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"Maybe we can grow some specialty varieties like origin stone tea~" Although this kind of specialty varieties of the Star Alliance are basically worse than the original varieties by more than 01:30, except for a few lucky ones, only Some powerful ones are medicinal and economical crops.

"No one will drink it~" Yelena tilted her head, no one would drink origin stone tea, normal people would avoid this kind of thing, and infected people are looking for death.

"That's right, but after stripping the origin stone, maybe it's also very special?"

"I don't think...probably not." The white rabbit nodded seriously. This workshop does have the ability to filter out the source stones, but in that case, the flavor will definitely be destroyed to the extreme.

This is like why no one would eat the Originium Worm, even if the Originium was stripped off, no one would eat it, not to mention the problem of poison, even if it is not poisonous, you can’t eat it, it’s so unpalatable.

Those who eat poisonous mushrooms are risking their lives to taste the ultimate umami, and those who eat Originium worms, Yelena can only say that it is probably to make their own death more artistic.

"Okay, it's enough to try it. It's better to keep this thing and take it out later." Xia Lin put the rest of the tea away and re-sealed the box, but even after doing this series of treatments , if you want to ensure the taste, it is best to take it out and drink it within one or two years.

After the afternoon tea, the sky was getting dark, and it was time for dinner. The dinner was very simple, just the same seasoned mashed potatoes and cabbage soup.

However, in order to celebrate the initial consensus reached with the infected people on Ivan's side, and more importantly to celebrate the start of reclamation of the 20 acres of raw land outside the farm, a set of grilled chicken wings was added to the dining table. This simple dish is suitable for two people. I am very satisfied with everything.

"Slowly, the food will become more abundant. Speaking of which, I took a look at the herbs you collected last time, and some of them have properties close to the spice map I have on hand. If the toxicity test is okay, we can consider using them indoors. Part of incubator cultivation."

"Also, starting tomorrow, I'll teach you how to drive." It's impossible for Xia Lin to pin all his hopes on those infected people. He has cleared a large area of ​​land on both sides of the farm's entrance and exit roads, and used them for heavy plows to plow the land. The follow-up processing is still being completed on the production line, and it will almost be ready for use tomorrow.

And Xia Lin, the second tractor electric engine with higher horsepower, was half installed. Thanks to the scrap iron sent by those infected people, which contained a lot of rare metal elements, the process was so easy.When Yelena learns to drive, he can dismantle the walking tractor and replace it with a real agricultural tractor, the crawler tractor that can pull heavy plows.

Moreover, by adding a mechanical arm, it can be turned into a mini excavator, so that the speed of digging canals can also be greatly increased. After all, the workload of an excavator for one minute is enough for the two of them to work with a shovel for more than half an hour. up.

Under the night, a group of people silently appeared beside the bulletin board. After whispering for a while, they used the pencil in the wooden box next to the bulletin board to draw a circle on some of the lists according to the previous agreement. Take out the tools in the nearby shed and distribute them to each other and disperse again.

On the second day, about 30 stronger men appeared in the circled area and began to dig the stakes and roots without saying a word, while women and children wearing thick gloves were responsible for handling the bushes and thorns , has been busy until late at night before leaving.

Due to the insufficient food and nutrition of the infected, and the need to walk 70 kilometers to come to work, the rotation method is adopted. First, some selected shield guards who have no combat and training tasks lead stronger men nearby Set up a small camp, and then they work for a while and then the second group of people arrives and returns to the camp.

Both sides have tacitly maintained this kind of interaction method with a certain degree of alienation and estrangement. After all, the infected and Xia Lin lack mutual trust, and it is the best result to be able to get what they need from each other in this way.

It's really not difficult to drive a walking tractor. It only took a day, and the white rabbit was able to drive around by itself. The first time, Xia Lin asked her to drive him to check the situation on the construction site. I have to say , Ivan and the others did a good job. It took only two days to clean it up.

He moved two boxes of nutritional biscuits from the truck and placed them under the bulletin board, and then took away the tree roots, thorns, shrubs and other garbage that had been cleaned up and piled up in the designated area and processed them into fertilizer and nutritional cream.

