Chapter 1312: Living in the days of natural disaster (40)
Before leaving, they cleared almost all the snow from the front, back and roof of the orphanage. They also dug a sloping drainage ditch. After the ice and snow melted into water, it flowed out along the drainage ditch, adding welfare benefits.
The terrain of the courtyard is already high, but it did not bring much disaster to the house.
Flowers and plants that are resistant to low temperatures and extreme cold, such as saffron, camellia, and kale, were all collected by Xu Yin into the system warehouse before leaving.
Saffron has only been harvested once in two years, and the quantity is very small. Thinking about the weather of minus 40 degrees, it is too cold to bloom. However, although the quantity is small, the quality is better. Xu Yin took these few milligrams of saffron
Store separately. The roots of the plants are wrapped in soil, and they can be planted again in the future.
After all, she still collected a few milligrams of saffron, but the camellias were taken into the system warehouse without even waiting for the flowering period.
Only the wall-creeper was confiscated at the time and I thought it was about to die. Unexpectedly, it grew very well. Not only did it not die from the sun, it also covered half of the wall with lush greenery.
The children circled the yard and then went straight to the bunker to see Lao Bai and the others.
As soon as the entrance is opened, wow! The smell is a bit strong!
Is the fresh air system faulty?
I held my nose and went down to the bunker. I went to the equipment room first and found that there was no fault. The lighting, fresh air, and constant temperature systems were all running normally.
“Wow—oh my god!”
Xu Dong and Xu Xi couldn't wait to go to the animal base next door to see Lao Bai and the two dogs. They were stunned. Xu Dong even spoke out the dialect he learned on TV.
"Brother Ning! Yinyin! Come and see! This place is awesome!"
Xu Xi was also dumbfounded: "Why are there so many geese? Aren't they all Lao Bai's children? There are also several more dogs!"
"..."
Xu Yin and Ning Jin ran over to take a look, and both twitched their lips.
With Lao Bai having nothing to do, he has been incubating eggs with the geese he hatched?
One goose hatches one nest a month, a dozen geese hatch half a year... sixty or more nests?
It’s not that I don’t know, it’s just that I was shocked.
No wonder the area where the geese live is full of trampled eggshells and fluffy goslings...
When the little cows saw them, they barked and ran over, followed by their respective mates and a string of fluffy puppies.
After not seeing each other for half a year, these two brothers also became fathers.
The sound of geese, the sound of dogs, and the sound of cats meowing in the distance...
Xu Yin felt her brain suddenly swelled.
Fortunately, this animal base was dug relatively large at the beginning, and the activity area for geese, dogs, cats and other animals can be expanded even if it is not enough.
The four children took the time to work separately. The one who picked up eggs picked up eggs, the one who picked up feces picked up feces, and the necessary ones were picked up. The next step was to wash their nests with water pipes.
Xu Yin saw that her friends had taken away all the dirty work, so she took charge of the final disinfecting. At the same time, she also fed them a few sips of Linghu water to treat them if they were sick and to strengthen their health if they were not sick.
The high temperature will continue for a few more years, and these little guys will have to continue living here.
After cleaning up the animal base, the children went to the planting area next door.
All the crops planted before leaving were ripe, and some were overripe and rotted in the ground. Everyone was busy working again.
Thanks to the fact that they have been doing farm work every day in Central City for the past six months, their hands have not only become less raw, but have become more skilled. With the help of small agricultural equipment such as harvesters, they can harvest all crops such as rice, wheat, and corn.
Vegetables, melons, and fruits are checked to see if they are overripe. Those that are still edible are put into baskets, and those that are overripe are left in the ground for the time being, and will be fertilized later when there is time.
After finishing their work, the children returned to the bunker, took turns taking a bath, and sat down refreshed to take stock of the harvest of the past six months.
"A total of 105 goose eggs were picked up, and 95 new goslings were added."
"There are so many fish in the pond that I can't count them; just catch the shrimps and you'll get a pot of them. If you can't finish them all, you can dry them in the sun."
"The harvested rice weighed 500 kilograms, wheat weighed 360 kilograms, and corn with ears weighed 450 kilograms."
