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

She felt like she was bringing back three abyssal maws.

Before reading the notes, she had no idea that cows were so edible.

Three cows need to eat half a ton of grass a month.

Zhao Yeqing treated these two fields with special care, weeding and plowing them deeply before planting seeds.

If the grass didn't grow well, she would have to eat beef in tears before the winter was over.

Two acres of land are more than 1,000 square meters. She spent two days weeding and plowing the land, and she almost fainted from exhaustion after just one acre of land.

There are too many weeds, and after deep plowing, rake is used to remove some grass roots that reproduce quickly, otherwise they will grow again in the autumn wind before the grass grows.

Mu Xi quickly finished the cement floor and came to help.

The pasture land had to be fertilized before sowing. Zhao Yeqing took advantage of Mu Xi's plowing of another piece of land and pulled Xiao Hong to transport fertilizer.

The cattle and sheep eat a lot of fat in autumn. Now the family cleans the cattle and sheep pens every day and gets a lot of manure.

But now that the weather is getting colder, it doesn't decompose so quickly. A simple shed made of wooden boards was made where the manure was placed, and it was sealed with plastic sheeting to ensure that the temperature inside was high enough.

Transport the manure to the pasture and sprinkle it evenly into the soil, then sow the seeds.

The moisture content of this land is not good, so it needs to be watered again.

Zhao Yeqing only transported water and fertilizer and left, leaving these to Mu Xi.

We still have to rush to harvest the grass for silage.

Twelve sheep only need more than 4,000 kilograms of feed for three months, slightly more in winter.

The silage they had previously stored was only more than 30 bags. One bag weighed 80 kilograms plus hay, which was enough for more than three months.

Now that we have cattle, there is not enough silage, and packaged silage is definitely not feasible, as it is time-consuming, labor-intensive and has low productivity.

We need to find a larger place for silage storage.

Zhao Yeqing was a little confused. The method of stacking silage was to place the feed on the ground and cover it with a plastic film cloth, allowing a large amount of feed to ferment under the film cloth.

This method is the simplest and most labor-saving, but the problem is that you have to open the membrane every time you take the feed. If you are not careful, the feed will become moldy and deteriorate, and the membrane will be easily trampled and damaged by animals.

Another method is to build a silage cellar, using bricks and cement to build a space on the ground with openings for feeding materials next to it. This can reduce air and bacteria from entering the feed.

To build a silage cellar, you have to work hard to pick out mud and lime.

It was already evening when she returned home after harvesting two carts of grass. Harvesting grass was easier than plowing, and it allowed her to still have energy to deal with problems.

But when Mu Xi finished work at night and returned home, Zhao Yeqing had not yet come to a conclusion.

Both of them were very tired, so they only cooked a simple bowl of noodles for dinner.

The question was posed to Mu Xi. He swallowed the noodles in his mouth and said without hesitation: "The silage cellar will be settled once and for all."

It is true that a silage cellar can be used forever. When cattle and sheep are born, the feed required will only be more and not less.

She just felt that Mu Xi was working too hard. She really couldn't move such heavy soil and lime from the collapsed mountain.

If she moved it, it would probably not be finished yet by winter.

Mu Xi knew that she didn't want him to work so hard, and there was a smile in his eyes.

He gave her the poached eggs in the bowl and said, "If you are so weak, eat more. I'll go make the silage cellar. You have a lot of work to do in harvesting forage."

Indeed, harvesting such a large amount of forage is all done manually and must be cut into pieces.

Thinking about it made her neck hurt.

However, she still had to refute the suggestion that she was weak. She patted her arm and said, "My strength is weak, it's just a little bit smaller than yours."

After such a long period of physical labor, Zhao Yeqing felt that when his biceps became hard, he could break boulders on them.

He is definitely stronger than ordinary men.

Mu Xi put down the finished bowl and wiped his mouth clean, "If you don't believe me, prove it."

Zhao Yeqing rolled up his sleeves without doubting his presence.

The biceps that were originally there now become a large, well-defined mass when the arm is exerted.

She stretched out her arm in front of Mu Xi, "How about it."

Wear sun protection clothing when the weather is hot and a jacket when the weather is cold.

Her arms were almost untanned, and her white and tender arms stretched out in front of him without warning.

Mu Xi reached out and pinched it.

A girl's skin is always much smoother and tenderer than a boy's. He poked her acupuncture point without knowing it, making her arm go numb and soften.

The bulging muscles disappeared, and Mu Xi smiled mischievously, "Where are they? I didn't see them."

Zhao Yeqing sneered and put the bowl into his hand, "Go and wash the dishes."

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The two cultivated the pasture and spent nearly a week making red bricks and cement before they could finally start building the silage silo.

Three cows and twelve sheep consume about 120 kilograms of feed every day.

According to the worst-case scenario, if winter lasts for half a year, nearly 22 tons of pasture will be consumed in six months.

Now the production at home cannot keep up, so silage can only be made in batches.

They plan to build two small silage vaults.

Calculated by volume, the silage can hold about 550 kilograms of grass per cubic meter on average, and 22 tons would require 40 cubic meters.

Regardless of the time of income and expenditure, judging from the data alone, two silage pits of about 20 cubic meters are needed.

That is, two silage pits that are 4 meters long, 2 meters wide, and 2.5 meters deep.

The silage cellar has three walls on the left, right and back. The top is not capped. The foundation must be raised and sloped out. The silage inside will be piled up in the shape of a slope in the middle, similar to a pyramid.

The surface of the silage is covered with plastic film, and if it rains, the rainwater will flow down.

Drill drainage holes and dig drainage ditches around the area. The plastic film sheet also needs to be pressed tightly with heavy objects.

The bottom of the silo also needs to be covered with mulch so that rain does not seep in.

The preliminary preparation work takes a long time, and the silage cellar is relatively fast to build.

Two people worked hard and it was built in three days.

The remaining time is to harvest a large amount of pasture.

A silage cellar stores about ten tons, but the current production cannot keep up. After harvesting the previously cultivated and wild forage, a silage cellar can barely be filled half full.

All we have to do is wait until the first ryegrass and alfalfa crops are harvested.

Ryegrass grows faster and can be harvested one month after sowing. Alfalfa sown in autumn does not grow as well as in summer and takes one and a half months to harvest.

Ryegrass can be harvested continuously, so even if there is no time for silage, you can still have fresh grass.

The trouble is that if it snows, the snow water must be dried before feeding, otherwise the cattle and sheep will have diarrhea.

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Mu Xi went to cut the grass, while Zhao Yeqing threshed the sesame seeds that he had collected and dried at home.

The plump black sesame seeds all turned into steaming, fragrant and mellow black sesame paste in her eyes.