Chapter 149 Reservoir
Ten minutes later.
Zhang Zhongyue’s serious face showed a kind smile, and he collected an 8-minute audio.
He kept muttering: "Now the children are really good, they are eloquent! But I originally planned to sell them for 200 spirit coins, but I didn’t expect to sell them for 350 spirit coins."
On the other side, Qi Yuan also grinned and exchanged all the seeds for 350 spirit coins.
"Hehe, I made a lot of money!"
Zhou Yue, who was standing aside, stared blankly with wide eyes, and was completely dumbfounded!
It turns out that dignity can really be sold for money!
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Qi Yuan looked at the five kinds of seeds in his hand, and his heart was already blooming with joy.
Among them, the most valuable is definitely the excellent white lotus seeds.
In addition to its excellent quality, whether it is lotus, lotus seeds, or lotus roots, they are also very valuable.
The second is cotton. The value of cotton is self-evident. It is a very important economic crop.
If you encounter a cold wave in the future, you can rely on good-grade cotton to make your own quilts, cotton clothes and other warm items.
The next three seeds are relatively less valuable.
Strawberries are used to enrich the variety of fruits.
Green grass seeds and colorful daisies are used for decoration, and can increase the concentration of spiritual energy around to a certain extent and optimize the environment.
White lotus is planted in the pond and raised together with Qingyue algae.
Qi Yuan reclaimed two acres of land for strawberries and cotton and planted them all.
Colorful daisies and green grass seeds were all scattered in the courtyard of the quadrangle, and some were also scattered outside the courtyard.
Grass seeds should grow faster and multiply faster. It shouldn't take long to cover the surroundings of the quadrangle.
With the embellishment of colorful daisies, the environment near the quadrangle should be greatly improved.
After finishing his own affairs, Qi Yuan still had something to do, so he went directly to the construction site of the reservoir.
He needs to control the "small manufacturing device" and be responsible for the final manufacturing of "sand and mud bricks".
Although the progress has just begun and the pit of the reservoir has not been dug yet, the "sand and mud bricks" can be prepared in advance.
This kind of "sand and mud brick" is about 30 cm × 50 cm × 50 cm in size.
That is, the length and width are both 50 cm, the thickness is 30 cm, and one brick is 0.25 square meters.
The entire reservoir is a total of 114,000 square meters.
In other words, a total of 41,400 "sand and mud bricks" are needed. If two layers are to be laid, 82,800 bricks must be made.
To be honest, this is not a lot.
With the assistance of the three artifacts of storage boxes, private transactions, and small manufacturers, the transportation costs and labor costs are greatly reduced.
Generally, Qin Zhenjun and Zhao Cheng work at night to transport white pine sand and mud back.
Qi Yuan is responsible for making it into "sand and mud bricks" during the day. In almost one day, more than 14,000 bricks can be made.
In this way, all bricks can be made in about a week.
While thinking in his mind, he controlled the "small manufacturer" to make sand and mud bricks.
However, at this moment, Qi Yuan suddenly discovered that there were many thumb-sized holes in the white pine sand nearby.
In the holes, long tentacles were vaguely extended.
Qi Yuan was stunned for a moment, and casually opened the sand pile, and saw the creatures in it at a glance.
There were many light yellow transparent river shrimps, which were constantly flopping in the sand.
They were about 10 cm long, and looked similar to the river shrimps we eat daily, and they looked very plump.
Qi Yuan was delighted. He didn't expect that he could harvest a kind of food in the process of collecting white pine sand.
This kind of river shrimp was probably hiding in the white pine sand to rest, but was directly picked up by the spirit turtle.
Take out the "Mist Survival Manual" to check the meaning of this river shrimp.
As expected, it is a good-grade ingredient.
[Name: White Pine Shrimp (Good Grade)
Function: High-quality river shrimp, rich in nutrition.
Introduction: Lives in rivers with fast-flowing water, and the meat is extremely elastic. 】
This is a very good ingredient, whether it is blanched or made into shrimp paste, it is very good.
"Next time I have hot pot, there will be one more ingredient!" Qi Yuan thought to himself.
He called a few people from the digging reservoir next to him. He asked them to turn over the white pine sand and pick out all the white pine shrimps inside.
Unexpectedly, there were really a lot of them hidden inside.
It took more than two hours to find all the white pine shrimps, filling two wooden barrels.
Qi Yuan poured most of the white pine shrimps into the pond for subsequent breeding.
Then he picked out dozens of them and gave them to Chu Wenxi to make them into today's dinner.
In this way, there is one more job before making bricks every day - picking out the white pine shrimps.
But this is also worth it, and it doesn't waste much time.
In this way, everyone divided the work and cooperated, and Qi Yuan completed the daily work in an orderly manner.
And the progress of the reservoir was also steadily improving.
7 days passed quickly.
The total amount of sand and mud bricks far exceeded expectations, reaching 130,000 pieces.
The excavation of the reservoir has been completed by one third.
Although the speed is fast, it has not met everyone's expectations.
And most importantly, the temperature outside has continued to rise recently, and the temperature at noon has reached 52.53℃.
The surface temperature reached over 65℃, and we have to be thankful that this is in the foggy world.
If the ground in the city is asphalt or concrete road, the surface should have reached over 80℃.
And as the high temperature continues, the amount of water in many rivers has begun to decrease significantly.
Some smaller rivers have completely dried up.
The high temperature above 40℃ has lasted for more than 10 days, and there is no sign of fading.
This is far beyond the survivors' expectations.
The cold wave lasted only seven days. Everyone thought that the high temperature was likely to be the same.
But this time, everyone was wrong after all!
Therefore, Qi Yuan and the other five were indeed a little anxious, and they had to speed up the progress and build the reservoir as soon as possible.
Because soon, all the survivors will be in a state of severe water shortage.
The water sources on the surface will become less and less, and the opportunity to obtain a large amount of fresh water will become less and less.
By then, even if a reservoir is built, there will be no water source for storage.
So next, Qi Yuan and the other five also joined the excavation of the reservoir.
Using "dimensional backpacks", "storage boxes" and "private transactions" greatly increased the speed of excavation.
The task of the 49 workers was to shovel the soil into the storage boxes.
After filling, they were directly sent over using "private transactions".
In this way, the progress was greatly improved.
30 storage boxes, a total of 150 cubic meters, plus 5 dimensional backpacks, 40 cubic meters, a total of 190 cubic meters.
It took only two days to clean up all the remaining soil.
A 100m x 100m square pit appeared in the middle of the underground shelter.
The next brick and stone laying was completed by everyone together.
Because the number of "sand and mud bricks" was much higher than expected, in order to make the reservoir more solid, everyone decided to lay three layers directly.
130,000 "sand and mud bricks", distributed to each person, actually only more than 2,300.
It also took two days to successfully complete the construction of the entire reservoir.
Of course, the quality of the "sand and mud bricks" played a very important role in this process.
Each "sand and mud brick" is square and of the same size, and fits together perfectly, just like stacking blocks.
This makes the entire construction process incredibly smooth.