After several months of felling, the woods around the farm had already vacated a large circle. Xia Lin cut down all the wood in sight without any distress. The densely packed tree stumps could only be cleared by manpower.

However, this work cannot be entrusted to those infected people, they can only be done by themselves, but as time goes by and the mutual trust between the two parties deepens, eventually the two fields will be connected together and become a real farm-scale planting area.

As time passed day by day, the weather gradually became warmer. The temperature soared from below zero to nearly [-] degrees, officially entering midsummer. What surprised the patriots was that the Ursas military did not take advantage of midsummer to launch military operations. However, he also enjoyed it.

Now the infected people already have a little food reserve in their hands. If they eat too many biscuits, they will not feel very comfortable in their stomachs, and they are difficult to eat. However, they can be full and have balanced nutrition, which is his greatest advantage.

The Patriots took this rare opportunity to prepare their shield guards for a while, so that the wounded would not have to travel all the way, and the carefully selected infected recruits would also have time to train.

Veterans who have been using Originium skills for a long time and at high load don't need to squeeze their little life, and can give their overwhelmed bodies a little relief and recovery time.

"Finally, the grain filling has begun." Xia Lin stood in the No. 15 greenhouse. The five layers of rice in front of her had already entered the most critical grain filling period, and the blue ears of rice were shaking slightly. After about [-] days, the grains were fully mature and changed. Hanging for golden yellow, it is the time of harvest.

During this period, special attention should be paid to the management of water and fertilizer. About 7 to 8 days before harvest, he has to reduce the water supply to keep the root system in a state of thin water, that is, when the husk turns yellow and the wax ripening period begins to perform water drainage. .

He grows half of each type of rice, half of which is used for eating with a yield close to 2 tons, and the other half is used for sowing in the wild outside with a yield close to 450 tons. Without careful field management, the yield is about 600~ 650 kg, if fine field management and proper water and fertilizer are added, it can reach 800 kg or more, and the highest can reach more than [-] kg.

However, this kind of super rice that claims to be able to grow by throwing it in the field does not need to be too meticulously managed to increase the yield.

For raw land, he plans to plant corn and potatoes that are resistant to poor land first, then soybeans and peas, and then wheat and rice.The reason for not planting rice at the beginning is that rice consumes a lot of water, and this place is permafrost. It is estimated that it should not be too wasteful to plant in the wild. Honestly, corn and potatoes will start, and then the legumes will be planted in rotation. On rice wheat.

As for things like buckwheat and millet, let’s wait for these to mature. The output of these two things is so sad that it is a waste of land and fertilizer if they are planted on the ground.

Therefore, this batch of resistant super rice will continue to be bred and seedling-raised, and planted in paddy fields paved with synthetic soil on the farm to further expand the number of seeds and allow them to initially adapt to the local climate before transplanting to the outside habitat.

Similarly, whether it is wheat, soybean or corn, breeding is required to increase the number of seeds, and the number of seeds he has on hand is not enough for large-scale sowing at one time.These were originally used to establish a special breeding farm for mass production of seeds. Otherwise, it would not be enough to completely fill the airborne pod with this amount to complete the sowing of a farm the size of half a planet.

And this is only the first batch. According to the plan, in the next few years, regular transport ships passing by Colony No. 14 every month will drop different numbers of airdrop cargo compartments to supplement more seeds. However, Xia Lin only has such a few seeds now. , expanding the number of seeds is the first priority.

Seven or eight days of hard work almost passed by in the blink of an eye, and it entered the real busy farming time. The reservoir has been dug, and Yelena is responsible for driving the tractor all day to check the condition of the cooperative land there, and then send them to New supplies.

Xia Lin was not worried about her safety, because she was required to come back before the afternoon every time, and if there was something wrong, she would shoot directly and reinforce the cockpit of the tractor.

Xia Lin is in charge of watching the millet that has entered the wax ripening period around the clock, watching the greenness on the back of the millet fade away little by little, from green to waxy white to slightly yellow, it is the time to open the sickle.

The white rabbit who went to supervise the work was also called back. The two were wearing long-sleeved overalls and each wearing a knitted hat, standing between the plants like golden waves, "I taught you how to use it?"

