Two days later, the whip marks on the two men's bodies, left untreated, began to swarm with maggots in the hot and filthy environment at the bottom of the well.
On the patches of festering skin on the two men, clusters of white maggots were wriggling.
The two of them looked utterly miserable!
Moreover, even so, Xu Yongqing and his son still had to continue mining coal.
In less than half a month, both of them died at the bottom of the coal mine, their bodies covered in sores.
When Xu Lai learned of the tragic death of her enemy from her past life, she was busy with her family in the vegetable garden in her space.
At this time, the seasonal vegetables in the garden, such as cowpeas, cucumbers, winter melons, and tomatoes, are nearing the end of their season.
In order to ensure a continuous supply of vegetables, they continued to do the same as before, taking turns pulling out the nearly withered vegetables and then planting new ones.
Because Song Qiu'e usually took charge of the family's meals, she decided what to plant in the vegetable garden.
"Mom, what are you planning to plant in this vegetable garden next?"
Xu Lai looked at the string beans she had been eating until she was sick of, and she asked her mother happily.
"The weather is getting hotter and hotter, so I plan to plant more radishes and Chinese cabbages in this vegetable garden. That way, besides stir-frying them, I can also pickle more sauerkraut!"
After pulling up the last cowpea trellis and setting it aside, Song Qiu'e wiped the sweat from her forehead and spoke of her plans.
Besides radishes and cabbages, we also need to plant some pumpkins, loofahs, lettuce, chives, onions, and garlic.
Upon hearing their elderly mother suggest planting more radishes and cabbages, Xu Lai and Xu Chao's good mood vanished instantly.
Knowing that radishes and cabbages are the worst to eat, the siblings really couldn't understand why older people loved them so much.
Their mood improved when they heard their mother say she was going to pickle sauerkraut.
Putting everything else aside, Song Qiu'e's skills in pickling radishes and cabbages are no worse than those sold in stores.
The siblings especially loved their mother's pickled cabbage.
However, aside from these, Xu Lai suddenly missed the stuffed tofu that existed before the natural disaster.
She remembered the half-sack of soybeans she had harvested from the field near the space warehouse, so she asked Xu Jiangming, who was digging up the cowpea stalks in the vegetable patch with a hoe, "Second Uncle, do you know how to make tofu? How about we make some tofu to improve our taste?"
After listening to her daughter's words, Song Qiu'e, who had rested well, glared at her daughter and said irritably, "You glutton! You're not satisfied with such a good life at home, and you're still thinking about the tofu we don't have!"
At this time of year, it's considered good if other families can even get enough to eat, let alone have such fresh vegetables.
Even in government-run supermarkets, the two types of vegetables they stock every day are not only wilted, but ordinary people can't even buy vegetables like that.
Unlike their family, whose children still complain about the fresh vegetables from their garden.
I really don't know what to say!
However, Xu Jiangming doted on his child. There were soybeans at home, and if the child wanted to eat them, he happened to know how to make them, so there was no reason for him to disagree.
"Sure, your second great-uncle really knows how to make tofu, but he needs gypsum!"
"plaster?"
This was a perfectly normal thing before the natural disaster, but now, Xu Lai wasn't sure if the government supermarket sold it.
As a big foodie, Xu Lai wouldn't be stumped by this little difficulty.
"Second Uncle, I'm going to check out the supermarket in our community!"
Xu Lai left as soon as she said she would. She took off her farm work gloves and placed them on the dining table in the kitchen shed of the space before leaving.
It was eight o'clock in the morning. Xu Lai put on her air-conditioned clothes, sun hat, and face mask before going downstairs.
As Xu Lai descended to the 5th floor and passed by room 502, she felt the most relaxed she had ever felt since her rebirth when thinking about Xu Zhen's family.
"Gypsum for making tofu? We don't actually have that!"
The staff at the Xu Government Supermarket in Jinxiu District flipped through the product brochure, glanced at Xu Lai, and then answered.
This was the lightest he'd ever been since he started working here, and the first person he'd encountered who wanted to buy gypsum to make tofu.
Not only is food extremely scarce now, but the supply is also limited, and the variety of food is pitifully small.
Previously, the authorities planned to resume work and production, but due to the extreme high temperatures, large-scale production was not possible.
Xu Lai couldn't find the gypsum for making tofu at the government supermarket, which was within her expectations.
After leaving the supermarket counter, Xu Lai planned to go to the Qin Group's trading market to take a look.
The products there aren't as high quality as those in government-run supermarkets, but they're all scourled by merchants among the people, so the variety is much richer than in supermarkets.
Unexpectedly, she bumped into Han Lei, the supermarket manager, as soon as she turned around.
Xu Lai recalled that Director Han had purchased a batch of sweet potatoes and sweet potato seedlings from her shop more than two months ago on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture, so she specifically asked, "Director Han, do you know if the sweet potato seedlings and sweet potatoes from more than two months ago have survived at the Ministry of Agriculture?"
The entire area is now shrouded in this extreme heat, and even the century-old trees in the city have been scorched to death.
Without cooling measures, not to mention the much weaker sweet potato seedlings, the situation would be even worse.
Han Lei became interested as soon as sweet potato seedlings and sweet potatoes were mentioned.
With the current high temperatures, the ripening period for greenhouse crops such as sweet potatoes grown by the Ministry of Agriculture has been shortened considerably.
The sweet potatoes and sweet potato seedlings I bought from Miss Xu are growing exceptionally well.
"The crops survived, they all survived! After the agricultural department of City C planted that large batch of crops, the extreme heat arrived, and they immediately applied to the army for assistance and installed heat-insulating greenhouses overnight!"
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