Wasteland Farming, Manual for Raising Human Cubs

Chapter 68 Building a greenhouse

Zhao Xiaoxiu broke the golden autumn pear in his shirt pocket and threw it into the pond. Peter Pan was so happy that he almost flew.

Oh no, it really flew.

This guy has mutated again. Not only has his size increased by one third, from an adult's arm length to 1.2 meters, his ability to float in water has also changed.

Previously, the suspended fish could only swim in the rain, but now it can float as long as it is above the water and within two meters from the water surface.

But it won't work if it leaves the water surface, it can only float in the air at the edge of the pond.

If it exceeds two meters from the pond, it will fall down and die immediately.

After eating a pear, Peter Pan floated up again to look for Zhao Xiaoxiu.

A father and his daughter, one big and one small, were pulling the raft up from the river bank. They didn't even take it apart, and were going to take it straight home.

Zhao Gang was pulling in the front, and Zhao Xiaoxiu was sitting on the raft at the back. Anyway, her extra few dozen pounds made no difference to Zhao Gang.

When passing by the pond, Zhao Xiaoxiu saw Peter Pan who wanted to get close to her but couldn't, and suddenly she had a bold idea.

If she dug a ditch between her front door and the pond, she could turn the raft into a surfboard, a tire, or a plastic basin. It didn't matter what it was, as long as she could sit on it and it was light.

Then let Peter Pan be the dad who pulls the raft, then wouldn't he be able to fly around the territory?

It would be best to dig ditches all over the territory, in all directions, so that you won’t have to walk around so tiringly anymore!
However, Zhao Xiaoxiu's excitement lasted less than three seconds. When she looked down at the slope from the front door to the pond, she instantly wilted.

In the entire Territory No. 13, the eastern side has the lowest terrain, which is why a natural pond was formed.

Water can only flow to low places, not to high places.

The ditch plan failed before it was even launched.

But on second thought, it would be nice to dig a shallow circular ditch near the pond so that I could play in the water with Peter Pan.

Zhao Xiaoxiu was happy again. Winter hadn't come yet, but she was already looking forward to how she would spend next summer.

The father and daughter managed to carry all five poplar trees back home safely after two trips.

The chopped branches and twigs, the thin ones are spread out to dry and then used for burning.

Zhao Gang first used the thicker branches to make two clothes drying racks.

One is placed on the open space at the doorstep, and the other is placed on the second-floor balcony, where I usually use to dry small items.

The rest is used to build greenhouses.

The area of ​​the waterproof cloth is limited, so the greenhouse cannot be built too large. Only a small greenhouse that is two meters wide and three and a half meters long can be built.

First use four sawn square timbers as the foundation, then erect four wooden stakes at the four corners, and prepare four sawn half-round timbers to fix them with mortise and tenon structures.

Half-meter-high beams are connected to the front and back of the top to support the roof beams, and then the repaired short branches are used to connect the roof beams to the roof. A small square room with a triangular roof is completed.

A field-shaped wall was nailed out on all four sides using thin square wood that had been repaired straight, leaving an opening facing the house for a door.

Finally, cover it with the light blue waterproof cloth and flatten and nail the top with flat wooden strips.

The four sides are not fixed, and the rope is pressed to the ground with stones to make it convenient to roll it up later to provide light for the plants inside.

On both sides of the entrance, there are two large vats planted with evolved tomatoes on one side, and fifteen vegetable jars planted with evolved sunflowers on the other side.

There was a small space left at the innermost part, so Zhao Gang put a shelf made of old furniture in it, which could be used to store vegetable baskets or small planting tools in the future.

It's not cold yet, so the waterproof cloth is rolled up temporarily and will be covered again when the real winter comes.

After two days of hard work, the small greenhouse was successfully built. In the remaining day, the father and daughter shoveled the roof thoroughly, thinking that there was still some waterproof cloth left, so they covered the leaking part of the roof.

The last time it rained, the ceiling of my house started to leak, water dripped down, and the cracks became very big.

Simply covering the area with waterproof cloth here and there cannot solve the fundamental problem and can only be a temporary solution.

Once you have accumulated enough points, you need to buy some asphalt and cover the entire roof to achieve a true water-proofing effect.

The three days passed in a busy manner.

A new round of training courses continued, and the lords began to learn how to grow evolved potatoes in winter.

This is another cold-resistant crop with a gentle and harmless growing process, stable yield, and near-perfect quality in all aspects.

It is an excellent evolved crop that you only need to bury in the soil and it will grow on its own. It is completely resistant to the SHASI virus and will not undergo unstable mutations.

However, unlike the many varieties of potatoes before the catastrophe, the evolved potatoes now only produce one potato per plant.

But one potato is as big as a football, and the taste is not much different from the potatoes before the disaster.

Unlike mutated crops, the taste is much worse than before the disaster.

Some low-level mutant fruits look very beautiful and delicious, but when you bite them, they have a ripe and sour taste.

Zhao Xiaoxiu, who had learned new knowledge from his father, suddenly felt that he was losing a lot by selling the sweet golden autumn pears to the patrol station for only 60 points each!
Thinking of this, Zhao Xiaoxiu rushed to the kitchen to count how many pears she had left.

The little guy couldn't believe it, "There are only three left?"

However, it has been half a month since they were picked, and they will rot if they are not eaten soon.

Zhao Xiaoxiu put the pear to her nose and sniffed it. It didn't smell very fresh.

After thinking about it, I decided to eat one myself and leave one for my dad to eat when he comes back from get out of class in the afternoon.

The other one took it to the pond, broke it into pieces and fed it to Peter Pan.

In fact, Zhao Xiaoxiu didn't know what the floating fish eats. She had never taken care of its food since she brought it home. The fish had to fend for itself.

But Peter Pan particularly loved the pears that Zhao Xiaoxiu fed him. Every time before she got close, he seemed to have smelled the scent in advance, flew out of the water, and opened his small fish eyes eagerly waiting for her to come and feed him.

Zhao Xiaoxiu waited patiently for Peter Pan to finish eating the pear, then interacted with it and played with bubbles for a while, then clapped her hands and prepared to go home.

She is very busy now, taking care of the newly planted tomatoes and sunflowers in the greenhouse.

Every day I have to carry a hatchet and go around the rapeseed fields to prevent mutant birds from coming down and causing damage.

The mutated plants and animals had amazing resilience. In Area B, which had just been cleared, many mutated small animals had arrived.

Some will deliberately hide from people and move around quietly at night.

Some of them are foolishly brave and will rush forward when they see anything edible, breaking into human territory and causing quite a few scares to the lords.

Fortunately, they were all low-level mutated insects, snakes, rats, sparrows, wild ducks, etc., and most of the lords could deal with them themselves.

A few difficult ones were also dealt with by the patrol team.

Zhao Xiaoxiu is not worried about anything else now, except that the crops in her own fields will be damaged.

"See you tomorrow, Peter Pan." Zhao Xiaoxiu stroked Peter Pan's bald head and prepared to go to the ground.

Unexpectedly, Peter Pan suddenly grabbed her sleeve, swung his tail quickly and pulled her aside.

(End of this chapter)