Chapter 86: Out on Duty
Two days later.
Grandma Jiang's health has recovered a little and she's in much better spirits, but she's definitely not the same as before.
During this period, Jiang Rong tidied up the room where his grandmother and Jiang Suan had lived before and put two beds in it.
The elderly like to have someone to accompany them when they get old, so Jiang Rong let Jiang Suan and Qi Hao sleep in one bed, and grandma sleep in a bed alone, but still in the same room.
She slept with her grandmother in the first two days so that she could take care of her at night. When her grandmother was almost well, she went back to her own room.
"Yaya, where are your uncle and the others?" After recovering for a few days, Grandma Jiang was still worried about her son and asked hesitantly.
But he no longer took the initiative to ask people to come back and live with him.
Although Jiang Wen and Jiang Wu are also her grandchildren, based on the nonsense they said before, letting them come back to live now would be intentionally trying to annoy Yaya.
In comparison, Grandma Jiang still feels more sorry for Jiang Rong. After all, Jiang Suan and Jiang Rong were the ones she raised with great difficulty since they were young.
In addition, the old man was somewhat disappointed with his son because of this incident.
Jiang Rong was feeding chicken soup to his grandmother at the moment. Hearing this, his face remained calm and he said, "Fourth Uncle and his family have gone out to find a house to live in. If Grandma wants to see Fourth Uncle, I will go talk to him later."
Yesterday it was Cai'er's turn to be on duty in the village. She told me that Jiang Wei and his friends found an empty house farthest from their home in the village and moved in.
It seemed that Wang Fang was frightened last time and was a little dazed after waking up. People in the village could hear her terrible screams from time to time, and no one knew how long it would take for her to recover.
After they came back these few days, and with Jiang Wei's family moving out, there was a lot more after-dinner talk and gossip in the village.
After the apocalypse, everyone is at home and doesn't have to work. Apart from worrying about supplies and mutant beasts, everyone is quite free. When people are free, they like to chat about gossip.
"Forget it, just settle down and there's no need to let him come back." Grandma Jiang shook her head.
Jiang Rong naturally had no objection when she heard this. Her own home did not want outsiders with bad intentions to come.
After accompanying grandma to drink chicken soup and medicine and chatting for a few minutes, Jiang Rong tiptoed out the door with the bowl in hand.
There were two little ones following behind him.
"Why don't you two stay in the room when it's so cold? Why do you always follow me? Jiang Suan, have you finished teaching Xiaohao the characters you were asked to teach?" Jiang Rong turned around and looked at the two children who were following him, one in front and one behind.
Jiang Suan: "I have finished teaching you. I have finished teaching you."
This little kid knows more words than him, so why does he need him to teach him? It's really frustrating to compare yourself with others.
"Then take a nap. After your nap, get up and do horse stance for half an hour. Then go find your brother Xin Jue and ask him to teach you two how to box. If you have too much free time, running is fine."
If Jiang Rong remembered correctly, there was a room in Xin Jue's house that was full of fitness equipment, including treadmills and sandbags.
Among their three families, only Jiang Rong's family was a truly ordinary family.
Cai'er's family was born in China.
The Xin Jue family is quite mysterious, but it definitely has nothing to do with poverty.
For now, he can help Jiang Suan and Qi Hao train their physical fitness.
As for her, the techniques she knew were not suitable for normal training and were not professional.
Because they are all wild methods learned through actual combat training.
However, if in a new round of mutations a few months later, Jiang Suan also awakens his superpowers, and they are not too useless, then these will not be of much use.
But in case you haven't awakened, it is still necessary to practice well.
"Sister, what are you going to do?" Jiang Suan asked curiously.
"I went downstairs to collect vegetables. There is also a room full of chickens and ducks. It has been so long, I don't know if they have all frozen to death."
Jiang Rong has been back for a few days, and today he suddenly remembered that before he and Uncle Zhao went out, they planted a house full of hydroponic vegetables and raised dozens of chickens and ducklings.
"Several chicks and ducklings died, but the vegetables in the basement are fine. They have basically grown and some can be eaten." Jiang Suan responded happily.
When we have free time, we will take a look at the two rooms full of chickens, ducks and vegetables from time to time, just to purify our eyes.
Who made it so white outside the house every day?
Among them, of course, he and his grandmother went to take care of the child the most times.
In addition, before my grandmother fell ill, she would feed the chickens and ducks with rice bran and other foods three times a day.
"Okay, I'll go take a look."
Jiang Rong went downstairs, looked for a key, and then opened the room where chickens and ducks were raised.
Before she left, there were three ducks and three hens, two drakes and two roosters, and some chickens and ducklings left in the room.
In addition, a layer of soil was spread in the room and some vegetable seeds were scattered.
Maybe because everyone in the room cleans up fairly diligently on weekdays and the temperature is low, there isn't a lot of odor.
Because of Jiang Wei's family's affairs these days, the place has been neglected and the only heater in the room has stopped heating for many days.
At this moment, the chickens and ducks in the house were basically huddled on the ground, huddled together for warmth, and very close to each other.
Because there were only four chicken coops and duck coops in total, but there were dozens of chickens and ducks in the room, so it couldn't accommodate them at all.
Right now, there are only a few hens and ducks nesting eggs in the chicken coop and duck house, and the others are nesting outside.
The chickens and ducks outside looked listless after not having food for a few days.
However, each of them has grown in size. I estimate that after raising them for another month or so, they will be ready for market.
