happy apocalypse

Chapter 150 Drip Irrigation Systems
Early the next morning, Qin Hanbin came to the door. He first took a look at Chen Ming who was still lying on the kang, and felt relieved to see that he was still alive.

I was still a little sleepy and rubbed my eyes. Last night, Jiang Zhi got up and watched Chen Ming 3 times. I didn’t rest well because of the trouble, but Jiang Zhi said that this method of digging meat should only be suitable for the treatment of the early stage of viral infection. Chen Ming is the first in vivo experiment to confirm our guess.

When Jiang Zhi said this, I immediately felt a little sorry for Chen Ming. He became our guinea pig and thanked us a thousand times.

I took out the bottles of mosquito repellent water that Jiang Zhi ordered me to give them last night, and said to Qin Hanbin: "This is given to you by Brother Jiang. It is the mosquito repellent water he prepared himself. It can repel mosquitoes for about 2 hours. These The two of you are separated. When you go out in the future, just spray a little on your body or clothes. This has been tested and it works, so save it, this water is very difficult to match.” I’m afraid They don't know how to cherish it, just spray half a bottle like perfume, so my family can't afford it.

"Really, there are still these good things. Sister-in-law, there are only so few, are there any more?" Chen Ming took the palm-sized watering can and felt that there were too few.

"It's not enough. You don't drink it. If this bottle is saved, it can be used by one person for a month. You can wear it on your body at any time. When the effect of the medicine is about to wear off, you can spray it. Give me an extra bottle, this is for your family. You know what to say, you Jiang Ge hates trouble the most." This is also a warning.We have given things, but we are afraid of trouble, so they have to think of their own reasons.

"Hey, my sister-in-law is thoughtful. Don't worry, we know how to say it. We will never say that we got it from you. We are also afraid that Brother Jiang will go crazy. The watermelon knife was thrown by him, and it is still hanging there. I even tried to pull it out on a tree, but a young man like me couldn’t pull it out, the knife seemed to grow on it, and everyone in our village now knows that Brother Jiang is very powerful.” Chen Ming’s His legs didn't hinder him from speaking at all, and he was still able to speak plainly.

"Okay, you can lie on the kang and play by yourself, we should go to the field." I don't have time to be his audience.

"Hey hey hey, you guys are too heartless, why can't you leave one with me?" Chen Ming yelled behind us.

"In the yard, there are many chickens, ducks and geese accompanying you. You won't be lonely, don't worry! Also, take good care of your home!" Li Cheng closed the courtyard door from the outside after speaking to Chen Ming, bringing Chen Ming and the whole courtyard together. The chickens, ducks and geese stayed at home.

In the cornfield we first arrived, we plan to lay the drip irrigation system from here.

We have prepared the bamboo and pine needles in advance. Now we need to connect the bamboos together according to the length of each ridge, and then insert the pine needles into the bamboo according to the distance between the crops.

It is easy to say, but it is still very difficult to do.

The connection of bamboo is quite simple. At the joint, we used the principle of thermal expansion and contraction to connect the two bamboos tightly.We brought a small car refrigerator at home, and filled it with crushed ice. When connecting, put a piece of bamboo into it to cool down quickly, heat the other piece of bamboo with a torch, and then put the shrunken The bamboo is quickly inserted into the expanded bamboo to complete the connection.

After a while, the bamboo was connected for more than 100 meters, enough for the length of a ridge, and then the most critical dropper was inserted.

We choose the kind of pine needles that are relatively long, about 10 centimeters, very hard, and slightly thicker than a toothpick.After we collected them, we uniformly treated them in the space with Juling Fruit like Juling Grass to make them more flexible and prevent them from breaking easily, making them look a bit plastic.

When Jiang Zhi was at home, he had already pierced holes in the middle of them one by one. Because he wanted to slow down the dripping of water, the holes in the middle were very thin. root penetration.

In order to save time, Jiang Zhi practiced hard in the space for a few days, changed the aura knife to aura needles, and then arranged the pine needles one by one, so that he could quickly pierce holes in the pine needles with the aura needles.

Now, Jiang Zhi is holding an awl as thick as a pine needle, which we specially ground, and poking a hole at the intersection of bamboo and corn. Weiwei, Jiang Ma, and Qu Ma and I are behind the pine needles. Take it out of the small refrigerator and stuff it into the hole Jiang Zhi poked. (Readers and friends, please do not pursue the rationality of this method. This method is purely personal imagination and fiction. Any similarity is purely coincidental.)
In this way, it took us an hour to pave a ridge of land. We connected the bamboo pipe to the plastic bucket on the ground, and the water slowly flowed into the bamboo pipe. After a while, water dripped from the heads of the pine needles. come out.

