The sadness in Egger's heart has not disappeared. Both Father Locke and Thomas made his heart grieve endlessly.
Taking good care of Catherine and his children was Thomas's last wish, and Egg agreed to it.
Iger was worried that Catherine would be ostracized by the gospel team because of Thomas, so Iger brought her to Ross Town.
In Ross Town, Catherine was placed in the kitchen, still serving as her cook, but Catherine was not as strong as Sister Maria, and she fell into deep grief.
Egg can only help her so far.
Whether Egg hates Thomas or not, he definitely does, but are Dr. Hedme and Robin not wrong?
He had formulated such strict usage regulations, but the two of them didn't care about the enforcement of the regulations. Thomas was actually authorized to use energy drinks because of his psychological anxiety.
This is simply abuse!
This is dereliction of duty!
This is a crime!
When he thought of this, all the blood in Egg's body rushed to his head. He made a mistake in judging the use of the crystal.
Holy Light Salvation Church, what the blind man gave to the gospel team was not a heavy gift, but a sugar-coated bullet with evil intentions.
Egger has been taught since he was a child that the history of humiliation in the Central Plains first started with a paste. In the following hundred years, countless people were knocked to the bone and sucked out the marrow by this paste.
The long and heavy tragic lessons in history have made every Central Plains person extremely wary of this kind of thing. To this day, many people would rather die of pain than take safe painkillers such as ibuprofen.
In America, it is common for people to eat Fentanil, a powerful painkiller, as jelly beans.
In America, doctors are accomplices in the abuse of powerful painkillers. For doctors in America, when they use painkillers, they do not care about their addictive properties, and will even deliberately prescribe highly addictive drugs to patients.
of painkillers.
Interest groups have used a large amount of propaganda to relieve medical staff of the psychological burden of drug abuse. In their propaganda, drugs are safe and they only need to control their use.
But in reality, out-of-control abuse is an inevitable result.
When a patient develops a serious dependence on painkillers, what will the doctor do? Help them quit?
No, the doctor will prescribe a higher dose or switch to a more powerful drug. They may also kindly tell the patient that I helped you choose a drug that can reimburse medical expenses.
As for pure things like crystals, there is nothing to say. America, which accounts for 5% of the world's population, consumes 60% of the world's production on its own.
However, Iger was completely unaware of this. He even asked doctors to supervise the reasonable use of crystals.
This is equivalent to asking the wolf to look after the sheep and the fox to guard the chicken coop.
Iger is not a true American, and his understanding and judgment of certain things will inevitably be biased.
For example, take the trial that took place in Jixi Town.
In the afternoon, after Egg led his team to Jixi Town, the public trial of Robin and Dr. Heidemi had just been completed.
"What? They were just victims, so they were acquitted?!" When Iger heard this, his eyes widened.
According to Egger's knowledge, Robin and Hedme should be killed directly or the sentences should be too harsh, but in general there should be some punishment. The lightest punishment is public whipping, so you can't escape it.
As a result, the two men were found not guilty.
You know, this is not a single murder case, but a series of serial cases.
Thomas will not say anything else. He has already been executed. It is not suitable to pull out a dead person and whip his corpse.
But there are still two cases, namely the case of squandering team supplies and the case of defrauding team supplies. Robin and Hedme can't escape these two cases.
In extreme surprise, Iger heard others slowly saying that the scene this morning was extremely exciting.
This morning, it was almost the time for the reclamation team to organize a collective funeral, and the Gospel Team Tribunal held a public trial for Robin and Hedme.
In the square outside the Morgan Building, the atmosphere reached its climax as soon as the trial began.
Regarding the murder of Father Locke, the public was extremely excited. As soon as Robin and Hedme were taken out of the isolation room, a group of people almost rushed up and beat them to death.
Fortunately, the armed security personnel nearby worked hard to maintain order at the scene. On the one hand, they allowed everyone to vent some of their anger, and on the other hand, they effectively protected Robin and Hedme, at least they were not beaten too much.
In this situation where public opinion was one-sided, the atmosphere turned around when it came to personal defense.
Robin first defended herself and said that she was also raped by Thomas. Although she struggled hard, she was no match for Thomas who had taken energy drinks.
Subsequently, Thomas continued to threaten his personal safety, forcing Robin to continue to provide him with energy drinks, and even tragically acted as Thomas' human tool.
At this point, Robin burst into tears.
Affected by her, Hedme could not control her emotions when defending herself. Hedme's situation was similar to Robin's, but she was raped by two people working together.
As the two of them burst into tears, after all, Thomas was dead, and a dead person could not defend himself. With the testimony of a third person as evidence, everyone believed Robin and Hedme's words.
The last witness to appear was Hedme's husband, Love.
After Love put his hand on the Bible and swore an oath, he pointed out Thomas' crime and said Thomas had personally threatened him in private, saying that Thomas would kill Love if he dared to report Thomas.
