Ch10 - The System Is Starting Up

“Brother Yan, where are we going?” Yang Yingying who followed behind Mu Yan like a little follower, asking in a milky voice.

Since Mu Yan moved into the new home, Lin Jiayu would send the two children to Mu Yan when she and Yang Wenyao went to work during the day. In return, they would provide Mu Yan with nutritional powder. 

Mu Yan was very grateful to Lin Jiayu and Yang Wenyao. He also knew that as a minor child under eighteen years old, he couldn’t go out to work at the factory and make money to buy nutritional powder.

Aunt Lin and Uncle Yang just kept sending their children over because they knew his situation, and then used this chance to give him nutritional powder. Mu Yan kept this kindness in heart.

“Let’s go and dig up the soil for the field.” Mu Yan answered patiently.

“What is the field?” Yang Yingying asked with curiosity. 

“A field is the land where crops can be grown.”

“Then what is crop?” Yang Yingying seemed to have transformed into a hundred thousand whys, and was very curious about what Mu Yan said.

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Although nutritional powder gave more satiety than the rice soup, it was still tasteless food. His previous meals were very bad, not even as good as the soup made with nutritional powder, but at least he could taste some salt and wild vegetables everyday.

Therefore, he really didn’t understand why the people here could only eat nutritional powder all this time. The thought of eating only nutritional powder in a lifetime terrified him.

In any case, he had to improve his food. Not to mention big fish and meat, at least some vegetables and salt that were necessary for the human body.

That’s probably humans’ desire for good food. As the saying goes, ‘food first, ethical niceties second’, which was enough to show how important food was to human beings. 

Yang Yinghao, who had been trying his best to pretend to be calm, couldn’t help but speak after hearing Mu Yan’s words.

“Is crop a nutrient solution? Nutrient solutions are better than nutritional powders.” 

His father would buy nutrient solutions for them occasionally. Some of them were sweet and some were sour, much better than the flavorless nutritional powder. But the price of one nutrient solution was very expensive. One could buy the amount of nutritional powder for three days. Therefore, they seldom buy it.

“Crop is just a general term. Many edible things are called crops. When I plant them, you will know the difference.” Mu Yan could only give him a rough idea. 

“Okay.” 

Although Yang Yingying and Yang Yinghao didn’t quite understand, they always felt that what Brother Yan said was very awesome. 

The general impression of the crop had been deeply rooted in their hearts since then. Both of them were looking forward to the crops that Mu Yan said.

Mu Yan walked around the edge of the forest with the two children, exploring suitable places for farming, but he didn’t go too deep. After all, it was dangerous for Haohao and Yingying. 

Of course, unknown places were also dangerous for him.

In the end, Mu Yan chose an area of ​​about one acre of land in the open place closest to his home. Even though the land here was unowned, he was not greedy to take many!

In this world where no one had ever cultivated land, he still didn’t know whether he could find the seeds for cultivation, so he first set aside an acre of land for trial planting. If it  was successful, he would plan more land in the future.

The scope of the land had been determined, and the next step was to manually turn over the soil. 

Although Mu Yan was a ger, he was a good worker. Because his brothers were too young to work, all the housework fell on him. In the busy farming time, he sometimes helped his father in the field, so he was familiar with plowing the field.

But back to square one, farming didn’t exist in this world, and naturally there would be no corresponding tools. Mu Yan must find his own way to make simple hoe.

“Haohao, Yingying, stay around here first. Brother will go ahead to find something and will be back soon.” Mu Yan repeatedly told the two children, but he was not too relieved. He looked back at the two children from time to time.

Mu Yan picked a relatively sturdy branch, and made a simple farming tool, a wooden hoe, with the rope he brought from home. 

Only a few people in Mujia Village raised cattles, and most of them turned over the soil manually, so this hard work should be nothing to Mu Yan. Just as he swung the tool to the soil…

“Ding, the trigger condition has been met! System is starting at 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…”