Agriculture Idol

Chapter 135 Open the gate to release water

Now that the soil has arrived, there is no time to wait, and all the idle live broadcast crews are called up to start putting the soil on the foam base and tarpaulin together.

Brother Xiaoyong demonstrated to them: "First, pick out the branches in the soil to avoid piercing the tarpaulin. Then pat the soil on the slope like this... Well, this soil is really good, even if it sticks to the slope It won’t collapse.”

Everyone fumbled and imitated Brother Xiao Yong in laying the soil. Just like that, one day later, the soil was all paved.

"It really looks like a pond!" When Qi Lanting came to "supervise the work," he saw people laying pebbles and live rocks at the bottom of the pond.

Most of these stones will be stacked near the water outlet to set up another filtration process for the water flow, and may also become a hiding place for aquatic crustaceans such as crabs and screws.

These stones picked up from the streams in the suburbs of Lanhai City have not undergone any special treatment and are likely to carry the eggs of local aquatic organisms.

However, there is still a long way to go before the gate releases water. Before that, everyone needs to plant some aquatic plants on the "shoal" and "shore" of the roof pond.

These have been prepared beforehand.

Seeing the seedling pot that Li Chengxin moved out, Brother Xiaoyong was surprised: "Isn't this rice?"

Li Chengxin nodded: "Rice is originally cultivated from weeds from Southeast Asia. Using it as aquatic plants can return them to their origins."

"The rice is actually a weed?" Qi Lanting looked at Brother Xiaoyong in disbelief, and the latter nodded.

The staff helped to moisten the soil layer with a watering can, and Brother Xiaoyong drilled some small holes in the soil layer with his fingers, which were prepared for planting rice seedlings.

"If these rice plants are grown well, can they still be harvested and eaten?" Qi Lanting asked curiously as he continued to follow Brother Xiaoyong.

"It's really not sure, although the taste may be strange... But I saw someone make noodles with the grass seeds of dogtail grass before, and the rice we raise as weeds here will probably taste similar." Li Chengxin smiled and followed the two After the person died, the rice seedlings in the seedling pot were inserted into the small hole drilled by Brother Xiaoyong.

Setaria has a common name called "grain scorpion", which belongs to the Poaceae Panicaceae, and it can also be regarded as a grain.

"Speaking of which, rice is also very beneficial to animals." Brother Xiaoyong added, "Rice not only provides shelter for aquatic insects such as dragonfly larvae, but also serves as food for birds such as spot-billed ducks. And spot-billed In order to avoid predators, ducks usually like to sleep in hidden grass, and rice fields are their first choice."

In addition to the rice seedlings, Li Chengxin also pulled some unknown weeds that grew wildly from the flower bed where he had grown vegetables before, and planted them in the soil next to the pool.

The seeds of these weeds may have been brought by the birds that came to the flower bed to steal them, or they may have been mixed in the mud at the bottom of the pond and grew out when they encountered a suitable environment.Since the purpose of the flower bed is to attract more creatures, and weeds are also an indispensable part of the ecological circle, so now the flower bed looks a little overgrown with weeds.

"With water flow, there will be a biotope, and more creatures will definitely be attracted to it."

The "biotope" mentioned by Li Chengxin refers to a whole composed of different habitats (habitats of animals or plants), and can also be used as a part of a habitat.It can affect biomes and be affected by them in turn.

Even inhospitable places such as deserts and Gobi can be classified as biotopes by abiotic factors if abiotic factors and human influence are also taken into account.In fact, a premise of the concept of biotopes is that every place on earth is habitable.Under what conditions a biome can be established is a topic of ecology and conservation.

After the water plants were laid, Li Chengxin made a final inspection to see that there seemed to be no other work, and said, "It feels like it's really finished! Then we will release the water?"

Qi Lanting took over the ceremonial and simple work of opening the gate to release the water. After a lot of "leadership speeches", he finally pulled out the plug at the bottom of the water storage tank.

The filtered water gushes out, infiltrates the stones and soil along the road, and becomes a trickle at the 1-meter-high drop, dripping into the pool without any momentum.

"Why is there only so little water?" Qi Lanting was very dissatisfied.

At this time, the water in the wine barrel was almost exhausted, and there was only a feeling of seepage at the originally designed "waterfall".

"Although it's not the waterfall as I imagined, it would be more spectacular if the water flow is bigger? This is also expected, hahaha." Li Chengxin smiled dryly.

The plum blossoms came out in Lanhai City, and the next one would be continuous sunny days in summer.

"That's why we collected a lot of rainwater for preparation." Li Chengxin pointed to an area covered with plastic sheeting in the open space in the distance.

Under the plastic sheet were dozens of large buckets, which were stored by Geyue Entertainment in the warehouse for unknown purposes. They were all lifted out by the live broadcast team and placed on the roof to collect water.

"At least this pond can be filled..." Brother Xiaoyong estimated the amount of water, and then began to bring the buckets over without any complaints, and filled the water storage urn with the filtration system.

As the amount of water increased, a water curtain finally appeared at the "waterfall", allowing Qi Lanting to see the scene he expected, and the pool began to store water.

After all the water was poured out, the pool was half full. Although it felt like there was still room left, the current amount of water was enough for aquatic life.In addition, the water surface is still cloudy, waiting for time to clear the water in the pool.

"The weather is getting hotter. What if the pool water dries up?" Qi Lanting was a little worried.

"There are a lot of heavy rains in Lanhai City in the summer, so I'm not worried about that." Li Chengxin replied.

"The rain fell directly into the pond, isn't it unfiltered acid rain?" Qi Lanting asked a question that many netizens have doubts about.

"This issue will be left to the next step of the pond's construction. We also plan to build a wind-powered water pump at the end of the pond to re-pump the pond water into the filtering device, but this will have to wait until the fall." Li Chengxin revealed Follow-up planning for the roof project.

Qi Lanting was unwilling: "Why did you have to wait so long?"

Li Chengxin looked at Qi Lanting with the eyes of a fool: "Next month is my concert! Have you finished practicing the songs you want to sing at my concert? After the concert, you will release a new album, and then you will return to Hong Kong. Naruto takes care of my coast. Brother Xiaoyong also wants to continue filming, shouldn’t you be busier than us?”

Qi Lanting was stunned, and took out his mobile phone to check his schedule: "Is the company ready to give up on me? Why is my summer schedule so small?"

Now even Brother Xiaoyong is looking at fools, Qi Lanting's father is the boss of the company, how could he give up on him.

But no matter what, Qi Lanting's schedule is so short that Li Chengxin also finds it strange.

"Since you are free, go to the flower bed and plant whatever you want. The staff can teach you the simple things, and your financial assistant Xiao Teng, doesn't he grow vegetables for you at your house? The things that come out can also be used as fan benefits, which is much more meaningful than sending autographed photos.”

[I actually prefer signed photos]

[Lan Lan's own tomato, I will definitely offer it up, I won't eat it...]

"Uh," Li Chengxin felt speechless when he saw the content in the barrage, and patted Qi Lanting on the shoulder, "Anyway, do something as you like, I'll leave this live broadcast to you!"

"Hey, no problem, just don't let me touch the bugs!"

When Qi Lanting said this, Li Chengxin suddenly remembered that in the autumn planning made last year, it was agreed that Qi Lanting would continue to touch bugs in the coming year.After putting water gnats into Qi Lanting's hands in the wetland on the roof, he is now very wary of Li Chengxin. Li Chengxin still has to study how to trick this guy into continuing to touch insects...or just pretend to be water gnats. Already touched it?

(End of this chapter)