Chapter 444 Hope Base
After finishing her meal and cleaning up, Han Ying left the space and went upstairs in a hurry to see the changes in the crops that were watered with the mutant seafood mushroom water.
Han Ying walked in front, and Lu Yuan and Gou Zi followed behind.
The two people and the dog went up to the 4th floor, and Han Ying was stunned by the scene in front of them.
To make sure she was not mistaken, Lu Yuan took out a ruler to measure it, and then compared it with what Han Ying had recorded in the notebook yesterday. It was 5 centimeters taller than yesterday.
The two also discovered one thing: the soil that was watered with the mutant seafood mushroom water did not freeze!
This completely overturned their cognition, and it seemed that Professor Li had never mentioned this before.
You have to know that it is about minus 40 degrees Celsius outside now, and even indoors it should be around minus 30 degrees Celsius.
Under normal circumstances, if they poured water on the ground, it would freeze in a short while, but just now Lu Yuan used a stick to stir up the soil.
It had been overnight, but there was no sign of ice.
The potato seedlings have doubled in size and look ready to be planted.
He took out his cell phone and called Qin Qinghai downstairs.
When the phone rang, Qin Qinghai was charging his phone with a hand-crank charger.
There is no solar energy available, so the few kilowatt-hours of electricity in the battery box can only be saved for use at critical moments.
As for mobile phones and walkie-talkies, they can be charged with a hand-crank charger.
Although it is a bit slow, it is better than having no electricity.
After hearing Han Ying say that the potato seedlings were ready to be planted, Qin Qinghai stood up and knocked on the door of Lei Minghu's family in the opposite room.
Since Han Ying called them to go upstairs to get it, it means that they can go and visit the crops grown upstairs.
Out of curiosity, the two families, along with Lei Minghu, who had a weak leg, went up together.
Ever since Han Ying and her family planted their crops upstairs, the two families have avoided going upstairs.
Now that Han Ying has taken the initiative to ask them to go up and get it, everyone wants to go up and take a look.
Going up to the 4th floor, in the living room, Han Ying and Lu Yuan were digging out the potato seedlings that had grown to more than a finger's length in the pots one by one, and then planting them in other pots.
Every room on the 4th floor is filled with large and small planting pots, and each pot contains 2 to 6 corn seedlings.
Lei Minghu and the others all knew that these corn seedlings were planted by Han Ying on the day she returned from the safe passage after the meteorite shower.
It's only been a short time, and I didn't expect that he has grown so tall?
Isn’t it said that crops will be difficult to survive after the apocalypse?
But everyone also knows that Han Ying and Lu Yuan are both capable people. Just because others can’t grow the crops doesn’t mean they can’t.
Lei Yuhang was very fond of the corn seedlings that were growing well. He wanted to reach out and touch them, but he was afraid that he would kill them, so he hesitated to do so.
"It should be okay to touch it. Uncle Lu Yuan will definitely not mind."
Lin Yang whispered in Lei Yuhang's ear, and then the two of them covered their mouths and laughed, and at the same time reached out to touch the corn leaves.
After being touched, it quickly shrank back.
It’s no wonder that the two were so curious about the corn plants. It was because they were still young before the end of the world and had no idea what corn seedlings looked like.
Han Ying saw the two children's little actions, chuckled and said nothing.
It was agreed before that each family would plant 30 potato seedlings.
Although 30 trees are not a lot, if they are well taken care of, they can produce one or two hundred kilograms of potatoes.
"There's corn here. Do you want to try planting a few?"
Lu Yuan dug up 30 potato seedlings for each family and gave them to them, then pointed to the corn fields in other planting pots.
"Is it easy to grow? I want to plant it, but I'm afraid of wasting the seedlings."
He Xiu took a look at the well-growing corn seedlings, with some anticipation on her face, but she still didn't have much confidence in her heart.
"I heard that the seeds given by the farm are easy to grow. How about planting a few first?"
Lu Yuan's family dug up five trees for them.
Qin Qinghai and He Xiu carefully placed the seedlings dug out by Lu Yuan into the box one by one.
Then transplant it into the prepared planting pot.
"Here are two bottles of nutrient solution given by the farm. Dilute with 300 times the amount of water every five days. This bottle should be enough for five irrigations. You can irrigate once after planting."
Han Ying took out two bottles of about 1 liter of dark red liquid that she had prepared long ago.
Of course there was no nutrient solution. Those two bottles contained juice made from mutated seafood mushrooms.
Everyone looked at the crops they planted for a while, and after listening to Lu Yuan’s some precautions, they took the seedlings downstairs.
After a few people went down, Han Ying and Lu Yuan continued to plant the potato seedlings.
The more than 1,300 potato seedlings transplanted into the snow trays have not yet been planted. The ones being planted today are the ones that were previously mixed with fine soil and directly sprinkled into the planting pots.
There are more than a thousand trees in this batch.
It will be very spectacular after all the planting is completed.
Seeing that there was almost no place to put the pots, Lu Yuan felt that he really needed to start arranging the shelves.
Anyway, I stay at home most of the time due to the extreme cold, so I might as well nail up the shelves in the next two days.
Lu Yuan planned to start making the wooden shelf in the afternoon.
Han Ying closed her eyes and selected firewood suitable for making wooden shelves from the space, and then took them out one by one.
She had bought large quantities of firewood from abroad before, so she didn't use much of it.
It’s very easy to find the right wood to build a wooden shelf.
It doesn't need to be beautiful, just strong.
Lu Yuan first tried it to test the waters, and it looked pretty good.
There are 6 leg racks that are about one meter long, the middle layer is also about one meter long, and there is another layer on top.
There are three layers in total including the ground. The bottom two layers, one meter high, are used to grow potatoes, and the top layer is used for corn plants with taller plants.
Each floor of Lu Yuan’s grandpa’s house is very high, about 4 meters, so there is no problem in planting corn on the top floor.
While Han Ying and Lu Yuan were working on the wooden frame upstairs, Gu Yuanping and Ke Qin, who were far away in an office in Area B, stood by the window, staring at the steel frame nailed to the window outside in silence.
At the Pengcheng base, the last group of people who were willing to come to Jiangcheng were also transferred there.
However, due to the extreme cold, the plague in Pengcheng seemed to have been put on hold.
The extremely low temperature caused the corpses that had not yet completely decayed and the bacteria on the corpses to temporarily lose their activity and fall into hibernation.
When the temperature rises again one day, the plague virus that has been temporarily frozen will awaken again and come back with great force.
People from Feng Province have recently transferred several batches of refugees to Jiangcheng.
Jiangcheng is very large, and the people transferred from Feng Province occupied the other side, seemingly wanting to keep away from the Penglai base.
They also established a base in the west of Jiangcheng, called Hope Base.
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