Chapter 93 - 92: Towards the Sun

Chapter 93: Chapter 92: Towards the Sun

Kuang Biao simply couldn’t wait!

After roughly estimating the size of twenty square meters, Huai Yu had barely turned around when his bamboo roots shot over with a flurry of SWISH SWISH SWISH. Then the soil heaved, and plump bamboo shoots stubbornly drilled their way out...

When Huai Yu walked over with a basket, she found another lush patch of small bamboo forest right before her eyes. Looking at the area... it was definitely more than twenty square meters!

She took a deep breath and decided to buy a tape measure next time. From now on, whenever she needed space, she would draw a line. Not even one centimeter more would be allowed!

But this time, she just put on a show of walking around the newly sprouted bamboo cluster, then shook her head and sighed. "Kuang Biao, oh Kuang Biao, you’re not being honest! I said twenty square meters, but you’ve taken up at least two extra square meters, haven’t you?"

Kuang Biao estimated to himself that he had taken up at least three extra! But since Huai Yu didn’t seem to notice, he became happy again. Bamboo really loved the joy of getting the better end of a deal! He just knew Huai Yu’s brain wasn’t too bright.

He scrutinized the two grayish, chubby geese in the basket with a particularly superior mindset, unable to resist voicing his disdain again. "Just look at these mindless gluttons... And you’re just going to let them flap around freely in the bamboo forest?"

"Don’t you worry. I will definitely keep a good eye on them for you! Every single leaf of my bamboo is as solid as a nail!"

Huai Yu thought to herself that every leaf was indeed a nail—they could even be nailed right into other people’s tree trunks. Before the sky went completely dark, she carried the basket deeper into the bamboo forest, with Kuang Biao still hollering from the side.

"If you put them so far inside, it won’t be convenient for you to check on them. Why not just leave them on the edge, right behind the house?"

"That won’t work," Huai Yu said earnestly. "These two geese are highly destructive, and they can run. If I leave them on the edge, what if they poke a hole in your perfectly square bamboo forest?"

Would the great Kuang Biao be afraid of that? But faced with Huai Yu’s consideration, he felt a bit embarrassed. "Look at you, being so polite... Am I the kind of bamboo that’s afraid of a little gap?"

The bamboo leaves rustled with a WHOOSH, as if affirming his resounding promise.

"Don’t worry, I will definitely keep a good eye on them for you!

"If they get hungry, they can even eat my bamboo shoots. I have plenty of shoots, so you don’t need to worry at all."

Huai Yu really didn’t have much energy left to worry anyway. Besides, if these geese tried to peck her, she wouldn’t be able to fight them off. Let it be; she had already done her best.

Her little chicks were still the cutest. They hadn’t mutated much and were currently fluffy and yellow. Even their chirps were crisp and adorable, completely lacking any lethality. Thinking about it this way, although they cost a few more points, she truly got what she paid for! As for mutated animals like geese, she would never try to snag such a cheap deal again.

She didn’t want to snag cheap deals, but Boss Tang was exceptionally tempted. Setting everything else aside, just the combat power of that goose today was highly enviable. Moreover, it seemed to be a popular trend over in the Imperial Capital. Since he had a lot of free time nowadays, maybe he should raise one too?

However, he didn’t have much experience or many channels in this regard. After mulling it over, he simply decided to visit the police station to see his buddy—Gao Ming.

"Ming, I’m here to ask you about something..."

Before he could finish his sentence, he saw Gao Ming looking at him with a face full of dependence. "Buddy, you have to do me a favor, you absolutely must do me a favor!"

He earnestly grabbed Boss Tang’s hands. "Among the items up for auction this time is my precious treasure, a good treasure I cultivated with my own hands! You absolutely cannot let anyone else buy it! They won’t treat it well!"

He was snotty and tearful, clearly showing genuine emotion. But as Boss Tang stared at the pair of hands gripping him tightly, an ominous premonition grew increasingly intense for some reason.

A moment later, his face turned green.

The two pounds of pork she just bought, minced and stir-fried, could last another two days. The five pounds of pork fat had been rendered into two large boxes of lard. Paired with the bamboo shoot shreds she cut today... Wow! It was incredibly fragrant, crisp, and refreshing.

After eating and drinking her fill and cleaning everything up, she pulled out the three books she got today—

"Eight Treasures in One Pregnancy: Pure Girl’s Domineering Control"

"Unattainable Lover"

"Towards the Sun"

Which one should she read? With the solar-powered lamp on, Huai Yu reveled in the joy of sudden wealth in spiritual nourishment.

However, the first two books had somewhat shattered her rosy filters. She didn’t really want to know how geese were actually raised right now—she would find out after tonight anyway. There was also the book Boss Tang had described as "a toad raising a swan"—those five words had completely pulverized her romantic filter.

So—she opened "Towards the Sun". The title alone made it feel as if one were chasing the sun, tragic yet heroic... This had to be an excellent romance novel, a culmination of melodramatic, passionate love, right?

Huai Yu was full of anticipation.

One minute later, she furrowed her brows, sensing the aura of an angsty romance and an unyielding female lead!

Three minutes later, she pulled her chin back, her expression indescribable.

Ten minutes later, she zoned out in bewilderment.

Half an hour later, Huai Yu finally couldn’t hold on any longer and fell into a deep sleep.

Her new spiritual nourishment fell to the floor. The pages fluttered open, and the bold font of the prologue was particularly eye-catching:

[The sun casts its radiant arrows of light upon her clear and gentle corolla.]

[At night, wind and rain strike down her petals; in the morning, she still turns towards the sun.]

[Chapter One: Key Points for Planting Sunflowers]

In her dream, Huai Yu cultivated a hundred acres of farmland in one breath, scattered sunflower seeds all over, and managed the water and fertilizer, weeding and debugging day and night. Finally, she managed to get the field of sunflowers to face the sun, follow the sunset glow, and then ruthlessly whip their heads back around after the sun went down, magically and eerily snapping back to their original positions...

She was startled awake by this Lovecraftian scene, only to feel her entire body aching and her bones creaking. It even hurt a little.

She stared blankly in a daze. After a good while, she dug out the nutrient fluids she had hoarded earlier and decided to have another packet. It wasn’t because she missed the taste, but rather because she realized in hindsight: she might still be growing. The nutrition from her regular meals wasn’t quite enough; she still needed a comprehensive supplement like nutrient fluid... even though it tasted awful.

After eating and drinking her fill and tidying up, she went to the pond to fetch two buckets of water to let it settle first.

The pond, which covered four or five acres, was filled with clear water and green aquatic vegetation, but there wasn’t the slightest trace of the tiny fish and shrimp she had caught last time. If she wanted to rely on this pond to eat fish... that would take an eternity!

Holding the ground cage she had exchanged at a high price, she wondered if she should go up the mountain to set the cage first and then come back, or go directly to the trading market in the Golden Yuan District to take a look.

Hmm, she should also carry a basket of bamboo shoots for Zhou Qian... Ah! She finally remembered what she had forgotten on this relaxing morning—the geese! Her geese!

She immediately grabbed her hoe and ran toward the bamboo forest in the back. As soon as she turned the corner behind the house, she was stunned.

Overnight, a thick layer of lush green bamboo leaves had blanketed the ground. The originally vibrant bamboo forest was visibly balder. Sunlight poured in, inexplicably brightening up the once somewhat dark and damp bamboo forest.

But as for what exactly had happened, Huai Yu was a little afraid to think about it.