Inner City.
Greenhouse.
Li Yu stood in the middle of the greenhouse, looking around, lush with greenery.
After the relocation here, the seedlings quickly adapted to the environnt. After being watered a few tis, their growth accelerated.
Seeing the seedlings trembling with droplets on them, Li Yu was in a great mood.
The greenhouse was quite tall and arch-shaped, with the lowest part at the edges being 4.5 ters high, and the highest point in the middle at 6 ters.
With the height of a two-story building, the view was excellent.
The expanse before him was filled with tender green seedlings; there was quite a variety of crops grown in this greenhouse.
Sweet potatoes, corn, potatoes, and so rice, among others.
Although they were basically Southern people, accustod to eating rice from a young age, cultivating rice now required quite a lot of water resources, so they had to add other types of crops.
Like sweet potatoes, almost every part of them can be eaten, and they are easy to grow.
Sweet potato leaves can also be used as stir-fried vegetables, and they taste quite good.
Outside the greenhouse, it was still snowing heavily. This snow seed as if it would never stop, snowing every morning when they woke up and still snowing every night when they went to sleep.
It had been snowing for over twenty consecutive days.
An automatic snow-clearing machine was installed on the top of the greenhouse, combined with the greenhouse's curved slope design, minimizing the impact of snow accumulation on the greenhouse.
The surrounding snow was too thick, if not cleared, the snow inside the base would already be two ters high.
Now, the snowplow operated three tis a day, clearing snow within the Inner and Outer City.
At the very least, they had to ensure that roads to various locations were passable. These days, He Chao and Deng Ben were the busiest in the base, taking turns clearing the snow from inside and outside the base three tis a day.
Woosh—
In the greenhouse, Li Yu watched the top snow-clearing machine automatically cleaning the accumulated snow, pushing the snowflakes down to the ground with a rustle.
On either side of the greenhouse, several ters of snow were stacked. Although it had been cleared before, it accumulates again quickly.
It wouldn't collapse the greenhouse but could form an insulating layer, so they didn't bother with it anymore.
"An Ya, if there's any problem next ti, just call . If I can't resolve it, I'll find soone else to help," Li Yu said to An Ya, who was busy in the greenhouse.
An Ya looked up and said to Li Yu, "Alright, Director Li, thank you for coming over."
Li Yu waved his hand and walked to the greenhouse door, taking his coat and hat, looking at a screen showing:
Outside temperature: -45℃; Inside temperature: 21℃.
The temperature difference between inside and outside reached 66 degrees, which was indeed exaggerated.
This snow just had to keep on falling.
Once outside the greenhouse, Li Yu saw that the snow on the ground was already about ten centiters thick again. He Chao and the others had just cleared it in the morning, and after such a short ti!
It seed that they needed to clear the snow more diligently.
Stepping on the snow, leaving footprints with each step.
Amidst the falling snow, he headed towards the wall.
He had to inspect the wall daily, just like his routine exercise.
So tasks needed regular checks, or they would deteriorate.
The wall was the crucial area protecting the base.
If they slacked off, it would endanger everyone's safety in the base.
This place always needed vigilance.
Besides Li Yu, Second Uncle and Uncle also ca to check it almost daily.
Uncle spent most of his ti on the wall.
Upon reaching the wall, he saw soone shoveling snow.
Bundled up tightly, it was hard to tell who it was.
Upon getting closer, Li Yu guessed from the figure that it was Song Min, who noticed Li Yu as well.
In the wind and snow, Song Min waved at Li Yu.
Li Yu approached and said to Song Min, "Why are you shoveling alone? Dapao should be on duty today too, right?"
Song Min pointed in the opposite direction, where a person could vaguely be seen shoveling snow as well.
Li Yu understood.
He shouted to Song Min, "Where's my Second Uncle? In the duty room?"
In the wind and snow, speaking loudly was necessary, or it would be hard to hear.
Song Min, having heard Li Yu's inquiry, shouted, "Yes, they're all in the duty room."
Li Yu didn't inquire further and walked towards the duty room.
Fresh snowflakes settled on the wall again after being shoveled, as though they could never clear it completely.
But without regularly removing the snow from the wall, more ti would be needed for clearing it within a couple of days, so they might as well shovel it frequently.
At the duty room entrance, the blast-resistant glass had a layer of water vapor, making it hard to see inside from outside.
Li Yu shook off the snow from his body at the door and pushed the door to enter.
Upon entering, Uncle, Second Uncle, and Zhou Weiguo paused and all eyes turned to Li Yu.
"Xiao Yu, you're here? Just in ti, there's sothing to discuss with you," Second Uncle said as he saw Li Yu coming in.
Li Yu raised his eyebrows, uncertain of what Second Uncle wanted to say.
Usually, Second Uncle handled the basic chores in the base.
Human energy is limited, Li Yu couldn't take on everything, so he often assigned people to the right positions and focused on overseeing the big picture.
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