Communicate with furry animals without any barriers, and take the farm to the next level

Chapter 24 Fish Balls Fill the House
The next day, Qiao Xi hired ten birds, led by the great-footed sand goose, as the first employees of the small workshop.

Get started!
The brown-headed griffon helped Josh cut large pieces of fish. The birds chopped the fish paste and beat the meringue in batches. With their tacit cooperation, they were much faster than yesterday.

The most time-consuming part was making the fish balls. Qiao Xi first cooked a pot to make lunch and the birds' portion, and then he started to make the fish balls slowly after he had a good rest.

The weather was getting warmer, and there were tender green grass and colorful flower buds everywhere. Qiao Xi pinched them slowly, feeling very comfortable.

Tomorrow is the tenth, so I can take some fish balls to the street to try it out.

But what to put it in? Origami leaves won’t work. As Qiao Xi squeezed the fish ball, he thought about all the problems tomorrow would have.

After cooking, place the fish balls in ice water to cool them down and increase their elasticity. Then take them out and let the brown-headed vulture blow a breeze to dry the moisture on the surface, and let the big-tailed yak freeze the fish balls quickly.

Although fish balls will shrink after being frozen and then thawed, Qiao Xi has no choice but to do this to keep them fresh. Besides, how can people who have never eaten fish balls know whether they have shrunk or not?

As for the container for the fish balls, Qiao Xi thought about it for a long time but couldn't find a solution. He would go to the market tomorrow to have a look. If that doesn't work, he would buy a few bowls and wash the dishes.

After thinking about all sorts of things, Qiao Xi realized that the frozen fish balls had filled all the containers in the house, and the whole house was filled with fish balls and their delicious aroma.

Qiao Xi took a deep breath. It was so delicious. Unfortunately, no matter how delicious something was, she couldn’t eat it every day. Now she couldn’t eat fish balls anymore.

I have to eat something different tonight.

While it was still early, Qiao Xi planned to go for a walk in the fields and orchards, which he hadn't been to for several days.

The taro bamboo is growing very vigorously, with tender and crisp taro buds hanging all over the leaves, and the purple-red taro flowers are also blooming. If they are not broken off, large taro beads will grow soon.

Qiao Xi listened and didn't complain. The big-tailed yak's poop was still very good. The birds that came to eat fish balls passed by in the past two days also helped to remove insects from the taro and bamboo fields. There was no problem.

Broad beans have covered the entire farmland and are beginning to bloom with small blue-purple flowers. Occasionally, you can encounter a few white-haired bears saying hello to Josh. It will take some time for them to produce beans, and now all they need is time.

The first stop on the way to the orchard was the bitter candy forest. I hadn't visited it for a while, and the trees were full of bitter candies, weighing down the branches. Everyone was tired, so it seemed like it was time to pick the bitter candies.

The giant lemon forest also has new pink buds on its branches. Although the fruits are few, each one has grown to the size of a watermelon. Not only are they larger than the previous fruits, they are even larger than their normal size.

Maybe it’s because the ash from the previous burning of weeds and branches has served as fertilizer for them, so each tree is growing well.

At the edge of the woods, Qiao Xi also saw the carapace of a voracious longhorn beetle and the remains of several young beetles, which should have been left over by the brown-headed vulture.

What the Iron-billed Woodpecker said was right. There are so many insects near the forest. Brown Brown is really amazing. He got rid of so many insects without making any noise.

Qiao Xi glanced at the few remaining Xiangyang oranges and sweet persimmons and left. There was no big problem. They were not fruit trees in this season and there was no change.

However, on the way back, Josh heard the call of the slender-legged wasp, so he walked to the hive and took a look. It would have been fine if he hadn't looked, but when he did, he was shocked.

The honeycomb was filled to the brim and was even dripping.

"Josh, hurry up and take some honey! Our hive is almost full," urged the queen bee. The nearby white-velvet bear bee also complained, "To slow down the filling up of this place, I haven't been out collecting pollen for a long time. Josh, please take some away."

It was spring, and Qiao Xi hadn't expected that the two groups would work together so well. They actually produced so much honey that the giant beehive was filled up.

Their hives have already expanded large enough. If they continue to expand, there will not be enough bees to maintain the hives, and the excess honey will be wasted.

Qiao Xi carefully cut off pieces of honeycomb with a knife and placed them in the refrigerator made temporarily by the big-tailed yak. ​​It was true that there were too few large containers on the farm. He had to buy a batch at the market tomorrow.

After harvesting about one-fifth of the harvest, the large refrigerator made from the big-tailed yak was full. Qiao Xi put the boxes into the space and thanked the little bees: "White Velvet Bumblebees and Slender-legged Bees, thank you for your honey. I will plant more flowers and fruit trees on the farm for you to collect honey from."

“Buzz” Josh, you gave us the right to harvest on the farm, this is our reward.

"Buzz buzz" is it, and since the big black bird came these two days, no bad tiger bees dare to bully us.

The little bees kept talking about Josh's good points, but after listening for a long time, it seemed that Josh praised the brown-headed vulture more.

I didn’t expect that in addition to killing insects, the palm tree also maintains the security of the orchard.

After saying goodbye to the little bees, Qiao Xi found a stone at the edge of the orchard, sat down and thought about the big box of honey. He felt a little distressed. How could he maximize the value of the honey?

It's time to pick the fruit, I'm too busy! Wait! Fruit!

Josh had an idea in his mind.

Back in the orchard, Josh called the Brown-headed Vulture who was catching up on his sleep and asked it to help blow a gust of wind to drop many ripe bitter candies. Josh picked them up under the tree. They fell densely on the ground and it was effortless to pick them up. He had nothing to put them in. The refrigerator would easily freeze the fruits, so Josh simply stuffed them directly into the space backpack, taking as much as he could fit.

Josh stuffed several ripe giant lemons into the little space left. Now, the space backpack was overweight again, and its lifespan was reduced by one.

In the end, Qiao Xi could only use his hands to open his clothes to hold the potatoes he had just dug, and then he sat on the big-tailed yak and slowly returned to the farm hut with a large bundle of wild onions cut from the orchard.

It's not that it can't run fast, but Josh was holding a bundle in his hands and a bag in his clothes. If he ran fast, these things would fall to the ground, so he could only walk back home slowly.

It just so happened that the fire that was burning today was still going out, so Qiao Xi dug a hole in the fire and threw the potatoes and beans in, so that he could have something natural to eat tonight.

While waiting for the green onions to mature, Qiao Xi took the wild onions to the faucet, washed them carefully, and cut them into chopped green onions. He would sell them with fish balls tomorrow to add some color to make them look better.

Then, he threw two-thirds of the fruits in the space backpack into the shipping box to lighten the backpack, and kept the rest for other uses at the market tomorrow.

Finally, he took out the large refrigerator containing honey from the space and asked the big-tailed yak to reinforce it. If it was left there for a long time, the ice power would dissipate and the box would be gone. Then Qiao Xi would have no place to cry.

Thank you for correcting my mistakes before. I have corrected them. Thank you so much for correcting my mistakes! I don’t know if you can see this chapter. Thank you! 28/12 22:30

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