Chapter 660: Five-Zero Motherhood System (17)

A similar scene was also playing out at other military garrisons and scientific research units living in difficult conditions.

Upon discovering their warehouses full of grain, vegetables, and fruits, the heads of these units were both pleasantly surprised and apprehensive.

Who exactly could it be? To be able to deceive everyone and transport so much grain, vegetables, and fruit into their warehouses? And yet, they knew absolutely nothing about it.

Especially in the military, where there was a guard post at the main gate, a guard post at the office building, and another guard post in the core area, followed by scheduled patrols and security. Even so, no strangers were spotted entering or leaving, let alone grain, vegetables, and fruits that would require a flatbed cart to haul. With it being so obvious, how could it possibly have gone unnoticed?

Furthermore, it is only April or May; are watermelons already ripe? And there are grains and corn that clearly look like this year's new harvest... This is definitely not something an ordinary person could accomplish!

Fortunately, the other party is a friend, not a foe.

Why say that? In this day and age, how precious is food! Could someone who delivers a warehouse full of grain and fresh produce to your doorstep without making any demands—without even showing their face—be an enemy?

If they really were an enemy, then this enemy is quite foolish.

With the ability to deceive everyone, why deliver grain? Wouldn't it be easier to just deliver a bomb inside and detonate it?

Therefore, the various units that received the donated grain, suspicion aside, did not believe this person was an enemy. On the contrary, they were a good person!

Consequently, after the heads of the various units reported it, they tried every possible way to find this good person.

The person did not seek a reward, but they could not truly act as if they were unaware.

On Xie Yang's side, as more and more boxes on the list were checked off, the numbers in the top right corner of the icons in the Nongchang warehouse—excluding straw, wheat stalks, wheat bran, rice bran, corn leaves, and corn cobs—all dropped from 999 to 99, and then from 99 down to single digits.

Not until only single-digit quantities remained did Xie Yang finish her work: "Alright, that's enough for this time."

Calculating the grain, vegetables, and fruits donated, it should alleviate the grain shortage in important departments for a short time.

It is a pity that the livestock farm has not been unlocked yet, otherwise, she could have sent them some meat.

As for going into the mountains to hunt... Xie Yang thought about it and decided against it. How much meat could she hunt? With many monks and little gruel, it is better to give to no one.

Besides, the grain and vegetables currently being provided are of much higher quality than those outside, so it could be attributed to a miracle. But wild game is different; it is clearly something that exists in reality, and one would have to be near the mountains to hunt it. If all the villages near the mountains were investigated, wouldn't she be shooting herself in the foot?

It is better to wait until the livestock farm is opened later, when there will be a steady supply of meat to eat, and then it won't be too late to send some.

After cleaning up the traces left by moving the grain and vegetables, Xie Yang picked up the basket she had brought and went down the mountain.

On the way back, she dug up some fresh wild vegetables and unearthed quite a few spring bamboo shoots along the way.

She even specifically chose a few older wild Shepherd's Purse plants to take back and transplant into her own vegetable garden, to see if she could collect the seeds.

If she could collect them, she could plant a round in the Smart Vegetable Garden whenever she wanted to eat them, and she would not have to worry about fresh Shepherd's Purse all year round.

Shepherd's Purse is one of her favorite wild vegetables; stir-fried with rice cakes, stir-fried with eggs, or in dumplings... that unique, fresh fragrance is something other wild vegetables simply cannot compare to.

"Yangyang, you went up the mountain? You really are a diligent one; you don't even take a rest after finishing the work in the fields before heading up the mountain."

Meeting a few village women picking firewood at the foot of the mountain on her way down, they praised her sincerely when they saw her carrying a bamboo basket of wild vegetables.

Xie Yang smiled: "I'm used to it."

The village women immediately thought of the Old Zhuang Family.

To be used to working at such a young age, it seems that over the past ten years, she was not spared from being ordered around by Qiu Caohua at the Old Zhuang Family.

