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

The walls and floors have been plastered with cement. Although the walls are covered with a layer of wooden boards, water still accumulates under the wooden boards.

The floors and walls were very damp, and the wooden boards on the walls began to smell a little musty overnight.

Mu Xi quickly lit the unused fireplace to dry out some of the water vapor in the room.

The long-lost sticky feeling appeared, and Zhao Yeqing wished he could take a shower eight times a day to relieve the sticky discomfort on his body.

This weather actually makes the crops grow very fast. The fruits and vegetables are sprouting one after another, and they can grow a small section every day.

Zhao Yeqing removed the mulch and waited for a few days until the seedlings grew into seedlings. Then he pulled out the weak ones and left the strong ones.

Now that the slow seedling period has passed, there is no need to drain the rice fields every morning and evening.

When the water was released for the last time, some fish fry accidentally swam from the water mouth into the rice fields. The fry grew very fast, and within a few days in the rice fields, I saw small fish as thin as a little finger swimming among the rice seedlings.

It has been more than a week since the rice seedlings were transplanted. The seedlings have stabilized and entered the tillering stage.

Mu Xi loaded up some manure and carried out the first top dressing.

Topdressing rice fields is not troublesome. You only need to stand on the edge of the field and sprinkle the powdery manure into the field.

Zhao Yeqing was afraid that his hands would shake and he would throw a handful of manure on her head, so he hid far away early.

Squatting next to the rapeseed field, pulling weeds on the ground.

There is a large patch of wood sorrel growing here, the kind of clover you see everywhere.

Maybe it's because the fertilizer was spread here when fertilizing, so the wood sorrel grew fat and strong.

She uprooted the sorrel from the ground and brought out its underground rhizomes.

A small crystal carrot.

The largest radish is only about the size of a thumb, so it is edible. When I was a kid, I would dig it out and eat it when I had nothing to do.

But not all sorrel comes with radishes.

She pulled out five or six of them after a long while, took them home, cleaned them, and stuffed one into her mouth.

The taste is crisp and sour, with a hint of sweetness. The sourness is not like the sourness of fruit, but the sourness of wild grass.

It's not very delicious, but it tastes special.

Before Mu Xi finished spreading the fertilizer, Zhao Yeqing didn't go over to give it to him to taste. He put it on a plate and waited until he finished spreading the fertilizer.

After he finished spreading the fertilizer, the two of them had to go into the mountains together.

During this season, the wild vegetables in the mountains were fresh and tender. Zhao Yeqing was eager to eat the root of the fungus. The two of them followed the water source to look for it. Only the root of the fungus in this season was the most delicious.

Zhao Yeqing loved to eat leaves and picked two big handfuls.

There are also many rhizomes, and the roots on them should be kept intact as much as possible so that they can be taken back and planted next to the fish pond.

The two of them separated to look for other food. In addition to the roots of the folded ears, Zhao Yeqing's basket contained some wild vegetables and red thorns from early spring.

It wasn't until the basket couldn't fit anymore that he shouted loudly, "Mu Xi! Are you okay?"

"All right!"

When she heard the response, she stood there and waited. Mu Xi came over within a few minutes.

Zhao Yeqing poked his head to see what was in his backpack.

Gods and demons are everywhere. In addition to green leafy wild vegetables, there are also red goat's milk fruits, messy fungi, herbs such as Prunella vulgaris and motherwort... There are even two rhizomes of unknown plants stained with soil. ?

"What is this? Medicine?"

The two stems are obviously not from the same plant. One has only a rhizome, and the other has some stems and leaves.

Zhao Yeqing pulled open the wild vegetables covering it and saw clearly that the plant with stems and leaves was azalea.

Mu Xi said: "This plant hasn't bloomed yet. There are two small flower buds on it. It's time to dig it back and plant it. If it survives, it will bloom next week."

Hearing this, Zhao Yeqing felt sweet in his heart. Mu Xi had never liked flowers and plants since he was a child, but she was the only one who liked them.

But as long as she goes into the mountains and there are wild flowers in the mountains, Mu Xi will bring her a bouquet of flowers almost every time.

At this time, Zhao Yeqing also forgot to ask what kind of plant the other rhizome was, and walked home briskly.

After arriving home, the soil was dug out in the corner of the yard where the tool room used to be. This will be the small garden of the house from now on.

Watching Mu Xi planting azalea, Zhao Yeqing remembered to ask about another rhizome.

Mu Xi took it out and handed it to her, "Guess what."

Zhao Yeqing had never seen it before, and it was not like those herbs from his grandma when he was a child.

Seeing that she didn't guess it, Mu Xi didn't give in and said bluntly, "It's a wild grapevine."

She could eat wild grapes, but it was strange that she could recognize this stem.

"Where to plant it?"

Mu Xi pointed to the fish pond, "Plant it on the fish pond. The fish excrement in the fish pond is its nourishment."

"This saves trouble. There is no need to water or fertilize."

Mu Xi smiled and nodded, "If it grows well by then, and after it bears fruit, the spoiled fruit will fall directly into the fish pond, and it can also be fed to the fish."

Just have to build a shelf over the fish pond.

This is simple. I still have a lot of bamboo cut down at home, so I just need to nail one of them.

Mu Xi was chopping bamboo in the backyard, while Zhao Yeqing moved the firewood for today's cooking into the kitchen.

"We are running out of firewood at home." She said through the kitchen window, "cut some trees in advance to dry out."

Mu Xi responded, "I'll go directly tomorrow. Just stay at home."

After the bamboo frame was set up, Mu Xi planted grapes beside the fish pond, and Zhao Yeqing planted Zheer root beside the grapes.

Suddenly, I heard a buzzing sound in my ears.

Her body froze and she didn't dare to turn her head, "Mu Xi!"

Mu Xi turned around and saw a bee hanging above Zhao Yeqing's head.

He waved the shovel a few times, and the bees were frightened and flew away.

"gone."

Zhao Yeqing then turned his neck, relaxed his body, exhaled a breath, and sighed, "This bee is also amazing. It is still alive after such a cold winter."

Mu Xi was stunned by these words, and Zhao Yeqing also reacted, and the two looked at each other.

This winter of tens of degrees below zero has passed. What does it mean that bees are still alive?

This shows that the hive is very large, the bee colony is also very strong, and the honey stock is extremely large, so that the bees can survive.

Only when there is more honey can there be enough food, and when the bee colony grows stronger, it can huddle together to keep each other warm and survive the severe cold.

When I was still in Meishan, I said I wanted to find bees. Later, because there was no honey source and the water source was cut off, I had to move away, so the plan was shelved.

Zhao Yeqing realized in hindsight, "Strictly speaking, do we have a honey source now?"

Mu Xi nodded, "It seems so."

I have a large rapeseed field at home.

When the home vegetable garden crops bloom, they can also be regarded as auxiliary nectar sources. Bees can also help with pollination, saving you the trouble of doing it yourself.

The more Zhao Yeqing thought about it, the brighter his eyes became, "Yes, even if the rapeseed flowering period is over, we still have alfalfa, which is a grass that has been grown continuously, so we still have to worry about not having a source of honey."

Spring is so nice.