Reborn with a Space: Building a Fortune Amidst Famine-Chapter 153 farming, the difficult ’59 year

At night, the two of them worked together. Yuanyuan watered while Tan Shaoting used Divine Sense to cover the soil with plastic film, and then Yuanyuan used her Earth Element Ability to press the edges of the film into place.

In this way, they managed to cover ten acres of land in one night. However, both were quite exhausted, mentally rather than physically.

They both drank some Spiritual Spring Water and cultivated for a while before starting to work.

Since they were working in the fields, there was no worry about anyone coming over, so they manually dug while using their supernatural abilities, managing to plant ten acres of potatoes in a day.

The same routine continued at night. Once they had finished planting fifty acres of potatoes, they also harvested the third batch of sweet potato seedlings.

Then, they began planting the sweet potato seedlings.

The two of them decided to continue using the plastic film for moisture retention, planning to remove it only when a severe drought came.

So by early June, they finished planting sweet potatoes across the remaining twenty acres of land.

They gave over ten thousand sweet potato seedlings to the Zhao Family siblings and delivered more along with two large basins of potato meat to them. This was also considered food.

"Yuanyuan, our well doesn’t have much water left. I’ve already spoken to Team Leader Tian, and the well-drilling team will come to drill for us in a few days."

"Hmm, how much land is left to be planted?"

"We still have fifty acres, planning to plant potatoes."

"You’ve already tilled the fifty acres, right?"

"Yes, the potatoes you brought have also been soaked in water and can be planted tomorrow."

Su Yuanyuan really admired the Zhao Family siblings. She believed in them. Despite having supernatural abilities, Yuanyuan and Tan Shaoting were only ten days ahead, but it was evident that the Zhao siblings were working hard.

"I’ve brought pickles and salt for you. Don’t overexert yourselves."

The five siblings were as dark as charcoal by now. The girls were a bit better, wearing headscarves and masks given by Su Yuanyuan. But they were all too skinny, alarmingly so.

Well, they were saving food, sparing water, and had no meat. It was inevitable to lose weight.

Even Tan Shaoting and Yuanyuan had lost weight over the past two months, despite not holding back on anything.

The two left the Zhao Family. "Should we go to the city and sell a few pigs?"

"Sure, should we go tonight?"

"Yes, let’s head out now."

They arrived in the city during the daytime and went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy plastic film, which they could purchase with their identification.

They directly bought ten bundles, as having more wouldn’t hurt.

Tan Shaoting went off on his own while Su Yuanyuan shopped for household items.

Fortunately, she had plenty of vouchers, which allowed her to buy quite a bit.

She also visited the seed station to buy some vegetable seeds. The courtyard already had beans, cucumbers, eggplants, and chives growing, so she thought of buying some chili seeds. But there weren’t any.

Not knowing what else to buy, she left with bags full of goods.

The two planned to meet at the restaurant entrance. Along the way, Su Yuanyuan sent many things into her space, leaving her with fewer things to carry when she arrived at the restaurant’s doorstep.

Sitting outside and waiting for Tan Shaoting, she grew anxious after waiting for over an hour. Could he be in danger? That shouldn’t be it.

Just when she couldn’t wait any longer, Tan Shaoting drove over.

Judging by his expression, there seemed to be no issues, so she was relieved.

Tan Shaoting got off the vehicle and whispered to Su Yuanyuan, "I sold five pigs, one and a half yuan per pound."

Su Yuanyuan nodded; the price was decent.

The two had cornbread and a bowl of vegetable soup each at the restaurant. Vegetable soup used to be free, but not anymore. Now it cost a penny a bowl.

After eating their fill, they drove back home. On the way, Tan Shaoting handed all the money to Su Yuanyuan, who thought of splitting it in half, but he refused. The sale of five pigs brought in over sixteen hundred yuan.

"I’m thinking of giving the Zhao Family siblings ten pounds of lard and some suet. It’s not easy for them, and mainly because Yuanyuan sees that they’re hard workers without the intention to rely on others."

Of course, Tan Shaoting had no objections. From what he knew, they had collected several thousand pounds of lard. Foreigners weren’t that fond of lard, so its price was much cheaper than pork, resulting in a large accumulation.

They got home in the early hours, and the other donkey and sheep had food, so they didn’t feed them at night.

After breakfast the next day, Tan Shaoting worked at home on the three acres of land.

They had planted corn on those three acres. The land was still quite moist, so they planned to plant now.

Su Yuanyuan drove the donkey cart to the Zhao Family, where the siblings were working in the field. It was a busy time.

Coincidentally, Zhao Qingjie came over carrying water. "Yuanyuan, why are you here?"

"Second Brother, we went to the city yesterday and brought back suet and lard for you. You can’t do without some nourishment."

Zhao Qingjie looked at the snow-white lard and swallowed involuntarily.

"Yuanyuan, thank you. Once we’re done here, I’ll send Xiao Ping and Xiao Li over to give you the money."

Su Yuanyuan smiled, "Second Brother, I have to go back. We’re planting corn at home."

When she returned, Tan Shaoting had already removed all the film and cleared away the branches.

Tan Shaoting was in charge of tilling and turning the soil, while Su Yuanyuan followed behind planting seeds. The corn seeds had been soaked in Spiritual Spring Water. To preserve moisture, she planted the seeds and then covered them with soil using her feet, hoping to retain as much moisture as possible.

They didn’t eat lunch and worked until past eight in the evening before finally finishing the three acres.

They were truly exhausted. Su Yuanyuan didn’t want to move and had a cup of Spiritual Spring Water while Tan Shaoting went to tend to the donkey. She took the chance to take a bath in her space, but she wasn’t wasteful. Instead of using traditional shampoo, she poured the bathwater into the vegetable patch.

Such days would continue for a long time and were truly arduous. They had already used three storage bottles of water.

There wasn’t much to do now, so why not visit the river tomorrow?

She also heated water for Tan Shaoting for his bath when he returned.

Tan Shaoting didn’t waste his bathwater either, using it to water the winter melon seedlings in the yard.

"Shall we visit the river tomorrow?"

"I’ll go with you."

Su Yuanyuan shook her head. "From now on, let’s ensure one of us stays at home. Our fields can’t withstand scrutiny. Better for one to stay and work at home.

There are still many winter melon seedlings not yet planted. You can plant them in last year’s bean field."

It’s not that Tan Shaoting didn’t trust Su Yuanyuan going out alone, but they had been together for so long that it felt unusual without the other.

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