Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Lu Huan felt a sharp pain in his heart and his fingers tightened involuntarily. He then looked at the finished pancake with a confused look on his face.
After a moment, he frowned, messed up the prepared pancakes, threw them into the stove, and cleaned the plate that had held the pancakes, leaving no trace.
….
Su Xi played games until quite late last night and only woke up at noon the next day. There was a time difference between her world and the game, so by the time she went online, two days and one night had passed in the game.
Su Xi logged into the game. It was night again. Her first reaction was to switch the interface to the house to see how the baby, who was still running a fever the night before, was doing. She saw that the stamina bar in the upper left corner had recovered to 80%, indicating that the baby’s cold was basically healed. After a few more days of rest, he would be able to be full of energy again.
All her busyness last night was not in vain. Su Xi smiled with a sense of accomplishment and went to look at the baby on the bed.
It was midnight in the game, the moon was high outside and everything was quiet. She thought the character in the game should be fast asleep, but unexpectedly, she saw him tossing and turning in bed with his eyes open, as if he was upset and couldn’t sleep.
The stick figure’s short legs bent and arched the quilt into a small hill.
His eyebrows were furrowed and his chubby face was wrinkled, making people want to poke him.
……What’s wrong?
Was he worried about growing crops and hens laying eggs?
Since he was awake, Su Xi didn’t dare to mess around in the house, for fear of accidentally poking him. He might even think there was a ghost and get scared to death.
Therefore, Su Xi switched the interface to the outside of the house, looked around the firewood yard, and was surprised –
This kid was too hardworking!
Although he was still sick, he should have worked hard yesterday!
Outside the firewood yard, there were rows of leek seedlings, early spring zucchini seeds, and some other crops planted, all arranged neatly and in order!
Su Xi thought that in this kind of game, all the planting of crops would depend on herself as the player, but she didn’t expect that her son was so motivated that she could not help at all!
However, there was a very difficult problem. It was winter now and the weather was cold. Even if winter crops were planted, there would be no harvest in the short term.
Moreover, the temperature was low in winter, the days were short and the nights were long, so the egg production of hens would be very low, or even stop altogether.
Main Mission 2 may be difficult to complete.
“Is there a deadline for completing the main quest?” Su Xi asked.
“No, the main quests can be done at the same time, and there is no time limit. But the more main quests you complete, the more points you get. When the points reach 100, you can communicate with the protagonist of the game. Don’t you want that?!”
Su Xi had thought about it, of course she had thought about it, this was a scene that you couldn’t get even if you spend money!
She suddenly became motivated!
She first switched the interface to the chicken coop next to the firewood yard, staring at the group of chickens hiding in the innermost part, snuggling together for warmth. The comb of one chicken was frozen and cracked. Although it would not get sick and die, the weather would definitely affect the egg production. She thought for a while.
Then she opened Baidu and asked: “How to raise chickens in winter?”
…Su Xi suspected that her parents would look very strange if they saw the Baidu search history on her phone.
Baidu was relatively reliable and had provided a series of solutions, but it was obvious that many methods such as temperature control boxes and fluorescent lamps could not be achieved in the ancient times in the game.
Su Xi responded quickly and first bought materials such as wooden poles, tree branches, and board skins from the mall. Then she used her fingers to piece them together on the screen according to the drawings. The process was just like playing with building blocks and was quite interesting. She was immediately fascinated by it.
After it was assembled, she covered it with tarpaulin paper. Finally, she bought quicklime and poured it on it to prevent rats and insects.
——In this way, a large cold-proof shed was ready!
The fence that the cub had made before with a fence was already perfect and skillful enough for the ancients, but the one made by Su Xi using the best materials and according to the drawings was obviously much more modern!
After she finished, she quietly set up the cold-proof shed inside the fence that the cub had originally made.
The hens seemed to feel the temperature gradually changing and that it was not so cold anymore. A few of them shook their feathers, stood up and went looking for feed to eat. Two others also stretched out and burrowed inside, as if they felt it was time to lay eggs.
Not only that, Su Xi was so anxious that she searched the mall for oxytocin for hens, and shook it madly above the feed, letting the hens eat it all. After all, the things in the mall could not be useless!
After arranging the chicken coop, Su Xi moved her fingers and turned over all the land planted by the cub and also scattered some growth-promoting substances purchased from the mall.
In this way, the mission was finally accomplished!
More than 200 gold coins were spent on all kinds of things, but converted into RMB, it was only two yuan. Su Xi was rich now, so she didn’t feel sorry for spending money.
After she finished all this, a small harvest column appeared in the upper right corner.
It said: “Current harvest: 2/500 eggs, 0/2000 kg of grain.”
The progress bar for Task 2 hadn’t even started yet.
But Su Xi was not in a hurry. She saw that the kid had been tossing and turning in the game for most of the night and seemed to have just fallen asleep, so she went to have breakfast first. After breakfast, it was still dark in the game, so she went online to play for a while. After wandering around, she found signs of a fire in the kitchen.
