Cats grow fields in the apocalyptic wasteland

The temperature changes rapidly in autumn. Xia Lunong and the others were still wearing short-sleeved and thin coats yesterday, and when they woke up, the north wind was already blowing outside.

When Xia Lunong brushed her teeth, her hands and feet were covered with goose bumps, and the color of the skin on the back of her hands changed.

Kong Zhi poured the washing water for him, pushed him into the room, "Go and change into a set of long-sleeved pajamas."

"Okay." Xia Lunong rubbed her arms vigorously, "I'm so cold, the temperature drops so fast. Speaking of which, I wonder how my brother and the others are doing outside?"

"They mostly use animal form for activities, so they shouldn't be cold."

"Yes." Xia Lunong prayed, "I hope they all go well."

Xia Lunong ran to the room, did not change into her pajamas, but directly changed into a set of casual clothes, and put on a sweater jacket.

Wearing it like this made him look even smaller.

Kong Zhi bowed his head and kissed him, "The clothes look good."

"The main reason is that people are good-looking." Xia Lunong smiled, "You wash the dishes, I'll go out and see Xia Huajiao."

Xia Zanthoxylum stood obediently in a corner of the yard, the wind rustled its crown.

The same is true for other pepper trees, all dancing in the strong wind.

Xia Lunong put his hands on the trunk of the pepper tree and asked, "Is it cold?"

The Zanthoxylum bungeanum tree shook its canopy, and made a sound of "咻咻", indicating that it was not cold.

Zanthoxylum bungeanum belongs to deciduous trees, and Xia Lunong was a little worried that its leaves would fall out sooner or later, and it would be hit by that time.

However, it turned out that Xia Lunong was thinking too much. Not only was Xia Huajiao unaffected, but she was also very excited. The branches swayed in the cold wind, making a child with ADHD.

Xia Lunong originally wanted to wrap the lower part of the pepper tree trunk with straw to help it keep warm. Seeing it like this, she couldn't help but smile.

Xia Lunong patted the trunk of Xia Zanthoxylum bungeanum, made sure it was all right, and then went to the backyard to see the honeysuckle.

Honeysuckle is an evergreen plant, so the cold wind is not a problem at all. Feeling Xia Lunong, it stretched out its branches to curl Xia Lunong's ankles, very energetic.

The two little ones in the family are not afraid of the cold wind, Xia Lunong heaved a sigh of relief, and now he is in the mood to check other plants, the other plants are basically fine, and the leaves are still very good.

He turned around and returned to the kitchen, Kong Zhi had already cut the vegetables.

Seeing him come back, Kong Zhi said: "The temperature has just started to cool down now, so basically there won't be any problems."

"I hope. After dinner, shall we go to see the pigs and cows?" Xia Lunong said, "It's cold, we have to go over there to see if there is anything we need to do."

Kong Zhi nodded, "I'll bring some kitchen waste to feed the chickens later."

Xia Lunong made a "no problem" gesture.

There are only two of them at home, breakfast is very simple, order noodles casually.

Their flour is all from home-grown wheat and tastes really good.

Even if you don't put anything, just clear water noodles, two people can each eat a big bowl, now add some green vegetables, add an egg, and a spoonful of oily chili, the taste will be even better.

After the two had breakfast, they carried the kitchen waste in buckets to the pigsty.

It was only early in the morning, but Zheng Linguang had already fed the pigs.

These pigs weigh at least a hundred catties, one or two are plump, their bodies are pink and dry, and they look very attractive.

Xia Lunong stood outside the pigsty and pointed: "We should be able to eat pork this year. We will kill the biggest one during the Chinese New Year."

Kong Zhi took a follow-up look, "Killing after Chinese New Year? Aren't we going to make some bacon in advance?"

Xia Lunong shook her head, "It's better to say goodbye, how much bacon have we eaten this year? Wait until the Chinese New Year to see if there is any more pork. If there is, it is not too late to make bacon."

When they were talking, He Shuhui came over.

The young man was a little shy, seeing them greet each other, "Brother Kong Zhi, Brother Xiao Xia, are you here?"

Xia Lunong smiled and said, "It's cold, let's come over and see how the cows are doing, do you want to get something?"

He Shuhui looked at the cow pen, nodded, and really made a suggestion, "The ground is getting colder and colder, can we put some straw on the ground? It is convenient for the cow to lie on the ground."

