Chapter 935: Daigua's Recovery Speed Accelerates

Xia Qing is very weak right now, but Handsome Giant Wolf only carried her for a few seconds as a token gesture before letting her press his big head down into the medicinal bath.

"Handsome Wolf Bro, you're amazing, hold it in!" Xia Qing cheered him on, then slowly walked outside with Little Feimao. Her eyelids could barely stay open—she desperately needed rest.

"Splash—"

The sound of water rose in the tub; a big wolf head broke the surface, opened its eyes to glance at Xia Qing, then slowly sank back down, leaving only its nose above water to breathe.

This wolf is also very clever, and its determination to grow stronger is equally strong. Xia Qing, leaning on the door frame, smiled and walked out of the bathroom, then collapsed onto the sofa. "Queen, I'm going to sleep."

After Xia Qing finished speaking, she pulled the summer quilt beside her over her belly. Although it was the sweltering summer now, the air conditioning was on inside, so it felt very comfortable. Xia Qing soon began snoring in harmony with Sheep Boss on the floor.

The Alpha Wolf, who had been sleeping on the grass mat nearby, braced his still somewhat weak body, walked over, and lay down beside Xia Qing.

"Beep beep, beep beep—"

An alarm popped up on the phone screen. Broken-Waist Wolf hesitated for two seconds, then tapped the red box that appeared on the screen with a stylus, turning off the alarm.

After the Alpha Wolf went into the bathroom and barked the play-acting Handsome Giant Wolf out of the tub, he went to the yard, tilted his head back, and softly howled twice.

The three evolved wolves left at Area Three of Mountain Forty-Nine arrived at Xia Qing's house in a blink. One jumped onto the roof, one guarded the dripping-wet Handsome Giant Wolf, and one hid in the wild grass atop the ruins of the southern building.

The instant she heard the surveillance alert, Xia Qing woke up. She rolled over, grabbed the phone that Broken-Waist Wolf had nearly drained playing with, and opened it to see the three absolutely fierce evolved wolves on the monitor—then understood the Alpha Wolf's intention. The Alpha Wolf and Handsome Giant Wolf hadn't recovered their strength yet, Black Wolf and Broken-Waist Wolf were in the bath, and Wolf Lao Er alone couldn't protect the pack, so the Alpha Wolf had called in three more bodyguards.

The reason he'd brought so many subordinates was probably because today a large number of raptors had appeared over this territory's skies, making the Alpha Wolf even more cautious.

Xia Qing entered the information of these two wolves into the surveillance system, plugged in her phone to charge, and asked the Alpha Wolf, who had returned to the living room, "Queen, are those three outside last year's pups grown up, or new companions you've recruited? Where are Broken-Leg and Big Guy?"

The Alpha Wolf nuzzled Xia Qing's head with his own, signaling her to rest easy. Xia Qing yawned, closed her eyes again, pulled up the quilt, and fell asleep.

At four in the morning, after the last bather, Wolf Lao Er, had recovered his strength, the Alpha Wolf stood up and stretched.

Broken-Waist Wolf, who had been playing on the phone for over an hour, put the notebook back in its upstairs room. After coming down, he stared thoughtfully at Xia Qing's phone for a while before following the Alpha Wolf out of Territory Three.

At five in the morning, Xia Qing, woken by birdsong and roosters crowing, stretched, got up, and went first to check the fig branches she'd soaked the night before.

The effect of the sterilizing, insect-killing, rooting water was visible to the naked eye.

After soaking overnight, the surface of the branch sections submerged in the water had grown small white dots. These white dots are cell tissue split off from the branches—in other words, sprouting points capable of growing new roots.

Cuttings can be divided into three types according to their woodiness: freshly grown softwood, semi-woody, and woody branches.

The softwood branches with the most white dots had too high a water content and rotted easily. Most of the woody branches hadn't grown white dots yet and needed one or two more days of soaking. As soaking time increased, so did the probability of mold on the woody branches' bark, because after Blue Star's Great Evolution, microbial activity had multiplied several times over.

Therefore, the semi-woody branches that had already grown some white dots were the ideal cuttings.

The reason she'd cut all the branches she'd brought back into cutting sections was, of course, because Green-Light figs were rare and precious—for every extra one she managed to grow alive, Xia Qing could earn a few hundred extra points.

Of course, using Yishi to shield the branches could reduce the likelihood of mold. But Yishi was worth more than fig branches, and Xia Qing couldn't bear to use it.

Overall, Xia Qing was satisfied with the soaking results. After eating, she began tidying the fields and planting the fig cuttings.

She clapped her hands, stood up, and began tidying the house.

The water stains on the floor had already dried. Xia Qing vacuumed the fur in the living room once, cleaned it up, then placed the air-impurity adsorbent she'd traded with her idol. By then, the sky was fully bright.

Xia Qing put a pot of congee on to cook, went out to patrol the territory, and picked vegetables along the way. Now her greenhouse had many kinds of vegetables, and Xia Qing took a stroll before cooking each day, picking whatever looked appetizing.

The first thing Xia Qing did when she went out was pull out the wooden tray under the swallow's nest, dump the dry grass on it—soiled with swallow droppings—into the toilet used by Boss, Wolf Lao Er, and Does Daigua, then lay down fresh dry grass and put the tray back on the wooden frame under the nest. Xia Qing regularly cleaned the droppings from the toilet, adding compost starter powder to ferment them into organic fertilizer needed for crop growth.

Then Xia Qing entered the chicken coop and cleaned out the droppings under the cages. She now kept over ninety chickens, big and small, and could harvest nearly a hundred jin of chicken manure each month. Fermented, this chicken manure became high-quality Green-Light fertilizer—the main manure used by the premium crops in Greenhouses No. 1 and No. 2, that is, the hillside terraces.

A crop's blossoms depend on fertilizer alone.

Before Blue Star's Great Biological Evolution, farming mainly used inorganic fertilizer—that is, chemical fertilizer. After Blue Star's Great Biological Evolution, chemical fertilizer, which could quickly replenish the various elements plants needed, became the chief culprit in raising crop evolution rates. Animal manure and plant-based green manure became the mainstay fertilizers.

Compared to green manure, which could be fermented from plant roots, stems, and leaves, manure fermented from animal droppings was harder to obtain, because there were too few animals in the territory. So apart from Territory Three, the other territories all collected droppings from human toilets and fermented them into manure.

After entering the territory, Xia Qing repaired the underground septic tank connected to the bathroom toilet's sewer line in the small building she lived in. She was the only person in the entire Silver Outer Territory, so after living here a year and a half, the septic tank had only been cleaned once this spring, by the suction truck from Territory Eight. The liquid waste removed was naturally hauled back to Territory Eight's composting area.

With over a hundred chickens and a valley full of wild boars, Xia Qing wasn't short on this bit of fertilizer.

After cleaning the chicken coop and feeding the chickens, Xia Qing went out of the village to patrol the territory and was surprised to find Does Daigua, wearing green shorts and a pink hat, carrying a basket by himself and following Wolf Lao Er, earnestly catching bugs.

Seeing Xia Qing come out, Wolf Lao Er set down the basket he'd been carrying in his mouth and flashed Xia Qing a brilliant smile.

Does Daigua also raised his head to look at Xia Qing. Although this fellow's face still looked dopey, Xia Qing knew very well that the body that had nearly been ruined by an overdose of anesthetic was recovering at an accelerating pace.

Once this little monkey recovered, he would surely leave her territory. Xia Qing had to hurry up and train him, so that after returning to his own territory, he wouldn't forget to look for Red-Striped Stone to repay his debt.