Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

After playing with the function of storing and releasing items in the small world, Lin Geng finally thought of something important, that is, it is the early 1960s now! The three-year difficult period has just passed, and now Longguo is still in a state of extreme shortage of materials, and even the grain output still cannot meet the people's food and clothing needs.

Until now, famine is still continuing in many places, and there are still many refugees from other places wandering in Sijiu City or being sheltered and repatriated to their hometowns.

He was thrown into this era and into this courtyard full of beasts. It will take a long time for him to eat and drink well and survive until the future reform and opening up.

He has not yet inherited his mother's job and entered the steel mill to work. Even if he does, theoretically he will most likely inherit his mother's job and work in the workshop as a machine tool operator, and he will have to start as an apprentice.

But he doesn't have a heaven-defying system, so it's impossible for him to acquire the various skills given by the system, so he can only start from being an apprentice and learn little by little.

Although he was a sales manager of a company in later life, his major was not mechanics, but network engineering, which had nothing to do with mechanics. He did not go to an elite university, but just an ordinary second-tier university. After graduation, he did not work in his field, but found a company to run sales, which had nothing to do with his major. So it didn't take long for him to forget what he had learned.

What's more, there was no computer network in that era. It would take until the mid-1990s to access the Internet. Therefore, the professional knowledge he learned in later generations is of no use now!

So when he thought about how he should survive in this era until the reform and opening up, and strive to live a life without worries about food and clothing, he almost became depressed.

After staying at home and thinking hard for a long time, he finally thought of the hundreds of acres of abandoned medicinal fields in his own space. If he guessed correctly, those medicinal fields in the small world should be spiritual fields opened up by some powerful person, right?

Since the powerful can grow precious herbs in the spiritual fields of the small world, why doesn't he make use of those spiritual fields in the small world to grow some crops or fruits, or even raise some poultry or livestock?

If possible, then he can at least ensure that he won't have to rely on that pathetic salary and even have trouble eating meat.

After thinking of this idea, he immediately got busy. Taking advantage of his status as a nobody in the Siheyuan and having no sense of existence, he started sneaking out of the Siheyuan more than 20 days ago and collected food, vegetable seeds and various fruit tree seedlings everywhere in the city. He even went to the pigeon market to buy some chicks and ducklings, and threw them all into the small world.

But unfortunately, in the city of Sijiu, although he got some chickens and ducks from the Pigeon Market, he could not get any piglets or lambs, let alone calves. No one would take these piglets, lambs or calves to the Pigeon Market in the city to sell them. That was something only a fool would do.

If he wanted to get piglets, lambs or calves, he had to go out of the city to the villages outside the city to find a way to buy them. But then he encountered a problem. It was only a dozen years after the liberation, and the local control over the floating population was still very strict. No matter where he went, he had to have a letter of introduction and proof of work.

As a temporary unemployed vagrant, if he rashly went to the villages outside the city to buy piglets, lambs and calves, not only would no one sell them to him, but the militiamen in the village would also be no pushovers. Without a letter of introduction and a certificate of employment, they could not prove his legal identity and might arrest him as a spy or a profiteer.

So he could only stop trying for the time being, and wait for a chance to find a way to get a legitimate identity, and then go to the village outside the city to get a few pigs and lambs, and if possible, get two calves to raise in the small world.

Fortunately, although he couldn't get breeding pigs and sheep for the time being, he still got some chicks and ducklings. Later, he bought a few live rabbits at the pigeon market. After throwing them into the small world, Lin Geng discovered that these chicks, ducklings and rabbits were actually living quite well in the small world and growing very fast.

Even the wheat, millet, corn, rice seeds, sweet potatoes, and potatoes that he brought into the small world and planted in the spiritual fields all sprouted successfully and grew very quickly, far exceeding their growth rate in the outside world.

However, he soon discovered a new problem in the small world, that is, there was a serious shortage of water!

