Chapter 198 Return to the End of the World 26
Chen Qian was leaning on a low couch with a big belly, a deer skin painted on her legs. When she saw him coming in, she didn't stand up, but just squinted her eyes and said, "You're back."
Then he continued to watch Chen Lan's fingers flying up and down. A colorful tiger hat was almost finished. At the moment, Chen Lan was embroidering the word "王" on the hat with yellow silk thread.
Seeing this scene, Lin Xing felt bad, and just held his breath and said in a weird voice: "What do the two masters want for lunch this afternoon?"
It's true. After a winter, the relationship between the two women in the family became better and better, so good that there was almost no room for him to stand.
Hearing the sourness in the voice, Chen Qian finally raised her head. The person standing over there was really jealous. She sneered, "Hey, we won't need to buy vinegar for the next few years. The sour smell in this room is almost pickling me."
Lin Xing glanced at Chen Lan, who was standing motionless beside the couch, and thought, what's wrong with being jealous? These two are such cunning and stubborn people. If the man in his family didn't dislike women, who knows what kind of shai he would be.
We talk every day, and I don’t know where we get so much to talk about.
Chen Lan seemed to have realized something and stopped what she was doing. She bit off the excess thread on her hat, put the needle and thread into the bamboo basket beside the couch, said hello to Lin Xing, and went back to her room on her crutches. As for the quarrel between the young couple, she let them deal with it themselves. Anyway, her new sister would not suffer any loss.
Seeing that the people had gone far away, Lin Xing quietly squeezed to the edge of the couch, put his head gently on his wife's belly, and said: "When I have free time in a few days, I will ask the team leader and others to help build Uncle Chen's house. It is not convenient for them to live in the storage room." He also disturbed his world of two people!
Chen Qian did not expose his thoughts and nodded: "Indeed, the weather has been good these few days. Let's build the house before the busy farming season. In a few days, we will have to harvest winter beans and plant sweet potatoes and potatoes. I guess we will be very busy by then."
As she spoke, she touched her belly and said with some worry: "I estimate that I will give birth in the next few days. Maybe it will coincide with the implantation period..."
Lin Xing also touched it and comforted: "It's okay. I asked Aunt Yuan about it. She said that you can just stay in the hospital and I can accompany you. As for the fields at home, let other families with a large labor force help us plant the fields. This will be the norm from now on. If a pregnant woman gives birth during the planting and harvesting periods, other families will help."
At this point, the two looked at each other. After this was said, some lazy people would probably choose a day to get pregnant, and the fertility rate would go up.
However, when it comes to spring ploughing, Lin Xing started talking: "Uncle Chen told me to go to the city to find Researcher Wang to buy some vegetable seeds. Then I will plant a piece of leek and a piece of green onion in the field behind the house. It would be even better if there are seeds of lettuce and cabbage. With the current growth rate of plants, I estimate that by then we will not only have enough to eat for the two of us, but also have some left over."
Chen Qian's lips were watering at these words. Fresh vegetables were not easy to come by. Although the vegetables grown in the wild looked the same as before the apocalypse, they were just a little bigger, but the taste... it was hard to describe. The red tomatoes were bitter, the same dry bitter taste. The green cucumbers were full of fibers from ripe loofahs, making it impossible to eat them. The green vegetables that were available everywhere before even contained toxins, and eating them would cause diarrhea - only the plants grown from the varieties developed by the Botanical Research Institute had not mutated. At the same time, they were also hot commodities, hard to find in the market, and in a state of having a price but no seeds.
He did what he said. After a simple lunch, Lin Xing drove his truck to the city.
Looking down from above, the entire Linfeng base is a layout of a large ring within a small ring. The 8-meter-high black outer wall is like a silent guard firmly rooted in the vast plain at the foot of Hanshan Mountain. However, this guard can be seen to have been in the sword rain and knife flash for a long time. The armor on his body is full of marks of swords and axes, as if he has just experienced a fierce war. The outer city area is also full of traces of scorching artillery fire.
Looking further inside, the 10-meter-high inner city wall looks like a swordsman carrying a sword. It is thin, tall, plain white, and reserved. Unlike the outer city wall which is solid and rough, it stands there quietly, guarding the main area of the inner city.
The car drove into the inner city, where everything looked orderly. From time to time, the sound of machines could be heard from the west of the city. That was the urban construction team leveling the original three-story houses on the west side, preparing to build a six-story high-rise. They would then be able to accommodate the incoming talents there, and there would also be some free housing available as a reward for those who made outstanding contributions to the base.
Once people settle down, they always want to find a nest to settle down, just like the male bird in nature uses its beak and claws to select suitable branches and feathers in the forest to build a nest before pursuing the female bird. A safe and comfortable house is also a manifestation of human pursuit of stability.
Lin Xing turned the steering wheel and stopped in front of a white building. After telling the guard his name, he leaned against the car and waited. Not long after, Wang Dong came out hurriedly. Seeing him, a sincere smile appeared in his eyes: "Captain Lin, it's been a long time."
The two of them chatted for a while, and then Lin Xing tactfully mentioned the purpose of his visit: "I am now in the A3 area outside the city, and I have several plots of farmland. If you have time, come to my farm and have a look. If nothing else, I still have two empty rooms at home." He would convert the storage room into a guest room to entertain guests when he got back!
"Isn't it almost spring time? I was thinking of buying some vegetable seeds to grow some fresh vegetables, but I was too late to get them. I wanted to go home directly, but suddenly I remembered that you work in the research institute, so I thought of trying my luck with you to see if I could get some vegetable seeds to take home."
As he said this, he looked miserable, like a henpecked man.
Wang Dong didn't believe it: "No way, Chen Qian doesn't seem to be a hot-tempered girl."
Lin Xing: "There's nothing we can do. She's not just one person now, there are three of them. She's not the only one who's angry, the two babies in her belly are also making noises. There's nothing we can do..."
Wang Dong was extremely envious now: "Hey, we haven't seen each other for just one winter, and you're about to become a father, and you've welcomed two babies at once. When is the due date? I'll take some time to go and enjoy your happiness."
His job was settled down. Who would have thought that the job of agricultural researcher has become so popular now? Plants have changed drastically after the apocalypse. It seems that humans have to go back to the path of Shennong who tasted hundreds of herbs thousands of years ago and research crops suitable for human consumption. In the past ten years, the zombies' predation and the lack of education have made agricultural researchers extremely scarce. So as soon as he entered the base and filled in the information, he was taken to the research institute in the inner city. After a series of tests, he became one of the researchers of the institute. Now, in addition to studying mutated crops, he also teaches students with research talents in schools.
After winter came, someone from the organization introduced him to a girl. After they fell in love, they quickly got married and moved in together. The only pity was that after a whole winter of sowing, not a single seed successfully germinated.
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