Chapter 106: Harvesting Wheat
When drying the mud from the first fish pond, most of the clips on the mung bean seedlings in the third territory turned black. Xia Qing first picked all the mung bean clips and transported them home, then pulled out the mung bean seedlings, kept a small part for sheep feed, and the remaining half was chopped and fermented with a knife to make organic fertilizer, and half was burned into plant ash.
After Xia Qing leveled and irrigated two acres of mung bean fields, the wheat was also ripe. It only takes thirteen or fourteen days for the evolved wheat to mature from flowering to maturity, and the reason why it is so fast, according to expert Li Si, is the result of artificial dry cultivation, in order to avoid the wheat at this stage being pecked by evolved insects and birds.
The wheat was blown by the wind and turned into a rustling wave of wheat. The sound mingles with the chirping of birds, frogs and running water, and it is so beautiful. Xia Qing recorded a video and stored it in his mobile phone, although the recording effect is far from being as good as the real one, but listening to and watching it is still happy and full of a sense of achievement.
Xia Qing only has two wheat fields, which is more than 150 square meters. Harvesting such a little wheat is a piece of cake for power evolutionaries. For more than an hour, Xia Qing pulled out all the wheat plants and carried them to the tamped wheat drying field, chopped off the lower half of the wheat with roots, and spread the upper half of the wheat stalks with wheat ears on the wheat drying field, and the sheep boss pulled the stone roller to roll back and forth for threshing.
This is the craziest time for the evolution birds, they fly over like dark clouds in groups to grab food, and then they are shot down by Xia Qing with bullets and steel balls, and none of the birds succeed in grabbing food.
Tang Huai, who was tasked with monitoring the task, heard gunshots in the No. 3 territory, and immediately asked in the group, "No. 3 land, Xia Qing, what's the situation?" Is there a dangerous evolutionary animal breaking in? ”
Xia Qing put the bird into a sealed bag and replied calmly, "No, I'm cleaning up the birds that peck at the wheat grains." ”
Tang Huai wondered, "Didn't you cover the wheat field with an insect-proof net, how could it be possible to fly into the birds?" ”
"Insect nets are insects." Xia Qing would not say that he had pulled the wheat out of the insect net.
Tang Huaigang wanted to scold, but when he thought that his son was also there, he held back, "You're right." ”
Zhao Ze complained, "My insect net was also pecked by birds, and there were not a few wheat plants left, but now it is cleaner." ”
Qi Fu shared his experience, "At this time, we should cover it with a rainproof cloth and then grab it, so that the birds can't see the situation in the shed, and the danger will be reduced by half." ”
After the sheep boss pulled the stone roller to press down all the wheat grains of the ear, Xia Qingsai gave it a piece of compressed ration for the new flavor that he had just exchanged with Zhong Tao, and let it go to the side to rest.
Then, Xia Qing quickly used three large iron forks to pick up the straw of the wheat, and then used a big broom to sweep the wheat grains into a pile, and used the wind to pass the wheat bran. After Xia Qing put the harvested wheat into a bag, the flock of evolution birds dispersed.
It took more than half an hour to thresh, Xia Qing shot two large baskets of evolution birds, harvested three bags of wheat, and weighed more than 300 catties. This harvest exceeded Xia Qing's expectations, and she happily put all the three bags of wheat on the sheep boss, transported them home and put them away, and then came back to clean up the wheat stalks and the corpses of the evolved birds.
The wheat bran and straw sheep bosses don't like to eat it, so they are all made into organic fertilizer, which is still half burned and half fermented.
The two bags of high-efficiency composting fungus powder that Xia Qing exchanged from Li Si have been used up, and now the fungus powder is exchanged by Xia Qing with Li Si with a yellow lantern fish and four catties of sour bamboo shoots. For the same style of GET idols, Li Si is very generous.
Of course, the sour bamboo shoots that Xia Qing exchanged for Li Si and Zhang San were all fished out of the spring water soup and soaked in distilled water for a period of time. For the biggest secret in the territory, Xia Qing kept it to the death.
After packing up the wheat bran and straw, Xia Qing leveled and irrigated the wheat field, and was about to go home, when she suddenly found a red squirrel picking up the wheat she had dropped in the sunyard not far away.
Xia Qing cleaned up the evolution forest during this time, and squirrels were not uncommon, but it was the first time that a red squirrel with such a color had been encountered.
The name has a "rat", as soon as the mouse appears, people can't wait to get rid of it, and the squirrel with a fluffy tail makes people feel very cute and reluctant to start.
Xia Qing, who can't raise a cat, moved the idea of raising a squirrel as a pet, who knew that as soon as she got a few steps closer, she was stuffed with a mouth full of wheat grains, and the squirrel with bulging cheeks noticed that the little guy seemed to run away immediately, as fast as a line of fire.
