Chapter 90 Chapter 90 Picking Mushrooms
After eating and drinking, Ye Yu returned to the educated youth site. After a quick shower, he crawled into the soft and comfortable bed. His eyelids became heavier and heavier, and he soon fell asleep.
The next morning, I could faintly hear some small noises outside.
But Ye Yu had already designated the Wangjiagou information point as a psychological safe zone in his mind, and was not alerted. Instead, he felt that the noise outside was disturbing, so he covered himself with the quilt and continued to stay in bed.
Since I didn't urge myself to eat breakfast this morning, I fell asleep again without realizing it.
When I woke up again, golden sunlight shone into the room through the vents. The warm bedside and the fine hairs on my fair face were clearly visible, and my eyes twitched.
It's obviously getting late.
Ye Yu opened his eyes, half sat up, opened his arms and stretched out. It had been a long time since he had such a deep sleep. He felt more energetic and comfortable than ever before.
Even the supernatural powers have been improved, as if the experience points for the next level have increased dramatically.
Get out of bed and walk out of the room.
The first thing Ye Yu did was not to wash up, but to practice boxing. His body felt as refreshed as his mind. He couldn't help but breathe deep into his dantian and strained his throat twice.
The only response she got was silence.
Hua Feifei and Xu Fei went to work in the morning; thinking about the spring plowing village meeting in the morning, Han Jing also got up and went with them. Before they left, they sent Fei away to play somewhere with the stored food. Chicken No. 1 led Chicken No. 2 and Chicken No. 3 to catch insects by the stream. Now only Ye Yu was left at the educated youth site.
After washing up, Ye Yu went to the kitchen to find food.
As expected, I saw breakfast warming in the pot, wild vegetable and sweet potato porridge with bacon and sausage, and a lot of boiled eggs.
Since the beginning of laying, Hen No. 1 has maintained a laying frequency of one egg per day, occasionally two.
But the eggs could only be preserved when Ye Yu left. Once she came back, they were all eaten up again.
However, there are still two eggs left to hatch, and they really plan to replace one of eggs No. 2 and No. 3 with a hen, so they only need to have a hen next.
Ye Yu had just finished breakfast when Hua Feifei and Xu Fei came back from get out of class. It was a bit surprising that Han Jing was with them today.
???
Seeing Ye Yu's doubt, Xu Fei explained: "At the meeting this morning, the team leader assigned the responsibility of fruit tree planting to Han Jing, you, Hope Primary School, and Uncle Wang Liu."
This does not affect farming and can make full use of manpower. Students can also get work points, but not much. However, if the fruit trees are successfully planted, they have a chance of being allocated more bad fruits that do not meet the trading standards.
"...Your classes are quite casual." Ye Yu commented.
But it's also very interesting.
A full ten years.
Students cannot just read textbooks and study rotely. No farming family can afford to support a student like this. It is a good thing for them to learn more life skills.
It's Xu Fei's turn to make lunch today.
I didn’t originally plan to make Ye Yu’s portion, but seeing Ye Yu’s look, it didn’t look like he would skip lunch, so after a pause, I decided to make an extra portion.
Just much less than usual.
After lunch, Ye Yu was directly assigned to the fruit tree planting group this afternoon.
This is not easy.
First, they are in a hurry and the fruit seedlings cannot wait;
Secondly, the land allocated to them was destined not to be very good. Some of it was simply in the marginal areas, not even as good as the private plots of the educated youth. As scattered pieces of sloping land, it was not suitable for using tractors.
The others had been busy all morning, pulling weeds, plowing the land, digging holes, and burying the fruit seedlings in the holes with their roots and soil.
The work Ye Yu did after joining was the same, at most he was faster than others because of his greater strength.
What made them more confident about planting fruit trees was that in addition to natural farmyard manure, Han Jing and Ye Yu also brought back a small amount of pesticides and fertilizers, which they had obtained from Shangdu City Orchard after much persuasion.
Really very few.
They planned the fertilizing work over and over again, and were very careful. They wanted to use the fertilizer by the pound and gram, and would feel bad if even a little bit fell on the ground.
Ye Yu had no problem doing other work, especially carrying water. She could carry as much water as the bucket could carry. Others used normal buckets, but she used a bath bucket.
But refuse to fertilize.
Whether it's farmyard manure, nitrogen or phosphorus fertilizer, it's equivalent to self-abuse for her super sense of smell. It's not that it's not allowed, but it's really unnecessary when there are so many people around.
Hua Feifei is better than Ye Yu in this job. Hua Feifei has become accustomed to handling the pigpen and is no longer the little princess who vomits when she smells fat.
After seeing Ye Yu's defect, others felt that she was finally not a perfect jack of all trades. The primary school students didn't think too much about it and laughed at her.
One by one, Ye Yu threw them to carry or dig out manure, and they became dung workers.
“…”
"Ahhh, it stinks."
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Laughter and joy filled the hillside, even heard by those working in the fields below. Someone stopped to wipe the sweat off his face and said with a smile, "The work of these educated youth is different."
If these words were said by the educated youth when they first arrived in the countryside, they would definitely be sarcastic; but now, they are mostly said with kindness and envy.
After the educated youths have recovered their physical strength, they are now better at working than the villagers. Han Jing and the others are full of energy. As for Ye Yu, although she looks very cold, she is as bright and dazzling as the moon in the sky, and is surrounded by stars wherever she goes.
