On the tenth year of the natural disaster, I went to farm with me

Chapter 693 Planting Bamboo
After returning home, Xia Qing happily counted the amount on her points card.

After one year of farming, she had updated all her equipment from head to toe, built an iron mesh wall on her territory, added many electrical appliances to her home, and purchased a lot more clothes and bedding. She also saved up 288800 points and hundreds of Yi stones.

This was something she had never dared to imagine before she gained the territory last year.

Farming is a very hard job that depends on the weather. Xia Qing was able to accumulate these points and family property because there was unpolluted spring water and high-yi elemental spinach in her territory, because she was an evolver who could go out of the territory to find supplies from the evolution forest, and because she became a middleman between humans and wolves.

If she was just an ordinary person, and there was no unpolluted spring water or high-quality elemental spinach in her territory...

Xia Qing turned her head and looked through the window at the neatly arranged greenhouses in the territory, the big sheep chewing the cud under a large camphor tree on the high slope, and the red squirrel jumping between the branches with its big belly, while listening to the loud shouts of Zhao's mother in the territory next door.

If she was just an ordinary person and had only received an ordinary territory, she would also bravely walk out of the safe zone like ordinary lords, stay in the territory and work hard to plant crops and dig wild vegetables every day. After a busy year, even if she couldn't save many points, she would no longer work on an empty stomach every day like before.

Thanks to the red squirrel, she discovered the pollution-free spring water; thanks to Boss Sheep, she had a companion and established connections with the wolf pack.

After hiding the points card, Xia Qing changed into light clothes, sprayed insect repellent on his body, put on a sun hat and gloves, and went out to work.

After more than a year of careful management, the poisonous animals and plants that could threaten her in Territory No. 3 have been basically eradicated, so Xia Qing no longer needs to wear protective clothing or masks when working in the yard and greenhouse.

Of course, if you go to uncultivated areas or deserted villages, or walk before or after heavy rain or in extreme weather, you still need to wear protective clothing and a protective mask.

All the tasks arranged for today have been completed. There is still an hour before dark. Xia Qing uses this time to process the hardness-improved bamboo poles he brought back today, plant the bamboo roots he brought back, and then move the big chickens in the greenhouse back to the chicken coop in the yard when it gets dark. Then he finishes work and goes home to cook and eat.

Generally speaking, bamboo that is more than three years old should be used to make greenhouse supports and furniture, because new bamboo that is less than three years old has a high moisture content and is prone to cracking or bending.

But the bamboo pole that Xia Qing carried back had evolved hardness. It was much harder than ordinary bamboo that was more than three years old, and it also had good toughness, so Xia Qing had high hopes for it.

This bamboo grows very straight, so there is no need to straighten it. It can be used after just drying.

There are four drying methods: natural shade drying, light baking followed by exposure to the sun, boiling in boiling water followed by exposure to the sun, and fire baking. Although natural shade drying can preserve the natural color and texture of bamboo to the greatest extent, it takes too long, and the latter two methods are difficult to control the degree and temperature, so Xia Qing chose the method of light baking followed by exposure to the sun.

She first used a machete to cut off a two-meter-long section, and then split the remaining bamboo poles into bamboo strips, which could be used to reinforce the greenhouse after processing.

After cutting the bamboo into strips, Xia Qing put on protective clothing, said hello to the onlookers, and walked out of the south gate carrying a two-meter-long piece of bamboo. Before he went out five meters, he heard a rustling sound coming from the No. 2 territory, followed by Tang Huai's shouting.

"Xia Qing, are you going to give Uncle Huo some bamboo?"

Xia Qing curled her lips slightly, then stopped and nodded.

Tang Huai came out from the weed wall with a shovel in his hand and stared at the bamboo in Xia Qing's hand, which was almost 20 centimeters in diameter. "The color of this bamboo is really beautiful. Is it an evolved purple bamboo?"

Xia Qing shook her head, "I don't know either."

After the evolution of the creatures on Blue Star, it became more difficult to identify the species of plants. For Xia Qing, the species of bamboo did not matter, as long as it could be used.

