Cats grow fields in the apocalyptic wasteland

After a meal of buns, Xia Lunong's sense of happiness after waking up reached its peak.

After returning home, he went to the back of the door to find a hoe, and slowly turned the ground in front of the house, intending to plant strawberries, watermelons, cantaloupe and loquats.

Xia Huoqu has been very busy, and the front and back of the house have not been taken care of much. The large open space in front of the house is overgrown with weeds and swarms of snakes and ants.

Sometimes he would pour the water for washing his face and washing vegetables in front of the door, and the weeds in this area grew especially well.

Xia Lunong cleaned it up, only to realize that the open space in front of the house looks small, but in fact, there are everything in it - broken porcelain pieces, concrete blocks, tree roots, grass roots, ants, insects... There are so many sundries that make one's scalp dandruff numb.

Here, the most difficult to clean up are those grass roots.

Seen from the ground, these grasses are not too tall, only reaching the knees of a person. However, when pulled up, it is discovered that the grass roots underneath are densely packed. A grass several inches high can cover half a square meter of grass roots, and can penetrate deeper into the ground. It is two or three meters below the ground, and without tools, it cannot be pulled up at all!

Xia Lunong squatted in the front yard with a bamboo hat to clean up the grass, and his cheeks would turn red every now and then because of pulling out a plant of grass.

He was full in the morning, but because he was too tired to clean up, he had a big appetite at noon, and he drank a big bowl of multigrain porridge.

Xia Huoqu was at the side to help, and it took the two brothers a whole morning to clean up a little.

When Lao Liu brought the seedlings over at noon, he saw the land they had cleared, bent down and twirled the soil, "Is it planted here? The soil is not fertile enough."

"There's no other way, it's the only way." Xia Lunong took the dustpan from his hand, "Thank you Brother Liu."

"You're welcome."

Lao Liu helped him take out the seedlings and asked, "What do you want to plant here?"

"Watermelon, strawberry, muskmelon, loquat." Xia Lunong said, "Winter melon and pumpkin are planted under the tree, and lentils are planted on the side of the house."

"Hey, that's even worse. Fruits are harder to grow than vegetable seedlings. You have to get some fertilizer." Old Liu said, "Chemical fertilizers are not easy to get now, or you can go to the cafeteria to exchange some ash and then some manure? Your brother has a lot of face, Let him go, exchange some of their fermented pig manure, mix it with ashes, it's barely enough."

Xia Lunong nodded, straightened up and wiped the sweat on his forehead with the back of his hand, feeling that his forehead was wet and hot, and when the back of his hand touched his cheek, his cheek was also hot and itchy.

Old Liu also straightened up, looked around their yard, and asked, "Where's your brother?"

"Someone came to call him, saying that something happened at the base and asked him to go to a meeting."

"What kind of meeting are you holding now?" Lao Liu was surprised, "The captain is back?"

Xia Lunong shook his head, he didn't know.

Old Liu smiled, "Forget it, the news will come out later. You can order some seedlings, and plant them again today when the sun is westward.

Xia Lunong took it down seriously.

Old Liu said: "Then I'll go back first, my house lives in the opposite area, your brother knows, if there is anything you don't understand, just come and ask."

Xia Lunong sent him away, and went back to clearing the land.

He had just recovered from his illness not too long ago, so he didn't dare to be too tired. When he felt dizzy and weak after cleaning up most of the time, he stopped cleaning up and went into the room to take a nap.

Xia Lunong adjusted the alarm clock.

This sleep still missed the alarm clock, and I slept until four o'clock in the afternoon.

He got up, got dressed, walked around the house, and found that his brother was not at home.

The seedlings in the living room were gone, and the hoe pole behind the door was also missing.

Xia Lunong searched around the front and back of the house, guessing that his brother might have gone to the field, so he hurriedly picked up the hoe, put on the bamboo hat, and rushed to the field.

When he arrived in the field, his brother was really busy working in the field.

The original greenhouses in the field have been dismantled by the person who rented his field, and now the field is bare, except for weeds, which are newly plowed soil.

Xia Lunong called out, "Brother."

"Are you awake? Slow down." Xia Huoqu watched him go down from the ridge to the field on hands and feet, and came over to help him.

Xia Huoqu was working in the field with bare feet. Xia Lunong also wanted to take off his shoes, but his brother stopped him, "Get down with your shoes on, and be careful not to pierce your feet with wooden thorns."

Xia Lunong hesitated for a moment, the fields were full of mud, if he wore shoes and took two steps, the soles of his shoes would be covered with mud.

Xia Huoqu's eyes fell on his feet, and said: "Shoes are cheap, but medical treatment is expensive. Wait until your health is completely recovered before you learn from others."

Xia Lunong nodded, holding up a small hoe, "Is the grass here easy to pull?"

"It's much easier to pull than the ones in the yard." Xia Huoqu said, "This field was only planted last winter. There are not many debris and the soil is fertile. The harvest should not be bad for any planting this year."

Xia Lunong stuck out her tongue, "That's not necessarily the case. If I'm not good at technology, what will I plant and die?"

"Then pay the tuition fee, and do something else in the second half of the year."

The two brothers pulled weeds and plowed the ground side by side.

Xia Lunong remembered, "Brother Liu asked us to go to the cafeteria to exchange some manure and ash to fertilize the field."

They squatted in the toilet left over from before the catastrophe at home, and they had to change it outside to use fertilizer.

Xia Huoqu nodded, "I'll bring back two loads tomorrow."

Xia Lunong said: "It needs to be replaced with fermented one."

Xia Huoqu smiled, "You know a lot."

"That is, if you decide to farm, you need to ask a few more questions."

Xia Lunong thumped his back, feeling so tired that his waist was about to break, stood up and stretched hard, took a deep breath, "Brother, can't everyone be animalized now? Why don't you do it in the shape of a beast?" live?"

