Chapter 256: Another Locust Plague
The vegetables in the garden were all old, so Xia Xiaoman pulled them all up and threw them to feed the rabbits. She planned to plant another crop of vegetables while the weather was not too hot.
This time she chose some vegetables with a shorter maturity period. Chinese cabbage was indispensable, and she also planted some Chinese cabbage, as well as some cherry radishes and cucumbers.
When the soil was turned over, the vegetable seedlings had just been cultivated. She used a small hoe to dig out holes in the earth, buried the vegetable seedlings in them and watered them. She also carefully built a small shed for the vegetable field.
If the seedlings are exposed to sunlight for 24 hours a day, they will be easily killed by the sun. Only by properly isolating them from the sun can the seedlings grow quickly.
Such abundant sunlight is most suitable for growing fruits. Unfortunately, there are no fruit seeds or seedlings in her space, but there are quite a few tomato seeds.
However, tomatoes take too long to mature, and it takes three months before they can be eaten. In such an unstable weather environment, it is not suitable to grow crops with such a long maturity period.
Suddenly, a knock on the door interrupted Xia Xiaoman's thoughts. She walked to the gate, looked out through the crack of the door, and saw Liu Mengmeng standing outside, so she opened the door.
"What brings Manager Liu here?"
Liu Mengmeng smiled and handed the item in her hand to Xia Xiaoman, "Here, this is a thank you gift for you."
"A thank you gift?" Xia Xiaoman took the box doubtfully, opened it and found that it contained a ginseng of excellent quality.
"Why did you suddenly give this to me? You even said it was a thank you gift. What are you thanking me for?"
Liu Mengmeng said, "I saw you staring at the ginseng for a long time last time you went to the store, so I asked someone to bring back this box of ginseng. I heard that this is wild ginseng that is more than 30 years old. It is very nutritious. You should use it sparingly."
Xia Xiaoman was stunned. The last time she went to Ye’s shop, she stared at the ginseng. She was just wondering whether the ginseng was real or fake. She didn’t expect Liu Mengmeng to misunderstand that she wanted to buy ginseng.
Before she could react, Liu Mengmeng continued, "Some time ago, you helped introduce Lingxu Gang to the person in charge of the planting area. Lingxu Gang reached a cooperation agreement with the planting area to help the planting area collect grain and replant the land."
"Sister Yu'e from the Lingxu Gang found that the crops grown in the planting area were a bit monotonous. She knew that our Ye family store had its own fleet that traveled all over the country to transport goods and could get the latest crops developed in various places, so she introduced the person in charge of the planting area to us."
"The person in charge of the planting area wanted us to provide newly developed crops from various places at any time. In addition, he also ordered some missing agricultural tools, which made our store a lot of money. Tell me, should I come and thank you?"
Xia Xiaoman didn't expect that the small suggestion she gave to Zhao Anqi would indirectly benefit the Ye family's shop. "The government seems to have a fleet of vehicles, why don't they transport the crops themselves instead of buying them from you?"
"The official convoys only run a few fixed routes. They won't waste time like us to go to every city for a little bit of supplies. So we have some supplies, but the official ones may not have them."
The official convoy needs to transport steel and coal for building the underground city, connect with the capital, and transport some important materials.
After the natural disaster, the floating city is no longer like before where it can easily find hundreds or thousands of vehicles to transport all kinds of supplies. The vehicles are limited, and time is also limited. They cannot stop and go around like a private car fleet to look for supplies to exchange and purchase.
Liu Mengmeng came here specifically to express her gratitude. Whether it was before or after the natural disaster, it was a great thing to be able to cooperate with the government. Although Li Yu'e was the main person who facilitated the cooperation between their Ye's shop and the government, in the final analysis, if Xia Xiaoman hadn't been there, Li Yu'e would not have cooperated with the government, nor would she have thought of their Ye's shop.
She should thank Xia Xiaoman for what she has done. Of course, Lingxu couldn't help them either.
After giving the thank you gift, Liu Mengmeng left in a hurry without even taking a sip of tea. The epidemic had just ended and the store was very busy. She took some time out of her busy schedule to come and thank Xia Xiaoman.
Xia Xiaoman watched Liu Mengmeng coming and going in a hurry, and sincerely felt that she was right to refuse Sun Qing from being the store manager.
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Life returned to normal, and Xia Xiaoman stayed at home to farm every day. She had worked so hard to get into college because she didn't want to bend over and farm for the rest of her life. But things are unpredictable, and she didn't expect that even if she got into college, she would still have to farm.
The sun was getting hotter and hotter, and she had to change her long sleeves into short sleeves. Her exposed arms had changed color after being exposed to the sun for a few days. Maodan also started to lose hair like crazy due to the heat, and wolf hair could be found in every corner of the house.
Xia Xiaoman squatted in the yard, taking a pair of scissors and cutting off the long hair on her head. After cutting the hair, she took out a comb to comb out the remaining broken hair, and then took out the hair egg and combed it with the comb.
Maodan enjoyed the service of his owner very much, lying on the ground with his eyes squinting and drowsy. Suddenly, his ears twitched, and he opened his eyes and looked around.
The next second, it stood up suddenly and almost pushed Xia Xiaoman, whose legs were numb from squatting, to the ground.
Xia Xiaoman was just about to scold Maodan and ask it to lie down again and comb its fur properly when she saw Maodan growling towards the sky with a threatening sound in his throat.
She frowned and looked up at the horizon, only to see a black line approaching rapidly in the distance.
This was not the first time she had seen such a scene. Xia Xiaoman took out a telescope and looked at it. Her face suddenly changed. She put away the telescope, took out the plastic film and wrapped it on the shed above the vegetable field. After surrounding the vegetable field tightly, she immediately took Maodan home and closed the doors and windows.
After the doors and windows were closed, she was still worried and took out plastic film to seal them all. Before she could seal the doors and windows, a locust the size of a palm flew in from nowhere.
When Maodan saw the locust, he ran after it in two quick steps, jumped, grabbed the locust, and ate it in two bites.
Xia Xiaoman who saw this scene: "..."
She hasn't seen much about the animal world. Can anyone tell her if wolves can eat locusts?
Locusts covered the sky and fell from the sky. Xia Xiaoman hurriedly sealed the doors and windows. After blocking all the places where locusts could enter the house, she had free hands to catch the locusts that flew into the house.
She and Maodan worked together and caught all the locusts that flew into the house in less than fifteen minutes.
Xia Xiaoman looked at the palm-sized locusts in the net bag, and his face became a little solemn. These locusts were three times larger than the last time, and the serrations on their legs were sharper than before.
Just now a locust flew past her and scratched her cheek. The locusts in the locust plague two years ago were not this fierce.
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