After searching for information about it on the star network, Zhuang Jiu found that although the red-footed tortoise was very common in the ancient planet, there are not many people raising it now.

No, no one breeds it now, because for people today, the red-footed tortoise is already considered a first-class protected animal, and they can only be seen in zoos in various cities if they want to see it.

The reason for this incident can be traced back to 1,000 years ago, when the planet at that time ushered in an extremely serious species extinction due to the endless deforestation of humans and the irregular and wanton discharge of sewage and waste water.Nearly half of all animals and insects died as a result, and many endangered species went extinct directly.

And the red-footed tortoise was almost extinct at that time.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for the alliance at that time to finally discover the problem, and after trying to remedy it, a zoo was established in various parts of the city, funded by the alliance, which housed the rescued endangered animals, and the red-footed tortoise isOne of them, even desolately, is only the last few hundred left.

I just don't know which zoo the one in front of Zhuang Jiu escaped from.

After roughly referring to the zoo and the general method of raising tortoises by people from the ancient planet, Zhuang Jiu decided to build a tortoise house with a length and width of about 7mX5m for tortoises. In addition to the stones and mud that tortoises like, she had to choose some withoutMutated weeds are put into it.

Although it is a tortoise, Zhuang Jiu also considered that a small door should be opened on the side of the tortoise house or directly connected to it, and a pond should be built next to it, so that it can also take a bath in the water.

Even small ponds can quickly become problematic if there is no pump etc. to keep the water flowing.After thinking about the location of the big pond, Zhuang Jiu felt that it would be better to put the small pond next to the big pond.

Then here comes the problem...the big pond hasn't been built yet!

After thinking quietly for a while, seeing the tortoise happily crawling around on the ground, Zhuang Jiu decided to keep things simple after thinking about it.

Politely invited the tortoise to the first floor of the villa, Zhuang Jiu opened a door and asked, "I don't know which pot you would like, so I'm going to let you pick one first, then add some water and pebbles to it later, so that you can temporarily pretendIt's a small pond."

This room is a storage room, in which there are dozens of pots, large and small. Due to material and storage issues, most of them are made of ore.

The maximum length of an ordinary red-footed tortoise is only about 45 centimeters, but this is only a variation. Even after being purified by vines, the body length has reached an astonishing 60 centimeters or more.Zhuang Jiu originally thought that these pots should be enough, but now it seems that they are all a bit small.

"If you don't think it's big enough, I can go get one now." Seeing the comparison of body shapes in front of him, Zhuang Jiu couldn't help but speak.

The tortoise nodded slowly, and then said: "Actually, you don't need to be so concerned about the old man. Although I look like a tortoise, in fact, because of the mutation, I can still live directly in the water and the sea.", That's why there are so many barnacles parasitic on my back. Just dig a hole for me, fill it with water, and put a slope so that I can climb up and down freely."

Zhuang Jiu: ...So the reason why this red-footed tortoise became what it was before is because after leaving the zoo, it went into the sea for a while?

This statement was more or less outrageous in the past, but now from the perspective of the post-apocalypse, it is also very normal.But what it said let Zhuang Jiu know that this mutated tortoise would not drown in water.

Now that Lu Gui has his own ideas, Zhuang Jiu will naturally help to achieve them.Finding a place a little farther away in the shade of the house, Zhuang Jiu put on his gloves and started digging a hole with a shovel.

During this period, Liu Yun saw Zhuang Jiu's movement from a distance, and hurried over to help. With his participation, he soon dug a big square hole.

In order for the tortoise to climb up and down easily, Zhuang Jiu and Liu Yun specially dug a slope and fixed it with wooden boards to prevent the slope and pit wall from being washed away by the water.A simple drainage channel was built next to the pit. The winery used a machine to drill a hole to connect to the underground river. A filter and pipes were placed in the hole, and the entrance was blocked with a soft plug.

Now the pit looks like a large... turtle bathtub.

While the two of them were working, the tortoise lay down and rested next to them.After they were done, they turned on the faucet, skillfully dragged the leather pipe to the edge of the pit, and poured water into it.

Although a lot of water was absorbed by the surrounding soil, the pit was filled quickly, and the tortoise seemed to have golden eyes, and jumped into the water with a plop.

As it said, after the mutation, it has similar habits to water turtles, and is not afraid of deep water, and can freely cling to the bottom of the pit nearly two meters deep without moving.

For a while, Zhuang Jiu had strong doubts and question marks about its normal name and how to call it.

Call it a tortoise, it can stay in deep water now; but call it a water turtle, it is not the same kind.

Looking at the tortoise in the water, Zhuang Jiu always felt that the previous title would completely confuse the body.

So after thinking about it, Zhuang Jiu decided to use a more respectful name-Master Hong instead of the red-footed tortoise or tortoise.

"Master Hong, are you feeling alright? If you don't feel well, I'll carry you up?" Zhuang Jiu tentatively called inside.

Master Hong remained motionless after entering, which always made her a little afraid that it was drowned.

Master Hong opened his mouth and spat out a few bubbles, and a muffled voice came from the bottom of the water: "It's okay! It's so comfortable and cool here, benefactor, do you want to try it too?"

"No, no." Zhuang Jiu breathed a sigh of relief, and continued to shout inside, "Call me at the villa if you need anything, I'll go back first."

Master Hong didn't speak any more, and spit out a few more bubbles to signal that he knew.

It was almost dark, Zhuang Jiu just went through the very physical exercise of digging a hole, and he was sleepy after returning to the villa.

Before going to bed, she still put a basin of water on the bedside table as usual, and fell asleep with peace of mind.

