During this period of time, the breeding of rabbits and pheasants has not been very smooth. Qiao Xuejun realized that it was due to insufficient nutrition. With corn, it became much more convenient.
Of the original 10 acres of land, 6 acres were planted with potatoes and 3 acres were planted with corn.
There was also more than half an acre of land where Qiao Xuejun planted seeds picked up from outside, and a small piece of land was left to plant cabbage.
Chinese cabbage grows very beautifully, but it also requires more care than other plants. It requires watering once every week and fertilizing on a regular basis.
After the cabbages were grown, Qiao Xuejun and three teammates made them into pickles and dried plums, which can be stored for a longer time.
It’s sunny now, so it’s especially convenient to dry the cabbage.
They had collected some pickle jars and salt outside before and brought them home, and Qiao Xuejun already had a stockpile of salt.
I planted several crops of cabbage, and in addition to eating them daily as a vitamin supplement, I made them all into pickles.
However, the seeds that Qiao Xuejun picked up were used to plant a peach tree, a loquat tree, and a walnut tree, and the rest were some small shrubs.
However, the probability of growing something is still very low.
She picked up more than 200 seeds in total, but only 12 of them sprouted successfully, and the rest were all dead.
But Qiao Xuejun was already very satisfied.
Just these three fruit trees are a good deal.
The fields in the refuge also have an adaptive temperature control system. No matter the season, as long as the seeds are planted, the fields will adjust to a temperature suitable for the growth of the seeds. If not, planting these things would also be a matter of choosing the season, which would be more difficult.
However, these three fruit trees cannot grow overnight. They all take several years to grow.
More than half a year has passed, and the temperature is not as hot as it was at the beginning. The maximum temperature has dropped from 54 degrees to 48 degrees.
However, by November, the weather did not drop to normal temperatures as most people thought - it was supposed to be winter, but the temperature was still above 45 degrees.
During this period, Qiao Xuejun has been using a vibration machine to get news from the outside world. Originally in October, everyone's emotions were the most excited. Winter is here, and the temperature should drop, right?
But no.
"If the high temperatures don't end, humanity will perish."
The atmosphere began to become desperate, and many people felt that the world would never get better. Some people left suicide notes to strangers via radio, saying that they could no longer hold on and chose to end their lives.
This atmosphere continued to shroud human society until the spring of the second year.
One day in February, a loud thunder-like sound suddenly came from the sky.
"Did it thunder?"
At that time, they were in the underground shelter, eating at the table. Kuang Qianli was drinking egg soup and was so frightened by the sound that he almost dropped the bowl.
That sound seemed to shake the heaven and earth.
The four people looked at each other, not knowing what the sound was.
Qiao Xuejun's expression became even more solemn. This was the time when the system had told her that the year's extreme high temperatures would end.
What should follow is extreme cold, heavy rain and floods.
So fast?
Originally, the extreme high temperatures started at the end of March, and Qiao Xuejun thought it would end in March as well, but it is only the beginning of February now.
The sound in the sky just now didn't sound like thunder.
Qiao Xuejun frowned, put down the mashed potatoes, and put down the bowl and chopsticks: "I'll go out and take a look."
None of the three teammates could eat anymore and they all went out to see what was going on.
"Is it thunder?" The little carpenter was also looking forward to it, full of hope, "Spring thunder, spring rain, is it going to rain, is the temperature going to drop?"
Yes. But that's probably not a good thing.
Qiao Xuejun didn't say anything and just left the shelter.
She also asked the system: "What is the situation now? Is the extreme cold coming?"
The system replied: "According to the time, yes, the earth will enter a year without summer, with winter all year round."
Qiao Xuejun: "What was that noise just now?"
System: "...The relevant plot has not been unlocked yet. I don't know, but the next thing will definitely be extreme cold weather."
Qiao Xuejun stopped asking questions, walked out of the underground shelter, went straight to the second-floor terrace, and looked up at the sky.
Three teammates also followed Qiao Xuejun.
Qiao Xuejun actually discovered something was wrong when she walked onto the rooftop.
It was lunchtime, 12 noon, and the sun was shining brightly. But as soon as she emerged from the rooftop, she felt something was wrong. There was no sunlight, and when she looked up, she couldn't even see the sun.
There was a gray sky above my head.
"It's really going to rain!" Kuang Qianli looked up at the sky with a look of joy on his face, "These are dark clouds!"
"A-choo!" Wang Juanfeng was originally very happy, but suddenly she sneezed and wrinkled her nose, "My nose is a little itchy."
The young carpenter stood beside Qiao Xuejun and said, "Boss, I haven't seen rain for a long time. If it rains later, I want to get wet!"
Kuang Qianli: "I also..."
Wang Juanfeng: "You'll catch a cold, so stop making trouble."
Through the observation window, Qiao Xuejun also saw people coming out of a house opposite. They were a family, and they were all looking up at the sky curiously.
Qiao Xuejun looked up at the sky, feeling that something was wrong. The sky was gray and covered the sun, but it didn't look like dark clouds, but rather like -
"Kuang Qianli, you are from the north. Look at the sky. Does it look like a sandstorm?"
When Kuang Qianli heard her say this, the smile on his face suddenly froze. He looked up at the sky again, and after a long while he said with certainty: "Indeed, yes, it does look like... sand and dust?"
He was puzzled: "Why is it sand and dust..."
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