After the truck driver took Sinan to Xingcheng, she still asked the driver to help unload the goods into the warehouse she rented in the suburbs.
After the driver left, he used his mind to move everything except four hens, two roosters and a pair of white geese into the space. He then took a taxi back home, put the chickens and geese in cages, put feed and rice and grains, which livestock like to eat, in the trough, and filled the water dish with water. The extremely hungry chickens and geese did not feel any discomfort and just lowered their heads to eat.
Anyone who has lived in the countryside knows that among poultry, ducks eat a lot and are very noisy. They also like to splash around in the water. If there is no water, they will peck at the seedlings and soil with their beaks, making potholes everywhere.
If you raise them in the countryside, where there are ditches, rivers, puddles, etc., it is suitable, but it is not suitable in the city.
So Sinan didn't plan to raise ducks. He just stockpiled hundreds of slaughtered ducks and placed them in the space. He could just cook them himself when he wanted to eat them in the future.
In fact, the habits of geese are similar to those of ducks. The difference is that geese are not so noisy, and can adapt well to playing in ditches and puddles. Moreover, male geese are very alert and have strong aggressive power. Once they sense any movement or strangers approaching, they will raise their necks and cry loudly to remind their owners and other geese to be careful.
When Sinan was a child, he was often bitten by the big geese raised in Daxi Village. Once a goose has human flesh in its mouth, it will not let go until it is in great pain. Its attack power is comparable to that of a dog.
Si Nan's mother died when she was in the first grade of junior high school, and Si Yufang took her in to live at her home. At first, the two geese at home didn't recognize her and kept pecking at her from morning to night, which scared her to death and she ran away when she saw the gander.
Later, as they became more familiar with each other, the gander pecked her less often. However, these creatures are very willful and will still peck you even if you are an acquaintance if they want to.
Because Si Yufang's mother-in-law lived in an old southwestern farmhouse with brick walls and a double-opening wooden door, which could be easily opened from the outside. One summer night, when the whole family was asleep, a thief quietly opened the door to the farmhouse.
Before anything could happen, the alert gander heard the noise and cawed loudly, 'Cuckoo, quack', waking up the whole family.
The thief was so scared that he turned and ran away. The family went out to check and saw footprints on the ground. Only then did they realize that their house had been robbed.
This incident left a deep impression on Si Nan. She had been wandering around for many years, working two jobs and had no time to keep a pet. With the end of the world approaching, she didn't want to keep a dog and take the trouble to take care of a pet, but now she had to raise poultry to solve the possibility that she might not have meat and eggs in the future, so she thought of raising a pair of geese to act as an alarm.
If a bad guy breaks into the house or climbs onto the balcony in the future and she is asleep and defenseless, perhaps the cry of the gander will save her life.
After settling the chickens and geese, she took out more than ten bags of fertile soil from the space. Each bag of soil contained two hundred kilograms of seeds, which could fill two or three square wooden-framed baskets about one meter in length. She filled ten baskets, eight large plastic flower pots, and seven or eight foam boxes with soil. She lined them up and placed them under the nearly one-meter-high wall that the renovation master had specially asked to reinforce and raise on the balcony.
I planted two baskets of tomatoes, two pots of water spinach, lettuce, bitter gourd, cucumber, pumpkin, winter melon, watermelon, cabbage, garlic, leek and other seasonal fruit and vegetable seeds, sprinkled a little water and a little fertilizer, covered the soil with agricultural plastic film, and covered the surrounding with soil to prevent it from being blown away by the wind.
Doing this can reduce the evaporation of water in the soil and prevent raindrops from breaking or killing new growth. It can also stimulate the production of seeds and increase yields. All that's left is to wait for the seeds to germinate and grow.
Si Nan learned these farming experiences from working in the fields with her mother since she was a child. After her mother died, she worked with Si Yufang and Liu Dalin to do farm work. Although her childhood life was very hard, she has always kept the farming and breeding skills she learned in her mind.
She had a feeling that no matter how difficult the days ahead would be, as long as she didn't give up planting and breeding, she would be able to live a good life.
After resting for a while at home, she immediately went downstairs and randomly found a small noodle shop. She ordered a bowl of beef noodles. The noodles were a bit hard and there was not much beef, which was not very suitable for her appetite.
In line with the principle of not wasting food, she ate it all.
When I was checking out, the LCD TV hanging in the noodle shop was playing news from a local TV station, a city radio station in a coastal area. The reporter was holding a large square thermometer to measure the ground temperature, which had reached fifty degrees.
The reporter was talking excitedly about how the weather this year was different from usual. The Antarctic glaciers had melted in large quantities due to the high temperature, and the sea level was much higher than before. The global climate was also affected, and had risen many degrees compared to previous years. Under the high temperature, eggs could be cooked in just a few minutes.
Then the reporter took out an egg and knocked it on the ground. Under the scorching sun, the hot ground gradually scalded the egg white, and the reporter chattered beside him...
A young man sitting not far from the TV saw the news and said disdainfully, "Every year they say the glaciers are melting, every year they say this year is hotter or colder than last year, and next year they'll say this year is hotter or colder than last year again. What's the big deal? Just bear with it and it will pass."
