Chapter 161 Timely Rain
Everyone looked at Jiang Si, wondering what she was doing. "Si Si, what are you doing?"
Jiang Si pointed to where the seawater was dripping and said, "Look carefully."
When Shen Baoying looked carefully, she found that these small fleshy worms were actually crawling around the place where the sea water was dripping.
Everyone's eyes lit up, "Could it be that this kind of insect is afraid of sea water?"
Jiang Si nodded, "Maybe, let's try again."
Qin Shen took out some ice cubes from the fish box, put them in the pot to melt, and poured sea water on the insects. It was more effective than insecticide, and the insects became unable to move instantly.
Everyone's eyes widened. These insects seemed to be really afraid of salt water. If you think about it carefully, they go on and off the icebreaker every day. No matter how careful they are, they may bring insects on board. However, these insects have never appeared on the seashore.
Everyone suddenly became excited. If they had discovered earlier that sea water could control these insects, their greenhouses and houses would be safe.
Although it is too late now, at least it has been discovered. They have plenty of time now and can just rebuild it slowly.
Jiang Si stared at the corpse of the little fleshworm and said, "Let's see if we can kill the eggs. If we can, we'll get some and water it at the entrance of the seed bank."
The seed bank is full of plants and stored supplies. If it is occupied by insects, the loss will be huge, and Jiang Si will be heartbroken. If those seeds can wait until the extreme cold disappears, perhaps it will be the time for the farming era to revive.
Everyone hurried to the beach to draw a box of sea water and got two large boxes of small worms for observation.
At daybreak, everyone rushed to check the situation.
Jiang Si and Qin Shen have arrived.
According to the previous hatching rate, the small worms should have hatched, but after being filled with sea water, these small worms became completely silent.
Jiang Si said to everyone, "Make sure seawater is effective on them."
Zhang Qingfang sighed deeply. "Seawater is effective against insects, but it's corrosive to the soil. We can't grow vegetables or crops anymore."
Jiang Si consoled her, "Grandma, we still have the greenhouse on the ship. It's okay to plant less. Anyway, we initially wanted to plant more vegetables and radishes just to feed the monkeys. Now the monkeys can eat insects just as well as fish. If we really want to plant more, we can slowly study the seeds in the seed bank to see which vegetable and grain seeds can adapt to the salty soil. Alternatively, we can wash the soil several times with hot spring water, or isolate a safe space to hydroponically grow vegetables."
Zhang Qingfang smiled and said, "That's fine."
Everyone became busy again, pumping sea water and spraying everything around.
Although the seawater has melted, the temperature still remains around 20 to 30 degrees below zero. The pumped-up seawater can easily freeze, and once the pump stops working, it will stop.
Everyone sprayed seawater at the entrance of the seed bank, three layers inside and three layers outside, and the accumulation turned into a saltwater iceberg.
Jiang Linhai asked, "Are we not going to go in from now on?"
Jiang Sidao: "Don't go in for now, protect the seeds first."
Shen Baoying laughed and said, “Everyone only sees that there is an iceberg here, but they don’t know that there are so many treasures hidden under the iceberg.
Jiang Chengwu looked in the direction of Zhang Aihua and the others and asked, "Should we go and tell them?"
Everyone was on guard from the beginning, but after observing them for a few days, they were not so cold and hard towards Zhang Aihua and the others.
After all, they are all human beings. Now is a peaceful time. There is no threat to them. They have received equal compulsory education and we cannot treat them as slaves.
Jiang Si nodded, "Yes, I can tell you."
Shen Baoying rambled on, "They're just unlucky. They were eaten by insects right after they were planted. I don't know if they can survive without food for a long time."
Jiang Si smiled and said, "The Inuit survive in extremely cold weather, without vegetables for years. They rely mainly on fish to supplement high-quality protein and survive. It's just that they are used to the nutritional balance of vegetables, fruits, meat, poultry and eggs. If they eat fish for a long time, they will feel bored. But don't worry, humans are highly adaptable animals. They will definitely find the point where they can balance and adapt."
Everyone nodded, and Jiang Chengwu cast his gaze towards the sea. "The seaweed, kelp, and jellyfish on the seabed can also be eaten as vegetables. I wonder if they are still alive."
Niuniu smiled and said, "Grandpa, there must be some. We can catch fish, and fish eat kelp, seaweed, and seaweed, so there must be some!"
Everyone laughed and said, "Then we'll just have to fish hard in the ocean from now on."
When Jiang Si and Qin Shen went to find Zhang Aihua and the others, they were preparing to use tools to carve out some single rooms in the cave so that everyone could live together and have a private space.
Otherwise, Song Yufang would really feel that they were no different from savages.
The women, children and the elderly were processing the fish they had caught with the nets yesterday. There were so many fish now that one net would be enough to feed them for several days.
To avoid accidents, they will be taken out and buried in the snow.
In order to prevent the processed fish from spoiling due to the rising temperature, Song Yufang would lead everyone to use the old method to extract sea salt, pickle some sea fish that need to be pickled with salt, and dry them in the sun for preservation.
When they saw Jiang Si and Qin Shen coming over, everyone greeted them in a friendly manner even though they didn't know what they were doing there.
Zhang Aihua came forward, dressed like a stonemason, and he no longer had the refined look of an upper-class man in a suit and tie.
Jiang Si saw the stone bowl on the ground. Zhang Aihua picked it up and said flatteringly, "Miss Jiang, Mr. Qin, this is a stone bowl we made specifically for you. These little bugs are very powerful and can chew anything, but they can't chew this kind of stone. If you like it, we can make some more for you."
The surface of the stone bowl is very rough, but the shape is very delicate, and the rim of the cup is polished very smoothly, giving it a sense of ancient art.
They don't even have a few cold weapons that they can use, but I still thought of making some gifts for them, which is quite thoughtful.
Jiang Si nodded. "Thank you, the gift is beautiful." Then he said, "We found that sea water can prevent these insects from biting things. Perhaps you can use salt water to protect the rest of your things."
Zhang Aihua's eyes lit up immediately and she said excitedly, "Thank you, thank you so much!"
Although salt water can corrode the soil, it is better than having to worry about your clothes being eaten by insects when you even step on them.
Most of the vulture feathers they collected with great difficulty have now been lost.
What’s even more terrifying is that all the fallen wood on the ground has been eaten by insects.
The solution provided by Jiang Si was like timely relief.
Zhang Aihua wanted to take out something better for Jiang Si, but she couldn't come up with anything. She was embarrassed. Song Yufang said, "Miss Jiang, would Mr. Qin like to try the snake egg thousand-layer cake we made? It's quite fragrant."
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