Tang Huai discussed with Xia Qing, "Can you give me a piece in exchange? I want to use this bamboo to make a tea tray for my father." Xia Qing shook her head, "This bamboo has a high content of harmful elements. It is not suitable for making a tea tray. Besides, I have already split the remaining bamboo into bamboo strips."

Tang Huai asked, "Chop it into bamboo strips? What are you going to use it for?"

"It's used to make greenhouse supports," Xia Qing explained. "This kind of bamboo pole is hard and tough, and is lighter than other woods, so it's very suitable for making supports."

Although what Xia Qing said was right, Tang Huai still felt that he was being wronged. However, since these were the materials Xia Qing had obtained, she had the final say on how to use them. Tang Huai stretched out his hand, "Give it to me, I'll pass it to you."

Territory No. 11-18 is under the jurisdiction of another inspection team, so Xia Qing cannot ask Tan Junjie's team to help deliver supplies.

Territory No. 2 separated Territory No. 11 from Territory No. 3, but to reach the north gate of Territory No. 11 from the south gate of Xia Qing's territory, one had to go from this east-west passage to the east-west passage in the south. It would be much more convenient for Tang Huai to teleport, as he only had to walk from the north to the south of Territory No. 2.

To put it intuitively, the route that Xia Qing took to deliver the bamboo and wood was the three sides of a rectangle, while when Tang Huai teleported them there, he only had to go through one side of the rectangle.

"Thank you." Xia Qing handed the bamboo pole to Tang Huai very straightforwardly and returned to his own territory.

Tang returned to his territory while holding a shovel and carrying bamboo and wood, muttering softly, "Why is it so heavy?! This woman was so straightforward this time, why do I feel like she wanted me to deliver it to her from the beginning..."

Xia Qing's mouth curled up even higher in the No. 3 territory. Yes, that was her plan, because she knew that Tang Huai would definitely come out and offer to help, so she didn't ask the Hu Zifeng team to come and guard the territory.

After processing the bamboo poles, you can plant the bamboo roots.

The idea of ​​planting bamboo was proposed by Yuan Yan. After learning that the bamboo that Xia Qing discovered was a hardness-evolved variety, Yuan Yan came up with this idea.

Because of the rain and the evolution of pests and diseases, greenhouses must be built for farming in the territory. Steel greenhouses are too expensive, and greenhouses built with ordinary bamboo and wood can only be used for two years even if they are properly maintained, because the environmental conditions during the natural disaster years are more severe, and the external stress of the greenhouse becomes greater, which reduces the service life of the bamboo greenhouse.

Therefore, in order to make the wooden greenhouse last longer, the lords thought of many ways, such as using steel frames at key load-bearing points during construction and other hardwoods for internal supports. However, the arched structure of the greenhouse can only be made of bamboo.

Now, they have better building materials, which is the hardness evolved bamboo found in Mountain No. 52, so Yuan Yan wants to plant a few in his territory.

Planting harmful evolving plants in the territory is very dangerous, but after analysis, Yuan Yan believes that this danger is controllable.

First of all, this kind of bamboo attacks with its roots, which is a low-risk aggressive evolutionary species. Yuan Yan and Qi Fu are both strength evolutionists and can deal with this risk.

Secondly, Yuan Yan is a magnetic evolutionist. If this kind of bamboo evolves again in the rain, she can also sense it before the mutation is completed, and cut them down with her husband to prevent the mutation from happening.

Therefore, Yuan Yan asked Xia Qing to bring back a few bamboo roots when she went to get the bamboo poles. The vitality of the evolved plants is very tenacious. The bamboo roots that were dug out yesterday can still survive if they are planted today.

Xia Qing's idea was consistent with Yuan Yan's, so when she went to get bamboo poles today, she not only brought back a few bamboo roots to be planted in territories No. 3 and No. 5, but also planted the remaining bamboo roots in the moist and open area of ​​​​Hill No. 50.

If all goes well, after the second heavy rain this year, she will be able to harvest at least a dozen bamboos with evolved hardness to reinforce the greenhouse in her territory.