During these 55 days, Chen Zhou harvested a new batch of rice.
For the previous times when the rice matured, he consistently avoided eating most of the grains directly as food, instead using them to sprout and replant.
Under this terrifying exponential growth rate, his fields were quickly filled with dense rice and wheat.
After processing, the new crop filled several large pottery jars, and the urgency regarding food supply had basically dissipated.
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The chili seeds that came as a reward couldn't compare to the hybrid seeds in the vegetable planting base; the plants were not tall, and even with fertilizer, the flowering was not so dense.
They were like the northern green peppers in Chen Zhou's grandma's garden, looking plain and unassuming, yet they were resistant to diseases and were not picky about barren land, quietly growing until they fruited and withered.
Garlic planted in the fields was the same.
