Chapter 21: Cracked
On rainy days, Xu Xinxin was not idle even though she stayed in the room.
She piled the hay she had just collected today on the ground, picked out some thornless ones, and slowly rolled them into straw ropes with her hands.
Xu Xinxin learned this skill from an old man two years ago. It was raining at the time, and everyone was living in a cave to avoid the disaster. They had nothing to do, so they chatted while twisting straw ropes.
You need to be skillful to do this, otherwise, the hay will not be entangled in one direction, and even if it looks like it is in place, it will be very easy to fall apart.
After a straw rope was rolled up and tied at the mouth, Xu Xinxin threw it into the corner.
After rubbing two straw ropes in a row, Xu Xinxin's palms had turned red, but she did not stop. After a short break, she continued to rub the straw ropes with her hands.
Later, she couldn't rub it anymore, so she just braided the straw rope like braiding her hair.
Although this is slow, the woven straw rope can also be used.
"Meow~"
The rain outside the window is still falling slowly.
The little orange cat curled up in the cat bed, licking its paws with its tongue and looking out the window.
The big rooster crows all day long, and at this time it just stays in the chicken coop to avoid the rain.
The two voles stayed in the kitchen, sleeping in the corner farthest from the fertilizer.
Outside the house, it seemed that there was almost no other sound except the sound of raindrops falling, the sound of wind, and the sound of water.
There was peace and tranquility in the room.
The rain lasted for two days.
After the rain stopped, the sky cleared up and the temperature suddenly rose. At the hottest time of the day, it was over 20 degrees.
Xu Xinxin finally took off her cotton jacket and put on a sweatshirt jacket.
The sky finally cleared up. Early in the morning, Xu Xin changed into a pair of old shoes and took the two voles out.
"Let's go, the weather is clear, let's go plant some vegetables."
It rained for two days in a row, and the nearby land was all soaked with water. When you stepped on the ground, your shoes were covered with mud.
Looking at the vegetable garden again, the water spinach seedlings that had just grown were all green and lush, as if they would burst open if pinched by hand.
“Squeak!”
“Squeak~”
The two field mice looked at the green seedlings, jumped over happily, and sniffed hard with their noses.
“Squeak…squeak!”
Suddenly, one of the voles sneezed.
The green seedling also swayed from side to side, and then with a "click", it split in the middle.
“Squeak!”
The sneezing vole was so scared that it immediately jumped to the side and hid behind a rock.
"I don't blame you," Xu Xinxin said, "The seedlings can't absorb too much energy, so they will easily crack if they encounter a little disturbance."
As she spoke, she squatted down to check the seedlings.
These seedlings are too "full". If left alone, they will crack within two days.
Just carefully move these seedlings indoors, away from wind and rain, and everything will be fine once they grow a little bigger.
But Xu Xinxin couldn't do that because she didn't have that many flower pots and couldn't move the seedlings without touching them.
Thinking of this, Xu Xinxin simply placed his hand next to the seedlings and slowly used his supernatural powers to induce growth.
In that case, she would accelerate the growth of these seedlings so that their ability to withstand energy and matter would be greater and they would not crack so easily.
But this is just a "delaying tactic" because there are a total of 12 water spinach seedlings and 3 tomato seedlings. Her ability is too weak, and if she promotes the growth of each seedling one by one, she can only make them grow a little bit.
If it rains again, these seedlings will crack again.
You still need to build a canopy for these seedlings. It is best to use a translucent plastic film to prevent rain but not block light.
I just don't know how much this film costs.
…
"What? 2,000 points for 100 square meters of film!"
Xu Xinxin called Sun Kunpeng and was almost shocked to learn the price of plastic film for greenhouses.
"That's right. It's different now than before. This thing is very scarce now. It's not sold in volumes, but directly by area."
On the other end of the phone, Sun Kunpeng asked, "Are you going to build a greenhouse? It's not enough to just buy plastic film. You also need to buy some wooden poles or steel pipes. This also requires some points."
This is too expensive. Otherwise, she might as well go to the mountain to pick some leaves and build a simple shed.
No, with her craft, using leaves to build a shed would probably leak and would be of little use.
If there is really no other option, she will buy a few flower pots and move the seedlings into the house to grow them for a few days until the rainy season is over.
She didn't even have to buy flower pots. She could just look around nearby and find some bottles and jars that could serve as flower pots for a while.
"No, I'm just asking casually."
After Xu Xinxin hung up the phone, she started strolling around the neighborhood.
Fortunately, this place was originally a park, and green plants are planted in many places. There are many flower pots of different sizes. Although most of them are broken, you can still find a few if you look around.
Xu Xinxin found five large flower pots, filled them all with soil, and placed them at the kitchen door. She felt a lot more at ease.
But this is only a temporary solution, it is better to build a canopy.
Once the plastic greenhouse is built, she can grow vegetables regardless of wind, rain, cold or freezing weather, instead of having to move the seedlings indoors as she does now.
When Xu Xinxin thought of this, she couldn't help but look up and glance at the other side of the river.
After the rain, the wilderness on the other side of the river is all green, mysterious, yet full of vitality.
I wonder how much evolutionary food is hidden inside...
"Xiaojiu, tell me, is it safe for me to go to the wilderness to look for evolutionary fruits?"
A full space filled with ordinary wild vegetables could be sold for three thousand points. If she found some evolved fruits or something else on the other side of the river, it would definitely be a huge income.
When the system heard Xu Xinxin calling it, it immediately responded, "Host, don't worry. I can scan all objects within a 10-kilometer radius. If I detect any danger, I will notify you in advance."
With the guarantee of the system, Xu Xinxin's desire to go to the wilderness became stronger and stronger.
"Okay, I'll be there when I'm done cooking!"
Xu Xinxin immediately went back to the house and cooked a big pot of rice. She kneaded all the rice into rice balls with her hands, put them directly into the pot, and put them into the space.
She added several handfuls of chicken feed to the chicken coop, left some rice balls for the two field mice, and then took the little orange cat across the river.
…
Ten minutes later.
The porpoise took Xu Xinxin to the other side of the river and bleated at her.
"Thank you. I may stay here a little longer this time. Can you wait for me?"
"Meh~"
Xu Xinxin touched the porpoise's head with her hand before climbing down from its back.
As soon as she landed, she took a look at the wild vegetable area and felt that it had become "bald" again.
And this time the "baldness" is particularly obvious. In some areas, wild vegetables cannot even cover the ground, and a large area of land is exposed.
“Xiao Xi…”
As Xu Xinxin stepped into the wild vegetable area, a wild vegetable leaf suddenly stretched out.
The leaf tapped her legs, then pointed at the bald spots with the tip of the leaf, looking very sad.
This time, without the little orange cat translating, Xu Xinxin could understand the meaning of evolved wild vegetables.
"Don't worry, I'm not coming here to pick wild vegetables this time. I'm just going to take a walk in the woods ahead."
The evolved wild vegetable did not make any unnecessary movements but just silently retracted its leaves.
But Xu Xinxin somehow understood its sadness, and she promised: "When I make money, I will definitely buy you some flower fertilizer!"
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