Evening on the 16th.
The sunset glow spread across the Big Camphor Tree Base, drying the rice and cleaned sweet potato slices laid out on the cent road.
To preserve these items for a long ti, they must be dried in the sun and wind.
Generally, rice becos sufficiently dry after three days of sun exposure.
Li Yu stood on the wall, watching the rice spread out on the cent road in the Outer City. Under the dim yellow sunlight, the golden rice looked particularly beautiful.
Second Uncle stood next to him, seeing Li Yu's furrowed brow, he said, "Xiao Yu, it looks like you're troubled by sothing. Our greenhouse has already been harvested, so there's no need to worry too much."
Li Yu shook his head and said, "It's nothing, I'm not worried. By the way, has the harvest been tallied?"
Second Uncle took a notebook from his pocket, opened a few pages, and said, "The rice hasn't completely dehydrated yet. From the 120 acres of land, the rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, and other staples have been roughly tallied but not yet dried completely.
The weight with moisture is: the rice yield is 48 tons, after drying and using machinery it's about 36 tons; corn is 10 tons, sweet potatoes are 10 tons, and potatoes are 5 tons, totaling 61 tons of staples. ....
Li Yu calculated: ignoring the temperature in the greenhouse, the rice has a growing period of about 3 to 4 months per season, achieving three harvests a year.
This ans the annual staple yield can reach 183 tons, considering that the rice isn't hulled and the corn has cores, a rough estimate of 80% gives about 146 tons.
Calculating an average of one pound of food per person per day, it can sustain over 800 people.
Currently, the total population of the Inner and Outer City at the Big Camphor Tree Base is less than 400 people.
With the current food supply, it can fulfill the food needs of everyone at the base, plus exchange supplies for Cooperative Personnel, and basic subsidies for Extra Staff.
There's even a surplus.
Li Yu quickly calculated all this in his mind and relaxed slightly.
In Doomsday, food is always the most important; weapons are secondary.
........
Why do sunset and dawn look almost the sa?
Because the endpoints and starting points are especially close.
Everything follows a cycle, repeating endlessly.
From the beginning—to the end—to the beginning—.......
After this heavy snowfall, everyone thought it was finally over and they were welcoming new hope.
What they didn't know was, another storm was just beginning.
People always long to reach goals and endpoints, only to find out after reaching an endpoint that it's just the start of sothing new.
Over ti, people beco like a hamr that has been ruthlessly pounded, losing motivation and passion.
Those who see through all this feel life is aningless, thinking to exist in this Doomsday world one must resist inner temptations, starve rather than resort to cannibalism, tire, and then alone walk into the darkness to die.
The forr Li Yu once considered and understood these things, but he was supported by the idea that living poorly is better than dying well.
Once reborn, he began to gradually understand and found the answer.
Focusing on the aning of living itself is aningless, not deliberately seeking aning but using one's body to experience everything in the present, that is the greatest aning.
Only do what you love, don't waste ti, maintaining a clear focus.
He didn't care about others' opinions.
......
The fifty-plus Cooperative Personnel left, walking slowly when departing, but they ultimately left.
Li Yu watched them leave, as if foreseeing their fate soon.
.....
The sun was slowly sinking.
Suddenly.
Li Yu saw He Chao and his team preparing to collect the rice dried through the afternoon, and quickly shouted to him: "He Chao, don't gather the rice, it can keep drying tomorrow!"
He Chao looked up, seeing Li Yu speaking to him, but didn't hear clearly because the distance was too far.
He then took out a walkie-talkie and asked: "Director Li, what did you just say, I couldn't hear clearly."
Li Yu took out his walkie-talkie and told He Chao: "I said, don't collect the rice, keep drying tomorrow, gathering it tonight just to dry again tomorrow is a waste of ti."
He Chao stood there, apparently stunned for a few seconds.
"Do you want to station people here to watch over tonight?" He Chao asked.
Li Yu looked at the vast amount of rice; the solar-powered lamps on the cent road, and said: "Sure, arrange for people to watch over it tonight."
"Alright." He Chao replied, then instructed the others helping gather the rice to put it back.
......
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Outside Hang City.
Sparse woods, fallen leaves decaying, with so dew on them.
The ground was damp.
Xu Chengcai tightly covered his nine-year-old son's mouth, telling him not to make any sound.
His son listened to the screams coming from over there, his body shaking like a sieve.
He warily peeked out and nervously watched the group not far away.
The group held various weapons, surrounding the two won in the middle.
"Brother Zhang, enjoy! Hahaha." A filthy-faced man, covered with rash, said with a grin.
His teeth were crooked, yellow, and black, simply looking at them was disgusting.
A burly man chuckled twice and unabashedly unbuckled his belt, heading over.
The shrill screams echoed in the sunset.
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