If you don’t have any experience, then you don’t have any experience.
Lin Man, who was looked down upon, was single, but he was still in a good mood and humbly asked for advice on how to use the induction cooker.
Guan Guan: "This requires electricity."
Oh, what about electricity?
Lin Man looked at the chick with curiosity. After a few seconds, the chick was defeated and dejectedly dragged over another "big box" that looked very heavy.
"This is a battery, just plug it in and it will work." What a loss, losing so many things at once.
Lin Man happily did as she was told, and the indicator light on the induction cooker lit up. She then got some water from a bucket of filtered water in the valley and started cooking.
The wild vegetables in the space are growing so fresh and clean that they can no longer be called wild vegetables. Just rinse them in water to remove dust and they can be put into the pot.
Lin Man wanted to try a new way of eating it. Looking at the many seasonings, she picked up the wild vegetables, sprinkled them with salt, added some soy sauce, and some chili powder. In short, she added a lot of things and ate them at the same time. The more she ate, the weirder the taste became. Finally, she finished this dark dish with a constipated look on her face, and quickly drank some vegetable soup to wash away the taste.
Guan Guan looked at her as if she were an idiot, her heart bleeding. Such a good seasoning was wasted.
It was right not to bring out those secret sauces.
After eating and drinking his fill, Lin left the space contentedly. He pumped some water to water the fields and vegetables as usual, and then went to bed obediently.
Early the next morning, Lin Man was woken up. She got up and went outside the valley to look. Wow, there were so many people!
She looked at Zheng Gang, who was leading the group, and asked quietly, "Didn't they say there were less than 400 of us? Ten people in a group... there must be over a hundred of us here, right?"
"Everyone is very curious about this place, and a little uneasy, so they all want to come and take a look." Zheng Gang persuaded him repeatedly to reduce the number of people to nearly a hundred. Otherwise, everyone who could move would want to take a look. "Besides, with so many people, we can also bring you more things."
Indeed, these people were holding things in their hands, ranging from door panels, bed boards, and tables to pots, pans, mirrors, and rags. Some were even holding a few bricks because they knew that Lin Man and his team were going to build a house here.
Lin Manshi told Zheng Gang that if it would be convenient for people, it would be best if he could bring her some things needed to build a house and settle down, but this was too practical.
Lin Man led these people into the valley with a smile. The valley was long and narrow, and a large area was occupied by vegetable fields. It seemed quite crowded when hundreds of people came in.
Everyone looked at the vegetable plots and the puddles, and then they began to distribute the water enthusiastically and happily. Lin Man didn't need to do anything at all. The two young men who came with Zheng Gang yesterday came. One of them was responsible for drawing water, and the other was responsible for distributing water. There were also many people helping them, and the process was very fast.
Lin Man saw these people holding signs with numbers on them. After being given a sign, the young man who distributed water would write the number on the wooden board at his waist with charcoal, and then pour water into the person's water container.
It was a precisely cut half-size plastic jug, a full liter. When it was poured, the people around helped count: "One! Two! Three!"
The mood was very high, and I didn't know how these skinny guys could have so much energy after walking such a long way.
One brand usually changes 30 liters of water, and some change 33 liters or 36 liters, which means there are eleven or twelve people in a group.
Zheng Gang and Lin Man walked aside. "There are 367 people in total. Excluding the two people who came to your place yesterday, there are still 365 people. They are divided into 35 groups. The group leaders are all relatively reliable and steady. From now on, the people who come to get water will take turns coming every day. There won't be a swarm of people coming here like today."
"That's good." Lin Man said, this way it will indeed not seem so chaotic.
She also paid attention to the looks of those people. Although their eyes were fixed on the puddles and the grass as soon as they came in, their eyes were full of desire and envy, and very few of them showed greed.
These more than 300 survivors have also been screened through many trials and tribulations. Those who have been able to stay until now are all honest and silent. Although they have no abilities and cannot get out, they are not particularly evil people.
