My Apocalypse System Arrives 10 Years Early

Chapter 181: Chapter 143: Buying Kittens, Chicks, Ducklings, and Goslings, Little Fox’s Breakthrough

In Li Xiang’s backyard, along the tall courtyard wall, the rapeseed flowers bloomed a brilliant gold. Many butterflies and bees danced among them, gathering nectar.

A spring breeze carried their sweet fragrance through the air.

This wasn’t their peak beauty, however. In another ten days to half a month, the flowers would be in full bloom, reaching the height of their splendor.

The kittens, captivated by the butterflies’ fluttering dance, stalked and pounced through the flower field. They were still too small to have any real chance of catching the winged insects, but they never tired of it.

The mother cat used this as an opportunity to teach them various hunting skills.

As spring blossomed and the weather warmed, the kittens gradually grew bigger. The mother cat was nearly done raising them and would probably go into heat again soon.

Li Xiang had originally planned to get her spayed. She was getting old, and another pregnancy and birth would be dangerous. But after he started feeding them Spirit Medicine Porridge, not only did the kittens grow well, but the old calico cat’s constitution also improved significantly. Li Xiang figured it was best to just let nature take its course.

Besides, spaying wasn’t necessarily a good thing. For the cat herself, the desire to reproduce was in her genes. The surgery also carried many risks, not to mention potential side effects and psychological trauma.

If she had too many kittens, he could always raise them somewhere else, like in the Holy Realm Garden.

There was a café over there. ’A cat café?’

Li Xiang didn’t go back to sweep the mountains of the Hailuogou Primeval Forest. He had already gone over it once, and he had enough Spiritual Medicine in his system inventory to last for the time being—a supply for three to five months.

He once again rode his tricycle into town to buy liquor from the pure-grain distillery.

The owner was ecstatic to see him. Li Xiang picked out thirty kilograms of their best liquor, and the owner helped him load it onto the tricycle, even throwing in a jar of newly brewed rice wine for free.

This rice wine was also known as sweet fermented rice. It was delicious when used to make sweet fermented rice balls.

It could also be used in other recipes, like sweet fermented rice with brown sugar and egg, steamed apples with sweet fermented rice, or a white fungus, corn, and sweet fermented rice soup. These dishes were considered especially good for women.

Afterward, Li Xiang went to the wet market, planning to buy some vegetables, seasonings, and vegetable seeds.

With the warm spring weather and plentiful rain, it was the perfect season for planting vegetables.

He’d had a surplus of energy since returning home, so he had tilled the empty plots in his front and back yards over and over again. He’d created neat, level vegetable beds with fine, uniform soil that was loose and moderately moist. He had even buried some homemade organic fertilizer at the bottom. His grandma said it would be a huge waste not to plant such good land full of vegetables.

His grandma had saved some vegetable seeds from last year, but the variety was relatively small. Since there were plenty of seeds available on the market, Li Xiang decided to go to town to get some more.

He went into a shop that sold a wide variety of seeds. He browsed and chose, occasionally asking the owner which brands were better. In the end, he left with over ten packets of seeds.

He bought seeds for loofah, winter melon, bitter melon, pumpkin, eggplant, cowpea, green bean, edamame, cucumber, bottle gourd, potato, chili pepper, water spinach, tomato, cilantro, daylily, and choy sum, among others.

Besides regular tomatoes, Li Xiang also bought some cherry tomatoes, also known as Saintess tomatoes. They tasted better eaten raw, and he got both red and yellow varieties.

The yellow ones had pretty names, too, like Imperial Consort or Empress Jin.

The choy sum seeds he bought were different from the rapeseed he planted last year.

Choy sum, also called a flowering cabbage stalk, is a variety of Chinese cabbage and comes in two types: white and red.

Li Xiang bought both types. Only children make choices.

Both white and red flowering cabbage stalks were sweet and crisp, and they were absolutely divine when stir-fried with cured pork.