Cats grow fields in the apocalyptic wasteland

For the next few days, Xia Lunong didn't ask to go out again.

His brother would take him out for a walk every day, and would also take him to Dr. Ou's to receive supernatural treatment.

The strength in his body is getting stronger and stronger, and after three or four days, he can slowly walk the road from home to the small medical hospital without his brother's back.

On this day, after the examination, Dr. Ou said to their brothers: "Xiao Nong's health is almost in good condition, and he can just rest and rest, there is no need for further treatment."

Xia Huoqu said cautiously: "Then if he is treated for a period of time, will he be able to improve his foundation?"

"The effect is not great. Xiao Nong needs to eat better now, exercise properly, and recover slowly."

Xia Huoqu was still pondering.

Xia Lunong hurriedly said: "I feel almost better. I haven't felt tired these few days. I shouldn't bother Dr. Ou anymore. Dr. Ou still has so many patients here—"

Xia Lunong has no ability to make a living at all now, and everything in the family depends on his brother.

Most of the supplies his brother earned back were handed over to the small medical hospital.

Xia Lunong really felt sorry for his family's supplies.

Xia Lunong didn't want to go to the small medical hospital again.

After Xia Huoqu asked Dr. Ou to examine him carefully, he agreed temporarily, but let me explain first that if he feels uncomfortable in any way and cannot hold on, he must find Dr. Ou as soon as possible, otherwise he will have to stay in the small medical hospital for a while .

In order not to continue to live in the small medical hospital, Xia Lunong has been very diligent during this period of time, picking wild vegetables on the ridge of the field, serving meals in the cafeteria, doing housework at home, etc., doing everything well.

On this day, Xia Lunong brought the two brothers' meals back from the cafeteria, and after dividing the bowls and chopsticks, he discussed with his brother, "Brother, you can take back some of the fields at home."

Xia Huoqu raised his eyes when he heard the words, and his eyes fell on his face, and said, "Brother can support you."

"It's not a question of whether you can feed yourself." Xia Lunong quietly covered a piece of diced meat under the cabbage and scooped it into his brother's bowl, "I'm a young man who doesn't do anything at home every day. It’s useless, brother, find something for me to do.”

Xia Huoqu picked up the chopsticks, accurately picked out the diced meat under the cabbage, and put it back to him, "Farming is very hard, and the environment is not good now. There are many insects and weeds in the field, and occasionally there are mutated plants that are offensive. , Tomorrow I will take you to work in Liao Cheng's family's field for a day, and you will know."

Xia Lunong didn't push the diced meat any further, but stuffed it into her mouth, squinted her eyes and began to chew happily, then took advantage of the meaty smell and stuffed a big mouthful of bland sweet potatoes into her mouth.

Hearing his brother finished speaking, he said vaguely with puffy cheeks: "If I am busy at brother Liao Cheng's house tomorrow, you will take a small piece of land back?"

Xia Huoqu glanced at him, then put the only two pieces of diced meat in his bowl, "We'll talk about it when we're done tomorrow."

Xia Lunong refused to eat meat, so she put it back into the vegetable bowl, swallowed the food in her mouth, and took a sip to finish the porridge left in the bowl, "Brother, you keep your word."

Xia Huoqu sank his head to clean up the leftover food, "Forget it!"

Xia Lunong went to bed early that night, washed her feet and went to bed as soon as it got dark.

Just after dawn the next day, he was awakened by the powerful biological clock, took the meal ticket from home, went to the cafeteria to bring breakfast, and came back, ready to go to work after eating.

His brother prepared a straw hat for him, and asked him to tie up his trousers with rubber bands, as well as his hands, not to mention wearing long sleeves tightly, and asked him to wear labor protection socks.

Xia Lunong obediently let his brother toss, while muttering, "You don't have to be so strict, do you?"

He still has experience in weeding gardens, and the clothes are so tight that it should be hot in a while.

Xia Huoqu said lightly: "You will know later."

The two cleaned up the house, and Xia Huoqu put on a bamboo hat for him again.

The bamboo hat is woven with dried bamboo leaves stuffed inside, which weighs a lot on the head.

