Who knows! As soon as I returned to the mountains to farm, I encountered a natural disaster.

For dinner, we had smoked chicken stewed with soybeans.

The beans soaked in advance are stewed until soft and glutinous, and the chicken is rubbed with salt before being smoked, and the meat has turned a hint of red.

The soup is infused with the saltiness of the chicken and exudes a special smoky aroma. You know it will be delicious even before you taste it.

Zhao Yeqing ate what was in the bowl and what was in the pot, still thinking about what was not there.

She missed the bacon made by Feng Chunyan.

Her favorite food is actually cured pig's trotters, and the stewed soup is so delicious.

Next time a wild boar comes to eat her food, she will show no mercy.

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The construction of stables takes a long time.

The construction was completed in the morning of the second day.

Learning from the experience of heavy rains some time ago, the foundation of the stables was not only deep, but also a waterproof platform was built underneath to prevent water from seeping in during another heavy rain.

The wooden boards in the front are also removable up and down, and are fully closed during the rainy season. When it doesn't rain, the upper part of the board can be removed to facilitate feeding, and the lower part can also be opened to lead the horse out.

The original bathroom and toilet had some problems after the heavy rain.

The foundation is not stable enough, and there is some water leakage at the top. Fortunately, the pool under the toilet is drained. When the water level reaches a certain height, it will be drained down the steep slope in the distance along the bamboo pipes buried in the soil, and there will be no reverse seepage.

The mature vegetables grown in the greenhouse were picked, and the remaining beans continued to grow on the vines.

Leafy vegetables need to be re-seeded and planted. Fortunately, the weather is good now, so you don't need to worry about raising seedlings indoors and transplanting them. You can just sow them directly in the ground.

The soil after the rain had a serious loss of nutrients, so Zhao Yeqing remixed a lot of sheep manure into the soil.

Well-rotted manure has high fertility but will not burn roots. It can make dry and compacted soil suitable for planting again.

Mu Xi repaired the toilet and bathroom at home, while Zhao Yeqing took Xiaohong out to eat grass.

By the way, I brought back the mushrooms I didn't pick yesterday.

Zhao Yeqing tied a rope between the two bamboo baskets and put the rope on the horse's back, so that there was a basket hanging on Xiaohong's left and right sides.

He went out with the rope and put away the trap.

All three traps yielded no results. It is estimated that after the rain, the animals ran away to find a place to take shelter from the rain and have not returned yet.

Zhao Yeqing rearranged the trap and walked near the stream, hoping to collect the fungi he found yesterday.

Yesterday there were only a few white spots on the ground, but today they are all growing out.

One by one, each one is about the size of an egg.

This is puffball fungus.

Different from other fungi, it consists of the upper part of the cap and the lower part of the bacilli.

This fungus looks like a whole, is round, white and fat, and can grow very big.

Zhao Yeqing didn't want to wait any longer. Sometimes puffballs wouldn't grow big and would grow old in a few days, so they couldn't be eaten.

Fresh puffballs look like king oyster mushrooms when cut open, and their flesh is white and firm.

When it gets old, it turns brown, and the flesh inside will all turn to gray, containing a large number of spores, which will spray out like a smoke bomb when poked with your hand.

Zhao Yeqing let Xiao Hong eat grass next to him, while he picked up mushrooms along the way. After picking up a handful, he put it in the basket, led Xiao Hong forward for a while, and then continued to pick up.

By the time we reached the lake, both baskets were already half full.

Today the water level at the lake seems to have receded slightly, revealing the original beach.

On the beach closest to the lake, the grass is not very lush, and the ground is mostly sandy soil.

Zhao Yeqing led Xiao Hong and walked slowly by the lake. The breeze blew gently and the sun was warm, but it was blocked by white clouds from time to time, and then came out again.

Time seemed to slow down.

The lake is very deep. When approaching the edge of the lake, the water that sometimes surges towards the shore due to the wind is still quite clear. However, just two steps further into the lake, the water changes from clear to blue.

Two steps away is like a cliff.

The deep lake is as mysterious as the deep sea, no one knows what is underneath.

Especially this kind of lake on the plateau mountains.

She wasn't sure about the altitude of the lake, but it was definitely higher than the meadow and Meishan.

This area was already very familiar to Xiao Hong, so Zhao Yeqing let go of the reins and let it find grass on its own.

The strong winds some time ago broke many broken branches, including some saplings less than a year old.

Zhao Yeqing found a long, fresh, and resilient one and came back, and gathered another handful of pampas grass by the lake.

The pampas grass poles are tough, so Zhao Yeqing used the pampas grass poles to weave a small basket in just a few strokes.

Her craftsmanship is not very good. The hastily knitted workmanship is rough and there are many gaps in the middle.

But it's enough for fishing.

The basket is only the size of a mineral water bottle. Insert the wooden stick from top to bottom into the gap between the canes of the basket and tighten it.

There was no shortage of bait on the sand of the lake beach. Zhao Yeqing dug up a few earthworms and caught several crickets, all of which were stuffed into the gaps between the rattan at the bottom of the basket.

He grabbed the stick and carried the basket into the lake, a few points down.

Unlike bamboo, wooden sticks are not as tough and cannot feel much about underwater conditions.

Zhao Yeqing counted the time, and when it was almost one minute, he immediately lifted the basket and pulled it back.

The moment she lifted it up, the lake water in the basket leaked out from the gap on the side. After pulling it over, she looked inside.

Three or four fish that are as long as a palm and as wide as three fingers are jumping around in it.

It was estimated to be six taels in size. It looked like some kind of carp, and it was different from the ones sold in the market.

It is estimated that not many people usually come to fish in this lake, or it may be because the west side has been developed into a tourist attraction and fishing is prohibited.

This fish was particularly stupid. It got into the basket and couldn't get out.

I think there were people visiting this lake before.

When she was picking pampas grass just now, she also picked up a plastic bag that had been washed up by the lake and faded.

Zhao Yeqing washed the plastic bag, filled it with water, and put the fish in it.

The next one plans to follow the same pattern.

This time she did not choose the original location, but found a place with aquatic plants, and there happened to be a branch of a creek here.

Zhao Yeqing inserted the basket into the water in front of the diverter, where it was blocked by plants.

The water here is relatively shallow and people's shadows are easily reflected.

She took a few steps back and waited for two minutes before coming over to look at the basket.

There were more than a dozen small willow fish inside vying to bite the bait under the basket. They felt that the top of their heads was shrouded in shadow, and they wanted to run away in a hurry.

But the fish were so crowded that they couldn't escape at all, so they could only dig their heads down to the bottom of the basket.

Zhao Yeqing picked up the basket, took out the stick and threw it away, and walked back with the basket full of small fish.

After being out for more than two hours, I gained a lot.

Zhao Yeqing took Xiao Hong, who was full, and put all the puffballs in a basket, and then put a basket of small fish in a basket on the side.