When Qiao An'an looked at the fishpond from the outside, she felt that although the water was a bit green, it was still very clean. For a while, Qiao An'an even suspected that the fish only ate and did not defecate. Now that she went down into the fishpond herself, she found that it was not that the fish only ate and did not defecate, but that the fish droppings were all sunk in the sand and could not be seen from the surface of the water.
Once inside... grabbing one hand at a time!
After stuffing about ten lotus seeds into the sand, Qiao An'an ran to the well to wash her arms and legs.
After washing herself clean, Qiao An'an started digging in the ground again.
She thought that since lotus seeds could be planted, other grains should also be able to be planted. There were also a lot of corn and soybeans in that bowl of grains. She didn't know if the other seeds could be planted, but the germination rate of corn and soybeans should be very high, and the planting cycle of corn and soybeans is not very long. If they were planted now, they could still harvest a batch before winter came.
She dug up a plot of land about the size of a potato plantation.
The corn and soybeans that had just been washed were planted together.
She learned about intercropping corn and soybeans while reading a planting manual these past few days. Corn and soybeans are the most ideal crop rotation "partners," and proper crop rotation and mutual crop replacement can promote mutual yield increases.
The principle is that rhizobia can form root nodules in symbiosis with legumes and reduce atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia to provide nutrients for the plants. Studies have shown that rhizobia inoculants can significantly reduce the amount of chemical fertilizers used, improve the quality of agricultural products, and enable agricultural products to meet the requirements of AA-grade green food; effectively increase crop yields; have no adverse side effects and do not cause heavy metal pollution; the application cost is only one-tenth of that of chemical fertilizers. Rhizobia agents also improve soil fertility. Rotating the planting of corn and soybeans in a field can reduce fertilizer use without reducing yield.
The summer sun is very strong, and the ground that was rained on has almost dried up after an afternoon of evaporation.
After planting the corn and soybeans, she carefully watered the ground.
Make sure every seed gets water.
After finishing all this, Qiao An'an was about to return to the supplies when she heard sparse noises coming from inside the gate.
What was that sound?
Could it be that the sound of her hoeing was too loud and attracted the zombies?
But the door is fine.
How did the zombies get in?
Qiao An'an cautiously picked up the hoe she used for digging and carefully walked towards the direction of the sound. Just as she was about to strike with the hoe, she discovered that the sparse sound was coming from a completely black Chinese rural dog.
The reason it appears inside the door is...
It was because a hole had been dug in the soil under Qiao An'an's front door.
The culprit was this black Chinese rural dog. It must have suffered a lot to dig this hole, because Qiao An'an saw faint traces of blood on the dog's paws.
The reason the black Chinese rural dog dug its way in was because it smelled chicken bones.
At this moment, it was happily devouring the chicken bones that Qiao An'an had buried at the base of the courtyard wall.
Upon seeing Qiao An'an, it took a step back in fear.
Qiao An'an saw that the black country dog's fur was very dirty, and the big dog, which was more than a meter long, was so thin that it was just a skeleton.
Zombies will attack any living creature.
She felt sorry for the big dog, thinking that it hadn't eaten for so long and had to avoid zombie attacks. Instead of chasing it away, she watched it quietly finish its meal.
After the black country dog finished eating the chicken bones that Qiao An'an had buried, Qiao An'an pointed to the hole it had dug and said, "You've finished eating, let's go."
The black country dog seemed to understand that Qiao An'an wouldn't take it in. It looked up at Qiao An'an with its tear-filled eyes, making low whimpering sounds. It looked incredibly pitiful.
Qiao An'an used to own dogs and was considered a dog lover, but now it's the apocalypse, and she can't even feed herself, so how can she afford to raise a big dog?
Although it was hard for her, Qiao An'an shook her head: "We don't have enough food either, I can't feed you, you should leave!"
Seeing this, the black country dog crawled out of the hole it had just dug.
Qiao An'an filled the soil that the black country dog had dug out back in before returning to the kitchen. The remaining grains were millet, barley, and glutinous rice. These seemed to be polished rice varieties that couldn't be grown, but there was less than half a bowl of them left. Qiao An'an threw them directly into the chicken coop.
While cooking rice, Qiao An'an put the chicken pieces she had saved from lunch on the steamer, intending to heat them up for Ya Ya to eat.
As for herself, rice with Lao Gan Ma chili sauce is also very delicious.
While Qiao An'an was cooking, Ya Ya had already woken up. Because it had rained all morning, the solar panels didn't have much electricity stored up, so Qiao An'an didn't plan to use the rice cooker and instead planned to cook with firewood.
When Ya Ya heard that she needed to start a fire to cook, she immediately rushed to the stove and said she wanted to start the fire.
Qiao An'an said that it's hot in the summer, and lighting a fire would make it even hotter and more uncomfortable: "Let Mom light it, it will make Mom feel bad if Ya Ya gets too hot."
But the children had a very strong interest in fire, and Ya Ya firmly disagreed: "Ya Ya is not afraid of heat, Ya Ya can burn."
Qiao An'an had no choice but to light the fire and then have Ya Ya sit on her lap to help with the fire.
Rice cooked over a wood fire is much more fragrant than rice cooked in an electric rice cooker.
There are also big rice crusts that can't be cooked in a rice cooker.
Qiao An'an remembered the rice balls made with rice crusts that her mother used to make for her when she was little, so she made one for Ya Ya as well. Ya Ya loved it and ate it with great relish, taking a bite of chicken and then a bite of rice crust.
As the two were eating, a few scattered sounds came from the doorway again.
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