This little guy is actually a speed evolutionary, Xia Qing shook his head, returned home and took a shower, weighing his harvest with a portable rod scale.
On a busy day, she harvested three hundred and thirty catties of yellow light wheat and three and a half catties of green light wheat. All the green light wheat is left for seeding, and the yellow light wheat should also leave 50 catties as wheat seeds, and another 40 catties will be taken to participate in the agricultural products fair, and the rest will be her rations.
The agricultural trade fair will start the day after tomorrow and will last for two days.
In the evening, after listening to the weather forecast and the enthusiastic broadcast of the agricultural products fair of "welcome the lords to go home and see" by the announcer of the Huisan base, the lord exchange group also discussed the agricultural products fair.
Zhao Ze spoke first, "Are you all planning to change the flour grinder?" The wheat and mung beans I harvested together are not enough to change a flour grinder. Can I borrow it if you exchange it back? Four alfalfa seeds are borrowed for one day. ”
The small household flour grinder is one of the materials that can be exchanged for two folds provided by the safe zone for the lords who return to participate in the agricultural fair.
The others were silent, and Kuang Qingwei spoke, "A dough grinder has eight hundred points, and the blade will be worn out during use, and you only give four alfalfa seeds in one day, who is willing to give it?" You still use alfalfa seeds to exchange one with Brother Tao. ”
Zhao Ze sighed, "My alfalfa has just bloomed and has not yet been seeded, and the flour grinder only has a special price at the trade fair, so it can't be changed." ”
After the great evolution of Blue Star Biology, the seeds in the shell can be stored for a longer period of time than the processed flour. After ten years of natural disasters, who doesn't want to hold food firmly in their hands?
But to turn grain into edible flour, tools are needed.
Therefore, in the base broadcast for half a month, every day fancy recommends a household flour grinder that can only be exchanged for two folds at the trade fair, and each lord is limited to one. By the time Zhao Ze's alfalfa seeds are ripe, the preferential period has already passed.
Converse Qingwei is worthy of being a businessman, and after bargaining with Zhao Ze, he negotiated the price of two points for grinding a pound of grain, and asked Zhao Ze to bring the grain to the No. 6 territory to grind noodles.
Then, Concord Qingwei continued to solicit business, "There is really no need for a dough grinder, why not keep 800 points for some work?" Except for Xiao Zhao, everyone can come to me to grind noodles. ”
Xia Qing, who was doing push-ups, hehe, why did the lords buy a noodle grinder, not because they didn't want others to know how much grain they had in their hands? A fool will put a cheap noodle grinder and not buy it, and go to other people's territory to spend points to grind noodles.
Finding that no one paid attention to him, Kuang Qingwei continued to the next topic, "It's very chaotic outside, let's go together and come back together, what do you say?" ”
"Brother Qing is right, there are more people and it is safe." Zhao Ze was the first to respond.
Qi Fu continued, "We all go by Brother Tao's car, and then take Brother Tao's car back, and we are also in the same trading hall when we go, and it is not easy to separate." ”
Kang Qingwei was still not at ease, "Brother Tao is going to pull the lords of fifty territories in the North District tomorrow, there may be people robbing things when there are more people in the car, let's sit together and take care of each other." ”
Of course, this "we" are the six, three, four, five, six, seven, and tenth lords of serious farming, lords No. 1, No. 2, No. 9, and No. 12, who are not interested in participating in agricultural fairs, never participate in discussions, and do not know whether they will go or not.
The lord of land eight? This long-awaited silence has long been ignored by everyone.
The next day, Xia Qing began to prepare the materials to bring to the fair. The qualification to participate in the fair is to bring no less than three categories, no less than five catties of vegetables and no less than forty catties of grain.
The grain Xia Qing plans to bring forty catties of mung beans and wheat, and the vegetables will bring eggplant, cucumber and long beans, and then bring a small bag of green onion seeds, of course, they are all yellow lights.
After exchanging the crops for the flour grinder, Xia Qing also wanted to buy all the seeds that could be bought from the safe zone, and she also wanted the good things brought by the other lords.
On top of that, she had to mend machetes, buy carpentry and electrician tools, daily necessities, and clothes to wear, all of which cost a lot of points.
During this period of time, Xia Qing carried animals and plants from his private training ground, and exchanged more than 3,000 points with Zhong Tao. However, these points plus the materials she brought were still not enough, but Xia Qing had already thought of a way to earn points quickly.
After counting the supplies, Xia Qing took out her mobile phone and sent a seemingly random text message to the unfamiliar number engraved in her heart with a serious face, but it was actually a text message that she had brewed countless times in her mind.