Farming in space: the struggle of peasant girls

Chapter 5 005 Sowing Hope
It's best to grow food, but if you can't get food seeds, you can't do anything.

Mu Yu's idea is to find wild grass roots to grow in the wasteland he often visits, eat half of them to satisfy his hunger, and plant half of them as food reserves.

It may be difficult in the early stage. As long as you can survive the initial period, it will be much better later on. When the weeds grow up, you can survive by eating grass leaves.

Moreover, no matter how difficult it is, it will not be more difficult than other beggars. She still has this confidence.

She thought carefully in her heart that although she was very hungry, the meat bun she ate yesterday would at least ensure that she would not die of hunger in the next three or four days, and that she would not die of thirst if she had space and spring water.

Three or four days was enough for her to find a lot of weed roots.

Just doing what she said, she followed her memory to the wasteland where the original owner often went.

That piece of wasteland is not too far from the ruined temple. The temple was originally built in a secluded and remote non-residential area. After it was defeated, there will not be many people living in the surrounding area. There are no other residents.

Not far from the ruined temple, she saw the wasteland, and also saw many beggars squatting or lying on the wasteland.

Standing there, she gasped. She dared to say that there were not as many grass roots in this wasteland as there were people in this wasteland.

She was careless, she thought that many people might have dug here, and she also thought that there might be many people digging here, so she didn't say that she wanted to dig weeds to eat, but just wanted to find the roots of weeds that slipped through the net.

Unexpectedly, even the roots of wild grasses may have been dug up here!
It's a bad start, but there's no way, I still have to try.

So she, together with others, started to dig the soil with a stone or stick in her hand, hoping to find the grass roots in the land.

It was tiring work, and both of her wrists were aching from digging the soil, digging from one end of the wasteland to the other, from the high sun to the west, and spent a whole day in this wasteland superior.

Looking around at this time, there were a lot fewer people in the wasteland, only about one-third of what it was at the beginning.

There are not many people who can persevere in such a tired and hopeless situation, and those who can persevere will not be beggars.

At least not forever beggars.

Mu Yu withdrew his gaze and landed on the root of the wild grass in his hand.

Seeing the thick or thin handful of weed roots in her hand, her expression eased a lot, and even her wrists didn't feel so sore, which was a good harvest.

She didn't find anything at first, and she carefully collected the ones that were as thin as hair and not as long as a pinky finger. They couldn't be eaten, and they weren't enough to fit between the teeth. She thought that maybe they could be taken into the space. From all perspectives, if a dead horse is regarded as a living horse doctor, it may grow out, anyway, even if it doesn't grow out, it doesn't lose anything.

So she collected a lot of such grass roots, and only such ones will be left.

She collected six such small grass roots one after another, and then dug up the first grass root that was about as thick as a pinky finger, the kind that could be eaten.

This kind of grass root is thick enough to be chewed barely, and it is impossible to eat hundreds of roots if you want to satisfy your mouth, but she is still very happy.

After all, there is something to eat, if you don't eat it and plant it, the survival rate is much higher than those small grass roots.

What made her even more happy was that just now, she dug up another thick grass root!

She was very relieved that the day's hard work had paid off. She looked around and saw that there was no one around, so she leaned on the small soil slope, holding a handful of grass roots, and said to herself: go in.

She opened her eyes in the mustard space, and hurried to the spring, half of the water was left in the spring, and she came in to drink once not long ago when she was tired from digging.

She scooped up half a bowl of water with the chipped porcelain bowl left in the space in the morning, put all the grass roots in to soak, then took a stone and started digging a hole in the ground.

The ground here is relatively soft, much easier to dig than the hard, cracked ground outside. She easily dug four or five small holes.

Then she took the bowl, picked out the grass roots that had been soaked in spring water one by one and buried them in the small pit, and finally poured the water in the bowl.

In this way, after a busy day, she harvested eight hopes that might germinate.

She stared at the eight small pits that had been filled, hoping that they would germinate soon and grow into grass for her to eat!

Originally, she wanted to eat a grass root, but when she got closer, the smell of earth and bitterness made her unable to swallow it. The difference between a grass root and a weed is still too great.

Besides, this little grass root can't satisfy any hunger. If you eat it, you will be even hungrier. It's better to plant it first and see the situation.

Anyway, perhaps because she drank too much spring water more than an hour ago, she doesn't feel too hungry now.

Of course, it was more likely that she was too hungry.

She didn't think much about it, it was already evening, and it was time to go back to the ruined temple to rest.

She returned to the ruined temple with a sunset glow all over her body, and saw stars all over the sky before she lay down on the ruined mat and fell asleep.

Apart from being dirty, hungry and unsafe, everything is actually pretty good.

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Early the next morning Mu Yu removed the roots of the weeds as usual.

This time I went to another wasteland that was farther away. Because it was far away from the ruined temple, the number of people in this wasteland was much less than yesterday, less than one-third of yesterday's.

Of course, there is also a little reason that she came out earlier today, she got up and left the ruined temple before dawn, and when she walked to this wasteland, it was daylight.

For the beggars, it is possible to sleep until the sun shines on their buttocks, sleep until noon, and sleep all day. It is difficult to get up early, so there are not many people here.

And this wasteland looks more fertile, not only has it not been overturned, but some places are faintly green, which is sprouting weeds.

Mu Yu had a premonition that today's harvest would be much better than yesterday's, so before he had time to think about it, he spotted a spot and immediately rushed over to dig the ground.

Another busy day.

She was not mistaken, the harvest today was indeed much better than yesterday.

She harvested a total of five grass roots as thick as a little finger, and a dozen of the hair-thin ones. What's even better, she also found two foxtail grasses!
However, she thinks it may be wheat seedlings, but the place where they grow is too poor, and the time of growth is not long enough, so it looks very thin, like dogtail grass. Anyway, now that she is almost hungry and dizzy, she smells the two. It's about the same.

She gnawed on a dog's tail grass, and suddenly felt that the fragrance of the green grass was the most delicious thing in the world, and it took great perseverance to control herself not to eat another dog's tail grass.

She comforted herself, now that one wild grass has been planted, eight thick grass roots, and nearly twenty thin grass roots, the environment in the mustard space is suitable, and it will take a few days to sprout and grow leaves, and then there is no need to worry about being killed. starving.

However, she was relieved a little too soon.

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