31. Reclamation of vegetable gardens
The drizzling rain came just in time.
After they packed up some elephant grass sprouts and went back, the rain was still falling, so Yang Shubao took out the vegetable seeds and vegetable seedlings that he brought back yesterday and handed them to the goblins: "You can't eat fruits all day long, so go and grow vegetables, and I will cook vegetables for you to eat in the future." ”
Nate replied: "Thank you for your concern, but it's enough for us to have fruits to eat, and we don't need vegetables, so we don't need to plant them." ”
Yang Shubao said: "But the city lord needs it, so he has to plant it." ”
The grassland land is not fertile, it is actually relatively barren, and the various weeds are sandy rather than muddy, so the grassland needs to be protected and cannot be destroyed for farming.
However, the grassland around the swamp wetland of Great St. Lucia is not the same, the land here is quite fertile, millions of years ago it was a huge alpine jungle, the vicissitudes of the sea, the change of time, the jungle collapsed and rotted into a swamp wetland, so the land here is extraordinarily fertile.
This is also the reason why the leader of the Iron Beasts wants to buy the grass and make a farm, and yesterday Mason told him that there is a large farm about forty or fifty kilometers north of the town, which is run by the leader of the Iron Beasts, Bigensson, and many of the vegetables and fruits of Hluchluwe are produced on his farm.
Growing vegetables requires water, so Nate and Danny go to the nearest small pond and start cultivating the fields.
The area of the pond is only more than 10 acres, and now it looks quite large, but the area where the water actually comes out is very small, and most of it is accumulated rainwater rather than groundwater, and when the dry season comes, the area of this small pond may shrink to only one or two acres.
One person can't eat many vegetables, so Yang Shubao commanded the two to dig up more than 100 square meters of grass.
The earth elves are really good at farming, their arms are knee-length, and they can reach the ground with a slight bend, and then their hands penetrate the earth like a knife cutting through butter, easily digging out the grass, and at the same time plowing the land.
Lao Yang is responsible for cleaning up the weeds with their roots, these grasses will not die, they are extremely tenacious, and they will take root and live again when the next rain comes.
The excavated soil was pale black, and Yang Shubao thought of his hometown after seeing it, his hometown on the black soil.
The vegetable planting process is delicate and complex, such as turning the ground, digging ridges, opening canals, such as eggplant peppers and seedlings, onion seedlings and leek seedlings to transplant, kidney beans, beans and cucumbers.
Yang Shubao doesn't care about this, just like the African natives, just sow the seeds, and then just live and grow, anyway, he can't eat much alone.
However, the seedlings still have to be planted carefully, Nate digs a hole in the front, he inserts his palm into the ground and then pulls it out with his hand to create a well-sized hole, Lao Yang plants the seedlings in the back, and Danny buries the soil last.
Streamlined planting, one-stop service.
But I can't stand it after a long time, but fortunately, the sun will not come out, but the body is covered with mud and slimy, otherwise the sun exposure can shed a layer of skin.
When he was really tired, Lao Yang stood up and looked at this small vegetable garden and imagined: the pepper seedlings grew up and bloomed and produced green peppers, and rows of beans and cucumber seedlings crawled all over the ground, like vigorous children, they stretched out the green vines, or the emerald green melons or the beans with the thickness of fingers, how beautiful and festive the scene!
There are also potatoes and sweet potatoes, when they grow, a seedling under several potatoes or sweet potatoes, when the wind blows the potato seedlings and sweet potato vines swaying with the wind, the goblin digs into the ground to get big potatoes, big potatoes, he can fry potato strips, can make shredded potatoes, can potatoes roast beef, and then dig a hole to stew a sweet potato to eat......
"Made, I can't stand it when I think about it, it's too tempting, do it!" Yang Shubao immediately came back to life.
Danny turned around curiously and asked, "What's wrong with the city lord?"
Nate said with experience: "I guess I thought of women." ”
The area of land reclaimed is not large, and they cleaned up all the pieces in one go.
After burying the vegetable seeds in the soil and planting the seedlings, Yang Shubao took advantage of the light rain to perform the Ganlin technique.
He thought that this time it was all wilderness, and even if he used the Fountain of Life, he wouldn't attract anything.
As a result, he guessed wrong, and not long after the spring of life appeared, two gray figures came out of the grass not far away, they rushed forward a few steps and stopped, poked their heads and raised their little claws to look at Yang Shubao and the three of them vigilantly, and then reluctantly burrowed back into the grass.
Grass hare.
Seeing these two rabbits, Yang Shubao smiled: "I knew there would be hares here, and they were quite fat, when will we get a braised rabbit meat to eat, and a spicy rabbit head, tsk, I drool when I think about it." ”
Laughing and laughing, his face is hard to look at - there are rabbits here, so what kind of vegetable garden does he have a fart, do you raise rabbits?
Seeing his face change, Danny asked, "What's wrong with the city lord?"
Nate continued to say with great experience: "I guess I thought of men. ”
"Don't talk nonsense," Yang Shubao sighed, "we still have to work, we have to build a fence wall here to protect the vegetable garden, otherwise we will be harmed by rabbits." ”
Nate said confidently: "No, we just send the python here, there is no hare in it will come close to the vegetable garden, and it will not steal vegetables to eat......"
Yang Shubao's eyes lit up: "Good idea, you should change your name to smart Nate." ”
Originally, he was very unhappy after the rock python appeared, but now it seems that what Lu Xun said is very right, existence is reasonable. The role of this rock python is too great, it can produce snails and protect the vegetable garden, there should be a few more.
Danny was unconvinced, "I could have thought of the idea, but then the python will eat the rabbit." ”
Yang Shubao took out the classic lines in "The Lion King", and he said earnestly: "The python will eat the rabbit, the rabbit will eat the grass, and the grass will eat the dead, in fact, this is a cycle, the cycle of nature." ”
Danny was stunned for a moment and asked, "Will that man eat the python? Will you eat the python?" City Lord, I don't want you to eat it." ”
Yang Shubao said: "Of course I won't eat it, people don't eat pythons, don't worry." ”
"And how can this be a cycle?" Danny asked again.
Yang Shubao: "Do you want to go to graduate school with so many questions?"
The light rain continued until about ten o'clock, and then the clouds were quickly blown away, and it was sunny again, a spectacle that could not be seen in temperate regions.
While the sun was still not too hot, he got on his motorcycle and went to town, then asked Mason to contact Hall to help him adopt a dog or cat at an animal rescue station.
Mason said, "Why do you need Hall for such a trivial matter? The two of us are enough, what dog and cat do you want to have?"
Yang Shubao said: "It's not one, it's a hundred, the more the better." ”
Maison was stunned: "Fake?!"
Yang Shubao hurriedly shook his head: "No, it's not for Fake, I'm either a pervert, or I'm raising it." ”
Hearing this, Sissi let out a loud laugh.