Chapter 419 Changes
Thinking back to the past few years, when he wanted to split a piece of paper into two halves when going to the toilet, the days are finally over, and Zhao Yeqing feels particularly happy.
According to the current consumption of papermaking materials, they have enough of each type of remaining material to make nearly ten sheets of paper. Bamboo has more than mulberry bark. Although bamboo paper is thin, the material required is relatively fine, so more is actually wasted.
The two spent another three days turning all the materials into paper.
Learning from the first experience, when drying the bamboo paper, I chose to stick the paper on a wooden board and dry it slowly. But there was no way to use adhesive. Chemical adhesives were definitely not available for purchase or discovery. I could only see if I could find plants in the mountains that could be used as adhesives in the future.
The two large stacks of paper were put away carefully, and the temperature did not drop further in the past few days.
The two of them were finally able to plant the rice seedlings.
Early in the morning, Zhao Yeqing arrived at the rice nursery and took a look. His heart skipped a beat.
The seedlings that were green and full of vitality a few days ago are now drooping and half-lying on the ground. Their leaves are gradually turning yellow, and the rice seedlings in the entire nursery are dying.
Zhao Yeqing hurriedly squatted down and pulled out a rice seedling from the ground to see what was going on.
There is no insect pest on the surface of the rice seedlings, and there are no spots, insect bites or white powder on the leaves. The biggest reason is that the problem appears in the roots.
Sure enough, as soon as the seedlings emerged from the soil, Zhao Yeqing saw the roots of the rice seedlings had turned black.
Is this...ruined by soaking?
Zhao Yeqing took a shovel and dug out a large piece of seedlings. Without exception, the roots of all the seedlings were soaked and damaged. The soil was dry on the surface, but underneath it was heavy, moist brown-black.
But neither of them has watered the plants in the past few days.
"Mu Xi! Have you watered the rice seedling field these two days?"
Mu Xi had just thrown some fruits and vegetables outside the fence when he heard Zhao Yeqing's words. Before he could even run over, he shouted back, "No."
Only when I ran closer did I understand why she asked that.
Zhao Yeqing dug several times with a shovel, dug out all the seedlings in the field, and broke up the soil that was clumped around their roots. Most of the roots that were supposed to be white had turned black, and the few that were not black had turned yellow.
"how so?"
Mu Xi confirmed that he had not watered the plants. They had been so busy making paper in the past few days that they had forgotten about watering the plants.
Zhao Yeqing squatted and looked at the turned soil under his feet. It was already shiny black. Needless to say, it was fertile, but the problem lay in the soil quality.
"The soil has been in this rainforest environment for so long, and has been soaked by rain for many years. The originally soft soil has been squeezed and compacted by the water flow... I was careless this year. In previous years, the soil was not as compact as this year, and dry rice cultivation has higher requirements for soil."
A few years before the ground cracked, the soil requirements for dry seedling cultivation were even higher. The soil had to be sieved and refined before being used for planting. The seeds developed later had stronger soil-penetrating abilities, but the soil requirements were still higher.
Zhao Yeqing pulled out all the rice seedlings on the ground, gathered them together, and stroked the tender seedlings with his fingers. They had grown to more than ten centimeters tall. If it weren't for this incident, they could have been planted in the ground.
Now they can only be thrown into the corral in handfuls, becoming a delicacy for the livestock to fight over.
Zhao Yeqing looked at the livestock fighting for food and said helplessly, "We have to start all over again if we want to plant rice, but judging from the current situation, it would be better to use water to plant rice than to deal with such a large area of rice seedling land."
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