The disadvantage of this simple drip irrigation system is that the dripping speed cannot be adjusted, because the size of the holes in the pine needles is fixed, and if you want to change the dripping speed, you have to pull out the pine needles and replace them with a new batch.If you want it to drip quickly, you need to make the hole thicker; if you want it to drip slowly, you need to make the hole thinner. This is the only way to control it.

There is the necessary security measures, or to do.After laying the bamboo pipes, everyone is not allowed to go into the field casually, because the pine needles are too fragile compared to human feet, and it is afraid that if people accidentally step on them, it will be bad, so safety is the most important place. Rigorous and miscellaneous people enter.

Let the water drip like this first, and our whole family started busy covering the rice with a sunscreen, and then came back to see the results of the experiment. The results were not satisfactory. There were more than 10 leaking points. Pick out a relatively thicker one and replace it, and it's basically fine.

Afterwards, we went home and made a summary. This drip irrigation system should be usable. Then our house will start to be fully laid tonight. Qin Hanbin followed us back home. Hearing that we have to do drip irrigation again at night, he asked for it. I want to follow along, saying that he can help us, and he can practice his hands. He will start preparing materials tomorrow, using the tools we have at home, and try to complete the drip irrigation system at home within two days.

Chen Ming became anxious when he heard it on the kang, Qin Hanbin hurriedly comforted him, saying that he must not forget his family's share, and then Chen Ming calmed down again.

Afterwards, Qin Hanbin first carried Chen Ming back to his home, and then got into the bamboo forest. He was not afraid of the heat, and worked in the bamboo forest for a day in long clothes and trousers. In the afternoon, he arrived with a large bundle of bamboo on his back. In my house, the long clothes and trousers were all wet with sweat.

I quickly found a set of Jiang Zhi's clothes for him, and asked him to deal with it first. In this weather, the clothes are wet and dry, dry and wet. It's not a good feeling.

Jiang Zhi gave him a bag of pine needles specially made by our family, so that he and Chen Ming's family would have enough.

Qin Hanbin did exactly what he said, and within two days both his home and Chen Ming's home were converted to drip irrigation systems.Of course, there is also our help in this process.

And I filled all the containers that can hold water at home with water and stored them.

During his busy two days, many villagers saw it, and many villagers came forward to inquire about it, and Qin Hanbin told him everything he knew.This is also discussed with us. The drip irrigation method we use cannot be hidden from others. The land is developed. As long as people pass by, they can see it clearly, and there is no need to hide it. We hope that the whole village People are not threatened by drought, and they can harvest a full barn of rice in autumn.

But after some people heard it, they didn't take it seriously at all, thinking that this method was not very useful, while some people listened to it and followed him to find tools to make a similar drip irrigation system when they went back.

The village chief couldn't sit still under this situation, and he used the big loudspeaker in the village to inform everyone of the current drought situation, and began to ask everyone through the loudspeaker if there is a good way to deal with the current water shortage. If there is, don't hide it. This matter concerns all the families in the village. If there is no food in the field, the whole village will starve to death in winter.

My first thought after hearing this was: He is telling us.

Jiang Zhi asked me: "Did he mention his name on the trumpet?" I thought for a while and shook my head.

"Then did he get the surname?" There was no first name, let alone a surname, and I continued to shake my head.

"That's right. He didn't mention his name or surname. How could you think he was talking about our family?"

I thought about it, what Jiang Zhi meant was that as long as people don't name us, we shouldn't be seated accordingly.Okay, I will pretend to be deaf and dumb, just pretend I didn't hear it.

After 10 days like this, the water in the small river dried up, and the pebbles at the bottom of the river were exposed to the scorching sun.

Due to the lack of water, the rice in the fields wilted quickly. Although there are sunscreens for shading, some of them have already shown signs of withering.

The village chief had no choice but to risk the risk of being infected with the A virus by organizing the middle-aged men in the village to go out to find water sources. In fact, this was a waste of effort. There is not a big river within a hundred miles of this place, and the surrounding villages are basically relying on the mountains. river for irrigation.The drinking water at home is the wells they dug themselves. They go out to find water sources at this time. Where can they find them? Our source here is dry, so you can imagine the villages below.

So no one in our family took part in this pointless water hunt.On the second day when the river in our place was dry, people from other villages came to inquire, probably because the river was dry, and wanted to see if there was a problem in our upstream, but it turned out that ours was also dry. But they also saw that we have implemented drip irrigation system on a large scale.It is estimated that it will not be long before these nearby villages will be irrigated with drip irrigation.

(End of this chapter)