Chapter 89: The Temptation of Green Light Sheep

"Coming right up!" Xia Qing immediately followed, taking Boss Sheep to the bathroom. She was very particular about Boss Sheep's health and sprayed it with medicine every day, so of course Boss Sheep had no parasites on it.

But for the sake of drawing blood today, there had to be some. "There really are some, Boss. Bear with the pain and don't move. I'll get the parasites off."

Boss Sheep immediately tensed up, not moving even its head.

Xia Qing nimbly pulled out a syringe and drew half a tube of sheep blood, then pressed on the needle hole, soothing it in a gentle voice, "There, all clean."

Only then did Boss Sheep relax, not even flicking its wool, letting Xia Qing dry it off. Xia Qing worked tirelessly tidying Boss Sheep up before running to the second floor with the Harmful Element Detector and the Beneficial Element Detector to test Boss Sheep's Harmful and Beneficial element content.

The test results made Xia Qing's mouth water.

Harmful element content was 4.8 parts per thousand. Although close to 5 parts per thousand, it still counted as a Green Light animal.

Beneficial element content was 4 parts per ten thousand, second only to spinach among the edible creatures in her territory.

She wanted to eat it...

This was Boss Sheep's index value after losing control once in the Harmful Rain. If it had never lost control, how excellent would its index be?

Going downstairs and seeing Boss Sheep, white as a cloud, Xia Qing's mind flashed through eighteen ways to eat lamb, and her mouth watered again.

Xia Qing suddenly felt that the reason the head wolf had left Boss Sheep was that it was afraid that when its willpower wavered, it would bite its friend Boss Sheep to death in one bite.

Green Light lamb... she wanted to eat it...

Xia Qing wiped her drool, ordered herself to ignore the top-grade ingredient before her, and began her daily training.

Early the next morning, after finishing her daily patrol and pest-control work, Xia Qing poured the soil from the earthen jar where she planned to transplant the strawberry seedlings into a bag, then refilled it with new soil, mixed in crushed and fermented Green Light sheep droppings as fertilizer.

The "Spinach Cultivation Guide" Zhang San had given her stated that fertilizing Green Light plants with Green Light fertilizer and watering them with pollution-free water or distilled water could effectively reduce the possibility of the plants' Harmful evolution, and might lower the plants' Harmful element content while raising their Beneficial element content.

Although she hadn't asked Sun Zhe, Xia Qing was sure his worm castings definitely weren't Green Light droppings—otherwise he wouldn't be selling them at one point per two jin.

The Guide also mentioned that because each plant's characteristics differed, the balance of Harmful and Beneficial elements achieved within them also differed.

That was why Green Light Chinese toon had a Harmful element content of less than 0.25 parts per thousand and a Beneficial element content of only 1 part per ten thousand; whereas Green Light spinach, with a Harmful element content of 3.8 parts per thousand, had a Beneficial element content as high as 6 parts per ten thousand.

After changing the soil, Xia Qing carefully laid the stolons, already grown over half a meter long, from the strawberry plants into the new jar, poured on spring water, and let the two strawberry seedlings that had sprouted from the stolons take root in the new soil jar.

The second Harmful Rain hadn't affected the strawberries Xia Qing had placed on the second-floor balcony at all. The two strawberry plants had already grown four stolons; the longest was over half a meter, the shortest not even a finger's length.

Watching the stolons grow longer day by day and new seedlings emerge from the nodes, Xia Qing felt nature was wondrous and fascinating. At this rate, she'd have even more strawberries to eat next year.

After planting the strawberries, Xia Qing hitched up the two-furrow plow and went to the field to plow the land that had been cleared of Harmful grass by the weeder. She used the plow to turn up the Harmful grass roots from the soil, then burned them once more, and the Harmful grass was considered thoroughly cleared.

If she didn't plow now, waiting a few days until the ground dried out in the sun would use even more fuel.

Who would have thought, the moment Xia Qing drove the tiller out of the village, Boss Sheep came running over and blocked the way, showing off its spiral horns to bar the path.

Xia Qing patted the VIP passenger seat beside her, "Boss, hop on, we'll plow the field together."

"Baa!" Boss Sheep didn't move, refusing.

Xia Qing narrowed her eyes and stared at the clearly displeased Boss Sheep for a while, then suddenly opened them wide, "You want to pull the plow and till the field?"

