Survival in the end of food

"The sooner the better." What still needs to be purchased here is the coal stove, and there is nothing else to buy, Zheng Yan tentatively asked: "Tomorrow?"

"..." The owner of the coal factory wanted to cry but had no tears. How could he chase after him so closely? He stretched out three fingers tremblingly, "Three days at the earliest."

Three days is not too long. After all, more than hundreds of thousands of pieces of coal cannot be produced overnight.

Zheng Yan nodded and said, "Also."

After negotiating the price, after putting down the deposit, Huo Xian was about to leave. Huo Xian, who had been speechless all this time, glanced at the coal stove in the corner, with several rows of coal balls piled up next to it.

"Is this also the coal you made?"

The owner of the coal factory smiled and said, "I burned it myself."

Zheng Yan walked over and took a look, not understanding what Huo Xian was doing, so he asked him in a low voice, Huo Xian patted him on the back reassuringly, and said to the coal factory boss: "We want this kind of coal instead."

Ugh?

Zheng Yan looked at them inexplicably. The owner of the coal factory understood and laughed and said, "Brother has eyes but doesn't know Mount Tai. Brother is an expert? I do have this coal, but the price is more expensive. Of course, the quality is better and it is more durable. Burning, the quality is one notch higher than the briquettes just now. To tell you the truth, this briquette is much less profitable than the briquette just now.”

Zheng Yan compared the two coals in a daze, what's the difference?

He didn't ask this sentence, otherwise it would be a layman to others, what a trap.

Huo Xian hummed briefly. Seeing that he didn't want to talk more, the boss of the coal factory shut up tactfully and quoted a price, which was three cents more expensive than the previous type of coal.

Two cents per dollar, Zheng Yan didn't know the inside story, and wanted to counter the price, Huo Xian raised his hand to stop it, knowing in his heart that the price was fair.Thinking of such a big deal, the boss consciously lowered the price.

There is no objection from both parties, and the matter is settled.Several people chatted a few more words, left each other's contact information, and the two left together.

After getting in the car, Zheng Yan fastened his seat belt and asked, "Why did you suddenly change your mind? Aren't the two coals the same? The former one is cheaper."

While reversing the car, Huo Xian explained casually: "It is common to add yellow mud into coal. The second type of coal has more mud and less mud, and is more resistant to burning. It is good coal."

What is good coal and bad coal? Zheng Yan has never studied this, so he nodded half-understanding, no longer obsessed with this question.

For three days, there were no other urgent matters in the small county.But if I rush to other cities first, and come back after the coal is ready, the schedule is very tight, and it's a bit uneconomical, so I have to live in the county seat now.

During this period of time, I have been busy collecting materials, and rarely take care of space.Ten days a day outside, the chicklings that Zheng Yan bought before have grown up long ago, and the hens can usually lay eggs when they are seven or eight months old.

Find a hotel to live in, walk into the room, Huo Xian is familiar with the road, and starts to change the bed.Zheng Yan flashed into the space, and as soon as he landed, he saw the handsome assistant holding an egg reverently under his feet, and saw him flying up tremblingly.

The kettle is playing with the egg with its paws, pawing from the left paw to the right paw, pawing back and forth, playing very attentively, but the egg shell is not cracked by it.

Zheng Yan squatted down to look at it, and said in surprise, "Did you lay eggs?"

"Hmm..." The handsome assistant put the egg in his palm very carefully, the tense mood eased, and many pink bubbles fluttered on his head, "It's so cute, is this the egg? Can it hatch?" Is the little dick coming?"

"No." Zheng Yan said cruelly: "It can be fried and eaten, and the egg custard will be stewed later. The native eggs are nutritious and have a good taste. Give Huo Xian a supplement."

The handsome assistant was shocked, and said in horror: "This is a fertilized egg! A cute little life! How can you be so cruel!"

"Get lost." Zheng Yan said, "This is rice."

The chicks have grown up long ago, and they are running and jumping in the space with fluttering wings, and the kettle is no longer their opponent.It was obvious that he was going to be singled out, but he was beaten by a group of chickens in the end. He had already given up the idea of ​​eating chickens.

The chickens in the space are all free-range, and what they usually eat are vegetable leaves, stems and earthworms in the ground.The eggs laid are all green and harmless native eggs, which are smaller than plopping feed eggs, with thick and strong shells and higher nutritional value.

Zheng Yan held the egg and stood up, looking around the space.

On the farthest edge, the wheat field he first planted has been ripe for a long time, with golden wheat ears drooping with heavy heads.

Zheng Yan put the eggs in his pocket, strode over, grabbed the ears of wheat and rubbed them in his hands, the golden wheat grains easily separated from the husks, and the grains were plump.

Holding the grain of wheat in my hand, I went out to the dimension, thinking that I didn't know what to do for the past three days, and now I have a lot of work to do.

Huo Xian had already changed the bed, Zheng Yan sat on the bed and let out a long sigh.

The difference ratio between the time in space and the time in the outside world is really too high.

It has been more than ten days outside, and the space is more than 100 days. I didn't realize this hidden danger before, and I didn't feel troubled until the grain began to mature.

It is true that space time is fast, crop turnover time is faster, and more grain can be harvested.But after all, there are only two of them, and the growth period is so short that they don't have any extra time to do other things. After more than ten days of maturity, everything is on the right track. It is estimated that they are busy planting and harvesting food every day.

