I became a farmer in the apocalypse.

Upon hearing this, Su's mother was furious and pointed at Su Xiao's nose, scolding him:

"You idiot! This is all your doing! Now every household in the fields can buy grain from Jiang Li! Why can't we? It's all because you offended Jiang Li!"

The food that could be bought for 50 points from Jiang Li is now much more expensive. Not only do I have to spend points to take a ride to the safe zone to buy it, but it's also much more expensive now.

Su's mother was furious just thinking about it. Eight catties of grain were missing for nothing. How could she not be angry?

Su Xiao: "What does this have to do with me? It's all Jiang Li's fault for not letting me buy it! She's so petty! It's clearly her problem, why are you blaming me?"

Upon hearing this, Su's mother immediately rolled her eyes. "If you hadn't provoked her, would she have treated you like this? Do you know that everyone in the fields who had no work today went to dig bamboo shoots? Yesterday, Jiang Li said she was going to buy bamboo shoots, and many people were taking this opportunity to earn points. If Jiang Li doesn't sell us rice, she definitely won't accept anything we send over. You've ruined a perfectly good opportunity!"

Su Xiao clenched her fists. "I'm going outside to find some wild vegetables!"

She refused to believe it. Could she not survive without contacting Jiang Li? If she found just one pound of wild vegetables, it would be worth dozens of pounds of bamboo shoots that those people dug up!

A few days ago, the patrol team killed that level-two mutated tiger, so there shouldn't be any danger in the mountains. Besides, she is a level-three speed evolver, so even if something happens, she can run away. Yesterday, someone in the gathering group said they wanted to form a team to go into the mountains, but they haven't set off yet. If she goes now, she can still catch up with the main group.

Upon arriving at the starting point, Su Xiao saw many new young faces.

New people keep joining the farm, and now there are more and more people. It's estimated that 80% of the farmland in Farm B is now owned, unlike when we first arrived, when large areas were abandoned.

"Su Xiao, this is Shen Feng, the new guy."

Among the most eye-catching new faces was a young man named Shen Feng. He was tall and handsome, and his physique did not look like that of someone from the apocalypse. His muscles were well-defined, as if he had never been hungry.

Su Xiao greeted each of the newcomers.

Without further ado, everyone finished their introductions and headed into the mountains.

Shen Feng walked side by side with Su Xiao. "By the way, I just arrived. Yesterday I saw someone in the group saying they were buying mutated bamboo shoots. What's going on?"

Su Xiao gets angry whenever she thinks about anything related to Jiang Li.

"What else could it be? She's got too much money to burn, so she's urging everyone to dig up mutated bamboo shoots to sell to her. She really thinks she's a savior!"

Shen Feng: "I heard that Tian from plot number 121 only brought her younger brother to farm, but her farm is quite well-built. Where did she get so many points?"

"She's a wood-type ability user; she can grow crops and make money," Su Xiao explained absentmindedly.

The previous confidentiality agreement was for outsiders. Who in the entire Tian District doesn't know that Jiang Li is a wood-type ability user? It's probably not just people in Tian District who know; there must be people outside who know as well. There's no way to keep this a secret.

Shen Feng's eyes darted around.

"How much grain can she grow in a day?"

Su Xiao answered all questions without hesitation, "Her rice was only planted recently, and it's already ready to be sold. What do you think?"

Upon hearing this, Shen Feng exclaimed in surprise, "That's amazing? Then wouldn't people like that never lack food?"

"By the way, is it just her and her brother on her farm?"

"Not only that," Su Xiao said, "she also has a lackey by her side, a max-level speed evolver, whose speed is ridiculously fast."

"Is that speed-evolving individual always by her side?" Shen Feng asked.

Su Xiao: "It seems like he wasn't here at night..."

Along the way, the two talked a lot, mostly about Jiang Li and the situation of her neighbors.

Jiang Li planted grape seeds in the vegetable garden and cultivated the grape seedlings in a small patch of soft soil.

Grapes are large vines, so small trellises won't work; you need to build special grape trellises for them.

The simplest and easiest type of grape trellis to set up is a single-row tie-rod wire frame.

Jiang Li counted the 32 newly cultivated grape seedlings in the field. They only had two leaves each, small and fragile, as if they could not withstand a gust of wind, and the leaves kept swaying.

Jiang Li had calculated that there would be 32 trees. She planned to set up a separate 100-square-meter plot of land next to the vegetable garden to make a vineyard.

Four north-south oriented trellises will be erected, each 10 meters long, with a row spacing of 2.5 meters. Eight seedlings will be planted in each row, totaling 4 x 8, which is exactly 32 seedlings.

Jiang Li and Lin An went next door to find Ye Hongjun, who was busy working in the field.

"Jiang girl, is something the matter?"

Jiang Li: "Uncle Ye, I'd like to buy some preservative-treated wood from you to make support frames for the vineyard."

She was unaware of the characteristics of various mutated woods, what kind of wood was best for frames, easy to climb, and, most importantly, corrosion resistance and load-bearing capacity for outdoor use—Ye Hongjun probably knew all too well.

Ye Hongjun led her to the wood shed and took out a log from a pile of polished wooden poles.

"This would be perfect for making a trellis; it's dense, strong enough, and the right thickness. Would 2 meters be enough?"

Jiang Li: "Two meters is enough, just right."

"How many do you want?"

Jiang Li planned a four-row trellis system, with four poles in each row, totaling 16 poles. The wooden poles only serve as supports; in the end, they will be tied with wire so that the grape seedlings can climb up the wire.

"I want 16."

Jiang Li weighed it in her hand; the wooden pole weighed about four or five pounds.

Each stick costs 30 points. Jiang Li paid Ye Hongjun 480 points. She carried 4 sticks herself, while Lin An carried 12 sticks. The two walked towards the farm together.

Lin An carried the 12 wooden pillars as if they were 12 matches, walking very fast. Jiang Li was envious. It's good to be strong and healthy. If she had Lin An's physique, she would definitely be able to farm very quickly.

Carrying the wood back to the previously planned vineyard, Jiang Li roughly drew four straight lines on the ground with a branch, dug a hole, and buried the support poles 40 centimeters deep to ensure stability.

Jiang Li returned to the vegetable garden and encouraged the 32 grape seedlings she had just planted to grow to a transplantable size. The bean sprout-like leaves slowly grew, and the main vines stretched upwards to a height of about 20 centimeters. The leaves also became much wider. Jiang Li dug them up along with the soil and transplanted them next to the trellis.

Lin An helped Jiang Li finish transplanting all the grape seedlings when Lu Mingjue suddenly arrived with some news:

"A new wood-type ability user has appeared."

He learned this information by chance when reporting his work yesterday. Yesterday, the base detected a wood-type ability user, a girl.

Jiang Li was very curious, "What is her special ability?"

"Just like you, she can make plants grow," Lu Mingjue said. "In front of the researchers, she turned a seed into a seedling."

"Furthermore, based on the data from this period, a small number of wood-type ability users have also appeared in other bases."

The proportion of wood-type ability users is still very low, but once the base number increases, the number will naturally increase as well.

"The largest number are at the Central Base. The Central Base already has a large population, and more than ten wood-type ability users have been detected there."