Chapter 491 Building an Ice House
It's normal for a few people to die in the base every day, and everyone has become accustomed to it.
The base seems safe, but there are actually many small gangs behind it.
After all, the entire Penglai base is quite large, and many places are still in ruins.
So this gave rise to some secret business dealings, and as for what kind of business it was, pimping was definitely one of them.
There are also many people who rob and rob other robbers, so if someone disappears occasionally, the base has no way to find out.
Han Ying and Lu Yuan arrived at the farm and everyone had already started working.
Some people were clearing the snow that had slipped off the farmland 'tents' and transporting the cleared snow to a nearby large river, where official personnel were compacting the snow with machines.
There is no way. The drought and water shortage in the previous years have already penetrated into everyone's bones.
So even though there is a lot of snow every day, it is still unknown whether the next round of extreme heat will come.
But now we have to start storing water.
I heard from Liu Hefeng that the base also dug a large ice cellar, which stores a large amount of ice.
As for where the ice cellar was, Liu Hefeng didn't say.
Han Ying couldn't judge whether storing so much ice was a good thing or a bad thing.
If there is another round of extreme heat, will these ice cubes melt?
All the wells and rivers, big and small, in Jiangcheng were filled with snow.
If the temperature suddenly rises, will the snow turn into floods?
No one knows whether this situation will happen, but the authorities have definitely thought about this issue.
Except for some vacancies in certain positions, everything in the farm is running in an orderly manner, so there is no need for the two to worry about anything.
Lu Yuan continued to work on the crops in the greenhouse. In addition to peppers and eggplants, he also planned to try grafting wolfberries and nightshade.
Both of these are traditional Chinese medicines. In these last days when there is a shortage of medical care and medicine, having two more traditional Chinese medicines that can be successfully grown would definitely be a big deal.
These Chinese medicine seed farms do not have warehouses with them, but they do have them at medical stations and research institutes.
Lu Yuan had already contacted the research institute yesterday, and they had delivered the seeds this morning.
There are not many seeds, about twenty of each type.
But as a test product, these are almost enough.
While Lu Yuan was germinating the seeds, Han Ying was driving a farm vehicle to find the place where she and Lu Yuan were going to build the igloo.
After searching for several locations, they finally decided to build the igloo in a corner about 300 meters away from the place chosen by Liu Hefeng and his team.
At that time, we can use some wooden boards to surround this area to block other people's prying eyes.
After deciding on the location, Han Ying measured it with a tape measure, and finally inserted a few small red flags at the locations she marked.
The ice house will be occupied by her, Lu Yuan and the dog, so it doesn't need to be too big, just a little bigger than Liu Hefeng's house.
A diameter of five or six meters is about right.
However, Liu Hefeng said that if you want to keep it warmer inside, you have to stick animal skins on the inner wall.
Han Ying and her friends have a lot of rabbits, so she thinks it's very good to use rabbit skins like Liu Hefeng did.
But for the sake of aesthetics, Han Ying plans to cover it all with white rabbit skin.
They don't have many pure white rabbits, but fortunately rabbits grow fast and reproduce even faster.
Save up slowly, kill more rabbits, and you will always be able to save enough pure white rabbit skins.
As for whether anyone would ask where these rabbit skins come from?
Didn’t you see that Liu Hefeng’s wall was covered with rabbit skins?
This shows that everyone has their own way, and everyone tacitly agrees not to ask questions that should not be asked.
After booking the seat, Han Ying called Liu Hefeng directly.
Nowadays, Liu Hefeng and his team are stationed on the farm. There is not much to do, and as long as the farm is safe, they are generally quite free.
So when Han Ying called, Liu Hefeng came over with his tools and the Erhua brothers.
The snow is ready-made and can be shoveled from the side.
A total of four people, including three soldiers and Han Ying, began to make ice bricks using the tools brought by Liu Hefeng.
Ice bricks are relatively easy to make, and more than a dozen were made quickly.
Han Ying and Zhuang Xinghe made ice bricks together, while Liu Hefeng and Erhua started building an ice house.
With Liu Hefeng's consent, Han Ying placed her phone next to them and took pictures.
The main reason is that the lifespan of the igloo is limited, and we can’t ask them to come and help every time we build an igloo.
The larger the diameter of the igloo, the larger the ice bricks must be.
After measuring, Liu Hefeng set the diameter of Han Ying and her friends' ice house at 6.5 meters.
In fact, this is not small. The largest ice house built by Liu Hefeng and his team before was only this big.
Han Ying had no experience, but their company had built dozens of igloos, so they had some experience.
In order to make the igloo more stable, the construction speed cannot be too fast.
So by noon, the prototype of the igloo had not yet been completed.
However, a lot of ice bricks have already been made next to it, and we will continue working on it in the afternoon.
Han Ying invited the three of them to have dinner in the RV, and they did not refuse. After all, the opportunity to eat at a rich restaurant does not come often.
Han Ying called Lei Minghu and the others, but they all said they wanted to eat in the cafeteria.
After all, I will have to work on the farm for a long time in the future, and I can't go to Han Ying's RV to eat every day.
So you still have to adapt to the food in the cafeteria. If you are not used to it, you can bring some food and cook for yourself. It is very convenient.
Two children were also brought to the farm, and both were taken to the tofu workshop by Qin Qinghai.
After all, the tofu workshop is warmer.
Qin Qinghai set up a small table for the two of them next to his office so that they could study there.
When you get tired of studying, you can go there and watch others make tofu and soy products.
They had agreed to eat at the RV, so Han Ying went back to prepare first and asked Liu Hefeng and the others to go over half an hour later.
Back in the RV, Han Ying steamed a big pot of white rice.
We had been eating together in the RV for a long time before, so there is a big rice cooker here, which can easily feed eight or nine people.
I didn’t make any dishes that were too complicated, after all, everyone is familiar with the current environment.
Beef stewed with potatoes, cured fish pot, fried bacon with peppers, braised eggplant, scrambled eggs with black tomatoes, and pork ribs and corn soup.
The ingredients of all 6 dishes can be traced back to their provenance.
As for the peppers and eggplants, Lu Yuan has already grafted them successfully, so there is a reason for bringing them out now.
At around twelve o'clock, when Lu Yuan returned to the RV, Liu Hefeng and others also came over.
Han Ying had just prepared all the dishes and had placed them at the booth.
Brothers Liu Hefeng and Erhua actually just went home to change their clothes before coming here.
Although they knew that Han Ying and the others were giving them this meal as a thank you for helping build the igloo, the three of them still each brought a can of meat.
Han Ying did not refuse and accepted it with a smile. This was a token of love from the three of them, and she would return the gift later.
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