Natural Disaster: My Portable Farm in the End of the World

The two of them discussed the matter of the team for a while, until around eleven o'clock, when Xiang Chi yawned and wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes with his fingers.

Xu Ge covered Xiang Chi with a quilt.

"Go to sleep..."

"Um……"

Xiang Chi agreed vaguely and fell asleep.

The next day

Everyone was still busy with various operations in the vegetable greenhouse as usual. I returned to the villa at around 4pm, and then continued to go into the space to harvest. The main thing was that I was either working or on the way to work.

A day always seems to pass quickly when you are busy. By the time you finish harvesting all the food and medicinal herbs in the space, it is already past eight o'clock in the evening.

Xiang Chi harvested all the astragalus root from the two acres of land planted by Xiang's father. Fresh astragalus root needs to be air-dried or oven-dried. Now that the storage room has the function of accelerating the time, it is much more convenient.

Before that, the astragalus had to be cut into small pieces, each about five to eight centimeters long. With everyone working together, all the astragalus from two acres of land was cut into small pieces in less than half an hour.

Xiang Chi controlled the basket full of Astragalus segments and dropped it into the medicinal material area. He accelerated the speed a hundred times. The Astragalus that was just moist began to dry up at a speed visible to the naked eye. A ball of light yellow liquid was floating in front of Xiang Chi.

This is the liquid medicine evaporated from the astragalus root. Two mu of astragalus root only condensed into a small bottle.

Under normal circumstances, these moisture will evaporate into the air, but in the storage room, where time is accelerated and with Xiang Chi's intentional control, these nutrient-rich liquids can also be preserved.

Controlling the liquid flowing into the bottle, Xiang Chi handed the bottle to Xiang Dad. Xiang Dad smiled happily and carefully placed the bottle of medicine in the place where he specially stored medicines.

Since the storage room's acceleration and moisture-stripping functions were developed, Xiang Dad has asked Xiang Chi to process many kinds of Chinese medicinal materials, and each extracted medicinal liquid has been well preserved by Xiang Dad.

Usually, the treasures are kept in the small compartment that was converted in the storage room.

Because of the accelerated ripening characteristics of the farm, Dad Xiang also transplanted a few ginseng plants, which had been planted before the flood and are still in the field. They were planted in the field closest to the yard of the wooden house.

Every time Xiang's father entered the space, he would go to check out these ginsengs. Xiang Chi couldn't see anything, but according to Xiang's father, these ginsengs now have medicinal properties of seventy or eighty years.

Looking at Father Xiang who was fiddling with the ginsengs, Xiang Chi clicked his ears, walked to Father Xiang, and asked in a joking manner:

"Dad, if we keep this ginseng for a while longer, will it run away?"

Dad glared at Xiang Chi.

"What nonsense are you talking about..."

Xiang Chi said confidently:

"It is said that old ginseng will run away. Some people also say that if you tie a red string on ginseng but it is not tied tightly, the ginseng will run away..."

He straightened up and waved his hand to his father.

"Don't talk nonsense here. What's the point of running? No matter how magical ginseng is, it's still a plant! Why run... You really have read too many novels... I told you to read more useful books, but you didn't. Instead, you read useless books every day."

Dad Xiang began to scold Xiang Chi mercilessly. Xiang Chi put his hands on his hips.

"Then why are there so many rumors about people running away from the meeting? I think it's because they have gained wisdom as they grow older..."

Dad Xiang slapped Xiang Chi on the forehead.

"What kind of intelligence is this? Don't you know that spirits are not allowed to be formed after the founding of the country? The reason why there is a rumor that ginseng will run away is that when the soil where ginseng grows in the wild cannot provide sufficient nutrients, the ginseng will gradually move to places with sufficient nutrients around it and continue to grow. In addition, ginseng will have a dormant period and a withering period, which are phenomena that will occur when there is insufficient nutrition."

"During the dormant and withering periods, ginseng hides underground, the plant shrinks and dries up, and the red string tied to it may fall off, giving people the illusion that the ginseng has run away. But in fact, it hasn't! Do you understand?"

Xiang Chi pretended to say "Oh" and then said another sentence.

"Then we don't have to worry about this problem. This black soil is full of nutrients. Our ginseng plants will definitely not run away..."

After saying that, he turned around and ran away.

After hearing this, Dad Xiang glared at him, and just as he raised his hand, Xiang Chi ran away like a gust of wind.

He snorted at his father, put his hands behind his back and strolled back to the cabin.

Another day passed, and soon it was the day agreed with Captain Li.

When they left the villa in the morning, Xu Tao was already gloomy, and Xiang Chi tried to tease him when he saw this.

"Father Xu, you are about to receive formal thanks from the people's soldiers. Are you ready?"

Xu Tao grinned in embarrassment.

"Ah... stop talking. I feel so embarrassed just thinking about it... are they going to have to hold some kind of ceremony?"

Xiang Chi couldn't help but burst out laughing. Even Xu Ge looked at Xu Tao strangely, seeing that he was really worried about this, Xu Ge kindly explained:

"You think too much. The situation is so special right now, how could there be any ceremony? I think a few leaders just want to thank you in person and get to know you. There's nothing else..."

After hearing Xu Ge's words, Xu Tao felt relieved, knowing that he had been led into a ditch by Xiang Chi.

"Phew... That's good. Otherwise I'd be really embarrassed..."

Xiang Chi finally felt guilty and patted Xu Tao on the shoulder.

"Okay, okay, I won't tease you anymore. Let's go quickly, shall we?"

After saying that, he turned around and got in the car.

Xu Tao also quickly got into the car, started the car, and the two cars rushed towards Hexi Village one after the other.

When they arrived at Xu Ge's vegetable greenhouse, there were several soldiers standing at the door of Greenhouse No. 1. Xu Ge took a quick look and saw the liaison officer next to Captain Li. He knew that it was Captain Li who had arrived and should have entered the greenhouse.

After parking the car, Xu Ge took a few quick steps and entered Shed No. 1, where he found Captain Li and several other people.

Xiao Wei was also there, explaining something non-stop.

Xu Ge turned around and greeted everyone, then led everyone to where Captain Li and his men were.

There were four people around Captain Li, two of whom were wearing military uniforms. One of them was Captain Song, whom Xu Ge had met and recognized. The other officer was unknown to everyone.

One of the other two people was wearing a Zhongshan suit and the other was wearing a suit, standing to the side and back of the man in the Zhongshan suit.

Xu Ge paused for a second and roughly guessed the identities of the remaining three people.

When Captain Li turned around and saw Xu Ge and the others, he immediately waved at them with a smile.

"Xiao Xu, Xiao Xu, you guys have done a great job with this greenhouse!"