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

Chapter 598 The temperature rises 30 degrees

Although Xia Qing said that he had begun to consider letting Territory No. 12 join the alliance, he had not yet taken any real action, so the Hidden Valley could not be revealed to Tang Huai. Shi Du smiled and replied, "Thank you for the reminder, brother Huai. My dad said to raise a few and try. If you encounter a stable one, you will get rich. If all of them turn red, you will be unlucky."

Many people wanted to exchange crab seedlings with their family. Tang Huai laughed and said, "Let's give it a try."

After reaching the foot of the third peak, the group split into two groups. Zhao Ze, Yue Haiying, Tang Huai and their two bodyguards collected samples in the danger zone, surveyed the terrain, checked the thickness of the snow, and calculated the amount of snow water. Xia Qing, Qi Fu and Shi Du rushed to the upper part of the third peak to clear the snow that might flow into the high-risk area and the cracks in the mountain in advance to reduce the flood control pressure in these two areas.

Tang Huai originally wanted to go with Xia Qing, but Xia Qing refused him outright, saying that he was too weak and the road was too slippery and dangerous.

He had to be direct. Tang Huai liked to take advantage of others. If Xia Qing relaxed a little, he would shamelessly follow her.

Shi Du stayed halfway up the mountain to clear the snow and keep watch. Xia Qing and Qi Fu continued to climb up, opened the iron door of the bear cave and entered the hidden valley.

Seeing the neatly arranged rice seedlings in the field, Xia Qing suddenly felt a light in front of his eyes and his breathing became smoother.

Qi Fu was delighted. "It looks good, really good. Xia Qing, what kind of rice is this? The color is real."

Territory alliance members raised rice seedlings together in the rice fields, but each family had their own rice seedlings. Xia Qingtian had the most varieties of rice seedlings, and except for the yellow-light rice LD-10 with a toxic element content of more than seven points that Liehuo compensated the lords, most of them were varieties she exchanged for herself.

The color of the rice seedlings will show visible differences depending on the different levels of harmful elements in the plants. The less harmful elements in the plants, the more the color of the leaves tends to be normal rice seedlings before the natural disaster. Qi Fu said that the color of Xia Qing's rice seedlings is positive, which means that the color of these rice seedlings is obviously greener than that of everyone's fields.

Xia Qing explained, "The greenest patch of green rice and the large patch of yellow rice next to it are of the same variety, called J-2."

"A new variety?!" Qi Fu was delighted. "When we harvest rice in June, we'll see how the yield and stability of this rice are. If it's better than Liehuo's LD-10, we'll plant J-2 for the next crop."

After the addition of chlorine and radioactive elements to the atmosphere, the plants on Blue Planet have been eliminated, and the evolved plants that adapt to the new environment are not necessarily suitable for human consumption. In order to survive, humans need to select and cultivate crop seeds from evolved plants that are safe for human consumption and have certain disaster resistance, insect resistance, and antibacterial capabilities.

Crop seeds that have been selected and cultivated are usually named using a combination of letters and numbers. The letters are determined by the breeder and can be one or more letters, and the meanings of the letters are varied.

Some letters represent the type of plant, such as M for wheat, Y for corn and D for rice; some letters represent the place of origin, such as the high-quality rice BS-6 from the Baisan Base; some are named after the place of origin and the category, such as the rice variety LD-10 cultivated by Liehuo; the meaning of some letters is unknown to the breeder unless it is revealed, such as the "J" in the rice variety J-2 from the No. Territory.

The number after the seed type represents the number of generations that the seed has been cultivated. LD-10 means that the rice seeds of the LD variety have been cultivated for 10 generations, and J-2 means that the rice seeds of the J variety have been cultivated for two generations.

Seeds that have been cultivated for two generations are of course new varieties. New varieties must show characteristics that are significantly better than existing varieties in some aspects before they can be recognized by relevant agencies and allowed to be promoted.

