If you don't farm, you will be smashed [End Times]

According to Xia Chen's news from Wen Shu, the crops planted on the existing land in the city are almost sweet potatoes and potatoes. Sweet potatoes are still far from maturity, but potatoes are approaching the harvest season.

The harvest season is hectic and tiring, and the women and children at home will definitely not be able to sustain it. Xia Chen cut back the progress of the project in due course and prepared to let the workers go home to collect potatoes.

Even if the weather is getting hotter and hotter, the joy of the upcoming harvest will make people smile unconsciously, and the content of the chat and conversation will revolve around the crops that are about to be harvested.

However, before the actual harvesting began, a sudden hailstorm caught people off guard and disrupted all harvesting plans.

It was a day in late June, and it was the hottest time at two or three o'clock in the afternoon. The scorching sun baked the ground until you could fry eggs. In the past, children who could run around with bare feet in summer were not at all. Dare to run around barefoot again, otherwise the bottom of the soles of the feet will be scalded into burnt pig's feet.

The residents who had lunch were resting at home, and there were also children who couldn't sleep, pestering their parents for a few white coins, and going to Feng's house to buy iced sugar water.

At this moment, there was a sudden muffled sound in the sky, followed by the rumbling thunder. Everyone rushed out of the room in surprise and joy to look up at the sky.Since the beginning of summer, there has been hardly a drop of rain. If the village is not close to the river, and several wells have been drilled in advance, even the draft is now a problem.

"It's going to rain..." The person who walked out of the yard had just started talking to his neighbors, and the top of his head suddenly hurt as if someone had thrown a stone and hit him.

Before the person who was smashed had time to show his angry face, pain came from his head and shoulders one after another. The neighbor looked up, covered his head and ran into the yard, shouting at his children playing in the yard, "Hurry up!" Go inside, it's hailstorming!"

There was a lot of hail, the big ones, the smallest ones were the size of soybeans, and the big ones were almost the size of a ping-pong ball. Fortunately, everyone hadn't started work at the moment, so they could hide in the house.

But the hailstorm was too big, and it came densely and quickly. Several houses were dilapidated, and the roofs were smashed and collapsed.

Residents in the outer city were even more miserable. Their houses were all made up of improvised buildings, and the building materials were uneven. Many of them were just a shelter propped up by twigs and rags, which could not stop such a menacing hailstorm.

They could only use the wooden boards as shields on their heads. Because there were not enough wooden boards, everyone huddled together and heard the loud crashing sound of the hailstones hitting the wooden boards. Those who supported the wooden boards could feel the continuous hailstones falling on their hands Shaking numb.

For experienced farmers, the first thing they think of when encountering such natural disasters is the crops in the field.

Now they finally understood why the Xia family didn't want to grow rice and wheat crops. If they had planted these crops, the crops would have been smashed to the ground when the hailstorm hit, and half a year's hard work would have been in vain.

Potatoes are not afraid. No matter how fierce the hail is, it will damage the branches and leaves on the ground at most, and it will not harm the potato fruits underground.That is, the growing sweet potato seedlings may suffer. When it comes to the harvest season, there is a high probability that the harvest will be affected, but compared with no harvest, this result is already very good.

It's nothing to waste a little manpower, but the crops are gone, and the next thing is to go hungry, how can the whole family live.

"Immortal!" Immediately, an old man knelt down and kowtowed in the direction of Xia's house, regardless of the hail that was still pounding the roof.

They are grateful to Xia Chen who has given him shelter, but for the old farmers who have been farming all their lives, such a person who can watch the weather and predict natural disasters can make them feel admiration from the bottom of their hearts.

The hail came and went quickly, and after about a quarter of an hour, just like it came so suddenly, the ice beads that were crackling and falling suddenly disappeared.

Xia Chen took a deep look at Wen Shu, who had a calm expression on his face. He didn't care about exploring his hidden secrets, and called for help.

The hardest-hit area was the outer city. Almost no houses could be kept. When Xia Chen passed by, he could hear whimpering from afar.

The cry was not loud, but because there were too many people crying, it seemed depressing and loud. There were people walking around, even children a few years old, following their parents around the collapsed shack of their home to find Materials buried inside.

The atmosphere was too heavy, and Xia Chen didn't know what to say for a while. Life is so difficult, especially for human beings living in the doomsday. Not only do they have to face suddenly mutated and destructive species, but they also have to guard against tearing off their masks due to the collapse of the law. of the same kind.After finally surviving, there were also unpredictable natural disasters that made them troublesome.

He asked his subordinates to send some building materials and food to the outer city, which was a bit of disaster relief money.

The disaster situation in the inner city is much better. After all, the houses are built properly and are solid.Except for a few houses that have been in disrepair for a long time, half of the roof has been smashed and collapsed, and the others have at most holes in the roof.

The most unlucky one was the one who looked up at the hailstones, only to be hit by a piece of hailstone on his nose, causing his nose to bleed.

Even Xia Chen's house had been smashed to a lot of tiles. Fortunately, he planned to re-lay the tiles.It's just that the newly fired tiles have to be used next to the residential buildings first, so he didn't reach out, planning to wait for more tiles to be fired, and then pull a batch back.

Now that the roof has been smashed into a mess, I don't need to wait, let Lava come back to resurface it first, his elder brother can do this, and he doesn't even need to hire a helper.

