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

Sweet potato seedlings require relatively high temperatures, and it is best to plant them before the vernal equinox. Under normal circumstances, the temperature during the vernal equinox is about 13 degrees.

The temperature has reached three to four degrees recently. With the current temperature rise, it will reach ten degrees in about a month.

The sweet potato seedling cultivation cycle takes nearly one and a half months. Now that we are ready, we should be able to plant them at the right time.

Potatoes are not so particular. As long as the ground temperature is above five degrees, they can germinate, and if the ground temperature is above ten degrees, they can emerge from the ground.

There are still about ten centimeters of snow now, and as long as the weather is good, it will be completely melted in the near future.

There are a lot of things that need to be done in the beginning of spring, and the two of them have a full schedule, leaving almost no time to rest.

Zhao Yeqing didn't know whether he should plant according to the northern sowing time or the southern one.

Considering the current temperature, it is more suitable to follow the planting time in the north. That way there will be more time and you can sow seeds about a month later.

But she is afraid that like last year, the high temperature will suddenly start for a long time. If the temperature continues to rise like before, this month's delay may lead to a large reduction in production.

She was too greedy and wanted to grow too many things. In addition to the wheat and rice originally planned, she also wanted to grow soybeans and rapeseed. There was no glutinous rice at home, so she also wanted to grow some glutinous rice.

These are crops that can be prepared for planting in early spring, and corn will still need to be planted in late spring.

With wheat and rice, she doesn’t necessarily have to eat corn. She just feeds chickens and sheep and cattle at home. If corn is available as concentrate feed, she will grow better.

If you are too lazy to take care of it, you can harvest the corn before it matures, crush it with the stalks, and feed it directly to cattle and sheep or make it into silage. It is also a very good raw material.

"While the snow has not completely melted yet, we can go check out the meadow conditions and see where we can grow rice."

The site for growing rice must be close to a water source. Otherwise, a lot of bamboo will have to be cut to divert water from a long distance, which will increase manpower. It will also be easily damaged by animals, and it will have to be repaired from time to time, which is also troublesome.

The two of them took Xiaohong and walked to the meadow, taking along some of the family dogs.

Guohuo and Xuebing didn't go home in the past two days. After it started to get warmer, the two sometimes wouldn't come back every day. Since the lynx appeared in the house and the two chased them out, the number of times they came home became less and less.

The last time I saw him at home was two days ago.

Seeing that she was a little depressed, Mu Xi softened his voice and said, "Don't worry, the two of them have been hunting outside for so long without any problems. Maybe they just grew up."

Zhao Yeqing was stunned when she heard this. She counted the time and it seemed like it was true.

Unknowingly, a year and a half has passed since I picked up two of them. Clouded leopards have reached adulthood in eighteen months.

Her mood at this time was like suddenly discovering that her eighteen-year-old daughter was already in love.

Don't talk about this feeling, it's quite complicated.

Then I thought about it. Generally speaking, leopards leave their mothers when they are about two years old. Is this a sign?

When I think about it, I feel even more melancholy.

Although I was mentally prepared when I brought the two back, I was still a little reluctant to let them go for a while.

However, she still had half a year to adapt. She adjusted her mentality and looked at a group of dogs running around her feet. Her injured heart was instantly comforted.

Sure enough, the world cannot be without puppies!

The two of them wandered to the original wheat field. The snow in this area was relatively thin, but now it has melted to only a thin layer.

The frozen wheat seedlings underneath were exposed.

My heart, which had just calmed down, was suddenly blocked again.

She suddenly remembered a sentence in the Chinese textbook when she was a child - 'I love this land deeply. '

But in fact, there are only a few farmers who truly love the land.

Zhao Yeqing squatted next to the wheat field, gently stroking the frozen wheat seedlings.

There are many real farmers around her, with their faces facing the loess and their backs to the sky. They cannot see the pastoral songs, only the endless sweat from the endless farm work in front of them.

Her grandparents did not farm, so they took her down the mountain when she was a child. She asked an uncle who was sitting on the edge of the field to rest, was farming fun?

She vaguely remembered that the other party seemed to have heard some joke, and laughed twice. The gusts of air shook off the ash that had not been shaken off, and then the reply she got was,

'There's nothing fun about farming. '

It's not that it's fun, or it's not fun, but it's just that I've never thought of farming as something that could be related to entertainment.

Farming is about food and clothing, about survival, and about eating according to the weather.

Just like now, she saw the wheat seedlings that she had carefully cared for but could not withstand the natural disaster and were frozen.

There was nothing I could do, so I could only sigh, then pick up the hoe and continue planting.

Suddenly, Mu Xi took her hand, pulled her up from the ground, and pointed to a corner of the pasture next to her.

"Look, there are still some flowers in bloom."

Zhao Yeqing saw several alfalfa trees breaking through the thin snow on the pasture planting ground, swaying gently in the breeze, and blooming small purple flowers.

The depression in her chest suddenly dissipated.

"Let's go! Let's go shopping in front again!"

In the winter in the south, the wind blows from the north, bringing a cool and refreshing feeling.

It hasn't snowed for a long time, and there are many animal footprints on the ground that haven't melted yet.

There are quite a lot of varieties, from all families and genus.

The largest number seems to be the deer.

"These deer hoof prints are not widely spaced. They walk at a normal pace. There should be no wolves."

If there were threats such as wolves, the distance between these deer's tracks would not be only a few dozen centimeters.

Different from the endless white snow before, although there is still snow now, the meadow is full of traces of animals.

Zhao Yeqing found a place with the most deer droppings. The snow here had been cleared away, revealing the bare turf underneath.

Not completely bare either.

There is already a cold-resistant grass at the bottom, which has quietly sprouted. It is not very long, only about one centimeter. This length cannot be eaten by deer.

The dogs were sniffing around on the ground with their noses waggling, and suddenly Rhubarb ran forward.

Her first reaction was to wonder if the dogs had smelled the fresh deer droppings and ran forward to chase the deer.

The two of them chased after each other, and Zhao Yeqing called out twice, "Big Huang!"

The big yellow head in front pointed forward, unwilling to stop.

Seeing that she was approaching, he ran forward again.

The two had no choice but to chase after them. After running for two hundred meters, several dogs stopped.

Zhao Yeqing raised his eyes and saw a brown animal appearing in front of him. He was standing with two teeth exposed and his hands raised in front of him, looking at them curiously.