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

Chapter 372 The scavenging squirrel and the angry sick wolf

Boss Yang refused to go back, and Xia Qing stopped trying to persuade him. He said hello to Guan Tong and Chen Zheng, went over to check on the progress of the construction team, picked some vegetables and went home.

 After returning home, Xia Qing found the sick wolf lying in the yard guarding the corn and chasing away the birds. He was a little wilted. She put down her things and asked, "Boy, are you feeling unwell?"

Xia Qing is now half an animal doctor. After checking that the body temperature and stool of the sick wolf were normal, she went to cook, cooled the meat porridge and served it to the sick wolf, and found that its appetite was normal.

It seems like it’s either a physical discomfort or an emotional problem. After eating and washing dishes, Xia Qing didn't rush to the fields or construction site. Instead, she sat next to the sick wolf.

 Sick Wolf rested his head on Xia Qing's lap, looking unhappy to the naked eye.

While stroking the wolf's fur, Xia Qing asked in a soft voice, "My second brother has been guarding the corn at home these days. Are you tired? Thank you for your hard work, second brother. I will guard the corn at home this afternoon. You can go and play with the boss." I’m watching the construction team working on the high slope.”

 The sick wolf’s head lay on Xia Qing’s lap and refused to move.

 That’s not the reason? Xia Qing asked again, "Do you miss the queen and her sister, the broken-leg wolf? Are you also moving to the wolf cave and living with your companions?"

Sick Wolf raised his eyes to look at Xia Qing again, but he still didn't look happy.

Xia Qing couldn't understand why a wolf would be unhappy, so she simply gave up and let the sick wolf go out to play with the sheep boss. At home, she picked up the corn cobs that had not been cleaned after threshing, depoded the dried mung beans, and rushed bird.

 The mung beans have been dried in the sun. After removing the pods, they weigh a total of 208 kilograms. Xia Qing planted an acre of yellow mung beans and a terraced field of green mung beans in his second crop. This yield was completely unsatisfactory before the natural disaster.

However, this is a year of natural disasters, and Xia Qing is already content with being able to achieve such a yield under the influence of the elements and rain.

Through the second crop of planting, Xia Qing discovered that it is really difficult to breed high-quality grain seeds without increasing the content of terrestrial elements in the seeds.

 She brought six kilograms of yellow-light mung bean seeds from the safety zone in the spring, but in the end she only harvested more than 4,000 mung beans, including 27 green-light plants.

 In the second crop, Xia Qing continued to plant mung beans. The cultivation method and amount of fertilizer were followed as closely as possible according to Li Si's "Mung Bean Cultivation Guide".

However, the planting conditions in Xia Qing’s territory were far from Li Si’s requirements, so the germination rate and yield of mung beans did not increase much.

Take her second crop of mung beans planted in a terraced field as an example. The seed germination rate was 66%, the loss rate in the rain was 20%, and 60% of the surviving plants contained more than 5 parts per thousand of the element. Green light plants turn into yellow light plants.

So, Xia Qing planted half a kilogram of green light mung bean seeds. Although he harvested 75 kilograms of mung beans, the green light was only 30 kilograms.

 Blue stars have evolved, and the atmospheric environment is different from before. The "close to pest-free" cultivation environment mentioned in Li Si's planting guide cannot be widely constructed in the territory due to cost and technical reasons.

 To increase planting area and increase grain production, Xia Qing believes that it is necessary to cultivate Evolution seeds with strong resistance to elements as soon as possible.

She sincerely hopes that technicians and experts like Li Si will use less crooked brains and focus on studying grain seeds to benefit all mankind.

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, Xia Qing received a notice from Er Yong that the construction team was about to complete the iron mesh wall. The project can only be handed over after it passes the lord's acceptance.

Xia Qing, the lord, put the mung beans he had packed into bags and the half-dried corns and carried them into the house so that the birds in the trees couldn't see or eat them. Then he went to join the construction team leader Lu Yuhui.