"Many of the watermelons are overripe. I counted 25 of them that are edible. The overripe melon seeds can be saved as seeds."
"Pumpkins can be eaten even when they are old. I collected 52 in total."
"The edamame is very old. If you dry it in the sun, you can collect it and save seeds or cook the soybeans to sprout them and eat them."
"Although the soybeans haven't been weighed yet, based on the last harvest, they weighed at least a hundred kilograms. From now on, we can put some in our pockets to grow bean sprouts every time we come here."
Xu Dong and Xu Xi took turns reporting.
The summary is——
Lao Bai took the dozen geese he had hatched and hatched more than a hundred goose eggs. In the end, 95 geese survived and 105 eggs were left. Fortunately, they came today, otherwise the procession of geese would have continued.
grow.
Most of the vegetables, melons and fruits are old. Those that bear fruit late can still be eaten, but those that bear early are overripe and can only be used for retting.
On the other hand, due to the long growth period of legume crops, even if they are old, they can be used to save seeds or make soup without affecting the taste and nutritional intake. On the contrary, old beans are more nutritious and comprehensive.
They couldn't take these supplies out for the time being, so they stored them in the warehouse next to the equipment room. However, they all came over and worked hard for a long time. They planned to use a small rice mill to grind a few kilograms of new rice to cook a pot of fragrant rice and then stew it.
A young goose rewarded himself, and the alarm bell that stayed outside went off, indicating that someone was approaching the orphanage, or was knocking on the door of the orphanage.
The four children quickly put on their new clothes, smeared several handfuls of plaster on each other's faces, messed up their hair, loaded up the new rice to be cooked, picked up the young goose that was about to be slaughtered, and left the stairwell.
Xu Dong and Xu Xi rushed into the kitchen with the young goose in their arms, and Ning Jin pulled Xu Yin up the stairs to the second floor.
"Bang bang bang——"
There was a knock on the door of the orphanage again.
"Is no one here?"
"Yin Yin——"
"Xiao Ning——"
"Dongdong——"
"Xixi——"
It turned out that Professor Liu's subordinate Xiao Hu came to find them.
Xu Yin and Ning Jin looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief.
Xiao Hu has been following Professor Liu since he was a graduate student. Like Professor Liu, they are both good-natured people. In other words, they are easier to deceive.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! They looked at each other and smiled, and responded in a loud voice: "Brother Hu, we are here! I will come down and open the door for you!"
The two ran downstairs, unbolted the door, pulled the latch, and opened the door.
"I just called you a few times, but no one answered. I thought you weren't here. I was scared to death!" Xiao Hu, who came to see them, wiped the sweat from his brow, "The professor hasn't come back after seeing you for a long time.
I'm very worried, let me come over and take a look, is there nothing wrong?"
"No, we're fine! It's just that I haven't been back for half a year. I miss you so much that I walked around the yard. When you knocked on the door, Brother Hu, we might have been in the backyard and didn't hear you clearly."
"Brother Hu, you are in for a treat!" Xu Yin said, pulling him towards the kitchen, "Let me tell you quietly, we caught a goose in the rotten hay at the root of the backyard wall..."
Xiao Hu thought they were teasing him. When he got to the kitchen, he saw a large iron pot on the half-collapsed earth stove. Water was boiling in the pot. Xu Dong and Xu Xi were squatting on the ground and working hard to pull out the pot.
Wearing goose feathers...
Only belatedly, he realized: these four children had really caught a goose. And because he was sent out by the professor to find them, he was lucky enough to taste the goose meat.
Goose meat!
Fragrant goose stewed in iron pot!
I haven’t had it in years.
Xiao Hu came back to his senses and found that he was drooling. He lowered his head and wiped the corners of his mouth in shame, and cleared his throat: "Ahem, what can I do for you?"
"Great, Brother Hu, come and pluck the goose feathers! I'll add some firewood!"
"Brother Hu, can you cook goose meat?" Xu Xi asked him.
Xiao Hu hesitated for a few seconds: "Uh... I've eaten it, but I haven't cooked it."
"..."
He swore that these children would definitely "cut" him, but there was no sound.