Bai Tian's eyes lit up. "Thank you so much, Miss!"
Niu Niu is a bit older now, so we can just hire someone to take care of her, which will free up our hands to help out.
Bai Shuang: "Also, the soil there isn't as fertile as outside. I suggest you talk to the group leader first and send a flock of chickens over there."
Feed them on that platform for a while; the chicken manure will build up the fertility, then you can feed them dried insects.
Bai Shuang thought, isn't this a good thing? She has plenty of people under her command, and she doesn't have to do anything herself.
He not only benefited his subordinates, but also made a fortune out of thin air.
Therefore, Bai Shuang accepts any land offered for the base.
Although there are only three or four months left before the end of the polar day, the base is still spending a lot of manpower and resources, sparing no expense, to prepare the land.
In Grandpa Lu's words, even if there's only one month left, you can still harvest a batch of leafy greens. Sweet potatoes and potatoes, even if they're only the size of marbles, are still considered decent food.
It tastes much better than tree bark, and besides, there's nowhere to find tree bark these days.
They all knew that land represented grain, vegetables, meat, and eggs.
They also know what it felt like to be starving to death a few years ago.
Once, when Bai Shuang and her friends were taking a walk, they passed by a construction team that was leveling the land. Bai Jiu said to them, "You're about to stop working."
They were puzzled.
"There are only three or four months left of the polar day, and even if we level the land, we won't be able to keep up with the planting."
"No, it's still early. We must persevere until the very last moment."
Bai Chang: "At the last moment?"
They glanced at Bai Shuang and the others.
"You don't understand. Some vegetables can be eaten as soon as they sprout. Even if there's no time to plant crops, raising chickens is a good alternative."
But when night falls and the ground freezes, there is nothing left.
Yes, we were short-sighted.
They were a group of soldiers; it was unclear whether they were subordinates of Commander Liu or Commander Wang.
Leveling the land is not easy. First, a bulldozer is used to fill the gaps between the soil from high to low, and then it is leveled by hand with shovels and spades.
They then used a wheelbarrow to haul soil from the raised areas and dump it into the lower areas.
It takes dozens of people a day to work one acre of land. Once it's delivered to Bai Shuang, it's ready to use almost without any repairs.
Their hands, calloused from wielding shovels, wore tattered military boots, and their uniforms were patched upon patched.
Just from their clothing, Bai Shuang could tell at a glance that these were not Lu Yu's subordinates.
Comparatively speaking, the soldiers under his command were much better off than those of other armies, both in terms of clothing and food.
Before the disaster, he had already stockpiled a large amount of military uniforms, food, and weapons, and later Bai Shuang would take care of them from time to time.
Other units, however, faced natural disasters in the open.
Judging from the number of people they brought back, Lu Yu's army was twice the size of each of their own forces.
Before the disaster, the number of troops they led was roughly the same.
Bai Shuang: "Didn't the base make a set of clothes and shoes for each of you for the last batch of cotton?"
"How can you wear those new clothes to work? Besides, it's not cold now, you should save them for Anye."
At this moment, an officer came over and saluted Bai Shuang in greeting.
"Hello, Mr. Bai!"
The people working nearby only then realized who Bai Shuang was and hurriedly apologized to them.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know it was you just now. I was being impolite."
They were referring to what I just said, "You don't understand." Little did I know, these were the very people who made their labor bear such abundant fruit.
In their hearts, they admired and respected him.
"It's alright, what you just said was the truth."
The officer said, "I heard the strawberries are ripe. We went to the supermarket after get off work yesterday, but we couldn't buy any. I wonder if they still have any today?"
Bai Shuang gestured to Bai Jiu to call the planting area and ask them to send over a few baskets.
Turning to them, she said, "We just picked them yesterday, and there aren't any available today. But since you've worked so hard, I specially picked some for you."
I don't grow many white-frost strawberries. I just felt that there was no fruit available, so I wanted to change things up for everyone. Every time they come on the market, they are snapped up.
"Thank you, Boss Bai."
As they spoke, they took out their credit cards to pay Bai Shuang.
Bai Shuang knew they wouldn't eat for nothing.
"You can pay the staff later, and we'll give you the wholesale price."
Before long, fresh, fist-sized strawberries arrived, making one's mouth water just looking at them.
Bai Jiu went up and took two, rinsed them under the tap, handed one to Bai Shuang, and put the other in his own mouth.
Bai Changyi saw this and went up to take one to eat. The snow leopard also wanted to go up and grab one, but the officer quickly stopped him.
"Your own property is being taken from us?"
Bai Shuang smiled and said, "Snow Leopard, come here."
Bai Shuang gave what she had to the snow leopard.
"Sorry, they just got hungry when they saw it."
The officer looked at the tempting fruit and expressed his understanding; who wouldn't be tempted by such fruit?
"That's true."
He decided to buy several more.
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Bai Shuang had originally planned to have Mr. Ling's engineering team build a large cruise ship for her during the polar day.
Lu Yu said, "Let's postpone it for now. The military and civilians are working together to do their best to store food. We only have a few months left, so let's not divert our labor force."
Because building large cruise ships requires a lot of metal, someone has to search for it in the ruins of the city.
Okay, let's talk about it again when everyone's out of work.
Then, under the pretext of taking care of the planting platform, Bai Shuang and her group became the first to move into the oval.
Sure enough, it was much more comfortable than living in a tent or RV, and it was especially quiet. Apart from the planting platform, where they were busy with people during the day, there was no other activity anywhere else.
Because of the need for farming, the upper shell of the oval body has been opened, and several wells have been dug outside to supply the planting area first.
The water supply in the residential area is temporarily cut off, making it uninhabitable for others, but Baishuang is not short of water.
After moving into the elliptical, Bai Shuang packed up the RV when no one was around, leaving the tent behind.
Because her businesses are all located elsewhere, she can use them as offices and lodgings, and she comes back almost every day.
Fortunately, the tent area is not far from the base, only a ten-minute drive away.
Bai Shuang also learned about the aftermath of the second young lady of the Yuwen family from Mr. Wu.
As expected, the second young lady lived up to Bai Shuang's expectations. On the very first day after recovering from her illness, she escaped and began her tumultuous life once again.
I heard that the head of the Yuwen family almost fainted after learning that the second young lady had run away.
He already infected her with the virus, so why did he still run away?
Was he too merciful? Or did he underestimate her? He should have killed her immediately back then.
Once he regained consciousness, the Yuwen family head immediately dispatched many people to secretly search for the Second Miss's whereabouts.
But we searched the entire tent area and still couldn't find it.
The Yuwen family head also issued an order to the entire family: keep quiet and don't let the young lady know for the time being; keep it a secret for now.
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