Chapter 21: Liu Xiu and Herin
On November 20, 134 New Calendar, the migrant camp that had begun to take shape was officially renamed "Hope City". Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
On November 22, the construction of the "Nami Bridge" across the Hope River officially began. When the bridge is completed, the city of Hope will be expanded across the river, and the attached villages will be built across the river.
The construction of affiliated villages has caused tens of thousands of people to move from Hope City to the surrounding areas, and after the influx of tens of thousands of Ira immigrants and a small number of Taeyong immigrants, the urban population of Hope City is still approaching the 600,000 mark. The high population density has caused many problems for Hope City, such as a severe shortage of housing, with more than two-thirds of the population still living in tents. The city's sanitation situation is also not optimistic, and Byrensburg has invested considerable manpower and material resources in this area, but Hope City still feels dirty.
On November 25th, he came with Mel to Salin in Byronsburg? North was appointed Chief of Military Affairs, in charge of the entire territory, and was appointed to the Decision-making Committee. Salin was grateful for Mel's trust, but dissatisfied. He followed Maier not to regain military power or join the leadership of Byronsburg, but simply to improve his own ideological consciousness, so Meier's arrangement was putting the cart before the horse.
On the same day, Liu Xiu, who was "gifted" to Byronsburg by the Republic of Bukin, was also appointed as a "development adviser" to Byronsburg. Liu Xiu was very satisfied with this arrangement, because he had long been tired of the life of drawing drawings all day long.
Liu Xiu, who was born as an engineering student, only studied seriously in his freshman year, and the next three years were mixed up, and he didn't learn anything at all. The only thing he could get his hands on was engineering drawing, which he had learned in his freshman year, and in addition to providing design ideas to the Bukin, he had to draw all kinds of drawings for them according to their requirements.
Drawing is a very boring job, coupled with the huge workload, Liu Xiu has a feeling of being hollowed out every day. If it weren't for the breadwinner of his family, he would have left the Republic of Bujin with his wife long ago.
“…… Herring is very good at eating—no, very eating, I've never seen a woman like her. ”
After Liu Xiu became a development consultant in the city of Bairensburg, he often came to talk to Meier. After listening to Maier's speech in the Arsenal of the Republic of Bukin, Liu Xiu admired him. For the first time after crossing into this world, he felt admiration for the people of this world.
"I met her in the village of the Bujin—the first village I saw when I came into this world, as I said before, and it was there that I met her. I was taken in by the friendly villagers, who let me stay at the village chief's house, who was the chief's daughter. ”
"And then you fell in love with her at first sight?"
Now that the leadership of Byronsburg is sharing more and more work with Meier, Maier has more and more free time. He plans to go to Ergusburg and Yaolin City in March next year to officially get engaged to Ulis and Yishan. When the time comes, he will go to Ögusburg first, and then to Yaolin City—the order is determined by Uris and Yishan after guessing the boxing.
"No, no, no, it's not."
Liu Xiu waved his hand again and again, and then smiled helplessly.
"I first noticed her because I found out that the village chief's family was bullying her – of course, it was just my misunderstanding, and it wasn't."
"Misunderstanding?"
"yes." Liu Xiu nodded, "But it's no wonder to me." She worked from morning to night, and she took care of almost all the housework of the village chief's house. She doesn't join us during meals, and normal people will think she's being abused when they see this situation, right? ”
Maier nodded in agreement, and Liu Xiu grinned and shrugged his shoulders.
"But like I said, that's not the case. She worked so hard because she was eating too much, and if she didn't do more, she felt sorry for the food she ate. This is also the reason why she does not eat with us, she is afraid that the amount of food she will frighten me, an outsider, so she does not dare to eat at the table. ”
"Herreen is a good person."
Maier and Liu Xiu chat together almost every day, and now the relationship between the two has become very close, and they no longer need honorifics when speaking.
"Indeed." Liu Xiu smiled bitterly and nodded, "But this is also a troublesome matter." After I married her, she always felt guilty about being raised by me and wanted to go out and find work. I told her that her job was to do the housework and take care of the children, and that she didn't have to do anything else. But the more I said that, the more she felt that she owed me too much, and the more she whispered in front of me, and there was really nothing she could do with her. ”
Liu Xiu now has two children, a boy and a girl. The boy is three years old and the girl is one year old, both of them have black hair and black eyes, but they have white animal ears and tails, which are very cute. Sometimes Liu Xiu will also bring his wife and children to Maier's house, and when she sees the children with a smile, she likes it so much that she is reluctant to leave every time.
"Well, that seems off topic. Where did you just come from? Liu Xiu just thought for half a second before he found his way back, "Oh, by the way, talk about Herin's ability to eat." Actually, I didn't have that interest in her at first, although I liked animal ears, but I just liked it. On the women's side, I prefer the type with long breasts and thighs. And the size of the Bujin people is so 'young' that it gives me the feeling that I am sinning. ”
"In my original world, there was a saying that was 'three years to start, the highest death penalty'. This is a 'meme', because the 'Chinese' law stipulates that it is illegal to have sex with a girl under the age of 14, and the minimum sentence is three years in prison, and the maximum penalty is the death penalty. ”
After knowing Liu Xiu for a long time, Maier has a certain understanding of the rare words in his mouth, and now he can barely understand them.
