Chapter 173: Plowing The Field
After Su Ran finished this series of actions, she immediately regretted it.
She didn’t know why she suddenly became so childish. If it were before, she absolutely wouldn’t have done something so childish and emotional.
In the end, she frowned and analyzed for a long time, thinking that this might be due to her menstruation coming, leading to emotional instability.
Also, she seemed to have been spoiled by Hui a bit.
This spoiled nature wasn’t in daily life, facing busy and tiring everyday work, but emotional, accustomed to Hui’s obedience to her.
Upon realizing this, Su Ran felt that it wasn’t good.
Although this actually also represented that her current life was smooth and happy, representing that Hui really pampered her, the habit formed since childhood still made her dislike this feeling of losing rationality.
Moreover, why should Hui always obey her in all matters?
After realizing the change in her state, Su Ran’s brain seemed to immediately clear up.
She shrugged to relax herself, but didn’t explain the situation that just happened, instead continuing to pack purple berry fruit into the backpack with Hui.
After picking about half a backpack, Su Ran stopped her actions.
These in the backpack were enough for her and Hui to eat for two or three days.
With the current weather, things gradually couldn’t be stored, and berry fruit was originally prone to spoiling, so it was better to pick and eat fresh.
After picking the berry fruit, Su Ran and Hui didn’t rush back, but strolled around the nearby woods and lakeshore.
When overlooking from the air, the lake ahead didn’t seem very big, but standing at the lakeshore now, it felt quite large.
At least the distant lakeshore boundary was not very clear at a glance.
Su Ran walked to the lakeshore, squatted down, and carefully looked into the water.
The lake water, unpolluted by chemical industry, was crystal clear, even able to see small fish swimming at the lake bottom two meters away.
However, the fish here seemed not as big as those in the river in front of the house.
Su Ran stood up and walked forward along the lakeshore.
On both sides of the lake water, one side was open space, the other was adjacent to the woods.
The place where Hui and Su Ran landed was just not far from where the open space approached the woods.
She and Hui hadn’t walked far ahead when the slightly flatter soil underfoot was already densely covered by branches, vines, and leaves.
Su Ran and Hui circled around the forest surrounding the lakeshore for a while, and also walked deeper into the woods for a distance.
Then they discovered that there were really a lot of purple berry fruit nearby.
Patches in the woods, after Su Ran walked inward for nearly ten minutes, the purple berry fruit trees ahead gradually became sparse.
But at the same time, it indicated that nearby, besides purple berry fruit, there were almost no other things that could be taken back to eat.
Even if there were, they were all ones Su Ran recognized, no other new food discovered.
Seeing there was really no new discovery, Su Ran popped a purple berry fruit into her mouth, then called Hui to take her home.
In the following days, grass grew and orioles flew, glaciers melted, the snow in the deepest part of the forest completely melted, and the ground frozen for a winter also warmed and thawed.
Even the river in front of the house had its water level rise due to the melting of snow frozen for a winter, spreading out more than two meters along the riverbank.
Large animals began to frequently appear in the forest, and the beastmen, including Hui, gradually resumed normal hunting.
At this time, Su Ran began to prepare to plant the vegetable patch.
The seeds she currently had in stock were all collected in autumn last year.
These seeds included chili fruit, finger onion, vinegar fruit, housheng vegetable, wild cabbage, as well as red fruit and youyou fruit.
Because the number of seeds was relatively large, the vegetable garden area Su Ran designated couldn’t plant all of them.
So Su Ran kept one-third of each type of these seeds aside.
This could also prevent in case any wild vegetable or wild fruit planting failed, there would still be seeds left to replant!
Su Ran spent more than a week turning over the vegetable garden behind the house.
The part of the vegetable garden near the forest edge, because some vegetables had been planted there last year, was much easier to turn, making the entire land preparation work much easier.
After turning over the vegetable patch, it was to clean out the small stones and some dry grass roots in the ground.
These things had also been cleaned once last year.
But because it was the first time planting last year, Su Ran thought to try first, so she didn’t plant much.
So when cleaning, Su Ran wasn’t too careful, inevitably missing some.
But this year Su Ran was going to formally tend this vegetable patch, so she naturally put much more effort into it.
However, thinking of tending the land, Su Ran’s gaze turned to the large patch of green plants recently transplanted by Hui around the toilet, resembling foxtail flower.
That was the method Hui had mentioned to her before that could solve the toilet’s odor.
This foxtail flower grew just like those on Earth.
But miraculously, this foxtail flower here had a very pungent and unpleasant smell throughout the entire plant.
But inexplicably, when this plant’s smell mixed with the toilet’s odor, they could actually neutralize each other.
Moreover, not just the smell in the air, chopping this grass and throwing it into the toilet would also make the odor inside disappear.
After knowing this situation, Su Ran’s first thought was that she no longer needed to worry about the strong smell from fertilizing the ground affecting other beastmen.
Although she now had no intention of using fertilizer from the toilet, and planned to switch to composting the excrement cleaned daily from the small animal room.
But the smell of small animals’ excrement wasn’t much better than the toilet’s.
So this foxtail flower would definitely be useful.
While turning over the vegetable garden, Su Ran had already mounded the turned soil in the vegetable garden into adjacent rectangular vegetable ponds.
Then, the edges of each vegetable pond were bordered with fine soil into straight frames.
After the soil in the vegetable garden was all cleaned up, Su Ran evenly spread the fertilizer piled from animal feces mixed in advance with foxtail flower, rotten grass leaves, and rotten leaves into every vegetable pond.
After spreading, she used a hoe to turn over the soil in each pond along with the laid fertilizer, and finally sprinkled a layer of fine soil over the re-turned ponds.
This large piece of vegetable garden land was considered thoroughly prepared.
On the second day after Su Ran finished preparing the vegetable patch, it rained for half a day.
It was moderate rain, not particularly heavy, but the vegetable patch right after the rain was still a muddy mess.
And just then, Su Ran’s menstruation came.
So she had to wait another five days, until the puddles on the ground completely disappeared, and the discomfort from menstruation on her body also vanished, before she took out the seeds and prepared to sow.
Resuming double updates tomorrow~
