"Not bad."
"Not bad? That's all you have to say?" Saina was dissatisfied. "On the first day, I turned the soil over twice. On the second day, I mixed in another layer of ash as base fertilizer. Last night, I even got up specially to water it..."
"Amazing. My wife is number one under heaven."
Only then did Saina break into a grin and lower her head to count the sprouts again.
Silver jumped down from the steps and took two steps toward the vegetable patch.
Every hair on Saina's body stood on end. She snatched the cat up by the scruff.
"Stop right there! Do you see this? This is the vegetable garden! You are not allowed in!"
Silver kicked his four legs twice in midair, then yawned.
Su Li remembered that he had promised Saina he would put up a fence, so he took several iron bars and wooden sticks out of his Space Ring.
With the strength of a second-tier knight, bending iron was no harder than kneading clay. He spent less than half an hour hammering a half-foot-high fence around the vegetable patch.
Satisfied, Saina circled the fence once, then squatted down to check whether the gaps were narrow enough.
"With this spacing, Silver can't stick his paws through, right?"
"He can't."
"What if he jumps over it?"
"The tree in the yard is three meters from the vegetable patch. A cat can't jump that far."
Reassured, Saina set Silver on the steps and poked the cat's forehead in warning.
"Listen carefully. As for the area inside the fence, don't even think about getting in for the rest of your life."
Silver licked a paw and turned his face away.
Elena finally came downstairs. Her fiery red hair was still unbound, spilling over her shoulders. Her