While talking, he saw Xia Lunong's face, and quickly added: "I think they may be afraid of the cold. If there is no straw, it shouldn't matter if they don't lay it."

Xia Lunong patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Your suggestion is very valuable. We have made a note of it. We will seize the time to get some straw to lay it over in the next few days. Is there anything else?"

He Shuhui was embarrassed, lowered his head and said, "I haven't thought of it yet."

Xia Lunong encouraged him with a smile, "Then do you have any suggestions, you can come and tell us anytime you think of it, and you can also come and play with us when you have nothing to do."

He Shuhui glanced at Kong Zhi quickly, responded and said, "Then I'll go herd cattle."

"Go." Xia Lunong said, "Let's take a look here again."

Xia Lunong and Kong Zhi watched him drive the cattle to herd.

These calves have grown up for so long, and they have meat on their bodies, and they look half-grown. It is quite scary to drive out such a group of bulls.

Xia Lunong turned her head and said to Kong Zhi: "These calves have grown so big, shouldn't it be time to wear nose rings? Otherwise, they may lose control in the future."

Kong Zhi said: "We can discuss it after Brother Huo Qu and the others come back."

Xia Lunong nodded, and went next door with him to see the chickens, ducks and geese they raised.

Their chickens, ducks and geese have been free-range, and they just wander around, pecking at small caterpillar grass leaves and so on. They are considered free-range chickens.

There are many eyes and ears in the base, and these chickens are generally not lost, and the taste will be better.

It was cold today, and when they passed by, the group of chickens, ducks and geese rarely ran around, and all huddled under the trees.

The north wind blows their fur flying.

The hens seem to be particularly afraid of the cold, they are all huddled together, their eyes are squinted by the blowing, and they look listless and pitiful.

Xia Lunong couldn't bear it, "It's better to drive them all to the chicken coop, it will be troublesome if you catch a cold."

"Alright. I'll tell Aunt Zheng later and ask her to help feed it at noon."

After checking the livestock, the two returned home after making sure there was nothing wrong.

It was still early, Xia Lunong thought about what to do in the next few days, and said to Kong Zhi: "How about we go out to see how the honeysuckle is doing? I haven't seen it for a long time, and I don't know how it is growing. "

Kong Zhi glanced at the time, "Bring a meal, or go directly after eating?"

"Bring rice!" Xia Lunong recalled, "I haven't had a picnic outside for a long time, why don't we bring some materials to do it outside, and when we finish the work, we just have dinner outside to enjoy the autumn, how about it?"

Kong Zhi didn't object.

Xia Lunong looked at the ingredients at home, and decided to take a few more sweet potatoes out to stew sweet potatoes outside.

Apart from sweet potatoes, there is nothing good in the house.

Xia Lunong said with some regret: "When we went to the chicken ring just now, it would be great if we caught a chicken and brought it back. Now we can take a chicken and roast it outside."

Kong Zhi said: "Wait. I'll go and catch it now."

Xia Lunong thought for a while, "That's fine, then I'll go to Brother Liu to exchange some soybeans, and then I will plant some soybeans near Honeysuckle. I have been talking about planting soybeans for so long, but I have never planted them."

Kong Zhi tilted his head and asked, "In this weather, is there still time to plant soybeans?"

Xia Lunong said: "It's definitely too late to grow ordinary soybeans, the temperature is not enough. I have my ability now. It should be no problem to use the ability a few more times. Anyway, the value of soybeans is not high, and you can get a few catties in exchange for just a few things." .”

Kong Zhi no longer objected, and split up with him, each went to work.

Kong Zhi moved very fast. When Xia Lunong came back, he had already handled the chicken, "What are we going to do now, take the chicken out?"

"Marinate it first, otherwise the chicken may be tasteless. Wait a minute, I'll go upstairs and get two lotus root."

There are plenty of sauces at home. Xia Lunong adjusted the secret sauce, rubbed it on the inside and outside of the chicken, and stuffed lotus root and potatoes into the chicken belly.

Even if such a chicken is marinated, he wraps it in lotus leaves, and when he goes out, he mixes some mud to wrap the outside, and then he can put it in the fire to make kiln chicken.

The two are ready to go out.

