As soon as Li Xue returned to the base, Zhang Hu immediately threw all the base commander's affairs to her, and kept complaining: "Why did you take so long to come back? I thought you were going to abandon the base! The job of base commander is really not a job for humans, so I'm giving it to you. I'm exhausted these days, and I request a vacation, at least for a week, no, ten days, no less."

Li Xue's mouth twitched. What do you mean it's not a job for humans? "You can take a vacation, but only for three days."

Zhang Long protested loudly: "Do you still have human rights? Even farmhands have to have time to rest! You are more cruel than the landlords in the evil old society!"

"Since you say so, then cancel the vacation. After all, I am here to exploit farmhands like you who have no human rights." Li Xue sat behind the desk, buried in the documents, and said without raising her head.

"No! Three days is three days. I'm going to take a vacation. Don't call me if you have anything." Zhang Hu rushed out of the office before he finished speaking.

Li Xue smiled and shook her head. This time she came back, she seemed to feel that Zhang Hu's attitude towards her had changed a lot. He was as close to her as an old friend who had been friends for many years, and there was less of the official feeling before. This feeling is pretty good.

Zhang Hu took good care of the base, and there was nothing for her to worry about for the time being, so she had time to have a good rest.

After Haohao and Yuan Mo came out of the space, they took her and Chen Jiayi to get close for two days, and then went to school happily. These two little guys have been alone in the space for more than a year, and it was hard for them.

Chen Tang took Wang Tingting and toured the base from top to bottom, and said to Li Xue: "What do you think? I said at the beginning that this Y city is a good place, and it will definitely not be wrong to build a base. I still have vision."

Li Xue nodded with a smile: "Yes, yes, you have the best vision, no matter in which aspect, you have a good vision." As she said, she also winked at Chen Tang teasingly.

Chen Tang said without any shyness: "Of course, don't you see who I am?"

Li Xue said seriously: "Chen Tang, I am very happy that you are with Xiao Ye. But what about your parents?"

"Oh, sister, don't worry about it, I will take care of my parents." Since Chen Tang and Xiao Ye confirmed their relationship, she changed her words and called Li Xue sister.

"How can I not worry? Xiao Ye is my brother, and I have to worry about his life event for him. After you really get married, I have to worry about you two." Li Xue said with a smile.

Chen Tang was a little embarrassed: "That... Oh, there will always be a way out, sister, you should worry about your own business first. When are you and the violent man going to get married?" Chen Tang seemed unable to change her way of addressing Xiang Dong.

Li Xue: ...Why did you bring this up?

In the laboratory, Dr. Yang used the spiritual spring water that Li Xue gave him to produce results. In fact, it was not Dr. Yang's credit. In an accident, Dr. Yang knocked over the spiritual spring water on the table, and the water dripped into the flower pot under the table. The flower pot contained some soil that had just been brought back from outside the base and was prepared for planting experiments. This soil had to be purified many times before it could be used to plant things.

Now that it was wetted by the spiritual spring water, Dr. Yang suddenly threw a few flower seeds in. Unexpectedly, two days later, those flower seeds actually sprouted. You know, it is not easy to grow these flowers and plants that are not easy to survive in this unpurified soil.

Dr. Yang thought of a possibility, that is, the spiritual spring water has a very strong function of purifying the viruses in the soil.

With excitement, Dr. Yang prepared to do another experiment to verify his idea. As a result, the spiritual spring water was sprinkled clean, and Li Xue was not in the base. Dr. Yang had to wait anxiously for Li Xue and others to come back early every day. As soon as Li Xue arrived at the base, Dr. Yang ran to ask Li Xue for the spiritual spring water and went into the laboratory again.

Li Xue actually knew the effect of her spiritual spring water, but she had never thought about purifying soil viruses before. She was still very happy to learn about Dr. Yang's discovery. If enough land can be purified with spiritual spring water, then I hope the base will no longer have to worry about food in the future. Although her space could provide enough food, it was not a long-term solution.

Soon, after Dr. Yang confirmed through experiments and further laboratory analysis that the spiritual spring water could purify the viruses in the soil, he made some test agents and added them to the spiritual spring water so that the effect would not be compromised after the spiritual spring water was diluted. Dr. Yang named this new drug "New Sprout".

By the time Dr. Yang patiently waited for the first batch of fruits to be planted on the land purified by "New Sprout", more than a month had passed. Dr. Yang found that the land purified by "New Sprout", combined with the drug he had developed to accelerate plant growth, shortened the growth cycle of this batch of crops by nearly half.

When the first batch of sweet potatoes were dug out from the experimental field, Dr. Yang was very excited. These sweet potatoes were of very good quality, much better than the fruits cultivated with purification agents before, and no different from the sweet potatoes grown normally before the end of the world.

Dr. Yang couldn't wait to take the sweet potato samples to the laboratory, cooked them himself, and after various tests, confirmed that these sweet potatoes had no virus residues at all, Dr. Yang excitedly hugged these sweet potatoes and rushed into Li Xue's office.

"Base Commander, we don't have to worry about lack of food anymore. Our base can start to grow all kinds of crops normally!" Dr. Yang was so excited that tears flashed in his eyes.

"Great, tell the people in the base this news immediately!" Li Xue was also very excited.

When the news that the base had grown a batch of normal sweet potatoes spread throughout the base, the people in the base were excited. Li Xue and Dr. Yang personally took the sweet potatoes to the small square, showed them to the people, and then distributed the cooked sweet potatoes to some people who were willing to try them.

"So sweet, so delicious." After those who tasted the sweet potatoes gave such comments, the people in the base all strongly requested that the base quickly organize everyone to reclaim land and plant sweet potatoes.

Li Xue struck while the iron was hot and asked Zhang Long to expand the scope of the base a lot more. All the extra land was reclaimed and planted food.

With new hope, the people in the base were more motivated. They went to the fields every day and reclaimed them seriously, hoping to grow new food as soon as possible.

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