"Yes." The white rabbit nodded and raised the sickle in his hand.

"Very good, I'm in charge of the left side, and you are in charge of the right side, let's start!" Harvesting rice is a very hard job, because it is grown in a small greenhouse, and he does not have an agricultural drone, so he can only harvest it manually.

The only advantage is the indoor planting field. Once he closes the sunshade on the roof and turns on the air conditioner, it will be much cooler. There is no need to worry about the grain falling off early due to water evaporation, and there is no need to worry about a heavy rain that will ruin the harvest.

The sickle quickly cuts the bundles of rice, and cuts them upside down in the order of four or five bundles and throws them on the aisle in the middle. After cutting a row, tie the bundles of rice with fiber ropes and hang them upside down on the rack to dry.

After all the five layers and ten rows on both sides are cut, under the irradiation of the directional reflector lamp, the preparation for threshing begins, which does not need to be done manually.

Bunches of grains are stuffed into the machine, listening to the sound of the machine, the yellow-white grains roll down into the polymer frame like a golden waterfall, accumulating inch by inch.

The heavy ears of grain are transformed into hills of grains represented by two colors. The part in the blue frame can be directly sent to dry and husked to become edible white rice, while the part in the red frame needs to be sent to the breeding cabin , develop into new seedlings.

Chapter 21 The cook

"Is this just rice? It's so strange." Yelena stretched out her fingers to touch the brown rice that had undergone preliminary husking in the frame, and the plump grains of rice flowed into small whirlpools with her delicate and delicate fingers, smooth and delicate The hand feel makes people a little fond of it, and even has a faint grain fragrance when pulling out the palm.

"This is untreated brown rice, and it needs to be poured in again for processing." Xia Lin doesn't plan to process it into polished white rice. In order not to get beriberi, it's okay to keep a part of the brown rice properly.

Rice milling and tsubaki rice is an extremely labor-intensive task. In ancient times, it could almost be regarded as a kind of torture as a punishment for crime. Even in the era of mechanization, the proper processing of rice grains requires a compromise in terms of technology and time. things.

Urban residents who have never experienced agricultural production, especially those petty bourgeois white-collar workers, will not understand how much work and hard work the white rice in supermarkets and grain and oil stores has to go through before they can buy it at such a cheap price.

"It's been almost half a year, and I can finally eat decent rice." Xia Lin was so moved that tears filled his eyes. As a resident of the Interstellar Era, his eating habits are the same as most of the Star Alliance people. Rice and pasta are my favorites - but potatoes and cabbage are not a serious meal!

"Rice?" Yelena looked at him curiously, and then she pinched the rabbit's ears, "Hurry up and get the bag, it's about to be packed."

Since the amount of rice is not too much, not counting the reserved part, the rest is about a ton, so there is no need to build a special barn.

After filling it with the kind of woven bag commonly used in rice shops, it is enough to pile it up in the free space of the workshop warehouse. Each 50 kg rice bag contains 20, and more than half of the bag of rice is used for the next meal.

However, before eating, Xia Lin took out new seeds from the warehouse and started planting them in the greenhouse. This time, it was soybeans. Again, the amount of seeds he had was not enough for large-scale sowing, so he used the greenhouse first regardless of the advantages of the season. Expanding seed volumes is necessary in preparation for reclamation.

Ordinary soybeans take about four and a half months to mature. Star Alliance soybeans for pioneer use have been genetically modified to have more developed root nodules and better nitrogen fixation, so it takes longer to grow to improve the soil.

Its original design object is to deal with lunar planting. The lunar soil has no organic matter and cannot be planted directly. Therefore, using this improved legume and high-pressure nitrogen chamber, as well as some appropriate additive sprays, the lunar soil, especially The crushed lunar rocks after mining will gradually turn into plantable soil within 3~4 years.

The price of such a powerful function is that the growth cycle of this batch of soybeans is more than 180 days, which is about half a year. However, he also planted some fast-growing soybean varieties for making condiments, which only takes three and a half months. Harvest, the yield is not high, and the adaptability to diseases and insect pests and soil is also poor.

