Cats grow fields in the apocalyptic wasteland

Xia Lunong grew up in the city and is not very good at binding firewood.

Hao Juanlian taught him a few times, he was crooked, and he could barely handle it. The ties were ugly but firm enough.

He was a little reconciled, and before the firewood transporters had brought much firewood, he laboriously removed the newly bundled firewood, trying to bind it better.

Hao Juanlian laughed at him while helping, "It's fine if you can tie it up, what do you want to look so good for?"

Xia Lunong said: "Because there is not much firewood, I will practice more to see if I can tie it better and faster."

Hao Juanlian smiled and said nothing.

Xia Lunong struggled for a while.

The firewood hanging team shouted, "All the firewood has been brought back, let's work harder together."

Knowing this, Xia Lunong shouted to herself, stopped tossing, hurriedly dragged the firewood, and started tying.

The freshly cut firewood is wet and very heavy, and there are all kinds of things on it-bugs, ants, wood thorns, tree sap, and it is very uncomfortable to be bitten or stung accidentally.

Chai Huan rubbed his hands, and if he accidentally pinched his hand, it would bruise his hand.

Xia Lunong was unskilled and impatient, he stumbled and worked for half a morning, and suffered countless wounds on his hands.

Fortunately, he didn't hold back, the tying was a bit ugly, but it was fast and strong, a little faster than Hao Juanlian.

Four people on each side of the firewood fishing team used ropes and wooden hooks to hoist the firewood outside the wall, and threw the firewood bundled by Xia Lunong and the others into the base.

On the side of the base, there is a large bamboo forest under the city wall. After the firewood was bundled and thrown down, it was quickly stopped, and almost no one was thrown away.

After throwing the firewood, the firewood group gave Xia Lunong a thumbs up.

Xia Lunong smiled and wiped the sweat with the back of her hand.

The sun came out early, and they were basking in the sun, sweaty and sticky, and their cheeks were flushed from heat.

Someone shouted: "Take a break, drink some water, is everything going down?"

People outside the city wall also shouted, "Not yet."

After hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, sat down on the ground, went to touch their own kettles to pour water, and started to roll cigarettes.

Xia Lunong beat her waist and looked around.

Everyone's eyes are tired, they don't chat much while smoking, and they have to save some energy to work.

Not long after the break, someone was yelling to work again.

Xia Lunong felt okay at first, but after taking a rest, she became even more tired, and when she stood up, her steps were all sloppy.

Hao Juanlian wiped off her sweat, took the rattan and began to bind firewood.

Xia Lunong was embarrassed to shout, but also insisted on gritting her teeth.

This job was very difficult to do. After he did it, his consciousness was almost lost, so he just gnawed and followed along.

At noon, everyone returned to the city wall to eat dry food. After eating, they found a shaded place to lie down and sleep for a while, and then got up to work again.

Xia Lunong followed along, her eyes opened blankly, and in the end it was completely mechanical.

Fortunately, the people in the same group are strong, and it is estimated that it is only two or three o'clock in the afternoon, and today's firewood will be ready, and all of them will be thrown to the side of the base.

Everyone packed up their things, yelled and descended the city wall, threw firewood and slid down the mountain, threw it to the foot of the mountain and picked it up to the cafeteria again and again.

Xia Lunong hadn't spoken much since noon, and ran along silently from time to time, trying her best not to hold her back.

Even so, he still did very little work.

Others can lift 150 or [-] catties at a time, but he can only lift seven or eighty catties at a time. Others can run six or seven times, but he can only run four times.

After all the firewood was carried outside the shed specially used to store firewood next to the cafeteria, Liao Quannan clapped his hands and asked everyone to disband. He stayed here and waited for the people in the cafeteria to say goodbye.

Thirty of them had to do a three-day task in total, chopping [-] catties of raw firewood every day, and [-] catties in three days.

Xia Lunong has been busy for most of the day, her eyes are blackened from exhaustion, her lips are covered with dry skin, her shoulders on both sides are hot and painful, and they are all red marks from picking firewood.

Hearing that Liao Quannan said to disband, he mechanically took two steps out on two legs, was about to leave, turned back, licked his lips and said to Liao Quannan, "I'll stay and help count."

There is no calculator now. After weighing the firewood, I have to add and subtract by myself every time.

Liao Quannan held a pen and a notebook and was about to write down. Hearing what he said, he raised his head and asked, "Aren't you tired?"

"Tired." Xia Lunong blinked tiredly, went to sit next to him, and passed the pen and notebook directly, "You are also tired."

Liao Quannan smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "Good job!"

Xia Lunong's shoulder hurt from being patted by him, she was embarrassed to say it, and endured it.

Among the people who helped weigh the firewood, someone laughed and said: "The two brothers are the same. They look gentle and gentle, and there is tenacity in their bones."

"Hey, that's true." You said humanely, "When it comes to tenacity, I don't accept anyone in this base, and Vice Team Xia must."

"Look at what you said, are you dissatisfied with Captain Yan?"

"Go, don't interrupt. Didn't you mean tenacity? How difficult it was for us back then. Vice-captain Xia pulled up half of the base with one hand and took his sick brother with the other. Who in the base can do it?"

Liao Quannan interrupted, "Don't just talk about it, hurry up, let's go back early after weighing, I'm exhausted."

