Chapter 26: A Purely Good Person

Before long, the group started moving again. Feeling bored, Yan Huan tried to explore the scenery within her spatial dimension while walking.

Sure enough, it worked. The spatial image appeared like a projection directly in front of her.

The reward for the next level upgrade of the fertile land was already displayed: a bow and arrows.

Hmm, a weapon. Not particularly useful, at least not at this stage.

Duo’er could kill wolves with her bare hands, so she definitely didn’t need a bow and arrows. And Yan Huan was too weak to even draw a bow. Although this reward wasn’t very useful, maybe the next one would be? She still had to continue doing the tasks.

The fertile land was full of all sorts of random plants that she had planted to level it up earlier. Usually, she was only busy with tasks and hadn’t noticed that there was actually a flock of wild chickens among the weeds. There seemed to be quite a few chickens. Yan Huan was about to count them when she noticed that each chicken had a number on its head.

1-100, neatly arranged, exactly one hundred of them.

Good heavens! She had only thrown in a nest of wild chicken eggs before, about a dozen or so. Eggs hatched into chickens, chickens laid eggs, and they had multiplied to one hundred on their own.

There were also many eggs piled up by the edge of the grass, but no more chicks were hatching. It seemed they had reached saturation.

The system’s voice sounded in her mind again: “Congratulations, Master, for discovering a new function of the space – automatic production. If you need automatic production, please check the box after the corresponding species.”
Then Yan Huan noticed that corresponding names had appeared on all the items. Behind the names, there was an option: automatic production, manual production, available for selection.

Yan Huan clicked “automatic production” behind the rice, and then watched as a stalk of rice grew from seedling to maturity and then fell to the ground. Afterward, it started growing again. Soon, a large pile of threshed rice appeared beside it.

Yan Huan was pleasantly surprised to find that the space even automatically processed it into rice.

Finally, it stopped after producing a full thousand catties of rice.

Yan Huan used the same method to produce a lot of vegetables and fruits. Soon, a circle around the space was filled with supplies, making Yan Huan’s heart bloom with joy. With these things, even if the whole family arrived on a deserted island, they could survive.

Soon, Yan Huan’s gaze fell on a few large wooden boxes nearby, and her heart warmed.

Those boxes were filled with precious medicinal herbs. Vegetables and the like could mature quickly, so if these valuable medicinal herbs could do the same, wouldn’t she become rich?

She carefully plucked a few rootlets from a ginseng plant and placed them in the fertile land. The name displayed above was: Hundred-year-old ginseng rootlet, time needed to grow into a hundred-year-old ginseng: one year.

It wasn’t instant maturity like before.

But going from a rootlet to a hundred-year-old ginseng in just one year was still an astonishing speed.

There was also a line of red text above:

“Remaining times to force-mature precious medicinal herbs: 10/9.”

There were no such remaining times when force-maturing fruits and vegetables. It had appeared when planting medicinal herbs, and there were only ten times. Now that she had used it once, there were only nine lefts.

She felt a slight regret, but it only lasted for a moment before she let it go. If she could really force-mature these things indefinitely, that would truly be defying the heavens.

Throughout the entire day, Yan Huan was tinkering with her space. She even used the supplies she had previously stored in the space to build a few rooms inside.

There was only one house in the space before. She had filled the first floor, and the second floor was occupied by the system. Now that the space was filled with various fruits and vegetables, building a few rooms would look more comfortable. In the future, there would be more and more things, and she didn’t want her space to become a large garbage dump.

Dinner was also very sumptuous: stewed pheasant with mushrooms. The pheasant wasn’t from Yan Huan’s space; it was sent over by Jiang Cen to thank her for successfully making his younger sister see the error of her ways.

Yan Jinzhao watched Jiang Cen winking and making faces at his younger sister, his fists clenching with a pa pa sound. It seemed that what his brothers and he had discussed with him in the forest earlier was too subtle, and this guy hadn’t understood.

Then Yan Huan saw her brothers pull Jiang Cen aside to chat again.

Yan Huan felt that ever since her fourth uncle had been bullied by the monkeys last time, the relationship between her brothers and the Jiang family’s brothers seemed to have improved. Perhaps they had realized the principle that there was strength in numbers?

Although the speed of their relationship development was strange, Yan Huan was still happy for them. Having more friends meant more paths to take, and having more confidants meant more blessings.

Besides the chicken soup, because they had chicken, the meat that Zhao Song had sent earlier was left uneaten. Yan Huan first cut off a small piece, then asked Mama Jiang to marinate it for tomorrow.

In the evening, Yan Huan prepared to personally make some vegetable and lean meat porridge for the children.

Afterward, feeling it wasn’t enough, she asked Mama Jiang to make a few egg pancakes and then brought out a plate of fruit, saying it was sent by Zhao Song earlier.

Everyone had seen Zhao Song come to deliver things earlier, but they hadn’t paid much attention to what exactly he had sent.

Zhao Song didn’t hide the fact that his promotion was due to Yan Huan. He even spread the word everywhere, saying that Yan Huan was his lucky star, his benefactor. Yan Huan understood his intentions; he just wanted everyone to know that he was Yan Huan’s backer and didn’t want anyone to make things difficult for her because of Zhao Shi’s matter.

It had to be said that Zhao Song was truly good to her and Jiang Duo’er. Although the two of them often sent him wild game, they weren’t on an equal footing, and she hadn’t expected him to treat her as an equal.

But Zhao Song treated them like friends. They gave him gifts, and he took care of them. Sometimes she even suspected he had some special intentions towards her.

But she immediately dismissed that thought. After all, he was the same towards Duo’er. It couldn’t be that he had taken a fancy to both of them at the same time.

Moreover, Zhao Song had always been polite to her, like an older brother to a younger sister, never doing anything inappropriate towards her.

Perhaps, he was just a purely good person?

Successfully finding a source for her fruit, Yan Huan gathered the old lady and the children of the Yan family together.

They had said they would eat separately before, but that was actually just to annoy Jin Shi. She had a lot of things in her space, and she still felt a little sorry for the children having to gnaw on vegetable cakes.
She didn’t care about the older children, but the younger ones were still growing, and they should eat well.

Jin Shi knew that Yan Huan was going to take her son to eat good food and wanted to follow along. Madam Tan gave her a cold glance and said, “If it weren’t for you, everyone would be eating meat and drinking soup at the same table right now. If you don’t want your son to miss out on even a bite, then don’t go and get in Huan’er’s way.”

Jin Shi’s face showed resentment, but she dared not go over there again.

Madam Tan simply handed the child to the old lady and then sat back down in the fourth branch’s place to gnaw on a vegetable cake.

The aroma of the egg pancakes was enticing. The children sat together in a circle, but none of them reached out to take anything first. Everyone waited for Yan Huan to distribute the food, and even the old lady didn’t move first.