After these people distributed the water, the water in the puddle was reduced by half and the water quality became turbid. So these people volunteered to repair the puddle, digging it deeper and larger, laying a layer of stones at the bottom, and neatly building stones on the four walls. Stones were also laid on the edge of the puddle, and wooden boards were nailed on to prevent mud from slipping. Finally, railings were built around it to prevent people from falling into the water.
Although these people were not very skilled, they still worked very well. Lin Man even wanted to hire them to help her build a house, but she was still hesitating whether to do so. Those who could not get the job of repairing puddles took the initiative to help her level the ground and dig the foundation for her.
Although their tools were simple, they worked quickly and in no time they had created a "housing plot" for her. The wall was dug down more than 20 centimeters to stabilize it.
They also collected a pile of large and small stones, carefully selected them and piled them up, and mixed yellow mud, clay, and chopped hay as adhesives to paste the stones together and make them flat and smooth.
Lin Man felt almost embarrassed. She wanted to get something to eat for these people. Now, the vegetable garden in the valley was her private property, but if she really used those wild vegetables to treat these people who worked for her, then others would definitely have objections.
Besides, there are only so many wild vegetables. If everyone working now eats them, there really won’t be enough.
She had no choice but to note down the appearance of these people so that she could pay them their "wages" later.
Houses are being built in full swing here, but there are still some old men left over there, with weak arms and legs, unable to get out of the puddles or build houses. They are asked to help with the vegetable garden. Then a group of women surrounded them, and they had to find work everywhere.
After searching for a long time, I found that there was no pit toilet. I immediately got excited and built a toilet for them downwind away from the puddle.
They built two toilets, one dry toilet and one wet toilet.
A dry toilet is a pit that is more than half a meter deep, about one meter long and about thirty centimeters wide. It is used for defecation. The excavated soil is piled aside. After defecation, a shovel of soil is shoveled to cover the filth, which can effectively isolate the odor.
A wet toilet is a urinal, which is a similar pit, but with stones paved at the bottom so that water can seep in slowly and avoid making it muddy.
Lin Man watched from the side and felt that he had learned something. In the past, every household in the base basically used toilets, and then poured the waste into the septic tank, which was fermented and used as fertilizer for the plantation. He had never seen such a toilet.
These old men can all survive in the wild.
As she looked at it, she dug a sink for washing according to the two toilets, which was similar to a wet toilet. It was more convenient to wash your face, brush your teeth and pour out the dirty water here, and it wouldn't make the place wet. After all, not all dirty water can be poured into the vegetable garden.
The noisy and busy morning passed. A group of people took away the water, leaving behind an upgraded puddle, built a house with part of the stone wall, two toilets, helped turn the soil, and a bunch of things needed for building a house and living.
Lin Man felt more and more that his decision was correct.
In the afternoon, Lin Man continued to work on his "homestead", continuing to build stone walls until they were half a person's height, and then putting adobe bricks on top.
While she was working on her house, a huge fire broke out in the valley with manure burning. Smoke and dust billowed up. The fire lasted for two days. During this time, many people came to help. Some people even carried manure from the abandoned septic tank at the base. People were more enthusiastic than each other about farming.
In the end, those people all got some wild vegetables, and they no longer had to worry about fertilizer for the vegetable fields.
Lin Man looked on enviously, wanting to pile up two piles of the manure, which looked so fertile, into the space. Guan Guan noticed her thoughts and immediately said, "Don't even think about it. Anything mixed with human excrement is not allowed into the space!"
"I mean the dung pile without any feces or urine." Lin Man didn't want to bring those things into the space, especially after knowing that spiritual energy could nourish water and soil.
According to Zao Guanguan, as long as there is enough spiritual energy, the soil in the space can become spiritual soil and can also produce spiritual water and springs on its own. Of course, it is unknown how many years it will take, and Lin Man doesn't know if he can see that day, but there is that trend.
“…That’s fine.”
But the number of dung piles was limited, so Lin Man couldn't steal anything even if he wanted to. Finally, he had to run to the pile where earthworms were raised, secretly caught a few earthworms and raised them in the space.
