Chapter 1907: Spring Planting

Building a fortress is to have a shelter that stands firm against wind and rain; farming is to have high-quality food.

The fortress can be built a few days late, but the fields must be planted as soon as possible, because missing the farming season will lead to reduced harvests or even total crop failure.

After finishing the delicious extra meal brought back from Territory No. 7, Xia Qing let Yang Yang Laoda take Guapi out to catch insects to feed the fish, while she took the three monkeys to plant substitute grain vegetables.

Planting substitute grain vegetables was a task assigned by the base and had to be completed on schedule.

The base not only assigned the task but also provided point subsidies. The large farming territories in the Northern First District—Territory No. 1 and Territory No. 12—decided to plant several hundred mu of substitute grain vegetables, while other territories planned to plant more than ten mu.

There were only 2 greenhouses and 17 hard bamboo-wood greenhouses in Territory No. 3, with a total planting area of 18.6 mu, so Xia Qing's planting area for substitute grain vegetables was the second smallest among the territories in the Northern First District.

The territory with the smallest planting area for substitute grain vegetables was Territory No. 23.

Four hours after the rain of death ended, Territory No. 18 and Territory No. 20, which had detected high-level evolutionary Aspergillus, were released from lockdown; Territory No. 23, where high-level evolutionary rabies virus had been discovered, remained in lockdown. Tomorrow, March 3rd, Zhang San would send people to Territory No. 23 for a thorough inspection to confirm there was no such high-level evolutionary virus in the territory before it could be unsealed.

After Territory No. 23 was unsealed, the employees who survived in the territory would be escorted by the patrol team to the Northern Third District, and then take the helicopter delivering rice seedlings to the Northern Third District to return to the safe zone.

On February 14th, Blue Blood spies released high-level rabies virus in Territory No. 23, leading to the rapid death of 22 people, including territory lord Xu Xu Cunchao. 15 people in the territory were quarantined, and Tang Huai and his two bodyguards outside the territory were quarantined.

During the quarantine period, 3 people in Territory No. 23 developed viral infection symptoms and died, and 3 died from losing control and going berserk during the rain of death. Therefore, there were only 9 survivors left in Territory No. 23.

When Tan Tan Junjie asked where they would go after the quarantine ended, these 9 people, who had been scared out of their wits, all requested to return to the safe zone as soon as possible. In fact, even if they wanted to stay, they couldn't, because no territory lord was willing to risk hiring them.

According to the "Territory Law," these 9 survivors and the families of the deceased could receive a certain amount of point compensation.

This compensation was paid using the remaining supplies in Territory No. 23.

The 32 wooden-structured greenhouses and greenhouses in Territory No. 23 had all been destroyed by hail and strong winds, and the furniture and farm tools in the territory were not worth many points. The personal savings of Territory No. 23 lord Xu Xu Cunchao were also insufficient to pay the compensation, but there were high-value agricultural crops in Territory No. 23—green-light strawberry seedlings.

Xu Xu Cunchao was also a territory lord; there were 10 planting boxes on the earthen bed in his room, in which more than 600 strawberry seedlings were growing.

After Xu Xu Cunchao died, Xia Qing entrusted the disaster-relief personnel guarding Territory No. 23 to take good care of these strawberry seedlings and used Yi-stones during the rain of death to ensure the strawberry seedlings were not eroded by excessive death-elements.

After being unsealed tomorrow, these strawberry seedlings would be moved to Territory No. 6 and sold by Kuang Kuang Qingwei. The points obtained from the sale would first be used to pay the employees' compensation, then Xia Qing's 20% commission and Yi-stone costs, and the remaining points would belong to the Hui Third Base officialdom.

Tomorrow was the fourth day after the rain of death, and the new territory lord Shi Shi Youning had not applied to the Territory Management Department to extend the termination deadline for substitute grain vegetables.

After officially announcing her identity as a territory lord in the territory channel, Shi Shi Youning hired personnel from Territory No. 17 to repair the two greenhouses in the territory that were best preserved, then irrigated the farmland and planted substitute grain vegetables.

