In the last days, I saved the earth by planting

Chapter 2 The Cottage

Wujiang County is a relatively remote county seat in Southwest Rong Province, with many mountains. In the past two years, every village has built a rural road.

There are 58 households in Shuiba Village. Because there is a large lake in the village, the houses will be very humid near the water. Most of the houses are built on the mountainside or on the top of the mountain.

The so-called neighbors are actually separated by a short distance. If something happens, people on the nearby hills can hear it. Most of the people in the village this month are middle-aged and elderly people and left-behind children. , young and middle-aged people have gone to work in the city.

Yan Xiaomi's home is located on the hillside of a small hill 500 meters away from the country road. The house is a Chinese-style rural villa built only three years ago with blue bricks and black tiles. Yan's parents are authentic farmers and provide for their two children. Going to school is already very difficult, so naturally there is no money to build a new house. The money to build the house is Yan Liang's salary for several years of work and bonuses for major scientific research achievements.

Parents are loving, and the two brothers and sisters are also extremely filial to the Gu family. One goes to school at home to help his parents with things, and the other works hard to save money to improve the life of the family. The two have been in love since childhood.

When his parents passed away, Yan Xiaomi was in his third year of high school, and Yan Liang was working in Shanghai.

After finishing the funeral of his parents, Yan Liang originally wanted Yan Xiaomi to transfer to Shanghai to go to school so that he could take care of her, but Yan Xiaomi felt that there was only one semester left, and most of the time she lived in school, so she could take care of herself at home and wait for the college entrance examination next semester After all, since she has always maintained the first grade in the first high school in the county, she should have no problem entering the university in Shanghai.

Even though the folk customs in the village are simple and honest, Yan Liang is still worried that she is a girl alone at home, so he demolished the red brick courtyard wall that was half a person high, and rebuilt it with stones and cement into a [-]-centimeter-thick and two-meter-high courtyard wall. The top of the wall is filled with sharp broken glass; the gates are two one-meter-wide Class A steel security doors, with pure copper locks. In addition to the six two-finger-thick steel bolts in the middle of the lock body, there are two heaven and earth locks inserted into the ground. And in the courtyard wall, no one can open it without fingerprints and special keys. I am a little relieved thinking that there are wolfdogs and tabby cats who have been raised since childhood to watch the house as companions.

In addition to the house, the entire yard has nearly an acre of open space in the front and back yards.

Part of the front yard is used as a drying dam to dry grain, and part of it is planted with longan, oranges, red dates, and peppercorns.

A trellis was set up in the backyard to plant some grapes, wax gourds and bitter gourds. Several clusters of Seven Sisters were planted at the foot of the wall in the front and back yards. Yes, this flower is easy to feed, blooms well, and smells good.

The house consists of three floors, with five rooms on the first floor. There is a living room in the middle, and two large warehouses on the left, one for storing grain and one for storing sundries; There are three kitchen rooms extending from the wall. Next to the dining room is a spacious and tidy large kitchen. A slightly smaller room is divided into bathroom and bathroom. The pigsty, but there are no more pigs. The manure tank is under the barn, and the sewage pipes of the house are connected here, and the livestock manure is used.

There are also five rooms on the second floor, three bedrooms with bathrooms, and two guest rooms. The roof of the livestock house just becomes an extended terrace on the second floor, where you can relax and enjoy the shade while watching the lake and mountains.

Half of the third floor is a large cistern. There is no running water in the countryside. It is pumped into the cistern from underground wells, and then the taps can come out.A solar water heater and several solar panels are installed on the top of the pool to provide lighting and hot water for the home.The other half is a glass sun room, which is an activity area specially built by Yan Liang. It is equipped with projectors and speakers, where you can watch movies, grow some flowers, read books, put a few deck chairs, and sleep late on rainy days. Looking at the scenery, it is not too comfortable, this is the place where the whole family likes to stay.

