Chapter Seventy-Three: Shortening the Cycle
The moist and soft black soil was still wrapped in some green grass, and the smell of the soil instantly permeated the whole house, attracting Miao Xi and others to come over to watch.
"Is this unpolluted soil?" Xiaofei carefully pinched a handful, sniffed it at her fingertips, and exclaimed.
After the end of the world, everything that humans can see and expose to is contaminated by radiation, and except for mutated ones, normal plants are almost extinct, directly extinguishing the survivors' desire to plant.
Now that she saw the clean soil again, Xiaofei almost jumped up with joy.
"Who would have thought that the soil that could be found everywhere before the end of the world would become an extremely cherished resource." Miao Xi sighed.
Lulu blinked and said, "Sister Xiaofei, can we grow our own vegetables and eat them in the future?" ”
Xiaofei rubbed her head and calmed the agitated emotions in her heart, "Yes, we will never be hungry again." ”
"Work first, and we'll be happy when the vegetables come out." Jiang Mi said with a smile.
"Good!"
Seeing such fertile and high-quality soil with their own eyes, everyone is full of energy.
After an afternoon of hard work, all three rooms were finally arranged.
The three rooms are numbered separately, and the first room grows some vegetables with a short growth cycle, such as leeks, oil, wheat vegetables, chicken hairy vegetables, etc., which are mainly used for daily supply in a timely manner.
Room 2 takes relatively some time to grow, so only cabbage, radish, potatoes, Chinese cabbage, etc., are planted, and these plants can be preserved for a long time.
Everyone in room No. 3 discussed it and chose to plant some ginger, garlic, pumpkin, winter melon, and sweet potatoes.
"I don't need to plant rice noodles for the time being, I have a lot of enough to survive the buffer period, and when the planting site expands, let's consider planting these." Jiang Mi planted the last seed to his satisfaction.
Miao Xi Xiaofei and others looked at the seeds they planted with their own hands, and their hearts were full of expectation and satisfaction.
Xiaofei suddenly asked with some concern: "But what about the watering of these dishes?" Now that water resources are so scarce, wouldn't it take a lot of water to grow so much? ”
Jiang Mi also thought about this problem, and thought for a while: "So let's start to focus on searching various research institutes, try to find as many equipment as possible about pollution purification, and then pay attention to scientific researchers and various types of talents, and strive to make a radiation purification device that matches our base as soon as possible." ”
"I can provide one to the base now, but at the moment this radiation purification device is very low-power, and it is only enough to support daily drinking water for up to ten people at most."
Miao Xi exhaled, "One is enough, there is a large reservoir on the outskirts of Huacui District, our city's waterworks are upstream of the reservoir, no one will move the reserve water in the waterworks, if we have this purifier, we can go and carry the reserve water of the waterworks." ”
"How long will the reservoir be from us?" Jiang Mi asked.
Miao Xi calculated in his heart, "If you drive normally, it will only take more than half an hour, but now the road situation is very complicated, and without transportation, it will take at least five hours to go back and forth by legs, and the water that a person can bring back is very limited." ”
This is due to the fact that it may take more time, taking into account the various unexpected situations that will be encountered along the way.
Jiang Mi shook his head, "The income is too low, since this is the case, the survivors who have been collected recently will go in the direction of Huacui District and try to open up a road." ”
As long as there is a road, most cars can still be driven, which can save a lot of time and labor costs.
Miao Xi nodded in understanding.
Jiang Mi glanced at the sky, "It's not early, everyone is tired today, let's go eat and rest, tomorrow we will go out to clean up the deviants around the base, we need to recuperate." ”
As soon as the words fell, the woman with the child suddenly asked, "Can I go tomorrow?" ”
Jiang Mi looked at her in some surprise, the woman's body was very thin, her cheekbones were high and protruding, her cheeks were almost fleshless, and her expression was very tired, she actually wanted to go out with them in this state?
The woman only came back with them yesterday afternoon, and she didn't rest much and followed the pursuit of non-mainstream men and others, and she didn't go to bed until three o'clock at night, and got up at seven o'clock in the morning.
"If you think you can handle it physically, you can." Jiang Mi didn't refuse, but said solemnly: "But when you leave the base, there are dangers outside, and we can't guarantee that we can save you in time if you have an accident, once you have an accident, think about your daughter." ”
After speaking, Jiang Mi waved his hand and took the lead in leaving the third floor with Jiang Xun.
Xiaofei saw the woman holding her daughter and standing in place with her head down, she couldn't bear it, and took two steps forward and comforted in a low voice: "Sister Mei, Miss Jiang is right, your body is still very weak, it's too dangerous outside, if you really want to do something, it's better to take care of your body before going out." ”
The woman grabbed her daughter's hand tightly, looked up and pulled a smile at her, and said hoarsely with a slight accent: "Thank you, I know, I'll cook now." ”
Xiaofei nodded, "It's good if you can figure it out, but don't be stubborn." ”
The woman's real name is Liu Ximei, a native of Peng Province, who got married in the early years and worked as a farmer in the countryside with her in-laws.
After the two children went to elementary school, her husband came to R City to work, and it was many years to leave, and this year the child was on summer vacation, and the harvest in the field was also good, so he thought about taking the child to find his father, but he just got off the car and encountered a heavy rainstorm.
In the first few days, I was able to contact the child's father, but then the phone was turned off, Liu Ximei had no choice but to take the child to hide in Tibet to pick up supplies to survive while asking for news from her husband everywhere.
But until I met the non-mainstream men, the gang was abused for more than a month, and there was no news.
Although Liu Ximei is from the countryside, she is only in her thirties, and her appearance is not bad, so she was targeted by those brutes.
Xiao Fei felt pitiful just thinking about it.
Fortunately, Liu Ximei has a tenacious temperament and was not crushed by these hardships, and she survived until they saved her.
And Liu Ximei naturally took over the position of chef as soon as she came, and her cooking was better than Xiaoyu's, and she was also diligent, Xiaofei still liked her very much.
Early the next morning.
Jiang Mi went directly to the third floor to check after breakfast.
When I saw that the seeds sown in Room 1 had sprouted and grown a knuckle high, I couldn't help but laugh.
Jiang Xun looked at the green seedlings in the planting box, and his eyes showed a little doubt, "These vegetables grow so fast?" ”
He hadn't planted it, he just thought it was magical.
Jiang Mi smiled, "If it is a normal situation, it will take two to three days for these crops to be unearthed, but the soil in my space has a catalytic effect, which can shorten the growth cycle of these crops to nearly half!" ”
"The 14-day-old crop takes only a week to mature and is very tasty."
Jiang Xun took a deep breath and looked at her with deep eyes, "If I wasn't your brother, I wouldn't be able to control it." (End of chapter)