued to guide Xie Yang to click on the Seed Vault to select vegetable seeds. At the current level, the only seeds unlocked were radish, cabbage, and Potato.

Xie Yang took three of each, clicked to sow, and the nine seeds flew into the nine-grid vegetable garden, planted in the blink of an eye. With another click to water, the dark, fertile soil immediately became moist.

"And then I don't have to worry about them?"

Ace: 【Yes, Host. They will mature in 6 hours. You can harvest with one click, and they will be automatically stored in the Farm Warehouse.】

Xie Yang was astonished: "They mature in 6 hours?"

Ace: 【The maturation time for each batch of crop seeds is different; this batch is the shortest. Longer maturation times require 24 or 48 hours. For example, Wheat, rice, and cotton, which unlock after the vegetable garden is upgraded, require 24 hours, and some rare medicinal herbs require 48 hours.】

Xie Yang: "..."

Wheat, rice, and cotton only take 24 hours from sowing to harvest? Rare medicinal herbs only take 48 hours?

What kind of god-tier farm is this? I love it!

Main System: 【...】

Why does it feel like a rival competing for favor has arrived?

Xie Yang ignored the Main System's current heartache and browsed through the Smart Farm System in detail, basically understanding the upgrade mode of the Smart Farm:

The first module, the vegetable garden, has a total of 99 levels, with each level unlocking a varying number of crop seeds. Upgrading requires experience points. Where do experience points come from? — Sowing, weeding, catching pests, and harvesting all grant them.

The second module, the Orchard, has a total of 88 levels and opens when the vegetable garden reaches Level 3. Each level unlocks a varying number of fruit tree saplings. The Orchard comes with a beehive, and you can obtain wildflower honey during the fruit trees' flowering period.

The third module, the Fish pond, has a total of 66 levels and opens when the Orchard reaches Level 10. Before Level 10, the Fish pond unlocks freshwater aquatic products; after Level 15, it unlocks seafood. The Fish pond comes with a fishing platform for the Host to enjoy the fun of fishing.

The fourth module, the breeding farm, has a total of 33 levels and opens when the vegetable garden reaches Level 40. Each level unlocks several types of poultry or livestock, including chickens, ducks, geese, rabbits, quail, pigeons, pigs, cows, sheep, horses, donkeys, deer, etc. Each category is further divided into sub-categories; for example, chickens alone are divided into five types: local chicken, silky chicken, pheasant, turkey, and guinea fowl; cows also have five types: yellow cattle, water buffalo, dairy cow, Wagyu, and yak.

The fifth module is the Processing Workshop, which opens when the Orchard reaches Level 20, unlocking corresponding processing workshops as experience levels increase. Anything in the Farm Warehouse can be produced through the Processing Workshop.

For example, Wheat can be processed into steamed buns, bread, and other flour-based foods; Wheat and Pork can be processed into meat buns, pies, and other snacks; Wheat, eggs, and milk can be processed into delicious cakes; for instance, sugarcane can be processed into Brown Sugar; Wheat and glutinous rice can be processed into maltose; Potato can be processed into French Fries and Potato Mash; Potato and beef can be processed into hot potato stewed beef brisket; milk and red beans can be processed into double-skin milk; or, for example, seafood caught via one-click harvest or fishing can be made into seafood feasts of any flavor in the Processing Workshop.

Or, for example, cotton can be processed into sanitary napkins and diapers, or into Cotton Cloth, bedding, and clothing...

In short, there is nothing you can't think of that the farm's Processing Workshop can't do!

The more Xie Yang looked, the more interesting she found it; this was exactly like the Farm Game she had played on the Modern Plane!

This Smart Farm System was nothing more than the game manifested in reality, allowing her to play the game while enjoying the food and daily necessities produced by it.

With such an interesting system for company, she would be happy to stay on this plane for a lifetime!

Main System: 【...】

Its Host's heart had been hooked by an outside wild system! Sob sob sob!

At this moment, Qiu Caohua, who had gone out to show off, returned. Seeing that the meal wasn't cooked, the pigs weren't fed, the yard was covered in chicken droppings and hadn't been swept, and the clothes the family had thrown into the washbasin were still in the same state as when she left, she immediately darkened her face and cursed at the woodshed:

"The sun is hitting your butt and you're still sleeping? Some people, do they think that just because my son became a Cadre, she is a Cadre's wife? She really doesn't know her place! Besides, my Mingcheng is a Cadre in Beijing. If some people aren't filial, don't blame me for not taking her along when Mingcheng comes to pick up our family to enjoy life in Beijing!"

Qiu Caohua dropped this remark and waited triumphantly.

She wanted to see if, after saying all that, her daughter-in-law would still dare not come out to work.

But she waited and waited, and after a long while, she still didn't see her daughter-in-law come out of the woodshed.

Furious, she kicked open the broken door of the woodshed and found it empty.

She was stunned: Where is she?

Xie Yang had already entered the mountains at this time.

Wash clothes, cook, feed the chickens, feed the pigs, clean the house, and serve the elderly Zhuang couple?

In her dreams!

If she had the time for that, wouldn't she find a place to hide and cook for herself?

Just after entering the mountains, she took a bowl of Nanyang Bird's Nest from her stockpile and drank it as she walked.

This body was only twenty-three years old. When she looked in the washbasin earlier, her eye sockets were sunken, her complexion was sallow, and her hair was sparse and withered. There wasn't a trace of collagen to be found; people would believe it if you said she was thirty or forty.

She had been with the Zhuang family for ten years. Except for the first year when they treated her like a human, the days that followed were harder than those of a mule or a horse.

The Main System was terrified that the Host would get so angry she would pull out the returned Motherhood System to curse at it again, so it hurriedly changed the subject:

【Host, you haven't checked the points settled from the previous plane yet, have you?】