Dragon God, immortal

She is going to teach in the countryside.

Chapter 40: Isn’t this too fast?

Shushan is a little exhausted.

But the plateau also needs development, and development cannot be delayed...

Whether it is cultivating plants or building fishing boats, it is a very high-consumption activity.

The Earth Dragon God standing on the ground has almost unlimited magic power, but using and manipulating magic power requires a lot of mental and physical strength.

Add to that the passing of Jinju, ah... I am exhausted, unable to sleep at night, mentally tired... Even a powerful dragon god like Shushan needs time to recuperate.

At this time, Su Ju stood up.

She said that as Shushan's assistant, she should share his worries!

Taking into account that Su Ju has mastered a lot of skills over the years and is not much worse than her mother Juan Hua, Shu Shan agreed to let her go to the Ehan Plateau to assist the development of the Snow Leopard Tribe.

Well, logically speaking, this is a diplomacy between two large cat-ear tribes, so it should be of a higher standard and have some sense of ceremony... But Shushan is tired, so let her be.

As the obsidian gate closed.

The flow of air pressure suddenly stopped.

Shushan is not worried about Suju's safety. Suju is a rare cat-man who possesses both a dragon-scale shield and a dragon-scale comb...

"Ouch..." A small orange animal fell from the sky and landed on Shushan's forehead.

"Yes, she is dead." Shushan nodded and answered Jin Xiaoju's question.

"Awoo." Jin Xiaoju's dragon horn-like ears drooped, and his eyes were filled with confusion.

"In this world, there are actually very few creatures as long-lived as the fairy species and the dragon species... So, why did you choose Kumquat as the parent?" Shushan curled up in the valley, preparing to hibernate.

"Awooo!" Jin Xiaoju stood up, raised his paw and shouted.

"Is that so? It's up to you..."

. . . . . .

In front of the obsidian gate of the Frost Plateau.

A big-tailed leopard-eared cat-man waited silently.

Now is the summer when the temperature is relatively stable. The river does not freeze during this season. It is a good climate for farming and sheep herding. He should not stop his livelihood and be lazy here.

However... he was not being lazy, but the elders in the clan requested that he must come forward to receive the mysterious envoy who came from afar...

It is said that she was a witch, an assistant to the Earth Dragon God Shushan. She was in a high position and had made great contributions. Lord Shushan praised her highly...

"She is much more clever than you, but you are more hardworking than her... However, if she were in your position, she might not be able to do better than you. After all, Guangre is really difficult to deal with..."

Lord Shushan once lamented this.

This made White Cheese even more curious.

"Well, a powerful priestess? She should be a female cat person like my grandma, right?" White Cheese held the big tail and played with this furry stress-relieving toy nervously.

His grandmother was once the chief of the Snow Leopard Tribe. She was hunchbacked, holding a pine stick, with sharp eyes and bad hearing...

Gulp! White Cheese swallowed his saliva and hugged his big tail nervously. In his impression, his grandmother was a serious female cat. If the witch messenger was also an old lady like that, would it be difficult to get along with her?

With such a feeling, White Cheese's paw holding its tail shrank even tighter.

He is not good at dealing with that kind of old lady.

Would it be better to postpone the reception task?

Just as he was daydreaming, the obsidian gate opened as promised. Light flowed in the special space between the obsidian stones, and a cat-man walked out pulling a cart.

Pure white hair, slightly curled ears, the fur on the ears blends into the hair, that is a white color like snow...

In her sky-blue eyes, there is an indelible sadness, like a girl passing by a rainy alley, cold, desolate, and melancholy... exuding the faint fragrance of daisies...

White cheese froze suddenly.

The tail fell to the ground with a thud.

Suju blinked her eyes. She had not yet gotten over the sadness of Grandma Jinju's death, but... seeing the dazed look of the snow leopard, she couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"What's that expression on your face? Hey...you are White Cheese, right? Give me a hand, this is so heavy." The smile on Su Ju's face was fleeting, and the cart behind her looked a little bit difficult to pull...

"Eh? Ah? Oh... okay!" White Cheese nodded dazedly, and the kitten helped pull the cart.

"Oh, thank you." Su Ju worked together with the other party to pull the cart over.

On a cart.

There is a set of farm tools.

Su Ju tightened her clothes. Although she was mentally prepared, she was used to the tropical rainforest climate and it was really hard for her to tolerate the air of the frozen plateau...

Low pressure, low temperature, high latitude... This is completely different from the Zhangqiu Island where she was born and lived. As expected, she was a little too confident...