Xia Qing heard the beeping alarm sound from her cell phone just a few steps after leaving home. She looked back and was happy. The red squirrel jumped out from nowhere and was picking up leaks where Xia Qing was working just now. Xia Qing had just collected hundreds of kilograms of grain there, and it was inevitable that a few disobedient mung beans or corns would jump to a place where Xia Qing could not see.

Now, she finally understood how the handful of corn kernels in the red squirrel's nest came from.

Xia Qing had no problem with the red squirrel picking it up. When she arrived at the high slope, she found the sick wolf and the sheep boss lying together under the big chrysanthemum tree. Through the gaps between the grass wall and shrubs, she stared at the busy inspection team in the northern isolation zone.

The sick wolf who behaved well in front of Xia Qing now looked like the mother of the two wolf brothers and sisters with broken legs - full of wildness and attack power. Even though Xia Qing has reached Sick Wolf's side, his hostility to the construction team remains unabated.

It is unhappy today. Is it related to the construction team? The construction team has never entered the monitoring range of the home camera, so they should have had no contact with the sick wolf.

Xia Qing rubbed the sick wolf's head and went to join Lu Yuhui.

It took 12 days, and the construction team of 20 people used three excavators and two mixers to transport the barbed wire and install the barbed wire in three round trips by helicopter.

The solid iron mesh wall, which is nine kilometers long and 4.3 meters high, surrounds Xia Qing’s entire territory, including cultivated land, reservoirs, west buffer forest and north buffer forest.

Xia Qing inspected the iron mesh wall installed today. After confirming that there were no quality problems, he gave Lu Yuhui two Chinese cabbages to express his gratitude, "You have worked hard during this period."

It is the happiest thing to receive edible food during natural disasters. Lu Yuhui happily took the cabbage and put it into the construction truck. "In the next period of time, I will be constructing in Territory No. 8. Sister Qing discovered the quality of the fence." Questions, feel free to contact me.”

Xia Qing nodded in agreement and watched the construction team drive the engineering vehicle slowly along the northern isolation zone towards Territory No. 8.

 The northern isolation zone of Territory 3 is on a hillside. Although it is fifty meters wide, it is not flat. In order to make it easier for construction vehicles to go up and down the hillside, the construction team used excavators to tidy up the road surface in the northern isolation zone. Now it looks like a road.

Xia Qing was very excited to have the fence. She stepped on the flat road of the isolation zone and walked slowly westward along the fence. She came to the main gate of her territory, took out the key and opened the big iron lock on the iron gate. He opened the door and walked into his own territory, with a smile on his face.

Although the subway wall in her territory is not as strong and tall as the fence in the safe zone, it is enough for her. Standing in the territory with the fence, Xia Qing feels very safe.

With the walls and surveillance, she can sleep more soundly at night, and when she goes to the third area of ​​​​No. 49 Mountain for training, she no longer needs the Bearded Front Team to help her protect the territory.

Xia Qing locked the iron door, returned to the terraced fields in the high-slope planting area, and carefully inspected the Gaoyi element spinach in the fields.

The spinach seeds in the vegetable greenhouses on the farmland have been mature for several days. The harvested spinach roots, stems and leaves have been sent to Territory No. 7 in exchange for a batch of special nutrient solution. However, the spinach in the high-slope terraces has not yet matured.

 This terraced field was cultivated by Xia Qing in accordance with Zhang Sangui’s "Spinach Planting Guide". Yi stones were hung to drive away the elements, and the terraces were irrigated with pollution-free spring water. The quality is definitely higher than those in vegetable greenhouses on cultivated land.

 The later it matures, does it mean the quality is higher? Xia Qing is full of expectations.

Leaving the high-slope planting greenhouse, Xia Qing came to the high-slope and found that the sick wolf and the sheep boss had come to the iron fence wall at the northern end of the territory. The old sheep was munching grass leisurely, while the sick wolf slowly approached the iron wall, revealing its sharp fangs.

Xia Qing saw the sick wolf's attitude towards the iron mesh wall and understood the reason why it was unhappy today and was hostile to the construction team.

Unlike the herbivorous evolved animal Sheep Boss, the carnivorous beast that grew up in the evolutionary forest, the Wolf Dog Second, hates the barbed wire fence that surrounds it.