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

The glutinous rice and paddy fields were already empty. She also removed the ridges in the middle and planned to burn several fields together.

The weather was dry and hot, and the dry and golden straw in the field spread instantly after encountering the fire. Within a minute, several pieces of land were already surrounded by fire.

Zhao Yeqing's isolation and fire protection were in place, and the crops nearby were not affected at all.

It's just that the already hot weather, coupled with the heat wave of the fire, caused the temperature near the home to rise sharply. Standing next to the field, Zhao Yeqing felt as if he was about to faint and suffocate.

After the fire gradually extinguished, only black straw that had been carbonized into ash was left in the field.

The ridges of several fields have been flattened and need to be piled up again before bamboos are cut or trenches are dug to make water channels to drain the water into the wheat fields for soaking.

You have to wait until the water softens the ground a little, then the next step is to plow the ground. All the straw and ashes have to be turned into the ground and turned into nutrients.

Zhao Yeqing calculated the workload - re-building the field ridges, cutting bamboo and carrying it back, or digging ditches to divert water...

She might as well plant several fields together with rice. The workload would be a little more, but the yield would be greatly increased.

If several plots of land can harvest rice again, then the two of them can spread dry rice to show off before plowing next spring without having to worry about not having enough to eat.

In order to avoid bad seeds or accidents in the seedlings, more seedlings are usually raised during seedling raising.

This is the second time to raise rice seedlings under dry conditions. The two of them have gained experience and there were no accidents during the process. The rice seedlings are very healthy in all aspects.

If you plant the rice seedlings at slightly wider intervals, you can almost cover several plots of land.

In this way, we don't have to dig ditches and cut bamboo to divert water. We can directly open the water inlet of the water source larger, increase the flow of water from the stream into the fish pond, and then release the water from the fish pond into the rice fields.

The water gradually spread to cover three areas.

The last time he planted rice, the fields were not soaked long enough, so subsequent transplanting was more laborious. Zhao Yeqing planned to soak the fields for two more days this time until the soil was soft enough before plowing.

She very considerately added freshly recovered corn kernels to the feed of the cows that were about to start work, so that they could work only after they were full.

Now that the weather was getting hotter, the red brick cattle and sheep pen was a little hot, so Mu Xi opened two windows above to ensure ventilation inside.

The little calf at home has grown up a lot and is full of energy every day. When I see the big calf being taken out to work, I also want to rush over and play.

The rhubarb barked loudly to stop them, and in the end they had no choice but to follow the large group out to eat grass.

Mu Xi was sitting at home grinding corn. After his butt hurt and his neck became unbearably stiff, he switched jobs with Zhao Yeqing.

The two of them took turns, and when all the corn had turned into corn kernels, all the seedlings in the field had been planted.

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The second-season rice seedlings gradually stabilized, and Mu Xi processed the cotton seeds according to the information in the book.

He did not take out all the seeds. "We don't need so much cotton, and we don't need to plant a whole piece of land. Now that the corn has been taken back, there is a gap between the soybeans, so we will plant the cotton in between."

Zhao Yeqing calculated, "The soybeans will be harvested next month, and the peanuts will be harvested in about half a month. By the time the peanuts are harvested, the rapeseed flowers will bloom."

Mu Xi asked, "Then should I go out after harvesting the peanuts? During this time, I can still shell the rice and wheat."

Zhao Yeqing raised his hand with the watch on it.

"Look, it's already thirty-one degrees now. After harvesting peanuts in half a month, it's time to harvest soybeans again. It's too busy. You can go ahead. You can still come back before harvesting peanuts. I can beat rice. Do it yourself slowly."

It will be busier before and after harvesting and sowing, but there is nothing we can do about it. The climate is abnormal now. When it should be getting cooler, the temperature is gradually rising.

If we continue to delay, the animals will probably become more aggressive like last year, and the water sources will gradually dry up, making it more uncontrollable to enter the mountains.

Mu Xi: "Okay, then I'll go and come back quickly."

After the two of them worked together to plant the cotton, Mu Xi packed up his things and went into the mountains to explore the road.

Zhao Yeqing was so busy at home this time that he had no time to think about anything. He had to water and fertilize the newly planted cotton, and he had to take out the rice and pour it into a wooden box to shell it.

She planned to process 30 kilograms of rice first. After all, this was the first time she would operate a wooden hammer to beat rice by herself.

Not only was the operation unskilled, but something went wrong with the wooden hammer halfway through use, so he had to disassemble it again, check and repair it, and then continue grinding.

Zhao Yeqing remembered when she was a child and asked her grandparents why they could do everything, including repairing circuits, machines, and farm work, and could do everything by themselves.

Now she knows that when you really need to face life by yourself, life can make people learn something about everything.

It took a day and a half to turn thirty kilograms of rice into brown rice.

There is still a little remaining rice husk on it, which will be rough when cooked, so you have to put it into a stone pound and pound it gently.

This job was a test of patience. Zhao Yeqing thought that Mu Xi would be returning to Meishan anyway, and by then moving the power supply here, he would have electricity at home.

So he took out his mobile phone and took out the last two half-charged power banks that Mu Xi brought back from the tourist area to replenish the life of his mobile phone.

Listening to the familiar sayings, learning and singing, the work in my hands became much easier.

After a busy day, all the rice in the stone pound was put into the dustpan and tossed up and down to let the residue fly out, leaving only the white rice.

When you raise it, you can smell the rich aroma of rice. This freshly beaten rice is just different.

Mu Xi couldn't eat it for the time being. At night, Zhao Yeqing showed off three bowls of rice with tears in his eyes while watching the variety show.

Rice with germ is different from ordinary rice in the past. In addition, it is freshly beaten. The rice grains are crystal clear and full, and the rice aroma is very rich. You can eat a whole bowl of rice without side dishes.

If you eat it yourself, your dog will also have to taste it. He has to go out to graze every day and look at the pasture. There is no reason for you to eat new rice and let your dog eat old rice.

After dinner, my blood sugar level rose. One person and four dogs sat next to the sorghum field in the backyard, listening to a ditty and watching the stars. The chirping of insects made the listeners feel drowsy.

The stars were obscured and dim under the bright moonlight, and only a few could still be seen hanging in the sky.

Occasionally, a gust of wind blows, and the wind is full of warmth, not as good as the newly made cattail leaf fan in her hand.

But the wind from the cattail fan is only relatively strong and not as cool as the taro leaves she brought back before.

The wind blowing out of the taro leaves brought with it a cool feeling, but it was a pity that it could not be kept for a long time. She had already made kimchi with the leaves and sticks.

I wanted to plant some, but the taro was too tender and not suitable for saving seeds. I had to wait for more than a month before digging up fully mature taro with a high starch content to save seeds.

Zhao Yeqing smashes his mouth——

Candied taro, taro cake, shredded taro, taro cake... What should I eat first?