Chapter 241 Pest Control
The days passed slowly. When Xia Xiaoman was planting the seedlings in the yard, she learned from Sun Haiyun that Wang Shijin had recovered.
Xia Xiaoman asked, "Do Wang Shijin and the others still want to dig the underground city now?"
"We still need to dig the underground city, but Wang Shijin and his group don't have to go. They suffered a lot from the malaria this time, and their bodies haven't recovered yet. The higher-ups have arranged other easier tasks for them."
After that, Sun Haiyun remembered something else and said, "I heard that the planting area collects fermented fertilizer. If you have nothing to do at home, you can mix the manure with wood ash or soil to ferment. One hundred kilograms of fertilizer can be exchanged for 10 kilograms of coarse grains. Anyway, you have to farm, so you can ferment more fertilizer and make some extra money."
When Chen Peiqiong came to deliver wild vegetables, she happened to hear what Sun Haiyun said and said with a smile: "That's fake news. There is no shortage of fertilizer in the planting area."
After the cold winter, the manure water cleared from the sewers is enough for use in the planting areas, not to mention that there are dry toilets everywhere in the floating city. Every once in a while, someone will scoop up the manure water from the dry toilets and take it to make fertilizer. How could the higher-ups still spend money to buy fertilizer?
Chen Peiqiong explained: "The fake news about the need to buy fertilizers was released because many people dumped manure everywhere, causing mosquitoes and flies to multiply rapidly. In order to put an end to this phenomenon, the higher-ups secretly released the fake news. If you see that there is no fertilizer in the exchange information column at the transaction point, you will know that the news is not true."
Sun Haiyun smiled awkwardly, "I thought the planting area really wanted to collect fertilizers. I plan to ferment some fertilizers in the next two days when I have some free time to earn some extra money."
"Are the authorities doing this to kill mosquitoes?" Xia Xiaoman looked at Chen Peiqiong.
Chen Peiqiong nodded and said, "Before killing mosquitoes, we need to make the environment better. Otherwise, after killing mosquitoes, they will come back soon."
Xia Xiaoman continued to ask: "What should we do with the bugs in the water? Should we put some medicine on them?"
"The problem of bugs in the water cannot be solved. The water purification tablets were used up during the flood, so we can only find a solution ourselves." Because of this incident, every time we fetch water, there are still people clamoring for a solution.
Chen Peiqiong said as she handed the wild vegetables in her hand to Xia Xiaoman, "I'm lucky today. I dug up a bunch of wild onions. Take a look and see if you want them. If not, I'll take them back."
Xia Xiaoman's eyes lit up when he heard this, "I definitely want the wild onions. I'll take as many as you have."
Scrambled eggs with wild onions, wild onion omelette, wild onion noodles, fried wild onions with bacon... just thinking about these dishes made her drool.
"There is one more thing." Chen Peiqiong said, "I heard that the higher-ups brought back a batch of chips and machines from the capital, and are planning to reissue ID cards, which will have chips embedded in them. Our work points will be recorded in the chip, and if we want to trade in the future, we may have to use this chip to do so."
When Sun Haiyun heard this, he asked, "Is it mandatory to apply for a new ID card?"
Chen Peiqiong nodded. "Yes, the chip is connected to the official computer. In addition to being used to swipe cards, it can also display positioning and personal information. Even if you don't want to exchange materials for work points, you still have to apply for a new ID card. This way, if something happens to you, the official can also use positioning to check your location."
"If you want to enter the dungeon in the future, you will also need to show your ID card. You can only enter the dungeon if the ID card query information shows that you have no criminal record."
Xia Xiaoman had heard from Sun Qing about this new ID card a long time ago, so she was not surprised to hear it now. "Do you know where to apply for a new ID card?"
Chen Peiqiong said: "It has not been confirmed yet. I guess they will have to wait until the mosquitoes are eradicated before they can issue a notice."
The issuance of new ID cards is to unify currency transactions, and also to restrain citizens and reduce crime.
Knowing that they will need to use their ID card to check criminal records to enter the dungeon, citizens will be more or less cautious and will not dare to kill people as casually as before.
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After the false news that fertilizers were to be collected in the planting area spread, the streets became much cleaner. Within a few days, the authorities sent people to exterminate the pests.
Before the pest control, a notice was issued asking everyone to stay at home and not come out to avoid being poisoned by the pest control solution.
Xia Xiaoman was afraid that the insecticide would kill the vegetables she planted, so she covered the vegetable field with plastic film before the insecticide truck arrived.
I originally thought that the smell of insecticide would be very pungent, but I didn't expect it to have the smell of Chinese herbal medicine. Xia Xiaoman guessed that these insecticides should be made of fresh herbs, otherwise the authorities would not have waited until now to carry out insect control.
After an insect extermination operation, there are obviously fewer mosquitoes outside, with only three or two appearing occasionally, and not in swarms like before.
Xia Xiaoman let Maodan out of the yard. Maodan, who hadn't been out for a long time, excitedly ran back and forth in the yard for more than ten laps.
Xia Xiaoman was just about to tell Maodan not to go to the vegetable garden when she saw Maodan suddenly stop staring at the door. After a while, there was a knock on the door.
Xia Xiaoman looked out through the crack in the door. The person outside had his face covered, but she still recognized him.
"Didn't you say you were going to open a store in Floating City? Why did it take you almost two months?" she asked as she opened the door.
"Let's go in first. There are mosquitoes outside. Be careful not to get bitten." Sun Qing walked in with a cane, followed by a tall woman.
Xia Xiaoman took a look at the other person and guessed that she was Liu Mengmeng, so he let her in.
After reminding Maodan not to destroy the vegetable garden, Xia Xiaoman took Sun Qing and Liu Mengmeng into the living room.
Sun Qing entered the living room, took off the veil from her face, and said with heavy breathing, "I am dying of suffocation. I can't breathe smoothly with my face covered every day."
Xia Xiaoman glanced at her and saw that her face was dark and her eyes were dark blue. She said, "Why do you look so bad? Have you not slept well recently?"
Sun Qing sighed, "It's a troubled time, how can I sleep well?"
"What's wrong? Did something happen to your fleet?" Xia Xiaoman asked.
Before Sun Qing could speak, Liu Mengmeng beside her interrupted and said, "It's not the fleet that has an accident, it's the sea that has an accident."
Xia Xiaoman raised her eyebrows, "What can come out of the sea..." Before she finished speaking, she suddenly thought of something and looked at Sun Qing fiercely, "Is the sea level rising?"
Both extreme heat and long days can cause glaciers to melt, and when glaciers melt, sea levels rise.
For people in inland areas, the rising sea level does not seem to have much impact on them. But for people in coastal areas, the rising sea level is like competing with nature for territory, and they are bound to lose.
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