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

Thoughts are the easiest things to be influenced by oneself. Mu Xi had a very upright attitude in admitting his mistakes and immediately proposed a solution.

"Then after two days, the rice and glutinous rice have been dried, and then we will go down the mountain together to move the big aluminum bucket. You can dry the unfinished rice at home for the next two days, and I will go and dry the remaining rice. Move Duan back."

Zhao Yeqing agreed with the plan and started drying the rice at home before Mu Xi moved the small and medium aluminum buckets back.

Rice and glutinous rice are considered good if they are exposed to nearly 13% moisture content. Two days in the sun is enough.

After the last batch of rice was dried, Zhao Yeqing took one and bit it in his mouth——

Crunchy, passable.

The temperature is rising steadily at a rate of two to three degrees every week. The showers that were so annoying before are now hard to come by.

Within a few days, Mu Xi moved the remaining sections back and assembled them all.

Recently, Mu Xi has been spending most of his time in the woods, and he didn't feel any change despite being shaded by trees. However, Zhao Yeqing was drying rice at home and didn't pay much attention to the sun, so it became noticeably darker in just a few days.

Winter lasted for so long that she had long forgotten about sun protection in summer, and hurriedly took out her straw hat and put it on.

After the aluminum bucket was assembled, the two of them worked together to pour the wheat and rice into the aluminum bucket and then closed the lid.

There is a grain outlet under the aluminum bucket. You only need to pull up the aluminum valve, and the grain inside will leak out. You can get the grain without opening the top lid.

Zhao Yeqing inspected the rice seedlings being raised in the dry field and the corn in the field.

"It will take more than ten days for the seedlings to be planted, and the corn is ready to be harvested. Now we can harvest a batch first, and then dry them after cooking to make shade corn. The rest will wait for them to grow on the poles for a while, just in time to move things down the mountain. .”

It is still in the milk-ripening stage, which is the time for people to eat it. When the corn reaches the wax-ripening stage in more than ten days, it will harden, and the starch content in it will increase. After it is brought back, it will be dried and peeled and fed to chickens, sheep, cattle and horses. Good concentrated feed.

After the milk-ripened corn is cooked and then dried in the sun, the kernels will not become shriveled. Store it in a dry place. You can cook it again or fry it when you eat it.

There is no need to keep a lot of corn for human consumption, and it is troublesome to store it. The two plan to move the barrels tomorrow. Today, while it is still dark, they will quickly break back the corn that will be cooked and dried.

"We can't eat much, so just break off twenty or thirty kilograms. After a while, when the wax is ripe, we can use part of it to grind flour."

The two of them broke off two baskets of corn and went home. Zhao Yeqing was tired of eating boiled corn in the past two days, so he asked Mu Xi to peel off the corn kernels and took out freshly made cheese.

After mixing the corn kernels with a small amount of white sugar, add some starch and an egg and stir evenly, moisten the pan with butter, pour the corn kernel paste into it, and when it is almost cooked, sprinkle cheese shreds on the surface.

Mu Xi had a sweet tooth and ate an entire ten-inch tortilla.

Zhao Yeqing fried one for himself in a small pot. The sweet corn kernels were paired with the creamy and rich cheese, and long strands could be pulled out in one bite.

After eating the tortillas, she took another corn and roasted it on the fire, and sprinkled salt, cumin and chili powder on it.

The first time she saw the owner of the barbecue restaurant sprinkle cumin on the corn, she couldn't accept it. But after eating it once, she was immediately captured. The combination of sweet and salty was inexplicably harmonious, and the more she ate, the more addictive she became.

When I was in Meishan, the way to store shade corn was to cook the whole corn directly and then hang it up to dry.

At that time, they were in a hurry to find water sources. Now that they have time, the two of them sat in the kitchen and peeled the corn after eating. They peeled it first and then cooked it and dried it in the sun. It was also more convenient to store.

Wait until daybreak and lock the sheep pen and cattle pen to prevent Rhubarb from letting the cattle and sheep out to graze when he is not at home.

Feed was placed in each barn, and the two of them walked down the mountain.

Mu Xi had run on this road several times recently, and it was even neater than last year. The speed of going down the mountain was relatively fast. The two of them rushed down the mountain while walking and running, and arrived at the foot of the mountain just after noon.

The last time he came down, Mu Xi had already erected the big aluminum bucket and placed it in the yard of that house.

The aluminum bucket was relatively thin, and when Zhao Yeqing slapped his hand on it, it made a "squeaking" sound.

"Don't you think these hundreds of kilograms of corn are not enough? I was thinking about planting some more corn for autumn sowing."

Mu Xi understood clearly and knew that she was planning to transport all three sections of the big aluminum bucket back, so he said:

"Feeding corn to cattle and sheep is not particularly easy to digest, so they have to be fed with other feeds. Straw and silage are more suitable, as they are large and effortless."

Zhao Yeqing disagreed,

"But if you want cattle and sheep to produce milk and grow meat, you need to use concentrated feed. Continue to mix corn and soybeans. Then the concentrated feed will be mixed with soybean meal, corn and green feed. Beef cannot be eaten for the time being, so why don't you worry about eating mutton? ?”

"Okay, it's up to you." Mu Xi was convinced and tied the hemp rope he brought with him to the aluminum bucket.

Three large aluminum buckets had to be brought back, so it would take at least three days to go back and forth.

After spending two days transporting the two sections home, Zhao Yeqing planned to stay one night at the foot of the mountain on the third day and take some time to go to the fields to see if there was any harvest.

The two put their backpacks in the brick building in the village and walked around the fields holding hands.

Mu Xi didn't hold out much hope, "It was too cold last year and there weren't many plants that could survive the winter. We might still be able to find some harvest in the vegetable fields."

In addition to growing rice in their fields, only a few people can grow some wheat and sorghum.

Sorghum is used to make wine.

Zhao Yeqing doesn't like to drink sorghum wine. Among the wines brewed by farmers, she only likes rice wine.

Therefore, the only material in the village that was not favored by her was all kinds of wine. Except for a small amount of sorghum wine, the majority was sweet potato wine.

The degree of self-brewing is not high, and disinfection cannot be used. The operation process may also cause the number of bacterial colonies to exceed the standard. She is so greedy that she would drink some rice wine, and she would not dare to drink the rice wine brewed by others.

Mu Xi smiled and said, "Maybe if you go to the vegetable field, you can find some sweet potatoes that have successfully survived the winter buried in the soil. The sweet potatoes that have survived the cold winter are good evolved varieties."

But Zhao Yeqing didn't believe it and wandered around the few remaining fields, but found nothing.

I can only take another route to the vegetable field where I found sesame seeds last time.

Last year's sesame harvest was late, and many had burst and scattered the seeds on the ground.

Zhao Yeqing originally thought he could harvest a bunch of wild sesame seeds this year, but he didn't expect that the winter was too cold. When he walked to the vegetable field, he saw that only a small piece of weak sesame seeds was left to survive among the weeds.

The two of them had sickles and hatchets in their hands, and they easily cleared away some of the weeds.

Last time, he only found these two small vegetable plots. Zhao Yeqing planned to go further and maybe find other vegetable plots.

After all, this time I stayed at the foot of the mountain for a day just to gain something special.