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

Chapter 32 Human-powered water bicycle

When she got up early the next day, Xia Qing ate two pieces of rations for breakfast, then went straight to the potato and sweet potato fields. She squatted on the edge of the field and listened for a while. After accurately determining the location of the pests in the soil, Xia Qing picked up a small shovel and turned over it in one go. The most harmful pest to plant roots in the soil is the evolved grub.

Xia Qing used a shovel to scoop up the evolutionary grub that was desperately trying to get back into the soil, and threw it into the air.

The four evolved magpies hovering in the air drew four black lines and rushed over to compete for insects. A few feathers fluttered and landed at Xia Qing's feet. These four large magpies are the dominant birds in Xia Qing's territory. Fortunately, their diet has not changed since they evolved and they have not pointed their sharp beaks and claws at Xia Qing, so Xia Qing lives in peace with them.

Grub is the larvae of scarab beetle. The more beautiful the color of the scarab beetle becomes after evolution, the stronger its bite ability will be. A Level 3 bite force evolved scarab beetle can bite through a wire or plastic pipe as thick as a finger in one bite. If the taproot of a plant seedling is bitten by its larval evolution grub, there is only a way out.

The evolved grubs have become resistant to the repellents and insecticides that Xia Qing received and must be eliminated manually. So after listening to the radio, Xia Qing added one more item to her daily routine: removing grubs.

Every sweet potato seedling and every sprouting potato in the field is Xia Qing’s treasure, so this is Xia Qing’s first stop for pest control every day. If the grub dared to take advantage of her treasure, she would kill it.

Evolved grubs have stronger bite force, but they are not moving fast in the soil. After Xia Qing cleared the 100 square meters of land around the sweet potato and potato fields, he made sure that they worked hard to drill and they could not get under the sweet potato seedlings before tomorrow morning before moving away. Grain field cleaning.

At the end of the cleaning, the four evolved magpies were full and flew away, leaving only two great egrets waiting to eat insects. These two egrets flew to her territory a few days ago and settled in a small metasequoia forest next to the reservoir.

When the evolutionary forest was being cleared last winter, the tallest metasequoia in the forest developed a terrifying attack power. When stimulated, it would spray extremely hard needles in all directions. If Luo Pei hadn't noticed something was wrong with the metasequoia in time, Xia Qing would have turned into a hedgehog. If these two great egrets had come here last winter, they would not even have any bones left.

After Xia Qing turned around the farmland, he began to test the chlorine content of the seedlings in his farmland. He found that the seedlings in the farmland were also irrigated with filtered water and irrigated with mountain spring water. Compared with those irrigated with water from the reservoir, the chlorine content was lower. A little more than one thousandth.

The lower the content of chlorine elements in plants, the lower the possibility of phosphating during rain. The lower the death rate, the more food she can harvest!

Mountain spring water may be able to reduce the phosphorus content of seeds and seedlings, which surprised Xia Qing. Unfortunately, her spring is too small to irrigate all the farmland.

Xia Qing walked to the hillside north of the reservoir to see her newly discovered soybean sprouts, garlic sprouts and spinach. Soybean sprouts and garlic sprouts cannot be eaten, but spinach can be eaten by pinching the leaves.

Educable plants with green light will be targeted by the sheep boss. After coaxing the sheep boss to eat perilla on the northern hillside, Xia Qing sprayed the camphor leaf water around the spinach, and then began to test the plant's cyanide content.

 The grass around soybean seedlings and garlic seedlings mostly shows yellow lights; the grass around spinach seedlings mostly shows green lights.

Xia Qing stuck wooden sticks of different lengths into the ground as markers, and then went up the hillside to detect any tree that was as small as a few centimeters of grass or as large as a tree that was more than ten meters high.

　　Hard work paid off. After a thorough inspection, she discovered a gentle **** that curved upward, more than five meters wide and more than 130 meters long, all the way to the spring. Although most of the plants in this zone are not in the human diet, many of them show yellow lights, and the content of the chlorine element in the red-light plants in the zone is not very high, ranging from 15 to 25 parts per thousand. between. If there is no alternative food, these plants can make do with food and will not kill people in a short period of time.

The number of green plants near the spring has increased significantly, so the sheep likes to nibble on the grass in this area. However, the area upwards from the spring does not conform to the characteristics of the zone and is full of red plants with high phosphorus content. Passing through the direct isolation zone between the old and new territories, the steep **** extending from the Evolution Perilla land to the toon tree on the high slope, which is more than five meters wide and 120 meters long, is actually dominated by yellow plants and red plants. The light is the second most, and the green light is the least.

It took two days to test the plants. The harvest made Xia Qing so excited that she wanted to float to the seaweed: she owned two slopes with a total area of ​​nearly two acres, and Xia Qing named them planting zones.

 After clearing all the inedible plants in the two planting areas, she wanted to open them up into terraces. The vegetables that are being nursed, the vegetable seedlings that will be replaced, and the sweet potato vines that can be cut in the future must all be planted in these two zones.

Other than these, Xia Qing's eyes turned to sweet potato seedlings and potato fields. She really wanted to dig out the sweet potatoes and potatoes and transplant them here...

I heard that people move living trees to dead ones, dig them out and stir them up. What if the sweet potato seedlings die and the potatoes are so angry that they stop sprouting?

Xia Qing, who had little planting experience, did not dare to act rashly. She gave up moving sweet potatoes and potatoes and started to clean up the planting area happily.

Pull it out, dry it and burn it.

 Red light shrub? Cut it down, dig up the roots, dry them and burn them.

 A big red light tree? Sawed off, dug up the roots, dried them and burned them.

Various types of harmful evolved insects? Went out.

 Evolve snake, evolve frog, evolve centipede? Catch them alive. When Zhong Tao comes to replace the reagents for the detector, she has used up all the reagents in the detector.

 What should I do if the large and small rocks are removed and the planting soil layer is not thick enough? Dig soil to make up.

　　While Xia Qing was busy in the territory, she received a call from Zhong Tao, "Sister, are you there? Huzi and I will go over and load the water tanker for you."

"Yes." Xia Qing nodded. Huzi, the power evolved man, can not only install solar energy, but also install water trucks. He is a technician and he is a coolie.

Xia Qing poured the soil from his basket into the newly opened terraces in the planting area. He picked up the evolved animals he caught and walked to the reservoir. Not long after, Huzi and Zhong Tao arrived.

Xia Qing was stunned when she saw the old bicycle carried by Hu Zi.

So the human-powered waterwheel Tan Junjie mentioned was modified from a bicycle? Can these two things be connected? She wants to ride a bicycle by the reservoir?

The risk factor at the reservoir is low, and no one is wearing protective masks, so the surprise on Xia Qing's face is clearly seen by Zhong Tao and Hu Zi, and both of them can't help but laugh.

Zhong Tao smiled and asked, "Can't you imagine what a waterwheel looks like?"

Very different from his usual calm and sharp attitude, Xia Qing was really confused now, "I really can't think of it."

 (End of this chapter)