The Tight Embrace of the End Times

Gu Leng went home sadly.

Under Xiao Qiao's questioning eyes, she told Aunt He everything she had just heard, and added her own guesses.

Xiao Qiao knew that Gu Leng longed for maternal love because of his mother's premature death.Reflecting on women, he has always respected and cared for women, and he has even more respect for older women like Aunt He.

Gu Leng likes people to interact on an equal footing. In the feudal period, the low status of women was the contempt for women's personality and the exploitation of their dignity.

Gu Leng hates the current situation of women. In Gu Leng's view, a man like Gu Lin is extremely selfish and irresponsible.For a woman like Zhao Chunru, Gu Leng mourned her misfortune and angered her, so she had to think of a way to change this situation.

Gu Leng pulled Xiao Qiao to think of a way together, and he had to do something to bring about change.

Xiao Qiao wandered around the room, and it was getting dark, Xiao Qiao scratched her head, pulled Gu Leng up and said: "First grind the corn into flour, think about it while doing things, maybe you can really come up with a good idea. "

Gu Leng obediently followed Xiao Qiao downstairs, let's move his body and refresh his mind.

A torch had already been lit in the yard, and everyone in the Yuan family was buried in rubbing corn in the yard.

I took a corn cob and took a closer look. The corn has been completely dried.Take a corn cob in one hand and rub the two corn cobs against each other, and the corn kernels will fall off one after another.

Yuan Yushu slowly came over and said: "Are you okay, seeing your gloomy face when you came back, we dare not go up and call you."

Gu sneered: "It's okay, think about something. Hurry up."

"If there is anything that can't be solved, you must speak up. If you are tired, go back upstairs to rest. We can do the rest." Yuan Yushu said.

"Not tired."

"Then don't worry, there are so many of us, it will be done in a while." Then he turned around and said, "Xiao Mo, Xiao Yan, you two are here to help Brother Gu Leng and Brother Xiao Qiao. Don't be so delicate to know ?"

Yuan Yumo replied loudly: "Yes", Yuan Yuyan also bowed her head in response.

The speed of the four people is fast, and they rubbed all the corn in just over an hour.The Yuan family also finished rubbing the corn.

Gu Leng swept all the corn kernels into a cloth bag, and together with the Yuan family carried the corn kernels to Gu's old house in batches, where there was a flour machine.All grains can be ground into flour.

The old house was very quiet, Xiao Qiao lit several torches, illuminating the whole room.Connect the solar generator, and the flour machine will start.

This solar generator has always been in the old house for use by various machines in the old house, and no one in Gujia Village has ever thought of using a solar generator.

No need to queue, the cornmeal is ready in no time.Gu Leng and Xiao Qiao went back first carrying the cornmeal, and would have to go back and forth a few times later.

After putting away the cornmeal, on the way to the old house, Gu Leng saw at the door of Gu Daqiang's house, Zhao Chunru was mending clothes by the dim light of the fire.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration appeared, and Gu Leng said to Xiao Qiao in surprise: "I know what to do, I know what to do, Xiao Qiao, ah..., haha, haha...." Gu Lengle shouted.

Xiao Qiao followed Gu Leng and asked, "What should I do?"

Gu Leng tried to persuade: "What are the most inseparable items in people's lives?"

"Basic food, housing and transportation." Xiao Qiao blurted out.

Gu Leng nodded: "Women do not have an advantage in obtaining food. The two items of accommodation and travel are passed directly, leaving only "clothes". We can start from the aspect of clothes."

Xiao Qiao smiled and said: "That's right, after the end of the world, there will be no clothing factories or clothing stores. The clothes people wear now are all from before the end of the world, and they are almost worn out. It's just summer, and it will be next winter." , clothing to keep warm will be a big problem. If this problem can be solved, then no one will dare to underestimate women, and women can use this to show their value again. Then, Xiao Leng, what are you going to do? How can there be materials to make clothes, could it be that you want to start from raw materials?"

"Yes, how about cotton? Cotton is originally a subtropical plant, which can adapt to high temperature and dry weather. The cotton planted in our country before can grow to a height of 1 to 2 meters, but I heard that cotton can grow to 6 meters in tropical areas. High, it can be seen that cotton adapts to local conditions and adapts to high temperature weather."

"It sounds feasible. Xiao Leng~, how did you think of it?"

"I saw the cotton machine in the old house just now. I haven't used the cotton machine much. Just now I saw Zhao Chunru sewing clothes at the door. I thought of weaving. Men can't do weaving. Weaving is just for women. The world, when I think of textiles, I think of the plant cotton."

"Xiao Leng, you're so smart, but don't mention the name Zhao Chunru anymore, I've heard it many times today, I'm going to be jealous."

"Haha~~haha~~, I like that you are jealous for me." Gu Leng started to run.

"Xiao Leng, you bad boy~~, wait, wait, you can't escape. Haha, haha~~." Xiao Qiao chased.

After finishing all the work, after Gu Leng and Xiao Qiao washed up, Gu Leng dug out all the cotton seeds from the space, and there were 55 bags in total. Back then, Gu Leng bought some of all kinds of seeds at the farmer’s market. Some of the seeds brought by the businessman were only a few bags, while others had dozens of bags. Fortunately, there were 55 bags of cotton seeds. Gu Leng felt that he was lucky.