"Baa—" Boss Sheep raised its head.

"Didn't expect you old fellow to have this hobby, alright then." Xia Qing drove the tiller back to the garage, took out the three-furrow sheep plow, and headed to the field with Boss Sheep.

Boss Sheep plowed faster than the tiller and didn't burn fuel. Xia Qing had felt sorry for Boss Sheep, which was why she'd thought to use the tiller—she hadn't expected Boss Sheep to be such a capable worker.

Arriving at the field, Xia Qing hitched the plow onto Boss Sheep and pointed ahead, "Boss, get to work!"

Boss Sheep didn't move its hooves, turned its head to look at Xia Qing, its sheep eyes filled with divine contempt.

Xia Qing was speechless for a moment, "Fine, as you say, wait here."

Xia Qing ran to Gao Po to pick a bundle of Chinese toon leaves, tied them in a cluster to a bamboo pole, and hung it right in front of Boss Sheep's head, "Boss, get to work!"

"Baa!" Boss Sheep pawed the ground twice and charged forward pulling the three-furrow plow like flying.

Fortunately Xia Qing was a Strength Evolver, otherwise she really couldn't have kept the plow handle steady. The cultivated land area in Xia Qing's territory was over two thousand mu, but Xia Qing currently planted less than five mu of crops. The vast majority of the land still lay waste, with only eight small insect-proof net sheds Xia Qing had fenced off scattered about, inside which grew ground cherries and Red Light peanuts. On over two thousand mu of cultivated land, these eight small plots were negligible.

Pulling the plow, guided by the Chinese toon buds, Boss Sheep could joyfully run from the east end of the territory to the west end, then from the west end back to the east end. One loop like this covered nine mu!

After one loop, Xia Qing stopped to feed Boss Sheep some compressed rations, Chinese toon buds, and spring water.

While the two of them rested, the birds in the territory didn't rest, landing on the newly turned soil to hunt for worms, calling out one after another in a lively chorus. Only the four egrets didn't join the revelry, still perched on branches staring at Xia Qing.

Rest a while, then continue.

Boss Sheep wasn't tired, so Xia Qing held the plow behind and kept it company. This fuel-saving and highly efficient way of plowing also trained endurance, arm strength, and stability—killing several birds with one stone—she had to keep it company.

By the third loop, Xia Qing holding the plow felt tired, but Boss Sheep pulling the plow wasn't tired yet. Xia Qing gritted her teeth and kept going. She was an Advanced Evolver; she absolutely couldn't lose to a top-grade ingredient!

After finishing the fourth loop, Boss Sheep was tired. After eating and drinking, it lay down in the shade to rest, not even bothering to maintain a proper lying posture.

Xia Qing lay directly on the pile of dried Harmful grass and sighed, "Boss, I understand why you wanted to do this."

As a Strength Evolver, Xia Qing felt she understood Boss Sheep, "You want to exhaust your strength by pulling the plow as a way to train yourself, right? You want to increase your strength?"

Boss Sheep naturally didn't respond to Xia Qing, but Xia Qing felt she'd guessed right, because once Boss Sheep had recovered its strength, it demanded to pull the plow again. Xia Qing couldn't figure out why the usually lazy, food-loving Boss Sheep had become so fiercely competitive, but she liked it.

One person and one sheep pushing each other, they ended up turning over more than three hundred mu in a single day. Even though they were both Advanced Strength Evolvers, this efficiency was truly astonishing.

Plowing the field for a whole day was even more exhausting than Xia Qing's trip into the Evolution Forest with Hu Zifeng to dig bamboo shoots, so much so that when listening to the farming broadcast in the evening, Xia Qing didn't sit at the table taking notes while listening as she usually did.

After listening to the farming broadcast, Xia Qing, having recovered, turned off the radio, opened the Lord Channel, and while listening to the lords chat, began today's shooting basic movements and body reaction speed training.

No matter how tired, training couldn't be skipped.

On the Lord Channel, Lords Four, Five, Six, and Ten were chatting about clearing Harmful grass. Xia Qing listened to their idle talk and could also pick up some farming common sense.

"Xia Qing, you there?"

Xia Qing, who was in the middle of hand-stability training, heard Tang Huai forcefully interrupt the farming chat in a bad mood and call her out by name.