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

Zhao Yeqing climbed down from the observation tower and became more determined to plan how to survive. The situation outside was now worse than expected.

Human thinking is very strange. When they see greater suffering, they feel that their own suffering is nothing.

She carried a basket on her back when she went up the mountain, planning to pick some wild vegetables and go back.

There is a small stream under the spring, and there is a small pool halfway up the mountain where the streams converge. The pool is crystal clear, and the deepest part is slightly green. Some small fish and shrimps can be faintly seen in the cracks in the nearby stones. This kind of small fish is called willow root fish. , wild willow root fish will only live in places where the water quality is pollution-free and the environment is good.

Zhao Yeqing observed that there were quite a lot of small fish. She could come over in a few days and try to catch a few. Fried small fish was her favorite when she was a child. The small fish raised in this natural and pollution-free water source can be cooked directly in the water. The soup doesn't have any fishy smell and tastes extremely delicious.

I couldn't help but swallow as I thought about it.

There are a lot of bracken next to the pool in spring. Now is the tenderest season. This is her goal.

The fresh bracken only needs a little force with your fingers to break off, and it will make a crisp sound.

In addition to eating fresh bracken, pickled bracken is also delicious. Although eating too much pickled vegetables is not good for your health, she thinks it doesn't hurt to change the taste occasionally.

I pinched a lot of bracken and put it in my backpack. I also saw a lot of sageweed on the way home.

The leaves of this grass are green and whitish, with yellow flowers growing on them. The wormwood that grows around Qingming is also another type of mugwort with a fresh fragrance. This is what their Qingming glutinous rice cakes are made of.

Spring is the season for eating wild vegetables. Zhao Yeqing feels that even if she doesn't plant anything in spring, the mountains can still support her.

Her stomach was growling when she got home, and she had to restart the wood stove at home after the power went out.

I have been so busy weeding these days that I don't have the energy to cook a proper meal. I boil water to make instant noodles and eat them. With such fresh wild vegetables today, Zhao Yeqing plans to treat himself to a good meal.

Open the faucet and the water will flow out normally. After running it for a while, the water will be completely clear. Wash the bracken under the water, then cut off a piece of bacon and scrape off the black ash on it with a knife.

The bacon here in the countryside is all smoked, and she personally thinks it tastes better than the dried one.

Boil the bacon and cut into thin slices. Chop the garlic and pepper. Heat oil in a pan. Add the pepper and garlic and stir-fry until fragrant. Add the bacon. When the bacon is fried and sizzling with oil, add the chopped bracken. The bacon itself has Salty, just sprinkle a little more salt on it and it's ready to serve.

Stir-fried bacon with bracken. The smoked bacon is crystal clear and full of flavor. The fresh bracken is crispy and spicy in the mouth. Accompanied by the rice steamed by firewood, Zhao Yeqing immediately realized that his rice was under-steamed after one bite. .

This is definitely a solid meal, nothing that can’t be eaten with three bowls of rice.

There was no refrigerator to keep the food cold, so she adhered to the principle of finishing everything without any leftovers, so there was nothing left on the plate.

She rubbed her belly and spread it out on the wooden bench. Grandma said that if she works after eating, her intestines will break, so she took a nap with peace of mind.

When I woke up the sun was already heading west.

The chickens were clucking outside the door. There was a little black chicken that was particularly shy. It always wanted to peck the big white goose, but every time it wanted to do something mean, it would be bitten on the head by the big white goose, and then it could only curse. ran back to the chickens.

Zhao Yeqing stared at the time, it was four thirty in the afternoon.

I went out with a bag of fertilizer and sprinkled it on the newly cultivated vegetable garden as base fertilizer. I will come over tomorrow to sow seeds. I used sheep manure as the base fertilizer, which I bought together with the seeds. Unlike granular fertilizers, animal manure is mild in nature and will not damage the seeds. Excess nutrients burn out seeds and seedlings, but fertility is abundant.

Because the vegetable garden was large this time, she did not plan to raise any more seedlings. When she woke up early the next morning, Zhao Yeqing came to the vegetable garden and planted seeds directly in the ground.

Sow the vegetables in the leafy area first, which is the area with the fastest harvest. I chose cabbage, lettuce, spinach and sow them. These vegetables can be harvested one month after they emerge.

Then there are fruit and vegetables. She has planted tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants in the yard. In the vegetable garden, she plans to plant a few peppers. In the yard, she grows spicy millet. Outside, she wants to plant string peppers, thin-skinned green peppers, and colored peppers. She will also plant a few autumn peppers. sunflower.

The seeds of okra are very hard, so she soaked them in warm water overnight in advance, so that the germination rate would be greatly improved if they were planted today.

The growth cycle of okra is not short. Calculating the time, it should not be eaten until midsummer.

Cowpeas, green beans and cucumbers are planted in the climbing vegetable area. Since they will be put on shelves later, the intervals in the middle are relatively wide and there is no waste around the edges. Onions, ginger and garlic are planted in the gaps of the reserved shelf space.

Potatoes and sweet potatoes are more troublesome. It is best to let buds grow on the stems before transplanting. It is reasonable to plant them directly. She has not done it before, but only glanced at it in a book about growing vegetables at home.

Crossing the river by feeling the stones, Zhao Yeqing tried everything he could think of. He took out the potatoes and sweet potatoes and cut them into pieces. The most annoying little holes in the sweet potatoes when peeling them were the growth points where sprouts would sprout. Make sure to leave one or two on each piece. Eye.

Bury potatoes and sweet potatoes into the soil with the cut side down and the growing points facing up, and pour water.

Leave a few cut surfaces and put them into the water with the growing points facing up. First, hydroponically cultivate the budding points before planting.

The vegetable garden has been initially established.

For reference, the material is limited and the size is not accurate (I tried my best QAQ)

Zhao Yeqing wanted to let the geese roam around so that no snakes would come around.

But she was also afraid that the goose would not be willing to go back once it came out and would end up running into the woods, so she could only give up the idea for the time being.

Unless she fenced the big vegetable garden.

Zhao Yeqing looked around, more than two hundred square meters surrounded...

emmm...

Next time.

The big tree that had fallen down behind the yard was still next to the fence. It happened to brush against the fence and its fallen branches stretched into the yard, which was very unsafe.

The original fence was made smooth and snakes generally couldn't climb it, but now there is a big tree as a ladder, maybe even if there are geese, snakes won't be able to get in, but what if there are other small animals.

Meishan had seen leopards running onto the road before, but that was when she was very young, and she never heard of it again.

Grandpa said that those animals are now in the mountains and rarely come out, but who can tell now.

Although the fence may not be able to stop the leopard without the tree.

There was a long hand saw in the tool room. Zhao Yeqing wanted to try sawing off the branches that protruded into the wall first. She had only sawed dry wood before, and this was her first time. She didn't expect it to be so difficult.

After all, he is a former forest ranger. Even if it is no longer a protected area, the trees on the mountain will not be cut down at will. The firewood at home is picked from dead branches.

The moisture in the tree trunks made it harder for the saw to slide. Zhao Yeqing only cut two branches in half an hour, and he couldn't hold it in his fist.

really,

Try and die.

Just sawed off a branch,

She turned around and met a pair of cold eyes.