There really were a few of them, because there weren't many earthworms in the pile of soil, and it's not easy to keep them alive now. Lin Man didn't even doubt that Grandma Wu could tell which one was which. Fortunately, she didn't check them every day.
What made Lin Man happy was that these earthworms were very happy to come to the space, and they happily burrowed into the soil to make their home.
Guan Guan was a little resistant to these ugly long insects, but for the better growth of the crops, he had to compromise.
There were still other people helping with the subsequent construction of Lin Man's house. Lin Man mainly helped out on the side, and then went out to dig insects to pay those people. She also often brought back some wild vegetables. Most of those wild vegetables were planted as seedlings, and she would exchange them for wild vegetables that had already grown in the vegetable garden, along with the various insects dug out of the soil, as a reward.
But she didn't bring back any sweet potatoes or potatoes, even though they had already grown tubers of moderate size. She dug up some of those tubers, still with their leaves, and planted them in corners of the mountain, hoping others would discover these lovely creatures.
On the thirteenth day after the first batch of sweet potatoes and corn were planted, they finally arrived for harvest. Before entering the space that night, Lin Man took a bath specially, with a very solemn mood, and was almost about to burn incense.
After entering the space, I saw the fields of sweet potato vines, and then looked at the tall and strong corn stalks with big corn ears on them, and I smiled with my eyes curved.
Lin Man didn't even need a hoe. Relying on his great strength, he started digging out the remaining six nests of sweet potatoes carefully. Each one was fat and large in size. Of course, some were ugly, like lumps of earth. Lin Man didn't mind them. He just excluded those that were for sowing.
Lin Man really wanted to eat roasted sweet potatoes, but he didn't want to light an open fire in the space, so he took out the induction cooker and the frying pan, washed two medium-sized sweet potatoes, and put them in the pot to cook.
After washing the sweet potato, the purple-red skin was exposed, and the flesh inside was orange-yellow. She couldn't help but washed it and ate it raw. It was sweet, crispy, and juicy, and especially delicious.
While cooking sweet potatoes, Lin Man went to harvest corn.
The corn cobs were broken off one by one and neatly stacked in the basket. There were forty-four corn plants in total, each producing two or three corn cobs, and in the end, there were one hundred and nineteen corn cobs.
This kind of corn is particularly soft and sticky, with full and firm grains, each one golden and crystal clear. Lin Man peeled two and left the last layer of corn husks and put them next to the sweet potatoes to cook together.
Some of the remaining corn was left for eating, and the rest was peeled and tied up to dry in the sun.
The light in the space has little killing power. Lin Man plans to take them out to see the scorching sun outside when it is convenient.
Next, she went to pull out the corn stalks. The stalks were very straight, taller than her, and the leaves were broad and slightly yellow. Lin Manxin thought it would be nice to raise a few sheep. She remembered that goats especially loved to eat corn leaves.
She peeled off the leaves, broke the corn stalks and took a bite. It was sweet and juicy. It was a good thing. If she took it out, the people outside would probably go crazy.
The corn stalks were piled aside for the time being. Lin Man turned around and saw that the potato plant had also grown very tall. Grandma Wu said that the growing period of potatoes and sweet potatoes is similar.
She dug in from the side, about ten centimeters deep, and found pale yellow potato skins. She dug one out, seeing it was quite large, and pulled up the plant above it. Wow, she brought up a bunch of potato eggs, more than a dozen. The largest was as big as Lin Man's fist, and the smallest was as round as bird eggs, very cute.
After doing all this, the only thing left was the second sweet potato planted. That sweet potato sprouted nine sweet potato seedlings, and nine nests of sweet potatoes were planted, and a large area of sweet potato vines grew. Lin Man decided to harvest it tomorrow, as he had originally planted it a day later.
There is also the first batch of corn planted, a total of fifty plants, which have just produced small corn cobs and are not yet ready for harvest.
So now, in addition to a small basket of sweet potatoes, more than a hundred corn cobs, and a dozen potatoes, she also got some sweet potato vines, forty-four corn stalks, and one potato plant.
"Guanguan, what do you think we should do with these?" Lin Man asked the chicks worriedly. They couldn't throw them away, and there were no animals to feed them. Could they be fermented into fertilizer if they were kept in space?
