Rebirth: Living in Wilderness with My Superpower
Chapter 171: Planting Paddy

Chapter 171: Chapter 171: Planting Paddy

Now that she could finally enjoy the freedom of taking baths, she decided to dig out another room tomorrow.

Of course, the room was secondary, the main purpose was to acquire wood to make a bathtub.

The bucket in front of her was too small to squat into; tomorrow, she would use a four-square-meter stump to make a bathtub... no, it should be called a bath pool, and even if the water was cold, she felt it was worth it.

So, while Bai Sasa and Xiao Shan took their turns bathing, Bai Junjun began to consider where to start the second room.

For now, one room was enough for the three of them, and even if they brought Bai Lingyu back, it could accommodate up to four or five people.

The extra room could be used as a granary to store some food, and as long as she set up a vine gate at the entrance of the granary, no snakes, insects, rats, or ants would dare to come in.

Having decided on the use for the room, Bai Junjun felt even more that it was necessary to open up a new room.

Speaking of which, the three grains of brown rice given by Madam Liu were still in her pocket, and Bai Junjun felt it was time to plant them.

After all, the water quality here was so good, she might not find such an opportunity again.

Therefore, Bai Junjun squatted behind the large tree and casually dug a hole in the ground to plant the three small seeds.

Then, with a light touch of her finger on the ground, she activated her Special Ability to revitalize the three grains of brown rice, making them sprout leaves, flower, and bear fruit; the paddy that was supposed to be sown in spring and harvested in autumn was completed in the time it took to finish a cup of tea under her care.

To Bai Junjun’s surprise, she had thought that one grain of brown rice would yield at most four or five grains of rice, but that wasn’t the case.

Before sprouting and flowering, the little paddy unexpectedly grew three or four ears of rice, and then each ear was filled with shiny yellow and orange grains. Carefully counting them, each ear had seventy to eighty grains.

One plant had over two hundred grains; three plants together amounted to nearly seven hundred grains of rice!

Bai Junjun happily picked the paddy and planted it again in the soil.

However, encouraging three grains of rice to grow was a small task, but getting seven hundred grains to sprout, grow leaves, flower, and fruit was not so easy.

Bai Junjun spent over half a shichen and almost passed out from exhaustion before she managed to complete the task.

Nevertheless, she couldn’t avoid a decrease in yield.

This time, each ear of paddy had just over fifty grains, and by calculation, each plant yielded only about one hundred and fifty grains at most.

Fortunately, with such a large base, the seven hundred plants of paddy had yielded about one hundred thousand grains of rice.

These one hundred thousand grains weighed almost four jin of rice!

How did that ancient poem go again?

"Sow one grain in spring, harvest ten thousand in autumn."

Had she not achieved this very sentiment?

Bai Junjun looked at the over seven hundred stalks of paddy with joy, feeling quite proud of herself.

Actually, brown rice and white rice both come from paddy; the difference is that the former is only husked, but its germ and bran layers remain intact, giving it a harder texture, and it is the common rice eaten by ordinary people.

White rice, however, has both the bran layer and the germ polished off in addition to the husk, presenting a snow-white texture and, of course, a softer mouthfeel.

But polished rice is generally offered to the Royal Family or only purchasable by nobility, and apart from this, the Emperor also distributes polished rice to ministers as a monthly provision or reward.

During the later stage of The Apocalypse, there was no food available due to environmental pollution, and humans could only rely on refined Nutrient Solutions to survive, completely ignorant of the difference between brown rice and polished rice.

All the knowledge Bai Junjun had came from the original owner’s brain.

However, the original owner’s knowledge of agriculture was limited to this extent, and she didn’t know how to cultivate paddy.

It was also lucky that Bai Junjun had a Special Ability; otherwise, with her complete ignorance of farming and haphazard sowing, how could she possibly have managed to grow