Chapter 68: Trading Vermicompost
Passing through the original northern barrier of the third territory, Xia Qing entered the high slope.
After the high slope area was incorporated into Xia Qing's territory, the investigation team patrolled the periphery of the territory and no longer passed through the old isolation zone that had been included in Xia Qing's territory.
If it weren't for Xia Qing's regular spraying of insect repellent and weeding in the barrier, the ten-meter-wide barrier would have been gone long ago.
Xia Qing kept it to prevent insect infestations, and the isolation zone could block pests coming down from No. 49, becoming a half-protective wall for the territory.
The other half of the wall, of course, is Xia Qing himself. Even if the army of evolutionary locusts attacked, they would not want to pass through the protective wall she had built.
Passing through the old barrier, Xia Qing entered the high-slope planting area. First, the evolved perilla, in order to let the sheep boss eat it, Xia Qing did not encircle the evolved perilla into the insect net.
Strangling an evolutionary mantis holding a scythe to attack him, Xia Qing entered the range of the vegetable garden covered by the insect net. The first terraced field in the insect net was planted with green light alfalfa, and only two of the twenty alfalfa trees that Zhao Ze paid her died, and the rest were alive and well, Xia Qing pinched the young shoots and ate them once, and the taste was actually better than perilla.
Of course, this may be because she has eaten Evolved Perilla too many times and is really tired of it.
The pumpkins planted in the terraces on the other side gave Xia Qing a headache. If it hadn't been tested repeatedly, she really suspected that this pumpkin seedling that had grown wildly but not bloomed had evolved.
The terraces with an area of 50 meters covered by five green-light pumpkin seedlings are not yet complete, and even half of the terraces of the green-light alfalfa below. The fifteen yellow-lamped pumpkins planted next to the sweet potato fields at the foot of the hillside are equally sad.
If the pumpkin vine doesn't bloom next month, Xia Qing will have to cut it and feed the sheep.
Further up are fields of green onions, ginger, garlic and leeks. In order to facilitate management, Xia Qing transplanted all the vegetable seedlings found in the Gao Pohuang courtyard here.
Further up are three terraced peanut terraces, and then there are still empty terraces ready to grow sweet potatoes. Xia Qing drilled out the insect net and walked up, and came to two apple trees that had been cut and two jujube trees that had not only sprouted, but also bloomed.
The small yellow-green flowers of the jujube tree are fragrant and beautiful.
Xia Qing is not worried about jujube flowers being bitten by insects at all, because these two green-light jujube trees can actually kill insects!
The branches and leaves of the Evolutionary Jujube Tree have a dense layer of spikes on the back, and the insects that dare to provoke the jujube tree will be pierced by the spikes and slowly turn into worm stems. This had to make Xia Qing suspect that the dates she would harvest in the future might all be meaty.
Finally, Xia Qing came to the gentle area on the high slope and broke a lot of toon leaves for the sheep boss from the big toon tree. The toon sprouts in summer cannot be eaten by humans, but the toon leaves are still the food of the sheep boss.
Returning to the reservoir, Xia Qing beckoned the sheep boss who stepped on the water wheel to come down to eat, while she squatted by the fish pond to feed the fish.
Dozens of insects, large and small, that had just been killed, were thrown down, and the fish pond immediately exploded. When the water calms again, even the wings of insects are no longer visible.
This is the new world of Blue Star, where the weak eat the strong, and the creatures that are not strong and can't survive will die so much that there is no scum left.
Xia Qing, who was strong and able to hold on, stood up and clapped his hands, said hello to the sheep boss, went to see his sweet potato seedlings, and weeded by the way.
Sweet potato vines are not slow to grow, but they are not as scary as pumpkin seedlings.
While weeding, Xia Qing looked through the sweet potato vines and found that the sweet potato vines had grown small red bumps. In a few days, the pimples will grow roots and dig into the soil, and the sweet potato vines can be cut off and cuttings.
To cut sweet potato vines, it is necessary to supplement the fertility of the prepared terraces.
Xia Qing took out his mobile phone and called Sun Zhe.
The phone was quickly connected, and Sun Zhe's voice was full of energy, "Sister Qing." ”
Not only is there no noisy background sound from the construction team on the other side of the phone, but you can also hear birds chirping. Xia Qing judged that Sun Zhe was not in the construction team, and asked directly, "Did you get earthworm dung?" I'm going to buy a few bags if I get it. ”
Sun Zhe's voice was full of joy, "It's done." Our family partnered with others and received the No. 48 territory to raise earthworms to make dung, how many catties does Sister Qing want? ”
Xia Qing's voice also had laugh lines, "How many catties do you have to trade now?" ”
Sun Zhe directly reported the number, "At most, four hundred catties, two catties for one point, can Sister Qing accept it?" No matter how cheap it is, we won't even be able to earn back the labor. ”
Unexpectedly, Sun Zhe had already made so much earthworm dung, Xia Qing was very simple, "Yes." Can you sell it all to me? Do you want to exchange supplies or points? ”
Because it came out late, the best sowing season was missed; Also because the No. 48 territory is close to the safe zone, it has been searched by humans many times, and no edible plants have been found in the territory, so Sun Zhe wants to exchange edible vegetables or seeds, "Does Sister Qing have edible plants?" It would be even better if there were edible plant seeds that could be exchanged. ”
Xia Qing directly quoted the price, "I have one hundred and fifty yellow light shallot seeds, two points for each; Twenty catties of dried yellow lamp bamboo shoots in sun-dried sealed packaging, twenty points a catty. ”
After Sun Zhe finalized the number of shallots and yellow bamboo shoots exchanged, he happily told Xia Qing, "Let Captain Zhong Tao send it to my sister tomorrow, our family is a land in partnership with Captain Zhong's cousin Zhong He." It's close to the safe zone, so it's a lot safer, and the closest location in the territory to the safe zone is still within the signal coverage area, and you can use a regular phone. ”
Xia Qing hung up the phone, and while leveling the ground next to the sweet potato field, he sighed that Sun Zhe would pick people.
Although Zhong Tao is an ordinary person, he is very sociable, and he is also the team leader in charge of the transportation of materials in the fifty territories north of the security zone, so he is very familiar with the situation in these territories. With his help, the vermicompost produced by Sun Zhe and Zhong He can be traded with the lords who need vermicompost without any publicity, and the safety is greatly improved.
On the third day, Zhong Tao transported four large bags of vermicompost to Xia Qing. Xia Qing handed him the dried bamboo shoots and shallots, and exchanged the sun-dried fifty catties of evolved white-haired vines for soy sauce, salt and vinegar, and exchanged them for Zhong Tao and Zheng Kui's fifty shallots and two catties of sour bamboo shoots.
Green onions and leeks look very similar at the seedling stage, but they are different when they grow up. Xia Qing has sixty green onions, eight of which bloom and bear onion seeds, Xia Qing exchanged more than half of the green onion seeds for materials, in addition to Zhong Tao, Zheng Kui, Sun Zhe and five or six lords, the most surprising thing for her was Tang Huai in the second place.
This month, Tang Huai's interest in farming suddenly increased, and he occasionally participated in the pest removal discussion in the lord's channel, which was not in vain.
If it weren't for the spring water in the No. 3 site, Xia Qing's first choice was also the flatter No. 2 site, which had a thicker soil layer.
Xia Qing's pickled yellow light sour bamboo shoots last month were not bad, and although the taste was not good, they were still edible, so she added stir-fried bamboo rat meat and sour bamboo shoot soup to her menu.