Guan Guan's eyes were fixed on the sweet potatoes, corn and potatoes that had just been harvested and he couldn't take them away.
"Guan Guan?"
"Chirp," the little chick chirped twice and looked up at Lin Man: "What are you doing?"
Lin Man looked at it suspiciously. Did she hear the sound of slurping saliva just now?
Does this guy have saliva?
"I'm talking about these things. Can I make a fermentation tank in the space?"
"Oh, about this, there's no need to go through so much trouble. Just bury them in the ground, and I can use some spiritual power to turn them into fertilizer quickly." The chick was particularly easy to talk to today.
Lin Man was shocked. Didn't this guy always value spiritual energy the most? Now he was willing to consume spiritual energy?
She looked at it carefully. Since the things were planted in the space, the white chick seemed to have grown rounder in the thirteen days, but the roundness was limited. Was it the time for her to squander her spiritual energy generously?
Guan Guan jumped onto a corn stalk and called out to Lin Man clearly, "Of course, it's not easy for me to consume spiritual energy. Since you've taken advantage of me, give me some benefits in exchange."
"What's the benefit?"
"Hey, hey, I want those. Um, I don't need a lot. Just give me a few of each."
Little Wing pointed at the sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes.
Lin Man was puzzled. Doesn’t it need to eat?
But she didn't ask any more questions. Even if it didn't have any, she was willing to share some of the food with it.
She took out ten sweet potatoes and ten corns and put them aside, then took five or six potatoes and asked, "Is this enough?"
"Enough, enough." The little chick ran back to the cabin, picked up a sack, and used its thick white claws to quickly dig three piles of things into the sack as if digging soil. Then it dragged the sack and ran backwards towards the cabin. Its movements were extremely agile, as if it was worried that Lin Man would go back on his word.
Before closing the door, he said, "You can bury those things now, and I'll deal with them later."
Lin Man touched his forehead and thought, "Forget it, let's get back to work."
Although those sweet potato vines could be transplanted, Lin Man had new sweet potatoes of a higher quality, so he no longer needed them. He buried them all, leaving about ten corn stalks as snacks and buried the rest.
Lin Man buried them evenly in the land where they grew, hoping that the land would regain its fertility as soon as possible.
Not long after she finished her work, the chick came out triumphantly, stomping around on the ground, and looking at Lin Man frequently, wanting to say something but stopping himself, as if he was holding back a big move.
Lin Man was so frightened by its gaze that he couldn't help but say, "Brother, if you have something to say, just say it. Don't look at me like that. I'll be scared."
Guan Guan came over excitedly: "You still have one thing to do today!"
"What's up? Oh, right, there are three things I haven't exchanged today." Lin Man smiled and pointed at the cooked sweet potatoes and corn that were now cooling. "Now I have food. From now on, I'll exchange medicine and other things with you, okay?"
She has been coveting that shower gel and shampoo for a long time!
"..." Unexpectedly, after she said this, the little chick opened its mouth, and its two black eyes were shiny, as if some liquid was rolling out.
Lin Man was startled: "My ancestor, you are not going to cry!"
She thought about what she had said and said cleverly, "I'll trade, I'll trade food with you!"
The chick's expression suddenly changed, and he glanced at her sideways, as if to say, "That's about right."
Then the table appeared in front of Lin Man again. There were still many kinds of food on it, but three of them were placed in the front very conspicuously and deliberately.
Lin Man's mouth twitched when he saw this.
Roasted sweet potatoes that are juicy, grilled corn cobs sprinkled with chili powder, and a plate of thin, slightly curled potato chips sprinkled with salt and I don't know if it's chili powder or something else, well, potato chips.
She looked up at the little white chick standing on the table with its head held high and chest puffed out, its body and face filled with the words "Praise me, praise me!"
"You did this?"
"Of course!"
"So you made all the food on the table?"
"Yeah!" It is the most powerful chef in the world and will not accept any rebuttal, jimmy!
