Chapter 90 Chapter 90 Picking Mushrooms

After eating and drinking, Ye Yu returned to the educated youth camp. After a quick shower, he snuggled into the soft and comfortable quilt. His eyelids became heavier and heavier, and he soon fell asleep.

The next morning, I could vaguely hear some noises outside.

But Ye Yu had already marked the Wang Jiagou knowledge point as a psychological safety zone in his mind, and was not alerted. Instead, he thought the noise outside was disturbing, so he covered himself with the quilt and continued to lie in bed.

Since I didn't rush to eat this morning, I fell asleep again without realizing it.

When I woke up again, golden sunlight was shining into the room through the vents. The warm headboard and the small down on the fair face were clearly visible. My eyes twitched.

It's obviously getting late.

Ye Yu opened his eyes, half sat up, opened his arms and stretched his waist. It had been a long time since he had such a deep sleep. He felt full and comfortable as never before.

Even the abilities have been improved, like the experience points increased dramatically with each level up.

Get out of bed and leave the room.

The first thing Ye Yu did was not to wash up, but to practice boxing. His body felt refreshed as well as his mind. He couldn't help but concentrate his energy and strain his throat twice.

The only response she got was silence.

Hua Feifei and Xu Fei went to work in the morning; thinking about the spring plowing village meeting in the morning, Han Jing also got up and went with them. Before they left, they took the stored food and flew off to play somewhere unknown. Chicken No. 1 led Chicken No. 2 and Chicken No. 3 to catch insects by the stream. Now only Ye Yu was left at the educated youth site.

After washing up, Ye Yu went to the kitchen to find food.

As expected, I saw a warm breakfast in the pot, with wild vegetable and sweet potato porridge, bacon and sausage, and many boiled rock eggs.

Chicken No. 1 started laying eggs, maintaining a frequency of one egg per day, occasionally two eggs.

But the eggs could only be preserved when Ye Yu was away. Once she came back, they were eaten up again.

However, there are still two eggs left incubating, and they really plan to replace one of the eggs No. 2 and No. 3 with a hen. They only need to have a hen next.

Ye Yu had just finished breakfast when Hua Feifei and Xu Fei came back from class. To their surprise, Han Jing was also with them today.

???

Seeing Ye Yu's doubt, Xu Fei explained: "At the meeting this morning, the team leader assigned the fruit tree planting to Han Jing, you, Hope Primary School, and Uncle Wang Liu."

This will not affect farming and will make full use of manpower. Students will also get work points, but not much. However, if the trees are successfully planted, they will have a chance of getting more bad fruits that do not meet the trading standards.

"...Your classes are quite casual." Ye Yu commented.

But it's also very interesting.

A full ten years.

Students cannot just read textbooks and study rotely. No farmer can support just one student. It is a good thing for them to learn more life skills.

It's Xu Fei's turn to make lunch today.

Originally, I didn’t plan to make Ye Yu’s portion, but seeing Ye Yu’s attitude, it didn’t look like he would skip lunch, so I paused for a moment and made one more portion.

Just much less than usual.

After lunch, Ye Yu was directly assigned to the fruit tree planting group that afternoon.

It's not easy.

First, they are in a hurry and the fruit seedlings cannot wait;

Secondly, the land they allocated was destined not to be very good. Some of it was simply in marginal areas, not even as good as the private plots of the educated youth. As scattered sloping plots, it was not suitable for the use of tractors.

The others had been busy for the whole morning, pulling weeds, plowing the land, digging holes, and burying the fruit seedlings in the holes with their roots and soil.

The work done by Ye Yu after joining was the same, at most he was a little faster than others because of his greater strength.

What made them more confident about planting fruit trees was that in addition to natural farmyard manure, Han Jing and Ye Yu also brought back a small amount of pesticides and fertilizers, all of which they obtained from Shangdu City Orchard after much persuasion.

Very few indeed.

They planned the fertilization work over and over again and were very careful. They wanted to use the fertilizer by the pound and gram, and would feel bad if even a little bit fell on the ground.

Ye Yu had no problem doing other work, especially carrying water. She could carry as much water as her bucket could carry. Others used normal buckets, but she used a bathing bucket.

But refuse to fertilize.

Whether it is farmyard manure, nitrogen or phosphorus fertilizer, it is equivalent to self-abuse for her super sense of smell. It is not that it is not allowed, but it is really unnecessary when there are so many people around.

Hua Feifei is better than Ye Yu in this job. Hua Feifei is used to handling the pigsty and is no longer the little princess who vomits at the smell of fat.

After seeing Ye Yu's defect, others felt that she was not a perfect man after all. The primary school students did not think too much about it and laughed at her.

One by one, they were thrown by Ye Yu to carry or dig out feces and became dung-collecting elementary school chickens.

“…”

"Ahhh, it stinks."

"Ha ha ha ha……"

There were laughter and joy everywhere on the hillside, and even the people working in the fields below could hear it. Some stopped to wipe their sweat and said with a smile: "The work of the educated youth is different."

If these words were said by the educated youth when they first arrived in the countryside, they would certainly be meant to be sarcastic; but now, they are mostly said with goodwill and envy.

Now that the educated youth have recovered their physical strength, they are now able to work better than the villagers, and Han Jing and the others are full of energy. As for Ye Yu, although she looks cold, she is as bright and dazzling as the moon in the sky, and she is surrounded by stars wherever she goes.