The windows are all equipped with iron anti-theft windows and tempered glass, so there should be no problem; Brother Sunshine insists on using the best multi-layer explosion-proof laminated glass, which is safe and durable. Fortunately, he didn’t listen to his father’s advice and used cheap ones to save money.

The reason why Yan Liang spent almost all of his savings over the years to build the house so well, using all the materials, is because he had made an agreement with Yan Xiaomi that when they retire in the future, they will go back to their hometown and live together in a group for the elderly. The scenery in the mountains is beautiful Well, plant flowers and vegetables, drink tea, eat pollution-free fruits, go fishing and boating in the lake, and walk around in the mountains, which is more comfortable than in the city.

Looking at the grain again, the family has no shortage of money to sell the grain harvested last year. There are still more than 2000 catties of millet in the barn. There are about [-] catties of wheat in several large tanks; there are more threshed corns, because they are often crushed at home and used to feed chickens and ducks. There are two big jars, weighing about five or six catties, and more than a dozen large and small kimchi jars. This is the specialty of Rong Province, and every family pickles kimchi, which is an indispensable dish on the table.

In the utility room, generators, high-power livestock batteries, automatic household rice removers, water pumps, pulverizers, soybean milk machines, pedal rice threshers, and various agricultural tools are neatly placed in the room, displaying The owner takes good care of them.

These stored grains and things were all stored and purchased by strict parents and strict mothers during their lifetimes.

Let’s go to the bedroom and walk around again. Needless to say, the clothes, shoes and socks of the four seasons, the family conditions have improved these years, and the clothes have been bought. The cloakroom is full, cotton quilts, summer cool quilts, blankets, thick and thin add There are more than 20 beds. The countryside likes to make quilts. If relatives and friends come to live at home, this is definitely indispensable.

Yan's mother likes to make the quilt at home fluffy, soft and comfortable. When the sun is hot, she often turns it out to dry, and she tidies it up very well.

Yan Xiaomi went around the house inside and out, feeling more at ease, carefully locked the doors and windows, and dug out a short-handled firewood ax and a long-handled engineering shovel from the utility room (this one was bought by Yan Liang. ) and put it in a convenient place under the eaves, only then did I have the mind to fill up my stomach for a while with a bowl of noodles.

The kitchen is relatively large, more than 20 square meters. There is an earthen stove for burning wood and a gas stove for burning gas tanks. Unscrew the gas stove to boil water and put some dried noodles. I don’t even bother to blanch a piece of green vegetable leaves. Eat down, deal with things, really not in the mood to cook.

After eating, wander around the house twice, then go back to the room and turn on the computer to browse the news and surf the forum.

Studying in high school is very stressful. Compared with his brother, Yan Xiaomi feels that he is not a particularly smart person, and he must go all out to achieve excellent results. He is afraid that he will not be able to control his addiction to mobile phones. The mobile phone uses a super long standby time. Elderly phones that can only send text messages and make phone calls basically don’t watch TV, and the computer is only turned on when you need to check study materials, and then turned off when you are done.Therefore, I missed the comments on the coming of the end of the world that have been spreading on the Internet for a long time.

As soon as I opened the webpage, the forum was full of posts about the end of the world, about zombies, and about animal mutations. The social order began to become chaotic, and pictures of zombies biting people filled the news pages and forums. It was horrible and bloody.

Yan Xiaomi glanced at the picture, then covered her mouth and went to the bathroom to spit out the noodles she just ate. She didn't rinse her mouth until there was nothing to vomit in her stomach, and went back to the computer to continue looking for what she wanted. News, but the line of sight automatically ignores those pictures.

Although I heard my brother's scary words and imagined the general appearance, but seeing the real picture, Yan Xiaomi said that he still needs time to prepare mentally, it is too scary and disgusting.

I checked the airlines and the high-speed rail station, all of them were unsurprisingly out of service. After navigating through the map, all the highways are red and blocked, and the national highway is also blocked. In such a situation, how did my brother come back?It also feels dangerous on the road.

(End of this chapter)