As for the residential buildings, when the tiles need to be laid, the new tiles should have been fired long ago.

He doesn't need to worry about the family affairs. The eldest brother and sister-in-law will take care of it. After getting a general understanding of the disaster situation, Xia Chen found that many people looked at him with a lot of awe.

It's not the kind of reverence for those in power, but... like looking at the Buddha statues and Taoist statues in temples, with a sense of distance.

After thinking about it for a while, Xia Chen guessed the reason, but he couldn't tell Zi Jian's confession. Forecasting such a thing would not necessarily be a good thing for the person concerned. He would rather let others attribute it to his unknown The fairy master.

Because of this sudden natural disaster, many people were afraid of other accidents, so they hurried to dig potatoes in the field. After all, this was their ration for the second half of the year, so it would be safer to dig them out.

The potatoes were originally harvested from the end of June to the beginning of July. Although the digging is a few days earlier, the potatoes have grown.

Because it has not rained for a long time, even though the farmers have tried their best to water it, the drought still affects part of the harvest. The potatoes dug out are not too large, and the yield is very average, which is a bit lower than in previous years.

But considering the current environment again, it is already very good to have this harvest, and the yield of potatoes itself is high, so less, the impact is not very big, and the buds lent by the Xia family for seeding are returned, and the rest of the harvest It is enough to eat at home.

What's more, in the current urban high-speed construction, there are basically people working in most households, and some households even have more than one person. With wages, they can still buy food when they are short of food, and their living standards have improved.

Some families with a large area of ​​arable land can’t even eat all the potatoes they harvest. After all, they can’t just eat potatoes for three meals a day.

Shops put up a sign for harvesting potatoes at the right time, and the price of harvested grain is lower than the selling price. Most people are reluctant to sell it when they see the purchase price. Sell ​​some of the potatoes.

The Xia family has a lot of land. Apart from most of the rented land, the family also planted some, and still harvested a large number of potatoes. However, the tenants handed over the rent, because they all planted the same variety this year, so the Xia family harvested a lot of potatoes. Almost a mountain of potatoes.

Even Mr. Xia was worried, so many potatoes, when will they be eaten, let's put them in the shops and sell them, and the residents of the outer city will save money to buy some, but they will also choose other coarse grains to buy, no one will just stare at them. Start with potatoes.

Xia Chen was too busy, and when he heard what his father was worried about, he immediately took it over.

If it was something else, he might have to worry about it, but after he saved a huge amount of money and had nowhere to spend it, he bought all the books in the space mall, regardless of the price.

Most of these books are the extended use methods of various plants, such as potatoes, there are methods for making potato flour, and there are even many related recipes, including methods for making snacks such as French fries and potato chips.

He has no other ideas for the time being, but potato flour can be made. The method of making potato flour is not very difficult. Anyway, after reading the detailed process in the book, Xia Chen feels that the operation is not difficult.

Potato flour can be used as a staple food, and it can be eaten in a variety of ways. As a flour, it tastes smooth, and it should be welcomed by everyone.

To prove it, Xia Chen got some potatoes and planned to cook them at his own home first. Mrs. Xia and Qiao Niang frowned when they saw him clumsily burning firewood, and kicked him out. He said, his sister-in-law would do it.

To some extent, the products produced by the system are very considerate and reliable. For example, the method of making potato flour is very detailed. Even if Xia Chen has never done it, he followed the steps and finally saw the finished product.

According to the way he remembered eating, he made a pot of hot and sour noodles. In fact, according to his taste, hot and sour noodles are best cooked with sweet potato flour, and he likes to eat potato flour in a dry pot.

But for those who have never eaten it, the smooth and Q-bomb taste of potato flour is really irresistible. This novel food immediately won the praise of the whole family.

Brother Nan, a foodie, ate three big bowls in one sitting. While eating, he secretly rejoiced that he was not selected to go out, otherwise he would not be able to eat this delicious vermicelli.

Sure enough, he still has meat to eat with his uncle. Although his uncle's cooking skills are mediocre, he can always cook some weird and delicious food. Maybe this is what the gods eat.

Considering that the family is full of big eaters now, I cook too much every day, as long as there is more, there is not enough.After everyone finished eating, there was still a bowl of vermicelli left in the pot, and Qiao Niang wanted to fill it up and wait for someone to be hungry in the afternoon.

While putting away the bowl, Xia Chen reminded: "The vermicelli won't taste good if it swells."

Qiao Niang clutched her stuffed stomach and worried: "What should I do?"

"Give me, give me." Brother Nan found a clean soup pot and filled out all the vermicelli.

Qiao Niang's face was stern: "You are not allowed to eat it." If her brother Nan could eat it, he would have eaten it long ago.

Brother Nan felt wronged and said, "I didn't eat it, I sent it to Liu Jiao."

He just ate a few pieces of sandwich candies that Liu Jiao shared with him yesterday, and the ones sold in the shops are very expensive, so he feels a little embarrassed to eat other people's, anyway, he can't eat any more, so he borrowed flowers and presented Buddha to send some vermicelli to Liu Jiao, She will give him more delicious food in the future.

Xia Chen and Qiao Niang: "..."

Qiao Niang took a deep breath, she had a very young life, and the piggy her family only knew how to eat knew how to make someone else's cabbage!

The author has something to say: Potato flour home sesame sauce and side dishes are made into a dry pot. The fried chicken is really delicious!

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