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There were so many people in the village with the surname Niu that Li Banfeng naturally assumed he had wandered into Niu Family Village.
He later learned that the place was called Flatbread Village. It had over a hundred households and more than five hundred residents.
In the Third Ridge, they were one of the very few villages where people still had full bowls and something to chew on.
There were three reasons they still had food to eat, despite the mosquito plague reaching such a terrifying state.
The first reason was because they could plant and grow crops.
Li Banfeng soon met the village's Agrarian Cultivator. His name was Niu Jingchuan, a man in his forties. He had cultivated all sorts of peculiar seeds, the kind that could be planted in the dead of winter and harvested before the month was even done.
Li Banfeng was surprised. "With the way you're planting, does that mean you can cycle through the four seasons four times in a single year?"
"That won't work!" Niu Jingchuan shook his head so hard. "These are quick-sprout seeds. If you do it a few times, the soil will give up on you."
He continued, "With quick-sprout seeds, we have to stop after two batches. After that, the land has to lie fallow for a year. The soil in the Third Ridge is better than most. If you really force it, you might get three harvests in a year. But even then, it still needs a full year to recover afterward."
Niu Jingchuan said nothing more. He turned and walked into the fields, inspecting the crops one by one.
This Agrarian Cultivator was the reason Flatbread Village had managed to survive until now. However, survival did not depend on crops alone.
Those crops had to be protected. That was the second condition! And when it came to guarding what was theirs, the...
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