Several elderly people nearby echoed: "Yes, our grandparents survived without electricity, air conditioning, and lack of food and clothing. I don't know what the point of reporting these news stories every year is. Can't find other news reports?"
Si Nan quietly left the noodle shop, thinking to herself that the surface temperature in the coastal cities of Country Z had reached fifty degrees, so the high temperature disaster in her dream should be approaching soon. She had to prepare some ice cubes in advance to avoid the power outage when the high temperature came, and she would be burned to death by the scorching temperature.
Without staying for long, she took a taxi to the largest frozen goods market in Xingcheng and bought a batch of frozen chicken wings, chicken legs, chicken feet, tripe, duck intestines, yellow throat, beef offal, various meatballs and other frozen goods. Then she pulled the boss aside and asked him if he had any large square blocks of ice shipped from the north for the seafood market. After getting a positive reply, she directly bought two thousand blocks of ice, settled the bill in advance, and asked the boss to deliver them to the designated warehouse location.
But the boss was so happy that he readily rounded off the amount and gave Si Nan an extra fifty ice blocks that were more than one meter long and wide. They were delivered to Si Nan's warehouse in a special freezer vehicle, and she moved into the space as quickly as possible.
When she returned home, Sinan went to a large market nearby and bought many clothes for all seasons. She especially stocked up on thick winter clothes and quilts because in her fragmented nightmares, she had dreamed of a scene where the whole world was covered in ice and snow, and a large number of people were frozen to death or frostbitten.
After buying clothes, she paid two months' worth of water and electricity bills in advance, and used the remaining money to buy a lot of instant meat hotpot and self-heating rice foods. She then went to the fish shop and bought more than 20 carp, grass carp, silver carp and other easy-to-raise fish. She also went to the ornamental fish store and bought a special oxygen pump for fish farming, a large fish tank, and five red and white koi. Her money was almost used up.
Sinan returned home with a lot of bags, walked to the balcony, filled the fish pond with tap water, put all the fish in, turned on the oxygen pump, sprinkled some fish feed, then went back into the house, turned on the air conditioner to rest for a while, walked to the left side of the living room where fitness equipment was placed, turned on the treadmill, and started running.
These sports equipment were bought by Cheng Wei's cousin in the past and have been sitting in a corner gathering dust.
Half a month ago, after this place was renovated according to Sinan's requirements, Sinan gave up his old and dilapidated house without caring whether the renovation would have any impact on his health, packed his bags and moved into the current "luxury house".
Knowing that the end of the world is approaching, she must work up her physical fitness in order to face the various dangerous situations that are coming, no matter how much she dislikes sports.
She did basic exercises like running, sit-ups, push-ups, etc. every day. She also searched the Internet for a lot of women's self-defense and fighting skills, and used the rich variety of equipment in the corner to learn exercises.
In the first few days, she couldn't practice for long before she started sweating all over, her limbs were sore, and her heart was beating fast. She wanted to give up several times.
Later, she adapted to various physical trainings. Her body, which felt as heavy as if it were filled with lead at first, gradually became lighter. In just half a month, her physical fitness was much better than before. At least when she deliberately did not take the elevator and climbed fifteen floors to go home, she was no longer out of breath like before and felt like dying when she reached the fifteenth floor.
After exercising for more than an hour, her clothes were soaked with sweat. She turned off the treadmill, took out a crossbow from the space, aimed at a standard target hanging on the wall, and raised the crossbow in her hand to carry out daily shooting training.
Of the five arrows, three hit the seventh ring, one hit the sixth ring, and one hit the ninth ring. The result was not very good, but it was much better than the previous result of always hitting the outer ring.
Sinan was quite satisfied. In the days to come, the crossbow would be her main weapon for self-defense. In order to achieve a 100% chance of hitting the target, she would have to practice more.
Military, crossbows, crossbows, and crossbows can be equipped with up to five arrows at a time. After shooting, you can reload and continue shooting.
Si Nan originally ordered 500 iron arrows from the blacksmith. In order to make them as quickly as possible, he didn't even ask for arrow tail decorations. He focused on making the arrowheads small and sharp so as to penetrate the human body. He stored them in space and took them out to practice when he had nothing to do. Now he has a good control of the crossbow, the crossbow, and the crossbow.
At about nine o'clock in the evening, Si Nan felt that she was almost exhausted, so she went to the large bathroom next to the master bedroom, put a pool of warm water in the bathtub, poured some aromatherapy and bubble balls into it, and after a simple scrubbing, she felt very tired. She picked up the mobile phone beside her, set an alarm for half an hour, closed her eyes, soaked in the water, and took a short nap.
She didn't know how long it had been, but when she was in a daze, she seemed to hear the gander on the balcony caw twice. Just as she was wondering why the goose was cawing for no reason at night, there was a hurried knock on the door, and she was suddenly awakened from her sleep.
The author has something to say:
In a flock of geese, there is usually only one leader goose, which is the most aggressive. Female geese generally do not bite people, and if there are multiple male geese in a flock, the other male geese will often be bullied and excluded by the leader male goose.
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