They missed Ye Yu and Han Jing very much during the days when they were away.
Planting the fruit trees does not mean everything will be easy, a series of follow-up work still needs to be done.
Reasonable fertilization is one thing, watering is another, and there are also special things to record changes and summarize experiences.
The students of Hope Primary School were very enthusiastic. Some even took notebooks to write down the name of each tree, such as Xiaohua, Hope, Xiaocao, Didi, etc. The adults didn’t understand why there was a tree called Grass and Chicken.
When a fruit tree unfortunately died, all the elementary school students cried loudly.
Ye Yu didn’t understand why Hua Feifei could also cry like she was dead while holding Chicken No. 1... cough cough, cursing other people’s families as if she were dead, was it really that serious?
Han Jing and Xu Fei also felt it was serious. Hua Feifei and Xu Fei even wrote about it in their articles or diaries with deep emotion.
“…”
childish.
Ye Yu moved a wild persimmon tree from the mountain overnight to block the hole. Since she was transplanting fruit trees, there must be more than one. She also moved many trees inside and outside the Youth League compound, including wild persimmon trees, mulberry trees, chestnut trees, and wood apple trees. Together with the wild grapes she had planted before, it suddenly became a small wild orchard.
Hua Feifei and her friends were very surprised to see the persimmon tree the next day. They even muttered, "Who is so childish?" The students jumped up and down and named it "Teacher" in surprise.
Because the persimmon tree looks tall and big next to the small fruit seedlings.
Thanks to the close attention and careful care given by the students of Hope Primary School every day, the survival rate of the fruit trees has reached over 90%, which is very high. The next step will be to increase the flowering rate, fruiting rate, etc.
It will take at least until next autumn for the fruit to bear fruit, and some may even require more cycles.
It’s no wonder that the team leader didn’t agree immediately, but just asked them to try. In an era of food shortage, it is absolutely impossible to stop growing staple food.
This is destined to be a long job.
The students promised to take care of the fruit trees and grow up safely with them.
In order to express their gratitude to Ye Yu for the "Teacher Tree", the next day, the primary school students found a large cluster of straw mushrooms while digging wild vegetables in Dongshan. They also came to the educated youth site to present two of them to the teacher as a gift.
Ye Yucai doesn't lack these mushrooms.
Since the first cluster of mushrooms matured, she often went to Nanshan to pick mushrooms, especially after rain.
There was no need for space teleportation. While speeding through the mountains, he used his superhuman vision to search for mushrooms popping up in the mountains. After carefully collecting them, he recorded the location, just like the previous orchard coordinate map.
Mushrooms also like to pop up in the same places as long as there are no external objects to interfere.
Ye Yu collected not only the most common oyster mushrooms and straw mushrooms, but also king oyster mushrooms, chicken mushrooms, etc. The dishes that the educated youth often eat recently are stir-fried meat with mushrooms and pheasant stewed with mushrooms.
She has a lot of fresh mushrooms stored in her space, and they also dry some mushrooms.
It is worth mentioning that Ye Yu also saw familiar mushrooms in Nanshan and had eaten them in the future doomsday base, but it was obviously not an edible mushroom for ordinary people.
Toxic and potentially life-threatening.
If there is enough food, Ye Yu does not need to eat them or collect them, but they are part of the memories of the apocalypse, which may not be so beautiful, and she does not want to completely forget the past.
Therefore, I picked some.
In order to prevent confusion and poisoning Hua Feifei and the others, he wrapped it in cloth and placed it in a corner of the space, together with the remaining exotic beast meat.
Even if you don’t eat it, you can keep it as a souvenir.
Ye Yu fell into deep thought because of the mushrooms. Hua Feifei didn't know what she was thinking and spoke up for the student.
She said: "The wild vegetables sent by students have completely different meanings from those I dig myself. Every time I receive such thoughtful gifts from my classmates, I feel even happier."
That night, Hua Feifei personally stewed a pot of mushroom chicken soup and asked Ye Yu if she thought it was delicious.
Ye Yu replied honestly:
"No, very light."
Straw mushrooms are not the most suitable mushrooms for making soup. The fragrance is not that strong. Pheasant has a strong fishy smell, no matter how it is processed. The latter may be stronger. If it weren't for her sensitive tongue, she wouldn't be able to taste the mushroom flavor.
"Spirit, spirit, spirit," Hua Feifei emphasized three times in a row, "Do you understand?"
Ye Yu suggested:
“Add more next time.”
"Pfft--" Han Jing laughed out loud. Seeing Hua Feifei staring at him, he said that he might take Ye Yu's side this time. They would get the most broth, and the soup was richer and more delicious.
Xu Fei silently counted:
“1, 2, 3.”
The collision of emotion and rationality caused chaos in the Youth League Institute again.
With the completion of the first batch of spring plowing this year, the commune sent someone to inform that the first batch of educated youth had arrived. The team leader did not treat Ye Yu and the other three as outsiders and asked them to go and pick them up. As they were all educated youth, they had more topics to talk about.
Hua Feifei, Han Jing and Xu Fei were all looking forward to it. Rather than welcoming the unfamiliar educated youth, Ye Yu missed the cooking skills of the chef at the state-owned restaurant in Pingquan Town more.
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