Xia Lunong's head was heavy and he was not used to it.

He wanted to take it off, but his brother said, "Wear it, it will protect against rain and sun."

"The sun isn't too strong in spring." Xia Lunong muttered, "I'm still wearing long-sleeved trousers."

Xia Huoqu pretended not to hear, and took his brother out.

The place where they are going to work today is the private land of Xia Huoqu's friend's house. The main activity is throwing rice seedlings.

When they arrived at the place, a tall, thin, dark young man came to receive them. He told Xia Lunong familiarly that his name was Liao Cheng, and Xia Lunong would just call him brother.

After Liao Cheng introduced himself, he took them to the ridge of the field, pointed to the seedlings next to them, and said to Xia Lunong: "These are the seedlings that will be thrown out today."

Xia Lunong had almost never been in contact with agriculture before. Looking at the seedlings and then at Liao Cheng, she couldn't hide her surprise, "Just throw it down? What if the head is not good?"

Liao Cheng laughed twice, "If it's not a big deal, just throw it out again. It's easy to throw away. Just try it and you'll know."

As he said, he bent down and took out a bamboo basket of seedlings from the dustpan, put it in the crook of his arm, held it with one hand, picked up the seedlings in the bamboo basket with the other hand, and stood on the ridge of the field and threw them into the paddy field in front of him. .

The seedlings flew out of his hands, with the roots facing down, and landed lightly and delicately in the paddy field. Under the action of gravity, the roots were submerged in the silt.

One, two, three... In just over a minute, the plate of seedlings in his hand was all thrown away.

The seedlings fell into the paddy field and stood firmly, not a single one fell down.

The spacing between the seedlings is just right. Looking from the ridge, you can still see them neatly lined up in rows, as if playing backgammon. Horizontal, vertical, or diagonal rows are fine.

Xia Lunong had a surprised look on his face.

Liao Cheng bent down again to pick up a plate of seedlings, pulled out more than half, and handed the remaining half to him, "Try it, it's not difficult."

Xia Lunong took it, knowing that the seedlings are not easy to come by, she was a little nervous.

Liao Cheng smiled heartily, showing his white teeth, "Don't worry, if you don't know how to do it, then watch our actions."

Xia Lunong hesitated for a moment, but still did not throw out the seedlings in her hand.

The seedlings are thin and soft, and he is afraid of breaking them.

Xia Huoqu took more than half of the seedlings from Liao Cheng's hand, and said to Liao Cheng, "You go over there and I will teach him."

Liao Cheng smiled and nodded, "Then I will continue to rake the fields, and I will leave this place to you."

Xia Lunong curiously turned her head to follow Liao Cheng's movements. He rolled up his trousers, kicked off his shoes while standing on the field ridge, jumped into the field with a "plop", and then pulled a pair of wooden ladders from the field ridge. Watch it slide across the fields and smooth the mud under the water.

He knows a little about the principles of raking fields.

After the field has been repeatedly raked and wiped, the mud underneath is soft and smooth, and the seedlings fall down, allowing the roots to sink into the mud.

Otherwise, the seedlings will not stand up at all.

It is only today that Xia Lunong knows that there are so many steps involved in growing rice.

He watched everyone tidy up the fields over and over again, and a rare sense of awe emerged in his heart.

"Don't look around." Xia Huoqu held the seedlings in his hand and lifted his chin lightly, "Watch my movements."

Xia Lunong withdrew her gaze, approached his brother and whispered, "Brother, when did you learn how to throw seedlings?"

"Just try it a few more times." Xia Huo channeled, "You throw it out, if it doesn't work, we'll pick it up and throw it again."

Xia Lunong nodded quickly, adjusted the position of her feet, leaned forward, leaned out as much as she could, and carefully threw the seedlings out.

There is mud at the root of the seedling, which has the function of adjusting the center of gravity. Xia Lunong threw it exactly where he wanted to throw it.

His eyes lit up immediately, and he stretched out his hand to tug on his brother, "Brother, look!"

"Good job." Xia Huo channeled, "One more time."

Xia Lunong picked up a seedling and repeated the previous action.

This time it was just right.

