Chapter 287 Letter from Sun Qing
After the team transporting supplies left, the floating city returned to peace.
Xia Xiaoman continued her home life and reclaimed two acres of land in the yard.
In a few days, the surrounding land will be planned and someone will come to check whether there is any extra land occupied. She must plant food in the open space in the yard before the inspection. Otherwise, the land in the yard will be counted as homestead and she will need to pay the difference.
Chen Peiqiong asked her for a day off and moved the supplies and tents to a place near her home.
When the land was being planned, Chen Peiqiong applied to live next to her home so that it would be more convenient for her to go to work and she could also keep an eye on her home at all times to prevent theft.
By the time Chen Peiqiong had moved in, Xia Xiaoman had already plowed the ground in the yard. Chen Peiqiong followed her and plowed the ground again to make sure it was soft enough before sowing the vegetable seeds and beans.
The weather was getting hotter and hotter. Xia Xiaoman worked in the fields every day and was already tanned black. She looked up at the glaring sun and said, "The temperature today should be over 40 degrees!"
Chen Peiqiong said, "Almost. The sun was on my body for less than five seconds and I felt it burning. It was at least 40 degrees."
Xia Xiaoman narrowed her eyes and said, "Now that the sun has moved directly overhead, the temperature is only over 40 degrees. I don't think it will be as high as last year, which would kill people."
Chen Peiqiong was stunned for a moment, "I wouldn't have noticed this problem if you hadn't reminded me."
The sun is hanging directly overhead, which is 12 noon. This is the hottest time of the day. If we count today, it means that now is the hottest time of the year. As long as we survive this period, we will not see the horrible high temperatures of the year before last.
"If there is no disaster next, we can harvest at least two batches of food before the next eternal night comes." Chen Peiqiong became more and more excited. "After I finish my work later, I will go to the planting area to see if I can get some seeds to plant."
She was allocated one acre of land, and she planted two crops on the one acre, which was enough for her to eat for three or four years.
Xia Xiaoman said, "Find some crops that are easy to take care of. Otherwise, you have to come to my place to work during the week, and then you have to farm after work. How can you handle it all by yourself?"
Chen Peiqiong didn't take it seriously, "It's okay, I'm used to it. I still feel uncomfortable when you ask me to rest."
There are many people like Chen Peiqiong who go to the planting area to buy grain seeds. Nowadays, every household has been allocated land, but they don’t have grain seeds. There is nothing to sell at the trading point, so they have to come to the planting area to try their luck.
There are some obsolete grain varieties in the planting areas. These obsolete grain varieties are difficult to plant and are likely to die, so the planting areas do not recommend them to be purchased, as it would be a waste to buy them.
But even so, many people are still rushing to buy these obsolete grain seedlings.
Chen Peiqiong used her connections to get a batch of discarded potato seedlings. In fact, she wanted cassava seedlings more, but planting cassava requires special potions made by the Agricultural Affairs Bureau, which are not available at the trading point, and the planting area has limited potions and cannot sell them, so she can only settle for potato seedlings.
After getting the seedlings, almost everyone in Fucheng started to till the land and plant crops. Xia Xiaoman opened the gate and looked out, and saw that every household was turning the soil with unsuitable tools.
Seeing that others were working so hard, Xia Xiaoman felt embarrassed to give up and took good care of the crops in the fields every day.
A month later, the pumpkins began to bloom. After two or three days of blooming, Xia Xiaoman did not find any insects eating the nectar. On the fourth day, she was worried that the pumpkins could not be pollinated, so she decided to pollinate them manually.
She plucked a bunch of wolf hair and stuck it on a stick, then used the hair to sweep the pollen from the male flowers and stuck it on the female flowers. While she was busy, there was a knock on the door.
Xia Xiaoman put the wolf hair brush aside and stood up to open the door. Outside the door was a strange short-haired woman who looked at her and asked, "Excuse me, are you Xia Xiaoman?"
Xia Xiaoman nodded, "Who are you and what do you want from me?"
"My name is Zeng Rong. I'm from the Ye family fleet. Our boss asked me to give this to you." As she said that, she handed the bag in her hand to Xia Xiaoman.
Xia Xiaoman took the bag, opened it and found that it was full of salt, with a piece of paper on top of the salt. She didn't rush to open the paper to see what was inside, but asked, "How are Sun Qing and Ye Xiaojie? And Mingzhu?"
Zeng Rong smiled and said, "Master Ye and Master Sun are both fine, and Miss Mingzhu is also fine, you don't have to worry about them."
Xia Xiaoman nodded, "Sun Qing didn't come this time?"
Zeng Rong explained, "Mrs. Sun is transporting sea salt to Yancheng. She needs to negotiate the business there in person, so she can't leave. I'll be with you in Fucheng for the time being. If you have anything to say to Mrs. Sun, you can write it down and I'll send it to her for you."
"I will stay here for three days. If you need to find me, you can go to Lingxu Gang. We will stay in Lingxu Gang temporarily."
Xia Xiaoman hummed, "Okay, I understand. Thank you for your help."
After seeing Zeng Rong off, Xia Xiaoman went back to her room and took out the paper from the salt bag and unfolded it. Seeing the contents on the paper, her face gradually became solemn.
Although Yuancheng was the epicenter of the earthquake, some medium and large ships were saved because no large tsunami occurred. So their lives were not as difficult as in other cities.
After going through the most difficult times, Sun Qing and Ye Xiaojie used the dozen ships to rebuild their business. At the same time, in order to build a good relationship with the military, they would send some sea goods to the military from time to time.
After the earthquake, the Ye family fleet selflessly gave up more than a dozen ships for everyone to use. After the recovery, the Ye family fleet often delivered marine goods to the military. Because of these two reasons, Sun Qing and his friends got to know the military and were able to get some information that ordinary people could not know.
Sun Qing wrote in the letter that she learned from the military that the ozone layer of the blue planet was damaged due to changes in the planet's movement trajectory.
The capital has already made calculations and it turns out that within three years at the earliest and five years at the latest, the ozone layer of the blue planet will be completely destroyed. By then, humans will no longer be able to survive on the ground.
The capital has forced every city to build an underground city, and it must be completed within two years. Many mines in Yancheng were exposed in the earthquake, and the capital has sent a large number of people to Yancheng to mine and make steel, just to enable underground cities to be built in various places as soon as possible.
In addition, some areas that were less affected by the disaster also built various factories. For example, in Tibet, there are more than 40 factories that are producing materials needed for the construction of the underground city.
Of course, all this has nothing to do with Xia Xiaoman directly.
Sun Qing reminded her in the letter to accumulate food and points as soon as possible before the dungeon was built, because if she wanted to enter the dungeon in the future, she would most likely need these two things.
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