"Do, do, do!"

Just when Chu Chen was looking out the window and pretending to be deep, there was a knock on the door.

Shaking his head and smiling self-deprecatingly, Chu Chen responded to the door: "Is it Xiao Qi?" Come on in! ”

The door was pushed open, Xiao Qi walked in, nodded at Chu Chen and smiled, "Boss Chu, Brother He just said that you are looking for me." ”

"Hmm!"

Chu Chen walked towards the sofa, pointed to the sofa and smiled at Xiao Qi: "I asked him to call you over, come, sit casually, I just want to ask you about the mutated sweet potato." ”

Xiao Qi looked a little restrained, and after sitting upright on the sofa, he smiled at Chu Chen and said: "Chu, Boss Chu, the growth of mutated sweet potatoes is gratifying, I dare to guarantee that this harvest will definitely satisfy you!" ”

Chu Chen nodded with a smile, and then asked, "That's good, but when will it be accepted?" Also, if I want to continue planting a second batch, is there anything I need to prepare? ”

The druids probably knew the most about the food in the fields, even the survivors who toiled in the fields all day.

As the leader of the druids, Xiao Qi naturally knew the situation of the grain in the field, and when he heard Chu Chen's question, he replied directly: "If you are in a hurry to take it back, you can collect it now, but if you are not particularly anxious, I suggest waiting for another three to seven days, after seven days, the mutated sweet potatoes in the field will basically not grow large." ”

After a pause, Xiao Qi continued: "As for continuing to plant sweet potatoes, it is very simple, just leave enough sweet potato seedlings at harvest time, and wait for those survivors to turn over the soil and apply some fertilizer, and then they can be planted again. Boss Chu, do you want to harvest it directly and continue to plant it again? ”

Chu Chen nodded slowly, and then, he shook his head again, and explained to Xiao Qi: "I really want to plant another batch, but you also know that summer is coming, I don't know if I can take back the second batch of grain before the scorching sun comes!" ”

"Scorching sun?"

Xiao Qi obviously didn't think that the kind of terrifying sun that could easily burn the survivors might appear again: "Boss Chu, you, what do you mean, ......?" ”

Glancing at Xiao Qi, Chu Chen shook his head and sighed: "After spending a winter in the sewers of Longgang City, do you still think that in summer, you can be the same as before?" Swim if you want to swim and eat popsicles if you want to? When the time comes, I'm afraid it's hard to even drink saliva! ”

This was originally a sentence to scold Xiao Qi, but after finishing speaking, it woke up Chu Chen himself!

Fresh water!

At present, there is indeed no shortage of fresh water in Ningqiu City, but when that kind of hot weather comes, where will the hundreds of thousands of people in the base go to drink water?

Counting the days, there are only two or three months at most from the hot summer, and this has not added the advance time, you must know that when you are in Longgang City, the cold snap is not half a month in advance?

"Boss Chu, I just calculated, if our druids don't have other tasks, work hard, we should be able to harvest the second batch of mutated sweet potatoes before the summer comes! Do you want to plant? ”

Xiao Qi's voice woke Chu Chen up from his thoughts, and after coming back to his senses, Chu Chen nodded slowly: "Seed!" If you don't plant this batch of food, don't say that you won't have water to drink, I'm afraid you won't even have to eat! ”

Xiao Qi didn't know why, and after blinking, he asked Chu Chen, "Boss Chu, what did you say?" What is not to eat? ”

While shaking his head, Chu Chen instructed Xiao Qi: "It's nothing, from now on, the land in the outer city will be fully responsible for you!" My request is very simple, firstly, you settle the account of the business alliance for me, and secondly, you must carefully calculate that after the second batch of crops comes out, it must be guaranteed to be enough for 200,000 people to eat for six months! If you're not sure, give me more! When the time comes, if there is really a situation of starving to death, I will be the first to trouble you! ”

"Gollum!"

Xiao Qi swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, nodded to Chu Chen and responded, "Okay, okay, Boss Chu!" I promise to complete the mission! ”

After nodding slowly, Chu Chen's anxious mood calmed down a little.

