The wooden cellar trapdoor beside the kitchen pantry flew open with a cheerful clatter.
Grandpa Yao’s snowy white beard poked up first, dusted with sparkling golden specks that smelled delightfully of warm spring loam, toasted sesame, and wild ginseng blossoms. Right behind him, Auntie Qin marched briskly up the cellar stairs wearing her crisp white Peace Pharmacy Chief Physician coat over her floral apron. Holding a gleaming stainless-steel soil-testing trowel in one hand and a thick medical ledger in the other!
“Changsheng! Qingxue!” Auntie Qin called out, her gentle eyes shining with fierce physician’s determination.
“Old Yao and I just finished testing the [Rank-9 Odorless Golden Star-Compost] produced by your under-sink black-hole garbage disposal! Because that disposal ground up the Three Supreme Grand Elders’ sixty-thousand-year dark-matter suns together with fifty million servings of dragon-marrow rib bones and filtered them through your Stage-6 Hearth-Fire. Those 10 Billion Tons of Golden Star-Compost aren’t just ordinary crop fertilizer.
They are top-grade Galactic Meridian-Healing Medicinal Soil!”
“My underground storage silos are packed to the rafters with ten billion tons of it!” Grandpa Yao laughed, rubbing his hands together excitedly as he looked toward the porch.
“Nuannuan, my little apprentice! Grab your [Sweet Honey-Candy Watering Can]! With Little Fifth Ao Xing’s Express Door Network linking all ten thousand star systems in three seconds flat.