Thus, after Xie Yang left, the women began to complain about Qiu Caohua one after another:

"I saw it a long time ago; Qiu Caohua just pretends to be kind on the surface, but her heart is actually quite vicious."

"Qiu Caohua really hasn't worked in the fields much in the last few years; the work in the fields was done by either Zhuang Laotou or Xie Yang."

"The key is that after finishing the work in the fields, she still had to keep working when she got home, washing clothes, cooking, feeding the chickens and pigs... all the work in the house was thrown onto Mingcheng's wife. It's truly a wonder Qiu Caohua could do such a thing."

"Shh—why are you still calling her Mingcheng's wife? If the Women's Director hears you, she'll criticize us again."

"Hahaha, slip of the tongue! Slip of the tongue!"

Hearing the laughter carried on the wind, Xie Yang shook her head and smiled.

Her pace did not stop, and she soon returned to her own home.

As soon as she entered the house, she saw the chicks pecking at the grass under the peach tree, as well as the grunting sounds of the piglets in the backyard.

The chicks and piglets were caught at the beginning of spring; the chicks were bought at the market before spring plowing. The chicks, only three days out of the shell, had tender yellow feathers and were fluffy and incredibly cute. Xie Yang picked out six in total, one male and five females.

The Chicken Coop at home finally welcomed its first batch of owners.

Xie Yang put up a bamboo fence in front of the Chicken Coop, enclosing the peach tree, the Chicken Coop, and the grapevines planted at the beginning of last month together, so that the chicks had their own activity area without running around and getting lost.

As for the piglets, the Zhishu Xifu helped her find out that a sow belonging to a family in her maiden village was about to give birth when she went back to visit her parents on the second day of the Lunar New Year, so she helped her reserve two in advance.

And so, they were brought over as soon as they were weaned last month.

Xie Yang spread straw in the Pig Pen and fed them very carefully. During the first month after weaning, fearing they would not adapt, she fed them boiled carrots and pumpkins, and even dripped some diluted Spirit Spring Water into their drinking water to prevent them from getting sick.

The chicks were the same; she fed them millet soaked in diluted Spirit Spring Water for several days, and only then did she slowly adjust them to eating leftover rice, corn grits, and eventually vegetable leaves, vegetable stalks, and tender corn cobs... Now they eat whatever is fed to them, and even if they aren't fed, they peck at the grass in the yard.

After she finished fencing, she scattered a handful of purple alfalfa seeds in the soil inside the fence. Now that they have sprouted and grown, it is exactly when the stems and leaves are at their tenderest. The chicks love them so much that, as long as the weather is good, their passion for the alfalfa even outweighs her daily feedings.

Every time she returns home and sees the thriving yard and the chicks and piglets full of life and vitality, Xie Yang feels that such a life is quite good!

"Yangyang, you're home? That's great! Come, come, come, Sister-in-law has a good match to tell you about..."

Tian Qisao, who lived at the bridgehead, hurried over with excited steps.

Xie Yang: "..."

If only the older women and aunts in the village wouldn't introduce her to suitors all day long, it would be even better!

"Yangyang, you will definitely be satisfied with this young man's conditions."

Tian Qisao was still panting, but she excitedly pulled Xie Yang over to introduce him:

"Although his family is from Xinghua Village, he became an apprentice at the Gad Steel Factory at the beginning of the year, and he will be able to become a regular employee within two years. By then, he will be eating commodity grain. Moreover, he is the youngest in the family; his two older brothers and one older sister are all married, so his parents have a small burden. They also said that they would divide the family property when the youngest son gets married, so you could be the one in charge as soon as you marry into the family. How about it? You're satisfied with this young man, right? It's thanks to me going back to my maiden home after the spring plowing ended, and my cousin who married into Xinghua Village also happened to be back at her maiden home, otherwise, I would have missed such a good match."

"..." Xie Yang wanted to hold her forehead, "Sister-in-law, I don't have any such plans for the time being."