Chapter 228: The Farm is Destroyed
Hearing Han Ying's concerns about mosquitoes, Lu Yuan gave up the idea of raising ducks in the basement.
If you really want to raise one, wait until the insect plague is over.
The farm has been out of control since it was hit by an insect infestation.
Originally, only most of the land was infested by insects, but in the next two days, every piece of land in the farm was dug up with tiny insects.
Professor Li, who has spent most of his life studying crops, can't even tell what these insects are.
It is very small and its color is somewhat similar to soil, so it is difficult to find if you don't look carefully.
But this insect is very destructive and specializes in eating the roots of plants.
After eating the roots, eat the rhizomes.
Fortunately, on the first day of the insect outbreak on the farm, Professor Li had people dig up the unripe potatoes and sweet potatoes.
Otherwise, there will be no gain at all.
I saw that the last piece of land planted with cactus bought from Lu Yuan was also destroyed by insects.
The wilted cacti were crawling with insects.
Professor Li, whose hair was already silver, couldn't help but have tears in his eyes.
He held a shovel in his hand and kept slapping the bugs in the ground, tears falling silently.
After slapping him dozens of times, Professor Li fell to his knees. "Why? Why doesn't God give me a way out? Why?"
Many people nearby saw Professor Li like this and the bugs all over the ground and they all raised their hands to wipe away their tears.
The farm had finally started to improve and was about to be harvested, but an insect plague destroyed everything.
How many people worked hard for several months, only to have it all destroyed by bugs.
"Shovel out the dirt!"
After venting his anger for a while, Professor Li wiped away his tears with his sleeves.
He knew he couldn't give up.
If even he gave up this piece of land, the entire base would be doomed.
Professor Li took out his cell phone and called Lu Yuan.
"Lu Yuan, is your cactus okay?"
Professor Li was still worried that something might happen to their cacti.
If something happens to Lu Yuan’s cacti, then there will really be no hope.
"I'm glad you're okay."
Professor Li felt that perhaps he should learn from Lu Yuan and his team's methods.
All their cacti are planted in pots.
In this way, even if one pot of soil is infested with insects, it will not easily infect other soils.
It won't end up with the whole field being filled with insects.
After Professor Li hung up the phone, everyone worked together to shovel all the soil out of the field to dry in the sun.
Professor Li decided to put the soil that had already been dried in the sun into flower pots and plant them.
Professor Li immediately called Jiang Chengye at the shopping mall.
Ask him to organize all the flower pots and other pot-shaped objects that can be used for planting in the mall.
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Inside the villa, Han Ying and her friends were preparing to have dinner.
After Lu Yuan hung up the phone, he said, "Something must have happened at the farm again. I feel like Professor Li is not in a good mood."
"The infestation will spread, and it may be serious again."
Han Ying packed food for the dog before she started eating.
Just as she picked up the chopsticks, Han Ying thought of something and continued, "The whole farm is infested with insects, but our cactus is still alive and well. There won't be any problems, right?"
"Don't worry, it's okay. If they can't take care of it well, it's their problem. What does it have to do with our cactus being well?"
Lu Yuan had a smile on his face and he was not worried about this at all.
There will definitely be doubts at the base, but there is more joy.
And they are always afraid that something might happen to their cacti.
So don't worry at all.
After finishing their meal, the two people and the dog went straight into the space.
Lu Yuan went to pick up the eggs first.
Han Ying took out a table under the cherry tree, and then took out a bundle of red paper and cut it into the size of Spring Festival couplets.
The day after tomorrow is New Year’s Eve, and she plans to write some Spring Festival couplets herself.
Most people who can draw can also write decent calligraphy, and Han Ying is one of them.
Write the Spring Festival couplets one by one and put them aside to dry.
Han Ying wrote a lot, and if she couldn't use it all, she could give it to Lei Minghu and others.
It’s the New Year, let’s add some joy to it.
This end of the world has made everyone forget those traditional festivals.
As long as you have enough to eat and are alive and well, this day is a holiday.
Lu Yuan finished picking up the eggs and feeding the livestock, and Han Ying had finished writing the Spring Festival couplets.
New Year’s Eve is Han Ying’s birthday, and Han Ying plans to make another cake.
They went to the mall and saw that there were eggs for sale, but the quantity was limited and each person was limited to one egg per day, which cost 20 points.
But it’s good to have it for sale, so they can still take out the cake.
It’s not that Han Ying has to have this kind of ritual on her birthday.
Instead, she wanted to take advantage of her birthday to let everyone taste something that was only available before the end of the world.
This way, perhaps we won’t feel that the end of the world is so difficult to endure.
The cake was made by two people together. Lu Yuan didn’t know how to make desserts, so he could only help.
Finally, Lu Yuan wrote "Happy Birthday" on the cake.
Since fresh fruit was not available, Han Ying put some canned fruit and Oreo cookies on top of the cream.
This time, with the addition of Qin Qinghai, Captain Liu and the Erhua brothers, there were more people, so Han Ying made a double-layer cake.
The cake is 12 inches + 8 inches, which is not small. It can ensure that everyone can have a big piece, and maybe there will be a piece left for Lei Yuhang to take home.
After making the cake, Han Ying put it in the refrigerator for a few hours.
Wait until it is almost frozen, then put it in the basement and take it out on New Year's Eve.
At around eleven o'clock in the evening, the cement and sand that Han Ying bought had arrived.
Because she couldn't use so much at once, she asked Jiang Chengye to deliver it in several batches.
Deliver once every two days until all she bought is delivered.
Of course, what they bought from the mall was not enough for them to build the wall, but Han Ying could take some from the space and add it in each time.
Anyway, the mall will deliver one every two days. Who knows which ones she conjured out of thin air?
The two changed into more stain-resistant clothes and put up a solar lamp.
Get out your tools and start working with the grout.
I didn't have much experience before, the only experience I had was sealing sewers and using cement.
However, according to the previously downloaded videos, there are ratio instructions.
As long as you get the ratio of water, cement and sand right, there is no need to worry about failure.
Lu Yuan built a frame with wooden boards to ensure that people could stand on it to lay bricks.
Han Ying carried buckets of mixed cement slurry onto the wooden rack and laid bricks for Lu Yuan.
Lu Yuan had no experience in bricklaying, but he had watched a lot of videos.
He has good hands-on ability. He has been tinkering in the space for more than an hour, and now it looks like what it is.
They don't care how beautiful the building looks, as long as it is strong.
A piece of cotton thread was used as a horizontal line so that the bricks could be laid more neatly.
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