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

It would be better to make black sesame paste and add some peanuts. The peanuts at home are brought back from the village.

There has been a bit of a resurgence in improper storage.

I forgot to look for peanuts when I was looking for sesame seeds yesterday, but they were just damp and not moldy, so they should be the same after being ground.

The harvest of several bundles of sesame seeds only filled half a large mineral water bottle.

Zhao Yeqing poured out the amount of ground sesame paste. A small bowl was enough.

Rice is also added to the sesame paste, and the rice needs to be soaked in water in advance to soften it.

When building a new house, Mu Xi built a reservoir in the kitchen backyard to store well water in it, and connected a knock-back faucet to the kitchen, so that he didn't have to bring water in every time he cooked. .

The reservoir is built high to ensure sufficient water pressure, but it has to be filled with water every once in a while.

Zhao Yeqing turned on the faucet, washed the sesame seeds, filtered the water, put them into an oil-free pot and sauteed until fragrant. When the black sesame seeds bounced up in the pot and gave off a fragrant aroma, they were ready to serve.

The peeled peanuts are also fried in the same way, but unfortunately there are no walnuts, otherwise the walnut and black sesame paste will be more fragrant.

The container for grinding sesame seeds is a large stone pound. The inner wall is carved with lines. The contents can be crushed by gently running it over with a wooden stick.

Grind the sesame seeds first. This is a very patient task.

The sesame seeds must be ground slowly with a smooth and smooth hardwood, first coarsely and then finely, until the sesame seeds are ground into oil.

Add peanuts and soaked rice and continue grinding until they are all ground into fine powder, then pour into a pot of boiling water and bring to a boil and add rock sugar.

Zhao Yeqing stood by the pot to prevent the paste from having to be stirred from time to time. After the water slowly evaporated, the aroma of sesame seeds came out, and the pot gradually became thicker.

By the time the sesame paste was ready, Mu Xi hadn't come back yet. Neither of them had been busy eating properly recently. It was past four in the afternoon and she hadn't had lunch yet.

She served herself a bowl. The sesame seeds were full of aroma. The hand-ground sesame seeds were much more fragrant than the packaged ones. She ground them carefully and the particles were finer.

After a bowl of sweet and warm sesame paste, I feel comfortable all over.

The sesame paste cooled down quickly in this weather. Zhao Yeqing put the pot with the sesame paste on the small stove and simmered it with a few red charcoal.

The grass was piled up outside the fence, and Zhao Yeqing calculated the amount and felt that it was almost there.

She was mowing the grass while Mu Xi was making red bricks and cement. After finishing the silage cellar, Mu Xi went to mow the grass again.

Now the stock of grass at home can almost fill a silage cellar.

If the forage is cut too early and the moisture is lost, it will not ferment into silage. It must be processed at about the same time to ensure the quality of fermentation.

Such a large amount of forage cannot be treated with a guillotine. There is an instrument at home similar to a manual threshing machine, which is hand-cranked.

There are two spiral-edged iron blades in the middle that are entangled with each other. The grass is put in through the feeding port and can be broken into small pieces with a few hand shakes.

When the two first arrived at the meadow, they saw in their notes that the original owner had more than a dozen sheep, which were probably used when processing large quantities of pasture.

The feeding opening is very large, and a sufficient amount of forage needs to be placed in it before it can be rotated and chopped, so it is only suitable for processing large quantities of forage.

Zhao Yeqing held a full bundle and put it into the feeding port. It was not very easy to shake the handle, especially when cutting to the thickest part of the grass, it took two hands to turn it.

But when it is shaken, the efficiency is still much faster than using a guillotine.

Otherwise, it can be said that technology is the primary productive force.

The chopped grass is spit out at the bottom of the cutting machine, and the basket is placed below in advance to catch it.

I had to rest after shaking for less than half an hour because my hands were so sore.

By the time Mu Xi returned home, one-fifth of the forage had been chopped into pieces.

He unloaded the forage, walked over and changed hands, "You just go to the feeding port to graze the grass, I will shake it."

Zhao Yeqing stopped his hand and dragged him into the kitchen.

"Wash your hands and eat first."

Mu Xi washed his hands and stuffed a bowl of warm black sesame paste into his hands.

The sesame paste is sweet and delicate.

It must have taken a long time.

Mu Xi ate carefully and washed the bowl. "After finishing the forage, let's rest for a few days."

After careful calculation, the two of them have been preparing for winter for more than a month.

Almost every day is busy.

Seeing Zhao Yeqing nod, Mu Xi smiled.

"Then go for a walk by the lake or go for a walk in the mountains."

Compared to the mountains, the lakeside is safer. Zhao Yeqing looked at the fish above his head and said, "It's better to stay at the lakeside."

Fish is best when fresh.

The vegetables in the garden behind have also matured a lot, so the harvest will be better if sown in autumn than in summer.

You can also make tomato sauce with the tomatoes, and then save a piece of fish to make red and golden fried squirrel fish.

As if looking forward to being paid, I feel more energetic when cutting grass.

After cooking noodles for dinner, they spent the rest of the time working in front of the lawn mower.

I worked overtime for two days to chop up all the grass and put it into the silage cellar.

After adding the grass, it must be compacted.

Since he needed to stock up on firewood for the winter, Mu Xi cut down a tree, sawed off a large section of wood, and rolled it back and forth on the grass.

The top layer that was removed during rolling was sprinkled with a thin layer of salt to avoid harmful bacteria.

Finally, it was covered with plastic film and compacted.

There needs to be something heavy on top.

In addition to laying bark on the outer plastic film, some wood blocks are also pressed at a distance.

The original owner should have used ordinary surface silage. Experienced herdsmen knew how to reduce the risk of moldy silage, but they were no longer able to do it. Without that experience, they did not dare to take risks.

There is still enough plastic film cloth used for making silage at home for two times, and they have to accumulate good experience in these two times.

Ordinary plastic film cloth does not meet the standards and can release harmful substances during the silage process and cannot be used.

She scrounged a lot of membrane cloths from the village, but they were all substandard, otherwise they would be enough to last a long time.

The silage was stored, and half of the burden on their minds was lifted.

She almost gave up midway, thinking that if it didn't work out, she would kill two sheep and one cow.

Later, I thought that the weather was not cool enough. When it gets colder, I could directly refrigerate the cattle and sheep by killing them and leaving them outdoors.

Mu Xi also said that day, "After we finished everything, the weather suddenly became hot again..."

Before she finished speaking, she slapped her back, "Hurry up!"

But let's not stop being hot, her whole body is sticky with sweat, and the sun is so strong that her skin can peel off a layer of skin. She doesn't want to feel this feeling for another half a year.

On the first day after making silage, the two people who had planned to go out collapsed on the bed.

I was so tired that I didn’t want to move at all.

There is nothing happier than lying motionless in bed after work.