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

Mu Xi nodded, "When I come back next time, I will probably be able to walk to the northern back mountain of Meishan Mountain."

He had not seen Houshan Lake when he climbed up and looked far away, but based on the analysis of the location of the wild boar, if nothing unexpected happened, it would be about the same if he walked a few dozen kilometers further next time.

Zhao Yeqing recalled the road conditions along the way, "If the road conditions at the back are similar to those at the front, then we can take Xiaohong back."

The mobile power bank at home weighs almost 40 kilograms. It can be carried back and forth manually, but if there is danger on the road, it will be at a loss.

If you can use a horse and camel to come back, not only can you travel much faster, but you can also bring more other things with you.

After the two of them were full, they fried several pieces of wild boar without salt for the two dogs.

By the time they went to bed, Guohuo and Xuebing had already gone to lie down on the tree next to them.

Zhao Yeqing slept very peacefully this time. He was supposed to take turns keeping vigil, but as soon as he closed his eyes and opened them again, it was already morning.

Mu Xi was sitting by the fire boiling water when she suddenly woke up and said, "I was so sleepy that you didn't call me. You didn't sleep all night, did you?"

"She's asleep." Mu Xi wetted the towel with hot water and wrung it out and handed it to her to wipe her face. "There were two dogs and two leopards. I fell asleep in the middle of the night and woke up not long ago."

Zhao Yeqing wiped his face clean, feeling refreshed and refreshed was really important.

When Mu Xi didn't come back, on the first day she came out to look for him, the sound of insects and water around her was very annoying, but the sound of insects and water last night was like hypnotic white noise.

Just don't sleep well.

After having breakfast, they packed up and went home. Considering Mu Xi's waist injury and sprained ankle, the two of them didn't arrive home until midnight the next day.

When Zhao Yeqing went out, he reset the delay mechanism that Mu Xi made last time, but he was still worried that the cattle and sheep would be hungry.

I put down my backpack and walked to the cattle and sheep pen to check on the situation.

Although they were not starving, they were still very hungry. Even the hay used as bedding was almost eaten by the cattle and sheep.

Zhao Yeqing told Mu Xi to sit still and quickly walked to the hay house, mixed the silage and hay and poured it into the cattle and sheep pens.

Xiaohong is the most worry-free one. She eats slowly and leisurely, and will not eat up all the feed at once because of greed.

Even without using the delay device, Zhao Yeqing has not finished eating the fodder he put when he went out.

The feed bottles in the chicken coop were full of feed, and as expected, it was all eaten. Zhao Yeqing mixed the remaining corn kernels and highland barley rice to feed the chickens.

"In about twenty days, you will have fresh corn to eat."

After taking care of the family of animals, Mu Xi also finished taking a bath and filled the bathtub with bath water for Zhao Yeqing.

Before entering the bathroom, he made sure that all the broken blisters on her feet were basically healed, leaving only some unbroken blisters before letting her take a bath.

You can't take a bath if the blisters on your feet break, otherwise they will easily get infected. Mu Xi told him to be careful not to break them, and then went back to the room to look for ointment.

The ointment I took with me into the mountain was not particularly symptomatic, so I found two that had good anti-inflammatory and sterilizing effects, and applied them to Zhao Yeqing after she came out of the shower.

"Don't go to the fields these two days. Let's both lie down for a few days."

For the next week, the two of them did nothing but eat and feed the chickens and horses. In the morning and afternoon, when the cattle and sheep went out to graze and came back, they paid attention to the door to prevent the animals from running into the crop fields.

The two spent most of their time lying in bed.

Guohuo and Xuebing are almost away from home all day now, and all the dogs have gone out.

Two dogs were herding sheep, and two dogs were watching the pasture to prevent deer from grazing.

There were only two of them in the whole house, and it seemed unusually quiet.

It's inevitable for people to feel sleepy when lying in bed. Zhao Yeqing slept a bit like day and night, often waking up at two or three in the middle of the night, and then waking Mu Xi up.

"Are you hungry?"

The moment Mu Xi woke up after being pushed, he guessed that he would hear these words, "Well, I want to eat grilled sausages, barbecue, grilled leeks and milk tofu."

Zhao Yeqing, "It's not good to eat too much. Just eat some roasted leeks in the middle of the night. It's light."

"you're right."

The two sat by the fire, eating fresh roasted leeks, and welcomed the morning sunrise.

In less than a month, the first crops planted will be almost ready for harvest.

"The first thing to be harvested should be wheat, followed by corn and glutinous rice." Zhao Yeqing took out his notebook. "At that time, we will have to prepare for threshing, drying the millet, and pounding the rice..."

Perhaps because the original owner lived alone on the meadow and grew relatively little food, the tools for handling rice and wheat were also very simple and primitive. There was only a flail to thresh the grains, and then a large stone to pound the rice.

Now the two of them are the only labor force for the grain in several fields. If they all use flails to thresh grain, it will take several more days and they will be very tired.

The two decided to make a threshing bucket using the method they had used in Meishan.

When we were in Meishan, there was only a small amount of rice. After threshing, we could use a dustpan to throw up the rice and then drop it to remove the straw and hay mixed with the grains.

Nowadays, impurities need to be removed from wheat, rice and subsequent rapeseed, and manual operation with a dustpan will definitely not work.

Last year, Mu Xi dismantled a windmill for removing impurities at the foot of the mountain. He originally planned to harvest winter wheat after winter, and then build a windmill by himself.

Unexpectedly, the wheat was frozen to death before winter passed.

Mu Xi thought, "I don't have many tools at home. In addition to the threshing bucket and windmill, I also have to make a wooden hammer."

The wooden hammer is used to shell the rice. After the shelling is completed, the rice becomes brown rice. Finally, the rice is pounded gently with the big stone left by the original owner and the accompanying large wooden pestle, and the brown rice can be turned into white flowers. of polished rice.

The threshing bucket is not difficult to make, just put it together with wooden boards, but the windmill and wooden hammer are more sophisticated.

Mu Xi took out the drawing of the windmill that he had drawn before. After checking that there were no flaws, he started to draw the drawing of the wooden hammer on the paper.

The operation method of the wooden hammer is similar to that of the stone mill. It uses thrust and rotation to peel the rice.

It's just that the stone mill uses stone, which is very hard and wear-resistant. It can be used to grind rice and easily crush the rice grains.

The material selection of the wooden hammer is quite particular. It is necessary to use wood as the main material so that the rice grains will not be shattered all at once. Wear resistance must also be considered. The wood material should be sandalwood, mulberry and nanmu with relatively high hardness.

In addition to wood, all materials have to be yellow clay.

The wooden paddle is divided into two parts: an upper fan and a lower fan. There is space in the middle of the upper part for pouring rice. There are tooth grooves made of miscellaneous wood at the bottom of the upper fan and the top of the lower fan.

The empty grinding hole in the upper fan just fits on the grinding core in the middle of the lower fan. The grinding hole is like a funnel, allowing the grain to naturally fall to the teeth for grinding.

This tool is not easy to make. If they hadn't been relatively poor in the valley, they would have seen people in the village below using these tools since they were young, and then they would have learned some skills.

If the village had enough money to buy an electric rice-beating machine, both of them would be blind now.