Chapter 693: Planting Bamboo

Back home, Xia Qing happily counted the amount on her points card.

After a year of farming, she had updated her equipment from head to toe, built a wire mesh wall in her territory, had more electrical appliances at home, had more clothes and bedding, and saved 288,800 points and hundreds of Yi stones.

This was something she had never dared to think about before she got her territory last year.

Farming is a very hard job that depends on the weather. Xia Qing was able to save these points and family business because there was unpolluted spring water and high-yi elemental spinach in her territory, because she was an evolver who could go out of the territory to find supplies in the evolution forest, and because she became a middleman between humans and wolves.

If she were just an ordinary person, there would be no unpolluted spring water or high-yi elemental spinach in her territory...

Xia Qing turned her head and looked through the window at the neat greenhouses in the territory, the sheep boss chewing the cud under the big cypress tree on the high slope, and the red squirrel jumping between the branches with a big belly, and listened to the loud shouting of Zhao's mother in the territory next door.

If she was just an ordinary person and only received an ordinary territory, she would also bravely walk out of the safe zone like ordinary lords, stay in the territory and work hard to farm and dig wild vegetables every day. After a busy year, even if she can't save many points, she will no longer work on an empty stomach every day like before.

Thanks to the red squirrel, she found the unpolluted spring water; thanks to the sheep boss, she had a partner and established contact with the wolf pack.

After hiding the points card, Xia Qing changed into light clothes, sprayed her body with insect repellent, put on a sun hat and gloves, and went out to work.

After more than a year of careful management, the poisonous plants and animals that could threaten her in the No. 3 territory have been basically eradicated, so Xia Qing no longer needs to wear protective clothing and protective masks when working in the yard and greenhouse.

Of course, if you go to uncultivated areas or deserted villages, or walk before and after heavy rain or in extreme weather, you still have to wear protective clothing and protective masks.

All the tasks arranged for today have been completed. Now there is still an hour before dark. Xia Qing uses this time to process the bamboo poles with evolved hardness that he brought back today, and then plant the bamboo roots that he brought back. Then, when it gets dark, he moves the big chickens in the greenhouse back to the chicken coop in the yard, and then he goes home to cook and eat.

Generally speaking, bamboo that has grown for more than three years should be used to make greenhouse brackets and furniture. Because new bamboo under three years old has a high moisture content and is easy to crack or bend.

But the bamboo pole that Xia Qing brought back has evolved hardness, which is much harder than ordinary old bamboo over three years old, and has good toughness, so Xia Qing has high hopes for it.

This bamboo grows very straight, so there is no need to straighten it, and it can be used after drying.

There are four methods of drying: natural shade drying, slightly roasted and then exposed to the sun, boiling in boiling water and then exposed to the sun, and fire roasting. Although natural shade drying can preserve the natural color and texture of bamboo to the maximum extent, it takes too long, and the latter two are difficult to grasp the degree and temperature, so Xia Qing chose the method of slightly roasted and then exposed to the sun.

She first used a machete to cut off a two-meter-long section, and then split the remaining bamboo poles into bamboo strips, which could be used to reinforce the greenhouse after processing.

After cutting the bamboo strips, Xia Qing put on protective clothing, greeted the onlookers, and walked out of the south gate carrying a two-meter-long section of bamboo. Before she went out five meters, she heard a rustling sound from the No. 2 territory, and then Tang Huai's shout.

"Xia Qing, go and give Uncle Huo some bamboo?"

Xia Qing curled her lips slightly, stopped and nodded.

Tang Huai, holding a shovel, crawled out of the weed wall and stared at the bamboo wood in Xia Qing's hand, which was almost 20 centimeters in diameter. "The color of this bamboo is really beautiful. Is it an evolved purple bamboo?"

Xia Qing shook her head, "I don't know either."

After the evolution of the creatures on Blue Star, it became more difficult to identify the species of plants. For Xia Qing, the species of bamboo didn't matter, as long as it could be used.

Tang Huai discussed with Xia Qing, "Can you exchange a section for me? I want to use this bamboo to make a tea tray for my dad."

