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

Seeing Mu Xi coming over safely, Zhao Yeqing hurriedly stepped forward and checked whether there were any bees left on him.

There are no more alive ones, but there is still one dead one.

The spikes on the tail got stuck into his clothes. Mu Xi took off his clothes and hat and cleaned off the spikes.

Zhao Yeqing looked at the dead bee in his hand. The body was furry, fat and round.

Mu Xi said: "Once their bee stings are stung, their internal organs will be pulled out together, and they will not survive."

She placed the round, fat bee body on the meadow and looked up and down Mu Xi's body to make sure he had not been stung before she felt relieved.

"How's it going? Is the situation of the bee colony optimistic?"

Mu Xi smiled and replied, "Don't worry, with the queen bee inside, it will be stable."

After receiving the good news, Zhao Yeqing smiled, took Mu Xi's hand and was about to go home.

When I lowered my head and saw the dog at my feet, I suddenly remembered,

She came to see the condition of the pasture.

We walked around the hilltop to the back of the pasture, avoiding the vicinity of the beehives, and sure enough we found that several pieces of pasture had signs of being eaten.

Once the roots of the grass are eaten, the leaves above will wilt.

Now the two of them have almost no particularly effective methods to prevent and control rodent infestations. They can only harvest the pasture as early as possible to avoid greater losses.

Two or three crops of pasture could have been harvested, but now nearly one-fifth of the grass roots have been eaten away, and they have to be pulled out and replanted.

Mu Xi put on his jacket and modified hat again, and moved the beehives closer to the alfalfa fields to make it easier for the two of them to come to harvest grass in the near future.

After returning home, Zhao Yeqing went to sort out the small amount of silage remaining in the silage cellar. The unused residue was somewhat moldy inside, so he had to clean it all out and then rinse the silage cellar.

Mu Xi remade a second cart to pull forage.

The wooden planks prepared earlier have been turned into sleds, and the body and wheels of the sleds have to be remade.

There was still unused wood at home. After Mu Xi drew the drawings, he carved out the parts according to the drawings.

There was definitely not enough work to be done in one day. Zhao Yeqing dragged the first cart out the next day, harvested three carts and came back, cutting them into small sections with a guillotine.

This batch was intended to be made into small bags of silage. After she finished packing all the small bags of silage, Mu Xi's second pallet truck was also made.

Mu Xi moved both cars near the pasture. He thought of loading one first, transporting it back by horse, and then loading the next.

"Now Xiaohong can find her way back by herself. I can just cut the grass by myself."

After Xiao Hong returned from transporting one cart, he could drag the empty cart back to the pasture, and then hitch the second full cart back to it.

Oxen can pull more, but now there are not enough manpower, and the corn in the fields must be recovered as soon as possible.

Zhao Yeqing shook his head, "The two baskets of Yin corn are almost enough. The rest is just waiting for grinding. I'm afraid Xiao Hong won't be able to bear it running back and forth, so I'd better use an ox wheel to pull it."

The recovered forage still has to be cut and stored. If you want to eat corn, you can just plant a few more and eat it yourself.

But what Mu Xi also considered was that corn stalks could be used as feed. After the corn wax matures, the stalks will be dried into golden dry stalks by the sun in the field, and cattle and sheep will probably not like to eat them.

Cutting it now can also be used as roughage.

Zhao Yeqing threw the grass in his hand into the cart. Looking at the increasingly warm sunshine, he suddenly had some thoughts of letting it go.

"They eat whether they like it or not. If not, they eat hay. A large herd of cattle and sheep is exhausting." She sat down on the grass. "If it's not possible, just slaughter the sheep before winter. Only a few will be left, and the rest will be eaten." .”

Mu Xi smiled when he heard this, "That's fine, I have no objection."

The more Zhao Yeqing talked about it, the more he thought it was feasible. The two of them were raising so many sheep, but they couldn't sell them, and wool wasn't scarce. They might as well just raise a few sheep, and they wouldn't have to work hard.

But we definitely can’t slaughter sheep now. The world is too hot to keep the mutton.

Now the cattle and sheep can go out to graze on their own, and it is not difficult to supply feed. They just put some night grass in the evening and put some feed in the barn when the two of them want to go out.

After thinking about it, I don’t feel that the work on this hot day is very difficult anymore. Just do it slowly.

I originally wanted to leave the alfalfa unharvested so that it could support bees, but I was worried that the voles would cause even more damage.

Mu Xi: "Anyway, there is still half of the land planted with alfalfa for seed saving, so this land will be cut off."

"Then cut it. Anyway, by then the field will be finished and the rapeseed flowers will bloom."

Like last year, Zhao Yeqing transported two trucks of feed and returned home, then unloaded the goods and loaded them into the hay house.

If left outside for too long, it will be dried out in the sun. When the moisture of the pasture is reduced, it will not be easy to ferment.

After all the forage was harvested, the two of them cut it together and piled it into the silage.

It took nearly a week to process the forage, and it was almost time to harvest the last of the corn.

Now the corn in the cornfield has hardened, and the yellow-green corn stalks have been turned golden by the sun.

After chopping up the golden corn stalks, stems and leaves with a guillotine, he mixed the green fodder and threw it into the troughs of the sheep and cattle pens. It was found that the cattle and sheep ate fairly cleanly.

Chopping it requires time and effort. Zhao Yeqing tried throwing a whole corn stalk in, but they only ate the leaves and wouldn't even touch the pole.

Yes, it still needs to be chopped.

When harvesting corn this time, we do not just break the corn cobs directly, but harvest all the corn plants, then break off the top corns and throw them in the yard to dry.

Zhao Yeqing's job of cutting corn stalks was not the hardest. In comparison, Mu Xi's job of peeling corn kernels was really laborious.

You have to use a screwdriver to poke out one row first, and there will be gaps between the corn kernels, so that you can peel off the remaining corn kernels.

Today's corn kernels are very thick and hard. If you peel them by hand, they may peel and blister after a day. You have to use a corn cob as a tool to assist in peeling off the corn kernels.

Corn husks are not so prone to insects when stored, and the blending ratio is better when feeding.

After Zhao Yeqing cut the corn stalks, he did not forget to prepare the field where the rice would be planted.

To plant rice in the originally planned wheat field, the straw in that field has to be recovered or burned.

Zhao Yeqing had never done serious pest control work before, so Zhao Yeqing planned to burn the straw this time to fertilize the field and eliminate pests, and maybe suffocate the voles that might be living in the field.

It's just that there are still unharvested crops near the wheat fields, so they need to be isolated.

There are corn fields and soybeans, and there is also a rapeseed field next to it.

Zhao Yeqing dug the soil and thickened and raised the fields between them to prevent the fire from spreading or scalding the crops next door.