"It's not worth it." Xia Huoqu rubbed his back for him, and said, "If you work in human form, you can eat three bowls of dry rice every day. If you use animal form, you can't eat ten bowls for a meal. Generally speaking I can't afford to use animal form, only in the crisis-ridden environment outside, everyone will use animal form to save their lives."

Xia Lunong was startled, she didn't expect that this was the reason why everyone didn't use the animal form.

According to the principle of conservation of matter, the animal form is so big and requires a lot of energy. In farming, many things can be done with the human form, and it is really not cost-effective to use the animal form.

Sure enough, in the era of scarce supplies, Xia Lunong sighed silently, never expecting to save even this.

The two rested for a while, and then went back to work.

Before the sun goes down, they have to dig out the land where they want to grow vegetable seedlings. There are four plots in total, one for peppers, one for eggplants, one for beans, and one for tomatoes.

A plot of land has to be seven or eight square meters, and the amount of work involved is not small.

The two brothers hurried and hurried, and finally turned over the land, dug a hole, and planted the vegetable seedlings before the sun went down.

Compared to plowing the ground, the step of planting vegetables is not so tiring. You just have to bend over all the time, which is very uncomfortable.

Fortunately, the ditch flows slowly from the bottom of the field, so it is very convenient to fetch water, and the step of watering the roots does not take long.

If so, by the time the two of them finish their tossing, the sky will already be dark.

Xia Lu was so hot that she was sweating all over, she took off her coat and tied it around her waist, and walked home with a hoe on her back.

His brother let him take the cold for a while, and asked him to put his coat back on before taking two steps. He would rather wash the clothes than let him catch a cold, for fear of catching a cold.

It was late when they went home, but most of them also finished work at this time.

Everyone carried hoes and walked slowly along the path back to each house.

At this time, the night dew had already fallen, and the grass on both sides of the road was wet, and when it touched the legs, it was wet and itchy, because there were small wounds on the legs that were accidentally scratched by the grass.

In addition, as night fell, there were more mosquitoes, buzzing and circling above people's heads, biting people from time to time.

Xia Lunong felt a little itchy all over her body.

His brother reached out to take the hoe on his back, and said, "Just go back and take a shower."

Xia Lunong wiped the sweat off her neck, and said sleepily, "Going to the bathhouse will cost me another fortune."

Xia Huoqu laughed, "Why did it take a few days to cut it like this?"

Xia Lunong glanced at his brother with black and white eyes, and turned back in frustration.

It is too difficult at home now, he is still the one who is holding back, and he cannot be tolerated if he does not plan carefully.

The two walked home.

Xia Lunong's body was sticky and smelly, and she was really uncomfortable. She couldn't care about the little food at the moment, so she carried the soybeans with her and dragged her brother to take a bath.

The bathhouse is to the east of the cafeteria.

The water in it is burned by using the excess heat during cooking, and it is not expensive. Generally, a handful of grain can be exchanged for a bucket, but you have to carry it yourself.

Although hot water is not expensive, many people are reluctant to part with it. Most people would rather use cold water to make do, even if it snows heavily, they still use cold water.

There are relatively few cases like this in Charonon's house.

There is no one in the bathroom.

Xia Lunong went to change a bucket of hot water and came back, while his brother went to pick up a bucket of cold water. The two brothers mixed the water, took a bath in the bathroom in the dark, and rubbed each other's backs.

Xia Lunong has always been a monk's head, rubbing from head to toe, clean and refreshed, and then put on sunny clothes, went to the cafeteria to have a meal, the two walked back slowly.

In a few days, it is already March in Yangchun, and the temperature can reach more than ten degrees Celsius at night. The weather is very cool, not cold, and it is very comfortable to walk in such night wind.

Xia Lunong looked up at the crescent moon in the sky, feeling a sense of satisfaction in her heart, and chatted with his brother nonchalantly.

When she got home, Xia Lunong found that the room next door had been dark, but today the window finally revealed warm yellow candlelight.

Xia Lunong poked his brother, turned his head and said, "Brother, look, is Brother Yan back?"

Xia Huoqu raised his head, put down his burden at the door of the house, and said to Xia Lunong: "I'll go and have a look."

Xia Lunong hurriedly followed behind him, "I'll go too!"

The two brothers went to the next door and knocked on the door.

Soon, a tall young man came to open the door, his eyes fell on Xia Huoqu first, then he looked at Xia Lunong behind him, and said with a smile: "Xiao Nong is awake?"

"Brother Yan!" Even though Xia Lunong knew that Yan Xiannian lived next door, when she saw him, she couldn't help showing surprise in her eyes, a little bit of the joy of meeting an old acquaintance in a foreign land, and said first, "It's really you, I wake up It's been more than ten days!"

Yan Xiannian stepped aside with a smile, "Come in and talk, have you eaten yet?"

Xia Huo channel: "No, I'm about to eat, how about you?"

"I'll wait for you." Yan Xiannian and Xia Huoqu spoke very casually, in a low voice and sounded very gentle, "I don't know if you have eaten, but you are planning to try your luck. If you haven't eaten, we will eat together."

Xia Lunong put down the lunch box in her hand, and said happily: "That's just right, we haven't finished eating the buns we bought this morning, so I'll go get them."

As he spoke, he ran away without waiting for the two of them to react.

Yan Xiannian looked at his back, "Xiao Nong recovered better than I expected, and adapted well."

"Lucky in misfortune." When Xia Huoqu talked about his younger brother, the light in his eyes was very soft, "I used to bring him who was sick, and I always blamed God in my heart, but he was the one who suffered. Looking back now, he didn't It is a good thing to experience the great changes at the beginning of the catastrophe.”