Cats grow fields in the apocalyptic wasteland

Yan Xiannian quickly brought an expert named Yan Mingqing over.

Yan Mingqing is in his 40s, with a bald head and a short stature. He is as simple as an old farmer. After looking carefully at the field, he said: "This is the first time I have seen such wheat. It has mutated too much."

After speaking, he took a closer look with the flashlight again, and he was amazed.

Yan Xiannian asked: "Now can we foresee what the wheat will look like when it grows up?"

"It can't, it's too young now, and there's no precedent, so we can only look at it step by step."

After reading it carefully, Yan Mingqing said, "I suggest that you separate these mutant wheat seedlings from normal wheat seedlings, and set aside an acre of field to plant mutant wheat seedlings. In addition, you must keep up with the fertilizer and water."

Xia Lunong wrote it down, "Are there any special precautions?"

"It's gone for the time being. If it's convenient, let me take a sample and I'll take it back to study."

Xia Lunong agreed, and gave him one common wheat seedling and one mutant wheat seedling to be used as wheat seedling samples.

Yan Mingqing carefully put the wheat seedlings in the bag, and then instructed them to transplant the wheat seedlings - how deep to dig, how much space to leave, what kind of fertilizer to use, etc., all told.

In the end, Yan Mingqing regretted: "It would be great if there were pesticides and fertilizers."

Xia Lunong glanced at him, and now they haven't even connected to the electricity, saying that the pesticides and fertilizers are too far away.

Yan Xiannian patted him on the shoulder, "One step at a time, everything will happen."

After the mutated wheat seedlings were transplanted into the new fields, they grew vigorously, changing almost every day.

Xia Lunong now visits every morning and evening, pulls weeds, waters and fertilizes, and makes a record by the way, recording the daily growth status of this batch of wheat seedlings and their response to water and fertilizer.

There are relatively few things to take care of in their vegetable fields, just pull out the weeds and water them every few days.

On the contrary, the peanuts have already produced small yellow flowers, and they will bear small peanuts in a short time.

When Xia Lunong thought of salted peanuts, fried peanuts, peanut crisps, etc., her mouth watered.

Time passed day by day, and the watermelon and cantaloupe outside Xia Lunong's house also swelled day by day. As for the strawberries, they had already eaten more than ten rounds.

Their pumpkins and wax gourds hanging on the big trees have also blossomed and bore fruit.

I don't know if it's because of their watering every day, or because Xia Lunong occasionally imparts a little power to these winter melons and pumpkins. The winter melons and pumpkins on the vines are very big.

Their wax gourds are almost as big as a small boat now, and one of them is at least 1.5 meters long, taller than the children in the base.

Just like that, the wax gourd was still covered with hoarfrost, showing no signs of stopping growth at all.

The winter melon is too big, Xia Lunong was worried that the winter melon vine would not be able to carry it, so she specially made a net with hemp rope, and tied the winter melon to the big tree, so that the winter melon would not be overwhelmed and fall, and the winter melon would be smashed to pieces .

The pumpkin is slightly smaller than the winter melon, but it is also big, but not so scary, it is about as big as a big millstone.

There are green and light yellow spots on the skin of the pumpkin, and so far, there is no sign of turning yellow.Several pumpkins were like this, and Xia Lunong estimated that they would have to wait at least another half a month if they wanted to eat pumpkins.

There are so many fruits and vegetables grown at home, apart from Xia Lunong who checks them every day, Yan Mingqing is most interested in them.

Yan Mingqing held a small notebook and a pen in his breast pocket almost every day. In the morning, he came to visit the fields in front of and behind his house, and specially recorded the data of Xia Lunong's fruits and vegetables.

Xia Lunong let him go, and sometimes gave him some vegetables or something.

They have no shortage of supplies now. Cucumbers, loofahs, eggplants, beans, tomatoes, bitter gourds, lentils, etc. usually come in rotation, and the dishes are not the same every day.

In the entire base, they have the most variety of vegetables and the most delicious ones.

Even so, Xia Lunong would occasionally go to the cafeteria to change some special ingredients.

The canteen has more types of ingredients than theirs, such as some potatoes, cabbage, lettuce, lotus root, etc., which are relatively fresh and not very common dishes.

These are all brought back by the collection team, and if they are exchanged for materials, it would be a waste of materials.

On this day, Xia Lunong was carrying a basket on his back and wanted to go to the cafeteria for some fresh food. As soon as he walked to the back kitchen, he saw several people cleaning mushrooms at the door of the back kitchen.

Xia Lunong hadn't eaten mushrooms for a long time, let alone wild mushrooms. His eyes lit up, and he looked over and realized, "Chicken fir?"

Ji Cong is the most famous, and he recognizes it most clearly.

The people in the cafeteria looked up and smiled at him, "Yes, it's chicken fir, newly picked today."

Xia Lunong squatted down, "It looks so fresh and tender, how can I replace this chicken fir?"

"The chicken fir has been replaced." The canteen said humanely, "Just now the scientists over at the White House said they want it all. If you want to eat it, you have to discuss it with them."

"Ah?" Xia Lunong had no choice but to look away, and looked to the side, "What about this pile of fungus?"

"It's been changed too." The person in the cafeteria said, "It's been a long time since anyone picked the mushrooms back from the base. As soon as they were delivered, everyone was talking about it, and everything was covered."

"That's it."

"You are one step late."

Xia Lunong did not get mushrooms, but only three lettuces.

Lettuce is also delicious in this season, crisp and tender, fried with thin salt on high heat, refreshing and delicious.

But Xia Lunong wants to eat mushrooms crazily now. Cut the fat mushrooms into slices, stir-fry them in hot oil, or cook soup on open fire. Even if they are baked in a bread kiln, they taste very good.