Wow, what did he cook?
She was greedy.
Su Xi picked at the stove, somewhat interested. She had never seen the cub eat since she started playing this game. His stomach was always flat and pitiful. But she thought that he should be able to cook after living in Ning Wang’s mansion for so many years. She just didn’t know how the food would taste.
However, after Su Xi dug for a while, she found nothing but ashes, so she had to give up.
Other places had not been unlocked yet, so she opened the door to the stream. But there was no one there, so she had to go back to the firewood yard.
Inside the room, a small ball was sleeping peacefully on the bed, with a frown on his face.
Su Xi quietly opened the closet and saw that the few snow-white robes she had thrown inside had not been touched at all! However, the two low-quality animal skins that the game character had bought from the street market had been touched.
Su Xi zoomed in and found that there were some small holes on the edge of one of the clothes, as if the cub wanted to sew it onto the current clothes himself, but he was not good at needlepoint and his clumsy hands poked the clothes and he failed to sew it up, so he had to remove the thread again.
Su Xi quickly picked up the finger of the game man on the bed and enlarged it to take a look.
There were indeed small bloody marks from the needle pricks on his soft little hands.
Su Xi couldn’t help but burst out laughing.
Damn, am I stupid? I thought the cub was omnipotent.
Although I go to bed and am not online every night, I can find clues as soon as I go online and find out what my baby did when I was not online.
Su Xi imagined the scene of the stick game character sitting on the bed, seriously staring at the clothes in his hand and trying to thread the needle but still messing up every stitch. She was so happy and thought it was very funny.
She quickly opened the mall and spent 20 gold coins to buy a “needlework” item.
Soon, two pieces of low-quality animal skins were sewn onto the baby’s previous clothes, because the baby refused to wear new clothes. Although the animal skins were of low quality, they were still good for keeping out the cold and freezing.
Su Xi felt relieved and put down the game for the time being to do her homework, letting the system notify her when there was something.
….
Lu Huan woke up before dawn. He did not sleep well last night. He opened his eyes and stared at the curtain without any expression.
Since the cold medicine package was delivered that night, the man had not appeared for the last two days, and today was the third day. The empty yard stayed empty from beginning to end, with only the sound of heavy snow falling, and he was the only one in the loneliness.
He kept looking back when he went out, and when he came back, while still walking far away in the bamboo forest, he pricked up his ears to listen to the movements over here.
But everything was very quiet, with only wind and snow in the sky.
Yesterday and the day before yesterday, he paid special attention to the things in the yard, even every flower and blade of grass.
But nothing was moved anymore—
In other words, the man did not sneak in again.
Logically speaking, this unexpected event that suddenly broke into his dull days suddenly disappeared, so he should have breathed a sigh of relief, or even felt fortunate, just like he had been extremely vigilant before. But for some reason, he felt…uncomfortable.
It was like the ripples that had already been created could never be calmed down again.
A complex and irritable emotion flashed across Lu Huan’s face. He then stood up and changed his clothes as usual.
He was planning to go to the chicken coop to take a look, but just as he opened the door, he heard a servant from the old lady’s side calling, “Third Young Master, the old lady wants you to go to the main courtyard.”
In the past, the servants would not call him “Third Young Master” according to the situation. But after the incident by the stream, the servants saw that the old lady who had the most say in Ning Wang’s Mansion favored Lu Huan a little, so they dared not treat him with the bullying attitude they had before. Although they were not very nice to him, they did restrain themselves a little.
Lu Huan frowned.
The old lady came to urge him, and he wondered if it was related to what he was thinking.
Half a month later, there was to be a hunting event among the princes on Qiuyan Mountain.
The Second Prince would also participate, and the Ning Wang’s Mansion was siding with the Second Prince. However, the Ning Wang’s Mansion had declined in power in recent years and was not as important in the Second Prince’s eyes.
Therefore, Ning Wang and the old lady had been trying to bring the two brothers Lu Yu’an and Lu Wenxiu closer to the second prince and even sent them to the Imperial Academy for this purpose. Unfortunately, Lu Yu’an had a mediocre personality and Lu Wenxiu was too stupid, so the second prince disdained associating with them.
They had previously even thought of adopting a daughter and sending her to the Second Prince’s bedside, but unfortunately, Lady Ning was jealous, and before the adopted daughter was sent to the Second Prince, she thought that the adopted daughter was having an affair with her father, so she killed the adopted daughter first.
Lu Huan was fully aware of all the twists and turns in Ning Wang’s mansion, but he did not get involved in order to protect himself.
Now that Lu Wenxiu was in solitary confinement, the old lady must have other thoughts on her mind.
He pretended not to know, and did not show any sign of it, and just followed the servant straight to the main courtyard. Because the old lady called for people in a hurry, he did not have time to take a look at the chicken coop and the kitchen.
Before leaving, he took two packets of typhoid medicine with him, and thought that before coming back, he would go to Fourth Aunt and give them to her.
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