Chapter 19: Space Upgrade

"The plastic film is coming! Cover it quickly!"

Shen Ruoqing immediately bought several high-quality plastic films from the space, and together with everyone, used stones to press down the rice to cover it up.

Fortunately, the rescue was timely. Almost as soon as all the rice was covered with stones and straw, the rain started dripping down.

"Fortunately, it was done in time, otherwise the rice would be soaked and we wouldn't be able to pay taxes."

Everyone was soaked by the rain, but they looked more relaxed than ever before.

After returning home, Mrs. Du went to boil some water.

"It's good to have rain. It has been a while since it rained. The water in the river has dried up."

"Mom, let's dig a well in the yard."

Shen Ruoqing wiped away the rain and suddenly said to Old Mrs. Ji.

"Why dig a well for no reason?"

"Mom, the water level in the wells in the village is getting deeper and deeper, and the wells are far away from us. Although it rained today, I always feel that the drought will continue. Let's dig a well just in case. Besides, it will be more convenient to get water after digging a well."

"No way? The well in the village is not far away. Besides, sister-in-law, do you know how much it costs to dig a well?" The speaker was Wang.

"I don't know." Shen Ruoqing really didn't know how much it would cost to dig a well.

"Ruoqing, digging a well is not a trivial matter. Not only is it costly and laborious, but there is no guarantee that water will be produced. Mazi from the next village hired someone to dig a well in his yard, but not only did they waste money, but they only produced a little mud." Han said.

"Besides, the price of digging a well has gone up. In the past, it only cost 40 yuan to dig a well, but now it costs at least 50 or 60 yuan." Shen Xiangdong said.

Only fifty or sixty yuan to dig a well? It was much cheaper than she thought.

In fact, for the 1960s, fifty or sixty yuan was not a small amount. Now every family is poor, and marrying a wife only costs five or ten yuan, so fifty or sixty yuan is really not a small amount of money.

"He's almost fifty or sixty? Does our family have that much money?" Wang asked.

"This is still considered cheap. If you want to dig a deep well, you will probably have to pay more. But I'm afraid that even if I pay for the well, I won't get any water. That would be a big loss."

Old Lady Ji said, "Okay, let's talk about digging a well after the double robbery. It's not your place to ask how much money the family has!"

No one dared to offend Mrs. Ji's dignity.

Shen Ruoqing didn't have any worries about not being able to get water. She had the detection function of the system mall, and she could tell where there was water by just detecting it. She wasn't worried about not being able to get water. The only problem was how to persuade Old Lady Ji to dig a well.

But now is not the time to bring up this matter. Let’s wait until the double grab is over.

For more than 20 days, the production team completed the picking and drying of the fruits, as well as the transplanting of rice seedlings for the next season.

Fortunately, the brigade had already had an idea and planted more sweet potatoes this year. Sweet potatoes have a high yield and can provide support at critical times. However, sweet potatoes cannot be used as public grain, and increasing the area of ​​sweet potato cultivation will inevitably squeeze out the stock of staple food.

The brigade deducted the public grain, seeds and feed, and on average each member had only a little over 100 kilograms.

Although it is not much, it is a relatively good harvest in the whole country. The situation in other regions is even more serious. After all, the land is so poor that it is unbelievable. In some places in Guanli, the yield per mu is only a few dozen kilograms. You can imagine how low the total grain output is at this time, and the rations that farmers can get are even less pitiful.

The Shen family was allocated more than 2,000 kilograms of staple food and nearly 4,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes. Although they were staple food, they were mostly sorghum and corn. Most of the rice was paid as public grain. Generally, the small amount of rice was used to exchange for money or coarse grains in previous years.

Shen Ruoqing went to the black market again. This time, she spent 500 yuan to buy a human skin mask and 100 yuan to buy a voice-changing pill. She went straight to Brother Biao and traded another 10,000 kilograms of grain.

Originally Shen Ruoqing thought that since the new grain had arrived, the price of grain should have dropped, but unexpectedly the price of grain rose instead.

It turned out that because the public grain tax was too high, the farmers had no surplus grain. The grain they had was not enough for themselves, so how could they bear to sell it? With fewer people selling grain, the price of grain naturally rose again.

However, if Shen Ruoqing sells 10,000 kilograms of grain, the black market grain price will definitely drop a lot.

Brother Biao was not afraid of Shen Ruoqing's high grain output, as he also had connections in the provincial capital. Shen Ruoqing's grain was good, and everyone who had eaten it praised it highly. With this amount, Shen Ruoqing made another 20,000 yuan.

Twenty thousand yuan can be used to upgrade the space.

After the upgrade, the space is five times larger, and there are arable fields. The fields in the space can speed up the growth of crops, but now they can only grow at twice the speed. If you continue to upgrade in the future, you can continue to speed up the growth.

Next to the fields, there is a spring that can be used to irrigate the land. Although it is not spiritual spring water, it is inexhaustible. The next space upgrade will cost 40,000 yuan, and it can be upgraded to first-level spiritual spring water by then.

After the space was upgraded, Shen Ruoqing immediately bought a lot of seeds and planted them. Half of them were crops, and the other half were medicinal seeds. She also bought ginseng seeds, but she didn't know if they would survive.

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One good thing about this space is that you can plant the seeds with your mind, but this consumes a lot of mental energy. It took her three days to plant all the seeds.

With the space, she had something to rely on. Shen Ruoqing wanted to go to the depths of the mountains that she had longed to visit. If anything went wrong, she could hide in the space. There must be good things in the depths of the mountains.

Shen Ruoqing carried a bamboo basket and headed deep into the mountains.

The name of this mountain is Daqing Mountain. During the difficult times, it saved countless villagers. However, it is said that there are tigers in the depths of Daqing Mountain, so everyone is active outside Daqing Mountain. For example, before Shen Ruoqing had space, he only picked some medicinal herbs and wild vegetables at the foot of the mountain and never went deep into it.

Shen Ruoqing turned on the detection function.

This time she specifically chose to detect precious medicinal materials.

"Ding - I found Fritillaria cirrhosa."

"Drip - I found blood."

Not long after we went deeper, the detection function responded.

Shen Ruoqing was very happy and put all these precious medicinal herbs into his own space! "Ding - Found ginseng."

Wow, there really is ginseng in Daqingshan!

Shen Ruoqing quickly ran to the ginseng and carefully identified it. It was really hard to find this ginseng among the weeds without careful observation. If it weren't for the detection function, she really couldn't find this ginseng.

Very good, transplanted to space!

(End of this chapter)