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

Chapter 874: Standing on the Top of the Pyramid of Working Rat on Blue Star

Before discovering that Xiaofei had this ability, Xia Qing had to screen for cultivarable and optimized seeds. He had to wait until the seeds germinated and then use instruments to test the quality of each plant.

If the selected plants have passed the transplanting period, they cannot be transplanted to terraced fields with better soil conditions. The plants will have to be fenced in separately, fertilized and watered separately, increasing the workload of breeding.

Now with the little Feimao, the seed selection work has been greatly simplified.

In order to confirm whether this ability to select high-quality seeds - food - is unique to Little Feimao or shared by the freeloader's family, Xia Qing emptied all fourteen granaries of the freeloader and his two cubs and sampled and tested the quality of the squirrels' stored food.

It was discovered that the three mice had piled up the stolen food grown by Xia Qing together with the yellow and red lantern grass seeds and fruits they had found from other places. So for the time being, it can be assumed that the ability to select high-quality food is unique to Xiao Feimao.

After the confirmation, Xia Qing confiscated most of the food stored by the family who were eating for free and used it to feed the chickens.

Although the freeloaders jumped up and down and cursed, Xia Qing showed no mercy, because if they hid the undried food in the tree holes, it would soon become moldy and hairy.

Wasting food is something that cannot be tolerated, not to mention that these foods were grown by Xia Qing with great effort. Xia Qing was very kind not to confiscate all of them and to leave some dry and storable food for them.

But the freeloader didn't think so. After Xia Qing stole its stored food, it immediately moved out of Territory No. 3 with its two cubs and stored food and returned to the tree hole in Area No. 3 of Mountain No. 49.

The red lynx hasn't been here for a long time. The honey badgers in Area 3 and the red foxes that appear every day are far less threatening to them than the humans in Territory No. 3.

Little Feimao did not move with his relatives. He still lived in the pocket of Xia Qing's protective suit.

So, Xia Qing hired Xiao Feimao and made him the first official employee of Territory No. 3.

Job Description: Seed selection.

Salary: Piecework wages, each batch of seeds selected will earn 5 points as compensation, which will be used to repay its debts. So far, Xiao Feimao has paid back 25 points and still owes Xia Qing 52735 points.

Welfare: Free food (green light food), free drink (unpolluted spring water), free accommodation (Xia Qing's pocket). If the work performance is good, special welfare will be distributed from time to time - Gaoyi element spinach seeds.

Looking at the entire Blue Star Rat World, Xia Qing could guarantee with confidence that the reward she gave Xiao Feimao was definitely the highest.

In other words, little Feimao, who is only three months old, has already stood at the top of the pyramid of working mice on Blue Star with his outstanding working ability!
The one eating the free food was a very hygienic red squirrel, and the cubs it raised were also very hygienic.

When Xia Qing is outdoors, Xiao Feimao will come out of his nest and find a safe place to go to the toilet when he wants to. When Xia Qing is indoors, he will go to the toilet in the earthen basin mixed with hay prepared by Xia Qing.

Whenever Xia Qing saw Little Feimao crawling out of the pocket on the clothes hanger to go to the toilet, she felt a sense of satisfaction:

It is much more economical to raise a working mouse than a cat. Hu Zifeng has raised Xiao Laowu for a year, but he can't do anything except eat.

In addition to 8 kilograms of Huisan's SY-2 green light corn, Xia Qing also has 2 kilograms of Hongshiyi's Y-3 that Tan Junjie exchanged with her last winter, as well as 2.5 kilograms of green light corn seeds that were harvested from six green light plants that can be cultivated and optimized from the yellow light corn planted last fall.

Little Feimao was very picky. He only selected 12.5 high-quality seeds from 12500 kilograms of about 180 green light seeds. The cultivar that was released in Xiaqing's territory last year was not brought back to the nest by the extremely picky little Feimao.

Xia Qing planted the seeds selected by Xiao Feimao and 400 seeds of his own choice in the terraced fields. The other seeds were planted in sheds No. 8 and No. 9 where wheat was harvested.

Only one and a half of the shed was planted with green light corn seeds, and Xia Qing planted the remaining half with yellow light corn.

Xia Qing decided to plant green light mung beans in the other two sheds that had harvested wheat, sheds 5 and 12. The reason she planted so many mung beans was because the only green light grain seeds that Xia Qing could plant were mung beans. If she didn't plant mung beans, she would have to plant yellow light corn, otherwise the fields would have to be left empty.

