When Xia Qing returned home after inspecting the territory, he smelled the aroma of stewed pig's trotters. She couldn't wait to change out of her protective clothing and wash her hands, first put the sick wolf's boiled offal and the essence of the sheep boss on the table, and then brought the casserole to her table and opened the lid.

The soup is milky white, the taste is a little light, pour some vinegar into it, and garnish with a green light shallot, perfect.

Xia Qing stirred a few times with a spoon, and after taking out the soybeans in the soup, he was silent.

Even if she hasn't eaten soybeans and soy milk for ten years, she still has basic common sense. Even if the soybeans are cooked and don't burst like mung beans, they should grow a little longer, why are these soybeans still the same as when they were first put in?

Xia Qing put one in his mouth and took a bite carefully. And then discovered......

I can't bite it!

This is the soybean she harvested after half a year of busy work, and she can't bite it.

Xia Qing drank the chewy pig's trotters and soup cleanly, and then looked at the many soybeans on the napkin, and fell into deep thought.

Is this a hardness evolution in soybeans, or is it another species that looks a lot like soybeans?

She had gone out with the team on a gathering mission before, and she had also encountered soybeans. After harvesting, they use the picnic pot to add oil to popcorn and eat it, although it doesn't look good, but it tastes good.

Ten years of natural disasters, Xia Qing was unwilling to waste a grain of food. She washed the soybeans that had been boiled for more than an hour, put them in a hot pot and slowly heated them, intending to make popcorn and eat them.

As a result, the pot was hot and began to smoke, and the soybeans still did not change, so Xia Qing could only shovel out the hot soybeans and put them aside.

If it is hard like this, it is impossible to squeeze out the juice for testing, Xia Qing no longer competes with the beans, and goes to work in the field first.

When she was weeding in the high-slope terraces, Hu Zifeng carried a basket to get today's spinach juice and green light vegetables. Although Xia Qing told Yang Jin that Luo Pei could pick whatever he wanted, Luo Pei didn't ask for it, so it became that Xia Qing picked whatever he wanted, and he ate whatever he wanted.

Xia Qing picked two tomatoes, three cucumbers and a pumpkin, and stuffed the basket carried by Hu Zifeng, "Team Hu will wait here for a while, and I'll go home and squeeze the spinach juice." ”

Although the boss didn't say it explicitly, of course Hu Zifeng knew what spinach juice could extract. But the boss gave a gag order, and he wouldn't ask if he guessed, he just wanted to help hide it as much as possible, "You go, I'll hoe the grass for a while." ”

After three days of hard work, there are now only three peanut fields left with grass left without hoeing. Xia Qing reminded, "Be careful not to touch the few trees tied with red ropes." ”

The green light peanut sensed the touch of animals, including humans, and would attack with the leaf vein needle, and Hu Zifeng happily responded.

When Xia Qing came back, he not only brought the smallest sealed bag containing spinach juice, but also a few iron soybeans, "Please take this bean back and hand it over to Brother Luo." ”

Xia Qing asked Team Luo to let the people of the No. 1 Territory Planting Group test what this iron bean was.

In the afternoon, Luo Pei called, "The beans you sent here are indeed a kind of evolved soybeans, this kind of soybeans are extremely hard after evolution, and they need to be soaked for 36 hours to soak the bean skin soft before processing." Because of its high hardness, poor taste, and low nutrient content, this type of evolved soybean is processed into feed for poultry and livestock, even if it is collected and returned to the safe zone. ”

So she worked hard for half a year, just to add feed to the sheep boss?

I couldn't hear Xia Qing's response, but Luo Pei could feel her depression and laughed a few times, "When we cleaned up the Evolution Forest in the No. 3 Territory area last year, did you see the Evolution Soybeans?" ”

"Nope." Xia Qing replied in the affirmative.

When performing the clean-up task, Luo Pei and other main team members cleaned up dangerous creatures in front, and Xia Qing, as a supernumerary force evolution team, was responsible for carrying the task, and the materials harvested and collected by the team members were sealed and handed over to the force members.

