Chapter 7 7. Pine cones of Chinese pine trees
The next day, Huaiyu got up again following the broadcast.
The sun had just come out, the morning light sprinkled on the ground, and penetrated through the frame she had set up yesterday, casting a long slanted shadow.
The wisterias are very obedient. There are only a few leaves on the bare branches. The only eye-catching thing is a bunch of wisteria flowers swaying in the wind at the door.
Huaiyu gulped down the nutrient solution in his mouth, his face expressionless. After all, he had been eating this for three consecutive days, and the taste went from being okay to a bit unpalatable, and now, it was quite unpalatable.
This stuff takes a month to eat...
etc!
She suddenly knelt down on the ground skillfully, and then crawled back to the tunnel, drinking the nutrient solution while counting -
"One pack, two packs, three packs..."
There are 26 packs left.
When it was distributed, it was said to be a month's supply... But I drank one pack the day before yesterday, and two packs yesterday! I felt hungry again early this morning, could it be...
Only enough for half a month, right? The sunlight shone into the tunnel through the holes in the foundation bricks, and the faint light spots were reflected on the red sleeping bag. The soybeans huddled there silently. Obviously, with her current ability, even if she induced them to grow, she would not be able to produce many beans.
You don’t even need to do the math to know that at most it would weigh no more than 40 kilograms.
And now, let alone planting, her house is not even finished yet !
The bag of nutrient solution in her mouth was sucked dry and fell to the ground, and her mood also fell to the ground.
Because of this understanding, Huaiyu puffed out his cheeks when he went to District 22 to pick branches - District 1 of Rose Mansion, with a total area of 600 acres and a total of 37 districts.
Area 22 is a small hill that was cleared very thoroughly by the alien plant defense army, leaving only a few sparsely grown tree stumps.
Huaiyu came here to break off a thinner branch to use for the roof of the house later.
Standing on the hill and looking far away, the nearest defense army station is quite far away from here. If we calculate it according to the division of the Rose Corridor, it may not be beyond the 60th district.
In fact, she was unlucky that night. The place where the abnormal movement occurred in the Rose Corridor was not far from the intersection of Area 37 and Area 38. Therefore, the mutation value detector there was particularly close.
District 38 is the allocated area of District 2 of Rose Mansion.
But now Huaiyu knew nothing and was in no mood to care about these things. She just wanted to build the house quickly before the leaves fell completely.
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Once the main frame is built, the rest is just a bunch of chores.
For example, what Huai Yu has to do now is to use the thin and pointed long wooden thorn in his hand to pick up the stem of the tung leaf picked yesterday at an angle to make a [Y]-shaped fork.
Then fix the fork on the frame of the house - although it seems a bit tight because the leaves are not big enough, after fixing the leaves one by one, tie them with thinner vines. Stack a few more layers and it will be solid and airtight.
The only problem is that tung tree leaves are not very waterproof, but there are no other alternatives around.
After all, the Flower City has distinct four seasons and it often snows in winter. In such an environment, the leaves of the plants will not be too wide to avoid freezing.
The job was not difficult, but it was indeed tedious. Fortunately, she had nothing else to do now, so she could be patient and build the house solidly step by step.
However, after using up half of the leaves, I still feel that it would not be safe if it rains heavily.
But it doesn't matter, she is so smart that she thought of an alternative yesterday -
I should have thought about it. Even if I didn't, it's not too late to think about it now! While struggling, Huaiyu remembered the red sleeping bag in the tunnel, and at this moment, an idea flashed! She rummaged through the pile of leaves and gathered out the twelve pine cones of the Chinese pine tree that she had obtained yesterday.
It takes more than ten to twenty years for the Chinese pine to bear pine cones, but the big pine tree that Huaiyu encountered reached into the sky and it was unknown how old it was.
The pine cones she gave were naturally exceptionally large.
The diameter is nearly 10 centimeters and the length is 20 centimeters. Huaiyu looked at it with envy and didn't dare to imagine how well the little squirrels eat.
However, she had to find someone to exchange these for other things, so she finally picked out a slightly smaller one, then broke off the seed scales one by one and took out the pine nuts inside.
Count them, a big pine cone actually has more than 100 pine nuts! So rich!
Big pine tree, so good! The only problem is, I don’t know if it’s because of the species or because it has been on the tree for too long, exposed to the wind, sun and rain, the pine nuts are not as fragrant as the red pine, and they don’t even have the faint fragrance that is unique to the Chinese pine.
It's a bit astringent.
Huaiyu ate two pills without much interest, and now he could only sigh once more -
"How did I know so much before? I even knew several varieties of pine nuts... I'm so rich!"
But now she didn't even have a place to live. The gap was too big. It was indeed the world that had let her down! She snorted twice. After all, her life was more important now. The big bed and the male servant were far away.
Although it is not as delicious as I remember, it is still pine nuts. Just look at the fact that the minimum allowance for one person is only one pound of soybeans, and you can tell that they are somewhat precious.
Huaiyu picked up thin rattan sticks and tied them up one by one. Soon he had a long string of eleven large pine cones.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
If she was going to exchange it with someone, it would not be nice to just drag it on the ground, so after thinking it over, she decided to sling it over her shoulder.
Big waterproof roof, here I come!
She walked away happily.
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And far away in Area 69 is the alien plant defense army base.
Because it is adjacent to the Rose Corridor, and the Rose Corridor has been diligently guarding this wilderness defense line for Huacheng since its appearance, so although there are defense troops stationed here, people are rarely seen here at ordinary times.
But now, the guard at the door looked into the distance and saw a girl walking slowly towards him with something strange tied to her body...
guard:……
He picked up the intercom to report, and when someone finally showed up interested and came to the door to take a look, the girl in the distance had already walked to the door.
It was not until then that the guards saw clearly that what she was carrying on her shoulders was a large bunch of pine cones.
The defense troops who came out to check the situation were also stunned:
"Little girl, is that you?"
Huaiyu was so tired from walking that he waved his hands and could not speak a word. He could only breathe heavily and awkwardly.
After all, the pine cones on his body are really big. Each one weighs almost one kilogram. With 11 pine cones, it weighs at least 10 kilograms.
And walking from Area 37 to Area 69 is at least 3 kilometers...it really made her very tired.
When she finally caught her breath, she looked at the familiar defenders who were frowning and staring at her, and she hesitated:
"That night, a brother said that their captain asked him to bring me a sleeping bag... Was it you?"
After thinking for a while, she added, "Captain brother."
Good night.
(End of this chapter)