They missed Ye Yu and Han Jing a lot during these days when they were away.

Planting the fruit trees does not mean everything will be easy, a series of follow-up work still needs to be done.

Reasonable fertilization is one thing, watering is another, and there are also people who specialize in recording changes and summarizing experiences.

The students of Hope Primary School were very enthusiastic. Some even took notebooks to write down the name of each tree, Xiaohua, Hope, Xiaocao, Didi and so on. The adults didn't understand why there was a tree called Grass and Chicken.

When a fruit tree unfortunately died, all the elementary school students cried loudly.

Ye Yu didn’t understand why Hua Feifei could hold Chicken No. 1 and cry like she was dead... cough cough, cursing other people’s family members as if she were dead, is it that serious?

Han Jing and Xu Fei also felt very much about it. Hua Feifei and Xu Fei even wrote about it in their articles or diaries with deep affection.

“…”

childish.

Ye Yu moved a wild persimmon tree from the mountain overnight to block the hole. Since she was transplanting fruit trees, there must be more than one. She also moved many trees inside and outside the Youth League Home, including wild persimmon trees, mulberry trees, chestnut trees, and wood apple trees. Together with the wild grapes she had planted before, it suddenly became a small wild orchard.

Hua Feifei and her friends were very surprised when they saw the wild persimmon tree the next day. They even muttered, "Who is so childish?" The other students jumped up and down and surprisingly named it "Teacher".

Because the persimmon tree looks tall and big next to the small fruit seedlings.

Thanks to the close attention and meticulous care given by students from Hope Primary School, the survival rate of the fruit trees has reached over 90%, which is very high. The next step is to increase the flowering rate, fruiting rate, etc.

The results will have to wait until at least next autumn, and some may even require longer cycles.

It is no wonder that the captain did not agree outright, but just let them try. In an age of hunger, it is absolutely impossible to stop growing staple food.

This is bound to be a long job.

The students promised to take care of the fruit trees and grow up safely with them.

To express their gratitude to Ye Yu for being the "teacher tree", the next day, the primary school students found a large cluster of straw mushrooms while digging wild vegetables in Dongshan. They came to the educated youth and presented two of them to the teacher as a gift.

Ye Yu doesn't lack these mushrooms.

Since the first cluster of mushrooms matured, she often went to Nanshan to pick mushrooms, especially after rain.

There was no need for space teleportation. While speeding through the mountains, he used his superhuman vision to search for mushrooms popping up in the mountains. After carefully collecting them, he recorded their locations, just like the previous orchard coordinate map.

Mushrooms also like to pop up in the same places as long as there is no interference.

Ye Yu collected not only the most common oyster mushrooms and straw mushrooms, but also king oyster mushrooms, chicken mushrooms, etc. The dishes that the educated youths often eat recently are stir-fried meat with mushrooms and pheasant stewed with mushrooms.

She has a lot of fresh mushrooms stored in her space, and they also dry some mushrooms.

It is worth mentioning that Ye Yu also saw familiar mushrooms in Nanshan and had eaten them in the future doomsday base, but it was obviously not an edible mushroom for ordinary people.

Toxic and potentially life-threatening.

If there is enough food, Ye Yu does not need to eat them or collect them, but they are part of her memories of the end of the world. They may not be so beautiful, and she does not want to completely forget the past.

Therefore, I still picked some.

For fear that the food would be confused and poisoned to death, he wrapped it in cloth and placed it in a corner of the room, together with the uneaten alien meat.

Even if you don’t eat it, you can just keep it as a commemoration.

Ye Yu fell into deep thought because of the mushrooms. Hua Feifei didn't know what she was thinking and spoke for the students.

She said: “The wild vegetables sent by students have completely different meanings from the ones I dig myself. Every time I receive a small gift from my classmates that is so thoughtful, I feel even happier.”

That night, Hua Feifei personally cooked a pot of mushroom and chicken soup and asked Ye Yu if he thought it was delicious.

Ye Yu replied honestly:

"No, very light."

Straw mushrooms are not the most suitable mushrooms for making soup, as their fragrance is not that strong. Pheasants have a strong fishy smell to begin with, and it will remain no matter how they are processed. Of the two, the latter might be stronger. If it weren't for her sensitive tongue, she wouldn't be able to taste the mushroom flavor.

"Spirit, spirit, spirit," Hua Feifei emphasized three times in a row, "Do you understand?"

Ye Yu suggested:

“Add more next time.”

"Pfft——" Han Jing laughed out loud, and seeing Hua Feifei staring at him, he said that he might have to take Ye Yu's side this time, because they would get the most meat soup, which was richer and tastier.

Xu Fei counted silently:

“1, 2, 3.”

The collision between emotion and rationality caused chaos in the Youth League Institute again.

As the first batch of spring plowing was completed this year, the commune sent someone to inform that the first batch of educated youth had arrived. The team leader did not treat Ye Yu and the other three as outsiders and asked them to go and pick them up. As they were all educated youth, they had more topics to talk about.

Hua Feifei, Han Jing, and Xu Fei were all looking forward to it. Rather than welcoming the strange educated youth, Ye Yu missed the cooking skills of the chef of the state-owned hotel in Pingquan Town more.