Doomsday Grain

In this way, half a month has passed, and the reservoirs in the grounds of almost every household are full of water. Although the snow is still falling, I feel relieved.

Some people even found enough water in the ground and started to melt the snow and fill all the containers in the house with water.

Now in this world, the tap water is good or bad, and I often can’t drink it, especially in winter when it’s almost completely frozen.There are two families in the village who have dug old-fashioned water wells, and usually give three catties of grain a month, and the villagers basically rely on this for food.But in the coldest few days, the well would freeze, so boiling water could only be poured in to melt the ice on the surface a little bit, which was very troublesome.

Only after the snow melts will the snow water be melted to solve the urgent need.Therefore, people in the village are also used to storing water at home. Basically, every household has a large tank, and a full tank can be used for a long time.

It’s just that it’s never been like this before. All the bowls, basins, and even electric cookers that have been idle for a long time are all used, just to save a little more water.

For a while, a trend formed, and later spread to the entire village.

Lin Qian had a lot of fish fry in his house, but he refused to pick up the heat this day.The family has already experimented with homemade fish food with the best effect. Although there is no need to worry about this, it is still a headache to face such a large number of fry.

Later, there was no other way, so I called the army and took them all away and sold them.

This time, Lin Qian's family had a new consumption direction, which was children's products.Whether it's food, toys or clothing, no matter how expensive it is, as long as you feel that you can use it at home, you can buy it without blinking your eyes.

Their family is at the end of the world. They can be regarded as local tyrants. They can't afford airplanes and cannons, but they can buy anything for daily luxury.

It wasn't until the time approached the beginning of May that the temperature began to warm up.Seeds are planted at this time of year.

At this time, potatoes and sweet potatoes were planted in the greenhouses of almost every household in the village.Some people have bricks and cement in their homes, and they dug a large pool in the greenhouse, filled it with melted snow, and then watered the seedlings in the greenhouse to make them grow faster and strive for more. some harvest.

In this kind of world, not to mention ordinary people, even a rich family like Lin Qian's family was a little angry.

Xiaoxiao can say more and more words.When I was bored at home, I would walk around the house with Xiaoxiao in my arms, pointing out something casually for Xiaoxiao to tell me what it was.

Maybe Master San taught Xiaoxiao in this way, so that Xiaoxiao remembered it.Lin Qian found that sometimes when the brother and sister were playing together, Xiaoxiao would grab Yuan Qing and walk around the room, then point to things and ask his little brother, "What? What?" Xiao Yuanqing was confused.

Every time I see it, the three adults will gather around and watch and laugh like little adults teaching my brother to recognize the things in the house, which is very funny.

The weather is gradually warming up, and the snow begins to melt in mid-May.The ice and snow melted, but most people couldn't laugh.

If the snow melts in May, then at least June can be used to sow seeds in the ground.It is usually sown in April and May and harvested in October.Now it will be a full two months short.

It is obviously unrealistic to grow corn. We can only grow crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes, which have a short growth cycle and high yield.

In fact, from a scientific point of view, although potatoes and sweet potatoes can be counted as staple foods, long-term consumption is not good for the body.But in the current world, there is no second choice.

The problem is that not all households have enough sweet potatoes for seeds.Potatoes are okay, save the potatoes that are kept at home for sowing, whether there are too many, two or three mu of land is no problem.But sweet potatoes are a problem. Not many people grow sweet potatoes, and even fewer can sow them into the ground.

Lin Qian's family discussed it, and there were a lot of sweet potatoes at home, so they began to cultivate sweet potato seedlings, waiting to be sold when they were planted.No matter how much money they make, there are only about two hundred people left in the village, and every bite that can be eaten counts.If they were all dead, it would be so lonely for their family to live in this village.

Although I don't usually go out and walk around very much, it's better to have people around than to be alone.

At the end of May, when the ice and snow melted away, people walked around the village more and began to discuss the weather conditions of this year.No matter what the weather is like this year, I hope that autumn will start later this year, preferably in November and December, and it will be better if the weather is smoother.

It was also at this time that Lin Qian learned that there was a talk of worshiping gods in the village.The Stove Lord, the God of Wealth, and even gods, Buddhas, and Christ, whoever is named, have some worship activities in the village.

In fact, there is only one purpose, I just want God to be more merciful and make their lives easier.

Uncle Liu once came to Lin Qian's house to hear what Lin Qian, a college student, wanted to ask a god to worship at his home.

Lin Qian's answer to this was: "Not to mention whether there is a god in the world, even if there is, why did he watch so many people die and let the natural disasters go unnoticed? You can say that he was angry because there were fewer people worshiping." Now, then such a god who killed three-quarters of the people when he got angry, why should such a god worship him?"

