She Only Cares About Cultivation-Chapter 745: [735] Beast World Farming 45 (1 update)

In the Beast World’s weather, she did not know the best time to plant crops, so she chose to plant all the available crops half a month before the rainy season.

Since she had collected many seeds last year, she needed to start plowing the fields earlier this year.

A month after the Cold Season had passed, the earth warmed up and thawed, and even stubborn grass began to sprout, making it a suitable time to turn over, plow, and level the ground.

During the Cold Season, the Beastmen from the Vine Mountain Tribe had borrowed a lot of grain fruit and lotus root from her family. Therefore, after Tangtang had found the land she planned to use, she let these people return the favor. How did they repay her? By working a day for each grain fruit and five sections of lotus root, and she made sure they were fed during their work.

Typically, a family had to work for her for twenty to thirty days. Although many Beastmen working together was fast, she did not have enough work for all of them, so she divided them into three groups of ten each time. This way she had enough labor, and they could also return to build their own homes without delay.

After the Cold Season, the people from the Vine Mountain Tribe left, leaving behind only one Beastman to continue repaying the debt.

In this era, there were no metals, so naturally there were no tools like iron spades or shovels. Therefore, for the first several days they did nothing but sharpen stones and whittle wood to make rudimentary plowing tools.

Although the grass had not yet grown, there were still plenty of decaying materials on the ground such as leaves and wet grass. Therefore, they needed to clear away this mess before they could begin to turn the soil.

With ten part-time workers, four Beastmen, a total of fourteen people, plus her own little cubs, she could barely manage the meals for about twenty people. She would have been overwhelmed if she had to feed thirty people at once like before.

Beastmen eat a lot, so she went all out when preparing meals at home, generally making stews because it was convenient and warming, especially since oil was precious and hard to afford. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

On the first day, she made a large stone pot of radish chunks stewed with meat, adding kelp, mushrooms, glass noodles, blood tofu, and lotus root.

She also cooked grain fruit rice, steamed sweet potatoes and potatoes. Thirty people were well fed and very satisfied.

From that meal on, the part-time workers looked forward to eating at her house every day, as they had never tasted food like that before, and seemed even more enthusiastic about their work.

The meal made at Noon was not finished, after all, sweet potatoes and potatoes are staple foods, so she mixed the remaining rice with the sweet potatoes and potatoes in the evening to make a pot of sticky porridge, simply served with pickled vegetables.

The next day at Noon, she made cabbage stewed with meat, steamed rice, and boiled a seafood soup – another fresh experience for the laborers, revealing to them what seafood was.

On the third day, she stewed a pot of glutinous rice with lotus root, adding brown sugar. The lotus root was stuffed with rice and sealed with bamboo sticks, slowly stewed over low heat all morning. The resulting flavor was not inferior to what she had made in her previous life; it was sufficient as a main dish.

The side dishes were sour and spicy potato strips and cabbage stewed with meat.

After three days of meals, they were thoroughly pleased. On the fourth day, she made a large pot of spicy and numbing seafood juice with butter poured over rice noodles.

Inside the seafood pouring was genuine snail and shellfish meat, and the rice noodles she steamed one by one, tasted simply amazing – delicious enough to make mouths water!

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By the end of the week, these ten people even harbored the idea of not wanting to leave, asking Tangtang when she would need more laborers; they were willing to come work for her without asking for anything in return, as long as she provided meals.

Tangtang knew her cooking was delicious and she never deceived anyone. Filled with sincerity, wasn’t this the simple life they had hoped for?

"Sure, no problem. I’ll definitely come to you when I need help again."

This first group of workers finished preparing and leveling the fields in just a week, even clearly marking the boundaries; they were exceedingly cooperative. She then realized that in the Beast World, humans didn’t have grand ambitions; being well-fed was enough for them and sometimes, being well-fed was even more important than having descendants.

After all, isn’t living just about satisfying this mouth?

Before the land was ready, she had already distributed the seeds. Next was planting.

This second group of people came over after the first group had left; the weather had warmed considerably by then and even planting underground, the probability of the seeds sprouting was much higher. She adjusted the planting order according to the growth cycles of the plants, planting in stages, as from the start of the rainy season to the arrival of the Cold Season, there were only six months available.