Kim Haru planned to dedicate an area specifically for growing wheat, and if possible, he wanted to expand the planting scale.

At the moment, though, all his money had already been spent on his last big shopping spree and the defense crystal, leaving him with no extra gold coins to buy more wheat seeds from the system. So, he had no choice but to work with these thirteen seeds.

There was still half of the land between the cabin and the pond left available for planting. Kim Haru mapped out a plan, aligning it with the vegetable patch on the other side, and dug a row of ten plots toward the pond.

The wood ash fertilizer infused with crystal core had been used up previously, so Kim Haru made a new batch of plain wood ash fertilizer without the crystals and sprinkled a thin layer into each of the ten plots.

Even without the crystal core, the wood ash fertilizer was still usable, just not as consistently effective as the system-controlled one. But Kim Haru didn't mind.

Before long, he had planted the seeds, filled the plots with soil, and watered them. The ten wheat seeds were now in the ground.

Why didn't he plant all thirteen wheat seeds at once?

Because no matter how he planned it, he couldn't figure out where to dig the remaining three plots in a way that wouldn't throw off the symmetry of the entire field. Having a neatly aligned patch of rows, only to add three random pits that stood out, would drive him crazy.

And without extra seeds to fill them, he would have to look at those awkward empty pits every day, which would absolutely bother him.

As for filling the other seven plots with different crops or just leaving them as empty pits? That was even more out of the question.

If he was planting wheat, then it all had to be wheat. Maybe before they sprouted it wouldn't be an issue, but once the wheat grew, the thought of other plants mixed into the field gave Kim Haru an uncomfortable feeling. Just imagining the sight made him uneasy.

When it came to this kind of thing, there was no saving his perfectionism.

Kim Haru found a small box the vendor had carelessly given him yesterday and carefully placed the remaining three wheat seeds inside. Then, he brought over a stool, sat by the pile of wood, and opened the system's crafting function to start making a wooden fence.

Since the vegetable patch on the left was already enclosed by a wooden fence, the right side of the field had to be symmetrical as well.

Having done this once before, Kim Haru was much more proficient this time, even without help from anyone else. In less than three hours, he had completed both the crafting and installation of the fence. On both the left and right, there were two patches of land enclosed by identical fences.

Yes, even though this side only had ten wheat seeds planted, Kim Haru's perfectionist tendencies still drove him to build a fence the same size as the one on the other side.

With the fence finished, Kim Haru remembered that he still had some bamboo in his system backpack, which he had set aside to make a basket.

Since he was already covered in wood shavings, he figured he might as well handle the bamboo too.

Making a basket was something Kim Haru had decided to do himself, as there was no tutorial for it in the farming system. But not having a tutorial didn't matter—he had a rough idea of how it should be done.

The bamboo he had cut down was too long, so Kim Haru measured it and cut it in half. Then he started splitting the cylindrical bamboo into strips about as wide as a finger.

However, if he used these bamboo strips right away, they would still be too stiff for weaving, and would easily crack or break when he bent it. Kim Haru recalled from some crafting videos that the strips needed to be split thinner.

This task required a bit of skill and wasn't suited for using an axe, so Kim Haru switched to a sickle instead.

"If only I had a machete," he thought. "Next time I go to the safe zone, I should ask the logistics department if they have any tools like that. If they don't, I can always post a request to buy one from someone else."

As he pondered this, his hands never stopped moving.

After breaking the first two bamboo strips, Kim Haru finally got the hang of it, and his movements became much quicker.

Soon, a large pile of bamboo strips, perfectly soft and pliable for weaving, lay beside the pile of wood.

"Phew," Kim Haru stretched and glanced at the system clock—dinnertime rewards had already been issued.

Kim Haru put away his tools, tidied up the area a bit, changed into fresh clothes, and brought out a small table to eat outside.

To be honest, ever since coming to this world, the scenery and air around his home were about the only things that were better than in his past life.

In his previous life, even though he didn't live in an area with high building density, the developers had still put a lot of effort into landscaping. Yet, no matter how much they tried, the air and artificial environment couldn't compare to the natural surroundings he had now.

After finishing his meal, Kim Haru turned on the light under the eaves and continued working on his basket.

Kim Haru had never woven a basket with real bamboo strips before. The only experience he had with crafts was from his school days, folding little stars or other small trinkets out of paper with the girls. After some classmates teased him, saying he looked like a girl and even knew how to do girly things, he never touched crafts again.

But, weaving something should just be about going over and under, securing the strips, right?