Now that the glass production was a success, it was time to start planning for the construction of Greenhouses.
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Upon returning to his farm, Kim Haru received news that he wasn’t sure whether to consider good or not.
Go Okrim and Kang Hosei came to find Kim Haru, their faces filled with excitement.
"Kim Haru-hyung!/Mr.Kim The ducklings can swim now!" they exclaimed in unison.
It would be surprising if the ducklings still couldn’t swim after all the hard work Kim Haru and Go Okrim had put in—teaching them personally and even making toys for them.
Seeing the two of them so excited to share their success, Kim Haru smiled and said, "That’s great. How about we celebrate with something delicious today?"
"Great idea!" Go Okrim was the first to agree. "Kim Haru-hyung, what do you feel like eating?"
Kang Hose also nodded his head in agreement, ready to follow Kim Haru’s suggestion.
Kim Haru said with a teasing grin, "I feel like having roast duckling."
Go Okrim: "!"
Kang Hosei: "!"
They both froze, visibly alarmed.
Kim Haru laughed. "Relax, I’m kidding. Just make whatever you want. I’ll eat anything."
Only then did the two of them breathe a sigh of relief.
It wasn’t that they were entirely against eating the ducklings—they were, after all, raised for food.
However, after working so hard to teach them how to swim, the idea of catching one to eat right away was too jarring for them to process.
"Oh, right! Little Nugget laid an egg this morning!" Go Okrim suddenly remembered. "How about we make some steamed egg today?"
"Little Nugget laid an egg?" This genuinely surprised Kim Haru, who hadn’t known it.
Go Okrim nodded his head enthusiastically. "Yeah! This morning, when Hose was feeding Little Nugget, he found it. At first, I thought it was an old egg we’d missed, but then I realized it was still warm—and much smaller than a duck egg. The egg is in the kitchen right now. If you want to see it, I’ll bring it out for you."
"We didn’t get a chance to tell you earlier because you were so focused on the glass," Kang Hosei added.
"No worries. I don’t need to see it," Kim Haru replied.
He wasn’t particularly curious about the egg itself—he was just surprised that Little Nugget had started laying eggs so soon.
Thinking about it, though, it made sense.
Nearly five months had passed since Little Nugget first arrived at the farm, and hens that grew quickly would naturally start laying eggs around this time.
Glancing toward the chicken coop, Kim Haru noted that Little Nugget could no longer be called "little."
She had grown into a plump and beautiful hen.
As for Sir Peckington, its size had increased slightly but not dramatically.
Kim Haru remembered that Sir Peckington was a rooster and wondered if the pair might produce chicks.
If they did, would the chicks take after the wild-looking Sir Peckington or the more domestic Little Nugget?
"Let’s try hatching a brood in the spring," Kim Haru decided.
For now, with the cold winter weather, it wasn’t the best time for hatching chicks.
Eating the eggs seemed like the better option.
"Got it, I’ll make a note of it," Go Okrim agreed, thinking the idea of hatching chicks was a good one.
As Go Okrim prepared to make lunch, Kim Haru noticed that Kang Hose didn’t seem busy, so he invited him to help build the Greenhouse.
The Greenhouse would be much larger than the makeshift Igloo they had built earlier.
Placing it on the open space in front of the wooden cabin wouldn’t work—it would make the area feel cramped.
Instead, Kim Haru planned to build it on the other side of the pond.
The area beyond the pond had originally been cleared by zombies, so there was no need to start clearing it from scratch.
After choosing a suitable plot of land, Kim Haru and Kang Hose began constructing the framework.
Since neither of them had Metal-type abilities, Kim Haru wasn’t keen on using metal for the frame.
Metal could be problematic in both winter and summer, and without precise tools, attaching the glass panels securely to a metal frame would be challenging.
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Kim Haru had another material in mind that would be more suitable for the framework.
"Little Ginger, help me translate this," Kim Haru said, waking up the Ginseng Spirit sleeping in the barn.
He handed it a structural blueprint for the Greenhouse.
"Grow it according to this design."
The Ginseng Spirit was tasked with translating instructions for the Unmelted Frost Bamboo Tree.
What could be better than using bamboo as a support structure?
Kim Haru knew that the Unmelted Frost Bamboo Tree could control puppet bamboo growth—an ability most plants seemed to possess.
Just like the Mutated Orange Trees, some plants had an appearance of life but lacked any real consciousness.
Kim Haru intended to take full advantage of these puppet plants.
With the Ginseng Spirit translating, Kim Haru instructed the Unmelted Frost Bamboo Tree to guide the puppet bamboos to grow according to his blueprint.
Once they grew precisely as outlined, he could decide whether to cut their roots.
If left uncut, adjustments could be made later.
If cut, the entire Greenhouse could be stored in Kim Haru’s system backpack, ready for transport.
Either option worked perfectly for him.
Of course, Kim Haru didn’t forget to highlight the areas where glass panels would need to be installed.
In those spots, he included detailed sketches.
The Unmelted Frost Bamboo Tree controlled the bamboo to grow branch forks as natural clamps.
These held each glass panel securely in place, leaving no gaps and ensuring excellent insulation.
When the Greenhouse frame was complete, the happiest one wasn’t Kim Haru but Luna, the Trinity Lunarian Cat.
Luna, having not played on a cat tree in who knows how long, was thrilled.
Presented with such a large framework that wasn’t a mutant plant, it gleefully leaped onto every bamboo frame.