Chapter 26: Pastoral Retreat
Yu Duoduo took a shovel from the room and started to dig the soil. Maoku followed her example and used his paws to dig the soil, just like burying Chouchou in his own cat litter box. It was natural and smooth, and he was very skilled at it.
Its followers also imitated it, digging in the ground with their little chicken claws...
Yu Duoduo dug a row of earth pits on the east side of the garden. In order to prevent the fruit trees from fighting each other as they grew, the radius of each pit was about 5 meters.
There are 4 fruit seedlings in horizontal and vertical rows, a total of 16 trees, covering a total area of 400㎡. The remaining 100㎡ can be used to plant other things.
Yu Duoduo was carefully selecting from the pile of fruit seedlings, deciding which varieties to plant.
She didn’t know whether the soil and environment of the garden were suitable for growing all the tree species she bought, such as tropical saplings, banana trees, coconut trees, and her favorite durian tree.
So Yu Duoduo planted 2 apple trees, pear trees, orange trees, peach trees, banana trees, mango trees, durian trees, and coconut trees, half of which were temperate fruit seedlings and half were tropical fruit seedlings. He would try them out first, and change them if they didn't work.
When Yu Duoduo finished planting the fruit seedlings one by one, he found that Maoku and his men were already having a great time in the woods.
As if to ensure that the seeds are evenly distributed, the chickens' poop has spread to the roots of every fruit seedling, mixed with Mao Pan's cat urine, which serves as fertilizer.
There was only one faucet in the kitchen and toilet, so Yu Duoduo found a long water pipe and pulled it out from the toilet.
This water pipe was given by the nursery company. They said that the fruit seedlings had just been planted and the surrounding soil needed to be watered thoroughly so that the seedlings could better adapt to the changing environment.
When I was watering halfway, I found two eggs lying at the root of a fruit seedling...
Wow, so casual, the crops are just planted and already they are occupying the household registration!
Yu Duoduo took the eggs in his hand and looked at them carefully. This was the first batch of eggs. It must be because they had not found an environment that made them feel safe before, so the hens stopped laying eggs...
Now that this function has been restored, it means that planting trees makes them feel at ease.
Yu Duoduo took the eggs in his hand, took out a flashlight from his pocket, and looked at them, and found that both of them were fertilized eggs!
Yu Duoduo carefully placed the eggs into the simple chicken coop built for the chickens in the corner near the house, hoping that some conscientious hens would take good care of their own eggs.
If they can be hatched and raised, then her and Maoku's food supply will hopefully increase!
After watering the fruit seedlings in the yard, Yu Duoduo was completely exhausted. He moved a recliner into the yard and looked at the results of his whole day, feeling extremely proud!
This is the first time I have planted a tree in my life! What’s more, it’s my own tree!
She was really grateful to have this space, which allowed her to realize her long-cherished dream of retiring to the countryside like Tao Yuanming.
Over the next two days, Yu Duoduo plowed, watered and fertilized her small garden every day, hoping to see signs of the fruit seedlings surviving soon.
The chickens seemed to have accepted the garden environment with trees. Yu Duoduo successively picked up 7 eggs under the fruit seedlings, 3 of which were fertilized eggs.
I regret not preparing an incubator in advance, so I had to place the fertilized eggs one by one into the grass nest, hoping that the mothers could show their maternal love!
As for the remaining eggs, they were all kept for Maoku, who boiled one every day and added it to his cat food to give the big boss a taste of meat.
One could neither hear nor see the noise outside in this space, but Yu Duoduo was not afraid that Xie Yun would come to find him. He had already agreed in advance that there would be unrest outside in the next few days, so he should stay at home and guard the house.
In addition, Xie Yun has been obsessed with a new book on ancient Chinese medicine these days, and he would not be willing to come out for at least three to five days!
After planting the saplings, Yu Duoduo had nothing else to do, so he planted 10 square meters of corn and 20 square meters of millet on the remaining land.
Because she had no experience, she didn't dare to plant more for fear of wasting it.
Even though the area is small, these little things are much harder to grow than fruit seedlings! She turned the land three times!
Although farming life was simple and happy, Yu Duoduo knew every bit of news from the outside world.
The noise outside when I woke up early every morning and the sound of broken windows downstairs when I went to sleep all indicated that there was unrest in the building.
There was no point calling the police; the police station was overwhelmed on the first day and no one answered the phone.
These days are a special period. It has been 6 days since the flood trapped the city residents. The rain has not stopped, and the thunder has not stopped. The rescue team is also human. At this time of losing their lives, I am afraid no one will go out.
The employees living in the company downstairs have reached certain critical points. They have not eaten any food, taken a shower or changed their clothes for 6 days. This is unbearable for anyone.
People are not worried about the lack of wealth, but the inequality of wealth. The residents upstairs became the objects of their jealousy and hatred.
Why are the people upstairs enjoying good food and good sleep at home, while they are like homeless people abandoned by the city, living here in misery!
But in fact, even for ordinary families, if the water and electricity are completely cut off and they have to stay at home for a week, life will be equally difficult.
The apartment building where Yu Duoduo lives is full of young people who don’t usually cook, and now their stored food has been almost used up.
Even if there is some left, I will only keep it for my own protection. Who would be stupid enough to take it out and share it with those huge holes downstairs that cannot be filled!
The families in the building whose doors had not yet been pried open moved out their furniture and blocked the doors with all their might, fearing that these evil spirits would break in!
Even though there were four security doors protecting him, Yu Duoduo still felt a little reassured. People who had survived for a long time in the apocalypse had no so-called sense of security.
So she didn't live directly in the space, for fear that when she came out one day, the world would have changed.
In order to hear clearly what was happening outside the door, she even moved the bed in her room to the living room downstairs.
Finally, at midnight on the 8th day, Yu Duoduo heard some sparse noises outside in his light sleep...
He quickly got up, took out Tang Hengdao from the space, held it in his hand, and slowly approached the door.
She turned on the infrared camera installed in the corridor. She found it at the smart home company downstairs and installed it a few days ago to monitor the movements in the corridor.
Someone is trying to pry the door open, and there is more than one person!
There are 6 people in total!
Everyone was holding a kitchen knife, which I guess was stolen from the house downstairs.
The current on the corridor door was on, but those people were still so bold as to pry the door open. Perhaps they had learned from their previous lesson and wore non-conductive plastic gloves this time.
It seems that these people have set their sights on the 12th floor. After all, someone saw the deliveryman delivering food to the top floor, and they happened to have installed a door... They will not stop until they conquer this place.
Yu Duoduo took out night vision goggles from the space and put them on, and replaced the Tang Heng short knife with a 21-inch Xiuchun knife.
He gently opened the door of his house and slipped out.
The corridor was darker than anywhere else. Yu Duoduo took out a high-powered flashlight, shone it at the people outside, and then turned it off.
While the people opposite were temporarily blinded, Yu Duoduo quickly opened the glass door inside the corridor and stabbed several times outside with his Embroidered Spring Knife through the door.
The people outside were shocked, but before they could even scream, the pain in their chest instantly spread throughout their bodies and they fell to the ground with a bang.
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