In the past few months, everyone in the base, from top to bottom, has been eating the most precious, proper food in the post-apocalyptic world.
A few years ago, I not only saw and ate the vegetables and fruits I had always dreamed of, but also the meat and eggs that I never even dared to think about.
It's all thanks to the white frost.
The other retail investors are examples.
The Yuwen family is considered the best-performing among individual farmers, but even with plants that have grown for the same amount of time, their yield per acre is only 70% of that of the Bai family.
Chickens raised for the same amount of time will only weigh about 80% of those raised in Baijiabian.
Even more tragically, the meat, eggs, grains, vegetables, and fruits all tasted inferior to those from the Bai family.
The two companies' different types of supplies were placed together, and others could tell them apart at a glance; there was no way to confuse them.
Fortunately, they didn't cultivate much land, and every time their products were launched, Old Lu would store the Bai Shuang products.
Otherwise, their products would have to be sold at a lower price.
Whether their products can be sold at the original price depends on Bai Shuang's attitude, so the Yuwen family is now playing dumb and won't cause trouble easily.
As for product quality, it's not that they haven't tried, but no matter how hard they try or how hard they rack their brains, they can't figure it out, so they have to give up.
In July, the 50 mu of cotton planted by Baishuang ripened.
Unlike other crops, cotton cannot be harvested all at once. Cotton bolls bloom every day, and cotton is picked every day.
Lu Yu's army was divided into two groups, plus Liu Junzhang's army, making a total of three groups. Each group came to the farm to pick cotton every afternoon.
No wages are required; Bai Shuang promised that once the cottonseed oil is extracted, they would receive a portion of it.
If you hire other survivors, paying wages and points is a small matter; you'll inevitably have to stuff some cotton, which is a rare commodity, into your pockets.
With so many people, who's going to bother searching people every day?
It's not a problem for them to go back, tear off the cotton seeds, put on gloves or something.
The cotton yield is also very good, with a yield of more than 1,000 jin of seed cotton per mu.
While the cotton was being harvested, Old Lu ordered people to start processing it, and textile mills, oil presses, and garment factories all sprang into action.
Bai Shuang had cotton stored in her space, so she wouldn't keep any of it this time. She would sell her 60% share, which belonged to her family, to the base.
However, she needs to save some cottonseed oil; oil is a rare commodity in the apocalypse, and everyone is envious.
Send some to the army that helped her, give each employee a pound as a welfare and bonus, and also keep some for the core members of the Bai family, including Uncle Li.
The cotton stalks and wheat stalks were also used to make a batch of paper, and some white frost was also stored.
Old Master Lu instructed Bai Shuang to plant another 100 mu of cotton during the polar day, so that everyone could have a cotton-padded coat when the eternal night arrived.
At this time, Bai Shuang's land already covered three hundred acres.
During this phase, Mr. Ling's engineering team faced exceptionally difficult progress in designing and manufacturing the frame beneath the ellipse.
This is not just a design and manufacturing problem, but mainly a lack of metal raw materials.
Despite their busy schedule, the base managed to allocate some personnel to repair the road to a nearby city.
Arrange for a group of scavengers to go to the ruins and look for scrap metal.
For every part recovered, a part will be rebuilt.
The frame bridge section was finally completed in August.
To avoid suspicion, Ling Liyuan had small items loaded onto a vehicle and transported to the old base, but large machinery could not be moved.
Although the bridge sections can be transported, there are too many of them, which would consume a lot of fuel.
Taking advantage of the survivors' rest time, Mr. Ling led his engineering team away in a heavy truck.
Afterwards, Bai Jiu and Xiao Liu, along with the snow leopard, kept watch nearby, while Bai Shuang and Lu Yu walked towards the piles of bridge sections, and with a wave of their hands, entered the space.
Next, they collected the necessary machinery, such as cranes.
Then the group flew to the old base. Old Lu told them to use the base's planes, but for safety reasons, Bai Shuang chose to use her own.
After flying to the vicinity of the old base and selecting a spot, the plane landed on the land in front of the ellipsoid.
For a moment, the group, who had lived in tents for a year, felt a sense of returning home when they saw the oval again.
It remains as sturdy and reassuring as ever.
Although Bai Shuang and Lu Yu had been living in a motorhome, they still felt more comfortable living in a house.
Bai Jiu: "That's great, the ellipsoid is still intact."
Even the snow leopard jumped and leaped excitedly when it saw the oval shape.
Xiao Liu looked at Lu Yu and said, "General, let's go in."
Ling Liyuan left a door opener for Bai Shuang and the others.
Lu Yu: "Let's wait until Uncle Ling and the others arrive before we talk about it."
It's been a year, and I don't know if there's any danger. It would be better to have an expert check it out.
Fortunately, the construction team's vehicle arrived shortly afterward.
Lu Yu: "Uncle Ling."
"Sister, brother-in-law!"
Ling Qingyang said with a smile, "It's better to take a plane. We leave late but arrive early. I'll take a plane next time too."
The main reason was that Mr. Ling wanted to take the construction team away first, so that Bai Shuang and the others could collect their belongings.
Next, the professionals began using instruments to check the looseness of the soil around the circular object to determine if there was any danger.
The people behind started unloading the items from the vehicle.
After repeatedly checking with instruments and confirming there were no problems, Ling Liyuan used a remote control to open the upper entrance, and everyone began to walk down the old overpass and enter the old base.
Bai Jiu and the others excitedly walked around inside before stopping.
The group chose the former military district kitchen as the cooking place for the engineering team.
With no one else around, Bai Shuang put the rice, flour, grains, oil, vegetables, and other supplies she had brought from the base's warehouse inside.
The water was brought over in barrels from over there; there are no wells here.
Bai Shuang brought extra meat and eggs, instructing the chef to feed them well.
What followed was not only hard work for them, but also very dangerous.
Installing a frame in the air below the ellipsoid is risky; if not done properly, people could fall into the abyss. Looking at the abyss before them, Bai Shuang was worried for them.
Today, everyone worked hard moving things, so Bai Shuang said to the cook, "Let's have dumplings for lunch, with pork and cabbage filling."
The chef was forty years old, about the same age as Ling Liyuan. When Bai Shuang mentioned eating dumplings, he happily replied, "Yes."
Although their construction team usually had good food, they didn't eat insects and were always full, and occasionally there were vegetables, they still had never eaten dumplings.
After saying that, he told the kitchen helpers to chop the vegetables.
Bai Shuang takes out the minced meat, adds scallions, ginger, Sichuan peppercorn powder, and white pepper powder, heats the oil, puts it in, and then adds sesame oil and stirs.
The chef had arranged for his assistants to come over, and they could smell the aroma of the minced meat.
He took the minced meat from Bai Shuang and started stirring it.
"It smells so good! And there are scallions and ginger too?"
“We grow some in our greenhouse, but the quantity is limited. We don’t sell them; we just use them ourselves. I brought some for you.”
"Okay, okay, thank you!"
After preparing the filling and kneading the dough, everyone started making dumplings.
Because there were many people eating but few people cooking, Bai Shuang called Bai Jiu and the others to help with the cooking, and Lu Yu also came over to help.
Before they had even finished wrapping half of it, the construction team returned.
Wow! We're having dumplings today.
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