Chapter 229 The Deputy Base Commander Arrives
The original height of the villa's wall was 1.5 meters.
The thickness is that of ordinary 12 walls.
A 12-meter wall is 12 centimeters thick, which does not provide much defensive effect for Han Ying and her team.
Lu Yuan plans to make the wall four times thicker, and including cement slurry, the thickness should reach about 50 centimeters.
The height is directly increased to 4 meters.
In this way, we can barely defend against some people with ulterior motives.
Moreover, Lu Yuan thought a lot. He was worried that someone would fail to destroy the wall and would try to go underground.
He also bought 5 tons of steel bars, planning to cut them into pieces about 1.5 meters in length.
These steel bars are then nailed into the ground to prevent anyone from digging in from underneath.
The two were busy having fun, Han Ying mixed cement slurry and passed bricks, while Lu Yuan built the wall.
When they finished building another row, an uninvited guest came to their door.
"You can also build walls?"
Gu Yuanping stood not far from the wall and saw Lu Yuan laying bricks on a wooden frame while Han Ying was mixing cement nearby.
Hearing the voice, the two stopped what they were doing and looked at the person who came.
Gu Yuanping was looking at them with a smile.
"Deputy base commander? Why are you here?"
Lu Yuan stood up from the shelf and looked at Gu Yuanpingdao outside.
"Nothing, just came to see you guys."
It is impossible for Gu Yuanping to be fine, as he has a lot of things to do.
But today he received the news that the entire farm had been destroyed and all the crops had been infested by insects.
Professor Li told him that the cacti planted by Lu Yuan and Han Ying were fine, so Gu Yuanping was in a hurry to come and see the cacti.
"We are just building the wall. If you have anything to say, just tell me directly."
Han Ying is not stupid. Why would the deputy base commander come to see them for no reason?
"Actually, I wanted to come and see the cactus. Have you planted some more in the past few days?"
This is what Gu Yuanping is most concerned about. They have a new villa and more space, so it would be better to plant more cacti.
"I've planted a few more, but I don't have enough pots. I plan to go to the night market tomorrow to see if there are any flower pots for sale."
Lu Yuan squatted down and continued laying bricks, talking as he did so.
Hearing Lu Yuan's words, Gu Yuanping suddenly became anxious and walked around the wall and went in:
"Why are you waiting for tomorrow? I'll have someone send the flower pots to you right away. They're free. Can you plant them as soon as possible?"
If you plant one day later, you can harvest one day later, and the base will have one day less of cactus to eat.
"Cacti grow big and have well-developed root systems, so ordinary flower pots won't work. They need big ones."
There are actually many flower pots in the space, and he has already planted the cactus.
And they were all alive, he just wanted them to grow a few more days in space.
"No problem, isn't it just a big flower pot? I'll have someone find it!"
Most of the flower pots in the base have been taken away by Professor Li, but he can still send people to collect them at the night market outside.
Apart from food, there is no shortage of these things at the night market outside.
One hundred points can buy a lot of flower pots.
After Gu Yuanping finished speaking, he made a phone call and asked people to go outside to collect the flower pots, no matter how big or small, all of them should be brought up.
The big one can be used to plant cacti for Lu Yuan and others, and the small one can be given to Professor Li.
"By the way, do you have any tips when planting? I don't mean to pry into your secrets."
"It's just that the farm has been completely destroyed. There are pests everywhere. They are all in the soil and there is no way to catch them."
Gu Yuanping hesitated for a moment before asking.
"There is no trick, but one thing is very important. The insect pest is so serious now. I guess the water must contain insect eggs, so I always use cold boiled water."
Of course, Lu Yuan didn't use cold boiled water. He used the water that Han Ying had stored before.
However, it is a fact that the water in the base now contains insect eggs.
"Cold water? This..."
The whole farm is so big, with so many crops, if we use boiled water for everything, the cost will be...
But if you don't do this, you will end up with nothing, which is even more miserable.
"I understand. I'll have someone send the flower pot over later. Thank you very much!"
Gu Yuanping didn't go to see the cactus anymore. He wanted to go to the farm quickly.
"Will pouring cold water help?"
Han Ying asked after Gu Yuanping left.
"I guess it should be of some use, but the cost is too high. I don't know how high the prices in the mall will rise in the future."
Prices will definitely go up, but as long as you can still buy them, there’s nothing we can do about it.
Sure enough, from that day on, the prices of all edible food in the mall increased again.
The most obvious thing is that the price of rice has increased from 2 points per pound a few days ago to 3 points per pound now.
Fresh vegetables are no longer sold, except for cactus.
However, Han Ying and Lu Yuan have discussed it and they do not plan to raise the price.
It will still be sold to the shopping mall according to the price originally agreed with Jiang Chengye.
They didn't raise prices, so the mall didn't raise prices either.
It’s still sold at 20 points per pound.
It’s just that before, each portion was half a pound, but now it has been cut into one or two pounds.
2 points per serving.
Despite this, there are long queues outside the mall every day before the cacti are put on the shelves.
As soon as it was put on the shelves, it was sold out in less than ten minutes.
And many people can’t buy it later.
But that’s all in the past. Han Ying and the others are still building the wall.
At around three o'clock, everyone who was working got off work.
Lei Minghu and his friends didn't even go home and rushed over quickly.
It would not be good to let everyone build the wall on an empty stomach, so Han Ying prepared some rice balls first.
Each person ate a few rice balls before starting to work.
In addition to Lei Minghu and the other four people, there is also Lin Xiaoli.
Han Ying was not so stingy and also gave Lin Xiaoli two rice balls.
"I, I don't have a big appetite, so I'll just take one."
In the last days, there is no one with a small appetite. Lin Xiaoli was just afraid that she would eat too much. Han Ying felt that she was at a disadvantage, so she would not ask her to work anymore.
She really didn't expect that she could get food by working here, so she could save a meal.
"Take it. If you can't finish it, heat it up when you get home."
How could Han Ying not see Lin Xiaoli's thoughts? It was just a rice ball.
Taking the rice ball, Lin Xiaoli turned her back and ate it, crying as she ate.
As long as she works hard, Han Ying will naturally not feel sorry for this rice ball.
If you don't work hard, you don't need to come tomorrow.
Fortunately, Lin Xiaoli was quite skillful.
Lu Yuan, Lei Minghu, Liu Hefeng and the Erhua brothers were building a wall.
The work with cement was taken away by Qin Qinghai.
He had no experience, so Han Ying passed on her little experience to him.
She could only run errands, carry cement slurry for the five bricklayers, and help Qin Qinghai at the same time.
Lin Xiaoli is moving bricks.
She worked quite quickly, carrying bricks by herself to build the foundation for the five of them.
He was also very considerate. When there were enough bricks, he would go over to help Qin Qinghai shovel sand and fetch water.
Everyone was working very hard, so Han Ying would pour them water in her free time.
Because the weather was too hot, everyone was sweating a lot, so Han Ying gave them honey water and light salt water to drink.
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