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

Chapter 96 Xia Qing’s potential and perseverance

 Answering Zhang San’s question, Li Si’s voice became warmer, “I want to taste the spinach leaves that Third Brother likes.”

 Everyone smelled a different flavor from this answer. Although Zhang San is indifferent to Li Si, the two of them understand each other very well. What is the relationship between these two people?

After the bacterial powder trade, Xia Qing invited Shi Quan to trade water celery, "Uncle Shi, can your green light water celery roots be traded? I would like to exchange them with you for green light leeks with roots."

Xia Qing is about the same age as Shi Du, so she did not follow the other lords and call him brother Shi Zhong, but respected him as her elder.

 Shi Zhong asked Xia Qing, "Xia Qing, I have already traded green lantern leeks, do you have anything else?"

"No more." Of course Xia Qing did, but he couldn't say it in front of Li Si.

Shi Zhong was pulled so hard by his son that he almost felt dizzy. After slapping him away, he smiled and asked, "Xia Qing, do you have a lot of wheat in your territory? If so, after you harvest the wheat, I can plant water celery seeds." Can I exchange some wheat with you? My family has a pig, and no amount of grain can sustain it."

From Shi Zhong's tone, you can tell that the "pig" he mentioned refers to his son Shi Du. Evolved people do eat a lot more than ordinary people. Xia Qing responded with a smile, "I will discuss the transaction amount with you after I harvest the wheat."

"Don't worry, the water celery has already been seeded early." Shi Zhong's voice was kind and concerned, "When you can't handle it alone, just ask Xiaodu to help you."

Xia Qing is not stupid, of course he understands the meaning of Shi Zhong's words. She directly showed her attitude, "Thank you, Uncle Shi. I am also a power evolved person, so I can still do this farm work."

Xia Qing said that for this reason, he understood everything that should be understood. Qi Fu was afraid of Shi Zhong's embarrassment, so he abruptly changed the subject, "It's been several days. Why hasn't the person at No. 8 said a word? His walkie-talkie isn't broken, right?"

Kuang Qingwei followed suit and laughed, "Maybe, has Brother Feng seen the people from No. 8?"

Territory No. 1 is directly north of Territory No. 8, and is the closest to Territory No. 8 among their territories.

 Hu Feng replied, “I really haven’t noticed it.”

Then, there was no sound on the channel.

 According to the established rules, the lords exchanged materials with each other, and the platoon helped deliver them. Xia Qing counted ten spinach seeds from Zhang San and handed them to the investigation team.

 The person who came to deliver bacterial powder to Xia Qing was Hu Zi from the investigation team.

Huzi handed Xia Qing two bags of bacterial powder and a double-sided printed compost process, and said in a low voice, "Sister Qing, the exchange of your bacterial powder is so worth it."

 A bag of bacterial powder weighs four kilograms and comes with a detailed composting process. The green light spinach seeds she used for the transaction were given to her for free by Zhang San. It was indeed worth it. Xia Qing nodded.

Today we were trading under the stop sign at the southern end of the territory. Xia Qing was not wearing a protective mask. From Huzi's perspective, she can clearly see her long, thick eyelashes and straight little nose.

 Although Xia Qing's skin is dark red, in Huzi's eyes she is still a woman so beautiful that his heart flutters. Huzi's heart was beating fast and he confessed in a low voice, "When Sister Qing is too busy with the work in the field, call me at any time."

Xia Qing's already unsmiling face looked even more alienated, "I'm busy."

Huzi was still cheerful, "I know, just tell my sister to go back quickly, be careful that the partition wall has ears."

Tang Huai, who heard the sound and rushed over to receive the compost powder...

Xia Qing took the bacteria powder and walked back while looking at the composting process. This is precious information.

 In the safety zone, even work such as making fertilizer is a technical job, and only experienced people are recruited to do it. Xia Qing was in the first grade of high school before the natural disaster. After the natural disaster, he had no chance to study again and had no skills, so he could only work as a coolie in the construction team. This information looks like it was written by professionals at first glance. Composting tools, conditions and processes are clearly explained with clear data. For example, the wooden boxes used for composting must be made of insect-proof evolved camphor wood, pear wood or beech wood, and the thickness of the wooden box boards should not be less than 1.5 centimeters, etc.

This process can be understood by anyone who can read.

 But composting according to this process requires technology.

 It just so happened that Xia Qing had learned all the necessary techniques.

Xia Qing, who knew carpentry, returned home happily and quickly made five standard compost bins. Then she took out from the warehouse four large bales of hay that had been dried from the hillside planting area in the past few months. Most of the grass was yellow and a few were green. She cut it and dried it and stored it. It was originally intended to be used as dry feed for the sheep boss, but now it is used for compost.

 The fodder for the sheep boss will be prepared later.

Xia Qing followed the introduction of the process and very neatly set up a compost shed with compost boxes in a moisture-proof, sun-proof, dry and ventilated location in the yard. Compost sheds are different from vegetable sheds. The ground should also be covered with rainproof cloth to prevent pests from entering the compost bin from underground and affecting the composting effect.

 The compost shed should be covered with insect-proof netting during the day. When the temperature drops below 20 degrees at night, it should be covered with a rainproof cloth to keep it warm.

 Then, it introduces in detail the methods of turning fertilizer and controlling humidity during the composting process and the key points to pay attention to.

Xia Qing felt sorry for her idol, because as she followed the composting process step by step, her liking for Li Si increased.

After exchanging white-haired chicken dung vines for one thousand kilograms of crab shell fertilizer, Xia Qing found that the crab shells had been ground into powder and had no unpleasant smell.

To be cautious, Xia Qing soaked half a cup of crab shell powder in hot spring water, and then used an air detector to detect the hot air to confirm that no toxic gases were produced. Then I used a chlorine element detector to test the crab shell water. Although the result was a red light, the chlorine element content did not exceed 20 parts per thousand, which is not high.

Of course, this result is related to the simple and rough sampling method of soaking in water adopted by Xia Qing.

 After these two tests, Xia Qing sprinkled vermicompost and crab shell powder in the ditch dug the day before yesterday, and then smoothed the ditch. The top dressing work of cotton during the flowering period was completed.

 Then, Xia Qing added crab shell powder to the vegetables in the garden and the blooming mung bean seedlings.

Potatoes that are ready to bloom should be top-dressed after a few days. Pumpkin seedlings that have no intention of blooming should not be top-dressed because Xia Qing is afraid that they will grow crazily.

After finishing the fattening, Luo Pei informed Xia Qing that the evolutionary wolf crisis was over and asked her to go to No. 49 Mountain to continue training.

Xia Qing goes to learn various skills from Luo Pei every morning. In the afternoon, he goes into his private evolutionary forest and practices while cleaning up evolved creatures.

She was not afraid of hardship, tiredness, danger, or injury. She practiced whatever Luo Pei asked her to do, and she made rapid progress.

Luo Pei, an extremely strict instructor at the First Military Academy, gave Xia Qing very high praise:

Xia Qing's potential and perseverance are not inferior to Yang Jin, the best student of the First Military Academy. It is a pity that the time for her to receive professional systematic training is too late and too short. Otherwise, she will definitely be in the top ten of Huicheng's combat power rankings. There is a place for her.

 (End of this chapter)