The expansion of corn started in the greenhouse where potatoes were planted before, while potatoes, cabbage, cabbage, radishes, green peppers, tomatoes and eggplants have all been moved to the third greenhouse newly built in the past one and a half months, which is also the largest and simplest of a greenhouse.

Relying on airgel insulation and carbon fiber panels, metal frames and a small amount of foamed aluminum to build a giant greenhouse like a hangar.

A layer of airgel is sandwiched between double-layer carbon fiber corrugated panels, without any internal complex automation equipment and temperature control equipment. In this semi-cylindrical greenhouse with a height of three floors, which is close to 10 meters, about 1/3 of the area has been covered. These vegetables were planted.

However, the larger space was still empty. In order to avoid the loss of insulation effect caused by the too empty space, Xia Lin had to add a separate plastic film greenhouse for the vegetables in the greenhouse.

Then he will add more synthetic soil planting platforms, then build scaffolding and aerial walkways so that new crops can be planted on the second level, then the third level, the fourth level, and finally the top level.

In addition to growing normal crops, it can also be used to grow some tenacious ornamental plants and economic crops, such as various flowers and dye plants.

It is still used to grow various vegetables. For example, Xia Lin is now building a wooden frame for the newly sprouted tomatoes and eggplants. Bamboo should have been used, but that thing...is not used on the snowy field. Count on it.

After carefully tying up the last bundle of shelves, the sunlight shining through the transparent ceiling was already rose red. Xia Lin straightened up and wiped off his sweat, took a shower in the attached bathroom, changed into protective clothing and walked out of the greenhouse.

These vegetables will mature in about 2~3 months and can be served on the table, but now there are only cabbage and mushrooms newly added to the table. Well, as the weather gets warmer, Xia Lin has successfully put several kinds of local edible mushrooms into the table. After the hair came out, the mushrooms grew very fast, and they could grow in almost one or two days and nights.

With the addition of edible fungi cultivated by the Star Alliance, various mushrooms, potatoes and cabbage are the main ingredients. Of course, eggs and chicken must be added to celebrate the rice harvest.

After returning to the workshop, Xia Lin first went to look at the six animals in the artificial womb. The fastest growing ones had already taken shape. However, it would take at least half a year before they could be released for breeding. Work for about a year.

That is to say, if cost, extravagance and waste are not considered, they will be able to eat maozi-style goulash at the latest in the second half of winter at the latest. However, if they really want to eat goulash, if they cannot buy it from the locals Cattle, then at least two or three years later, they will be in groups.

But at that time, the meat production line in the workshop came in handy. According to the observations in the past few months, Xia Lin felt that the Star Alliance-style canned beef stew with potatoes should be very popular in the local area.

"Boom!" A round machine that was still steaming was placed on the kitchen table, and Yelena came out with a plate of baked potato chips, looking at it curiously, "What is this?"

For the Star Alliance, "rice cooker" is one of the electrical appliances with the longest history in human beings. Even refrigerators have changed from refrigeration principle to structure for several generations. Still nothing has changed and still glows in every household cooker.

Opening the thick cover, a smell of new rice came to the face along with the hot air, "It smells so good!" Yelena sniffed her nose. For those who lack food and have tasted real "hunger", the taste of white rice The sweet aroma is extremely strong.

Ah, modern people say that rice is not as fragrant as it used to be. A small part of it is the problem of rice. Most of the problem is that you are not hungry in the past. All kinds of non-staple food, snacks and condiments have already made your tongue and stomach sick—don’t believe it In this case, please try to cook a pot of rice after fasting or fasting for 3 days.

Put a large spoonful of steaming rice into the bowl, and then pour the brown mushroom soup, using the Star Alliance specialty fresh mushrooms and several local miscellaneous bacteria, plus minced chicken and chicken broth to cook the taste of the mushroom soup Delicious and sweet, rich in a variety of mineral elements and vitamins that are beneficial to the human body.

Moreover, these fungi of the Star Alliance grow fast, do not pick the substrate, and can also reduce the load on the decomposition tank, turning the local soil and sawdust into new soil-because it is imported from the Zerg, more precisely, it is "customized" "—the prototype is used to lay creep for the swarm to eat.