How did Shi Shi Youning know which greenhouse in Territory No. 23 was well preserved?

Because on the first day after the rain of death, Wu Wu Wencan had used a drone to obtain high-definition images of Territory No. 23 and generated a three-dimensional map. Then the six members of the Wu family finalized the territory construction plan in the hospital room in Territory No. 7.

Once Wu Wu Chengyu was discharged and Territory No. 23 was vacated, they would bring their fortress into their own territory and begin territory construction.

How would Wu Wu Chengyu, a top-tier national expert in precision instrument research, farm after becoming a territory lord? Build standardized greenhouses and send robots to farm!

Who said this? Of course, it was Territory No. 12 lord Tang Huai, who was in quarantine and bored to death.

Where did he say it? In the mobile phone chat group he built.

Xia Qing was not in the gossip chat group, so she didn't know about this. She put down the shovel for shoveling soil, pressed the walkie-talkie button, and answered the allies' questions, "I'm planting four and a half mu, all green-light quality."

The wooden-structured greenhouses built by the territory lords each had a planting area of 1 mu, so four and a half mu meant 4.5 greenhouses.

She was going to plant two greenhouses of Lanmu-13, which was evolutionary bitter lettuce. This was high-quality grass seed brought by Wu Wu Chengyu from the Lan First Base, which was not publicly sold. According to Xia Qing's understanding, this grass had very high stability and yield.

Besides Lanmu-13, Xia Qing was also going to plant half a greenhouse of alfalfa, one greenhouse of cherry radishes, and a pasture greenhouse exclusively for Yang Yang Laoda.

In the pasture greenhouse exclusive to Boss, she would plant ryegrass, flat-spike evolutionary wheatgrass, barley grass, and white-haired chicken-shit vine.

The green-light ryegrass seeds were brought back to Xia Qing by Zhang Song when he went to the Red First Base safe zone for a meeting last winter. Because the quantity was small, they wouldn't fill a greenhouse. The other two types of green-light grass were varieties that Yang Yang Laoda loved, which Xia Qing had selected from the green-light grass in the local evolutionary forest. The white-haired chicken-shit vine was discovered in Territory No. 3 and was also a high-quality green-light plant that Yang Yang Laoda loved.

In addition to these 4.5 mu of substitute grain vegetables protected by insect-proof nets and rainproof cloth, Xia Qing was also going to plant more than ten mu of pasture in the open air, with varieties including all the aforementioned pasture varieties, with a quality ratio of 60% green-light and 40% yellow-light.

Planting pasture in the open air was not only to provide sufficient feed for Yang Yang Laoda, the little yellow ox, the chicken flock, and Guapi, but also to cultivate high-quality grass seeds and reduce the growth density and space of death-grass during the rain of death.

Besides this, Xia Qing would also cut a portion of the Lanmu-13 and green-light alfalfa she planted to serve as feed for Yang Yang Laoda, the little yellow ox, and the chicken flock.

The last mu of cherry radishes was planted by Xia Qing specifically for the Xiong Wang, who had a bottomless stomach, and the gluttonous little bear. To satisfy these two, she had to bring three or four hundred jin of food every time she went to the Xiong Qun territory.

She had to raise fish, plant grass, and catch snakes in the Xiong Qun territory this year, which required entering the Xiong Qun multiple times, and the demand for food was huge.

The lettuce, white radishes, and carrots that the Xiong Wang liked to eat?

Now was not the season for planting white radishes and carrots, and the stability of lettuce and carrots was too poor; they could only be planted in standardized greenhouses that isolated death-elements.

There were no standardized greenhouses in Xia Qing's territory, and planting death-susceptible plants required using Yi-stones to isolate death-elements for the plants, which was too costly and not cost-effective. ===== CHAPTER 1908 =====

There are no standardized greenhouses within Xia Qing's territory; using Use Yishi to isolate death-elements for plants susceptible to death-infection is too costly and not worth it.