Farm Girl's Manor

Refusing Xue tuanzi’s help, Mo Yan took a bamboo basket and started picking fruit in the orchard. Compared to the small patch before the upgrade, the orchard had expanded to over fifty acres after the upgrade, thanks to Xue tuanzi’s efforts. Additionally, time flowed much faster in the space, almost a year for each day outside, fortunately, the fruit trees wouldn’t fruit ceaselessly unless the fruits were picked. Otherwise, the space would have been piled up into mountains of fruit by now, which would have been a real nuisance.

Now, the space had been orderly divided by Xue tuanzi’s barriers into several sections: the orchard, the grain fields, the medicinal herb garden, the breeding grounds, and storage "warehouses", among others. In short, there was no longer any worry about the fruit trees growing uncontrolled roots that spread everywhere, medicinal herbs crossing borders into the grain fields, or the farmed animals running wild in the space, stepping in their own dung as soon as they entered.

Except for the empty breeding grounds which were not being used, all other areas were brimming with vitality, and the sight of the mountains of grains, fruits, and medicinal herbs in the "warehouse" brought joy. Nevertheless, hoarding such quantities without using them was wasteful, so Mo Yan planned to make use of these items in reality when the opportunity arose.

After picking a basket full of her favorite fruits, Mo Yan sat down and started munching away with a crunch. Seeing her joy, Xue tuanzi also happily summoned a pile of fruit from the warehouse, threatening the five beasts to devour it all, or it would poke holes in whoever lagged behind, and not the kind infused with spiritual energy.

The five beasts looked gloomily at Mo Yan and then glared resentfully at Xue tuanzi, unwillingly starting to eat. Heaven knows, since the day they were tamed, they were not allowed to eat meat. If it weren’t for all kinds of fruits, it would be the even more unpalatable medicinal herbs. After twenty years (or twenty days outside), they had craved meat so much they almost wanted to gnaw on their own paws (snake tails)!

"Haha—" Upon receiving the pitiful glances from the five beasts, Mo Yan unkindly burst into laughter. After they finished off the pile of fruit, she said, "From now on, you guys stay in the space during the day and sleep outside at night. The house may not be very peaceful lately, and I’ll need you guys to keep watch."

The five beasts’ spirits instantly lifted, and they simultaneously turned to look at Xue tuanzi perched on Mo Yan’s shoulder.

They liked being in the space, but they preferred going outside to eat meat even more. As long as they could go out, they could indulge themselves. Whatever meat they wanted to eat, they could have—a truly joyous occasion in the life of a beast! But without this creature’s permission, even if Yanyan herself gave the word, they couldn’t leave the space.

Xue tuanzi looked at the five drooling beasts with disdain in its eyes, and disdainfully said, "If you want to leave, scram quickly. But if you fail to protect Yanyan well, beware, I’ll skin you alive!"

Knowing that this creature’s words were not to be taken lightly, the five beasts shuddered subconsciously and vowed in their hearts to protect Yanyan well, to protect their "clothing". They certainly did not have a hobby of streaking.