Although growing mung beans requires more fertilizer than growing corn, mung beans are of higher quality and are less likely to be killed during the rainy season than yellow light corn. Even if they are killed, the short mung bean plants are easier to clean than tall corn plants.

When the second crop of mung beans is harvested in October, the price of green light mung beans will certainly be lower than it is now. But no matter how much it drops, the price of green light grains will still be higher than that of yellow light grains.

Therefore, not only Xia Qing, but most lords chose to grow mung beans as their second crop, in addition to planting other green light crops they could find.

Shed No. 12, which was overturned by the strong wind in Territory No. , was not repaired using the red-leaf bamboo with evolved hardness.

Because in Territory No. 3, the hardness-evolved bamboo poles harvested in the second killing rain have not yet been completely dehydrated and dried.

If we insert the hardness-evolved bamboo poles into the soil now, and wait until the third rain, these bamboo poles will be nourished by the excessive amount of harmful elements and will surely take root and grow quickly, breaking through the rainproof cloth, causing all the crops in the shed to be irrigated by the rain and to evolve in large quantities.

The 294 hardy bamboos that Xia Qing harvested during the second heavy rain are now neatly stacked on a brick bed in a shed covered with rainproof cloth under the western buffer forest.

The rainproof cloth can block the sun and rain, and the earthen bed can speed up the dehydration of the bamboo poles. Xia Qing learned this dehydration method from Huo Lei.

Not only Xia Qing, but also the evolved bamboo poles in other territories are using the same method to dehydrate.

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In this way, the bamboo can be dried in one month. Next month, Xia Qing will replace all the arch supports of the greenhouse in the territory with hardness-enhanced bamboo materials to improve the greenhouse's ability to resist natural disasters and its service life.

The rain that fell half a month ago was not long enough, and the bamboo that grew from the bamboo roots replanted in Territory No. 3 only grew to a height of more than six meters, and both the height and thickness did not meet the felling standards. Therefore, this batch of bamboo can only be felled in the third rain.

For this crop of four acres of corn and mung beans, Xia Qing did not ask Qi Fu and his wife or Hu Zifeng's team for help. She planted them all by herself using a new planter.

The Alliance Research Institute, which was established just over half a month ago, received design concepts and drawings from Jiang Ying, and then Jiang Ying and Huo Lei worked together to produce a simple seed drill that can be operated by one person.

This single-person seeder is more efficient than the old-fashioned seeder that was improved by Qi Fu and Shi Zhong and requires three people to use. It is very suitable for sowing in greenhouses with limited height.

The seeder consists of two handles, a two-meter-long and 15-centimeter-wide wooden board, and several small bamboo tubes connected to conical pointed funnels installed on the wooden board. The position of the bamboo tubes can be adjusted according to the width of the ridge.

For example, when sowing corn seeds with a ridge width of 50 cm, four bamboo tubes with a spacing of 50 cm can be installed on the wooden board, and corn seeds can be poured into each bamboo tube. Then, the sower holds the handle of the seeder and walks backwards in the field. When sowing is needed, the conical tube under the bamboo tube is inserted into the soil, and the depth of insertion into the soil is controlled by the sower.

When the pointed tip of the conical tube is inserted into the soil, one or two seeds in the bamboo tube will, under the action of inertia, enter the conical tube funnel from the bamboo tube and fall into the soil.

Of course, the thickness of the opening of the bamboo tube through which the seeds flow into the conical tube can be adjusted according to the size of the seeds. This is the most ingenious design of this seeder, and it is also the reason why this seeder can be sold for 50 points each and why the lords are still scrambling to get it.

Because the lords could not make such a delicate and sensitive mechanism to control the leakage of seeds.

Xia Qing adjusted the position of the bamboo tube, then loaded the seeds to be sown into the bamboo tube. He carried the seeder backwards, pressing down and lifting up the seeder which weighed less than ten pounds again and again, and walked from one end of the greenhouse to the other. Half an acre of land was sown in no time.

After sowing four acres of land, Xia Qing felt no pain in his arms or waist, and he expressed the same sigh as everyone else: It is a wise decision to set up the Alliance Research Institute.

Every profession has its own specialty. Bringing together a group of people with a common goal, each doing what he or she is good at, and making the sum of one greater than the other, this is the meaning of the alliance.