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

The alkaline water produced by kneading black and gray grass ash is naturally black and gray.

It also has to go through secondary filtration.

Mu Xi poured out the dregs from the gauze, washed the gauze, spread it in a large iron pot, poured the black-gray alkaline water in and filtered it twice.

After secondary filtration, the alkaline water must be left to settle.

He walked out of the kitchen and heard Zhao Yeqing rummaging for things in the original owner's house. He walked in and said, "What are you looking for?"

Zhao Yeqing was so focused on searching that he didn't hear the footsteps behind him and was caught off guard and startled.

She held her chest and calmed down, glared at him before replying, "Looking for seeds."

Mu Xi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and his tone was innocent, "You didn't hear it and you still glared at me?"

Zhao Yeqing snorted and ignored him, continuing to look for things.

She continued to think about it in her mind, and it seemed that the temperature would heat up soon. Last time, she only found vegetable seeds and planted lettuce seedlings in advance. Now that the temperature at noon can rise above freezing, outdoor planting can also be arranged, and there are various Planting grains also requires planning.

It's afternoon now. The sunshine is very good today. It shines in from the window. There are too many things piled up in the original main house. The environment is usually closed. Zhao Yeqing has been rummaging around now. Following the light, he can see the settled dust being raised and entangled in it. The sun is shining.

Mu Xi opened the door and pulled Zhao Yeqing to the side, "You stand here while I dig out the seeds and sort them. Look at your face."

Zhao Yeqing also saw the dust in the sunshine at this moment. He held his breath for a moment, walked to the door in two steps, and then let go of his breath.

Mu Xi dug out all the seeds, "These are more suitable for planting in early spring."

It can only be said to be the end of winter now. According to the temperature, spring is expected to begin next month.

The characteristics of early spring are that it is warm and cold, and crops must be relatively cold-resistant.

Many crops are cold-resistant, but their seeds need to be grown in a warm environment.

Now that cilantro and lettuce are grown indoors, there is no more room.

It is best to select a batch of seeds that are also relatively cold-resistant, which can save you the tedious steps of growing seedlings indoors.

Zhao Yeqing looked at the crops Mu Xi selected, including celery, carrots, white radish, and leeks.

She immediately manually eliminated the white radish she had eaten all winter, and she was about to vomit.

There are also some leafy vegetables that can be grown, such as Chinese cabbage and Shanghai greens.

The vegetable seeds were okay, there were a lot of them, and she selected a few that she could try sowing in a while.

There are not many seeds left for cereals, the most common is rice, followed by wheat. However, Zhao Yeqing also wants to plant some glutinous rice. There are not many seeds left for glutinous rice. The current weather is erratic, and she is a little worried that there will be no harvest.

Just like her piece of wheat field, it makes me feel sad just thinking about it.

"Then plant some vegetables first, and then plant others after the temperature stabilizes."

Zhao Yeqing nodded and his eyes fell on a bag next to him. Through the thin red plastic bag, he could see the small round black seeds inside.

This is the seed of rapeseed.

Rapeseed flowers are generally planted in spring in the north and in autumn in the south. But the current temperature is ridiculously hot in summer, but even colder in winter.

If this rapeseed is to be planted, it probably needs to be planted in spring.

It takes four months for rapeseed to grow, and there are also early-maturing varieties that mature in more than two months.

Calculated in four months, it is now October, which is equivalent to February in normal times.

Generally, rapeseed is sown in early April, which means it can be sown next month, about the same time as rice.

At the same time, wheat and glutinous rice can also be planted, provided the weather is good enough.

It looks like there is still more than a month of free time, but when the snow melts next month, the land must be prepared before sowing, and the seeds must be planted in the sun to raise seedlings. If you have time, you must plant vegetables.

Except for the heavy snowfall in the winter when there is nothing much to do, the rest of the time as a farmer means you have almost no time to spare.

After being lazy for a whole winter, she was finally ready to take action.

Mu Xi brought a small bench and a notebook and handed them to her. Zhao Yeqing sat down and wrote down the to-do items one by one.

In addition to the crops to be planted in spring, pasture must also be planted. The situation in the meadow is more complicated than before. I wonder if the animals that do not belong to this area have returned.

You also need to inspect the meadow before grazing to prevent the cattle and sheep from being unable to come back.

She was recording and planning here, while Mu Xi watched the time and went to feed the cattle and sheep.

Cows are okay, they are easy to manage with a small number, but sheep are not.

After giving birth, the ewes must be kept in separate rooms, and the lambs must also be kept in separate rooms to avoid milk grabbing.

When feeding, a ewe is brought out, then a lamb is brought out, and after feeding, another lamb is replaced.

There is a ewe and a lamb. After feeding the lamb, the lamb is taken back first, and then the ewe's milk is milked.

Zhao Yeqing mentioned it in the morning and said that he wanted to try some goat cheese. He would follow the method of constantly pulling and folding the cow cheese last time to see if he could make the same stringy goat cheese.

He took all the goat milk squeezed out today to the kitchen and saw that the alkaline water in the pot had almost settled.

The originally black-gray alkaline water turned into a dusty yellow-green. Use a ladle to scoop out part of the precipitated water.

Then he lit the firewood in the fire pit, started a fire, and started to boil water.

Stir while heating to allow the water in the pot to evaporate.

After the water gradually decreases, off-white powder appears on the wall of the iron pot. Shovel the powder into the water that has not completely evaporated at the bottom of the pot and continue cooking.

Until the water in the pot has completely evaporated, leaving only a thick layer of white precipitate at the bottom of the pot.

Mu Xi took out two sticks of burning firewood, inserted them into the ashes of the fire pit and extinguished them. He turned down the fire and started frying soda.

The last bit of water vapor in the gray-white alkali at the bottom of the pot has completely evaporated, and it is ready to be served when it turns slightly yellow.

The stir-fried alkali has some lumps, but you don't need to use a stone pound to grind it. Just use the bottom of a spoon to grind it lightly and it will turn into powder.

This is considered done.

Zhao Yeqing took the notebook of records and plans back to the room and put it away. When he walked into the kitchen, he smelled a distinct smell of alkali.

"it is done?"

She leaned over to look.

Mu Xi: "It's done. You said you were going to make goat cheese this morning, so I brought the goat milk."

When Zhao Yeqing was doing it last time, he was too busy with his hands and didn't look carefully. This time he looked more carefully and learned that she wouldn't need to start next time.

Zhao Yeqing took down the iron pot for frying alkali, put a cooking pot on it, poured the goat milk in and started to heat it.

Just like making cow cheese, when the flocculation is removed, a large pot of whey is left.

She got closer and smelled it, but there was no mutton smell.

She turned around and blinked, "Mu Xi, do you want to eat whey cookies?"