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

"When I came back this time, I saw the previous herd of sika deer migrating to the cloudy peaks behind. At night, there was still wind passing through the valley between the two mountains."

After Mu Xi said this, Zhao Yeqing understood what he meant.

"it's very windy?"

"It's very big. This is one of the reasons why I went straight to the night road when I came back this time. The wind in the mountain col was so strong that the tarpaulin couldn't be held up."

The wind he was talking about was not a normal wind.

That's the summer wind.

In summer, strong winds often blow near Meishan, but the weather changed abnormally after the ground cracking, so it never happened.

Because the province is along the coast, it is particularly severely affected by the summer monsoon.

This summer monsoon is the prevailing wind that blows from the high pressure area of ​​the ocean to the low pressure area of ​​the mainland. Every time it blows, it carries a large amount of water vapor. This is one of the reasons for the heavy rainfall in Meishan.

Normally, the hot and rainy summers caused by the summer monsoon are very conducive to the growth of crops such as rice. However, all current situations cannot be inferred by common sense, and we must make early plans.

Zhao Yeqing: "Then our drainage ditches need to be widened, and several more drainage ditches need to be dug."

The summer monsoon has already arrived, and the cities closer to the seaside will experience faster rainfall. This is the first gust of wind. There are no cumulus clouds in the sky yet, and there is still time to prepare for flooding.

Mu Xi lit a fire in the fire pit, "I'm going to get something to eat now, and then I'll set off back to Meishan. I'm afraid it will start raining and I won't be able to go back."

This concern is very necessary. There are water sources and small rivers in the mountain col. When the heavy rain starts and the water level rises, the way back will be even more difficult.

After lunch, Mu Xi took Xiao Hong back to Meishan. Zhao Yeqing quickly took out the hoe and shovel and polished them in preparation for digging trenches.

The heavy rains that caused landslides last year came all at once, without any warning.

Now that the monsoon is blowing, it may be even worse than last year's.

Zhao Yeqing planned to not only widen the drainage ditch in the field at the door, but also dig the vegetable garden and pasture on the meadow behind.

Not only does it have to be dug, but it also has to be cemented.

The soil is easy to seep, and soil drainage ditches are still prone to waterlogging. Only those made of cement can drain away the accumulated water to the greatest extent.

Since she had to do it well, she couldn't do it half-heartedly. Zhao Yeqing took out a pen and paper and marked the length, slope and depth of the drainage ditch. Considering that she only had one person to work on, she dealt with the most important farmland area first.

Peanuts, soybeans and rapeseed have not yet been harvested, and cotton has just been planted, so the drainage of the fields must be done well.

After finalizing the construction drawings, Zhao Yeqing grabbed the tools and went to dig in the ground, regardless of whether the sun was too bright and could easily burn his skin.

After digging drainage ditches around the farmland, she did not rush to dig vegetable gardens and pastures immediately, nor did she widen the drainage ditches. Instead, she mixed cement and spread it around the farmland.

It will take a few days for the cement to dry, otherwise it will crack as soon as the water soaks it.

It took two days to dig the trench and apply cement.

On the third day, Zhao Yeqing felt a breeze starting to blow on the meadow. The breeze carried the fragrance of the rapeseed flowers that were gradually blooming.

Gotta speed up the process.

Sweet potatoes and rapeseed flowers are harvested at about the same time, but potatoes can be collected earlier.

She drained the vegetable garden well and connected the drainage ditch of the vegetable garden with the ditch of the field, and then collected the potatoes first.

A few rows of potatoes didn't look like much, but when they were taken back they were piled all over the floor. Zhao Yeqing didn't bother to weigh them now and threw them into the cellar.

There is also no drainage of the pasture.

The pasture is quite far from home. If drainage is to be done, I don’t know where the drainage ditch should go.

Zhao Yeqing was thinking about draining it into the lake, but he also thought that if it really rained heavily, the water in the lake would probably also rise.

There is also a bamboo raft they parked by the lake.

Zhao Yeqing now wished he could split himself into a team and use them.

He hurried to the lake and dragged the bamboo raft to a hill near the lake, then returned to the pasture and started digging a trench.

The beehives on the edge of the pasture are still buzzing, as if the monsoon has also brought messages to them. This time, the bees are obviously more restless than before.

There is also an endless stream of worker bees coming in and out to collect honey, as if they are rushing to hoard pollen to make honey.

Zhao Yeqing sped up the movements of his hands. At this time, animals and insects were more sensitive than humans.

There was not enough digging around the pasture in one day. When she continued digging the next day, she also brought the modified bamboo hat with her, planning to move the beehive next to the rapeseed field when she returned home in the evening.

The drainage ditches in the vegetable garden and fields are all made of cement, but there is no use in the pasture area. The family has not dug out the limestone for a long time, and it is too late to move it and apply it before it can dry.

Cumulus clouds have begun to appear in the sky today, and there was a strong wind blowing on the meadow in the morning.

You can obviously feel the moist heat in the wind.

It seems that the sticky summer that you can feel every rainy season has begun again.

There was no time to apply cement, so we had to use other methods to deal with it first.

She went to the lakeside to dig out a few baskets of gravel and spread them in the ditch to speed up the flow of water.

The ditch is surrounded by newly dug soil walls, which are most likely to collapse on heavy rainy days. In the past, farmland drainage ditch construction used vegetation to cover the soil and use plant roots to solidify the soil.

But now that she was sharpening her weapon in battle, she could only tamp down the surrounding soil with force, hoping that a miracle would happen.

I came out after breakfast in the morning and brought a lunch box with me.

It is the most delicious to eat lunch in the field after doing farm work.

After working from morning to night, the drainage was finally completed, and the drainage ditch was extended to a small stream flowing into the lake.

When she returned home, she carefully moved the beehive. The bees inside were disturbed and flew out buzzingly, struggling to get in outside the transparent plastic sheet in front of her.

Zhao Yeqing looked at the dense swarm of bees in front of him, with goosebumps all over his arms.

But we should not be anxious. It is easy to have accidents when moving a beehive on a meadow that is not flat. The honeycomb inside will fall off if you are not careful, causing the bee colony to work in vain for several months.

Then her honey will be gone.

Even if there were so many things in front of her, she had to bite the bullet and move back.

After moving to the side of the rapeseed field, she carefully opened the cover and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the beehive inside was normal.

I dusted off the bees on my body and went home. I sat down on the bench and felt exhausted.

I don’t know when Mu Xi will come back.

Zhao Yeqing expected that Mu Xi would be able to return within five days if he accelerated his pace, but today was already the sixth day.