Chapter 616

"Qing Jie." Yu Shou greeted Xia Qing first.

"Qing Jie."

Zhang Hongda, who was following Yue Haiying, greeted her, and then bowed respectfully to Xia Qing.

He couldn't speak his identity, couldn't salute, and could only express his gratitude by bowing.

Zhang Hongda's body skin was damaged in a large area due to poisoning. He did the bowing action very slowly. His voice was very low, and he was short of breath. It was estimated that after leaving the territory area, he would have to rely on Yu Shou to carry him.

Afraid of being monitored from afar, Xia Qing only nodded at him, handed the seeds to Yue Haiying, and instructed as a matter of routine, "Check the danger area carefully with binoculars every two hours. If you find any abnormalities, report them immediately. You must wear a protective suit when leaving the bear cave."

"Understood." Yue Haiying stuffed the seeds into his bag.

The hidden valley has unique conditions. The lords of the alliance not only raised rice seedlings and sweet potato seedlings inside, but each territory also left places to raise other green-light vegetable seedlings. The bag of vegetable seeds Xia Qing gave Yue Haiying was for him to help her plant in the valley to raise seedlings.

Once the seedlings safely survive the Qi rain period and are transplanted into the territory, their spring-sown vegetables can be listed ten days earlier than other territories and can be sold for a good price.

Not only these green-light vegetable seedlings, but after the base issues the high-Yi element green-light spinach seeds, the lords of the territory alliance will also plant some of the seeds in the valley.

Although there is no high-Yi element soil in the valley, there is Yi stone protection during Qi rain, which can ensure that the quality of spinach does not decline due to the influence of excessive Qi elements during the Qi rain period.

After watching the three walk away slowly, Xia Qing returned to the territory, ate two strawberries to clear her heart, and then carried a hoe and a large back basket to reclaim wasteland.

After the first Qi rain, Xia Qing wants to plant two mu of yellow-light rice, half a mu of green-light rice, one mu of green-light wheat, half a mu of green-light soybeans, half a mu of green-light corn, half a mu of green-light mung beans, half a mu of green-light cotton, and half a mu of yellow-light sunflowers in the cultivated land, totaling 6 mu.

Last year, Xia Qing reclaimed a total of 5 mu of cultivated land, 1.7 mu of hillside terraced fields, and 2 mu of greenhouses.

Although they grew sparsely, the 2 mu of yellow-light wheat and 1 mu of yellow-light rapeseed still occupied such a large place. Except for these two, Xia Qing's fields were also planted with 0.5 mu of green-light wheat, so only 1.5 mu of cultivated land was empty, and at least 4.5 mu of land needed to be reclaimed in these few days.

Planting crops in the years of disaster requires not only preventing evolved pests and diseases, but also preventing Qi rain, so greenhouses must be built and covered with insect-proof nets and rainproof cloth.

The simple greenhouses built in the territory are one mu of land each. In order to be neat and uniform, Xia Qing decided to reclaim five mu of land.

Reclaiming five mu of land is easy for Xia Qing, a strength-evolved lord who owns a strength-evolved sheep.

But building five greenhouses requires completing multiple processes such as digging pits, setting up arched brackets, tying crossbars, and covering with insect-proof nets and rainproof cloth. For Xia Qing, who has only one person and two hands in the territory, it takes several days.

However, Xia Qing is not in a hurry.

In these few days, she has to calm the emotions influenced by the gas volatilized by the big toon tree, collect Yi synthetic element gas, and take care of Sheep Boss, just in time to reclaim the wasteland, plow the land, and build the greenhouses.

Xia Qing likes to do farm work because it gives her a sense of accomplishment. Every piece of wasteland reclaimed will be sown with seeds of hope and grow food.

This morning, Xia Qing's task is to clear the weeds and stones in the area selected for wasteland reclamation, level the land, and divide the plots by the way. In the afternoon, she can put on Sheep Boss and plow the land once.

Xia Qing has always been diligent and serious about farming. When she has time, she clears the weeds and stones in the uncultivated land and levels the land. Now she just needs to clear the weeds that were not cleared last autumn and were covered by snow, and pick up small stones by the way.

The temperature is fifteen degrees now, neither cold nor hot. The natural symphony composed of the sound of rushing water, melodious bird calls, and clucking chicken calls makes her mood pleasant and full of energy.

Xia Qing worked alone for less than an hour before the sick wolf came over to help. The sick wolf can also do general farm work in the territory. It will use its mouth to pull weeds, use its paws to dig tree seedlings, and also pick up stones.

After one person and one wolf worked for a while, Sheep Boss, who had eaten and drunk enough in the greenhouse, also came over. It lay under the tree, squinting and chewing, watching its companions work.

Many birds flew over and landed on the cleared plots, searching for bugs brought out by tree roots and grass roots to eat.

Xia Qing simply released the chickens raised in the greenhouse and let them dig for bugs in the soil. Anyway, her territory has a wall, and the chickens can't run out of the territory.

Xia Qing now raises 18 chickens, of which 1 rooster and 10 hens are hers, and 7 are raised by Zhang San in her place. The chickens raised by Zhang San in Territory No. 3 won't live for two months before being taken back by Da Ya to be slaughtered. These seven were sent over last month.

The black-feathered rooster, which is black and shiny, is still the boss of this group of chickens. It walks in the front with its head held high, digging the soil and looking for bugs with its sharp black claws. If birds dare to come over to compete for food with the chicken flock, the black-feathered rooster will explode the hair on its neck and flap its wings to rush over to fight.

Xia Qing let the sick wolf stare at the surroundings to prevent the plucking weasel from coming over to steal chickens, while she paid attention to the sky at all times.

Half an hour later, an eagle circled high above Territory No. 3. When it began to circle and descend, preparing to dive to catch chickens, Xia Qing took out a slingshot and shot a steel ball.

"Screech—"

The startled eagle let out a crisp cry, spread its wings and flew upward desperately, fleeing this territory, and a few feathers flew with the wind and fell.

"Cluck cluck cluck—"

The black-feathered rooster let out a low and rapid cry, leading the chicken flock to hide in the uncleared weeds, and the birds were also scared and fled in all directions.

After confirming that the eagle had flown away, the chicken flock and birds landed on the area cleared by Xia Qing to look for bugs to eat.

Xia Qing put away the slingshot and continued to clear the weeds. Although the accuracy of her slingshot shooting was worse than using a gun, it was no problem to hit a target as big as an eagle.

However, eagles hunting for food is also for survival. After becoming friends with the bird keeper, Xia Qing became more tolerant of birds.

If a raptor comes to her territory to hunt the chickens she raises, Xia Qing first drives them away with a slingshot or stones. If the raptor doesn't know what's good for it, or has lost control due to Qi evolution, and still doesn't retreat after Xia Qing shows her strength, then it can only be eliminated.

Xia Qing became more tolerant of birds, but other predators of birds were not.

Not long after, the plucking weasel was attracted by the movement here and lay sneakily in the grass not far away.

Xia Qing didn't drive it away, because the sick wolf, which had already discovered the weasel, didn't show any indication, indicating that the target of the weasel's hunting wasn't the chickens she raised, but the birds digging for bugs.

Ten minutes later, the plucking weasel successfully caught two beautiful little birds.

A few minutes later, Xia Qing received a little bird with its feathers plucked, sent by the plucking weasel.