Kong Zhi turned into a giant golden eagle in the yard.

Charon climbed onto his back.

Kong Zhi's animal shape is bigger now, he carries more on his back, and flies more stably. With Xia Lunong on his back, he can stabilize his figure very easily. Sometimes he doesn't even need a safety rope to hold his neck firmly , there is no need to worry about being dropped.

Kong Zhi waited for him to sit down, flapped his wings and took off, directly flying out of the base.

The guards on the city wall saw their figures and simply made a registration.

Kong Zhi was extremely fast, and he flew down the mountain, but it took about ten minutes.

They quickly found the location of the honeysuckle.

Xia Lunong has cleaned up the weeds near the honeysuckle many times, and now looking back, the weeds are growing lush again, with no effect at all.

Xia Lunong climbed down Kong Zhi's back and sighed, "The vitality of these weeds is really too tenacious."

"It's just a good time to cut this piece of weeds back to feed the cows." Kong Zhi put on his clothes, "If you don't want to feed the cows, you can cut the grass and use it to make a fire and cook later. It just so happens that the grass is almost withered."

Xia Lunong said: "Then burn it, and use these ashes to fertilize the field so that we can grow soybeans."

After he finished speaking, he went to look at the honeysuckle. The honeysuckle was growing well, and the vines had already climbed very long, but he had no self-awareness.

It grows there silently like any ordinary plant, except that it grows more luxuriantly and faster than ordinary honeysuckle, it doesn't look special.

Xia Lunong looked around carefully, a little disappointed but also a little relieved, input a little power into Honeysuckle, and left it alone.

The two put on labor protection gloves and started mowing directly.

There are many weeds nearby, most of which are withered and yellow.

The sickle cut across and cut down a large area at once. Xia Lunong straightened up to look at it, feeling a sense of accomplishment.

The two piled the cut grass in the center, and cleared enough space around it, then threw the chicken and sweet potatoes wrapped in mud into the grass pile, and directly lit the fire to start burning.

There was some dry grass mixed in the grass, and when a fire was lit, the fire was not very strong, but a puff of smoke came out instead.

The two watched the fire to prevent it from burning elsewhere, while dealing with the grass roots in the open space.

Digging grass roots is a laborious job, and there is no way to be lazy in this job, you can only dig hard with one hoe.

The current environment in the field is not good, and the soil is relatively dry. The roots of these weeds are drilled deeply, and they are entangled underneath. Almost all grass roots are under the soil surface, and it is not easy to dig them up.

Xia Lunong dug for a while and then began to pant.

His physical fitness is not bad, but doing this is too exhausting.

The two didn't bother to talk at all, they just worked in silence.

It took the two of them more than two hours to clean up the grass roots in a mere [-] to [-] square meters of land.

After clearing the grass roots, this piece of land is basically dug up.

Xia Lunong looked up, wiped his sweat and panted and said, "Yes, we did two tasks at once, so we don't need to dig the ground later."

Kong Zhi said: "After the fire is extinguished, wetting the ash inside with water, and then mix the ash evenly with the soil."

"Let's talk about this later, I'm exhausted, I need to take a rest." Xia Lunong supported her waist, and took a hoe to turn over the fire, "The roast chicken should be cooked."

As he spoke, he used a hoe to pull out the big lump of mud from the fire, and he also used a hoe to pull out a few sweet potatoes that were burnt black.

The sweet potatoes were very hot and had to be cooled before eating. He opened the chicken first.

He knocked open the hardened lump of mud, which contained yellow-brown lotus leaves.

The lotus leaves also exude a curl of heat, mixed with a fragrance, which smells very attractive.

Xia Lunong took a deep breath, and reached out to untie the rope on the lotus leaf.

His fingertips were red from the heat, and he retracted his hands from time to time to pinch his ears, and then continued to dismantle them after a while.

Seeing him like this, Kong Zhi said, "If it's really too hot, wait a while and then take it apart, come here and have a rest first."

"It's not hot, it's bearable." Xia Lunong blew on her hand, standing upwind and said, "It's so windy and cold today, it'll be cool in a while."

Kong Zhi walked over and gently grabbed his waist, "I'll do it."

"It's not the same whoever comes, aren't you afraid of being burned?"

"It's different. I'm here because my hand hurts, not my heart."

