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

She told Mu Xi her thoughts about the fried rice just now.

Mu Xi couldn't help but frown when he heard this, and both of them ate absentmindedly.

Mu Xi ate quickly, and after finishing his meal, he went to the fields to continue planting rice.

After Zhao Yeqing finished eating, he took the bowl to the kitchen and put it away, then returned to the field to find something to do.

You can’t go down to paddy fields, but dry land is still possible.

The corn fields and peanut fields that were first sown are now sprouting green seedlings.

It was still mixed with weeds that had just begun to grow. She squatted in the ground and manually weeded the weeds.

Some weeds look a bit like corn seedlings, so you have to be careful to avoid pulling them by mistake.

Unconsciously, he had a large handful of young grass in his hands. He was afraid that the grass would take root if left on the soil, so Zhao Yeqing planned to take it home to feed the sheep.

But this catch is probably not enough to fit between the sheep's teeth. The sheep's mouth is so big, and it's not a rabbit...

rabbit! !

Zhao Yeqing rushed to the paddy field and shouted to Mu Xi, "Mu Xi! Rabbit!!"

Their rabbits are probably starving to death underground!

The last time she went to feed the rabbits, there were only three or four rabbits left in the hole. After removing the wooden board that sealed the hole, she filled the hole with grass.

But that was four months ago.

Mu Xi was obviously stunned, and after a while he said, "Don't worry, wait until I finish planting the seedlings and then go take a look. Don't go."

It would take a while to finish planting the rice seedlings, and Zhao Yeqing also wanted to help, otherwise the progress would be too slow.

"Then you go and put on thick socks and water shoes before you come down. You can't go barefoot."

Wearing water shoes to go to the field was not as convenient as going barefoot, as the wet mud would be sucked into it, but she didn't want to feel uncomfortable, so she obeyed and put on her socks and shoes.

The two of them can plant rice much faster together.

The seedlings are not all pulled out from the seedbed at once. It is best to pull them out after they have been planted.

The two of them were not that skilled, and it took them nearly a day to plant half an acre of land.

Mu Xi walked out of the field and went to the fish pond to wash off the dirt on his body, put on his shoes and said, "I'll go take a look."

The small shed originally built to provide shade for the rabbits in the rabbit pen had collapsed under the weight of the snow. Mu Xi walked straight to the cave where the rabbits were hiding and pulled away the hay straw covering it.

The hay straw had turned black and started to rot, and most of it had collapsed in the hole.

He smelled it first, and then looked down when he didn't smell any odor.

The cave was empty, there was nothing.

Zhao Yeqing didn't dare to look closer. He stood outside the rabbit circle and asked, "How's it going?"

Mu Xi stood up and wiped away the grass clippings in his hands from lying on the ground, "They're all gone."

Missing?

Zhao Yeqing was a little surprised. The rabbit hole had been covered with snow for so long, and the snow had just melted, so why did it disappear?

But this also made her relieved. It was better to be gone than dead.

Mu Xi cleaned up the rotten grass to prevent bugs from growing when the temperature gets higher.

"It seems that if you want to eat rabbits this year, you have to catch them separately."

Zhao Yeqing thought of the increasing number of sheep and cows at home, "If you really want to eat them, go hunt two on the meadow. It's better to forget about raising them."

Otherwise, in addition to feeding cattle, sheep and horses, we would also have to find food for rabbits.

Zhao Yeqing returned to the kitchen to prepare dinner. Mu Xi had to go to the fields. There was still a pot of glutinous rice seedlings that had not been inserted into the fields. The seedlings that had been pulled out would wither tomorrow if not inserted.

Before planting the rice, I opened the water inlets of the fish pond and the glutinous rice field. Now the glutinous rice field is half full.

Mu Xi walked over and blocked the water outlet, and quickly inserted the glutinous rice seedlings in before it got dark.

The glutinous rice fields are almost the same size as the paddy fields. A single row of rice seedlings will disappear.

After the two filled the glutinous rice field, Mu Xi built a small pavilion with bamboo and hay on the edge of the field.

There is a small wooden coffee table and two small bamboo chairs placed underneath.

Now that the weather is nice, the two of them sit outside in the sun during the day to replenish calcium.

At 8:30 in the morning, the sun had already risen, and Mu Xi squatted on the edge of the field to fill the field with water.

The rice seedlings have just been inserted now, and they need to be slowed down in the early stage to allow the seedlings to adapt.

At eight or nine o'clock in the morning, after the sun comes up, water has to be poured into the fields, and at night, after the sun goes down, the water from the fields has to be drained.

It was not until early January, after experiencing the last late frost, that all the crops in the field had adapted and the pastures were growing vigorously, that the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, the original owner's notes contained a method for dealing with frost. It said that if the rice seedlings encountered low temperatures, they would have to irrigate the fields with a large amount of water. The water level should be close to the top of the rice seedlings, so as to provide insulation and ensure the success of the seedlings. Survive frost damage.

Zhao Yeqing observed for a few days and found that the climate had stabilized, so he immediately decided to plant the sweet potatoes that had grown vines in the ground.

This time she learned from experience and cultivated sweet potato vines first. All she had to do was cut the sweet potato vines and bury them in the soil section by section.

Most of the leaves on the sweet potato vine must be removed to avoid affecting the rooting of the vine.

To plant sweet potatoes, ridges are required, and trenches have been dug in the area reserved for sweet potatoes in the vegetable garden. The two only need to lay down the sweet potato vines section by section.

Each section should be spaced at least 20 centimeters apart. After all the sections are put in, they should be covered with soil.

The land in the sweet potato area requires special care. Like potatoes, because it is a root crop, the depth of plowing must be more than 30 centimeters to increase the permeability of the soil.

Sweet potatoes are drought-tolerant and should not be watered too much in the early stage. They need to be irrigated with fertilizer and water when they are first planted. Then every three or four days, only when it is particularly dry will you need to water lightly.

Mu Xi ticked the box in Zhao Yeqing's notebook about his plan to grow sweet potatoes, "It's just short of planting soybeans."

If the weather continues to stabilize, soybeans can be planted by mid-month.

Zhao Yeqing stretched himself and said, "I can rest for half a month."

Now the two of them sit and chat in the sun every day, occasionally weeding or following Dahuang and others out to herd sheep.

The most leisurely time for growers is now.

If they didn't have to raise cattle and sheep, the two of them could have more leisure time.

"It will take a while for the grass to grow. I'm afraid we won't have enough feed at home."

Mu Xi kicked the grass sprouts growing in the meadow at his feet, "The weeds on this meadow grow relatively quickly. If we go to the mountains and find some more weeds to feed them, we should be able to survive until the pasture is harvested."

The temperature has just warmed up now, and neither of them has gone to the mountains yet.

"The wild vegetables in the mountains are probably growing in the past few days. Take the time to find some and bring them back for the tooth ceremony."

Zhao Yeqing remembered that when she first returned to the mountains, she had spent the most normal spring. Now she didn't know if those wild vegetables could still grow, lest the seeds would freeze to death by then.

"Wait a little longer and go after it rains again."

Except for the rain during the late spring cold, it has been sunny since then, with only occasional cloudy days for two days.

Mu Xi pulled a piece of grass and chewed it, "When it rains, maybe everything will grow."