Xia Qing shook her head, "This bamboo has a high content of harmful elements, so it is not suitable for making a tea tray, and I have already split the remaining bamboo into bamboo strips."

Tang Huai asked, "Split into bamboo strips? What are you going to use it for?"

"To make a greenhouse support." Xia Qing explained, "This kind of bamboo pole has high hardness and good toughness, and is lighter than other woods, making it very suitable for making supports."

Although Xia Qing was right, Tang Huai still felt that the material was being wasted, but this was the material Xia Qing got, so of course she had the final say on how to use it. Tang Huai stretched out his hand, "Give it to me, I'll pass it to you."

Territory No. 11-18 is under the jurisdiction of another inspection team, and it does not belong to Xia Qing, so he cannot ask Tan Junjie's team to help deliver supplies.

Territory No. 2 separates Territory No. 11 from Territory No. 3, but to reach Territory No. 11 from the south gate of Xia Qing's territory to the north gate of Territory No. 11, it is necessary to go from this east-west passage and go around to the east-west passage in the south. It would be much more convenient to let Tang Huai teleport. He only needs to walk from the north to the south of Territory No. 2.

Intuitively speaking, the route Xia Qing took to deliver the bamboo and wood was the three sides of a rectangle, and Tang Huai only needed to walk along one side of the rectangle to teleport.

"Thank you." Xia Qing handed the bamboo pole to Tang Huai very straightforwardly and returned to his territory.

Tang Huai held the shovel and carried the bamboo and wood back to his territory, muttering softly, "Why is it so heavy?! This woman was so straightforward this time, why do I feel like she was going to let me deliver it to her from the beginning..."

Xia Qing in Territory No. 3 raised her mouth even higher. That's right, that's what she planned, because she knew Tang Huai would definitely run out and definitely offer to help, so she didn't ask the people from Hu Zifeng's team to come and guard the territory.

After dealing with the bamboo poles, you can plant bamboo roots.

The idea of ​​planting bamboo was proposed by Yuan Yan. After learning that the bamboo that Xia Qing found was a hardness-evolved variety, Yuan Yan had this idea.

Because of rain and evolution pests, greenhouses must be built for farming in the territory. Steel-frame greenhouses are too expensive, and greenhouses built with ordinary bamboo and wood can only be used for two years even if they are properly maintained, because the environmental conditions during the natural disaster years are more severe, and the external stress of the greenhouse becomes greater, which reduces the service life of the bamboo-frame greenhouse.

Therefore, in order to make the wooden greenhouse last longer, the lords have thought of many ways, such as using steel frames at key load-bearing points during construction and other hardwoods for internal supports. However, the arched structure of the greenhouse can only be made of bamboo.

Now, they have better building materials, which are the hardness evolution bamboo found in the No. 52 mountain, so Yuan Yan wants to plant a few in her territory.

Planting evolutionary plants in the territory is very dangerous, but after analysis, Yuan Yan believes that this danger is controllable.

First of all, this bamboo attacks with roots and belongs to a low-risk aggressive evolutionary variety. Yuan Yan and Qi Fu are both strength evolutionists and can deal with this risk.

Secondly, Yuan Yan is a magnetic perception evolutionist. If this bamboo evolves again in the rain, she can also sense it before the mutation is completed, and cut it down with her husband to prevent the mutation from happening.

Therefore, Yuan Yan asked Xia Qing to bring back a few bamboo roots when he went to get the bamboo poles. The vitality of evolutionary plants is very tenacious. The bamboo roots that were dug out yesterday can still survive if they are planted today.

Xia Qing's idea was the same as Yuan Yan's, so when she went to get bamboo poles today, she not only brought back a few bamboo roots to be planted in the No. 3 and No. 5 territories, but also planted the remaining bamboo roots in the moist and open area of ​​the No. 50 mountain.

If everything goes well, after the second rain of this year, she will be able to harvest at least a dozen hardness-evolved bamboos to reinforce the greenhouse in her territory.