Chapter 155 Killing Two Birds with One Stone
Grandpa Gu said in a strong voice, "I feel great."
I haven't worked in the fields for a long time; you probably wouldn't understand how I feel.
Lin Fan immediately began to flatter Grandpa Gu:
"Grandpa, we're still going strong despite our age; like an old steed in its stall, we still aspire to gallop a thousand miles."
Bai Tang called out to them, "Come and eat, everyone. We need to go to the back mountain later to plant the remaining seeds."
After a day of hard work, they understood even more how hard it was to obtain food.
So today, Lin Feng and the others are all full of energy and ready to get to work.
After a simple breakfast, the family took their tools and the seeds provided by the base to their own land.
Because it wasn't far from their home, they carried their belongings and walked.
I just treated it as a post-meal digestion exercise, and driving after getting out of bed would be too conspicuous.
Few people drive to farm the fields on the back hill.
Bai Tang said, " Lin Feng, take the seedlings over there first."
We'll talk about replanting seedlings and watering later.
After a full day of work, they have become quite adept at planting rice seedlings quickly and perfectly.
They received sweet potato seedlings, so they could eat the sweet potatoes and dry the sweet potato leaves to feed their rabbits.
To achieve two goals at once, some people also chose sweet potato seedlings.
Some people chose other seeds, but regardless of what seeds they chose...
The land behind the base has been cultivated and planted with seeds of hope.
Now their family is waiting for the harvest, but in the meantime they still need to water, fertilize, and weed the crops.
Most of the watering was done by carrying buckets of water from the nearby ditch back and forth.
Fortunately, they don't have much land, so this method works.
Moreover, with so many able-bodied people in Bai Tang's family, there's even less to worry about.
As for fertilization, most people in the base use farmyard manure, which is composted at home.
Although the Bai Tang people did not use that kind of fertilizer, they used the excrement fertilizer from the animals in the Bai Tang space.
Most of it was rabbit droppings, and since they also kept rabbits, it made it easier to explain the source of the manure.
After a series of operations including reclamation, sowing, irrigation, and fertilization.
A month has passed since the polar day began.
The rice seedlings that Bai Tang and his family planted have already sprouted branches and leaves.
While eating breakfast, Grandpa Gu said, "The seedlings are growing well now."
I'll go check on the fields after I finish eating.
Since large-scale farming began at the base,Grandpa Gu's spirits have improved day by day.
They keep insisting on going to the field to check on the rice seedlings, afraid that someone else will ruin them.
This situation is not uncommon on the base, because there are some idle people without land who will deliberately damage other people's crops.
Fortunately, Bai Tang and his family had put up a wire fence early on, so their land was still relatively intact.
The base also dispatched a Patrol Team to patrol regularly and found several people.
They were directly punished by being sent to mines to do hard labor; only this severe punishment slightly curbed this bad trend.
When Lin Feng heard that Grandpa Gu was going to the fields, he quickly said, "I'll go with you."
Although Grandpa Gu is in good spirits now, he is, after all, getting on in years.
Bai Tang and the others were worried about letting him go out alone.
Grandpa Gu said, "Okay, let's go together today."
After breakfast, Grandpa Gu and Lin Feng went to the back mountain.
Everyone else found something to do, and Bai Tang and Mu Mu also went to the back mountain.
When the four of them arrived at the location, they discovered that their wire fence had been cut.
Moreover, most of the rice seedlings they had just planted in their field had been pulled up.
Bai Tang's anger flared up instantly; who was so despicable?
These rice seedlings were planted by his family with great effort.
Bai Tang asked Lin Feng to find the Patrol Team, as the destruction of their rice seedlings couldn't be entirely blamed on the Patrol Team.
However, this also counts as a failure of the Patrol Team's patrol efforts.
Then Bai Tang discovered that it wasn't just their rice seedlings that had been maliciously damaged.
Several neighboring farms also suffered; the seeds they had painstakingly cultivated were all pulled up.
When Lin Feng went to find the Patrol Team,people from several neighboring households also arrived.
They saw their crops being ruined like this.
A burst of curses erupted from the ground: "Who is this despicable bastard?"
"Doing such a despicable thing, aren't you afraid of getting hit by a car when you go out?"
"What are the base's Patrol Team doing? How are we supposed to survive?"
Bai Tang, holding Mu Mu's hand, accompaniedGrandpa Gu as they waited by the edge of the field for Lin Feng to call for help.
A small team from the Patrol Team arrived quickly.
When they saw the terrible state of the crops in the fields, they knew something terrible had happened.
Although it wasn't their Patrol Team that destroyed the crops, the damage to the crops was ultimately due to their Patrol Team'sinadequate patrolling.
Seeing that someone had finally arrived, Bai Tang went over and said:
"We don't want to cause trouble, but our crops have been destroyed like this."
We hope the Patrol Team can give us an explanation.
Patrol Team leader and Bai Tang said, "We are also very sad that everyone's crops have been damaged."
Our Patrol Team will definitely catch the murderer and give everyone an explanation.
Some people felt that his words were not guaranteed, so they wanted to cause trouble and demand compensation from Patrol Team.
That changes the nature of the situation; they may cause trouble, but that's one thing.
The destruction of crops is one thing, but the two should not be confused.
Just as those people were about to cause a disturbance, the Patrol Team captain said:
"I know everyone is very anxious, but we can't catch the murderer in a short time."
We hope you can give us some time. How about this, we'll help you replant the seedlings that weren't completely damaged.
After his explanation, the people who were about to cause trouble calmed down.
So Bai Tang told Lin Feng to go home and get someone to replant the better seedlings.
Also, have him bring back some new wire fences.
There's no way to get electricity to the ground, otherwise Bai Tang would have powered the wire fence from top to bottom.
Then she and Grandpa Gu first sorted out the seedlings that could survive.
The Patrol Team also helped the families deal with the crops in their fields.
Soon Lin Feng arrived with Gu Yanxu and the others.
Seeing his own land ransacked like this, Lin Fancouldn't help but burst into a tirade of curses:
"Who did this? Dare to step forward? I'll smash his head into his belly."
Don't let me catch him, or I'll make sure he knows why the flowers are so red.
"That's truly heartless. They can't stand seeing others do well when they're unhappy themselves. What a despicable creature!"
Lin Fan cursed loudly because criminals often return to the scene to witness their own actions.
Now a crowd of onlookers has gathered on the hillside behind the village, eager to see what's going on.
Lin Fan cursed because Bai Tang had instructedLin Feng to go home and get something, and Lin Fan had given him those instructions.
Let him swear as filthyly as possible; make sure it's very attention-grabbing.