After Jiang Rong entered the house, he first took out some biomass fuel from the space and lit the fuel.
If this temperature lasts for a long time, the chickens and ducks will all freeze to death.
Anyway, at this moment, she could see with her naked eyes that there were about ten of them that were basically dying.
The number of these ten or so is about a quarter of all the chickens and ducks in the room.
When Xin Jue renovated the house, he spent a lot of money to hire someone to install thermal insulation materials in every corner of the house, so the biomass fuel heater in the room does not need to be turned on all the time. As long as the room is warm, it can keep warm for a long time.
But in general, the temperature will not be too high, maintaining around ten degrees.
After Jiang Rong lit the heater, he collected the chickens and ducks that were almost dead or dying into the space, then scattered a few handfuls of rice on the ground and added some warm water.
The chickens and ducks that were originally lying sickly on the ground stood up one after another after a while, pecking at the rice on the ground with their beaks.
When she was collecting rice in H Province, she even took the time to visit some remote villages and bought tens of thousands of kilograms of unhusked rice at a low price.
The purchase price of unhusked rice is lower than that of white rice. The price of tens of thousands of kilograms is probably just over 10,000 yuan.
In addition, there are radishes, vegetables, persimmons, pheasants, etc. I buy some of whatever I see and people want to sell them.
After Jiang Rong collected a dozen chickens and ducks, he looked around the room and found that the remaining thirty or so chickens and ducks still looked a bit crowded.
The main thing is that each one of them is quite big.
Jiang Rong decided to open another room and raise the chickens and ducks separately.
Anyway, there are few people in the family and there are plenty of empty rooms.
After half an hour of preparation, Jiang Rong separated the chickens and ducks. At the same time, he released a dozen chicks and ducklings from the space and stuffed them under the hens and ducks to nest.
Then he threw a few handfuls of vegetable leaves and unhusked rice on the ground, closed the door, left and went straight to the basement.
There are three rooms in the basement.
One was the room they had lived in before, which had relatively complete facilities, thick white plush carpet on the floor, a low bed, a table and chairs, and relatively complete furniture.
The other two were empty rooms, where mutant beast corpses were previously placed and where Jiang Wei's family was imprisoned.
There is another room, which is where Jiang Rong grows hydroponic vegetables.
Jiang Rong fumbled for the key, unlocked the door, pushed it open, and turned on the light.
The light is warm yellow and not particularly bright.
At first glance, there were four fields in the middle of the room, separated horizontally and vertically, and a plastic shed was built on each field.
Then there are the hydroponic containers against the walls on all four sides.
At this point, the nutrient solution in the container has basically frozen into ice.
She had only put lettuce seeds in the hydroponic container before. Now, perhaps because of the nutrient solution, the four rows of lettuce on the shelf have basically grown up.
In addition, although the nutrient solution was frozen, the lettuce still looked quite fresh due to the low temperature.
Jiang Rong took them all into the space.
Then there are the four small fields on the ground.
They planted green vegetables, garlic, tomatoes and white radishes respectively.
There was a thick layer of straw on each piece of ground. Jiang Rong guessed that it was probably laid by grandma.
These straws were originally placed in the kitchen for burning.
In addition, the elderly used to like sleeping on mattresses made of straw.
But later he was persuaded by Jiang Rong to change it and used it for burning.
Jiang Rong harvested the garlic and green vegetables in the field. The tomatoes and white radishes didn't seem to be very ripe yet, so they were left for the time being.
Then another round of seeds were sown.
This time they are leeks, coriander and spinach.
The nutrient solution in the hydroponic containers was frozen and needed to be thawed. Jiang Rong didn't want to bother with it so he just put it back into the space, replaced a new batch of containers, and re-prepared the corresponding nutrient solution.
This time, we are growing spinach hydroponically.
Chives and coriander are planted in the soil above ground.
Jiang Rong poured some feces that he had just collected from the chicken and duck rooms into the four sheds as fertilizer.
It's better to make use of waste than to waste it.
Then she turned on the heating light, turned on a heater, turned off the main light on the roof, left the room, and went back to her own room to continue practicing.
For the following week, Jiang Rong basically did not go out except for practicing and cooking.
In about a week, Grandma Jiang's health had mostly recovered and she looked much more energetic.
This is of course also related to Jiang Rong's unremitting efforts in nutritional feeding.
"Rongrong, it's your turn to be on duty with my dad today." Zhao Caier was practicing in the room when she suddenly remembered this.
Every psychic in the village has to take turns on duty.
The duties usually involve guarding the village entrance or dealing with mutant beasts in the village.
Jiang Rong had been outside before, so he was not very clear about the psychics' duty.
After I came back, I basically stayed at home and never went out, so I naturally had no access to news.
The current time is about 7:30 in the morning.
She got up early, at six o'clock, so when Cai'er came to see her, she opened the door quickly.
"But today I'm going on behalf of my dad. It's just right, we can go together." Zhao Caier said with a smile.
Jiang Rong smiled and nodded when he heard this.
Then he went back to the house, put on a black coat, thin windproof and warm gloves and scarf, and a black mask. After being fully armed, he followed Cai'er out the door.
"Today we are mainly responsible for patrolling and dealing with the mutant beasts around the village. If any accidents occur, we will try our best to protect the villagers in a timely manner. However, there are fewer mutant beasts appearing during the day recently, so today we are just going out for a walk." Zhao Caier said as she walked.
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