Chapter 874 Little Feimao Standing at the Top of the Pyramid of Working Mice on Blue Star

Before discovering that Xiao Fei had this ability, Xia Qing needed to wait until the seeds germinated to select the seeds for cultivation and optimization, and then use instruments to test the quality of the plants one by one.

If the selected plants have passed the transplanting period, they cannot be transplanted to the terraced fields with better soil conditions. The plants must be circled separately, fertilized and watered separately, which increases the workload of breeding.

Now with Xiao Feimao, the seed selection work has been greatly simplified.

In order to confirm whether this ability to select high-quality seeds and food is unique to Xiao Feimao or shared by the family of freeloaders, Xia Qing took out all fourteen granaries of the freeloaders and their two cubs, and sampled and tested the quality of the squirrels' stored food.

It was found that the three mice piled up the stolen food planted by Xia Qing together with the yellow and red light grass seeds and fruits they found from other places. So for the time being, it can be considered that the ability to select high-quality food is unique to Xiao Feimao.

After confirmation, Xia Qing confiscated most of the stored food of the freeloaders' family and used it to feed the chickens.

Although the freeloaders jumped up and down and cursed, Xia Qing showed no mercy. Because they hid the undried food in the tree hole, it would soon become moldy and grow hair.

Wasting food is absolutely intolerable, not to mention that these foods were grown by Xia Qing with great effort. Xia Qing was very kind not to confiscate all of them and leave them some dry and storable food.

But the freeloaders didn't think so. After Xia Qing robbed its stored food, it immediately moved out of Territory No. 3 with its two cubs and stored food and returned to the tree hole in District 3 of Mountain No. 49.

The red lynx hadn't been here for a long time. The little honey badgers in District 3 and the red foxes that appeared every day were far less threatening to them than the humans in Territory No. 3.

Xiao Feimao didn't move with his relatives. He still lived in Xia Qing's protective suit pocket.

So Xia Qing hired Xiao Feimao and made him the first official employee of Territory No. 3.

Job content: seed selection.

Salary: Piecework system, each batch of seeds selected will receive 5 points of reward to repay its debt. So far, Xiao Feimao has paid back 25 points and still owes Xia Qing 52,735 points.

Welfare: Food (green light food), drink (unpolluted spring water), and accommodation (Xia Qing's pocket). If the work performance is good, special benefits will be distributed from time to time - Gaoyi element spinach seeds.

Looking at the entire Blue Star mouse world, Xia Qing dares to pat her chest and guarantee that she will pay Xiao Feimao the highest reward.

In other words, Xiao Feimao, who is only three months old, has stood at the top of the pyramid of working mice on Blue Star with his outstanding work ability!

The one who eats free food is a very hygienic red squirrel, and the cubs it raises are also very hygienic.

When Xia Qing is outdoors, Xiao Feimao will come out of the nest and find a safe place to go to the toilet when he wants to go to the toilet; when Xia Qing is indoors, he will go to the toilet in the earthen basin mixed with hay prepared by Xia Qing.

Whenever Xia Qing saw Xiao Feimao crawling out of the pocket on the hanger to go to the toilet, she felt a sense of satisfaction:

Raising a working mouse is much more economical than raising a cat. Hu Zifeng has raised Xiao Laowu for a year, but he can do nothing but eat.

In addition to 8 jin of Hui San's SY-2 green light corn, Xia Qing also has 2 jin of Hong Shiyi's Y-3 that Tan Junjie exchanged with her last winter, and 2.5 jin of green light corn seeds harvested from six green light cultivatable optimized seeds that burst out from the yellow light corn planted last autumn.

Xiao Feimao is very picky. From 12.5 jin of about 12,500 green light seeds, he only selected 180 high-quality seeds. The cultivatable optimized seeds that burst out in Xia Qing's territory last year did not allow the extremely picky Xiao Feimao to take a single one back to his nest.

Xia Qing planted the seeds selected by Xiao Feimao and 400 seeds selected by herself in the terraced fields, and the other seeds were planted in the No. 8 and No. 9 sheds where wheat was harvested.

The green light corn seeds only filled one and a half sheds, and Xia Qing planted yellow light corn in the remaining half shed.

Xia Qing decided to plant green light mung beans in the other two sheds that harvested wheat - Shed No. 5 and No. 12.

