Seeing that the others were looking at him like this, Meng Ka felt a little embarrassed: "Do you all know him?"
"What's so hard about this?" the young doctor said. "What a fuss!"
Doctor Zheng glanced at him. This kid had clearly been given the sea buckthorn in the morning and told to wash it, but he acted like he had never seen it before and asked all kinds of questions. Now he was pretending.
Seabuckthorn is not as popular as apples and bananas, and its yield is not as high as these, so it is normal that you have never seen it.
Yuan Zhiyi stretched out his hand: "Give it back to me."
Meng Ka hesitantly gave it back to her: "Can it replenish vitamin C? Not oranges or those..."
Yuan Zhiyi glared at him and said, "It's 70 to 80 times the vitamin C content of an orange."
Meng Ka was surprised again. He immediately suspected that the exaggerated data was fake, but it was Yuan Zhiyi who said it, not the people from the First Base.
Yuan Zhiyi would not lie to him.
The young doctor turned around and greeted Qiao Xuejun: "Teacher Qiao, do you have more sea buckthorns? I wanted to eat some this morning, but the teacher didn't allow me."
Doctor Zheng chased him away: "Go away, do you still want to snatch food from the patients? I'm a little nervous about giving these to the patients."
These ten pounds are more than enough to relieve one person's symptoms, but if three people share it, it would be a bit tight.
Qiao Xuejun asked Dr. Zheng, "We still have some at home. How much more do you need?"
Doctor Zheng's eyes lit up: "There is more?"
It’s already surprising that they could come up with these, but there’s more?
Qiao Xuejun nodded: "Only a little bit."
There were still about 100 kilograms of vitamin C at home. Qiao Xuejun originally planned to share it among the four of them in the shelter, give some to the patrol team, and keep the rest in the warehouse for preservation. Next time someone with vitamin C deficiency appeared, they could just take it out and use it as pills for emergency.
There is too little of this stuff.
I have to find a way to grow something else to produce in large quantities that can supplement vitamin C.
Doctor Zheng said: "It would be better if we could gain another 10 kilograms."
Qiao Xuejun: "Okay, got it."
Zhou Biao looked at the bowl of fruit and said with emotion: "The First Base has been so good to us, I don't know how to repay them."
He just heard Qiao Xuejun say that they didn't have much, but they were still willing to give all this to the people in their sea fort.
"Yes, but remember to repay us."
After Qiao Xuejun finished speaking, he looked at Meng Ka and said, "Are you still standing there in a daze? Your two friends are waiting to eat the sea buckthorn, why don't you feed them?"
Meng Ka finally came back to his senses after learning that sea buckthorn can be eaten and can supplement vitamin C: "Okay, okay."
The young doctor was originally planning to scrape the patient's thorns himself. When he heard what Qiao Xuejun said, he immediately cooperated and took out the scraper he had asked for from the kitchen from his pocket and handed it to Meng Ka: "Quick, use this."
If you want to shave ten pounds, it would be best if you have someone to do it for you.
Qiao Xuejun watched Meng Ka start to scrape it, took out a plastic bag from his pocket and handed it to Meng Ka: "Scrape off the thorns, split it in half from the middle, pick out the seeds inside, and put them in this plastic bag. I'm going to collect them."
The seeds inside the sea buckthorn can be taken back and planted again.
However, it will take several years for these seeds to bear fruit.
Qiao Xuejun still remembered that Meng Kado wanted the seeds, so she told Dr. Zheng and the others lying on the bed, "You all need to keep an eye on him and don't do anything tricky."
Meng Ka was embarrassed: "Teacher Qiao, I won't..."
Qiao Xuejun was unmoved: "You'd better be."
Mengka muttered, "Now I know how difficult it is to farm."
Qiao Xuejun: “What?”
Mengka sighed and said while scraping the thorns, "The sea fort was building a greenhouse yesterday. Before, they wanted to build a suitable site on the empty deck and build a shed, but that kind of shed is really difficult to build. It's not easy to build with wooden boards, and it's even harder to build with steel plates."
Qiao Xuejun: “Come on.”
She is still waiting to see what materials Seaburg will use to build a greenhouse. If they can really build a greenhouse, she will be able to grow many things.
After Qiao Xuejun finished speaking, she went back to the kitchen.
She found Uncle Zhang and took a look at the work in the kitchen. Uncle Zhang was extracting potato starch and trying to make more foods with the starch, such as kneading it with pumpkin puree to make chewy and tender pancakes.
Uncle Zhang mashed the pumpkin while saying to Qiao Xuejun, "Teacher Qiao, this potato starch is very useful!"
Qiao Xuejun: "Then let's keep it like this time, mainly potatoes, give more?"
Uncle Zhang nodded: "Yes, potatoes are good. They are simple and convenient. You can steam, bake or boil them. They can extract starch, which makes fish meat smoother and more tender."
Qiao Xuejun nodded: "Okay, I understand."
Qiao Xuejun and Uncle Zhang chatted for a while and talked about the weather. Uncle Zhang took the initiative to ask: "The weather is not good now. I heard from the meteorologist that the fish should be air-dried as soon as possible. After a while, we can only freeze-dry it."
"How's your farming going?"
Qiao Xuejun said: "It's fine at the moment, but we also need to prepare for the winter. I plan to apply for a greenhouse."
Uncle Zhang said, "That's not easy! Materials are in short supply lately. All of them are used to build the defense wall. All patrol booths need to be reinforced."
Qiao Xuejun: "Didn't you make a deal with Haibao?"
Uncle Zhang nodded: "The productivity over there can't keep up. They have few people to begin with, and they only produce that much steel plate every day. It's not enough."
Qiao Xuejun sighed: "It would be better if we used plastic sheeting."
You can also make a plastic greenhouse.
Then there is no need for steel plates and steel bars. Just some solid wood to make beams and columns driven into the ground, and then covered with plastic sheeting, and the greenhouse is complete, protecting against wind and rain.
If the greenhouse is heated, it will be a simple greenhouse. It can be upgraded later.
Unfortunately, there is no plastic sheet either.
After walking around the kitchen, Qiao Xuejun went to the tailor's room.
Seeing Qiao Xuejun coming over, Tailor Li smiled, put down the fish skin cloth he was mending, and waved to her: "Come over to the fire, it's warm here. Will the next batch of rabbit fur be available in a month?"
Qiao Xuejun nodded: "Yes, just wait, it will be several times better than before!"
There were only 50 rabbits before, and now there are 500.
As she spoke, she looked at the fish skin in Tailor Li's hand and asked, "Have you developed a fish skin coat?"
When Tailor Li heard this, the smile on his face faded, and he shook his head with gritted teeth: "No."
She showed the fish skin in her hand to Qiao Xuejun: "I tanned it, but it didn't work. Tanning will soften it, but it won't make it thick. Their fish skin coat is very thick."
Qiao Xuejun reached out and touched it, and nodded: "It's soft and smooth." It looks like plastic sheeting.
The fish skin coat of the sea burg is harder and not so smooth.
Tailor Li continued, "I haven't figured out how to make a coat out of fish skin, but the material of this fish skin is indeed different from other fish skins. It can be made into cloth, and even when sewn together, the stitches are still tight, making it especially windproof and waterproof!"
Qiao Xuejun asked, "Are other fish skins not acceptable?"
Tailor Li shook his head and said, "Other fish skins will have large cracks after being pierced with needles, and some will even tear along the seams, but this eel skin will not."
Windproof and waterproof...Qiao Xuejun had an idea.
Maybe we could give her greenhouse a try?
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