Apocalyptic Flood: Sexy Beauty Neighbor's Midnight Plea for Food

Chapter 479: Chapter 210 The Situation of the Other Two Shelters

In fact, farming is an art.

Some people always think that farming is just throwing seeds in the ground and waiting for the harvest next year.

If it were that simple, who would go to work?

The wealthy would have gone farming long ago, leaving no chance for the poor to farm.

Farming requires consideration of many aspects, from fertilizing the land to selecting seeds, weeding, pest control, pruning, and seedling cultivation, each of which is a knowledge in itself.

Otherwise, why would there be agricultural universities?

Among Liang Yuan and his group, no one specialized in agriculture.

Even the older generation like Granny Li only farmed in their youth without professional knowledge, just some past farming experience.

But now the world has changed; everything is evolving, including plants.

Old farming experiences may not necessarily be useful now.

For example, seed selection used to be easy, you could buy premium seeds online.

But where do you buy premium seeds now?

Even if Liang Yuan and his team found premium seeds while gathering supplies, who knows if these seeds are still suitable for the current environment?

Actually, it’s easy to guess that they likely aren’t.

In this half-year-long heavy rain, with no sunlight, what seeds can germinate? Can grow strong?

Only the seeds of now-mutated plants are suitable for survival.

Thinking of this, Liang Yuan became increasingly aware of the importance of the taro they found.

”It seems these taros must be preserved at all costs and find a way to plant them on a large scale.”

”Besides, we need to specifically send people into the nearby woods to find edible plants for artificial transplantation and cultivation.”

”I’ll remind Song Wen and her team about this later.”

After discussing planting, Liang Yuan then inquired about the livestock experiences.

”Brother Meng, how is the livestock farming going over there?”

Wu Meng replied, ”You should ask Teacher Li and Yawei about that, they’re in charge, I don’t really manage these.”

Liang Yuan turned his head and saw Yue Yawei and Gao Jie looking around Liang Yuan’s bathroom and bedroom, occasionally letting out shrieks.

”Wow, Estée Lauder Essence! Brother Liang still has this!”

”Oh my, a refrigerator, he still has a refrigerator here.”

”If we had a refrigerator, we wouldn’t have to smoke meat all day.”

”Oh my, look at the kitchen, it even has a stove and an induction cooker. I’m so envious; I have to use firewood every time I cook.”

”Me too, with this heavy rain, the sticks and grass outside can’t burn. Only pinewood and fire bamboo can be lit, and the smoke chokes you every time.”

The two women discussed excitedly, full of envy.

Liang Yuan could only look helplessly at Li Yuejin.

Li Yuejin smiled and said, ”Let me explain, Mr. Liang. We currently have two breeding bases.”

”One is for aquaculture, which is relatively simple. We dug a reservoir near the shelter and put fish caught from floods in it.”

”This is to deal with emergencies, so the breeding scale is not large.”

”The other base is managed by Xiaoyue, mainly for breeding red chickens.”

Liang Yuan quickly asked, ”Red chickens? What are those?”

Li Yuejin smiled, ”Red chickens are a type of mutant beast in Yangshan. We don’t know their origin, but these red chickens have bright red feathers, are not afraid of rain, and can fly at low altitudes but not far.”

”They mainly eat insects and vegetable leaves. We discovered them by chance and started breeding after catching a few.”

”After several months, the results are good. Although the meat yield of red chickens is not high, they lay many eggs and can be marketed in two months, growing very fast.”

”This is also a unique agricultural product of our Martial King Pavilion. At the end of each month, at the Gouwu Pavilion trading market, our red chickens are in high demand.”

Liang Yuan couldn’t help but ask, ”Are there any special considerations for breeding red chickens?”

”There are quite a few. Breeding red chickens is not much different from regular chickens. They need a closed environment, preferably in a cave, to avoid the heavy rain and ease egg collection.”

”It also effectively prevents attacks from other carnivorous mutant beasts.”

”Also, you have to watch out for fights among the red chickens. There are many details to consider.”

”We happen to have a former chicken farmer in our shelter, so they know much about this.”

Li Yuejin smiled and said, ”Mr. Liang, if you have time, you should visit our shelter.”

”Here, the best livestock to raise is the fire bamboo rat.”

”Fire bamboo rats live in bamboo forests, a litter can have seven or eight pups, and they can produce three litters a year. If managed well, it’s a good project.”

Liang Yuan nodded and sighed, ”Livestock farming is also a big subject. I’ll take people to your place to learn.”

Both parties discussed many plans and suggestions for shelter construction.

With a mature example like the Martial King Pavilion, Liang Yuan and his team could avoid many detours.

Of course, although no one mentioned payment for learning experience, Liang Yuan understood that some gesture of appreciation would be necessary.

After discussing shelter construction, Liang Yuan inquired about the situation of the other two shelters.

”Brother Meng, what about the shelters to the south and west? If they were as easy to get along with as you, that would be great.”

Listening nearby, Li Yuejin almost sprayed out the water he was drinking when he heard Liang Yuan praising Wu Meng as easy to get along with.

In his heart, he thought, not everyone can get along with Wu Meng.