Because of the discovery of springs here, Xia Qing was very concerned about the area of Territory No. 3, and confirmed that they had not collected soybeans or peanuts here.

"We are the third territory that was cleared in late November, and if the soybeans had grown around there last year, even if we couldn't see the beans, we would have been able to see the bean seedlings that had lost their leaves." Luo Pei speculated with a smile, "So, this kind of evolutionary soybean should have been carried by small animals." ”

Xia Qing agreed with Luo Pei's speculation, "Both rodents and ants have the habit of storing food for the winter, and ants have a small range of activities, so they should be rats." ”

Thinking that the soybeans that he had worked hard to take care of for half a year might be small animals such as mice, hamsters or squirrels that were carried back from elsewhere and hid in the cave, and when he was hungry, he found that he couldn't gnaw and throw them away, Xia Qing was depressed and wanted to dry the rack.

Doing this kind of thing for no reason, Xia Qing didn't do it.

After hanging up the phone, she checked the location of the red squirrel and found that the little guy had returned, and the little red dot was fixed in a place in the third district of No. 49 Mountain, which should be resting.

Xia Qing went to the high slope, looked at it from a distance and confirmed which pine tree the red squirrel was, so he picked up a handful of toon leaves, went home and carried the sheep plow, and beckoned the sheep boss, "Boss, go to plow the land?" ”

The sheep boss may also be idle and long-haired, Xia Qing greeted him, and he immediately rushed over, Xia Qing put the plow stick on it, one person and one sheep, one pulled the plow and the other helped the plow, and began to turn over the land at the entrance of the village.

The depression in Xia Qing's heart turned into strength, and after turning over more than four acres of land, Xia Qing was still angry, and Xia Qing carried a machete and cut down more than 40 wild sycamores more than three meters high.

Wild sycamore is a deciduous tree that does not know which tree evolved from after a natural disaster, and although its leaves are not high in the content of the elements, it contains several elements that are harmful to the human body and cannot be eaten.

The tree blooms in spring with small, scented flowers that attract bees and butterflies to pollinate it; In summer, it produces soft red fruits that resemble mulberries, attracting birds to peck at them, and scattering the seeds in all directions through bird droppings.

The seeds of the wild sycamore will germinate in less than a week after landing, and grow rapidly, and can reach a height of three or four meters in two months, quickly encroaching on the growth space of other plants. Because it grows too fast, the wood quality of the wild sycamore is very poor, and it cannot be used to make furniture, but can only be used as firewood.

When clearing Territory 3 last winter, the mission team cut down all the wild sycamores, and dug up the roots and burned them. However, the wild plane seeds that remain in the soil roots and the newly brought by the birds still drill out one stubble after another, and Xia Qing needs to clean them regularly.

If left uncleared, the flat arable land in her territory will soon turn into a wild sycamore forest.

However, the wild sycamore is not useless. Xia Qing specially left more than one acre of wild sycamore saplings in places where the soil was not fertile. When these saplings grow to a height of three or four meters, Xia Qing will cut them all down, and the straight main pole will be kept for sticks.

These sticks can be used instead of bamboo poles to build climbing frames for cucumbers and beans, can be used as small support sticks in greenhouses, and can now also be used to fence chickens.

Xia Qing cut down the wild sycamore and turned the ground today, just to make a new chicken pen and transfer the group of chickens in the backyard to be raised here.

After burying the stakes to demarcate the chicken pen area, wait for the chickens and goslings to get into the chicken coop in the evening, and then move the net chicken coop around the old chicken pen here to install it, and the new chicken pen can be used.

Xia Qing patted off the soil on his gloves and startled a few birds looking for insects to eat on the newly turned land.

After packing up the chicken pen, Xia Qing went to the high-slope planting shed and squatted beside the peanut terraces that he had carefully taken care of for nearly half a year and worried.