14. Planter's Assistant
Although Mahajaya is poor now, his ancestral heritage is not small.
The entire campus covers an astonishingly large area, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a small city.
There are complete facilities such as the simulation training base for combat students, the organ specimen exhibition city for medical students, and the weapons development research center for the mechanical department.
The planting system has the largest area - agricultural area and breeding area.
Starting from the second year, the top students in the planting department must shift from theoretical knowledge to practice.
The top 100 students in the department will each get a piece of land to grow the plants they are good at.
Starting from the third grade, all students have to farm and raise livestock. Those with rich theoretical knowledge can even take the exam to become a planter and sell their own agricultural and sideline products for money.
However, because strange factors are everywhere and plants and animals may mutate at any time, this vast farmland and breeding grounds require purifiers to patrol and purify every week.
So this formed a complete production line: ordinary students plowed the land, weeded, and cleaned the pens, planters planted and raised livestock, and purifiers were responsible for purification.
As a first-year student, Su Liu was assigned to a senior planter to help with farming in advance because of his outstanding test scores.
After the afternoon class, Su Liu came to the farmland area management office and found his senior sister in the office.
Ying Tianqing crawled out from under the pile of books and said to Su Liu, "You are the first-year student Su Liu, right? The department head told me that from today on, you will be my assistant."
She wanted to take Su Liu to the fields and gave him instructions as they walked.
"Although you are an assistant, you can actually carry out the planting activities on your own."
"I'll give you one acre of land first. If you need any seeds, you can go to the group to look at the documents and then come to me."
"If you have any questions about planting, just ask me anytime. I'll do my best to help you when I'm free."
"Please be more careful when planting. You need to give one-tenth of the plants you grow to the school as rent. The rest can be sold to the school cafeteria or other places for star coins. The better the vegetables, the higher the price."
Su Liu nodded repeatedly after hearing this.
When he arrived at the farmland area of the planting system, Su Liu was surprised by the scene before him.
She thought she would see vast fields, but what she saw was a wall as high as the one in the breeding city, with fighter planes and tanks circling in the sky and on the land.
It's like a prison tightly covered by a dragnet; the solemn and cold atmosphere alone is enough to scare people away.
There are multiple entrances to the farmland area. Ying Tianqing led Su Liu to one of the entrances and pointed at her epaulettes.
"Your information has been reset here. The thorny rose pattern indicates that you are a planter. You can only enter the farmland area by swiping your card."
Su Liu followed her instructions and stood in front of the gate. Her general information and profile picture were displayed on the screen, followed by a verification of her pupil and fingerprint information.
This is not the end yet. There are many security checks ahead, and it will take ten minutes before we are completely inside.
After crossing the high wall, the inside finally looks more like farmland.
Flat pieces of land are divided into several small areas by artificial rivers, where different vegetables, fruits, etc. are grown.
Ying Tianqing invited Su Liu to get on the train. This train was like a small amusement park train that would take passengers to various areas.
"The area we've been assigned to is in the southeastern Mirror District, and we're primarily responsible for growing leafy green vegetables. You might have noticed that the planting here doesn't strictly follow seasonal changes."
Su Liu had read about this in a book. "Because it has a special temperature control device, right?"
"Yes, just like the greenhouse cultivation technology used on Earth," Ying Tianqing said with a smile, "but it's more advanced and convenient. It can adjust the climate in a small area at will through artificial intelligence."
Regardless of temperature or humidity, it can even simulate frost, fog, snow, and lightning. It is very intelligent.
Finally we arrived at the mirror area in the southeast. This area is more than 200 hectares, and some places have been planted.
After jumping out of the car, Ying Tianqing said, "The fertile land has basically been picked, and the remaining land is relatively poor, but you can use it as a training ground."
Su Liu looked around and pointed at a piece of land. "Can I take that side?"
That piece of land is very close to the river. Ying Tianqing said, "It has sandy soil, which is good for growing potatoes and sweet potatoes."
"Peanuts and sesame seeds are fine too." Su Liu muttered softly.
She looked around and noticed that young people in student uniforms were walking on the country roads at any time.
"Senior, are they students from the combat department?"
Ying Tianqing explained: "The purifiers are very busy and can't come to purify every day, so the students from the combat department will help with patrols."
All members of the combat department are psychics. Even if they cannot purify the alien plants, they can at least quickly eliminate them in the early stages of mutation and reduce the risk.
After explaining everything clearly, Ying Tianqing added earnestly, "Although students in the Plant Department don't have to fight, they are actually the most dangerous besides those in the Combat Department. Plants and animals can mutate at any time, and we could die at any time."
Su Liu had experienced the changes in the breeding city and understood what she meant.
"I signed a life and death agreement when I enrolled, and I'm alone, so no one would care if I died."
Ying Tianqing felt a little sympathetic for a moment, "There's no need to be so pessimistic. The purification team comes every week to clean up, and there are combat students patrolling, so the security is not low."
Afterwards, Su Liu was pulled into the plantation group by Ying Tianqing to check the documents.
There were not many varieties to choose from, so Su Liu picked and chose, and finally chose mung beans.
Ying Tianqing frowned and said, "Mung beans used to be a foreign plant. They were only purified and cultivated artificially in recent years. It can be said that we are still in the exploratory stage. Even I don't know much about its cultivation plan, so I may not be able to give you much help."
"It doesn't matter, senior sister, I'll choose mung beans." Su Liu's eyes were burning.
Mung beans are a good thing. They can be used to make porridge, mung bean paste, mung bean soup, mung bean cakes, etc. More importantly, they can sprout.
Usually one kilogram of mung bean sprouts can produce 20 kilograms of mung bean sprouts. Is there a faster way to harvest than this?
After Ying Tianqing left, Su Liu began to tinker with the soil.
The reason why she chose this piece of land by the river is because it is easier to water and irrigate.
But this soil is sandy and not very suitable for growing mung beans which require a lot of soil.
This was not a problem for Su Liu. She had memorized the soil science textbook by heart, so improving the soil was no problem at all.
The first method is the guest soil method.
Mix the clay soil from other places with sand in proportion. Because clay has strong adhesion and cohesion, mixing it can reduce the looseness and aeration of sand and improve its ability to lock in water and fertilizer.
The second method is to apply organic fertilizer, using various poultry and livestock manure, or rotten plant roots, stems and leaves, etc. to provide rich nutrients for sandy soil, change the microbial structure, and improve the root growth environment.
Taking advantage of his free time, Su Liu ran around and finally found some clay to plow the land.
It's just livestock manure, which is not easy to find.
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