In the Tenth Year After the Natural Disaster, Follow me to Farm

Chapter 31 Human-powered waterwheel

The footsteps were steady and rhythmic, and Xia Qing could tell they were Tan Junjie's footsteps. Now is not the patrol time to check for danger, he is the only one here.

 He should have come to find him, and his purpose was toon buds. Xia Qing took off her dirt-covered gloves and took out her mobile phone.

Sure enough, Tan Junjie walked to the buffer zone north of New Territory No. 3 and stopped, calling Xia Qing, "Xia Qing, is it convenient now? I would like to exchange some toona buds and perilla with you."

After giving the toon sprouts to Luo Pei, Xia Qing has been waiting for them to exchange materials with him, but the wait lasted for five days, and Xia Qing thought they had no shortage of safe vegetables.

Xia Qing smiled slightly and said, "Convenient. How much does Captain Tan want, and in exchange for it?"

Tan Junjie asked directly, "What do you want?"

With such a strong tone, does it mean that you can do whatever you want? Xia Qing said what she wanted most now, "I want a water pump to pump water from the reservoir to irrigate the fields."

Tan Junjie paused and discussed with Xia Qing, "The water pump either uses oil or electricity, which is inconvenient for you. How about I have someone make a human-powered waterwheel for you?"

  Aren’t the tall round waterwheels like those in history textbooks afraid of being bitten by evolved insects? Xia Qing paused and then asked, "Does anyone have the power of a sheep?"

Tan Junjie also paused for a while before replying, "I'll go back and ask."

That afternoon, Xia Qing received a call from Tan Junjie, "Sheep-powered ones are okay, but your sheep is too strong, and I can't resist it from tossing the parts. If it's a human-powered one, use your strength to step on it." It’s not strenuous either.”

 The fact that there is no need for electricity or oil is really attractive. "Then let's use manpower. I'm sorry for Team Tan. What do you think of the exchange?"

Tan Junjie discussed with Xia Qing, "A set of human-powered waterwheels in exchange for four kilograms of toon buds and two kilograms of perilla?"

This is much lower than Xia Qing's expected price, "Okay. I hope Team Tan will keep it a secret for me. I don't want more people to know that there are edible toona buds in my territory."

Tan Junjie immediately agreed, "Of course, I also want to have the opportunity to exchange safe food with you in the future. It will take a few days for the accessories to be shipped from the safe zone. I will contact you after they are shipped."

Xia Qing asked, "Did Zhong Tao and the others send it here?"

"Yes, the road is almost clear. If you need any supplies, you can ask Zhong Tao to bring them over."

 After hanging up the phone, Xia Qing did not contact Zhong Tao because she had no points in her card and no materials that could be used for exchange. Because she exchanged a set of protective clothing with Tang Huai, she didn't want to exchange Zi Su for supplies in the past three months. As for Toona Ya, currently she only wants to exchange with Tan Junjie and Luo Pei.

  Unfortunately, Luo Pei is not interested in toon buds. Xia Qing thought about it carefully and felt that this was reasonable. Because even if he was injured, Luo Pei, who was once the third most powerful player in the Qinglong team, would not be short of supplies, and it was impossible for him to take a few clusters of toon buds seriously.

Xia Qing put away the phone and stopped thinking about it, searching along the terraces from top to bottom. Spring is the season of germination, and you may make new discoveries.

 After half a day, I really had an unexpected harvest.

Xia Qing turned on her mobile phone and used the plant pictures in "Planting Encyclopedia" to repeatedly compare the plant buds that were only two or three centimeters high found in a long and narrow terraced field to confirm the name of the plant.

peanut! ! Xia Qing took out the detector and found out after testing that they were actually yellow peanuts growing in this 67-square-meter terraced field. He was so excited that his hands were shaking.

It turns out that peanuts look so good-looking!

Fortunately, this terraced field is in a remote location with a steep slope. Fortunately, the seedlings are yellow lights. Otherwise, this seedling, which is more beautiful than fleshy, would have been eaten by the sheep!

 According to the introduction in "Planting Encyclopedia", densely packed peanut seedlings will not grow well and must be thinned out and transplanted.

Xia Qing selected the lower two levels of equally steep terraces and weeded, plowed, transplanted, and watered them until dark. The sheep boss had been impatient for a long time and went home first.

After finally cleaning up, Xia Qing straightened up and looked at the three peanut fields with a bright smile.

Peanut pies fell from the sky, and she owned two hundred and twenty peanuts!

Peanuts bloom in spring and bear fruit in autumn, but wither in winter. They came here last winter to clean up the evolutionary forest. At that time, it was the withering period of peanuts. In other words, there were peanut seedlings under the mountain!

Xia Qing walked down the stairs briskly while thinking about the beautiful days of eating boiled peanuts in autumn. She wanted to roar to express the uncontrollable excitement in her heart.

In the next few days, Xia Qing searched the 7,500-acre territory, and sure enough, he found two small pieces of peanut seedlings. Unfortunately, these seedlings all tested and showed a red light, indicating that the content of chlorine elements was too high and they were inedible.

Although no more edible peanut seedlings were found, Xia Qing had an even more gratifying harvest: twenty-five yellow-light soybean seedlings, thirty-six green-light garlic seedlings, and fifty-two green-light spinach seedlings.

Xia Qing, who was stunned by the harvest, was afraid that he would forget that all these plants were there, so he drew a simple map of the territory and marked the locations of the edible plants on the map.

After marking, Xia Qing made a new discovery: the shape of all the green and yellow plants she found in the territory was connected in series, like a stream flowing down from the mountain.

 The most important resource in her territory, the spring, is also on this creek.

Xia Qing, who did not understand geology, boldly speculated based on intuition: This stream-shaped edible plant belt may be the place where underground spring water flows!

 If this conjecture is true...

Xia Qing's gaze extended upward along the edible plant belt, looking towards the evolutionary forest outside the isolation zone that he had not drawn.

If this speculation is true, does it mean that there is also a belt of edible plants in the evolutionary forest that extends slowly upwards in the northern mountains?

This idea kept spinning in Xia Qing's mind for half the night, and the more she thought about it, the more excited she became.

After getting up the next day, Xia Qing stood at the back window on the second floor and looked north. His eyes slowly climbed along the toon trees and the high **** of the abandoned courtyard, until they reached the towering mountain peaks in the distance, and then slowly calmed down.

Even if her conjecture is true, the mountain spring water that is not polluted by the elements really flows down from high places. The edible plants that exist in the high altitude evolutionary forests are annual herbs such as weeds and wild vegetables, as well as pine trees, mountain peaches, and mountain peaches. Tall trees such as walnut or wild persimmon trees. It's spring now, and it's still early for the fruit to mature. She won't gain anything by venturing into the evolutionary forest.

Secondly, even if he didn't know anything about geological structures, Xia Qing also knew that in addition to flowing down from high places, mountain springs might also flow out from the cracks in the rocks deep in the mountains.

 So, at this stage, she is still farming in the territory honestly, and will enter the evolutionary forest in autumn after she is fully prepared.

 (End of this chapter)