Farming for Survival in the Apocalypse

Bi Qiao’an lay motionless in the icy snow, watching helplessly as the falling flakes slowly buried her. As her consciousness faded, her mind drifted back to the three arduous years she had spent ...

Chapter 48 Racial Talent

Chapter 48 Racial Talent

The rain never stopped and water gradually accumulated in the city.

Shen Yanming received a notice at work that for the safety of employees during the rainy season, each unit can arrange shifts on its own, as long as there are staff on duty to handle business every day.

Shen Yanming called Bi Qiaoan, and the two discussed it and arranged to be on duty every Thursday.

That is to say, due to the rainy season, Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan only need to work one day a week and have holidays for the rest of the time.

Actually, they are not the only ones on vacation. Because of the global rain, many people are on a "long vacation" and don't need to come back.

On the weekend, Shen Yanming slept until nine in the morning. When he opened his eyes, he saw the girl in his arms still sleeping soundly, with porcelain-white skin and rosy lips. Why did he feel that his Qiao An was becoming more and more beautiful?

Shen Yanming gently lifted the quilt and stood up. After washing up, he began to prepare today's breakfast.

That’s right, Shen Yanming has learned how to cook. Although he is still not very good at complicated dishes, he has no problem with breakfast.

Chen Yanming took out a small steamer, turned on the tap and filled it with water, took out a pack of instant steamed buns from the freezer, took out six small steamed buns and put them in the steamer, then took out three eggs from the refrigerator's cold storage area, washed them with clean water and put them in the steamer, turned on the fire, and used his mobile phone to time it for fifteen minutes.

Shen Yanming sat on the sofa and turned on the TV to watch the news. The most frequently reported news recently was which village was flooded and which dam broke.

Although Qinghua Country had made preparations in advance and there were not many casualties, the economic losses caused by the destruction of houses and flooding of belongings cannot be ignored. In short, the situation is not optimistic.

Shen Yanming roughly understood what was going on and then changed the channel.

Well, this channel is broadcasting a very popular variety show recently called "Dream Life", which mainly talks about how celebrities transform their own reinforced concrete houses into their dream secret gardens.

Judging from the reactions on Weibo, the audience sitting in front of the screen are also eager to try their hand at watching the stars build their home gardens (vegetable gardens and orchards) bit by bit.

That’s right, recently the entire internet and various TV stations have simultaneously released a term called “the racial talent of Qinghua Country”. All major media outlets have been vigorously promoting the innate ability that has been passed down in the blood of Qinghua Country since ancient times – farming.

In response to the above call, major TV stations have launched indoor variety shows such as "I am a Little Farming Expert", "Drinking and Talking about Mulberry and Hemp", "Planting Rice in Southern Qinghai", etc., trying to show the charm of farming to the public and subtly instill farming knowledge into the audience.

In order to expand the audience coverage, major reading websites have held essay competitions with the theme of "I love farming" and actively pushed excellent farming articles to readers.

With Qinghua Country making such a big move, smart people have already sensed something different, but it has not been officially announced yet, so people with ideas don’t dare to speak out and can only prepare silently.

Ding-a-ling, the alarm clock rang.

Shen Yanming stood up and turned off the fire, took out two plates, put two small steamed buns and an egg on one, and four small steamed buns and two eggs on the other, put one in each hand on the dining table, and then took out two bottles of pure milk and a bag of kelp shreds from the space.

Turning back to the bedroom, he gently woke up Bi Qiaoan, "Dear, it's time to get up. It will be noon sooner!"

Bi Qiaoan rubbed his eyes and still felt very sleepy, but he had to put on his slippers and wash up.

Bi Qiaoan went to wash up, and Shen Yanming made the bed. After Bi Qiaoan had tidied herself, the two went to the restaurant for dinner together.

After Bi Qiaoan sat down, he used his mind to pick a bowl of cherries from space, took it out and put it on the dining table, "Thank you for your hard work, dear, muah!"

Chen Yanming looked at Bi Qiaoan's listless face and felt a little distressed. "Let's go take a nap after breakfast!"

Bi Qiaoan swallowed the egg in his mouth and shook his head, "No, I feel energetic after eating every day."

After hearing this, Shen Yanming didn't say anything, he lowered his head and continued eating.

During this period, the two of them would go out late at night every day to receive the baptism of the sweet rain.

In order not to waste a single penny, the two of them went downstairs and waited from 11:30 pm until the space was calm. Only then could they pack up and go home.

It was almost 2:30 in the morning, and after the two of them took a shower with hot water, it was almost 3:00 in the morning when they went to bed.

In order to avoid being lazy, Bi Qiaoan would bring two small stools with him when he went downstairs every day. He would just sit on them with his head tilted back, feeling like a mushroom.

After Shen Yanming discovered the unusual rain on the first day, he went downstairs the next day and brought seven or eight new large plastic basins taken out from the space, just to collect more rain water. The place where the two of them got wet in the rain was changed to the more secluded back hill of Qingning Mountain.

Every day after the space became calm, Shen Yanming would collect the rainwater into a basin, put his fingers in it and collect the rainwater into a plastic bucket prepared in the space.

In this way, Shen Yanming can collect at least 5L of rainwater every day.

Bi Qiaoan once asked Shen Yanming what they were collecting rainwater for. Shen Yanming said that neither of them were scientific researchers and they didn't know what the mystery was in the rainwater.

But there is no doubt that all this rainwater is good and useful, so collect more when you can, you never know when it may come in handy.

In this way, even if Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan got up at nine o'clock in the morning, they could only sleep for more than six hours a day.

After dinner, Bi Qiaoan sat on the sofa and watched "Dream Life". After Shen Yanming cleaned up the table, he came to accompany Bi Qiaoan.

“Do you feel like the upper echelons know something? These are all laying the foundation for the masses.” Bi Qiaoan pointed at the TV screen and said to Shen Yanming.

"It should be. It looks like the higher-ups have already taken action. This is good. It will make Qinghua Country's life better in the future."

Shen Yanming nodded, "Let's clean up the guest bedroom. Now we can move, and it's also in line with the policy."

"good!"

After that, Shen Yanming took Bi Qiaoan to the sunny guest bedroom and put away all the things. In order not to damage the floor, Shen Yanming took out the floor leather from the space, cut it and laid it out.

After everything was done, Bi Qiaoan took out the flower pots he had bought before from the space, arranged them one by one, blocked the drainage holes with pebbles, directly took out the soil from the space and spread it into the flower pots, and finally sprinkled vegetable seeds.

Bi Qiaoan also took out several potted fruits. The red and green small fruits were very pleasing to the eye.

Afterwards, Bi Qiaoan and Shen Yanming went to the guest room on the shady side and, just like the guest bedroom on the sunny side, put away all the things, laid the floor coverings, put out the flower pots and planted the vegetable seeds.

By the time everything was done, it was already noon.

"Yanming, are you home? Do you have food? We will be there soon!"

"Okay, let's have hot pot. I'll prepare it first. It's just right for you to come and cook."

Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan looked at each other and took out a bunch of vegetables from the space. In order to save time, one of them went to the kitchen and the other went to the bathroom to wash the vegetables.

-------Off topic-------

One chapter has been blocked, and I don’t know when it will be released, so I will post an extra chapter today...