With a solution to the important matter on his mind, Gu Leng became sleepy. He lay down on the bed, pulled Xiao Qiao, and told him to wake him up early in the morning, and fell asleep in the next second.

Xiao Qiao shook her head, this character who said that the wind is the rain is really cute.

The next day, Gu Leng pretended to be busy and got up without Xiao Qiao calling.

Work together with Xiao Qiao to move the round table in the lobby to the yard, wipe it clean, unpack bags of cotton seeds, and spread them evenly on the round table.After a day of exposure in the sun, the seeds should be soaked.

Under normal weather, it takes half a month to be exposed to the sun, but now that the sun is so poisonous, it should be enough to be exposed to the sun for a day.The reason why the seeds are not directly spread out on the concrete floor, but on a wooden round table, is that after the concrete floor is exposed to the sun, the temperature is extremely high, and the seeds will be scalded to death.

Next, during the day, just turn over the seeds at intervals.

This day is free. Thinking of setting off when it gets dark, thinking of Yuan Qinghe and the others, thinking of Aunt He and the others, Gu Leng asked Xiao Qiao: "Would you like to have a meal together? Think of it as practice?"

Xiao Qiao also felt that this idea was good, so she said: "Okay, let's arrange it in our room, turn on the air conditioner, and have a hot pot. You go upstairs to prepare it first, and I will notify them."

These days, the only way to treat guests is to eat hot pot, otherwise they really wouldn't be able to make a whole table of dishes.

Gu Leng went back upstairs, thinking about what dishes to choose.The tragedy is that in the first harvest, all the vegetables people grew were turned into pickles, and in the second harvest, people basically grew staple food, and it was difficult for Gu Leng to produce fresh vegetables.

However, Gu Leng has been filling the wooden frame with soil, placing it on the table in the shed, and planting some seasonings, everyone knows about it.Among them were green peppers, red peppers, ginger, onion, and garlic. Later, because leeks could be cut and grown again, Gu Leng found it very convenient, so he vacated a long wooden frame to plant leeks.When he moved out of the greenhouse, Gu Leng moved these wooden frames back together with the soil.

Most people in Gujia Village do this. In summer, people in Gujia Village will move to live in underground caves, where the temperature is more comfortable. Maybe everyone is holding the idea of ​​putting the wooden frame in the basement so that something can grow out. Experiment, if things can really grow, the villagers of Gujia Village will expand their basements and make more wooden frames for planting.

Red pepper, ginger, onion and garlic are boiled together with space spring water to make a delicious and nutritious base soup.

On the contrary, the green pepper has become the only vegetable, and the hot green pepper is also delicious for those who like it.

Leek, let’s not swear, the smell is too strong, and it’s too easy to taint. Gu Leng thought about it, so let’s make a leek box.First make a leek scrambled egg, wrap a layer of skin on the outside, put it in the oil pan and fry it, it is a leek box.

Then use the cornmeal that was ground yesterday to make a pot of corn tortillas, and then eat them on the side of the hot pot. It must taste good.

Xiao Qiao came back, Gu Leng was waiting for him to come back, and sent him out to exchange some chickens.

Yes, the hot pot is mainly filled with chicken. Since Gu Leng and Xiao Qiao don't like to raise poultry in the shed, Gu Leng had to let Xiao Qiao go out and exchange some.

It can be regarded as a decent meal.

Gu Leng, Xiao Qiao, the Yuan family, and Gu Hai's family got together for the first time, and ate a hot pot meal in a lively manner. There was a hint of sadness in the excitement, and everyone was smiling, trying their best to maintain this farewell last meal before.

After eating, Gu Leng took back all the cotton seeds. Sure enough, the cotton seeds were much lighter after being exposed to the sun. This is exactly the effect Gu Leng wanted to achieve.

Gu Leng then put the cotton seeds into a wooden basin and soaked them with space spring water.The space spring itself can speed up the growth of plants, and it may make the seeds more vigorous, and it may be more suitable for such weather.

Gu Leng moved this cotton seed to Uncle Gu's family.

"This is?" Uncle Gu was surprised.

"This is a cotton seed. Last summer, the villagers basically gave up planting it in the end, because basically no crops can survive in the high temperature weather, and there is no return for the effort. Cotton is different. Cotton can grow in the tropics, and we can do the same here. Try, uncle, do you need to promote it?"

Gu Leng was sure that the uncle of the Yuan family would definitely agree. If the cotton planting was successful, the uncle of the Yuan family would not only have an unshakable position in Gujia Village, but also if the government reorganized in the future, the uncle of the Yuan family would be given priority.

Sure enough, the uncle of the Yuan family pondered for a moment, and answered decisively.

Gu Leng thought for a while and then said: "Uncle, let's assume that cotton is planted and harvested. At that time, how to make cotton into clothes will also have to be considered. There is a cotton machine in the old house, but it can only do the roughest work. A quilt is not a problem, uncle might as well gather the women in the village and ask them to think about how to weave and spin cotton, maybe some aunt or daughter-in-law can master the technology of weaving." Gu Leng's words are not true Just empty words, if many rural girls go out to work at a young age, many of their first jobs are in garment factories.

The uncle of the Yuan family should be.

Picking cotton, spinning cotton, and weaving cloth, women's ingenuity and ingenuity have great advantages over men. Women bring clothing and warmth to the world again. Who can ignore the value of women?

Presumably men dare not despise women anymore and ignore women's efforts!Everything depends on the success or failure of cotton planting, and the future can be expected.