Originally there was a small lake or pond of several dozen acres here, which could be used to irrigate the spiritual fields and feed animals. The pond was replenished with water from the spiritual spring.

But now, although the spiritual spring in the small world has begun to produce water again, it can only seep out, and can only seep out about a mineral water bottle of water a day. It is impossible to replenish such a large pond. Therefore, even if the small world has recovered some vitality, it is still seriously short of water.

He brought crops to plant in the spiritual fields, and also brought chicks, ducklings and wild rabbits into the small world. These crops and small animals also needed water, and the spiritual spring water in the mineral water bottle that seeped out of the spiritual spring every day was not enough!

Besides, this amount of spiritual spring water was not enough for Lin Geng to drink, so how could he bear to use it to feed chickens, ducks and rabbits? It was even more impossible to use it to irrigate crops.

Lin Geng started to worry about this again. Fortunately, he was not stupid this time. He quickly realized that the water from the spiritual spring was not enough. Couldn't he collect things from the outside world into the small world? Then why didn't he directly collect the water from the outside world into the pond of the small world? Wouldn't it be able to meet the water needs of the plants and animals in the small world?

After figuring this out, he acted as soon as he said it and started to take action overnight. After dark, he climbed over the wall and headed straight for Qianhai, which was not far from their Nanluoguxiang. After running to the lakeside of Qianhai, he dived into the water and began to use his mind to draw large amounts of water from Qianhai into the pond of the small world.

He stayed by the water for a whole night, and only then was he able to barely fill one-fifth of the water into the pond of the small world.

After all, using the mind to collect things into the small world does require a consumption of mental energy. Normally, collecting a small amount of things into the small world does not feel too strenuous.

Now he had to fill a pond that was dozens of acres in size and several meters deep with water, which naturally consumed a lot of mental energy. After working all night, he was almost exhausted. When he returned to the courtyard, his face was pale and he really looked like a consumptive patient. So he did not attract anyone's attention and they thought he was still seriously ill!

This was also the reason why Yi Zhonghai dared to bring Jia Zhangshi and Jia Dongxu to his house the first night, and ordered him to give up the Lin family's house and "lend" it to the Jia family, and move to the dilapidated ear room in the yard where miscellaneous items were stored.

This went on for a whole week. Lin Geng sneaked to Qianhai every night to collect water. He was exhausted every day, but he finally filled up the big pond in the small world.

It was not until he filled the pond with water that he discovered that when he collected water from the small world, he also collected many fish and shrimps from the front sea into the pond of the small world.

This also solves the problem of eating fish in the future. If you want to eat fish, you don’t even have to go fishing by the river or lake outside. You can just catch one in the pond in the small world.

After solving the water problem in the small world, he began to observe the growth of plants and animals in the small world. After a few days of observation, he found that the growth rate of plants and animals in this small world was about seven to eight times that of the outside world. It could not reach ten times the growth rate, but it could exceed five times the growth rate.

That is to say, for example, it takes about one hundred to one hundred twenty days in the outside world for corn to be planted and mature and ready for harvest, but in the small world, it only takes about half a month from planting to harvesting.

It takes about twenty days to harvest wheat, which is a little longer than corn. The same goes for other crops, and the time is not much different.

As for the chicks and ducklings in the small world, it takes at least five or six months for them to hatch and start laying eggs in the outside world. The species of this era may take a little longer. However, the chicks and ducklings placed in the small world have grown into adults in just half a month, and have even started laying eggs. There is no problem killing them for meat, but he is not willing to kill a few to taste it for the time being. He plans to wait until a batch of them hatch and then kill them and eat them when they grow up.

The few live wild rabbits he bought were thrown into the small world. Because they were adult rabbits, two of the female rabbits gave birth to two litters of baby wild rabbits in less than a week, and they grew into half-grown rabbits in ten days. Although they were not yet old enough to continue mating and reproducing, they grew to three or four kilograms in the small world, which was similar in size to wild rabbits living in the wild, and could be killed for meat.