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

Zhao Yeqing ate the chestnuts and clapped his hands. When he saw Mu Xi going to find a wooden stick to beat the chestnuts, he tried his luck on the ground.

She frowned and found that many of the spiked balls on the ground were empty.

At this time, no one in the village comes to pick up chestnuts. Why are so many of the thorn balls empty?

Are there people still living in the mountains?

Before she could express her question, she saw Mu Xi found the stick he had handy and climbed up the tree twice.

"Drive a little more first, be careful if you get hit."

Seeing her walking away, he knocked the thorn balls off the tree one by one.

The thorn ball swished down, and it wasn't until half of the chestnut trees were knocked off that Mu Xi was ready to change the direction and continue.

Most of the chestnut thorn balls that fell on the ground were already dark brown, only the ones that were knocked off the tree still had a hint of green.

While Mu Xi was changing positions, she walked over and picked up the green spiked ball into her backpack.

Hearing Mu Xi's cry, he moved away and waited for him to finish.

When the chestnut thorn balls fell all over the ground, Mu Xi jumped down from the tree and the two of them bent down to pick them up together.

The thorns of chestnut thorn balls are very hard and prick the hand, like sea urchins. In the past, chestnuts were taken out under the tree and the thorn balls were no longer needed.

Nowadays, we need to smoke bacon at home, and chestnut thorn balls can be used to make fires. We just pick them up without wasting them.

When the two of them were about to fill their backpacks, Mu Xi also discovered the empty shell on the ground. He thought it was Zhao Yeqing who opened it at first, but now he realized that the color was wrong.

Zhao Yeqing also asked. Just as the two of them were guessing, a spiked ball suddenly hit their heads.

Mu Xi caught a glimpse of it from the corner of his eye and pulled Zhao Yeqing away.

She looked stern. Could it be that someone else was doing something shady?

The two of them looked up at the tree and saw a monkey pointing at the two of them angrily and barking incessantly.

Zhao Yeqing naturally didn't understand what it was saying, but he always found the scolding unpleasant.

"I guess we have wandered into its territory."

Mu Xi took Zhao Yeqing's hand and was about to leave. Suddenly the leaves on the tree nearby moved, and five or six monkeys appeared. After the monkeys screamed one after another before, they collectively glared at them.

Zhao Yeqing secretly thought it was bad, took Mu Xi's hand and ran back!

The monkey behind them chased two trees. Seeing that they had indeed left their territory, they stopped chasing them. However, the scolding could still be heard very clearly from a distance.

When watching the news before, she saw someone being scratched and disfigured by a monkey. She had no choice but to run away.

Mu Xi looked at Zhao Yeqing's hand that hadn't let go, and was in a good mood, so he slowly pulled him home.

Monkeys are social animals, so that area is probably their territory.

"Generally speaking, monkeys' territories are rich in products."

After hearing this, Mu Xi recalled the old man's notes, "I think I've seen it before. I'll go see it myself some other time. I run fast."

Zhao Yeqing chirped, she hadn't eaten serious fruit in a long time.

When she got home, she had to deal with the tobacco leaves first. Mu Xi's ramie hadn't been peeled yet, so the two chatted in the yard.

Tobacco used to protect against pests can be either fresh or sun-dried, with sun-dried being more concentrated.

Zhao Yeqing set aside what he wanted to use today, and wore the rest and hung them on the rope to dry.

Cut the fresh tobacco leaves into pieces with a knife, soak them in water, and mix them according to the proportions recorded in the notes.

Because he couldn't tell whether it was for fresh use or dry use in the record, Zhao Yeqing used the lightest concentration when he prepared it. He would rather mix and spray it again when it didn't work, rather than make it too strong and the wheat seedlings couldn't bear it.

Pour the prepared water into the blue pesticide spray can.

The watering can is a large square plastic bucket, carried on the back, with a pipe extending from the bottom to connect the nozzle.

Zhao Yeqing went out to spread tobacco water with a watering can on both the barley and wheat fields. One pot was definitely not enough to treat the disease but not to protect himself. He had to go back and forth two or three times before he could finish spreading it.

Mu Xi processed all the ramie fibers and hung them up to dry. When the green fibers turned yellow, he could rub the rope.

I plan to continue eating wild boar for dinner tonight.

Zhao Yeqing was too tired to move. Mu Xi washed his hands and came in to cook. She sat beside him and picked beans.

Mu Xi cut the wild boar meat into pieces and marinated it with salt, pepper and star anise yesterday. Now it is hung on a rope on the top.

There wasn't much fresh meat left, just a fan of ribs and a hoof, and some extra food for the dogs and leopards.

Both meat dishes need to be stewed for a long time, but fortunately it is still early in the morning.

Mu Xi blanched the meat, added aniseed and soy sauce to the trotters, stewed them in a pot, and made braised pig trotters.

The spareribs are chopped into sections to make sweet and sour short ribs.

Sweet comfort food after work is always a favorite.

Zhao Yeqing put the beans he picked aside and asked for fried beans with minced meat. This was the best meal.

There was no work schedule in the afternoon, so Zhao Yeqing took a shower early, sat on a recliner and ate chestnuts.

The lounge chair was moved to the yard in front of the kitchen. I ate chestnuts and looked at the sky. The sound of boiling water in the kitchen could be heard in my ears, and I fell asleep unconsciously.

Until awakened by the fragrance.

She glanced at the time and it was already past seven in the evening.

Maybe she was a little too tired from running around carrying water on her back and wandering around the woods looking for tobacco, so she didn't wake up even when Rhubarb came back with the sheep.

She pushed herself up and walked into the kitchen. When Mu Xi saw her coming in, he opened the lid of the pot and used high heat to drain the soup from the sweet and sour pork ribs.

She sat on the bench, and Mu Xi brought the rice to her, along with a small plate of peeled chestnuts.

"Eat less." Mu Xi teased.

Eating too much raw chestnuts will cause you to fart.

Zhao Yeqing rolled his eyes at him, "You stink to death."

Maybe it's because the two of them grew up together. Apart from being shy about being more intimate, there seems to be no other baggage.

Zhao Yeqing ate happily holding chestnuts. After the meal started, he also ate a lot of sweet and sour short ribs and braised pig trotters.

The wild boar trotters are stewed for a long time, and the texture is full of gelatin when bitten, and the lean meat is also stewed very soft.

The two leopards came back from eating outside. Zhao Yeqing put a piece of wild boar meat in their small rice bowls, and both of them finished eating.

The dogs have been well raised recently, their hair is fluffy and shiny, they are growing bigger and bigger, and their food intake has increased significantly.

It seems that we need to get more meat to eat in winter.

The consequence of lying in bed in a daze after dinner and sleeping for too long in the afternoon is that I can't sleep at night.

She wanted to chat with Mu Xi, but remembering last night, her face felt hot again and she tossed and turned in bed.

Only now did Mu Xi finally weave the straw mat.

They were spread on the ground piece by piece, and there were no burrs when I touched them with my hands. When I heard the noise, I knew she was not asleep yet, so I woke her up and tried.

The straw mats are smooth, and each piece is a square of one meter by one meter. They are spread out on the ground. If you need to replace them, you can just lift them up.

This took an incredible amount of thought and time to complete.

Knowing that he did it for himself, Zhao Yeqing walked up to him with a blushing face, stood up on tiptoes and touched his face.

"Ahem, give me a reward."

Mu Xi was used to pushing the envelope, so he put his other face towards him and said seriously:

"This way, it wants it too."