Xia Qing nodded, "It should be better than D-10."

It’s not that Xia Qing is blindly confident, but that she believes in the technical level of Territory No. 7.

Qi Fu checked the growth of rice seedlings in each field, while Xia Qing went to look for the plucking weasel who was guarding the valley for her, "Is the plucking weasel here? The plucking weasel..."

Xia Qing called for only one minute before the plucked weasel's round little head poked out from the cracks in the rocks. It first looked at Qi Fu with its black eyes, and after confirming that there was no threat, it looked at Xia Qing. Xia Qing placed a fist-sized piece of barbecue on the rock to thank the hero who had guarded the cave for her. "Happy New Year, plucked weasel. This is the rabbit meat I roasted this morning. Eat it while it's hot."

The weasel immediately picked up the barbecue and crawled into the crevice of the rock. Before Xia Qing left, it came out again, with its two round little ears erect, and looked at Xia Qing with its black eyes.

This expression is exactly the same as that of the freeloader red squirrel in Xia Qing's territory.

Xia Qing smiled, touched his pocket again, and took out a piece of dried meat that he had roasted for the sick wolf. "There is no more roasted meat, only dried meat. Take it and eat it. Thank you for helping me guard the valley."

The weasel sniffed it, picked up the dried meat and ran away.

Qi Fu, who saw this scene from a distance, smiled and said, "My wife said that every time she comes to work in this valley, she feels at ease knowing that Wong Tai Sin is guarding here."

Xia Qing also laughed, "I haven't heard the name Huang Daxianer for many years."

Qi Fu opened the canal and watered the seedlings while chatting with Xia Qing. "Before the natural disaster, the two of us drove the truck day and night for long distances. We were most afraid of breaking taboos. If we crushed a snake on the road, we had to find a temple to burn incense for safety. If we saw a weasel, we had to take a detour..."

While chatting, the two began to install water-retaining diversion plates on the cracks at the top of the valley.

The climate of Blue Star after the natural disaster is very different from that before the disaster. In the next half month, the temperature of Huisan Base will rise from more than 20 degrees below zero to above zero, and the highest temperature may even reach 11 or 12 degrees.

The temperature rise of nearly 30 degrees will not only bring great challenges to various infrastructures and human health, but also cause the snow to melt. The snow water in the mountains and forests will gather into streams and flow into the valleys, and the calm rivers will become turbulent.

If water-retaining diversion plates are not installed in the cracks in the mountains above the hidden valleys, the snow water mixed with rocks that flows into the cracks will form waterfalls, destroying and washing away the soil and seedlings in the valley's farmland.

The easiest and most direct way to avoid this disaster is to cover the top of the mountain crack with a rainproof cloth and let the snow water flow directly down. However, this will reveal the existence of the valley by showing that there is something fishy about the mountain crack from high altitude.

Therefore, after discussion, the members of the Lords' Alliance decided to adopt the method used by the humans who lived here before, and continue to install baffles on the top of the hidden valley to prevent the incoming snow and water from hitting the farmland, but to allow the snow and water to pass through the baffles and flow out from the cracks in the mountains on the east and west sides of the valley.

The steel pipes, wood and rainproof cloth required for this project have been prepared long ago. Today, Xia Qing and Qi Fu's task is to install the water-retaining deflector.

For two power evolvers who have worked in the construction team for many years, installing a water-retaining diversion board that is more than 700 meters long is a piece of cake.

After the boards were installed and the rice paddies were irrigated, the two men left the cave and went around to the top of the mountain crack, where they began to clear the snow covering the mountain above the crack, to prevent the snow from melting and bringing rocks down with it, destroying the water diversion board they had just built.

This takes a whole day.

At 4:30 pm, Xia Qing, Qi Fu and Shi Du went down the mountain and joined Zhao Ze and others, and rushed back to the safe zone. Tang Huai dragged his legs and followed Xia Qing, looking listless.

(End of this chapter)