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

He took the jar outside and killed it. Mushi and Xuebing, who happened to be returning home, saw it. Mu Xi spared no effort to bury it and threw it to the two of them as snacks.

Voles have begun to appear near my home. Although I have only found one now, they are the same as cockroaches. Once found, there cannot be only one.

Mu Xi: "It's summer now. Mother rats are pregnant and giving birth to a large number of young rats. This is the peak period of activity and foraging."

Zhao Yeqing frowned, "Let's not talk about the rice and wheat. The harvest is about to be completed. The corn can be collected soon, but the peanuts are not yet available. We have to wait for another twenty days."

Voles are small and cannot usually eat wheat fruits such as corn and wheat, but they are very good at digging holes. In spring, they eat the roots of wheat. The roots of wheat are juicy and tender, but once the roots are eaten, the field will be destroyed. Directly destroyed.

In summer, their targets become plants growing in the ground. Soybeans and peanuts are their targets, and they are hard to guard against.

Mu Xi scowled and rinsed the clay pot, "I'll eat the food as soon as I can, because I'm afraid of the plague."

There are currently no drugs that can control voles, so we can only find ways to control them physically.

In the past, there were rats in the mountains, and grandparents used rat poison or mouse traps.

There is no rat poison, but rat traps can be used, but in such a large field, the effect is probably minimal.

Zhao Yeqing sighed, "I have no choice but to look for their dens around. We can't leave them on the ridges."

Voles like to build their nests in fields, preferably in the fields.

Fields may be plowed deeply, causing nests to be destroyed, but this will not happen on field ridges. Nesting on ridges is not only close to the crops, but also very safe.

When I was a child, I watched other people destroy vole nests. Each vole nest could dig out tens to one hundred kilograms of grain.

She had worked so hard for several months to harvest 500 kilograms of wheat, and this little field mouse could steal one-fifth of her grain just a few times.

Originally, once the ridge was ridged, it could be used forever. Now, it is estimated that every time it has to be leveled and plowed deeply, then erected again.

Mu Xi: "It is best to rotate crops between floods and droughts. This is the safest way."

Zhao Yeqing nodded, "Then don't plant the second-crop rice in the original rice field, but plant it directly in the wheat field, but you will have to build another water inlet."

Flood-drought rotation is to carry out water planting in dry land, and dry farming is carried out in the original paddy field.

Alternate field types over and over again so that the voles think it is an inhospitable place to build a den.

Zhao Yeqing felt helpless. Being a farmer was not an easy task. He already had a lot of work, but when a field mouse made trouble, the workload doubled again.

The two of them grabbed the rice and beat it, one at a time, and beat the grains into the bucket.

Zhao Yeqing showed strength as if the straw in his hand was the damn field mouse.

"It would be nice if I had a cat. I could let it out at night to catch mice."

As soon as Zhao Yeqing finished speaking, his eyes were fixed on two leopards that had just finished eating voles and were licking their paws.

Luo Mu and Xue Ping felt a little uncomfortable under her gaze. They slowly put down their leopard paws and stood there blankly looking at her.

Zhao Yeqing threw away the rice straw in his hand, walked over and hugged the two leopards' necks.

Guomu and Xuebing slipped out of her arms subconsciously. Zhao Yeqing stretched out his hand and hugged them tightly.

"Don't move. Don't go out these days. Just catch mice next to the fields at night."

Her hand pointed to the place where the two voles had been eating, and she gestured.

I don’t know if the two of them understood it, but after she finished speaking, Guodu and Xuebing didn’t go out in the afternoon.

At night, Zhao Yeqing saw that the two leopards were not out hunting, so he caught two fish from the fish pond and gave them to the two leopards as dinner.

Both glutinous rice and paddy rice have been harvested, and the key areas of protection are corn and peanut fields.

At night, the two of them walked to the edge of the field and lay down. Zhao Yeqing knew that they understood, so he turned back to his room to sleep with confidence.

The first thing I do when I get up at dawn is go to the fields to check the situation.

Luohuo and Xuebing were sleeping under the pavilion. Zhao Yeqing walked over lightly, not wanting to wake them up.

Walking to the side of the peanut field, she knew that these two would definitely gain something in the evening.

Because several of her peanut seedlings were trampled to the ground.

She also discovered a small hole in the peanut field that was not sealed.

Zhao Yeqing called Mu Xi over who had just finished feeding the livestock, "Get the shovel!"

The two dug down to the hole, nearly half a meter deep. The hole gradually collapsed inward, and Mu Xi took out a small handful of peanuts.

The two leopards had been awakened and walked over. After another shovel from Mu Xi, Mu Xi pounced on them!

Mu Xi was startled when he saw two small field mice pressing under their muddy paws. They looked like they had only recently grown fur.

Not only these two came out of the cave, there were about seven or eight of them. After picking up these two, they rushed out with Xuebing to catch others.

Zhao Yeqing felt his hair stand on end the moment the field mouse sprang out. He screamed and ran away.

Mu Xi hurriedly continued to dig the shovel, making sure that the hole had been dug to the deepest point and that there was no fish that slipped through the net. Then he quickly walked over to comfort Zhao Yeqing.

Zhao Yeqing's face was pale and his body was stiff, and he said with lingering fear:

"A nest of voles came out, it was so scary..."

Mu Xi's hands were a little dirty while digging, so he could only bend his hands and gently caress her back with his clean wrist, "It's okay. I dug just now to make sure everyone was gone. Do you want to go there?"

Zhao Yeqing nodded with a pale face and said angrily, "I want to see how much they stole from me."

In addition to the handful of peanuts that Mu Xi took out at the beginning, there were also a lot of wheat and rice.

"I don't know how these voles were stolen. Could it be that they also dug holes in the original house?"

Zhao Yeqing looked at the large amount of rice and wheat, frowning and guessing.

Mu Xi shook his head, "I checked last night. There are no holes inside, and there is no problem with the grain in the bag. It is probably stolen while we were not paying attention when it was left to dry after harvesting."

Zhao Yeqing: "No matter what, we still have to take precautions and store the dried food well."

Their village uses aluminum-skinned grain storage barrels to store grain. Metal barrels are very durable and are not as easy to rust as iron and steel.

The thin aluminum bucket will not be chewed by mice and is very light to carry.

Mu Xi filled in the peanut field and said, "Tomorrow I will go down the mountain and bring back the aluminum buckets from the village."

Zhao Yeqing thought of Sesame Field last year,

"I'll go with you to see if there are any good things left in the fields after a winter."