Xia Lunong raised her head, with smiles in her eyes, and lightly slapped him with her elbow, "To be honest, you used to major in Chinese language and literature, right? Why do you say this one after another, I can't even tell you."

"I major in aeronautical engineering." Kong Zhi said indifferently, "Naturally, I can't say it to others, but it's just my heart to you."

Xia Lunong stretched out her hands to cover her face, bowed and clasped her fists to salute him, and said solemnly: "I lost. Sao|but."

Kong Zhi also had a smile on his face, he opened the lotus leaf, and the unique fragrance of muscles wafted out immediately.

Xia Lunong immediately couldn't care less about talking, and hurriedly poked her head to look.

I saw that the chicken skin was an attractive sauce color, with oily shine and steam on it. The smell alone was enough to make people salivate.

Xia Lunong immediately took out the disposable gloves next to her, "Quick, quick, we're ready to eat chicken."

Kong Zhi responded, put on his gloves, opened the chicken, and divided it into several large pieces.

In the process of splitting, the aroma of the chicken becomes more intense.

Their chicken was simmered just right, with gravy on it.

Look at the light yellow chicken, the meat should be very tender and firm.

After Kong Zhi divided the chicken, he handed the chicken wings to Xia Lunong, "Eat slowly, be careful of burning!"

Xia Lunong took it, "Let's go together."

Xia Lunong has always felt that chicken wings are the essence of a chicken.

He took a bite of the chicken wings. The chicken wings were very tender, tender and fragrant. The sauce on it was the essence of the essence. The sauce was slightly salty and slightly spicy, and it matched the chicken just right.

This chicken is a local chicken raised by them. It is usually fed with coarse grains and forage worms.

The most important thing is that eating chicken in this way can realize the desire to eat meat to the greatest extent.

After Xia Lunong finished eating a chicken wing, she felt an indescribable satisfaction in her whole body.

Kong Zhi gave him another chicken wing.

Xia Lunong waved his hand, "Try it too, the taste of chicken wings is different from other parts."

Kong Zhi gave him a big chicken leg instead, "Then eat the chicken leg."

The chicken simmered in this way is also a must.

The meat of the chicken drumsticks is very tender, without any fibrous feeling. When you bite it down, the delicious gravy splashes out, which is hot and fragrant.

Xia Lunong raised her head and puffed, feeling that she was extremely happy.

After eating the chicken drumsticks, he tasted the lotus root and potatoes inside.

The diced lotus root is crispy, tender and sweet, and the potatoes are soft and glutinous. Even in the same chicken belly, they have completely different flavors, but they are all excellent.

Xia Lunong ate half full in one breath, and said with emotion, "I'm really a culinary genius."

Kong Zhi peeled the sweet potatoes for him, "Taste the sweet potatoes while they are hot."

What they bring out today are sweet potatoes, which are much sweeter than ordinary sweet potatoes.

After breaking open, the inside is orange-yellow sweet potato flesh, which almost oozes when it is steaming.

Xia Lunong took a sip, and the sweet potato was too delicious.

Not only is it fragrant and sweet, but it also has the unique smoke and fire of roasted sweet potatoes, which matches the cool autumn, which is absolutely perfect.

Xia Lunong took a bite of chicken, a bite of sweet potato, a bite of diced lotus root, and a bite of potato, and he soon got full, and Kong Zhi took care of the rest.

After the two of them finished eating, Xia Lunong felt warm all over his body, squinting his eyes a little drowsy in the autumn wind.

Kong Zhi said: "Go and sleep on the grass next to you for a while, I will deal with this fire."

Xia Lunong refused, "Let's come together, put out the fire early, mix the ashes into the soil early, and go home to take a nap after finishing."

Kong Zhi said: "That's fine, then you watch the fire here, and I'll go over there to fetch water."

When they use fire in the wild, they really have to be more careful, especially be careful not to let the sparks fly out. This kind of situation cannot be separated from people at all.

Xia Lunong nodded, "Then I'll wait for you here."

Xia Lunong was not idle when she was waiting at the spot, she dug up the nearby soil with a hoe, and built a low wall around the fire.

After building up in this way, when you wash it with water, you won't wash the ashes with sparks everywhere.

Kong Zhi quickly picked up the water, and the two of them worked together to pour the water onto the fire, and then dug soil nearby to mix with the ashes.

