Chapter 235: Busy Farming Season

In the slanting wind and drizzle, the earth is irrigated.

In early September, everyone began to plant some crops all over the mountains and fields.

Taking advantage of the abundant rain now.

The plains are full of busy figures.

In this season, it should be the harvest season, but due to the drought, the fruits on the fruit trees are now very small.

But, very sweet.

Li Yu is in a subtropical monsoon climate, mainly planting some navel oranges and the like.

However, in this dimension, there are still many fruit trees that can be planted, so Li Yu also planted some other types of fruit trees.

It is still raining, and the rain has not been heavy, but it has never stopped.

Beside the mountain pond, Li Yu followed his grandfather to the mountains to cut grass and feed fish. The two of them went one after the other, without much communication.

Grandpa has never liked to talk, and often does things there silently.

Occasionally, he likes to drink a few sips of old wine, listen to dramas, and half-close his eyes.

In Li Yu's childhood memory, it seems that his grandfather is always silent.

But he remembered that when he went to study in another province, his grandfather prepared a lot of agricultural products from his hometown, as well as a red envelope.

The love of the elderly is often like this. Although they speak little, their actions are full of love.

"Grandpa, do you think our base needs to add more people? Do we need to expand?" Li Yu suddenly asked this question. He wanted to hear how his grandfather would answer.

The sickle in his grandfather's hand paused for a moment, he raised his waist, and then hammered it.

He shook his raincoat and finally said, "I'm not sure whether to add more people. Your second uncle is more thoughtful. You can discuss it with him, but people, it's good to have ambition, but it's important to have self-knowledge.

There are pros and cons to making any choice, but sometimes, especially in this turbulent period, you should be cautious and not get out of control. That's it."

Grandpa's words did not tell him the answer directly, but from another perspective, if you add some people, whether you can control them and whether you can afford them is the most fundamental.

Li Yu nodded, then waved the sickle in his hand and mowed the grass hard.

In the rain, mowing the grass is a hard job. After a week, the grass grew up, and the grass tips were sharp, some of them cut people's hands.

Cut out red marks, and then the raindrops fell, itching a little.

In fact, this rain not only brought vitality to Li Yu and his team.

For more people, this rain is a life-saving rain.

In some more arid places, this rain kept them alive.

This rain lasted for nearly 10 days, and it was always raining slowly.

Sometimes, there was a drizzle, and sometimes it was a little heavier, but it was not a particularly heavy rain.

Although the rain was not heavy, it never stopped.

I don't know if it was because of the previous drought that the zombies lost their vitality. Now the rain is just right to slow down, and there has been no loss tide these days.

But it can be clearly seen that there are many more zombies than in the dry weather before the rain.

These days, Li Yu also took the people in the base and shot the zombies outside the base with the arrow feathers he made. As a result, he found that the effect of these arrow feathers was not bad.

This is also a surprise.

There are many trees. If the bullets are gone in the future, the current arrow feathers can continue to be used.

It’s just that the compound crossbows purchased were not very many at the beginning. At the beginning, 20 super high-end compound crossbows worth 50,000 yuan were bought.

Another 20 compound crossbows worth 20,000 yuan each were bought, and the quality was not bad.

Although the stock was replenished later, plus the seizures from the enemy in the past year, the number of crossbows in the base is less than 100.

But, for now, everyone can have a crossbow. ’

Time passed quietly.

Half a month later, it was the end of September and the beginning of October.

It was the busy farming season.

When it just rained in early September, Li Yu began to gather people to start planting crops. There was no problem with corn and rice. One was that there was always water for irrigation, and the other was that corn was relatively drought-resistant.

Green leafy vegetables such as lettuce have a relatively short growth cycle, so a lot of them were planted.

For example, radishes have a growth cycle of one to two months, so they are also planted. After all, they are more convenient to store.

At the end of September and the beginning of October, it is the busy farming season.

They began to harvest rice.

The original thresher had long been eliminated, and Li Yu stepped on the harvester to harvest in the rice field.

At the beginning, some people said that he was extravagant. In a place like the south, it was not cost-effective to buy a harvester.

But for Li Yu, saving effort is a good thing.

The harvester rumbled and harvested the acres of land on the plain.

But the terraces in the mountains and forests needed them to harvest manually.

It is easier to work with more people. It took less than an hour to harvest the 6 acres of land in the mountains and forests.

More than a dozen acres of paddy fields, five acres of corn, and two acres of sweet potatoes.

Adding up the land for growing staple food, there are more than 20 acres.

In fact, a person needs to consume 500 kilograms of food a year. It is considered safe and healthy.

400-800 kilograms range.

If chemical fertilizers and plant protection measures are not used, the yield per mu is low, and only poor-tolerant crops such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn can be planted. In the south, the annual production capacity is generally 1,500 jin/mu, calculated based on two crops a year. So 0.3-0.5 mu of land is enough.

In the northern Central Plains, three crops are harvested in two years, and one mu of land yields 1,200 jin/mu. 0.4-0.5 mu is enough.

If chemical fertilizers, pesticides, agricultural measures, etc. are used, 0.15 mu is enough for a yield of 3,000 jin per mu (of course, all high-yield crops).

In Li Yu's place, two or even three crops can be harvested a year.

With the current output, it can far meet the needs of their base, and there is even a large surplus.

Li Yu calculated and thought to himself: "Fortunately, we reclaimed some land in the mountains and forests at the beginning. If it were based on the original four mu of paddy fields, it would definitely not be enough."

During the busy farming season, it was not so busy. Thanks to the large number of manpower and their cooperation, all the food was processed quickly.

However, if the rice is to be stored for a longer time, it needs to be dehydrated. Li Yu and his team adopted the simplest method, which was to expose it to the sun.

After almost a whole week of drying, the rice was finally dried.

It was packed and sealed in the warehouse.

They still had to eat the old rice that they had stored before, and of course, they also took out some of the new rice for everyone to taste.

Li Yu looked at the warehouse full of rice, and felt at ease. In this doomsday, only enough food can give people a sense of security.