When she woke up in the morning, she saw the tortoise on the balcony biting the leather pipe very hard to water the vegetable field. By the way, it was exactly as it said, the tortoise on its abdomen was turned up, and when it was crawling, it was stillCan easily loosen the soil.

Because the rice was planted in the second season, the three people in Zhuang Jiu did not harvest all the rice plants when they harvested last time, but left 1/3 of the plants and roots still in the field.Originally, during this period of time, she still needed to fertilize and cultivate it, so that the rice would continue to grow.

Master Hong obviously knew about the so-called second crop rice, and also knew that this field was still in use, so he dragged the leather pipe to water the rice, and by the way, when he thought Zhuang Jiu didn't know, he gave each rice seedlingThey all "bite" a bite.

Zhuang Jiu: ...Sometimes I hate how good my eyesight is. I can clearly see the rice seedling that just grew suddenly from the villa to the balcony.

After finishing all this, Master Hong returned to the edge of the "bathtub" with the leather pipe in his mouth, drained the water and refilled the pit with water, and then sank comfortably to the bottom of the pit.

The morning's work has been robbed, Zhuang Jiu thought about it, it just so happened that the weather has been better recently, and the harvested rice has almost dried, and finally it is ready to be threshed.

Because the quantity is not large, Zhuang Jiu decided to make a thresher a long time ago.Just when the rice was harvested some time ago, the thresher was also assembled by her.

In order to save energy, this thresher uses feet to drive the internal operation. Two people work together much faster, so after Zhuang Jiu finished eating, he dragged Tang Panpan to a special small room in the laboratory.By the way, he dragged a piece of rice on the first floor of the villa.

The threshing machine is not big. After Zhuang Jiu installed the partitions, Tang Panpan was responsible for stepping on the pedals to drive the gears, and the gears drove the bow-toothed rollers in the middle to rotate to achieve the purpose of threshing.The winery is only responsible for putting the rice in, and it can be taken out when it is about the same time.

Under the threshing machine is a device for picking up rice, where all the threshed millet will be gathered so that Zhuang Jiu and the others can take it out after threshing.

The yield of normal rice per mu is about 1,000 jin.Although Zhuang Jiu was planting for the first time, because the soil had been transformed by vines, he harvested about 1,400 catties of rice this time.It took almost three hours for the two to work together, and they produced about 280 catties of rice.

These paddies have to be hulled and the bran layer removed before they can get the rice they buy in supermarkets today.As for the next steps, Zhuang Jiu has to wait for some videos on the star network to think more about it.

Pack the removed rice and store it in the underground ice cellar. This time, the work is almost done. After that, wait for the remaining crops to mature, pick off the remaining crops, and then loosen the land and wait.Sowing next year.

The weather was so hot that Zhuang Jiu felt that the time had passed extremely long even holding the ice ore. After thinking about it, he went to the underground ice cellar and took out a watermelon that had been in a frozen state and was bought from the supermarket earlier.

After washing his hands, he cut open the watermelon with a single knife, and the red sandy flesh was instantly reflected in the eyes of Zhuang Jiu, and a sweet breath rushed towards him.

"Cut a watermelon, let's ask Shang Liu Yun to eat it together." Zhuang Jiu cut up the watermelon and took it to the living room. Tang Panpan was reading a book in his arms. Hearing this, he turned his head in surprise: "Ah, sister! IJust come! How embarrassing this is!"

As she spoke, she quickly packed up all the things in the living room, and then picked up the walkie-talkie: "Can you hear Liuyun Liuyun? Hurry up and eat watermelon!"

In order to facilitate communication with Liu Yun, Zhuang Jiu dug out a few walkie-talkies from the underground ice cellar.

Under the powerful signal of Leisure Winery, this walkie-talkie does not need to use energy, but it can be transmitted to another walkie-talkie through the signal base station by speaking directly.

So in the past few days, this walkie-talkie has become the main tool for calling Liu Yun up for dinner.

This moment also happens to come in handy.

Soon Liu Yun came to the living room.

The watermelon is cut into a size that is just right for the mouth, and it is sweet and refreshing after one bite. Although it is sandy, it is sweet but not greasy, and it has a lot of juice, which is very thirst-quenching.It couldn't be better.

A 20-jin watermelon was divided up by three people within half an hour.

There was nothing wrong with Xia Tian, Liu Yun complied with Zhuang Jiu's words after eating, but continued to take out his crystal ball in the living room and began to "cast spells".

According to what he said, although the book says that you should try not to divination if you have nothing to do, but some fortune-tellers will choose some things every day to maintain their "spiritual power" in order to ensure the feeling of hand.

Anyway, it looks gimmicky, but Zhuang Jiu just feels magical.

Tang Panpan continued to read her book on the sofa after tidying up, and Zhuang Jiu also opened the star network, preparing to write some small programs to exercise his hands.

The three of them are in the same space harmoniously and quietly. Although no one speaks and they are all doing their own things, they always feel that this state is quite perfect.

After an unknown amount of time, a strange, pure and gentle voice of a young man broke the quiet space.

"elder sister."

The three looked up at the same time, looking at the silver-haired boy who suddenly appeared in the living room.

The author has something to say:

Master Hong (lying on the bottom of the pit without moving): It’s so cool, you need to take more baths in summer!!!

ps: Part of the rice/red-footed tortoise knowledge comes from Baidu, and there are a lot of private settings~ (It is enough to raise a tortoise in shallow water for a bath, and the water level is about to reach the skirt of the tortoise. In the article... um, a private setting, thank you for understanding~)