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

The water source is not far from home, about a few hundred meters in a straight line.

Mu Xi led the horse to pull the bamboo to the water source. Where ditches could be dug to divert water, ditches were dug directly, and where it was inconvenient, bamboo was used to divert water.

The water source is not a point, but a stream. This stream is not small. The point he chose to divert the water is not the location closest to his home, but the place where two water sources converge.

The water flow here is the largest. If you divert water at this point, even if you encounter the same high temperature as before, you won't be afraid that the water will be cut off immediately.

At least it can last a little longer.

The clear water flowed into the fish pond along the bamboo and hit the excavated yellow mud, suddenly becoming turbid.

The fish pond is not dug very shallow, so the water needs to be released for a while.

Zhao Yeqing stood at the outlet of the bamboo and washed his hands in the cold stream water.

"This is not bad, it can also be used as a faucet."

After going home to cook and eat, after filling their stomachs and washing up and going to bed, the two of them went out to check the situation and found that the fish pond was only half filled.

Mu Xi opened the hole that was dug in advance. This was a hole in the earth wall connecting the rice field to the fish pond. Previously it was blocked with mud, so water could not pass through. Now he dug out the mud at the entrance of the hole, and the water in the fish pond It flows gurglingly into the rice fields.

"Let's go to bed. Get up early tomorrow morning and I'll go to the water source to cut off the water."

Let the water drain out slowly tonight. The rice fields can absorb a lot of water and won't overflow so quickly.

As soon as it dawned in the morning, Mu Xi put on his coat and went out.

The water in the fish pond was almost full. He quickened his pace and ran to the source of the water. He followed the same pattern and blocked the hole he dug with mud, so that the water stopped flowing out.

The rice fields had been soaked in water all night, and the originally solid mud had become soft. He took off his shoes and stepped in. The cold stream water in early spring made him shiver even though he was not afraid of the cold.

It felt soft under my feet, and I tried to bulldoze the soil with a rake. Sure enough, it was flattened a lot in a short time.

It's just that you can't see it clearly through the water.

He came up from the field, picked up the hoe again, and began to dig the glutinous rice field behind.

It was almost noon when Zhao Yeqing got up, and Mu Xi had already dug almost half of the work.

I've been tired recently, and the quality of my sleep is really good, especially now that the temperature is cool but not enough to wake me up from the cold, it's so good to sleep.

After washing, she walked into the kitchen. It was obvious that Mu Xi had not eaten breakfast in the morning. She first wandered around the kitchen and then went to see the animals at home.

Good guy, Zhao Yeqing laughed angrily. He had fed all the cows, sheep, horses and roosters, but he didn't eat anything.

The fire in the kitchen was obviously not turned on, and the pots and stoves were cold.

She lit a fire to boil water and quickly cooked two bowls of noodles.

Shouting outside, "It's time to eat!"

Hearing the tone and volume, Mu Xi could no longer swing the hoe in his hand. He didn't know that Zhao Yeqing had already gotten up and was working so hard that he forgot the time. When he looked at his watch, it read 11:30.

Throwing away the hoe in his hand, he quickly walked home. He first went around to the back of the kitchen, fetched water from the well and washed his hands and feet before walking into the kitchen.

Zhao Yeqing handed him the face, expressionless.

"I was wrong." Mu Xi admitted his mistake quickly without saying anything else.

Zhao Yeqing didn't know whether he should be angry or not. He wanted to say that he didn't care about his body, but he got up early in the morning to work, so he really didn't do anything wrong if he insisted.

She slept until noon before getting up, but it was also because she was really tired these past few days.

But she was really a little angry that he got up so early and didn't eat anything.

"You got up early and turned off the water. Why don't you come back and lie down again? Then you go to work without eating. You have been working since five in the morning without eating. Your body doesn't want it anymore?"

After saying that, Zhao Yeqing stuffed two poached eggs into his bowl with a dark face, frying until they were fragrant and golden.

Viciously, "Eat them all."

It wasn't until Mu Xi showed her the dishes that she had eaten that were clean enough that she didn't need to wash them that the matter was over.

After eating, she pushed her to bed and took a nap.

After an hour's nap, when Mu Xi woke up in high spirits, Zhao Yeqing was sorting rice seeds in the yard.

"Most of them have already sprouted, so you can just plant them directly."

Mu Xi sat on the threshold and changed into his work shoes, "Okay, half of the glutinous rice field can be dug out. Then we can put the water in the rice field and dig ditches in separate compartments."

Zhao Yeqing put down the rice seeds in his hand, changed his shoes, and went to dig the glutinous rice field with Mu Xi.

The water from the rice field was poured into the glutinous rice field. Now you can see clearly where there is no leveling. Use a rake to smooth the soil. There is still a lot of water in the soil, and it feels like wet and soft plasticine when you step on it.

Paddy fields are also divided into ditches, that is, a two-meter-wide 'soil bed' is arranged in the field and stretches from the head of the field to the end of the field. There is a small ditch of tens of centimeters between the beds, and the ditches contain water.

The soil bed was semi-humid. After spreading a layer of manure, Mu Xi spread the sprouted rice seeds on it and gently tapped it with the bamboo pole to make the rice seeds sink into the soil. This is the moist seedling cultivation method.

Zhao Yeqing made two scarecrows and stuck them in the rice fields to prevent birds from eating them.

The glutinous rice has not been planted yet, and Zhao Yeqing does not intend to use the same method to raise seedlings.

The moist seedling cultivation method was a method she used before in Meishan, and she continued to use it after one experience.

According to the original owner's notes, he used the dry rice cultivation method, which means sowing rice seeds directly on the land, and then digging them out and transplanting them to paddy fields after they sprouted.

Both methods are feasible. The former method is based on experience, but the shortcomings are also obvious, because this time the two of them are planting early rice, and the current temperature is relatively low, which is not suitable for the growth of rice seeds.

After a while, the rice seeds grown using the moist rice cultivation method will have to be covered with mulch to keep them warm.

The dry rice seedling cultivation method will not be too cold. The seeds can be planted in the soil with base fertilizer. The temperature in the soil is relatively high and it is not easy to freeze the rice seeds.

There are also disadvantages. Normally, plastic floppy disks are used to raise seedlings, which can prevent the seedlings from getting stuck. There were no plastic floppy disks in the collapsed tool room. I wonder if the original owner ran out of them last year and didn't have time to buy them.

The only option is to use bamboo slices to separate the seeds and transplant the seedlings when they are seven or eight centimeters tall. This should prevent the roots from bunching up.

After a week of busy work, the rice fields were finally taken care of.

Next, he had to deal with the next crop. Zhao Yeqing planned to half rest and half work, and leisurely dry the seeds at home for three days.

It can be regarded as giving yourself a holiday.

Depending on the urgency of planting, the next seeds to deal with are corn and peanuts.

These two kinds of seeds also need to be dried before sowing. Drying the seeds can break the dormancy period of the seeds and increase the germination rate.

In summer, you cannot dry seeds directly on the concrete floor because they are easy to be burned. However, you don’t have to worry about this now. The sun in early spring is still relatively gentle.

Mu Xi said he didn't need to rest, so he picked up the hoe and went out to dig the ground.

Zhao Yeqing moved a small chair and sat in the yard, basking in the sun with corn and peanuts to replenish calcium, and looked outside along the open door——