"You, you are so virtuous!" Lin Man's mouth twitched again, and he sighed sincerely.
The style of painting is just not right.
"It's just so-so, just a hobby, not worth mentioning." The little chick flapped its wings, acting as if it was nothing, with arrogance almost written on its face.
Half helpless, half flattering, and also half curious and greedy, Lin Man finally changed the plate of potato chips. It made sense not to choose the other two, as she had already cooked sweet potatoes and corn!
Guan Guan was a little unhappy, but didn't say anything. He just stared at her and evaluated the potato chips. Lin Man ate two pieces and said honestly, "They're delicious."
The little chick laughed so hard that its big black eyes were drowned in its fluffy white body.
The other two things were replaced with a calcium tablet and a yellow cod liver oil pill. The instructions said that cod liver oil could cure night blindness, and Lin Man had long wanted to give it to Lin's mother.
"Ah! Lin Man, it's raining outside!" Guan Guan suddenly shouted.
"What? It's raining?!" Lin Man was suddenly excited and ran out of the space. Sure enough, raindrops began to fall from the sky and some clouds appeared in the sky. The sun had disappeared somewhere and the sky was a little dark.
Lin Man couldn't remember the last time it rained.
She ran back to the valley happily. The people in the valley were also very excited and took out all kinds of utensils to catch the rain. Although it was only a drizzle, what if it got heavier soon?
Seeing them laughing and jumping with joy, Lin Man went over and said, "Grandma Wu, and Grandma Zhou, your house isn't ready yet. Why don't you fix it now?" Otherwise, it would be troublesome if it rained heavily.
Grandma Zhou was the old lady who came to help with farming. She and the middle-aged woman surnamed Chen lived in one room, and Grandma Wu and her family lived in another room. Their house was not as exquisite as Lin Man's. It was just made of wooden boards, and the roof was not yet completed.
Lin Man helped for more than an hour before it was done. The rain gradually got heavier and Lin Man breathed a sigh of relief. Well, now she didn't have to worry about these people having no house to shelter from the rain, so they could stay at her house.
She returned home happily.
Her house is a little distance away from Grandma Wu and her family. It is a very solid and upright stone adobe house. The doors and windows are all ready-made ones dismantled from the base and can be used as soon as they are installed.
Mother Lin was sitting at the door watching the rain. When she saw her come back, she smiled and said, "Hurry up and wipe your wet hair."
"Hey!" Lin Man casually picked up a dusty cloth and wiped her head. Her hair was short, so she wiped it in a few seconds. She looked at the people staying at their homes over there, closed the door, took out something and put it on the table: "Mom, look, there are new sweet potatoes, corn and potatoes."
Mother Lin was also very excited and happy: "Great! Great! This is really great!"
Being able to grow crops and harvest food continuously is a stable way of making a living. From now on, they no longer have to worry about food.
Lin Man said with a smile: "Mom, try it, it's delicious. The ones grown in the space are completely different from those grown outside... And this corn stalk, try one, it's just like sugarcane... Oh, right, take the medicine first."
The rain on the first day was very light, just drifting, which made everyone worry that it would stop. The rain was so light that it didn't even wet their hair.
But the next day, the rain didn't stop. Instead, it intensified, forming continuous curtains of rain, and the parched heat finally cooled. Lin Man and his crew in the valley were fine, remaining relatively calm. Back at the base, the people rushed out to get caught in the rain, not caring about getting sick. They washed their hair and showered. If the rain wasn't heavy enough, they'd just pick up the buckets they'd been collecting rainwater for so long and dash down. In one word, it felt wonderful!
As fewer people came to the valley to fetch water, the water level in the puddle gradually rose. Lin Man always went there secretly to pump water at night, and nearly half of the land in the space was wet.
"It would be great if we could get all this rainwater into the space." Lin Man murmured as she looked outside the door. Or she could build a large reservoir to retain the rainwater, and then pump it all out in one breath. That way, she could wet the land in the space in one fell swoop.
As she thought about this, her eyes couldn't help but stare at a part of the rain curtain. When she came to her senses, a big raindrop was hanging in front of her.
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