By noon, the heavy rain finally subsided and turned into bursts of mist, somewhere between tangible and intangible, shrouding the sky over the small town.

Just three to five steps away, I could see a layer of white steam steaming. If I looked more carefully, I could see countless tiny water droplets condensing in the void, forming a chaotic situation.

I walked to the river and wanted to take advantage of the rainy day to check whether the river bank had any problems with erosion during high water periods.

But on the way, I saw a clump of reeds by the river, standing ostentatiously on the bank.

"..."

Am I being too negligent in my management? There weren’t so many weeds growing in the past two days. I didn’t even notice that there was such a large patch of reeds growing in my pasture. I really shouldn’t have...

"Select work order: Cut."

I called up the system, preparing to quickly harvest this piece of reeds and make the earth clean. However, a drop-down option popped up on the system command side.

"Cut/harvest."

According to my research, the harvest order is crop-specific and can keep the immature crops and main body of the plant and only cut off those mature and edible parts.

Why are reeds edible?

Is there any fruit that can be eaten?

I got closer to the reed swamp and searched for possible fruits among the tall sword-shaped leaves. As a result, I saw more other crops growing among the tall plants, including June grass and fine wheat.

, fescue, palm leaves, foxtail grass, alfalfa, clover, clover, these are pasture plants in my opinion!

"It turns out this is the grass I planted!"

My poor knowledge of botany almost got me wrong, and I cut the grass I had worked so hard to grow as weeds.

In fact, what I didn't expect was that the colonists had magically modified the grass to include several types of elephant grass!

Elephant grass, as the name suggests, is the grass that elephants eat. It is named after elephants in tropical areas like to eat it. Also known as purple pennisetum, Pennisetum graminearum is a perennial herbaceous plant.

Its characteristic is that it is very tall. Generally, the height of the plant is 2 to 3 meters, and some can reach more than 5 meters. From a distance, it looks like a large reed swamp!

"Why do you want to add elephant grass in it... Should I open a zoo and raise elephants, or should I enter a zoo and become an elephant?!"

Okay, after calming down and thinking about it, elephant grass is actually a very useful crop, especially because of its delicious taste and high yield. Elephant grass is crisp, fresh and sweet, with a crisp texture and high crude protein content, so herbivorous animals are attracted to it.

I like to eat. And one acre of elephant grassland can produce up to 25 tons of grass per year, which can raise 5 cows. It is not a luxury to save a province to raise elephants.

"Select work order: Harvest forage."

"bass!"

With a dragon's roar, the silver sickle blade popped out from the right arm guard. My body bent into a starting position, flexing slightly, and the muscles from the shoulder blades to the feet were twisted into a straight line, accumulating strength.

"boom!"

Following the heavy trampling of my right leg, a deep footprint remained on the mud. And my figure had already ejected, heading straight forward, with my right hand parallel to the ground, rushing towards the pasture field.

The sickle blade turned into a silver-white lightning, and as I waved it, the dragon and snake moved quickly, intertwining into an airtight curtain of light, constantly shuttling through the grass. The tall elephant grass stems collapsed with one blow, and slowly turned sideways.

His face fell down, and at this time, the sickle blade had already aimed at the leguminous crops on the ground. It changed from the previous violent charge and turned into a breeze blowing across the ground, drawing the soft bean leaves into the harvesting range.

With the zigzag shuttle, the grass blades in the pasture have been cleverly controlled to fall sideways in eight directions, clearly distinguishing each other.

With elephant grass as the main body, fescue and palm leaves as needle thread, foxtail grass, alfalfa, and clover filled in the gaps, this piece of pasture was bundled into eight equal-sized forage. With the final bundling action, I finally completed the harvest.

Work.

"Item name: Pasture."

"Plant Introduction: Nutritious grasses and sprouts that are harvested and compressed for storage. This makes a good feed, but is difficult for humans to swallow."

"Basic attributes:

Light requirement: 51%

Lifespan: 56 days

Minimum growth temperature: 0.0 degrees Celsius

Maximum growth temperature: 58.0 degrees Celsius

Harvest time: 7 days

Fertility sensitivity: 60%

Fertility requirement: 70%

Nutrition: 0.05”

After my preliminary measurement, the total amount of this batch of forage harvested is also more than 200 kilograms, which should be enough for the pasture animals to eat.

After all, I only have one pony grazing on my pasture now.

By the way, I haven’t seen the pony go out today. It seems that it doesn’t like the rain either.

It looked easy when I was harvesting grass just now, but the leaves of the elephant grass were covered with rainwater, which turned into raindrops when shaken a little, causing me to be covered with water now.

The synthetic fiber clothes brought by Shining City will not get soaked in water, but the openings such as the collar and cuffs will inevitably get rainwater, making the body extra cold.

"I'm going to check out the stables and wait until I'm dry before I go out."

…………

A rainy day is not a good time to go out.

But thinking about it in reverse, rainy days are a good time for me to check the pasture problems.

For example, this stable was built with zero knowledge and had many problems.

Although the walls are made of general-purpose stone, the whole is tight, thick, strong and durable, and even the foundation is built unscientifically, but the thatch covering the roof has left many loopholes.

It's usually sunny and sunny, so there's no problem. But once it starts raining, it starts to rain in the stables...

When I opened the stable door with a bundle of hay, the emoji pony was trembling and leaning against the driest area by the door, daring not to move:

(??∧??)!

Due to the penetration of rainwater, the hay on the ground was soaked through the interaction with each other, and you could hear the "squeaking" sound of accumulated water when walking on it. The large and small holes in the ceiling also made the predicament worse.

"Sorry, your house is not very well built. I will take care of it for you right away."

Then when it rained, I successfully found the holes in the roof, re-thatched the roof, and plugged the holes.

However, the dampness and coldness in the room still did not subside, so I sat close to the pony, stroking its mane, untied the grass and fed it to it one by one.

The emoticon pony was leaning there listlessly. Except when I subconsciously moved its head closer to it when I sat down, waiting for me to touch it, it had no energy at all.

It wasn't until I stuffed a handful of elephant grass into its mouth that the dull expression of the emoji pony suddenly became vivid:

(?′?`?)☆!

"Do you like eating? Then eat more."

This time I switched to a handful of alfalfa and fed it to the pony as a snack. After eating this bite, the pony narrowed its eyes and rolled on the ground, continuing to act cute and begging for food.

...Aren't you quite energetic?

It’s just that you don’t want to go out on a rainy day and you’re hungry because you haven’t eaten anything?

I pushed aside the wet hay, piled it into a haystack, and cleared a dry area.

"You eat first, there's still more if it's not enough."

I always feel that this horse understands human speech and is hiding here from me just to eat and drink.
Chapter completed!