Chapter 149: Buying Land ( 1 )

Chapter 149: Buying Land ( 1 ) After she reached home, Yao Zhi went to the kitchen to stir the soy sauce and cook lunch. It had been a long time since she sent food to the General.

Thinking about her husband’s sweet tongue, she decided to make a white sugar sponge cake. This cake only needed rice flour, granulated sugar, water, and yeast. It was easy to make, but it took time for the batter to ferment.

It was still early, and she had enough time to make this dessert.

Opening her system’s shop, Yao Zhi bought a sack of rice flour for 20 points. One sack weighed 25 kilograms. After she bought the flour, she started making the dessert.

While the batter was fermenting, she opened her system’s husbandry and chose a duck. At first, she planned to catch a duck and slaughter it. But when she opened the warehouse, she saw lots of duck and chicken meat. They were already cleaned and ready for use.

Feeling confused, she opened the automatic management feature and saw that the number set for the ducks and chickens was 250,000 for each type.

Thanks to the automatic management feature, she could set the number of ducks and chickens in her husbandry. When the number of ducks and chickens exceeded the maximum limit, the old ones would be slaughtered and stored as meat.

As for the ducklings and chicks, they were hatched from fertile eggs. For non-fertile eggs, they were stored in the warehouse for consumption.

At this moment, except for the rooster and drake, a lot of ducks and hens, including the one she bought before, could lay eggs. Besides that, many eggs had hatched, and the grassland was full of ducklings and chicks.

Seeing this, Yao Zhi was too dizzy to count the number of eggs that could be produced daily in the future. She took out one duck from the warehouse and started cooking duck soup.

Besides duck soup, she also made steamed rice with vegetables, tofu and mushroom salad, and soft-boiled eggs.

It took her three hours to finish cooking. She divided the lunch and dessert into two portions before she packed them into two three-layered bamboo baskets and loaded them onto the donkey cart.

Afterward, she filled two waterskins with boiled water and added a drop of spiritual spring water into each of them.

Before leaving, she prepared Ye Ying and Bai Xue’s food and water and placed them in her room. Patting their heads, she said, "Mom needs to send your Dad’s lunch. Can you two help watch our house when Mom is not around?"

As soon as she said this, the wolf cubs let out soft barks and nodded. Yao Zhi patted their heads gently and said, "Good babies. Mom will come back soon."

After she made sure that the milk and water were enough for her pets, she added two drops of spiritual spring water onto it, locked the doors, and drove the donkey cart to the military barracks.

When she arrived at the barracks, it was only eleven o’clock in the morning. Seeing her coming, the guards quickly went to inform Fu Chen’an.

This time, there was no need for her to ask for their help. After all, everyone knew that the General had hired her as his cook.

Not long after Yao Zhi took out a handful of grass from her system’s grassland for her donkey, Fu Chen’an walked out from the barracks. He carried bamboo baskets with him.

His family didn’t have many bamboo baskets, waterskins, or lunch boxes, so he had to bring them back to his wife whenever the General finished eating the food.

Seeing her husband, Yao Zhi smiled and greeted him. "Husband, you are here."

"Wife, why did you come so early today?" Fu Chen’an asked as he placed the bamboo baskets on the cart.

"Husband, I have something to discuss with you," Yao Zhi replied.

After the two of them sat on a big boulder, Fu Chen’an asked, "What is it?"

"Husband, I plan to buy the land connected to our backyard. Since you don’t plan to go back to your hometown, I think it’s better for me to grow our food. If we continue buying grain, we can’t save money."

Hearing her words, Fu Chen’an nodded and asked, "But farming is hard work. Can you do it alone?"

15 mu is equal to 1 hectare. She should be able to handle one-third of a hectare of land. Reaching this conclusion, Yao Zhi nodded and said, "We don’t have to buy too much land, just enough for us to eat. I think I can handle 5 mu of land."

Fu Chen’an thought for a while before he said, "Wife, the land connected to our backyard is wasteland. If we want to use it to plant grain, it will take at least three years of fertilization before it can be counted as low-quality land."

If it were other people, they might have these worries. But Yao Zhi currently has a total of 2,205 drops of spiritual spring water. With so much spiritual spring water, she believed she could reform the wasteland.

"Husband, didn’t we have blood meal and locust powder? I plan to use this land and test out the fertilizer."

After hearing this, Fu Chen’an said, "Wife, I already reported this matter to my superior. The General has already ordered people to test out the fertilizer. You don’t have to work so hard."

"I have nothing to do at home. Just let me do it so I won’t be bored," Yao Zhi said.

Since his wife had said so, Fu Chen’an could only agree. "Alright then, but if you can’t do it, you must tell me. We can hire people to help you."

"I will listen to you," Yao Zhi nodded.

After reaching an agreement, the two of them spent half an hour and had their lunch together. When they were done, Fu Chen’an told his wife about the General taking his things again.