Chapter 69 Sweet potatoes from cuttings
Sending Zhong Tao away, Xia Qing and the sheep boss directly carried the earthworm manure to the terraced fields reserved in the planting area.
Xia Qing likes sweet potatoes very much, so the plots left for cuttings are terraced fields with thick soil layers, one in the high-slope planting area and the other in the low-slope planting area.
According to the method sent to her by Tan Junjie, Xia Qing first fertilized the terraced fields, then ploughed and piled up strip-shaped dragons. After the ground was ready, Xia Qing cut the long vine of the green sweet potato into 20-centimeter-long sections and planted 200 cuttings.
After the cuttings were completed, Xia Qing was both happy and worried.
Of course, she was happy that she had two more sweet potatoes, and she was worried that this would not only fail to grow, but also destroy the elemental balance of the sixteen sweet potato plants that had only two or three vines left after being pruned, causing them to turn from green to yellow.
In that case, you will die.
This method of propagation by cuttings, Xia Qing also knocked on the side to confirm it with Qi Fu. Since the method is no problem, and she has spring water in her hand, even if these two hundred trees can only live half, and each one that survives only grows three sweet potatoes, then she can harvest three hundred sweet potatoes, three hundred!
Xia Qingle poured the cuttings of sweet potato vines with filtered water mixed with spring water - because there were too many seedlings, she did not have enough spring water to irrigate.
Then, Xia Qing used the remaining vermicompost to top fertilize the other plots.
Vegetables that are flowering and bearing fruit need top dressing; Wheat, mung beans and cotton are all about to bloom and need top dressing; Jujube trees are blooming and need top dressing.
The original green light sweet potato and yellow light potato fields have used a lot of fermented sheep manure, and there is no need for top dressing; Pumpkins that only grow seedlings and do not bloom are not given top dressing.
I thought that 400 catties of earthworm manure was a lot, but when I started topdressing, I found that it was not enough to sprinkle it once. So, Xia Qing sent a message to Sun Zhe and ordered another 800 catties, and the delivery date was 20 days later.
In this transaction, Xia Qing used spinach seeds that were about to ripen. By the time Zhong Tao brought the vermicompost over, the spinach seeds should have matured.
In other words, Sun Zhe can produce at least 800 catties of vermicompost in 20 days, which can be exchanged for 400 points. Raising earthworms and making manure is more suitable than working in the construction team, of course, it is also more risky, and since he has come out of the territory, he is ready to take risks.
Xia Qing went home with the few catties of earthworm manure left and mixed it into four large earthen pots. These earthen pots are prepared by her for strawberries, and the "Planting Encyclopedia" says that strawberry plants will grow stolons, and new strawberry seedlings will grow on stolons.
Looking at the picture on the planting encyclopedia, Xia Qing felt like a fake.
But! Her two strawberries actually had two stolons, and even though the stems were too short, no new strawberry seedlings had grown. But with all the stems, will the strawberry seedlings be far away?
Xia Qing has prepared pots and soil, ready to welcome new seedlings.
Like the freshly transplanted vegetable seedlings, the cuttings of sweet potato vines were completely wilted by the sun the next day. But the wilting leaves are still upright, and the sweet potato vines are still erect. Xia Qing already had experience and did not show the panic she had when she transplanted the vegetable seedlings last time.
If it wilts, let it wilt, and when it wilts enough, it will stand up, and she will do whatever she wants.
She went to learn from Luo Pei twice in the past few days, and practiced disassembling and assembling the gun seriously every night, and now even with her eyes closed, Xia Qing can quickly complete the disassembly and assembly of the gun.
Today, she is going to practice the basic movements of shooting.
Xia Qing was wearing a protective suit, crawling in the grass, pressing the butt of the gun against his shoulders according to the method taught by Luo Pei, his eyes slowly moving behind the scope, finding the most suitable distance between the pupils, controlling his breathing, and pulling the trigger lightly with his fingers.
Marksmanship should be accurate and the gun should be steady. The gun must be stable, and the person must be stable. People must be stable, and their mentality, strength and breathing must be stable. Xia Qing's mentality and strength are no problem, what he has to practice now is breath control and every pull of the trigger and the following action after that, you can't spend time re-finding the distance of the pupil after every shot, this time is enough for the opponent to kill you ten times.
