Chapter 194 Cold-Resistant Plants
When she got home, she saw several soldiers hanging around her house from a distance.
The soldiers had already received the message. When they saw Xia Xiaoman coming back, they asked her to go home and check if anyone was missing. After confirming that nothing was missing, the soldiers lined up and left.
After the soldier walked away, Xia Xiaoman stood on the wall and looked around to make sure there was no one nearby before putting the snowmobile into the space.
Sitting on the kang, Xia Xiaoman took off his shirt, looked at his back in the mirror, and found that his left shoulder was a little red and swollen.
Fortunately, she was wearing thick enough clothes today, otherwise her shoulder would have been at least fractured when she fell from the car.
Xia Xiaoman took out the medicinal wine, poured it into her palms to warm it up, then rubbed her shoulders with her backhand and rubbed them vigorously.
The pain in her shoulder made her inexplicably angry. Thinking of Fu Baiwei's cold look just now, she became even angrier.
She hadn't done anything to let Fu Baiwei down. Even if she was afraid of death and didn't come to help her, couldn't she have said something when she saw her driving by? She just watched her fall into the trap!
Not to mention that Fu Baiwei might not have recognized her, just look at the bandit hat and assault hat she was wearing. Who could possibly wear the same ones as her if they went out?
Just not seeing each other for a while, a good person can become like this, it really is true that human heart is unpredictable. In the future, when she interacts with others, she must be more careful, so as not to be cheated and not know what happened.
I complained silently in my heart for most of the day, rubbed medicated wine on my shoulders, put on my clothes, took off my pants, and applied medicated wine on my two swollen knees.
After treating the wounds on his body, Xia Xiaoman went to the basement to take a look, and got four eggs to make fried rice.
She had exerted a lot of energy today, and the lunch box she had in the interrogation area was not enough to satisfy her hunger. Before she even got home, her stomach was already protesting.
Xia Xiaoman doesn't like the fried rice with rice grains wrapped in egg liquid. She prefers to fry the eggs first, cut them into small pieces with a spatula, then pour in chili peppers and dried shrimps to stir-fry until fragrant, and finally pour in the rice, add a little seasoning and stir-fry evenly.
She can eat three bowls of egg fried rice with chili in one sitting. If it was when she was growing up, she could eat at least four bowls.
After a delicious meal, her bad mood was instantly cured. Xia Xiaoman took out the seafood sent by Sun Qing and Ye Xiaojie. They were all common sea fish, much smaller than the sea fish sold to her during the extremely hot weather.
It’s not easy to catch big fish in such cold weather.
In addition to the fish, there is also a palm-sized turtle at the bottom. Miraculously, the turtle was not frozen to death and is still alive.
It was the first time for Xia Xiaoman to see a turtle, so she took a basin, poured some room temperature water and threw the turtle in. After a while, the little turtle that had been curled up in its shell showed its head and looked around curiously.
Xia Xiaoman thought it was quite interesting, so he placed it next to the stove and fed it some steel-toothed rabbit viscera from time to time.
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After two snowstorms, the outdoor temperature reached a certain balance, consistently between minus seventy and eighty degrees Celsius.
While the outdoor temperature is stable, the floating city races against time to develop agriculture, expand sewers, and build a safe haven.
During the time that Xia Xiaoman was staying at home for the winter, the air-raid shelter farm had already planted a batch of sweet potatoes that were highly resistant to cold.
The yield of cold-resistant sweet potatoes is not high, but their vines grow vigorously, just like chives, and they grow again after being cut. If you plant two at home, you will basically never have to worry about having vegetables to eat.
Xia Xiaoman knew about cold-resistant sweet potatoes from Wang Shijin.
Wang Shijin was a mean guy. He knew that she had everything except fresh vegetables, so he picked a handful of sweet potato vine sprouts and sold them to her at a high price, saying that he had obtained them from his supervisor with great difficulty and that ordinary people could not get them even if they wanted to.
Xia Xiaoman stayed at home every day and was out of touch with the news. She didn't know that sweet potato vines could be found everywhere in the sewers, so she spent a high price to buy a bunch of them.
What Wang Shijin sold her were young sweet potato sprouts. She wanted to save a few to try planting, but they wouldn't survive.
After eating the sweet potato vines, Xia Xiaoman wanted to buy some more, so she went to the sewer to find Wang Shijin. When she got to the sewer, she realized that the sweet potato vines were not rare at all, and every household planted one or two. Some people rented a larger location and planted more than a dozen.
Seeing that Xia Xiaoman knew about the existence of cold-resistant sweet potatoes, Wang Shijin shamelessly said, "What I sell to you are the tender buds. It took me a lot of effort to collect such a large bunch of tender buds. In order to send them to your home, I have to put the sweet potato vines in my arms to prevent them from freezing. Tell me, is it expensive for me to charge you 5 kilograms of food?"
Xia Xiaoman rolled her eyes, not wanting to argue with him, and broke off two thicker sweet potato vines from the sweet potatoes planted by Wang Shijin. "These two sweet potato vines are given to me. I'll take them home and plant them."
Wang Shijin said indifferently: "It's up to you, just don't pluck my hair bald."
Xia Xiaoman put away the sweet potato vines and asked, "Do you only grow sweet potatoes in your village? Nothing else?"
Wang Shijin said, "At the moment, the only things we can get are sweet potatoes. But I heard that Yancheng has grown some cold-resistant radishes and potatoes..."
"Potatoes again?"
Wang Shijin explained: "The only crops that have high yields and can withstand the test are potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn. Corn stalks are too tall to be easily grown indoors, so we specialize in potatoes and sweet potatoes."
"I heard that the potatoes grown in Yancheng taste pretty good. They are denser than the drought-resistant potatoes we grow, and don't have as many roots."
Xia Xiaoman was not interested in potatoes. "What about radishes? How are the radishes they grow?"
Wang Shijin thought for a moment and said, "The radish is OK, but the skin is a bit thick, like tree bark."
"The higher-ups have already gotten the seeds from Yancheng, and are planting potatoes on a large scale. Radishes are planted less frequently, after all, they don't fill you up as well as potatoes."
"Can you help me get some radish seeds? Just one or two will do." Xia Xiaoman asked.
Wang Shijin looked embarrassed, "Let me try! I may not be able to get it."
The areas where new varieties are planted are strictly guarded, so it is more troublesome to get seeds or seedlings.
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