After Apocalypse, I Got Rich With Superpower

Chapter 45: Chapter 43 Visit

Chapter 45: Chapter 43 Visit

They had been busy for several days before they finally managed to harvest all the wheat, weighing it to a total of just under 20 tons. Spread over 40 acres, this averaged 1,000 pounds per acre, which was considered a high yield.

“The boss asked me to tell you, we will take all the wheat back to the base for drying and directly bag it as flour for you—no need for you to spend extra money on processing. We’ll handle it all in one go, and the remaining tasks we’ll do ourselves. It’s a lot easier with the heavy machinery at home than doing it manually.”

“Fine, but I’ll need some wheat bran as well, the livestock needs to eat. I want 3,000 pounds of flour and 5,000 pounds of bran.”

“I can only give you 3,000 pounds of bran. We need to mix the bran in the flour to make buns to eat; we can’t give it all to you.”

Qian Xi shook his head.

Wheat bran is normally for the livestock to eat. With the natural disaster causing food shortages, people have to figure out ways to eat everything. Otherwise, who would eat it? It even chokes you and scrapes your throat when you swallow.

“Alright then, that will do. Prepare it for me, and I’ll come to collect it in a few days.”

“No problem.”

Qian Xi and his team took the grain and hurried off. The Contribution points were directly transferred via mobile, and the heavy machinery back at their base would process the grain. Their portion of grain was also deducted directly from here. They just had to carry it home; the electronic contract was already in place.

The land could still yield another round of fruits and vegetables. The watermelons would be turned into watermelon jam.

They also needed to harvest a batch of chili peppers, which had grown bright red. She had planted several types of chili peppers, including the “Four Flat-Top” which was mildly spicy and thick-fleshed, tasting slightly sweet.

The “Er Jing” variety was fragrant and hot, commonly used in hot pots and stir-fry dishes.

There was also the upward-facing “Sky Chili” and the “Lantern Chili”. The ginger and garlic had also ripened, and she planned to prepare more sweet pickled garlic, a favorite among everyone.

Before the onset of winter, they intended to sun-dry another batch of dried vegetables, as well as make some pickles and dried chili skins.

The land needed another deep plowing to expose all insect eggs to the surface, so they would freeze to death once it snowed.

They also planned to sow more cold-resistant vegetables for autumn, like kale, spinach, green vegetables, celery, cilantro, garlic sprouts, and radishes.

After autumn harvest, they could continue to sow Purple clover—it was the best time for sowing, and it also fertilized the soil. She planned to sow more Purple clover in the fields that had been used for grain to enrich the soil further.

They needed to continue sowing wheat across the same 40 acres, to be harvested in spring, along with some rapeseed, which could be harvested in early spring.

They could continue to grow sweet potatoes and other crops like sugarcane, rice, and tea trees.

The tea trees from their last exchange needed to be transplanted to the forest area, where the terrain was slightly elevated and unsuitable for other crops but ideal for herbs and tea trees.

Others were responsible for sowing wheat, sweet potatoes, a small amount of rice, and more lotus roots.

The busy days passed quickly. Li Pan planted another batch of tea trees and fruit trees in the fields and mountains, suffusing them all with her superpower.

She wanted to take a trip to the Sichuan peppercorn trees to see if there were any peppers left to pick for making meat dishes.

She discovered a tree that was mutating towards something resembling jackfruit, yet the fruit looked even larger than jackfruit and almost identical.

She picked a few and used her superpower to feel them, surprisingly discovering that they were actually breadfruit trees.

The fruit was simply too large. Jackfruit was large enough, but these breadfruit were twice the size of jackfruit, one fruit filling an entire basket.

She picked five or six and left the rest. If they were tasty, she would come back to pick more. The greenish ones still needed a few days to mature, while the darker ones were ripe. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

She also gathered some firewood to take back for cooking.

Back home, Zhang Yu and Zhang Qi were stringing chili peppers in the yard, hanging them on ropes and cutting a slit in the tail end of each to dry into chili skins below the roof.

“Guess what new stuff I brought back?”

“What is this, jackfruit?”

“It’s the fruit of a breadfruit tree.”

“Really?”

Zhang Qi shook her head in disbelief.

Xue Dong also came back from work, “Wow, what’s this? It’s huge!”

“Brother, this is the fruit of the breadfruit tree.”

“How do we eat this, peel it?”

“Shall we peel and see?”

Li Pan had never eaten it either, only heard about it.

“Then I’ll give it a try.”

“Maybe we can even bake bread with it.”

“Perfect, our bread cave has only ever baked meat and cakes, never bread. I’ll give it a try.”

Xue Dong, quite interested, went to change his clothes and washed up before coming out.

He peeled off the skin of the breadfruit, revealing the white flesh inside. It was somewhat hard to the touch and could be eaten raw, sweet and fresh-tasting, much like raw squash.

“It’s edible, it’s sweet, seemingly with a creamy flavor, quite tasty. Cooked, it should be even better.”

“Let’s bake a piece to try, and there are more, I didn’t finish picking.”

“Okay, I’ll slice it up.”

The breadfruit was too large, so Xue Dong cut it into several pieces, carved a pattern with a knife, and placed it on a wooden board to slide into the bread cave for roasting, without adding anything just to try the original flavor of the breadfruit when baked.

Soon, a rich and sweet aroma wafted out, making the two children eagerly await, with two wolf pups also wandering around the cave entrance.

Xue Dong took the baked breadfruit out, cut it into small pieces, placed them on a plate and handed them to everyone, reserving two pieces to cool down before feeding the wolf pups.

“It really has a creamy aroma, sweet flavor, really similar to the taste of bread before.”

Li Pan looked at everyone with a face full of surprise.

Liu Qian also nodded, “It’s really delicious, it must have a high starch content, it can totally serve as a staple to fill up our stomachs, and it’s very tasty too.”

“That’s great. Tomorrow I’ll go and transplant two breadfruit trees, so we will be able to eat this often.”

“Plant one in the courtyard.”

“Okay. I’ll go tomorrow. There are also two or three breadfruit trees that are positively mutated; I’ve checked them with superpowers, they are edible.”

Two of the trees are small saplings, perfect for transplanting tomorrow as the survival rate of flowers, plants, and trees is higher in the autumn.

“Sister, I’ll come with you tomorrow.”

“I’m going too.”

“Alright. We’ll go together.”

“The day after tomorrow, I plan to go to the base to bring back some flour. Do you guys want to come with me to the base as well?”

“I’ll go, I need to buy some personal items.”

Qin Jianzhong hadn’t left the farm for a long time, and he wanted to buy some things.

“I’ll stay to watch the house.”

Liu Qian nodded.

“Brother Xuedong, we both want to go see our brothers and sisters at the orphanage. Is that okay?”

“Sure, along the way, I’ll deliver the grain, all of it before New Year’s.”

Every time Xue Dong and Li Pan went to deliver food and vegetables to the orphanage, they brought more, not just two children’s rations, but always seventy to eighty pounds of various grains, with additional vegetables and fruits. This was also their way of showing some heart to the orphanage.

With the harvest this year, they thought of picking up some flour and also delivering some flour, vegetables, fruits, pork, beef, chicken, as well as prepared pickles and duck eggs to the orphanage. The children were pitiful, orphaned, completely supported by the base.

Now that they were able to eat their fill, they could also support the orphanage a bit, having once received help from kind-hearted people themselves, now that they were able, it was their turn to give back a little.