The Strong Female Lead Versus The Most Miserable Male Lead-Chapter 181 - 182 Arranged

Chapter 181 -182 Arranged

The egg-shaped flying device landed safely on the open ground.

Almost the instant it touched down, Nian Shutong pushed open the door and leapt out.

“Ha Ha, Rubble, I’m back!”

Her yell made Ha Ha excitedly sprint over, and though Rubble didn’t run, his pace was somewhat hurried.

“Good human, you finally came back.”

“Ms. Nian Shutong, welcome back.”

Ha Ha’s face was openly joyful, while it was hard to tell if Rubble was happy, only that he forgot to take off the wrench still on his finger.

Nian Shutong’s emotions were on full display; she had missed this place. She had missed these two who had always stayed by her side.

She stepped forward, ruffled Ha Ha’s head, and then touched the top of Rubble’s head.

“Did you miss me? I missed you guys,” said Nian Shutong, then she nodded to herself and continued,

“I didn’t even think I would miss this place before I left.”

“Good human, when do we eat?”

“Ms. Nian Shutong, human emotions are controlled by the brain, what you call ‘missing’ is just because of a substance called dopamine…”

As soon as Rubble and Ha Ha started speaking, Nian Shutong’s nostalgia “came to an abrupt halt.”

“Stop! My nostalgia ends here.” Nian Shutong first halted Rubble’s explanation, then turned to Ha Ha and asked, “Didn’t I leave food for you? Didn’t you eat your fill?”

Ha Ha said somewhat grievously, “Ha Ha wants to eat fresh meat.”

Oh… so that was why.

Ha Ha could hunt for himself, but he didn’t know how to remove the toxins, so it was useless even if he caught anything.

Looking at the pitiful Ha Ha, Nian Shutong said with a bit of distress, “Okay, I’m back now, I’ll get you some meat in a bit.”

“Good good,” Ha Ha immediately became happy.

On the other hand, Rubble, whose lesson had been abruptly stopped, was visibly struggling, not daring to speak, his big metal head drooping a bit.

“Rubble, look what this is?”

Nian Shutong opened the palm of her hand, revealing a transparent, oval-shaped Crystal Stone that sparkled brilliantly under the sunlight.

This was something Nian Shutong obtained in advance from the system; she would have to complete the planting on a hundred acres before receiving her next reward.

Fortunately, the advance was a smooth process. The Xiao Ba system took farming seriously but was surprisingly lax about the management of Crystal Stones.

Rubble looked at the Crystal Stone before him. He didn’t immediately take it but instead covered his rapidly beating heart with one hand.

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“Ms. Nian Shutong, Rubble’s heart is beating too fast. According to Rubble’s analysis, symptoms like these could be caused by hyperthyroidism, neurocirculatory asthenia, cardiovascular disease, myocarditis, pericarditis, heart failure…”

Nian Shutong took Rubble’s hand and placed the Crystal Stone in his palm.

“I think you’re not sick, just a bit excited to receive a gift.”

Excited?

Rubble’s list was interrupted by Nian Shutong’s words.

Nian Shutong closed Rubble’s palm and said, “Take it for an upgrade, there’ll be more in the future.”

She turned around, ready to get everyone moving because there were still many people due to arrive.

But when had they arrived?

Nian Shutong caught sight of the young mother and son duo, one big, one small, both with adorably cute faces, the elder’s gaze intense, the younger’s completely clueless.

Ji Sisi: Her teardrop mole is so pretty! It’s just missing one dot.

Ji Doudou: These two seem so familiar? Where have I seen them before, why can’t Dou Dou remember?

Nian Shutong pretended not to recognize them and approached the two, beginning to ask questions.

As for Ha Ha and Rubble, she had no expectations of them.

“What are your names? What brings you to Blue Star?”

Little Douding had been waiting for his mother to speak up, but after a while, she hadn’t.

He looked up at his mother, Ji Sisi, whose face alternated between trouble and fondness. Her gaze never left Ms. Nian Shutong’s face.

“Mom—”

“Yes!” Ji Sisi finally stopped her surreptitious glances and began to speak.

“My name is Ji Sisi, and this is my son, Ji Doudou. We came… came… to work.”

The last part about working was said in a quiet voice, with Ji Sisi’s face flushed and her eyes darting around.

“To work?” Nian Shutong regarded Ji Sisi seriously, yet she chose not to expose her lie—at least for now.

“Yes— I can also pay you; just let me stay and work!” Ji Sisi’s face grew even redder, her words disjointed.

She offered money to work for her own livelihood.

The logic was simply astonishing.

“Alright, you can stay for now.” Nian Shutong then pointed towards the area below the small wooden house, near the stream, and said:

“Sort out your housing yourselves; just pick a spot in that direction.”

“After you’ve settled, come to the kitchen and follow Zhang Hui’s instructions.”

“Yes, yes, yes, okay, okay, okay.” Ji Sisi might have been naively simple in her thought processes, but she wasn’t foolish.

She knew that this woman with the asymmetrical tear mole let her stay out of kindness, and the reason didn’t matter.

She needed a place to stay; Blue Star and its people seemed welcoming, and she wanted to remain.

After arranging things for the mother and son, Nian Shutong didn’t pay them any further attention. Instead, she had Ha Ha take the robots to transport the timber they had cleared for farming.

She also instructed Rubble to start making beds, to at least provide a basic place for the newcomers to settle.

And as for herself, she began to look into the issue of food.

Feeding over three hundred people was something she couldn’t afford with her current finances.

Thus, harvesting grains was a matter of urgency.

“Xiao He, you need to expand the kitchen. There are over three hundred more people coming; at the very least, they should be fed before they sort out their own cooking.”

“Understood.” Fu Yunhe turned on his Light Computer and chose to make a purchase.

Having coordinated the meal arrangements, Nian Shutong then sent a message to Wang Fu and his two sons.

She instructed them to bring back all the salt they had dried out for sale to make some money and to return for the harvest of wheat and rice.

Nian Shutong herself then went to learn how to operate a harvester from Rubble. After getting the hang of it, she drove the harvester alone to the rice paddy, where the harvest began.

Rubble was incredibly skilled; it was unclear how he had modified the machine, but amazingly, there was no dust in the rice paddy. The machine simultaneously collected the rice and chopped up the rice straw.

When Wang Fusan and his brothers returned, one of them went to harvest wheat, while the other two began husking the rice.

It was also done by machine, another product of Rubble’s skill.

Grains went in, and on the other side, white rice came out, ready to be bagged and sealed.

As everything continued smoothly, people began to arrive gradually.

After a while, Nian Shutong handed the harvester over to Ha Ha. She crossed the stream and gathered the newcomers together.

Standing on a large rock, she looked down at the more than three hundred people—soon to be the first residents of Blue Star.

“Hello, everyone.”

With just a simple greeting, Nian Shutong exerted a bit of her psychic pressure, quieting the crowd below in an instant, making them feel an unoppressive but irresistible force.

“I am Nian Shutong, the Planet Master of Blue Star.”