Uncle Liu felt that it was reasonable, so he didn't mention it anymore.

In fact, Lin Qian has never opposed any beliefs, and even thinks that having beliefs is a good thing. At least he persuades people to be good, and it can also give people a goal to work hard for.But this kind of natural disasters, man-made disasters and even personal happiness are pinned on an illusory god, that's unnecessary.

Because if gods have to fulfill wishes for people, how busy are they?If gods are really such "public servants", who else would be willing to be such a god?

What's more, God doesn't have any troubles or desires he wants to solve?

Entering June, the land finally melted.The temperature returned to a comfortable twenty degrees or more.

The village finally had the busy farming that was two months late.

After the snow has melted, the water level in the river is also rising. The villagers are busy breeding seedlings and sowing seeds in the fields.Some people have prepared rice seedlings in the greenhouse and planted them in the ground.The other end also greeted Lin Qian, and was going to wait for half a month before putting the fish fry in.

Even if the growth time of crucian carp is shortened this year, even if it can only grow to the size of one or two, it is still a lot of money.

The supply of sweet potato seedlings is limited, and each family can buy up to [-] plants.Although not much, but planted in the ground can have a lot of harvest.

Now the water storage pits in the field are full. Although the crop growth cycle is short, at least this year's harvest is guaranteed.

In the past two years, Lin Qian's family has never eaten leftovers. Basically, they make more every time, and then pack all the leftovers into boxes and put them in the space.So when the farming is busy, there is no need for grandpa to come over to deliver meals, just take out two portions from the space, and the two of them can eat in a box.

Potatoes are directly cut and planted in the soil with buds, and sweet potatoes are planted with vegetable seedlings.Lin Qian's family only planted four ridges of corn seedlings. If there is any harvest, it's good to keep it to feed the livestock. If it can't be harvested, you can also buy old corn from the villagers.

In fact, there was not much food in the house, except for a few bags of food in the basement, the rest had either been exchanged with the army for other useful things, or stored in He Yangxuan's space.In this way, no matter when you take it out, you can eat the freshest ones without fear of staleness.

Xiao Yuanqing still wants to follow, but farming is not as easy as melting snow, and Xiao Yuanqing will at least have to wait until next year if he wants to help.

Grandpa was alone at home with his two children, feeding the animals and making seedling trays in the greenhouse.

The sow has just given birth to a litter of piglets, and they are still young. The children are very interested in this kind of small animals, and they play in front of the pigpen whenever they have nothing to do.

Although the spring sowing is busy, but with the expectation of the autumn harvest, it is full of strength to work.

The village was busy, and the government also came to the engineering team to circle the previously selected area, knock down all the houses in it, and then pick out the materials that can be used before planning to dig the ground.

Half a month later, the work in the village was almost exhausted, so the village committee began to mobilize the whole village, and each household sent at least one labor force to assist the government's engineering team to dig the step well.

After all, this stepwell is used by the whole village, and each family has the responsibility to contribute.

Lin Qian's house was the latest to get it done.Participating in the digging of the stepwell, Lin Qian and He Yangxuan lived alone for a day, one went out to work, and the other took care of the children at home, so it wasn't too hard and they both had time to rest.

Half a month has passed in a blink of an eye, spring returns and everything on the earth recovers, the mountains are restored to lush green, and the ground has just been covered with a layer of green.

At this time, the project in the village has not yet reached the ideal depth.There are many large and small stones in the ground, which are dug out bit by bit by hand, and then gradually dug deeper.

It has not rained for a month. Fortunately, when the snow melts in early spring, water resources are abundant, and there is no shortage of water in both paddy and dry fields.

And all the fish fry raised by Lin Qian's family were also launched into the water. Lin Qian also sold some fish food. The crucian carp in the paddy field was supplemented with fish food and could grow faster.

Lin Qian took the two children into the construction site in the village to see the busy He Yangxuan.He Yangxuan just laid bricks on the newly dug out layer of land.After the construction has built three more steps down, the upper part will be coated with cement.In this way, the deeper and deeper the digging, the cement on the upper part of the steps will be dry, and the project will be basically completed after the bottom is basically dug.

The length and width of this stepwell are both 100 meters, which is not a particularly huge project, but it is not small either.There may be very little warm time this year, and we must use the limited time to complete it as soon as possible.

According to the government, if the stepwell can achieve the desired effect, then as long as conditions permit, further expansion will be carried out in the next few years.

The line of "conditional" is very vague.But regardless of whether it will be expanded in the future, at least seeing this completed will bring great convenience to the villagers.