Chapter 100: Harvesting Soybeans
After wandering around the soybean field for a while, Qin Wanwan went to see her strawberries.
The strawberries had grown quite a bit, but they hadn’t flowered yet.
As expected of mutated big strawberries, the plants alone were as tall as Qin Wanwan’s knees, and their ability to adapt to the environment was also very strong.
They grew vibrantly even under the direct glare of the hot sun.
However, they needed to be watered once a day with water mixed with grass juice.
They also received a dose of fertilizer.
As she was about to fall asleep, Qin Wanwan suddenly remembered something, jolted awake, and sat up.
Shang Wuyang: …He was a little startled.
“Daddy, Daddy, can you not go to Shangjing?”
Qin Wanwan quickly pushed her daddy up.
Shang Wuyang playfully flicked her little head.
“You suddenly sat up just for this?”
Qin Wanwan’s fluffy little head burrowed into his arms.
“Mhmm, there’s a bad guy who wants to harm Daddy, can Daddy please not go to Shangjing.”
Her little voice was muffled.
“Are there not many people who want to harm me? Don’t worry, I’ll go to Shangjing secretly this time, without my mask and with a different face.”
“But, but you’ll still be discovered by bad people, that bad person knows where you are.”
Shang Wuyang smiled: “Can he read minds?”
“That bad person is…”
Shang Wuyang frowned slightly: “What did you say?”
Qin Wanwan repeated herself, but Shang Wuyang didn’t understand those two words.
He understood. This was about something that couldn’t be spoken of.
Earlier, when Qin Wanwan spoke with Keke, there were things he didn’t understand.
Shang Wuyang’s eyes drooped slightly. Could something really happen this time when he went to Shangjing?
But Shang Wuyang was never a person who feared trouble, or even death.
It was just that now, with a little one, it seemed like he had an extra concern, and Shang Wuyang was a little reluctant to die.
“I will be careful about my safety.”
But he had to go to Shangjing. After searching for so long, he finally had a clue, and he couldn’t not go because of unknown danger.
Qin Wanwan was huffy.
Shang Wuyang amusedly pinched her little mouth, which could hang a oil bottle.
“Don’t worry about me anymore, I’ll make more preparations, okay?”
The little one turned her back to him and sighed, deeply worried.
Why didn’t Daddy listen to her advice?
But, but Daddy’s illness was also important.
So annoying.
While being annoyed, the little one, puffing with anger, fell asleep.
The sleeping child, without holding any grudges, rolled onto her daddy.
Shang Wuyang poked her chubby little face.
It was soft and squishy, with little dimples appearing with each poke.
Children were quite fun.
The next day, Qin Wanwan was no longer angry.
She decided she would go to Shangjing with Daddy Shang!
She was a little Qilin, and Qilins were auspicious beasts that could ward off evil!
After figuring it out, Qin Wanwan was happy again.
She was bouncing around carefree, smiling brightly as she greeted the farmers busy in the fields, showing no trace of the worried frown she had last night.
Shang Wuyang was quite impressed with her ability to comfort herself.
Every time she got angry, she could always cheer herself up.
“Langya, Langya, are the molds ready yet?”
Today, Qin Wanwan didn’t go to the military camp; she went straight to the General’s Mansion.
She hadn’t even arrived yet, but her little voice was already shouting.
Langya, who had been left at the General’s Mansion to make molds last night, had his eyes light up upon hearing Qin Wanwan’s voice.
When Qin Wanwan arrived, he presented three molds one after another.
They were rectangular molds of the same size, all assembled with mortise and tenon joints, and they fit perfectly.
Qin Wanwan gasped and applauded enthusiastically.
“Langya, you’re amazing, these are exactly the molds I wanted.”
Langya smiled.
He was happy to be praised.
“Let’s go, let’s start making soap.”
Everything had been prepared the night before.
She also called Lu He to help.
First, they melted a large block of milky white coconut oil.
Coconut oil was different from other oils; it solidified into a milky white color like lard, but it had a fresh coconut scent that lard lacked.
After it melted and cooled slightly, they added the settled lye water and the green grass juice, and began to stir continuously.
This required someone patient and strong.
Actually, the main purpose of adding grass juice was not only to add fragrance but, more importantly, to make the final product look good.
They made two batches, one without grass juice and one with it.
During the continuous stirring, the coconut oil began to undergo saponification.
Watching the oil turn as thick as paste, Lu He’s eyes widened.
“Miss, it really changed!”
It was truly magical, to think that such a change could occur just by adding water precipitated from wood ash.
“It’s about done, let’s pour it into the molds.”
All three molds were filled.
One mold was filled with the batch containing grass juice, another with the batch without, and the third was a mixture of both.
Finally, they covered the surface with a cloth to smooth it out, and waited for it to solidify.
While they waited, the day for harvesting their soybeans arrived.
Early that morning, Xie Chong arrived at their house with some of his subordinates to harvest the soybeans.
Qin Wanwan went to join in the excitement, but the dust stirred up was quite significant, causing the little girl to sneeze several times, her nose turning red.
Xie Chong picked her up like a little chick and carried her into the house.
“General, these soybeans are truly huge. In all my life, I’ve never seen such good soybeans.”
Everyone looked at the plump soybeans and smiled broadly.
“With soybeans like these, I’d be willing to harvest even more.”
They weren’t afraid of hard work; their biggest fear was starvation.
The harvested soybeans were carried to the road outside the General’s Mansion to be sun-dried.
When the pods were sun-dried and cracked open, a gentle tap with a wooden stick would cause the soybeans to fall out.
It was only about an acre of soybeans, and a few people finished harvesting it in one morning, also plowing the backyard.
“Daddy, what else are you going to plant?”
Xie Chong: “Let’s sow some forage grass seeds. We’ll plant soybeans in other places in the future; we’re not short on land.”
Qin Wanwan obediently exchanged merit points for forage grass seeds.
She also exchanged for grape seedlings and transplanted the peach tree in the front yard to the backyard.
“When will there be flowers? I want to plant beautiful flowers all along the wall.”
The little one really liked flowers.
Ding dong…
As soon as she finished speaking, Qin Wanwan’s mall page updated.
She quickly opened it and saw a lit-up picture.
Her merit points had accumulated to a thousand again.
Keke had calculated it for her: at this point, one picture was lit up for every thousand merit points.
This time, it was probably because Qin Wanwan had made a wish, so the lit-up picture was indeed of a flower.
“It’s a rose.”
【 Seven-Colored Rose: Flowers with seven colors, vigorous vitality, blooms twice a year, with each flowering period lasting three months.
Drawback: Overbearing, not suitable for planting with other climbing plants, requires abundant nutrients. If nutrients are insufficient, it will absorb nutrients from other plants. 】
