Chapter 285: The Farm
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"I go every morning, and now the people in the city are getting more and more mouthful, and they want something fresh, no matter what it is." Old Tom said with some distress.
Although the delivery was by car, the car was still relatively stable, but the problem was that his old Tom was almost seventy years old, and it was okay to deliver the goods once or twice, and he had to deliver them every day, and his body could not bear it, if it weren't for the fact that he could make more money, and he didn't want the quiet atmosphere on the farm to be broken, he would have hired someone a long time ago.
"I shouldn't have been there today, have you?" Mr. Edward said, although it was a question sentence, but Mr. Edward used an affirmative tone.
For example, some items with high requirements for freshness must be delivered in the early morning of the same day, so that they can be put on the shelves in time before dawn, so that customers can buy the goods as soon as they come. However, Mr. Edward looked carefully at the bodies of the two people in front of him, and couldn't help but shake his head secretly, if it was a young man, it would be no problem, but these two people who were about to lose their ability to walk would obviously not be able to get up and deliver goods in the early hours of the morning every day, not to mention, it was only morning, if the old man went to deliver the goods, he should not have come back by now, and he should have a tired face.
While Mr. Edward and Old Tom were talking, Pandora just watched quietly and did not interject. Pandora is only interested in people who can feel their charm because they will be crazy about themselves and will come to please themselves. And the two old men in front of them. There is a big problem with the eyes. If you can't see the details of things clearly, you naturally can't appreciate the charm of her Pandora. His proudest place was ignored by others, and it was no wonder that Pandora was in a good mood, if it weren't for the fact that these two people didn't mean to, Pandora would definitely make the two of them look good.
Mr. Edward's words made Pandora's originally somewhat depressed look overjoyed, it didn't matter if these two people ignored their charms, they waited for the city anyway. There will be countless people who are crazy about themselves, and it can't be that everyone in the city has a problem with their eyes, right? What Pandora didn't know was that she was really unfortunate enough to say that the more developed the country, the higher the coverage rate of electronic products such as mobile phones and computers, and with these electronic products, more and more people are short-sighted, after all, watching an hour of electronic screen is at least equivalent to reading a book for four hours, if it is just reading a book. It takes many years to be nearsighted while playing with a mobile phone. You can be highly myopic in a year. Of course, myopia can be solved with glasses, not so strict that there is no way to solve it like the old Tom and his wife.
"You're going to the city too? You might as well call my car, as I said beforehand, my van only has a spare spot. Old Tom said with a smile on his face, and when he said the last sentence, there was a look of ill will on his face.
To be able to have a farm that lays golden eggs, Old Tom is not a simple person, otherwise the family business would have been taken away a long time ago, and he would be so happy? Although Mr. Edward has not said it explicitly, the meaning has been obvious, of course, this is also related to Mr. Edward's failure to deliberately cover up, Mr. Edward just wants to make old Tom understand, otherwise with his city, although old Tom is a little older, he is still far behind in playing tricks. Mr. Edward had been in a high position for too long, and he really couldn't say anything to ask for, especially in front of Pandora, but fortunately, old Tom was able to understand what Mr. Edward meant, and took the initiative to bring up the subject, otherwise Mr. Edward would have been embarrassed.
As for Old Tom's last sentence, it was obviously a joke about Pandora and Mr. Edward. Although Pandora and Mr. Edward could not see their expressions clearly, Tom, the old man, who was a good man, sensed some clues from their behavior. Normal couples, even if they don't hold hands directly in front of people, will stand very close, the closer the relationship, the closer the distance will be, and look at the position of Pandora and Mr. Edward, Pandora is standing on the left side of Mr. Edward, which fully shows that the relationship between the two is not a little close. For intimate couples, the man should stand on the woman's left, because the roads in the United States, like in China, are right-handed, and the man's position will keep the woman away from this side of the road, thus making the woman safer. In addition, it will also be more convenient for the woman to stand on the right side of the man, after all, it will be more convenient for the man to use his right hand than his left hand, unless the man is left-handed.
