Chapter 31: Growing Vegetables

Chapter 31: Growing Vegetables



Squatting on the balcony, Yao Ran took out several planting pots and soil, as well as a few sprouted potatoes. She then cut the potato sprouts, mixed wood ash with water, coated the cut edges, and planted the potatoes into pots.

Yao Ran planted 20 pots of potatoes on the spacious balcony. When she was done with the potatoes, she planted several pots of garlic, green onions, rapeseed, cabbage, water spinach, and chicken feather vegetables. She then used some hollow hooks to hang the pots on the iron railing.

After filling the balcony with planting pots, Yao Ran went to an empty bedroom. Seeing that the bedroom had no windows, she decided to grow mushrooms there.

The mushrooms tasted great, with a meaty flavor and texture. They are also rich in fiber and contain vitamins, zinc, potassium, and micronutrients.

In a world where food is scarce, and it is hard to grow fresh vegetables or fruits, mushrooms are very popular as vitamin and mineral supplements. Yao Ran bought many tools and growing kits for growing mushrooms in Haicheng City before, and she can use them now.

The easiest way to grow mushrooms indoors is to use pre-inoculated logs. The mushrooms can be harvested in ten days, and once harvested, she can let them grow naturally before harvesting again. The high-quality mushroom-growing kit she purchased allows the pre- inoculated logs to grow mushrooms for several years.

Yao Ran cleaned the room first and then took out several mushroom-growing kits. She placed the pre-inoculated logs around the room and planted a variety of mushrooms, including oyster mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, white mushrooms, and black poplar mushrooms.

She then covered the logs with clean burlap to maintain moisture. After she was done, Yao Ran went to another empty bedroom.

In the second room, she planted tomatoes, cucumbers, green peppers, hot peppers, and other vegetables. After adjusting the light and temperature, Yao Ran closed the door.

When she came out, it was raining heavily outside. She went to the balcony and looked out.

She got out of bed, opened the thick curtains, and saw several bodies floating in the murky water below before they were swallowed by the whirlpool and disappeared.

Judging from their tattered clothes and blackened bodies, these people should have been electrocuted to death after coming into contact with water. Water levels were rising again compared with a few hours ago, and rainwater had already flooded the first floor of the apartment building.

Yao Ran took out the night vision binoculars and observed the surrounding situation. Seeing that the screams had just now woken many people, she pulled down the curtains and put away the binoculars.

She returned to bed, turned on her phone, and checked the group chat. As she expected, everyone was talking about what had just happened.

[0501: Did anyone see what just happened?]

[0203: I saw it! My God! It's really terrible! A group of young people died just like that!]

[1202: It's raining so heavily outside. What do you think about when you go out at night? Does the rain flood your brain?]

[0701: Upstairs, be careful with what you say. You never know when you will be forced to go out due to circumstances.]

[0904: Does anyone have medicine at home? My son has a fever. Please help me. I'd pay double- no, triple the market price!]

Yao Ran read the chat for a while and then switched to the news online.

After the water level rose, many requests for help appeared on the Internet. Unfortunately, the overwhelming number of new posts quickly submerged the requests.