"Where is this? Last year, we got up before dawn and carried bricks and stones up the mountain, and we didn't finish work until after dark. That's tiring. No matter how tough a man is, his skin will peel off."

"Where is it hard?"

"Go, go, go! Where do you say it's hard?"

Xia Lunong listened, showing a faint smile, and scratched the pen on the paper.

He wrote the order of weighing on the left side of the paper, the first time, the second time, the third time...and so on. On the right side, he wrote the weight that was weighed that time, which is clear and easy to review.

Liao Quannan looked at it with his head, and sat back in peace.

Everyone has great strength, and when they weigh, they use the floor scale, and they can weigh [-] catties at a time.

The firewood is moved around, and it will be weighed in a while.

Xia Lunong added up the weights she gained each time, and said, "Today, we hit a total of 370 catties of firewood."

The person in the cafeteria next door looked over, "I guess it's the same number."

After working for a long time, my hands are accurate, and I can roughly estimate it.

Everyone at the scene came to confirm that there was no problem, and they all signed their names for future inspection.

When the work is over, I can really go back this time.

Xia Lunong greeted everyone, and walked out with tired steps, planning to go home and get things out.

Liao Quannan called him to stop.

Xia Lunong turned her head, Liao Quannan took out something wrapped in leaves from a small basket in her hand, and handed it to him, "Taste the wild fruit you just picked."

Xia Lunong kept seeing that he was carrying a small bamboo basket, but she didn't know that the basket contained wild fruits.

He was stuffed with a bag of things, and he was at a loss for a moment, not knowing whether to take it or not.

Liao Quannan smiled, "Take it, you've worked hard today."

Xia Lunong hadn't had time to thank him, and he didn't realize until he took a few steps, "Thank you, team leader."

Liao Quannan waved his hand and left with the basket.

Xia Lunong held the leaf bag in her hand.Looking at his back with strides, wiped off his sweat, and walked home.

When he got home, he opened the leaf bag, only to find that there was a pack of yellow fruit inside. The fruit was as big as a ping pong ball, and it was made of fruit particles. It looked like an enlarged version of raspberries.

Some fruit grains were crushed, and the juice that flowed out was sticky and stuck to the leaves, which smelled very sweet and sour.

Xia Lunong grabbed the next berry and licked it carefully, her eyes lit up, this enlarged version of raspberry was actually very sweet!

Sweet and juicy, with a peculiar aroma!

Xia Lunong took it to the kitchen, washed one with water, dried it and took a bite.

As soon as the teeth hit the peel, the thin layer of skin burst open instantly, and the juice filled with it flowed out, so sweet that he couldn't help squinting his eyes.

When one fruit is eaten, it will be watery, and the sweet taste stays on the tip of the tongue for a long time before dissipating.

Xia Lunong felt that the whole person was much more comfortable.

He sat happily on the spot and pondered for a while, looking at the sourberries in the leaf bag.

There are four left in it, one of which is a bit broken, and the remaining three are all in good condition.

He squeezed it carefully, and it was still firm. Looking at the freshness, it would not be a problem to store it for two or three days.

He picked out the broken one, sent the remaining three to the kitchen, and put them carefully in the cupboard, hoping to keep them until his brother came back to eat.

He didn't want to eat the remaining one with the broken skin, so he kept it in the bowl, planning to eat it tomorrow.

Chopping firewood is really tiring, even if he mainly just bundles firewood today.

He went to the bathhouse to take a hasty shower, and went to have a meal by the way, and then he fell asleep.

When he got up the next day, he couldn't straighten his waist. If he tried to stand up, he had to hold his breath and straighten slowly little by little before he could stand normally.

He pinched his waist. There was no problem with the bones. It was probably a muscle strain.

Looking at the shoulders again, both shoulders are purple and there are big pimples, but fortunately it doesn't hurt too much.

Xia Lunong let out a long breath, and went out to fetch water and cook food.

After breakfast, he felt better. He went to see Dr. Ou and said that there was no bone injury and nothing serious. Then he carried the water bottle and sweet potatoes on his back and went up the mountain again.

He is not feeling well today, and it is harder to bind the wood than yesterday.

The people in the same group saw that his face had turned pale, so they asked him to rest under the shadow after working for a while.

He didn't rest too much, and continued to work after a little slowing down.

Hao Juanlian whispered: "You don't have to work so hard. When your brother comes back, let him do it for you, and it will be over soon."

Xia Lunong thumped his lower back and smiled, "My brother is also tired."

Hao Juanlian shook her head and didn't say much.

Yesterday, more than 1000 catties of firewood were cut, and today we only need to cut another 3000 catties.

Everyone wanted to finish it within the day, so they didn't have much rest at noon, and the working hours were extended in the afternoon.

Fortunately, it was finally sent to the cafeteria to be weighed. Everyone overfulfilled the task, so there is no need to come back tomorrow.

Xia Lunong walked last, and waited for all the firewood to be weighed and registered before bidding farewell to Liao Quannan and the others to go back.

Liao Quannan told him to take a good rest after going back, rest for two more days, and then eat some delicious tonic, and gradually he got used to it.

Xia Lunong smiled at him, thanking him for his care.

As soon as he got home, he hurriedly took a shower, ate a few mouthfuls of food, and then climbed into bed and fell asleep.

This mission at the base was too grueling, and he had to endure it all with perseverance. He didn't expect that he would lie down for two days on this trip, and his brother was caught when he came back.