So she never imagined that her parents would leave her due to an accident during this time.
Upon hearing her words, Xu Lai's mood instantly turned heavy.
"Pah, pah, pah, Mom, why are you saying such discouraging things? Our family will definitely live a good life!"
Xu Lai placed the half-eaten tomato on the table and looked at Song Qiu'e firmly.
No matter what happens in her life, she will always protect her family!
The septic tank fermentation would take more than ten days, so Xu Jiangming and Xu Haiguo simply plowed the five-acre plot of land and let it bask in the sun to kill insects and bacteria.
Once the fertilizer in the septic tank has fermented, fertilize it once more before planting crops.
This time, in addition to changing the location to plant two acres of pasture, the remaining three and a half acres of land will be used to plant one acre of rice, one acre of wheat, one acre of potatoes, and half an acre of sweet potatoes.
The space warehouse also contains more than 3,000 kilograms of rice, more than 1,000 kilograms of wheat, ten bags of 50-kilogram rice, and ten bags of 20-kilogram flour.
This amount of grain is enough to feed a family of five for more than a year.
In addition, there were more than 1,500 jin of potatoes for seed saving and for eating, and more than 1,500 jin of sweet potatoes.
In addition, the plan is to plant a balanced variety of crops, which will ensure that the family has enough food and prevent the space warehouse from storing too much food and worrying about it spoiling.
Because of the hot weather, the family hasn't gone out much since Xu Lai sold the food she had stored in her space.
At most, after a busy day at his workplace, Old Master Xu would bring a bunch of lettuce or a few cucumbers to visit his old boss, Old Master Xiao, next door.
Li Qingya and Old Master Xiao of the Xiao family also planted the sweet potato vines that Xu Lai had given them before.
Originally, the Xiao family didn't have enough flowerpots, so Li Qingya managed to gather seven or eight large plastic storage boxes from the house, then went to the pond outside to get a lot of soil and planted the sweet potato vines.
In addition, several boxes of potatoes were planted.
For the past two weeks, they have taken good care of the sweet potato vines, and they have not only survived but also grown much larger.
Even several boxes of potatoes sprouted, and the sprouted potato seedlings grew as long as chopsticks.
After visiting neighbors each day, Grandpa Xu would return home and tell Xu Lai and the others about the potatoes and sweet potatoes the Xiao family had grown.
Once, when Xu Lai was delivering something, she made a special trip to the Xiao family to take a look.
Their once spacious, clean, and elegantly decorated house is now filled with either flowerpots planted with sweet potatoes or storage boxes planted with potatoes along the walls.
Xu Lai even saw Li Qingya cutting old jeans into wide pockets on the balcony, filling them with soil, and planting easy-to-grow vegetables such as garlic and chives.
"Qingya, you guys are really something!"
Xu Lai held a handful of sweet potato vines that Li Qingya had insisted on giving her, and with her other hand, she couldn't help but give a thumbs-up to Li Qingya and Grandpa Xiao.
For Xu Lai, who has over a year of experience growing crops in a space, growing so many crops at home is by no means easy.
When the temperature is not so hot in the morning or evening, all the crops need to be moved into the sun to bask in the sun.
When the midday heat comes, these crops have to be moved to a shady place.
In addition, it needs to be watered daily and fertilized regularly.
Hearing Xu Lai's praise, Li Qingya could only smile and say, "It's for survival, there's no other way!"
The Lu family, who lived in apartment 904 of unit 2 in the same building, also followed the Xiao family's example and planted the sweet potato vines and potatoes that Xu Lai had previously sent over.
These sweet potato vines are growing vigorously now, and the leaves are extremely nutritious. Before the natural disaster, they were known as the "Queen of Vegetables".
Sweet potato leaves and stems have now become an indispensable vegetable on the tables of these two families.
Mr. Lu and his wife, who come from the countryside, have even found ways to turn sweet potato leaves into various dishes.
For example, stir-fry sweet potato leaves, make cold sweet potato leaf salad, mix sweet potato leaves with flour and steam them, and even use sweet potato leaves with two eggs as filling, or use mixed grain flour to make fillings for pancakes or dumplings.
They delivered the finished product to the Xu family several times, and Xu Lai found it to be quite delicious.
Despite the hot weather, life is proceeding in an orderly manner thanks to the control measures implemented by the government and the military.
Unexpectedly, just a few days into the second month of this heatwave, the temperature suddenly rose several degrees again.
"It's a bit hot!"
Xu Lai, who was half asleep on the floor of the air-conditioned room, muttered a few words, then turned over and lay back down.
Unable to sleep due to his advanced age, Mr. Xu got out of bed, quietly opened the door to the air-conditioned room, and prepared to go for a walk in the living room.
I didn't expect the weather to be so abnormally hot as soon as I went outside.
"Something's not right!"
Grandpa Xu remembered what his eldest granddaughter had said before: two months after the heatwave, the temperature would rise again, and the entire city of C would be shrouded in extreme heat.
So he quickly pushed open the door to the air-conditioned room, turned on the light, and immediately woke everyone up.
"Get up, get up! The weather is getting warmer again!"
As soon as Old Master Xu's urgent voice rang out, Xu Haiguo and Xu Chao, who were lying on the bed, as well as Xu Lai and Song Qiu'e, who were on the floor, all sat up abruptly.
"The temperature has risen again, and the living room is much warmer than before!"
Grandpa Xu wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve and said in a somewhat flustered voice.
Although the eldest granddaughter has a spatial dimension, she can't enter it once it gets dark outside.
Furthermore, what about the people who have no space?
"The temperature is rising?"
Xu Lai's mind went blank for a few seconds before she recalled the extreme heat she had experienced in her previous life.
So, without even putting on slippers, I immediately left the air-conditioned room, looked at the thermometer in the living room, and checked the temperature displayed on it by the light from the air-conditioned room.
"Fifty-six degrees, the temperature has indeed risen considerably!"
Xu Lai turned around and handed the thermometer to Xu Haiguo, who had already come out of the air-conditioned room.
It's 6 a.m. now. A few days ago, the temperature was only 50 degrees Celsius.
The temperature rose by six degrees in an instant.
Seeing her family members constantly wiping the sweat from their foreheads in the living room, Xu Lai quickly ushered them into the air-conditioned room.
"Lai Lai, do you remember what the highest temperature was at this time in your previous life?"
The temperature suddenly became so high in just two months, which Xu Haiguo found very strange.
Is this Earth truly facing its end, and humanity's time to perish?
"The temperature will reach 60 degrees Celsius by noon today, I remember it very clearly!"
Moreover, in her previous life, until she and her brother died, the highest temperature of each day was always sixty degrees Celsius.
Xu Haiguo and the others' faces darkened upon hearing Xu Lai's words.
"With such high temperatures, how unbearable must it be for people!"
Hearing her daughter's words, Song Qiu'e couldn't help but sigh, her voice trembling slightly.
Overnight, the temperature rose to sixty degrees Celsius.
What does a temperature of 60 degrees Celsius mean?
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