Chapter 30: Reclamation of Wasteland, Busy Building Houses (1)
Liu Ci didn't expect that as soon as the stone house plan was proposed, it received great attention from the wolf god, so this plan was immediately put on the agenda.
But she has to open up the wasteland this spring, how can she have so much time to build a house.
In fact, the cultivation of the barren mountains and Sawada is generally prepared in July and August of the first year. In autumn, as soon as the grass leaves wither and yellow, they will set fire to the mountains, and wait for the next spring to plow the land and sow seeds. When encountering a large forest tree that is not easy to burn, cut off the main trunk to prevent it from growing new leaves, and after three or four years, the rhizome will naturally wither, and it will be burned off in the case of fire, and it will not affect the cultivation during this period.
It was originally the only one near the ancient tree, and there were occasionally a few big trees that broke when the silver wolf went crazy at night in winter, saving Liu Ci the pain of cutting down the tree.
Therefore, there are five or six acres of wasteland that can be cultivated in front of the ancient trees, and Liu Ci has to make a lot of dead branches and pile them on the open land, and burn them, which not only solves the new weeds in early spring, but also the grass and wood ash after plowing the ground is also a good nourishment. But how to open a pit on five or six acres of land? The small vegetable garden was opened by Liu Ci with a giant sword as a shovel, but the size of half an acre of land, if you use a giant sword that is not in your hand, how can you complete the agricultural book that "the initial cultivation is deep, and the land is shallow"?
Seeing that Liu Ci was busy on the wasteland all day long, and threw aside the important matter of building a stone house, the silver wolf couldn't help but remind her to distinguish between priorities and priorities.
It's really not a backache when she stands and talks, she can't tell the priorities, everyone knows that the big house is comfortable, not to mention Liu Aci, who loves to enjoy. But the boulder will not run away with horns, the house can be built later, and the planting of crops is the top priority related to her cultivation and growth.
"I don't have eight hands and feet, I can't do two things at the same time!"
got acquainted with the silver wolf, and Liu Ci spoke more and more casually.
Lord Wolf God was reminded by her and asked what to do about the so-called reclamation of wasteland.
Liu Cihu looked at him suspiciously, his silver hair shimmered in the sun, and the silver wolf stood in the shade of the trees between the green mountains and green waters, not touching the fireworks in the world, like a wolf that had just flown down from the clouds. The big monster flew back with the mud on her body and refused to do so, did she want to go to the field and plough the land herself? Thinking of the picture of the silver wolf plowing the land with its claws with graceful steps, Liu Ci couldn't help but shudder.
"Just loosen the layer of soil that freezes hard in winter and break up the hard clods."
"It's that simple?"
Of course, the requirements are not difficult, but the difficult thing is that she was not a professional farmer before?
"Okay, I'll solve it, you go and draw the architectural drawings of the house!" The silver wolf flicked its tail and disappeared into the woods. Human beings are really troublesome, what kind of "architectural drawings" do you need to draw when hollowing out stones to make a house, just dig and dig casually?
Liu Ci pouted, and not long after spreading out the paper on the stone table, the floor plan had just been drawn a little, and he saw the silver wolf driving a multi-legged worm back.
It looks similar to a centipede on the earth, hundreds of times larger than a centipede, its whole body is red, and its nostrils are snorting hot air.
The silver wolf didn't know what to confess to the red centipede, the latter was resigned, and Lisuo drilled into the soil, only to see the soil waves rolling, but after the red centipede drilled out of the soil again in a stick of incense, five or six acres of wasteland were cultivated to the same depth and even. The level of agricultural robots in the era of the Great Universe is not much higher than that of Centipede Beasts!
After the silver wolf sent the red centipede away, he asked her if she was satisfied, and Liu Ci nodded his head like a chicken eating rice. Nonsense, she doesn't need to be paid for doing such a good job, and if she is not satisfied, she will be struck by lightning.
When the wasteland was opened, Liu Ci first planted an acre of sweet potatoes and half an acre of yams.
The sweet potato vine grows very fast, and it can be fed to rabbits, sheep and cows, and sweet potatoes can also be fed to cows, and she also counts on a cup of fresh milk every morning...... There is no hope for the time being to bathe in pure milk as you did before the crossing.
The cultivated wasteland cannot be planted directly, and every three feet wide flows out of the passable aisle, and the soil is piled high in the middle, and sweet potatoes are planted in the high places, and the low-lying areas can be used for both drainage and waterlogging tolerant yams. "The Essence of the Same Name" said that this is interplanting, and some can promote each other's harvest as interplanting, and indiscriminate interplanting may reduce yield.
Sweet potatoes should be kept as the staple food, only take part of the sweet potato fries that survived the winter disaster, cut off according to the length of the two budding openings on the top of a section, do not hurt the stems and leaves, poke and pry into the soil with a sharpened bamboo is a small pit, stuff the sweet potato seedlings into it, and then press the fine soil tightly with your hands, and the stems buried in the soil will grow roots after a few spring rains, until the vines above and below bear sweet potatoes.
When the sweet potato vines are large, they are very long and entangled, so they are only two evenly planted in two rows on the three-foot-wide ridge. An acre of land was constantly ploughed and pressed to the vines, and Liu Ci was in good physical condition and soon finished. Then there is the low-lying area to plant yams, as long as you pay attention to the chopped tubers with the bud side facing up, there is no technical difficulty.
After planting sweet potatoes and yams, and throwing some of the remaining sweet potato vines to the cattle and sheep, it is not yet noon. Throwing a pack of earthworms caught in the ridge to the grouse, Liu Ci touched two hot eggs in the grouse nest, thinking that the feeding day was short and he was afraid of any aura, so he put it away first, and just hatched the chicks when he made up a nest of eggs. Chickens lay eggs, eggs hatch chickens, and delicious grouse can be endless.