The reason why so many mung beans were planted was that the only green light grain seeds that Xia Qing could plant were mung beans. If she didn't plant mung beans, she would have to plant yellow light corn, otherwise the field would have to be empty.

Although planting mung beans requires more fertilizer than planting corn, mung beans are of higher quality, and the probability of evolution during the rainy season is lower than that of yellow light corn. Even if evolution occurs, the short mung bean plants are easier to clean than tall corn plants.

When the second crop of mung beans is harvested in October, the price of green light mung beans will definitely be lower than it is now. But no matter how much it drops, the price of green light grain is higher than that of yellow light grain.

Therefore, not only Xia Qing, but most lords choose to plant mung beans for their second crop, in addition to planting other green light crops they can find.

Shed No. 12, which was overturned by the strong wind in Territory No. 3, was not repaired with hardness-evolved red-leaf bamboo.

Because the hardness-evolved bamboo poles harvested in Territory No. 3 during the second rainstorm had not been completely dehydrated and dried.

If the hardness-evolved bamboo poles were inserted into the soil at this moment, they would be nourished by excessive amounts of killing elements during the third rainstorm, and would surely take root and grow quickly, breaking through the rainproof cloth, causing all the crops in the shed to be irrigated by the rainstorm and undergo a large amount of evolution.

The 294 hardness-evolved bamboo poles harvested by Xia Qing during the second rainstorm were now neatly stacked on the earthen kang in the pergola built with rainproof cloth under the western buffer forest.

The rainproof cloth can block sunlight and rain, and the earthen kang can accelerate the dehydration of bamboo poles. This dehydration method was learned by Xia Qing from Huo Lei.

Not only Xia Qing, but also the bamboo poles in other territories are dehydrated in the same way.

Using this method, the bamboo can be dried in one month. Next month, Xia Qing can replace all the arched supports of the greenhouse in the territory with hardness evolved bamboo materials to improve the greenhouse's ability to resist natural disasters and service life.

The return rain that fell half a month ago was not long enough, and the bamboo that grew from the bamboo roots replanted in Territory No. 3 only grew to more than six meters high. Both the height and thickness did not meet the felling standards. Therefore, this crop of bamboo can only be felled in the third rain.

Xia Qing did not ask Qi Fu and his wife and Hu Zifeng's team for help in this crop of four acres of corn and mung beans. She planted them all by herself with a new seed drill.

The Alliance Research Institute, which was established just over half a month ago, was provided with design concepts and drawings by Jiang Ying, and then Jiang Ying and Huo Lei worked together to produce a simple seed drill that can be operated by one person.

This single-person seed drill is more efficient than the old-fashioned seed drill that Qi Fu and Shi Zhong improved and required three people to use, and is very suitable for sowing in greenhouses with limited height.

The seed drill consists of two handles, a two-meter-long and 15-centimeter-wide wooden board, and several small bamboo tubes connected to conical pointed funnels installed on the wooden board. The position of the bamboo tube can be adjusted according to the width of the ridge.

For example, when sowing corn seeds with a ridge width of 50 cm, four bamboo tubes with a spacing of 50 cm can be installed on the wooden board, and corn seeds can be poured into each bamboo tube. Then, the sower holds the handle of the seed drill and walks backwards in the field. When sowing is needed, the conical tube under the bamboo tube is inserted into the soil, and the depth of insertion into the soil is controlled by the sower.

When the tip of the conical tube is inserted into the soil, one or two seeds in the bamboo tube will enter the conical tube funnel from the bamboo tube under the action of inertia and fall into the soil.

Of course, the thickness of the channel opening in the bamboo tube for the seeds to flow into the conical tube can be adjusted according to the size of the seeds. This is the most ingenious design of this seeder, and it is also the reason why this seeder can be sold for 50 points each, and the lords are still scrambling for it.

Because the lords cannot make such a delicate and sensitive mechanism to control the leakage of seeds.

Xia Qing adjusted the position of the bamboo tube, then put the seeds to be sown into the bamboo tube, and walked backwards with the seeder, pressing down and lifting the seeder that weighed less than ten pounds again and again, from one end of the greenhouse to the other, and half an acre of land was sown.

After sowing four acres of land, Xia Qing's arms and waist did not hurt, and he sighed like everyone else: It is really wise to establish an alliance research institute.

Every profession has its own specialty. Bringing together a group of people with a common goal, letting everyone do what they are good at, and achieving the effect of one plus one being greater than two, this is the significance of the alliance.