The extra seats on the truck are very narrow, in fact, they are specially prepared for Erha, one person sits on it just right, if it is two adults, it is absolutely impossible to sit side by side, the only way is that one person sits on the lap of another person. Of course, the man can't sit on the woman's lap, so he can only let the woman sit on the man's legs, but in a small space, the woman sits tightly on the man's legs, what the reaction will be, if the man and the woman are very close, it's just that, but the problem is that Old Tom knows very well that the relationship between the two people in front of him is not close at all.
"Oh, here, this is my farm." Old Tom pointed to the scene in front of him and said with some pride. While Mr. Edward was chatting with Old Tom, the four of them had walked through the low bushes, turned a small grove, and came to a very spacious place.
Seeing the scene in front of her, Pandora's first feeling was that it was big. Aside from a small three-story building in the far distance with a grove in the background, the only thing Pandora had in front of her was an extremely spacious green space. Like farmland, the green space is divided into blocks of about 20 meters by 20 meters, and each square has a sprinkler head in the middle, which is supposed to be a device for spraying water, pesticides and nutrients at regular intervals every day. Between the blocks is a concrete pavement about three meters wide. Pandora looked at the right and left sides of the 10 blocks wide and the front 20 blocks long, and at 400 square meters each, Old Tom's farm had a cultivable area of 160,000 square meters, equivalent to 500 acres. Two elderly people who are almost 70 years old can cultivate 500 acres of land together, and with this kind of production efficiency, it is no wonder that the United States will far surpass China in terms of national strength. Pandora's idea is actually wrong, if the national strength is according to Pandora's algorithm, then Australia is not stronger than the United States? In Australia, it is not uncommon for families to grow thousands of acres of land.
"And a lot of animals." Pandora's ability to see everything in all the squares except crops is fourteen times the limit of human beings, and Pandora can clearly see that in some of the squares, there are active creatures such as chickens, rabbits, dogs, cattle and sheep, these animals are distributed in some specific squares, and do not run to the adjacent blocks, such as a square with a flock of chickens, this square grows all kinds of grass that can produce seeds, and the next block grows strawberries. Strawberries are stronger than grass seeds in terms of color and taste, but none of these chickens cross the boundary line of the square, and they just gather together to eat grass seeds in their area.
"After years of research, I have found that the more species of organisms on a farm, the less likely it is to form pests and diseases, and if you grow all of them, you have to spray a lot of pesticides." As if to see Pandora's doubts, Old Tom explained proudly.
In fact, Old John did this for another purpose, and that was to make this place more vibrant. If you plant the whole farm with one crop, such as rice, in the summer, it is green everywhere and looks very comfortable, and in the autumn, it is all golden and looks very pleasant, but the problem is that this comfort and pleasing to the eye is for people who have only seen it a few times, and for people like Old Tom, who live here all year round, it is very bad, and every day you have to face the same color, green disgusting, yellow nausea. After a period of only a few years of making a lot of money but suffering mentally, Old Tom learned to be obedient and divided the whole farm into pieces, not all of which were planted with different crops, and then Old Tom subdivided the squares again, and raised animals in some of the squares. Slowly, the farm became very active due to the many creatures, and living on the lively farm, old Tom no longer had the mental pressure that he had just started, and even felt very comfortable staying here, and he didn't even want to go to the city anymore.
"It makes sense, it's equivalent to forming an ecosystem in this area, where every organism has its natural predators and there will be no flooding." Mr. Edward and Pandora couldn't help but nodded, although this old Tom is not engaged in biology, but he has summed up and done what many people who specialize in ecology can't do, the only thing that makes Mr. Edward and Pandora feel pity is that Old Tom is too old to live in a few years, if he is only in his twenties, then after a certain amount of study, coupled with his rich experience, he must be a master in agriculture.
As Tom Sr. said, the situation of single species and strict pests and diseases is very common all over the world. If you want to have a high yield, you have to plant the same crop in large quantities, so that you can use the same behavior to manage it in batches, so as to achieve a similar division of labor. However, if only one crop is planted, the viruses, bacteria and insects that match this crop also have a favorable growth environment, so that they multiply in large quantities and eventually cause pests and diseases. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)