My Happy Daily Life After Being Reborn-Chapter 38 - 22 Mutated White Jujube_2

38: Chapter 22 Mutated White Jujube_2

38 -22 Mutated White Jujube_2

Shen Chi had originally thought his future looked bleak, but after seeing Lin Xiaoguai and hearing about her situation, excitement surged within him.

There couldn’t be a more suitable candidate to be his wife!

Lin Xiaoguai was not only beautiful but also a prospective college student.

Her only flaw was that she had been married and was pregnant, but that was certainly better than those little brats!

What’s more, her husband was a soldier, rarely at home, which made it even easier for him to win her over and leave the child to be raised by his father.

How did Shen Xiu come to know about Jiang Youliang’s intentions?

Jiang Youliang’s family had reported many people during the special period, both real and supposed “counter-revolutionaries,” including their former friends and relatives; they were universally detested.

After the reform and opening up, they became pariahs that everyone wanted to get rid of.

Due to the family’s notorious past, others feared they might be scheming in secret and thus directed some of the older children to eavesdrop around the corners of their house, then parrot what they heard to their parents.

Actually, the construction of Jiang Youliang’s home was of good quality, with glass windows that should have prevented eavesdropping, but these had been “accidentally” broken by some mischievous children.

Thus, hiding under the cover of the broken windows, the children picked up snippets of conversation and patched them together before reporting them to the adults, making Jiang Youliang’s schemes transparent.

The people naturally did not want to see the Jiang family prosper, and with Jiang Youliang mulling over misdeeds, they readily told their children, who were middle school students, to pass on the information.

Shen Xiu initially did not believe it but later witnessed Jiang Youliang’s several attempts to chat with her sister-in-law being thwarted by schoolmates; on two occasions, he even tried to follow her home. freeweɓnovel.cѳm

She also saw him sneaking around during Sunday shopping or strolls with her sister-in-law, so she had to believe it.

Fortunately, with the help of classmates, Jiang Youliang had yet to break through the defenses and appear in front of Lin Xiaoguai.

Unaware of the troubles at school, Lin Xiaoguai returned home the same way, fetched the mail from the mailbox by the door, and then entered the house.

“Did Chi write another letter?” Luo Yufang asked as she carried out dishes and saw the letter in Lin Xiaoguai’s hand.

Lin Xiaoguai nodded, “I’ll write back later, and I’ll have to trouble Grandpa to drop it in the mailbox.”

“The roads are almost dry; hand me the letter when you set up your stall,” Shen Zhangming nodded and said.

After dinner, Lin Xiaoguai helped Grandma clean up the dishes before going to her room to read the letter.

Shen Chi’s army unit was located in J Province, a distance from Z Province, and the letters took four to five days to arrive, but ever since his return to the unit, the correspondence had been constant.

Lin Xiaoguai opened the envelope and read the contents; as expected, it was filled with household chatter and the usual greetings to the family, without any words of deep affection.

Of course, this was seen through the eyes of Lin Xiaoguai from the future, knowing that in the conservative atmosphere of the time, messages like “XXX giggles looking at his girl’s photo after training, next time get a break to visit we should also take a picture,” “Today Company Commander Lu treated us to dinner, but doesn’t taste as good as the food you make, Wanwan,” “Last night there was a heavy rain, and training facilities were damaged so we couldn’t do morning exercises, once idle I couldn’t help but start missing you”…

were actually quite standard for love talk.

Shen Chi wasn’t well educated, having started working right after middle school, but he had decent penmanship, at least clear and forceful.

Lin Xiaoguai pondered for a while before unfolding the writing paper to start her reply; she followed Shen Chi’s format precisely, beginning with a summary of recent events at home, then responding to his greetings, and finally adding a few standard words of concern.

After handing the reply to Shen Zhangming, Lin Xiaoguai returned to her room for a nap — a habit she had recently developed.

Upon waking up, she yawned and entered the “space,” drank some Spiritual Water, and ate a Hundred Refinement Fruit, and then used spiritual power to harvest the mature crops from the space fields into the storage.

Being from a different time than the post-80s and post-90s generations, she could not bear to see such fertile soil lie fallow, even if she didn’t need the produce right then.

Indeed, if not for her being pregnant, she would have felt the urge to fill even the boundless fields of the new space.

“Ah—” Lin Xiaoguai suddenly paused, her eyes widening in surprise as she looked at the two odd White Jujubes she had just picked.

The thumb-sized fruit was clearly much smaller than the usual White dates, and although the shape was no different, they were no longer white with a hint of red but pale yellow jade in color.

[001, check this out.] Lin Xiaoguai spoke.

001 quickly reported the results: [Mutated White Jujube, non-toxic and edible, nutritional value approximately ten times that of regular White dates.]

[What about the taste?]

[…Unable to detect.]

Lin Xiaoguai pursed her lips disinterestedly and took a tentative bite, her eyes lighting up, [So delicious!]

She was already fond of White dates, but the taste of these Mutated White Jujubes was even better.

When it came to fruit, she was very picky — she didn’t like sour, nor was she a fan of overly sweet; the best for her were those that tasted refreshingly sweet.

She wasn’t keen on juicy fruits either but didn’t like them dry; her texture preferences were also stringent.

Yet the flavor of these mutated White Jujubes was as if they had grown along the very line of her heart — simply perfect.

[By the way, 001, how did these White Jujubes mutate?] After eating the only two Mutated White Jujubes available, Lin Xiaoguai suddenly inquired.

After all, this was the first time she had encountered such an occurrence.

[As mentioned before, the original space being assimilated by the new space can lead to unknown changes, and these Mutated White Jujubes likely resulted from that.]

[Do you mean to say other crops might also mutate?] Lin Xiaoguai’s face lit up with excitement, welcoming the idea if all mutations were as beneficial as the White Jujubes.

[Yes, but the mutation rate is unknown, and it is advised that the host save seeds from the mutated crops.]

Lin Xiaoguai was even more thrilled, thinking she could only rely on luck to taste such delicious White Jujubes again, but it turned out there was a way to propagate them!