Chapter 193: Temperature and Humidity Control Equipment

"Third Brother isn't a smart person, he's a petty person." Tang Huai muttered this before pressing the button, "Third Brother, I really didn't mean it that way. Don't misunderstand, how could I let you pay for the pangolin?"

Tang Huai's apology was drowned out by the welcoming voices, and no one paid him any attention.

With her keen hearing, Xia Qing happily discovered that the background noise when Luo Pei and Zhang San spoke was the same.

The two of them were together, or rather, had come back together?

Inside an armored vehicle traveling on the main road of Territory No. 1 to 28, Luo Pei thanked Zhang San, "Thank you, Third Brother."

Zhang San sprawled weakly in his seat, too lazy to even spare Luo Pei a glance.

Luo Pei then thanked Yan Long, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, "Thank you."

After being given a sidelong glare by Yan Long's sharp, slanted eyes, Luo Pei smiled even more brightly, "Understood, I'll go back and tell Old Tan right away, and have him bring Sister Qiqi to thank you."

Just like Luo Pei and Tan Junjie, Yan Long and Tan Junjie's wife were comrades who enlisted in the same batch.

Yan Long looked at Luo Pei's face, where the poison had not yet faded, and found it very displeasing, "The day after tomorrow, shall we go up Mountain No. 49 for a match?"

Ji Li, sitting next to Zhang San, heard that two experts were going to spar, and his eyes lit up.

Luo Pei begged for mercy, "I haven't recovered yet, I'm no match for you."

Zhang San asked with a sickly expression, "You captured the pangolin from the Sufeng Squad?"

Zhang San's medical skill was as high as his pettiness; Luo Pei didn't dare to fob him off with lies, and answered truthfully, "To be precise, the Sufeng Squad's pangolin was startled and fled, and then was killed by a fierce beast in the forest. We just picked up the ready-made catch."

The details of how the "fierce beast" carried the pangolin into Xia Qing's territory, and how Xia Qing then passed it on to him, were deliberately omitted by Luo Pei.

"Green-light ones?"

Luo Pei answered, "Both were green-light. The meat of the small one wasn't contaminated and is well preserved. Would Third Brother like to try some?"

Zhang San shook his head and proposed an exchange for the scales, "Curing the poison on you doesn't require two pangolins. Give me twenty scales from the back of the large pangolin, and I'll go back and prepare a prescription to regulate your stomach."

The prescription for Luo Pei's poison removal was written by Zhang San, so of course he knew the dosage of every ingredient.

"Thank you, Third Brother. I'll send someone to deliver them to the North Isolation Belt of Territory No. 7 in half an hour." As soon as Luo Pei finished speaking, the armored vehicle stopped beneath the road sign at the southern end of Territory No. 7.

The first thing Zhang San did after returning to his territory was to summon the chef within the territory and ask, "Is there anything edible?"

The chef of Territory No. 7 beamed, "While you were away, we exchanged a green-light pig, two green-light black-maned geese, three green-light wild rabbits, a green-light young sika deer, and most of a green-light python with the Lord of Territory No. 3. Right now, the ready-to-eat items are the five-spice smoked sausages we've already processed."

Because they didn't know when the Lord would return, after the green-light game exchanged with Territory No. 3 was cleaned up, aside from using some of the pork to make smoked sausages, everything else was properly preserved.

Zhang San's listless expression visibly improved, "Braised pig ears, saliva goose, bitter gourd snake soup."

"Alright, what vegetables would you like?"

"I'll go pick some in the greenhouse."

Zhang San returned to his territory, and his mood finally improved a little. He changed clothes and entered the planting greenhouse to check on the growth of various vegetables, and found that the spinach he had planted before leaving his territory had grown to the height of a palm and was ready to eat.

Zhang San plucked spinach leaves while calling Xia Qing.

Xia Qing, who had sent a lot of green-light game to Territory No. 7, hadn't expected her idol to call her as soon as he returned, and immediately answered, "Third Brother, you've finally come back."

Zhang San asked while plucking spinach, "How is your spinach growing?"

Xia Qing reported the situation while walking toward the vegetable greenhouse, "Following the methods in the cultivation guide you gave me, I tried my best to create the conditions and planted three hundred spinach seeds. A total of two hundred grew. The germination rate has improved compared to before, but maybe because they got frozen for a bit during the hailstorm, the spinach seedlings aren't growing fast. Should I pick some spinach leaves now and send them over to you?"

Previously, the green-light seeds Xia Qing had soaked in spring water had a germination rate of sixty percent; using Zhang San's cultivation techniques raised the germination rate to sixty-seven percent.

During this period, Xia Qing fed the sick wolf some spinach juice every day, but she never touched a single leaf of the hundred spinach plants meant for Zhang San. Fortunately, she kept her promise. Look, the moment her idol returned, he asked about the spinach.

Hearing that Xia Qing's spinach was growing slowly, Zhang San plucked more of his own spinach, "As long as it didn't get diseased or smashed, growing slowly due to climate is perfectly normal. What are you planning to exchange for the green-light animals you've sent over during this period?"

Xia Qing's goal in sending meat to Territory No. 7 during this period was very clear, "Third Brother, I want the kind of potion you gave me last time that drips spinach juice into it, and I also want two pieces of equipment that can control temperature and humidity. Each one just needs to cover an area of thirty square meters."

Zhang San understood, "You want to store food within your territory? Even with temperature and humidity control equipment, without a Qiang element filter, the maximum shelf life of your food would be three months."

Xia Qing certainly wouldn't mention that she had a Yishi, "I want to give it a try. I can't bear to exchange all the grain I grow myself."

Zhang San turned and asked a few questions to the person beside him before replying, "We don't have thirty-square-meter ones, only forty-square-meter ones. How many grams of the potion do you want?"

Xia Qing asked politely, "May I exchange for one hundred grams?"

"Alright. The two pieces of equipment, one hundred grams of the potion, the surgical fee for the wolf infected with parasites from the other day, the medical fees, and the medicine fees for the other two wolves—the green-light food you've sent over isn't enough to cover the exchange."

Zhang San handed the spinach to the person beside him and cheerfully made a request, "Send another seventy jin of green-light meat over."

She wanted to send it too, but couldn't be sure how many more days the wolves would bring her food, "Third Brother, how many more days can those two wolves recuperate at my place? If the game they bring before they leave is less than seventy jin, can I pay with points or other green-light food?"

Zhang San handed the spinach to the person beside him and instructed Xia Qing, "Bring all three wolves over tomorrow morning. I'll examine them and see how their recovery is going."

The brain-domain evolved wolf with the waist injury should have had a follow-up long ago. Xia Qing immediately agreed, "Alright. Third Brother just got back, eat something good tonight and rest early."

Her idol was back, and the important supplies had been exchanged for. Xia Qing's mood improved, and of course her appetite followed suit. She picked two more eggplants to add a dish!

The next morning, shortly after four o'clock, the lead wolf delivered food into Territory No. 3 right on time.

After the Sufeng Squad's people withdrew, without needing Xia Qing's reminder, the lead wolf began delivering food to the old wolf recuperating within Xia Qing's territory.

Xia Qing didn't bring the two injured wolves back, so they were still recuperating in the abandoned mountain cave. Xia Qing also still went over every other day to change the dressing for the wolf with the waist injury. Of course, the time for changing the dressing has now been changed to after dawn, and Xia Qing could finally sleep through the night.

Coming downstairs after hearing the noise, Xia Qing saw that what the lead wolf had brought today were two wild chickens, one male and one female. The lead wolf and the sick wolf were standing in the yard, watching the weasel pluck the chicken feathers.