Of course, the calorie content of mushrooms is extremely low. Even insects that can digest cellulose cannot survive entirely on this kind of thing. The most important thing is to transform the soil. To be honest, about 20% of the agricultural technology and products of the Star Alliance Some parts need to be marked with Zerg patents.

The dark brown soup quickly soaks into the soft and glutinous rice, blending with the sweetness of the grains, and the rice soaked in the mushroom soup becomes easier to chew, and every bite has a wonderful taste.

“This is delicious, I have never eaten such delicious food”

"Ah, the output is still very high. Ah, let's talk about this, next time you go and inform Ivan that they can come and trade some of the rice." Although they can still eat nutritious biscuits, the taste of the nutritious biscuits and rice is still very good. It's hard to compare.

"Okay" the white rabbit nodded. As the farm staff responsible for the inspection work, she was a little familiar with some infected people. Although the two sides were still separated by a certain distance, they worked silently and carried food and supplies silently. Now when I go in and out, I will give a little nod or wave my hand or something.

Camp Valley, "We have to get out of here." Patriot tidied up the papers on his desk, "We can't stay any longer, we'll cause trouble for them." "Dad?"

"I have a hunch." The patriot patted Ivan on the shoulder, "You take a few people to stay, guide the infected to disperse and seek refuge, and then follow up after making sure it's safe."

"Yes" Ivan nodded, without further doubts, the shield guards were maintained entirely by the patriot's prestige alone.

"By the way, on the farm side, you should also pay attention, don't let the infected people conflict with each other, and...forget it." The Patriot originally wanted to say that he could consider developing it into one of his support bases , But after thinking about it, I decided to forget it. In this world, especially in Ursus, there are three major mountains between them.

The first major mountain is infection, and it is also the biggest one. Normal people would not want to live and live with infected people, even if the other party does not discriminate against infected people, it is for the sake of their own safety.

The second is interest. Although the cooperation is quite pleasant these days, it is based on the exchange of interests. It is impossible for the guerrillas to provide the interests that the other party wholeheartedly supports. There hasn't been any real progress in the friendship, so it's better not to mention this matter.

The third is the threat. If you get too close to the guerrillas, the Ursas officials will not let go of such a stronghold. Once they bring huge troubles and terrible military threats to the other party, then they will choose to do it. It's easy to understand what's going on.

Patriots don't want to have fewer supporters at all, and they don't want to execute traitors who betrayed the shield guards in the future. That is not something to be happy about. Happening.

"What is the military doing..." Patriot leaned on his shield and looked at the vast woodland outside the valley, a little puzzled. It can be said that it is winter, those officers and nobles will not want to leave their luxurious manors and mobile castles when it is freezing.

But now it is the midsummer season, and it is time for the Ursus army to enter the snowfield to clean up the guerrillas as a matter of routine. This is not only to complete the task, but also their way of "generating income". Villages and small towns that complain about the various fees imposed are sources of income.

To use the classic lines: They don't have the courage to fight guerrilla warfare with the shield guards in Xuelin, but they not only have the courage to continue to use the guise of guerrillas to make money, but they are also very brave!

And the patriots who are familiar with these people have this kind of ominous premonition. What made the several armies of Ursus give up this money-making business, or they found a better and more urgent way to make money. The source and the urgency of this matter is still in combating the destruction of the mine by the guerrillas.

You must know that the behind-the-scenes bosses of these mines are either the royal family, or wealthy businessmen under the patronage of the royal family, and those well-versed Originium merchants and mining groups. They will urge these Ursus warlords to work.

And if these people are to be appeased and replaced with this money-making project, it means that they have a greater and more important benefit output. In the world of Terra, there is only one possibility for this kind of benefit output—they find The new relics of the ancestors have been found, and they are being excavated-for this excavation work, the income of the mine can be completely given up.

And if they hadn't found a better way to make money, then they were going to hold back a big wave and completely eliminate the guerrillas and resistance forces from all walks of life. The reason was the same. The forces behind the mines finally couldn't sit still.

No matter which one it is, it means that the patriots must leave here immediately. If they are excavating relics, it means that they will take advantage of the midsummer traffic recovery to transport more infected people, and if there are not enough infected people, then they will Focus on the surrounding ordinary villages.