There was surprise in Xia Lunong's eyes, she didn't expect it to be so easy, and her enthusiasm immediately increased by [-] times.

Xia Huoqu stood by and accompanied him to throw down the seedlings one by one.

The two brothers quickly planted a small field in front of them.

Xia Lunong ran over and brought a dustpan of seedlings over.

Xia Huoqu looked up at the field in front of him, and said, "You stay here, I'll throw it over there, and we will meet in the middle."

Xia Lunong gestured that there was no problem, and raised her head to show her beautiful little white teeth at her brother, "Let's compete to see who can throw it faster."

The corner of Xia Huoqu's mouth twitched, "Pay attention to the quality."

"okay!"

It was the first time for Xia Lunong to participate in this kind of competition after waking up. She wanted to win for a while, so she groaned and concentrated on trying to win against his brother.

Xia Huoqu and Liao Chengcheng looked up at him several times to see that he was indeed all right, so they were relieved to let him throw the seedlings.

Xia Lunong was throwing it more and more smoothly, and he didn't even feel tired. He was very satisfied with his state.

One field, two fields, three fields.

The three of them spent a whole morning throwing seedlings from three fields.

In the end, Xia Lunong could barely lift her hands, and her heart was full of a sense of accomplishment.

Liao Cheng was out of breath, lifted the wooden bed and put it on the field ridge, "Thanks to you today, I will treat you to dinner later at noon, and we will eat meat."

Xia Lunong's eyes lit up, and Da Da ran over to help him lift it, showing a mouthful of small white teeth, "Brother Liao Cheng, you are too polite."

"It should be, the rules of the base." Liao Cheng put his hands on his waist and stretched vigorously, "I still have some garlic sprouts in the field, I will pull out two and send them to the cafeteria to make fried pork."

Most of the entire base was surrounded by city walls, and ordinary people had no way of getting firewood.

Even if you can get some straw after farming, there is not much, and you can't cook a few meals, not to mention oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, pots and pans, etc. for cooking.

Most people in the base do not cook. They either take meal tickets to eat in the cafeteria, or ask the people in the cafeteria to cook with food and materials.

Xia Lunong had been busy all morning and was already hungry. Now that she heard that there was fried pork to eat, her saliva was even more crazily secreted.

He immediately said: "Brother Liao Cheng, where is your vegetable field, I will help you."

Liao Cheng put his hands on his hips and stretched his creaking waist, "Here, the one in the corner is the one covered with a plastic shed."

"Then I'll go and pull out two, shall I?"

"Pull three roots, and then pull out a handful of small green vegetables. It's a pity that the last batch of tender green vegetables has been boiled, so I need to add some garlic and fry them well."

Xia Lunong smiled, and immediately ran to the shed.

The two looked at his figure, and when he ran away, Xia Huoqu looked at Liao Cheng disapprovingly, "Meat is so expensive now, why is there a need to eat fried pork?"

Liao Cheng smiled brightly, "Let's celebrate Xiao Nong's recovery from illness. Anyway, spring is coming, and when the spring plowing is over, I will go with the collection team to collect some things nearby, so that we can relax a little bit."

Xia Huoqu didn't say much.

Liao Cheng took out a small pack of shredded tobacco from his pocket, took out a piece of paper to roll it up, and handed it to Xia Huoqu. Xia Huoqu said no, so he put the shredded tobacco back into the bag, took out a match to light the cigarette, and took a deep breath. Take a sip, "Xiao Nong is cured, what are your plans next?"

"we'll see."

Liao Cheng held the cigarette in his hand, and said: "In the future, you will have less food for your family. I don't think you should take the risk of going to a big place to collect food. Go out with us and just hunt around. There is no shortage of food for a little hunting.”

"How can it be that easy? There are not many unmutated beasts." Xia Huo channeled, "Doctor Ou said that Xiao Nong's body was injured to the bottom, and he might not be able to transform into a beast in the future. I have to find a way to earn a fortune and help him If it doesn't work, go find a more powerful healer."

Liao Cheng sighed.

Xia Huoqu's face was calm, "The most difficult time has come, now it's nothing, don't tell him."