Thirty minutes after holding the gun steadily, Xia Qing fired her first bullet after getting the gun when she heard a loud eagle cry. Under the cover of the eagle's cry and silencer, the gunfire did not alarm anyone in the nearby territory.
Zhao Ze in No. 4 is still leading people to carry water and water wheat, and Tang Huai in No. 2 is still sitting in the field digging insects. Hu Zifeng of No. 1 also led people to continue to patrol the separation zone between No. 49 Mountain and the territory.
After confirming from the scope that he had accurately shot a fist-sized clod of soil placed at a position of one thousand meters, Xia Qing walked over and placed another clod of the same size in the same position, returning to the same place and continuing to aim.
After aiming for half an hour, Xia Qing removed the scope on the sniper rifle, maintained the aiming action just now, and continued to aim at the clods.
The purpose of using the scope is to find accurate aiming movements and make the body travel muscle memory, Xia Qing is a nine-fold visual evolutionary person, and has the ability to aim at a target the size of a chicken at a distance of 1,500 meters with the naked eye. No target larger than a mung bean grain within a hundred meters could escape her naked eye.
This is second only to the ability of Luo Pei, a tenfold visual evolutionary.
In Luo Pei's second-floor underground testing room, when Luo Pei used standard testing instruments to detect that Xia Qing's visual evolution was nine times higher, not only he was surprised, but Xia Qing was also surprised.
She knew that her vision belonged to the advanced evolution, but she didn't expect it to reach nine times.
Not only her vision, but her sense of hearing had actually reached an astonishing sixth-level evolution, one level higher than Luo Pei!
After the test, Luo Pei, who was thirty-four years old and considered himself to be old and serious, was so excited that he couldn't speak, patted Xia Qing's shoulders vigorously, and then solemnly said to Xia Qing, "With your physical fitness, as long as you are willing to work hard, you can definitely kick Nie Hong down!" ”
No wonder Yang Jin has high hopes for Xia Qing, no wonder!
Bang bang, bang bang! Luo Pei became more and more excited, and couldn't help but pat Xia Qing again and again.
Xia Qing, who was floating in the air after learning his true evolution level, was slapped back to the ground by Luo Pei, and humbly asked, "Brother Luo, who is Nie Hong?" ”
Luo Pei, who was so happy that he was in tears......
“…… We are the first sharpshooter in China. ”
Xia Qing had no interest in kicking the number one sharpshooter of Huaguo off the throne and replacing him himself. She just wants to be an ordinary power evolver and farm in the territory.
After the wolf broke into the wild boar breeding, it never reappeared, and there was no major movement in the breeding center. Xia Qing still carefully patrols the territory every day, using deodorant to remove the smell of sheep in the territory. After a few days of persistence, the sheep boss died and no longer went to look outside the iron fence wall. In addition to eating grass every day, he follows Xia Qing.
Xia Qing was busy, and the sheep boss kept a distance to watch, or was touted by Xia Qing to beat his hands.
Xia Qing rested, and the sheep boss came to the side to rest.
At this moment, Xia Qing was lying on the ground practicing shooting, and the sheep boss was lying beside her and chewing.
When the sky again heard a loud eagle's cry, Xia Qing fired a second shot.
This time, the bullet deviated more than ten meters from the target and hit the trunk of a nearby tree, causing the tree to shake and drop a few yellow leaves.
There is a difference between eye-sight shooting and scope-aiming shooting, and it makes sense if you don't miss. Xia Qing put the bullet case in his pocket, got up and grabbed it, pulled out the bullet stuck in the trunk and stuffed it into his pocket, returned to the same place and continued to aim.
The sun was scorching, and Xia Qing was motionless.
The half-squinted eyes of the sheep boss who had finished chewing gradually closed, and his head slowly sank and pressed on Xia Qing's back. This heavy burden made the corners of Xia Qing's mouth high, but the posture of holding the gun did not change at all.
In three hours, Xia Qing fired a total of ten bullets, two of which hit the target. She was so satisfied with the results that she called it a day and went home to cook.