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

After two days of rest, the two of them were finally resurrected with full health.

The main reason is that Zhao Yeqing is greedy for squirrel fish, otherwise she can still lie down for two more days.

I don't feel it even if I work all the time, but I feel like I can't get up when I rest.

For the sake of the squirrel fish, she still managed to get up from the bed.

You need to catch two fish, one for squirrel fish and one for pickled fish.

The sauerkraut she had eaten before was not sour enough, but now it was full of sourness. When she opened the jar and smelled it, her saliva was secreted.

Mu Xi took out the fishing rod, and Zhao Yeqing looked at the fishhook made of sewing needles, which was really hard to use.

If the fish were bigger, the hook would be straightened directly.

She thought about melting down some unused ironware and making some fishhooks of her own someday.

We took our fishing rods and set off. It was past one in the afternoon when we arrived at the lake.

The sun was blocked by clouds and sometimes came out and was blocked. The lake reflected the white clouds in the sky, and it was almost impossible to tell which side was the sky.

Most of the fish in the lake are still naked carp, but it is obviously much harder to catch now than before.

It may be that after the water temperature becomes colder, the fish's activities in the water will be slightly slower.

After catching two fish, I wanted to find some small fish to fry.

The two of them walked near the reeds.

There are aquatic reeds covering the lake, and there are often small fish swimming around the lake.

Before I even got near the reeds, there were animals inside that were frightened and flew up.

Zhao Yeqing was caught off guard and startled.

Flying out were several wild ducks, some with yellow and white spots on their bodies, and some with green heads.

Mallard duck is great. When I was a kid, I saw someone selling it when I went to the market. It was not a protected animal at that time. The meat is much better than domestic duck.

Later, it was protected, but it was only a protected animal of least concern.

Mu Xi stepped forward, pulled apart the reeds, and found several nests of duck eggs inside.

He took out all the unfertilized duck eggs inside.

"Do you want to eat salted duck eggs?"

"eat!"

Who can resist the salted duck eggs that have been turned into sand and dripping oil?

It's a pity that there are no ducklings, otherwise it would be nice to catch them and keep them.

Mallard duck is a species that has been successfully domesticated, maybe she can be successfully bred as well.

There are ten duck eggs, and the stir-fry dishes are not as delicious as eggs. She plans to pickle them all into salted duck eggs.

Salted duck eggs can be pickled in salt water or in sand. She plans to use the latter. The salted duck eggs pickled in soil will be more oily.

There is some unused red mud at home, which is perfect for pickling duck eggs.

Mu Xi was asked to hold the fish bucket, while she returned home holding the duck eggs.

After returning home, Zhao Yeqingzi carefully cleaned the duck eggs and took a large piece of red mud from the backyard.

Spread the red mud, mix it evenly with oil and salt, add more salt, add a small amount of water, and paste it on the duck eggs and it's ready.

The rest has to be left to time, and it will take about twenty days to eat.

Mu Xi realized that she was changing too quickly. He agreed to eat fried fish, but when he saw the fried fish with wild duck eggs, he stopped asking for it.

Zhao Yeqing put the duck eggs into the earthenware jar, "This is called easy to satisfy, please be satisfied."

She took a detour to the back of the house, picked the ripe tomatoes, and handed them in through the kitchen window.

"Then you cook something delicious tonight. I won't be satisfied easily now."

Mu Xi was a little dumbfounded. He reached out to take the tomatoes, turned around and started cooking.

In addition to large tomatoes, there are also small tomatoes grown in Zhao Yeqing's vegetable garden. The seeds were found in the village.

Not that kind of cherry tomato, but a tomato variety that evolved naturally in the countryside, full of aroma, sweet and sour.

The yield is also very high. The vines keep rising and grow into small trees, bearing abundant fruits.

The shortcoming is that the skin is a bit thick, but it can be said that the flaws are not covered up.

I picked off all the red ones and selected some to keep the seeds.

After washing it, take one bite.

Chili peppers are more productive than tomatoes, especially the clusters of chili peppers, which are covered with branches. Zhao Yeqing cut off most of them and put them in a dustpan to dry in the sun.

The bok choy had been harvested once before when making sauerkraut, and now it has grown again in a month. Zhao Yeqing pulled them out one by one.

Washed it under water and carried it to the kitchen.

She wants to turn baby cabbage into dried vegetables.

Mu Xi was still processing fish. One of the two stoves was cooking, and the other was empty.

Zhao Yeqing lit the empty stove, boiled a pot of water and put the cabbage in.

When it's about half done, take it out and hang it on a rope to dry.

It is difficult to eat green leafy vegetables in winter, so they can be preserved by drying them.

We have also harvested several crops of green beans. In addition to dried beans, some are pickled in jars to make sour beans.

Zhao Yeqing also threw in two handfuls of washed peppers and soaked them for half a month to enjoy sour pickled peppers.

There are still eggplants and mustard greens in the vegetable garden that have not been harvested.

Looking at it like this, Zhao Yeqing estimates that it will be almost done in a few days. If it gets colder, he probably won't grow up anymore.

When the time comes to harvest, the eggplants will be used as dried eggplants, and the mustard greens will be used as prunes.

His hands were a little cold and red from washing things back and forth, so Zhao Yeqing returned to the fire pit to warm his hands.

The squirrel fish had been fried, and the smell of frying made her regret not fishing for the small fish.

The tomatoes were cut into small dices, stir-fried with salt and then boiled with water.

Zhao Yeqing was very greedy and squatted next to the stove waiting to eat.

Mu Xi cut the unused tomatoes into pieces, sprinkled them with sugar and brought them to her, "Satisfy your greed first."

Zhao Yeqing couldn't help smelling the aroma, and walked out of the kitchen with the tomatoes, "Call me when it's ready."

When I walked to the rabbit pen, there were already thirty rabbits jumping around.

After a few days, control the number a little, leaving only a few, and dig out burrows for them to keep out the cold.

There is a good harvest of chili peppers, so we can also arrange for diced rabbits with fresh chili peppers, as well as cold rabbits, so you don’t have to worry about the cold weather, so they are perfect for snacks.

Dahuang came back with the sheep. Zhao Yeqing put the plate in his hand on the threshold and went to open the sheepfold.

In the new sheep pen, sheep and goats are raised separately. Mu Xi only noticed that two sheep were pregnant last time. In fact, two sheep and two goats were pregnant, a total of four.

The water in the reservoir has been relatively cold in the recent weather, but the water in the well is actually a little warm. She uses the water from the well to feed the sheep and cattle to prevent them from having diarrhea.

They brought water over and refilled the ponds for the cattle and sheep.

Rhubarb doesn't know how to herd cattle, maybe he's not familiar with it yet, and the two of them haven't been free recently. The cows have been eating freely near home these days, plus some hay that they dried before.

If I have some free time tomorrow, I can take the cows out to graze and take a look at the wheat fields.

Zhao Yeqing finished the white sugar tomatoes on his plate, and the sweetness in his mouth gradually dissipated.

She remembered that she still had the honey that Mu Xi had harvested for her at home and hadn't eaten yet. She remembered that Mu Xi had been searching for honey in the mountains for several days.

She walked to the kitchen door and lay down on the door, her eyes turning into crescents with a smile.

Mu Xi was putting the fish fillets into the pot and was a little confused when he saw her like this.

"What's silly about it?"