Favorite of the Beast-world: I Got Rich Through Farming-Chapter 189 - 130: Plot Hodgepodge (Part 2)

The inside of the thatched shed was a complete disaster.

’Forget it. I’m not building individual sheds. I’ll just build a large ranch.’

Compared to keeping them in sheds, pasturing would not only save on feed costs, but it would also make the cattle and sheep more resistant to disease and their meat more flavorful.

If the calves and lambs lived happier, more comfortable lives, their meat was sure to taste better when roasted.

Wasting no time, An Jin dispatched strong Beastmen to chop down trees in the surrounding area to make a large number of wooden fences. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

Because of the tribe’s ongoing construction, much of the surrounding timber and stone was already being harvested.

While progress was a good thing, An Jin had no desire to see the pristine, natural environment of the Beast World destroyed by it, turning it into a second Earth.

Lush mountains and clear waters are themselves mountains of gold and silver.

That was why, as early as two years ago, she had established a specific rule for the tribe’s Beastmen: a limit on the harvesting of natural resources.

Timber was the most important of these natural resources.

An Jin decreed that the Beastmen could not cut down more than a certain number of trees each month, and for every large tree they felled, they had to plant several times that number of saplings in its place.

The small trees planted over the past few years had begun to sprout slender branches and leaves, budding and growing lush and green. Alongside the surrounding ancient, towering trees, they swayed in the wind, their leaves RUSTLING.

A few days later, the Beastmen had finished building the fences. They came to the roughly ten-mu plot of land An Jin had marked out and installed the tall, sturdy fences along its perimeter.

Considering that the creatures of the Beast World were larger and stronger, and that hungry predators hunting at night had powerful jumping abilities, the Beastmen made the fences an estimated three to five meters high.

In any case, at her height, An Jin could only reach about halfway up one.

The Beastmen slammed their fists on top of a fence, driving it deep into the soil. It would have taken the strength of ten bulls to pull it out.

An Jin watched from the side, dumbfounded. Every day, the Beastmen’s immense strength seemed to redefine what she thought was possible.

The initial construction of the ranch was now temporarily complete.

She then had the Beastmen build a few thatched sheds at the four corners of the ranch to store hay and feed.

The manure from the cattle and sheep was collected by designated Beastmen and hauled away. After being left to ferment with grass and straw for a period of time, the resulting compost was then taken to the farmlands to be used as high-quality fertilizer.

This rational use of ecological resources maximized the efficiency of their Energy usage. This was true green farming, the kind that minimized environmental damage.

...

Gu Yin and Ling Hong spent most of their time leading hunting parties. Xi, meanwhile, seemed to have resolved to work harder, as he was nowhere to be seen all day.

Chi Li was even busier. Members of the tribe were constantly falling ill with things like diarrhea, itchy skin, or red rashes...

He was so busy dealing with all these miscellaneous issues that he would often disappear for days at a time.

An Jin, on the other hand, was much more relaxed. When she had free time, she would stroll around the tribe like an old veteran inspecting the grounds.

Over the past three years, a period that felt both long and short, she had watched the tribe endure countless hardships and improve little by little, growing stronger and developing fearlessly through every storm.

It had grown from a poor little tribe of only a few dozen people into a large tribe of seven to eight hundred, becoming a formidable power in the valley.

Watching the buildings grow more numerous and taller, the livestock multiply, and the farmland expand...

An Jin’s heart was filled with a sense of accomplishment and pride.

She firmly believed that in the future, the Sheng’an Tribe would become an even more influential city.

After dinner, An Jin was strolling along the edge of the fields with Ling Hong when she noticed large piles of dried stalks from the previous year’s harvest stacked by the farmland.

A few Beastmen were setting these dry stalks on fire, burning them down to blackish-gray ash. They then scattered the ash into the soil, using it as fertilizer just as they did the cattle and sheep manure.

Though the Beastmen didn’t understand the scientific principles, they subconsciously knew that they and all plants were born of the earth, so it was only natural that they should return to it in death.

"AWOOO—!"

A few mournful howls in the night startled many of the Beastmen awake.

An Jin was also jolted from her warm covers by the noise. Her long hair fell messily over her shoulders, but she paid it no mind as she scrambled out from the coil of Gu Yin’s snake tail.

"What happened?" she asked urgently.

"HISS~"

Gu Yin was awake too. His upper body transformed into its human form, and he pulled her into his arms, resting his chin on her head. His red eyes glanced lazily out the window. "...Some wild beasts attacked the tribe’s livestock."

"What!"

An Jin cried out in alarm, "We have to go look! Everyone has been raising those cattle and sheep for so long! We just barely managed to tame them!"