After drinking a cup of tea and thinking for a while, Chu Chen stretched out his hand to Xiao Qi and said, "If you want to drink tea, pour it yourself." ”

After Xiao Qi nodded, Chu Chen continued to speak and asked, "Hehe, I was a little impatient just now, and I forgot to ask you, judging by your experience, is this second batch of mutated sweet potatoes enough for 200,000 people to eat for six months?" ”

Nodding heavily, Xiao Qi replied seriously: "Enough, Boss Chu, it's completely enough!" This is a mutated sweet potato, I will check it every day, I really have to dig it all out, let alone six months, it should be enough for two years! ”

Grinning, Chu Chen smiled in surprise: "Yes, is there such a big difference in yield between plants mutated and non-mutated?" ”

Xiao Qi waved his hand and said to Chu Chen with a little exaggeration: "Not only is there a big gap in yield, including taste, growth rate, and even vitality, it is much stronger!" If you pick the stems and leaves of ordinary sweet potatoes, it will take at least three or five days to grow back, and even if you pick too much, they may wilt. But if you want to talk about this mutated sweet potato, Boss Chu, you have also seen it, how much does the canteen have to pick in a day? I don't know how good the mutated sweet potatoes in the field are! ”

Hearing that this was the case, Chu Chen nodded slowly, and then asked: "Then in that case, don't plant all sweet potatoes, and set aside one-third of the land to grow radish, in addition, I want you to separate a small area, and you will take a few old members to plant some watermelons!" ”

"Watermelon ?!!"

When Xiao Qi heard this, he immediately shouted: "Boss Chu, you actually have watermelons?" This is good, this is good! In those 10 days a few months ago, the heat we experienced was horrible, and now it's hard to find a few watermelon seeds, and it's great that you still have watermelon seeds here! ”

Shaking his head with a smile, Chu Chen explained to Xiao Qi: "However, the confidentiality measures of this watermelon must be done well, and you have to think of a way to see if you can cultivate a seedless watermelon!" ”

The smile on Xiao Qi's face froze instantly, and he asked Chu Chen in surprise, "Why?" Boss Chu, why don't you get more watermelon seeds that you found with great difficulty? ”

Chu Chen frowned, and Xiao Qi saw that Chu Chen's face was displeased, so he hurriedly bowed his head and responded: "Yes, Boss Chu, I will definitely pay attention to confidentiality measures, and in addition, I will also find a way to cultivate seedless watermelons." ”

Chu Chen nodded and said: "Well, that's good, you don't need to know a lot of things, just follow my orders, anyway, it's good, I must give priority to you elders, then the other survivors in the base, and thirdly, the survivors in the other bases." ”

Waiting for Xiao Qi to bow his head in response, Chu Chen waved his hand and asked him to leave first: "Okay, let's talk about it here, you go find Ma Yi, discuss with her what to do after harvesting the mutated sweet potato, let her go and talk to Zhang Yuan about the price and specific matters first, and say that it is my order." ”

"Yes, Boss Chu, I'll go now!"

After responding, Xiao Qi got up and left Chu Chen's office, leaving Chu Chen alone, slowly leaning on the sofa and falling into deep thought.

The food problem is solved, but what about water?

If the team is still the size of a few hundred people, then it will naturally be simple, and let Shi Yingying condense the magic elements of the water system.

But now there are more than 100,000 people in the base, and when the water shortage comes in the summer, not only will the amount of fresh water consumed by these people increase, but even the survivors are likely to increase to 200,000 or 300,000!

At that time, once the water shortage occurs, it may be followed by tens of thousands of survivors, who are on the verge of dying of thirst!

It is certainly not enough to let these survivors save their own water, the last scorching sun was only ten days old, and countless survivors were already facing death.

Two months later, Ningqiu City needs to face, but the hot weather that lasts for months is far from being solved by a few buckets of fresh water saved.

If the fresh water in the reservoir can be retained, it should be able to survive this summer.

However, in that climate, is it possible for such an open-air reservoir to retain fresh water?