Seeing that Liu Ci had finally finished his farm work, the silver wolf offered to keep the lunch meal simple, and now he was thinking about building the house that Liu Ci said that he could take a hot bath in winter and soak in the mountain spring in summer.
The wolf god clearly showed signs of demonic confusion, Liu Ci couldn't bear to delay any longer, and cooked a large pot of five-spiced potatoes for lunch at noon, and after eating, he and the silver wolf began to discuss the stone house.
"Look here, and here, the walls of the stone house must be at least forty centimeters thick, so that they can resist in case of an earthquake. The roof can be thicker, leaving about one meter, what if the ancient tree falls down while sleeping? ”
The centimeter is a unit of length, and it takes a hand to compare the silver wolf to understand.
"Hollow out the rocks, isn't it black inside? If you make a hole in the wall as you draw, the snow and wind will freeze you to death in winter, so it's better to sleep in a tree hole. ”
Not only to meet the needs of lighting and warmth, of course, the only way to install glass on the windows. The strength of glass in 3845 of the New Era is comparable to that of alloy, Liu Ci scratched his head, did he want to burn the glass himself? She pursed her face, so her crossing was actually a technical farming route.
The silver wolf smiled bitterly, the architectural drawings have not been discussed yet, why did it come to the burning glass - dwarf, can you do things a little bit of priority and secondary, the wolf god looked depressed, and he had a serious impulse to go violent.
Liu Ci taught the silver wolf to look at architectural drawings, how can flat and three-dimensional, abstract lines be turned into houses? Solid geometry is also a branch of mathematics, and the silver wolf secretly decided not to laugh at the cooing bird in the future...... Mathematics is really an existence that can make Warcraft crazy.
In the end, Liu Ci had no choice, so he tried to conceive a three-dimensional model in his mind now, and then passed the idea of the three-dimensional model directly to the silver wolf.
Bingo, this wolf god has a complete epiphany in an instant.
In fact, the structure of the stone house is not difficult, the silver wolf claws excavated, Liu Ci was busy carrying the stones, and it didn't take two days for the prototype of the stone house to come out.
The rest of the work, such as wooden doors, windows, stoves, all kinds of furniture, and the idea of building a rooftop, is slow and meticulous, and there is no way to do it in a hurry. Liu Ci hadn't figured out how to make glass, and the "search order" issued by the silver wolf before had an effect.
One morning she found a pile of fresh potatoes with stems and leaves on the wasteland, and in the afternoon she planned to plant potatoes in two parts. As the crops were successively delivered by the anonymous "good people", how could the spring ploughing Shaoguang be wasted, Liu Ci could only contribute the underground drainage system that he had planned to do himself in order to appease the wolf god who was full of interest.
The silver wolf was not interested in the crooked underground pipes, and asked Liu Ci in detail what kind of wood should be used for the furniture of doors and windows, and it also wanted Liu Ci to help make a "chaise longue", looking at the color map, this couch is more suitable for its figure.
"Solid and non-rotten, fragrant, insect repellent, can meet these three, it is the best material!"
Scented wood generally attracts insects, and the silver wolf didn't know that Liu Ci was tricking it, so he was satisfied and searched for wood all over the mountain.
Liu Ci breathed a sigh of relief, there were more and more things sent by the good people and monsters who didn't leave their names, like potatoes, there were three batches of different monsters sent, she didn't lack seeds, and they all kept them to prepare to treat the wolf god.
Cabbage seedlings, red and white radish, cucumber vines, pumpkin seedlings, wild leeks dug up with roots and soil, and the common vegetables drawn by Liu Ci, except for those with the wrong season, can be found in spring. At noon, after breathing and practicing qi, Liu Ci saw an animal with a fluffy tail like a squirrel flash in the forest, leaving a few muddy strips and some dried pods on the wasteland.
It's lotus root and soybeans! It's really not that huge squirrel where to find it.
In the third month of the lunar calendar, when the apricot blossoms are in full bloom and the mulberries are red, it is the best time to plant soybeans. Now it is estimated that it is only the second month of the lunar calendar, so Liu Ci will put away the dried bean pods and wait for March to come. There are also two catties of dried beans when they are peeled out, and the barren field where she opened a pit has a little bit of land. The tender bean curd dipped in shallots oil and spicy seeds or poured with sugar are extremely delicious, and you can also make tofu, dried spices, and more importantly, you can grow beans to fertilize the field!
The lotus root was thrown into the pond behind the boulder by Liu Ci, and the rain washed a lot of sediment on the edge of the pond, and the original rock layer at the bottom of the pond has been covered. The ancients used the lotus flower to come out of the mud without staining to describe the high quality of people, but the lotus root that grows a beautiful and refined lotus really likes to grow in the silt.
Before the new era, there were many lotus root fields in the water towns south of the Yangtze River in China, and in the winter when the water was dry and ripe, the lotus root pickers from all over the country rowed small boats to shuttle through the lotus root sky and stepped into the mud to dig the lotus root. The lotus root washed away from the silt is white and tender, crisp and sweet when eaten raw, and the soup is soft, because it is hidden under the silt but breaks the muddy water and pours it in, it ruins its appearance, even in the Earth Federation in the New Era 3845, the lotus root is harvested by manual rather than agricultural robots. Once it is artificial, the price of lotus root naturally remains high, Liu Ci liked to eat it very much before the crossing, and deliberately took out his free time to watch gossip and have a party to browse its information on the interstellar network.
Thinking of the crisp white and tender lotus root, Liu Ci couldn't help but smile and narrowed his eyes.
- Perhaps she herself doesn't know that the rice worms of the past are gradually gone, and Liu Ci has begun to find some self-sufficiency in the days of farming.