The more Zheng Yan thought about it, the more annoyed he became, he sighed and sighed, he was so worried that he couldn't help but get angry with the handsome assistant, wanting to beat him up.

Huo Xian casually took out a bag of beef jerky from the space, unpacked it and stuffed it into his mouth, forcefully suppressing Zheng Yan's about to sigh.

"..." Zheng Yan pia chip pia mouth, especially loud.

"What?" Huo Xian asked.

Zheng Yan swallowed the food, sat up and vomited out his worries, and proposed a solution at the same time.Otherwise, don’t plant crops and replace them with crops that have a relatively long growth period, are easy to harvest, are delicious, good-looking, have a high yield, and can be eaten as snacks. Come to satisfy your cravings, and plant crops that you can carry around and lose weight without gaining weight.

As for where this kind of plant is, it is not a problem for him.

After hearing his description, Huo Xian turned his head and said very seriously: "Wake up."

Zheng Yan: "..."

However, the rapid growth of crops is indeed a problem worth thinking about.

Huo Xian thought about it and asked, "Is the handsome assistant a robot?"

Zheng Yan nodded and said, "Why do you ask this, don't you know?"

Huo Xiandao: "Space is not created by nature, it is a high-tech product. Since it is man-made, the time ratio between inside and outside the space should be adjustable."

Zheng Yan thought it was reasonable, the two flashed into the space and found the handsome assistant who was playing.

The handsome assistant ignored them and fixed his eyes on a hen. Zheng Yan pushed him and said, "I'm asking you something, what are you doing?"

The handsome assistant said absent-mindedly, "I'll see when it lays eggs. I want eggs."

Zheng Yan: "..."

Zheng Yan had no choice but to come out of the space, bring in the egg on the bed, and give it to the handsome assistant.

The handsome assistant looked away from the hen, showed a sly smile, hugged the egg and said, "I want to hatch chicks and become a father."

Zheng Yan: "..."

Zheng Yan silently ignored the question and asked, "Is the space created by the handsome planet?"

When he mentioned his homeland, the handsome assistant's expression darkened, and he said sadly, "He is a scientist from Planet Shuaishuai. We are proud of our unique invention and creation. We have worked hard for hundreds of years to create a space for you to pick up." Big, cheap, cheap! You still keep scolding me and stealing my eggs! Are you worthy of the ancestors of the handsome planet!"

"..." Zheng Yan's heart softened in an instant, and when he spoke again, his tone was much gentler, "It's just an egg. It's better to give you chickens than to give you eggs. You can pick as many chickens as you want. In the future, its eggs will be all your."

"Really?!" The handsome assistant said, "I love you!"

"I love you too." Zheng Yan said, "Can the ratio between the time in the space and the time outside be adjusted?"

The handsome assistant blushed, turned around shyly, and said in a low voice, "Do you love me too, more deeply than Huo Xian, ying ying ying."

The handsome assistant blinked and looked at him, and twitched, "It can be adjusted." Then he opened the light curtain from his stomach and asked, "How do you want to adjust it, the highest is 10:1, right now, the lowest is 1:10, One day in space, ten days outside, tell me."

Zheng Yan thought for a while and asked, "Can you adjust it at any time?"

The handsome assistant slid back and forth on the light curtain and said, "Of course not. It needs a cooling time, which is a time limit. Adjust it about once every three months. How do you want to adjust it?"

At this time, in addition to wheat, corn and upland rice are also approaching maturity.Huo Xian stopped the actions of the handsome assistant, and discussed with Zheng Yan: "Wait until the batch is finished."

Zheng Yan patted his head, didn't think of this, and nodded.

The following time has been busy harvesting wheat, and after the wheat is harvested, the corn has also reached maturity.

I didn't wait for the corn to be fully cooked. Now it is so tender that it can be eaten boiled or fried. It is sweet and delicious.There are more ways to eat than mature corn, and it is simpler and faster.

After harvesting two acres of wheat, I boiled a few tender corns, stewed a soup with free-range eggs, and took out two pig's trotters and two baskets of steamed stuffed buns from the space.You don't need to go out to buy food, the dinner is already very rich, it couldn't be more convenient.

The next three days were spent in space, first the wheat was harvested, followed by the tender corn.

Because the machine for harvesting wheat cannot harvest corn, Huo Xian broke the corn manually. Zheng Yan went to the market to buy a large bag for packaging, and followed Huo Xian to help him pack the corn.

After breaking the corn, a machine for crushing the corn stalks is needed. Zheng Yan never knew that there are so many steps in farming, and it is so troublesome. He bought six or seven kinds of machines but failed to buy them all.

In the end, I had to go to the agricultural machinery company to rent a grinder, and finally harvested the upland rice.

Looking at this shredder which was three or four times bigger than his machine, Zheng Yan hated his own machine to the extreme, and wanted to buy the machine again with itchy hands, so he instructed Huo Xian to ask the price.

Huo Xian can't help but laugh, machines are not a necessity, after the end of the world, there are no owners of machines everywhere.Good steel is used wisely, and now it is imperative to collect gasoline and weapons, and modify vehicles.But seeing the greedy look on the young man's face, he couldn't bear to refuse.