Chapter 55 p1
“…Alright, let’s talk about something good,” Xie Muzhi choked, but he quickly nodded helplessly. “But it’s true, business isn’t good. Now, the fish we can catch are basically all piranhas. They have a lot of bacteria, and the cost of eating them is high. Everyone is worried about a food shortage, so they’re all desperately hoarding grain. Who would be willing to trade grain? So I gave them a vacation.”
Of course, there were other reasons, which he would talk about later.
While waiting for the water to boil, he took out the things he had brought one by one. “Here are the seeds. I’ve gotten some of each kind. You can try planting them first. This is for the ice jelly. The planting instructions are all here. These are medicines for external injuries. The water pollution is too serious now. If you have a wound, apply this first…”
Ji Yang squatted on the side, her face full of anticipation.
After Xixi had finished the meat in its mouth, it also ran over to watch with its owner.
The seeds were packed in small bags. Each kind seemed to have about a hundred seeds. The categories were also written on label paper. Most of them were ones that Ji Yang had hoarded, and there were also some that she hadn’t.
Ice jelly was one of them. There were also some small varieties of chili seeds, mulberry tree seeds, and cherry pineapples.
The planting instructions were a palm-sized booklet. Was it recorded by Xie Muzhi? Looking at the familiar words, Ji Yang’s eyebrows moved slightly.
She listened carefully, took the seeds and stored them in the warehouse, and then took out some of the simplest lettuce seeds and a foam box to plant. The foam box was filled with some of the soil she had hoarded in advance, which was just right for use now. In addition, there were also special small hoes for farming and a watering can.
These things were still relatively easy to find now. She took them out generously. Xie Muzhi didn’t look much, just thought she was doing it for fun, and even comforted her in advance. “It’s easy for novices to have problems, and the environment is not good now. Just treat it as playing. If you like to eat any vegetables, I’ll bring them for you.”
“I know,” Ji Yang said, digging the soil and burying the seeds with great interest, without even raising her head.
Can’t grow them?
Impossible!
If something really went wrong, she would just get two from her space, a classic switcheroo. Anyway, they were both lettuce, and they were both ‘grown’ by her!
However, she was only willing to mess around with the lettuce seeds like this. She had heard that it was one of the easiest vegetables for novices to grow.
Xie Muzhi continued to take out things. The disinfectant was ignored, so he casually put it in the tea table drawer. Then there were all kinds of vegetables. Now, almost all the people in the entire base who were a little free were frantically hoarding food. Potatoes, sweet potatoes, and dried vegetables were the first choice.
The coal, which had been quiet for a while, had become a hot commodity again, as the second choice for drying vegetables.
The first choice was the now scorching sun, but it had been raining for the past few days, and there was no sun. The temperature had also dropped to the low thirties, so they could only use fire to dry them.
Therefore, Xie Muzhi had brought some more.
Besides that, there was the jade this time. The last time, he had already let Ji Yang take back two burlap sacks. Now, he didn’t bring much, only about twenty to thirty jin.
The last thing he took out was a box.
It just so happened that Ji Yang had already planted the vegetables. She sprayed the surface wet, clapped her hands, and when she turned her head, she saw the box. “What is this?”
“Two girls came to see you before the rain and gave you a nest of bird’s eggs. They said you wanted this, so I also took some and mixed them together,” Xie Muzhi said as he opened the box. Inside was a pile of bird’s eggs padded with a sponge cloth.
They were of different sizes and had different patterns.
The quantity was not small, and they were stacked in layers.
Ji Yang let out a gasp of admiration. “So many?!”
“Mm, this is still a small amount,” Xie Muzhi explained. “I had just collected them for three days when it started to rain, and I haven’t been able to go out since.”
Ji Yang was already very satisfied. When she heard him talk about the rain, she remembered something she had been worried about and asked, “Is the base flooded?”
“It is,” Xie Muzhi nodded. “But the government blew up a dam, and some of the water flowed down. It was only flooded for about half a day before the water level dropped again. It’s just that this heavy rain, it was actually a tsunami at the seaside. The detected tsunami level exceeded all current records, and the places that were a little closer were all affected.”
Ji Yang was stunned. She suddenly remembered the black curtain that seemed to cover half the sky when she had seen it during the heavy rain. It turned out to be a tsunami.