Love's testimony completely overturned everyone's expectations. When the final verdict was determined, the judges of the trial court voted for conviction.
As a result, 1 vote was guilty, 2 votes were not guilty, and 1 vote abstained. The guilty result was that Robin and Hedme were not guilty.
As the presiding judge, Andy announced on the spot that Robin and Hedme were not accomplices in the case, but victims of coercion and control, so they were not guilty.
As soon as the verdict was handed down, excited cheers erupted from the scene.
When Egg heard this, he felt mixed emotions.
The reason why Iger elected Andy to take the position of chairman that day is because he is now a little disappointed with the structure of the gospel team.
The gospel team used to be like home to Iger, but after Father Locke and Sister Maria were no longer in Quick Creek Town, the attraction here for him was not as attractive as before.
Of course, there are many of Iger's close friends and comrades-in-arms here, including Uncle Vance, Fran, and Nicholas, and Iger can't bear to leave them.
As for the mess of the gospel team, Iger really doesn’t want it anymore.
Today Iger personally led the team here. Not only is he going to Puduo City, Iger has a very important matter to discuss with Andy.
Spring has begun, and grain sowing is about to begin on John's farm.
Originally, Iger thought that all he needed to do was sound the loudspeaker, and there would be many people to contract the land to grow food. As a result, after such a long time, except for Father John's family, no ghosts were encountered.
There were indeed many people who knew how to farm, and many people survived, but those people fled Puduo County and were most likely buried outside.
During the conversation with Bella and others, Egger realized a very serious situation, that is, the situation outside was extremely bad.
Today, Iger wants to persuade Andy to ask John's farm not to leave any land for rotation this year and to plant all the land that can be reclaimed.
To put it bluntly, no one can tell whether we will still have the time and energy to farm next year.
There is a saying: "If you have food in your hands, you will not panic in your heart."
In any case, even if there is still a lot of food in stock, growing food is always a top priority.
Don’t be afraid of harvesting too much grain. Wheat is very durable and can be stored for 3-5 years without any problem.
The processing of wheat is very simple, even simpler than that of rice. You only need to dry it in the sun and grind it directly into powder with a grinder.
This kind of flour with the shell broken together is called whole wheat flour, and the flour extraction conversion rate is as high as 100%.
Iger has estimated that if only half of the crops are planted this year, they can harvest about 100,000 kilograms, which is about 50 tons. Some weight will be lost after drying.
It sounds like 50 tons is a lot, but you will understand if you calculate it carefully.
Iger asked Catherine, she is very familiar with kitchen work, and she knows best about food consumption.
Catherine said that after the gospel team stabilizes, each person consumes an average of 3 pounds of staple food per day, which is equivalent to 1.5 kilograms if rounded up.
Such a large consumption of staple food was unimaginable in the past, but now, when meat is in limited supply and there are almost no other non-staple foods, even a girl like Joanna can eat almost this much.
A person consumes 1.5 kilograms of staple food per day and consumes 547.5 kilograms in a year. After including various losses, the total is 550 kilograms, which is less than half a ton.
1 ton can feed 2 people for a year, and 50 tons can only feed 100 people for a year.
Now the combined population of the gospel team and the reclamation team has reached hundreds, and this little food is just enough.
We must consider preparing for war and preparing for famine, and we must get more food no matter what.
After Iger found Andy, he told Andy this, and Andy fell into deep thought.
Andy may just not have thought of some things, but once the data is in front of him, he will quickly weigh the gains and losses.
"Okay, as you said, we will expand the planting area to 100 acres this year." Andy decided to follow Egger's suggestion.
After all, the team may expand further.
When the planting agreement was signed, the gospel team only had more than 30 people. Now the reclamation team, a sub-team under the gospel team, has almost 70 people.
With the population suddenly increasing so much, food production will naturally increase even more.
Of course, Iger had a deeper worry, and he was worried about seeds.
The current seeds are all stockpiles before use, and the lifespan of seeds has a limit, which should probably not exceed 5 years.
In other words, in 5 years, all high-yielding seeds in the entire world will disappear.
If you want to live until 5 years later, you must prepare for the seed shortage in advance.
Iger prepared two things here. The first was that he asked Father John to plant more wheat.
If the trial planting is successful this year, Aige will send more people to learn planting techniques next year. They will consume as many wheat seeds as possible within five years and turn them into food.
The second is to want Papa John to breed.
Anyone who understands simple biological knowledge will know that organisms whose genetic material is aabb will inevitably experience segregation of traits in the next generation.
Of course, today's grain seeds are much more complicated than this, but the principle is the same. No matter how the traits are separated, there will always be high-yielding traits such as aabb that are inherited.
Iger asked John's father to save a batch of wheat seeds and plant them next year. The wheat planted in this batch did not pursue yield, but only wanted to select the offspring with large and plump grains.
After five years of selection, Iger believes that he can obtain a batch of high-yielding wheat seeds with stable characteristics.
This is the most important purpose of Egger personally coming to Jixi Town.