On the side, Bai Qi Cheese saw Su Ju's movements. The thin clothes outlined her slender waist as her arms moved. Her smooth and neat hair made people want to touch it...

"Okay, please allow me to introduce myself." Su Ju bowed slightly to Bai Qi Che and said, "I am the witch under the Dragon God Tree Mountain. I am Su Ju, and I am honored to meet the chief of the Snow Leopard Tribe."

"Ah, hello... Eh? Um, my name is White Cheese. I, I'm not the clan leader... I'm just responsible for field management..." White Cheese's big tail hung down behind him, with only the tip of the tail slightly raised.

"Oh, I misunderstood. You are the one who contacted me, right? Please help me arrange a place to live. It's best if it's close to the fields. Lord Shushan asked me to teach you how to manage the farmland." Su Ju said directly.

"I, I understand. Thank you for your help..." White Cheese also bowed slightly in return, the tip of his tail swaying involuntarily, revealing his feelings...

Well, that’s good to hear.

It's love at first sight.

Su Ju raised her eyebrows slightly. She possessed the [Magic of Communicating with Living Beings]. The essence of this magic was to understand the other person's thoughts.

Looking at the reserved leopard-eared kitten in front of her, Su Ju almost immediately understood the other party's feelings... Emmmm... After pondering for a moment, she asked again:

"So, is there a ready-made place to stay?"

"Um, sorry, I don't have it right now, but I..."

"If you don't have any, forget it. Just let me live in your cottage. You are the one who manages the fields, right? I can start teaching you, and then expand the education by imitating the archipelago's method." Su Ju nodded.

Bai Qici tilted his head when he heard this, with a lot of confusion in his little head. Could it be that the cat-ear tribes in different regions have different cultures related to courtship? Should I remind her now? This statement is equivalent to...

"By the way, are you fifteen years old? If not, then forget it." Su Ju suddenly remembered something and added.

"Enough, enough, I'm already sixteen years old..." White Cheese stammered.

"Oh, that's perfect. I'm only 26 this year, and the age difference is no more than ten years. I'm in the reproductive range." Su Ju patted her chest and breathed a sigh of relief, her heart heaving.

According to the customs of the Sanhua tribe, as long as the age difference is no more than ten years and both parties are adults, they can get married and have kittens.

The style of the women in the Sanhua tribe... generally speaking, is bold. Especially after the archipelago entered a period of rapid development, most female cat people would choose to get married and have children as early as possible, and then devote their limited lives to unlimited social production.

The archipelago's socialized raising strategy requires mothers to breastfeed for only one year before handing their children over to older cat people to take care of them.

But even if socialized to this extent...

The fertility rate in the Islands remains low.

One of the reasons is that male cat people only have a little interest in reproduction during two seasons a year. In addition, the male-to-female ratio is as high as three to seven. Currently, the archipelago is in a situation where males are in short supply.

Su Ju was proud of being a shrine maiden, and was unwilling to lower herself to compete with sisters of the same age for men - she had also missed the age for competition - so she was still single at the age of 26, which was outrageous to cat people!

Opposite Su Ju, Bai Qi Che heard this declaration, his brain went into a twitch and he fainted...

"Hey, hey, hey? Wait a minute! I haven't even fainted from altitude sickness yet, but you fainted already? Oh no, at his age, he should be a Chu Nan, maybe what he said just now was too much of a shock to Chu Nan..." Su Ju reflected on herself for a while.

Then the emergency work began...

. . . . . .

The successful development of the cold plateau continues.

Shushan’s intermittent wild wheat and oat hybridization project was officially handed over to Suju.

Although oats are good, it is a pity that they are grown on the sunny and hot island of Togenqiu. Like chrysanthemums, there is some altitude sickness when they are planted here.

Most of the oats grown by Bai Qiche dried up and turned yellow before they were ripe. It cannot be said that there were no seeds, but they were sparse.

Even the hybrid species were the same. Without the Earth Dragon God to direct them to strengthen their traits, they just grew randomly without anyone to supervise them.

And Su Ju has a dragon scale comb.

The cat man who takes care of them is here!

Su Ju comes with her dragon scale comb, casting [Command Plant Magic]!

The first is the original wild wheat, which was hybridized with oats to obtain Wild Wheat No. 1. The plants are shorter on average and the leaves are smaller.

Su Ju selected the ones with the highest yield for cross-pollination and obtained Wild Wheat No. 1 with stable traits. At this time, Wild Wheat No. 1 had parted ways with the original wild wheat and oats.

