Even after returning home, the whole bird Zhazha has not yet recovered from the sadness of losing its feathers and becoming a bald bird. It is dejected and the whole bird is listless. Its beautiful colorful feathers are a little dull, and resentment is spreading from every feather. The expression on the bird's face is extremely sad. Even through the thick feathers, Qin Suyun can clearly see the word "sadness" written on the bird's face.
Zhazha: Weak, helpless and pitiful, but still wants to eat.
Qin Suyun: "..."
Was what I just said too much of a blow to the bird? She only said that eating something would cause it to shed feathers, but she didn't say that eating it would definitely cause it to shed feathers...
As a little hero who had just made a contribution to the entire village, Qin Suyun felt that she should not be too harsh. She touched her chin and decided to pick a few walnuts to plant. Raw walnuts could still be planted, but the pine nuts she bought were roasted open pine nuts, which could no longer be planted.
However, it takes at least seven or eight years for walnuts to grow from seeds to fruits, which is a rather troublesome thing.
Walnut trees are not like peach trees. They can bloom and bear fruits at a height of only two or three meters.
Walnut trees are very large and are not suitable for indoor planting. However, if they are planted outdoors to a certain height, it will be inconvenient to use jade plants or other plants. It will take many years for the walnut tree to bear fruit.
"Forget it, let's plant them first. We'll talk about other things after the saplings are grown. If it doesn't work out, Zha Zha can still eat peanuts." And judging from the mood of this parrot, I'm afraid that in the short term, it will not be very interested in nuts.
However……
Qin Suyun found that she had underestimated Zhazha.
The listless Scarlet Macaw stood dejectedly beside the small plate on which it usually ate. Every time it ate a peanut, a pine nut, or a walnut, it would hang its head and sigh silently. After waiting for three seconds, it would eat another peanut, a pine nut, or a walnut, and then hang its head and sigh again, repeating the cycle.
Throughout the afternoon, the bird ate three times as many nuts as usual.
Qin Suyun: "..."
really……
Even if the bird could speak human language, she couldn't understand the parrot's logic.
The walnut tree was finally planted.
She had never grown this thing before and didn't know what the germination rate was. She picked five of the best-looking walnuts from the pile of walnuts at home and soaked them directly in diluted jade dew. She planned to wait until the walnuts sprouted before burying them in the soil. Now she would plant them on the third floor for a while, and then transplant them to the backyard after the seedlings grew into saplings.
I originally thought that these five walnuts would sprout quickly after being soaked in Jade Dew, not to mention a few minutes, but at most three hours.
However, what was unexpected was that after soaking the five walnuts for a whole day, there was no reaction, as if all the walnuts were rotten.
If Qin Suyun had not been able to clearly know that the energy in the jade dew seemed to have been absorbed by the other party, and the water in the bowl was just ordinary well water, Qin Suyun would have suspected whether these five walnuts were really rotten.
While Qin Suyun was still planting walnuts at home, the village was already bustling with activity. All the villagers who had gone up the mountain to pick up people had returned, and had brought back all the children and elderly people in the village. Even though they had been running around for a while, there were still smiles in everyone's eyes.
We originally thought that these children and the elderly would get sick due to the running back and forth, but unexpectedly, everyone seemed to be in good health. Except for two children under one year old who had a cold and fever, the other children were all fine. After a day of rest and a drink of hot soup, they became lively and energetic.
Seeing that the elderly and children were fine, Zhao Xingguo discussed going to the county town with Meng Changlong.
After they captured Li Yuan yesterday, they tortured him to get information about the county town, where Li Yuan had hidden his previously stored food, and how many people were still there.
After finding out the details, Zhao Xingguo wanted to get all the food that Li Yuan had hidden in the county. The food they got was hidden in three places, one of which was Li Yuan’s secret warehouse. All the food in this warehouse was stored by Li Yuan and his confidants. Ordinary people had no way of accessing this warehouse, but there were five people guarding the warehouse at this time.
As for the other two warehouses, many people knew about them, and there were dozens of people staying there. One of them was even Li Yuan’s former deputy, who was a prisoner who escaped from prison with Li Yuan.
After finding out these things, Zhao Xingguo knew that there was a lot of food and supplies in the three warehouses, so he started to think about stealing these things.
Apart from anything else, many households in their village have almost run out of salt.
Salt wasn't something most people used for themselves, especially in rural areas where buying and selling wasn't easy. They usually bought a year's worth of salt at a time. However, much of it was buried in ruins, making it impossible to dig it out. Even if a lot of salt was dug out, it wouldn't be edible, so the shortage was obvious.
The changes in the environment and the development of surrounding events in recent days have made Zhao Xingguo more vigilant, and made him subconsciously want to prepare more things to prevent accidents.
He would never have too little for things like salt. Even if he stocked up a little more and wasted it later, it was still better than having nothing at all in the future.
"It's a good thing that Village Chief Zhao thought of bringing back the supplies and food that the bandits had looted from the county. As far as I know, we've been in contact with quite a few countries recently... This earthquake isn't just affecting China. Large-scale earthquakes have occurred everywhere on Earth, whether in the sea or on land." Meng Changlong frowned, "And the frequency of the earthquakes is almost the same as here!"
"The entire earth is experiencing ice disasters in the northern hemisphere and extreme heat in the southern hemisphere." Every word of Meng Changlong's was so heavy that it seemed like a huge rock pressing on Zhao Xingguo's heart.
"So it's right for you to prepare food early... These foods were looted by these robbers, and I don't know how many villages and households they have robbed. These things are not easy to return, and we can't just return them directly... As the saying goes, a little bit of rice is a favor, a peck of rice is repaid with hatred. I suggest that the village chief take one third or one half of these things as a reward, and the rest can be distributed to those who were robbed according to the number of people." Logically, this should not be said by a soldier like Meng Changlong, but Meng Changlong really cares about the village.
This group of robbers had robbed many people before and consumed a lot of food and supplies. If Village Chief Zhao returned all the supplies the robbers had obtained according to the amount they had originally robbed, then, not to mention whether someone would deliberately lie and blackmail them, Village Chief Zhao would not be able to find the supplies that the robbers had eaten and consumed before and return them to the victims.
Some victims got all their belongings back, but some got nothing. These people will naturally make a fuss, quarrel, and hate, which is really not worth the loss.
"Commander Meng, you are right. This is what I had planned before... It took us a lot of time and effort to capture these robbers, and we consumed a lot of manpower and material resources before we caught them. I also need to give some explanation to the villagers." Zhao Xingguo nodded. In fact, he had already thought of how to deal with these things.
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