She had never experienced a tsunami. In her previous life, it was only after the extreme heat had begun that she had gone to the seaside with the government’s team to see what the situation was. She had no idea what a tsunami looked like in person.
If that day’s was a tsunami, no wonder the people at the seaside had almost been completely wiped out.
And tsunamis might happen more than once!
In comparison, tornadoes didn’t seem so scary.
Seeing that Ji Yang’s face was not very good, Xie Muzhi also thought of the scene of the tornado before. Tsunamis were more terrifying than tornadoes. He could only say that they were lucky not to be at the seaside. Most of the people in the coastal cities had also been evacuated. Otherwise, the losses would have been so tragic that it was unimaginable.
Xie Muzhi quickly changed the subject. “By the way, that heat insulation cloth, the researchers have tested that it can withstand a maximum temperature of fifty degrees. Once it exceeds the critical value, it will lose its effect. But it is more outstanding than the current results. They are trying to use this to go a step further.”
“As expected, it’s still a semi-finished product,” Ji Yang had guessed before, but she was still a little disappointed. She didn’t even know who had researched this.
Forget it. She had only taken half of it. On the Hu City side, if the person who had researched this was still alive, the speed of producing the finished product would definitely be faster than in her previous life.
If that person was dead, then she could only rely on this group of researchers to work hard. An amateur like her who didn’t understand just had to wait and see.
Ji Yang directly took the box. “I’ll go and put it away.”
“You like to eat these eggs? I’ll bring you some next time,” Xie Muzhi asked, thinking of the eggs she had given him before, besides chicken eggs, there were also many quail eggs. This kind of small egg was indeed more tender than chicken and duck eggs, and it was also more convenient to eat.
Ji Yang was suspiciously silent for a moment.
Not really. She couldn’t finish the quail eggs and button quail eggs. She was just looking for something to do to enrich the species when she was free.
Ji Yang coughed dryly. “No need. I just happened to run into them and wanted to have a taste. It’s actually just so-so.”
There were so many eggs, it should be enough. She would collect them again when she ran into them in the future, to avoid collecting them and letting them go bad.
Xie Muzhi didn’t delve into it either. The water was also boiling. He carried the boiling water into the bathroom to wash up. Ji Yang quickly went to the storage room and first used a flashlight to check these eggs one by one.
Since they had been gotten before the heavy rain, it had been almost ten days now. After so long, if the bird’s eggs were alive, they would already be in a semi-hatched state, and you could see the blood vessels and the like in the eggs.
If it was a bad egg, then there would be no reaction.
With so many eggs, Ji Yang estimated that it would be very lucky to have ten good ones. When she had checked them one by one, hmph, of the more than forty bird’s eggs, there were actually twelve good ones!
It was simply a burst of luck!
She put the intact eggs into the incubator in her space. The five bird’s eggs she had brought back before were in good condition, and one of them already had a crack. It might come out in these two days. She was already looking at bird-rearing methods and was starting to have a headache about what to feed them.
She didn’t have any special milk powder for birds, nor did she have any meat worms like earthworms. The only thing she had a lot of was grain. It would be better if they were sparrows. If they were other meat-eating birds, it would be a disaster.
After Ji Yang had finished muttering, she also put all the bird’s eggs in.
She glanced at the time again. It was past ten o’clock. She could think about what to eat for lunch.
Her peripheral vision swept over so many vegetables and mushrooms. Ji Yang decisively chose to have hot pot, a spicy pot, and a mushroom pot. The vegetables, after being blanched for a while and dipped in the dipping sauce, would be a top-grade delicacy!
She knew how to make hot pot. She went directly to the storage room and took out the mandarin duck pot and the induction cooker, poured in two bottles of mineral water, put in a pack of hot pot base, and in the other pot, she just put a little salt and chicken essence, as well as all kinds of mushrooms, and then she could start cooking.
While waiting for the water to boil, Ji Yang took out some frozen meat, including rabbit meat and pork. This was for Xixi to eat. In addition, she added some marinated beef from before. Speaking of which, this beef was something that Xie Muzhi had cut and marinated for her to put in the refrigerator when he was free last time. She would take it out to thaw when she wanted to eat it.
Finally, it was washing the vegetables. The washing area was in the kitchen.
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