"I'm sorry, I'm off topic again, continue to talk about my Herring. Herin is very good at eating, she can eat ten kilograms of food in one meal, and even then she can't eat enough, God knows where she put so much food. In my original world, there was a profession called 'Big Stomach', which was a big eater who did all kinds of challenges to get bonuses. There's also a profession called 'eating and broadcasting', uh...... This profession is a bit difficult to explain, that is, the person who does the job is responsible for eating, and other people watch him eat and will give him money. ”
"Huh?! Watch him eat and give him money? Are the people in your world crazy?! ”
The productivity of the new world is very low compared to that of the modern earth, and food is very valuable. Watching others eat and give money to others is a stupid thing in the eyes of people in the new world.
"Haha, maybe." Liu Xiu shrugged his shoulders meaninglessly, "Actually, before I came to this world, I also did this kind of stupid thing. As you said in Magnig's Armoury, when human beings are not worried about food, clothing, shelter, and transportation, it is not easy for us to satisfy us with material things. Every day we worry about what to eat for our next meal – not that we don't have it, but that we have so many choices that we are so tired of eating that we don't even have an appetite when it comes to meals. ”
"But I don't know why, as soon as we see those 'eating broadcasts' eating on the 'screen', we feel very satisfied, and we may even have an appetite because of this. Maybe it's because we're in the psychology of repaying that we give them money and gifts, right? Or maybe you just want to do something to satisfy yourself. ”
"When I first came into this world, I suffered enough and wanted to return to the original world. After meeting Herreen, I wanted to bring her back and use her 'Big Stomach' trait to help me make money. We tried a lot of things, and they all failed. Later, my existence became known to the heads of the Republic of Bukin, and they found me in Magnier. I don't know what kind of psychology it was, so I took her with me, and she left with me. ”
Later, I didn't know why, I confessed to her in a daze, and proposed to her. She agreed to my proposal, and we were together. In order to support her, I can only 'work' for the Republic of Bukin, and meet all their requirements, because only then can I afford to support her. ”
In fact, the two talked not about his wife at the beginning, but about food, and Liu Xiu talked about himself and his wife because they were off topic. As a result of the closure of the border in Kamijin County, the price of food in Byrensburg has risen sharply. Although the annexed villages of Bairensburg are currently unable to meet the food needs of the entire population, Bairensburg currently needs to import food from other places.
Maier consulted Liu Xiu, who thought about it for a while and felt that the most direct way to solve this problem was to increase grain production. At present, the speed of land reclamation in Bairensburg is limited, and it will take a long time to solve the problem by increasing the area of farmland. If we want to solve the food problem as soon as possible, we must start with the output.
When it comes to yield, Liu Xiu immediately thinks of a well-known hybrid rice expert in China. Earth's crops take four to five months to mature, and experiments can be carried out up to twice a year. Crops in the New World usually take only a month to mature, and more than ten experiments can be conducted in a year.
Liu Xiu thinks that rice can be hybridized to increase yields, and other grains can do the same. The foundation of hybrid rice was only learned in junior high and high school, and Liu Xiu had almost forgotten it, so he could only say a rough idea. The New World has almost zero knowledge of this area, not even how crops are ripe, let alone artificial pollination.
In desperation, Liu Xiu could only do his best to give Myrkop biological common sense. He said that the physical and biological laws of the new world may be different from those of the earth, so these theoretical knowledge must be verified before they can be used.
On the same day, Maier approached Nami and asked her to find some experienced farmers and ask them to learn biology from Liu Xiu, and then find a way to determine if this knowledge could be used in the new world. So Liu Xiu suddenly had a new job, and he could only work for Maier with a bitter face.
When he was in the Bujin Republic, Liu Xiu and his wife lived in the armory, and he was able to go home every night. After receiving the assignment from Meier, he had to follow the peasants of Byrensburg to the affiliated villages to conduct experiments, and he did not necessarily return home once a week. I don't know if Liu Xiu trusts Maier, or wants to take revenge on Maier, and actually asks his wife to move to Maier's house after his business trip.
Liu Xiu's wife's name is Herin, and she is an introverted woman who is slightly below the average height of the Ilibian people. She listens to her husband very much, and she does what he says. After moving to the Maier family, Herin ate every meal with an open stomach, eating more than fifteen kilograms of food at a time, and spending about six hours a day just eating.
You must know that Herringe's self-weight is only about thirty kilograms, which means that she has to eat food equivalent to half of her weight in one meal, and her stomach is not big no matter how she eats, and then Maier understands what Liu Xiu means by saying "God knows where she put so much food".
Since Herreen lived in Myer's house, Myr's family had to consume about fifty kilograms of food every day, which made Mel cry and laugh. At the same time, he also understood the difficulty of Liu Xiu's "supporting family" and agreed to his request for a salary increase.
Afterwards, Liu Xiu said that he was still merciful to his subordinates. If he sent the pregnant Herreen to Meier's house, she would have to double the amount of food she ate at each meal. However, the amount of food for the children of the two is very normal.
It is worth mentioning that after coming to Byronsburg, Liu Xiu deliberately sent Herin to the witch of the new-style shrine to see if Herin had such a large amount of food and whether there was a physical problem. I wish the witches to confirm that there is no problem with Helin's body after many examinations, and Liu Xiu also showed a helpless smile while being relieved.
Even if it's to feed Herin every day, she has to work hard!
In the farmland of the attached village, Liu Xiu, wearing a straw hat, squatted in the ridges of the field to inspect the newborn wheat seedlings, his eyes full of anticipation.