The more Xia Lunong thought about it, the more greedy she became.

Seeing that he was too greedy, his brother said: "What's the matter, if you want to eat, go out and pick some, there is no danger nearby."

"If you want to go out to pick mushrooms, you have to go up the mountain." Xia Lunong said, "It will take a day to go up the mountain."

"One day at a time, there is nothing important about it, I will go out with you tomorrow."

"Aren't you still working on electricity? Wouldn't it be bad to suddenly do other things like this?"

Kong Zhi listened beside him, and said, "I'll take Xiao Nong out."

Xia Huoqu turned his head and didn't object, but asked, "Are you familiar with mushrooms?"

"It's not too familiar. We can pick the mushrooms and go down to the people in the cafeteria to identify them, and bring them back to eat if they are edible."

Xia Lunong immediately said: "There is a special album of mushrooms in the e-book, we can pick mushrooms according to this."

Xia Huoqu thought for a while, and said, "That's fine too, you guys go early tomorrow, go early and come back early."

Xia Lunong agreed happily.

During this time, they were all planting wheat, rice, and tending fruits and vegetables in the base. He hadn't been out of the base for more than ten days.

Thinking of leaving the base, Xia Lunong didn't sleep well all night.

The next day he got up early, picked water to wash and cook, and specially prepared a luxurious lunch for the four of them - fried bacon with chili, fried sauerkraut, and fried eggplant, filling the four large lunch boxes to the brim.

For the convenience of carrying, he brought several big sacks, stuffed the sacks in his bag, and put a lot of hemp rope inside.

Later, if there are too many fungi collected, they can cut down trees in the wild to make poles and pick the fungi back.

Xia Huoqu looked him up and down, and his eyes fell on his overstuffed backpack, "Are you a little too confident?"

"Okay?" Xia Lunong scratched her head and said, "If you get lucky and encounter something, you have to pack it in a bag."

Xia Huoqu was thoughtful, "Do you think you will have good luck going out this time?"

Xia Lunong quickly waved her hand, "I'll just assume, I didn't think I would have good luck this trip, brother, don't think too much."

"I'm just assuming, what else can you get when you go to the mountain to collect mushrooms?"

Xia Lunong thought for a while, then shook her head.

There are mountains outside their base, with many mountains and mountains.

Xia Lunong really didn't know what was in the mountain, he brought the sack just to be prepared.

Seeing that he couldn't come out, Xia Huoqu waved his hand and let them go out.

Xia Lunong smiled and said: "Then let's go out to play, come back at night!"

Kong Zhi turned into a giant golden eagle in the open space at the door.

Xia Lunong wrapped the rope around him firmly and climbed onto his back.

Kong Zhi took a few steps to run up and flew straight up.

Xia Lunong sat cross-legged on his back, feeling a bit like riding a crane away.

Kong Zhi flapped his wings, and soon took him away from the base, to the nearby mountains, and even took him to a higher mountain.

The mountains are higher, the temperature is lower, there are relatively few types of plants, and there are not so many sundries on the ground. It is easier for them to walk.

After the two landed, they cleaned up and each took a stick to explore the way.

Xia Lunong looked around, only to feel that the vegetation here was still too dense, completely blocking the sky.

Kong Zhi led the way and said, "Let's go, let's go up the hillside."

"Okay." Xia Lunong quickly regained consciousness, supported herself in the dirt with a stick, and walked up step by step.

After walking a few steps, Xia Lunong looked at the round brown particles on the ground, feeling that there was nowhere to set his feet, and asked hesitantly, "What kind of feces is this? Why are they all over the ground?"

Kong Zhi took a closer look and said, "It should be a rabbit."

Xia Lunong was stunned, and turned her head to look around, "Are there so many rabbits on this mountain? Why do I feel like the ground is full of them?"

"Maybe it's just that rabbits have been living here for many years, slowly accumulating so much feces." Kong Zhi led him, "Let's go, this area is full of pine forests, and you should find a lot of fungus."

Xia Lunong nodded, and had no choice but to step on the feces and walk forward slowly.

There are thick pine needles everywhere under the pine forest. There are relatively few weeds here, so it is easier to walk, and there are no other obstacles except for a little slippery.

Xia Lunong had nowhere to rely on her strength and slipped and fell several times.

Fortunately, the pine needles were thick enough, and there were no other problems except for the mud marks on the knees and buttocks.

They poked open the thick pine needles with wooden sticks, and found many fungi, including yellow, white and green, in all colors, but not many in number.

Charlon also recognized the chanterelles in it.

The tender yellow chanterelles grow in the weeds, and a total of 23 flowers were harvested from the two clumps. It should be enough to cook a small bowl.

If they can still find it later, maybe they can find a big plate.

Kongzhi is better at picking fungi.

Xia Lunong has mediocre eyesight and is not as careful as him. She follows him only to be called, and it is rare for him to spot the fungus before him and ask him to pick it.

Collecting fungi is actually quite tiring. They have to climb the mountain little by little, turn over countless weeds little by little, and endure all kinds of feelings of hopelessness.

In particular, there are many particularly fat and tender fungi in the forest. After checking, Xia Lunong found that they were either poisonous or harmful, or had no taste at all, which was very disappointing.

After Xia Lunong found another clump of harmful bacteria, she wiped off her sweat and sighed inwardly.

Kong Zhi said: "If this fungus is harmless, it will probably be eaten by other animals."

"That's right."

Xia Lu let out a deep breath, raised her head in disappointment and beat her lower back. Halfway through the beat, he was suddenly caught by a gray shadow in front of him.

Xia Lunong took a closer look and found that it seemed to be a——a rabbit?