In the slanting wind and drizzle, the earth is irrigated.
At the beginning of September, everyone began to plant some crops all over the mountains and fields.
Take advantage of the abundant rain now.
The plains are full of busy figures.
In this season, it should be the harvest season, but due to drought, the fruits on the fruit trees are now very small.
But, it's very sweet.
The place where Li Yu lives has a subtropical monsoon climate, and the main crops grown are navel oranges and the like.
However, in this dimension, there are still many fruit trees that can be planted, so Li Yu also planted some other types of fruit trees.
It was still raining, not too hard, but it never stopped.
By the mountain pond, Li Yu followed his grandfather to the mountains to cut grass and feed the fish. The two of them walked in tandem without much communication.
Grandpa has never liked to talk, and often does things silently.
Occasionally I like to take a sip of old wine and listen to a drama with my eyes half closed.
In Li Yu's childhood memories, it seems that his grandfather was always taciturn.
But he remembered that when he went to school in other places, his grandfather prepared a lot of agricultural products from his hometown and a red envelope...
The love of the elderly is often like this. Although there are few words, the actions are full of love.
"Grandpa, do you think our base needs to add more people? Does it need to be expanded?" Li Yu suddenly asked this question, and he wanted to hear what grandpa would answer.
Grandpa paused for a moment with the sickle in his hand, raised his waist, and then hammered it.
He shook out the raincoat on his body and finally said: "I'm not sure whether to add more people. Your second uncle is more likely to think about it. You can discuss it with him. But people, it's good to be ambitious, but the most important thing is to have self-awareness.
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No matter what choice you make, there are pros and cons, but sometimes, especially in this turbulent period, you should be cautious and not lose control. Just do it."
Grandpa's words did not directly tell him the answer, but thinking from another perspective, if there are more people, whether it can be controlled and supported, this is the most fundamental thing.
Li Yu nodded, then waved the sickle in his hand and worked hard to cut the grass.
In the rain, mowing the grass is a difficult task. After a week of rain, the grass grows up, and the tips of the grass are sharp enough to cut people's hands.
There were red marks cut out, and then the rain dripped down, making it a little itchy.
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In fact, this rain not only brought life to Li Yu and the others.
For more people, this rain is life-saving rain.
In some drier places, this rain allowed them to survive.
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This rain has been falling for nearly 10 days, and it has been falling slowly and slowly.
Sometimes it's drizzling, sometimes it's a little heavier, but it's not particularly heavy rain.
Although the rain was not heavy, it never stopped.
I don’t know if it’s because of the previous drought, which also caused the zombies to lose their vitality. Now the rain has just slowed down, and there hasn’t been a wave of loss these days.
But what can be clearly seen is that there are many more zombies than in the dry weather before the rain.
These days, Li Yu also led people in the base to shoot the zombies outside the base with the arrow feathers he made. It turned out that the effect of these arrow feathers was not bad.
This can be considered a surprise.
There are a lot of trees. If the bullets run out in the future, these arrow fletchings can continue to be used.
It’s just that I didn’t buy many compound crossbows at first. I initially bought 20 ultra-high-end compound crossbows worth 50,000 yuan.
I bought 20 more composite crossbows worth 20,000 yuan each, and the quality is pretty good.
Although replenishment was carried out later, and coupled with the seizures from the battle with the enemy in the past year, the number of crossbows in the base is now less than 100.
But, for now, it is possible for everyone to have a crossbow."
Time passes so quietly...
Half a month passed, and the time came to the end of September and the beginning of October.
It's busy farming time.
When it rained in early September, Li Yu began to gather people to start planting crops, corn and rice. There was no problem with these. One was that there was always watering, and the other was that corn was actually relatively drought-tolerant.
Green leafy vegetables such as lettuce have a relatively short growth cycle, so a lot of them are planted.
Things like radishes, which have a growth cycle of one to two months, are also planted. After all, this kind of thing can be stored more conveniently.
The end of September and the beginning of October are the busy farming times.
They began to harvest rice.
The original threshing machine has long been eliminated, and Li Yu stepped on the harvester to harvest the rice fields.
At the beginning, some people said that he was extravagant. In a place like the South, buying a harvester was not cost-effective.
However, for Li Yu, it is a good thing to save energy.
The harvester was driven rumble, and the few acres of land on the plain were harvested.
But in the terraced fields in the mountains and forests, they need to cut them manually.
With so many people, it's easy to get things done. It didn't take an hour to harvest the 6 acres of land in the mountains and forests.
More than ten acres of paddy fields, five acres of corn, and two acres of sweet potatoes.
In total, there are more than 20 acres of land for growing staple foods.
In fact, a person needs to consume 500 kilograms of grain food a year to be considered safe and healthy.
400-800 catties range.
If chemical fertilizers and plant protection measures are not used, the yield per mu will be low, and only barren crops such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn can be grown. In the south, the annual production capacity is generally 1,500 kilograms per mu based on two crops per year. So 0.3-
0.5 acres of land is enough.
In the northern Central Plains, three crops are harvested every two years, and an average of 1,200 kilograms per mu of land. 0.4-0.5 mu is enough.
If agricultural measures such as chemical fertilizers and pesticides are used, 0.15 acres will be enough to produce 3,000 kilograms per mu (of course they are all high-yielding crops).
In Li Yu's place, they can produce two or even three crops a year.
With the current production, it can far meet the needs of their base, and there is even a larger surplus.
Li Yu calculated it and thought to himself: "Fortunately, we reclaimed some land in the mountains and forests. The original four acres of paddy fields would definitely not be enough."
During the busy farming season, it was not that busy. Thanks to the large number of manpower and their coordination, all the food was quickly processed.
However, if the rice wants to be stored for a longer period of time, it needs to be dehydrated. Li Yu and the others adopted the simplest method of basking in the sun.
After almost a whole week of drying, the rice was finally dried.
Packed and stored in warehouse.
They still had to eat the old rice they had hoarded before. Of course, they also took out some of the new rice for everyone to taste.
Li Yu looked at the piles of rice in the warehouse, and his heart was filled with a sense of security. In this apocalyptic world, only enough food can give people a sense of security.