However, even the wild wheat No. 1, which has the highest yield, has a yield of less than one-tenth of the island oats. This is not due to insufficient fertilizer, but because its excellent traits have not been fully manifested.

"Cold resistance is crucial. There are two seasons of frost in the Frosty Plateau each year, so we can only sow and harvest twice a year at most... Do we need to speed up the growth rate?" Su Ju recalled Shushan's operations. She didn't know which trait Lord Dragon God would choose to strengthen if he were here.

After much deliberation, Su Ju decided to evolve Wild Wheat No. 1 towards cold resistance and lodging resistance.

Subsequently, Wild Wheat No. 2 was obtained, which possessed these two traits.

Hmm... the yield of Wild Wheat II is lower than that of the original Wild Wheat...

Su Ju frowned in confusion.

After much thought, I came to a conclusion.

"All the nutrients are consumed in the rhizomes, the flowers are not fully developed, and very little nutrients are converted into the endosperm. Tsk... self-pollinating plants are troublesome." Su Ju smacked her lips and immediately began to cultivate Wild Wheat No. 3.

The changes to Wild Wheat No. 3 are not significant. They mainly increase the probability of self-pollination in the inflorescence, allowing the stamens and pistils to complete pollination before they bloom, reducing consumption during the flowering stage.

At this time, Su Ju stopped cultivating...

I went to do some private things...something very private... (Population +2)

Not long after, the plateau welcomed the Wild Wheat No. 4.

This batch of wild wheat improved and accelerated the growth process.

In general, it reduces the time from germination to tillering and increases the time to heading. When the plant grows to heading, it will quickly transfer nutrients to the wheat.

"Wild Wheat No. 4 is already good enough. If it evolves in a more complex direction, it will probably produce more complex and uncontrollable traits..." Su Ju thought while pinching a small bunch of wheat.

She didn't have the might of the Earth Dragon God, and couldn't completely control the "personality" of the plants, but it was enough for her to achieve this level. Now the output of Wild Wheat No. 4 was half of that of oats. Considering the climate of the plateau, this output was far beyond the cat people's imagination!

This type of wheat is more rounded and oval in shape than the slender oats. It is much easier to hull than oats. Its endosperm is a gradient from light brown to light yellow. If it is cooked directly, it is as difficult to eat as oats.

However, if it is ground into powder and supplemented with cow or goat milk, the taste will become very fragrant and delicious, which is a characteristic that oats do not have.

Independently cultivated chrysanthemum.

Report the news to lazy Shushan.

"Let's call this crop highland barley. After shelling and frying it, grind it into powder and make it into tsampa (pronounced the same as zamba). It will taste good with ghee and curd," said Shushan.

Oh, so-called ghee is something similar to butter, but the raw material is plateau yaks, which are different from the wild buffaloes raised in the archipelago. Yaks, as the name suggests, have a lot of hair.

In fact, after breeding Wild Wheat No. 2, Shushan became more motivated, and seeing that Wild Wheat was being domesticated quite well, he did not intervene.

Well, since the cultivation was entirely done by Su Ju, it took slightly less time than Shu Shan, and it took only two years to cultivate the barley we have today...

This made Shushan ashamed.

Is this too fast?

Well, this doesn’t mean that Suju is better than Shushan.

One round of planting time for Su Ju completes a generation of cultivation, but each trait has not been fully confirmed, and subsequent seeds may mutate into recessive traits.

Every time Shushan cultivates seeds, it ensures that the differences in the seeds produced are within a certain range. This testing takes a lot of time, but the advantage is that the seeds produced in the future can produce almost identical offspring.

Oh, there is one more thing that makes Shushan ashamed... Suju is very efficient. Whether it is farming or... anything else, Suju will do it as soon as she wants to do it, and she is vigorous and resolute...

During the two years she lived in the White Cheese Cottage, she gave birth to twins. Now she has finished cultivating barley and is preparing for the third one...

Therefore, Bai Qishi was avoiding her all day long. Every time Su Ju expressed her wish for a third child, Bai Qishi would always find an excuse to avoid her...

"Although being able to and willing to have a baby is a good thing, but..." The Tree Mountain Colossus squatted beside the barley field, being careful not to make any big moves, "But don't give me the baby!!!"

"Wow... Wow..." A cat-man cub who had just learned to walk stumbled onto Shushan's back, but lost his balance and fell down... Fortunately, Shushan used magic to catch her, and the floating cub danced with joy.