After the two checked and made sure that the fire was completely extinguished, they scattered the ashes into the nearby soil.

These ash will become the first base fertilizer for this piece of soil.

With this base fertilizer, soybeans must grow very well.

The next thing is easy to do.

Xia Lunong sprinkled soybeans on the land that had just been reclaimed today, used supernatural powers to spawn them, and then brought water to soak the land.

Under the urging of the supernatural power, the soybeans quickly sprouted small chubby shoots, and also grew a root system, which deeply penetrated into the ground.

Xia Lunong looked it over, and made sure that these soybeans would grow into tender seedlings when they came back tomorrow.

He nodded in satisfaction, yawned and said to Kong Zhi: "Let's go back first, just come and have a look tomorrow."

Kong Zhi pinched the back of his neck, "Have you run out of abilities?"

"It's over." Xia Lunong leaned on him and said lazily, "I'm so sleepy that I can barely open my eyes."

"Then let's go back first and bring you over to check tomorrow."

"Okay." Xia Lunong said, "Tomorrow, let's see how they look. Some of the thin ones can be pulled out and fried for some bean sprouts."

Xia Lunong likes to eat bean sprouts, especially those freshly grown in the field, which are green, tender and very refreshing.

He said: "I don't know if my brother and the others will come back tomorrow. If they want to come back tomorrow, we can exchange some bean sprouts and go to the cafeteria for some other meat to cook in hot pot."

Kong Zhi packed up his things, "Even if you don't come back tomorrow, you should come back the day after tomorrow. If you want to eat hot pot, just wait until they come back."

"It makes sense, it just so happens that there are hot pot ingredients at home." Xia Lunong said, "The hot pot ingredients have been stored for so long, and I haven't had a formal hot pot meal yet. It's a pity to think about it."

"The autumn and winter livestock are fattened, we can eat slowly." Kong Zhi took off his clothes and handed them to him, "Let's go back."

As he said that, he transformed back into a golden eagle, and turned his head to signal Xia Lunong to climb up.

Xia Lunong skillfully climbed onto his back, fixed all the tools, hugged his neck and said, "It's time to take off."

The golden eagle uttered a cry, and flapped its wings, carrying him directly up the mountain.

It only took them more than ten minutes to go back, and it was already past three o'clock in the afternoon when they returned to the base.

Kong Zhi said: "You sleep for a while, I'll go to the field to have a look. If you want to eat at night, I'll bring some food back."

"You can eat whatever you want. I'm already satisfied at noon. You can take it with you. Vegetables are fine, and you don't need to change the meat."

Kong Zhi nodded, "Go to sleep, I'll call you back."

Xia Lunong would be very tired every time he ran out of powers, hearing that he was not reluctant, and went back to his room to sleep with a yawn.

He fell down on the bed, wrapped himself in a quilt and slept until after six o'clock in the afternoon. Kong Zhi had already returned, but his brother and the others hadn't returned yet.

Xia Lunong made some food casually, the two of them finished their meal, washed up early and went back to sleep.

This sleep is a verb.

Young people, dry wood and fire, needless to say the intensity.

The next day, Xia Lunong slept until the sun was high and didn't get up. Anyway, there were only the two of them at home, so Xia Lunong didn't feel guilty at all.

They got up too late today, so the two simply finished their lunch before going to the wasteland reclaimed yesterday.

When they got to the field, Xia Lunong excitedly jumped off Kong Zhi's back, planning to pull some bean sprouts and eat hot pot tonight or tomorrow.

Unexpectedly, I ran over to take a look, and saw that sporadic weeds had grown on the wasteland reclaimed yesterday, but there were no bean sprouts.

He was stunned, he opened his arms and said to Kong Zhi in a daze, "Where's our bean sprouts? Did they come to the wrong place?"

Kong Zhi frowned and looked over.

Sure enough, the soybeans planted yesterday were all gone. Even if the soil was dug up, there were no shadows of bean sprouts or soybeans. Instead, there were some round black feces.

Some small animal should have come last night or this morning and eaten their bean sprouts.

Kong Zhi said: "It should be eaten, come and see this."

Xia Lunong also came to his senses, looking at the black feces, he gritted his teeth bitterly.

Just now he thought it was ash in the soil, but he didn't expect it to be the trace left by a thief!