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

Because the weather is getting hotter and hotter, many spring wild vegetables have grown so high in just a few days that they are too old to eat.

Summer has arrived so early.

There were no more wild vegetables everywhere, so Zhao Yeqing thought about exploring deeper into the mountains.

The large vegetable garden at home is still full of vegetable seedlings, and there are still a few months left before harvesting. The small vegetable garden is somewhat short of stock after eating several meals recently.

Just talking about leafy vegetables is fine. Picking a few vegetable leaves every day can still meet the daily vegetable needs, but there is really not much stock of meat.

Adhering to the concept of preparedness and sustainable development, Zhao Yeqing began to think about expanding the scale of breeding.

The chickens I bought before have grown up a lot after being raised for more than a month, and they are still a few months away from being able to eat meat. They can't be like hens that lay eggs.

The fastest way to achieve meat freedom now is either hunting or breeding.

She hadn't hunted for so long, partly because she didn't want to hunt animals until the last resort.

The second is that she can't do it.

What normal child can fight with a wild beast?

After Zhao Yeqing clearly understood his own strength, he chose to expand breeding.

Since the homestead was fenced, she would open the yard door from time to time and let the chickens and geese go out for a walk. Anyway, the vegetable patch was covered by a shed and the chickens and geese couldn't get in.

In fact, if possible, she would also like the chicken to go to the mountains to find food by itself and become a pheasant.

I'm afraid I won't come back once I go.

Generally speaking, it takes at least three months for a chicken to break out of its shell and turn into an edible broiler. Recently, one or two of the eggs laid by chickens are occasionally fertilized. She left them to hatch. Some hatched successfully and some smelled bad. In the henhouse.

Now the chicken flock has become one rooster, three hens, five chicks and three chicks.

Zhao Yeqing frowned and spit out the bayberry core in his mouth, thinking about what would happen if he was still trapped here and couldn't learn to hunt.

Then, chicken will be her only source of meat.

Of course, small fish cannot be counted as meat.

She opened the ranger information...

emmm.... Bears are national second-level protected animals, leopards are national second-level protected animals... It doesn't matter, they can't be beaten anyway.

Pheasant, a national second-level protected animal...

It doesn't matter, she has domestic chickens and doesn't eat pheasants.

Rabbit is one of the three protected animals in the country...

This is good, it breeds quickly and is not a punishment, and it is not considered a rare animal.

If you catch them and don't eat them, they will be used to give birth to cubs. This should be fine.

Zhao Yeqing has never seen rabbit holes near his home. They prefer to dig holes where there are water sources and trees.

When she went to pick bayberries two days ago, she seemed to see a hole by the stream, but she didn't know whether it was a mouse hole or a rabbit hole.

Zhao Yeqing took the basic tools, sprinkled some snake repellent powder on his body, and walked towards the bayberry tree.

Bayberry trees grow beside the stream downstream of the small pool, between the foot of the mountain and halfway up the mountain.

To the left of the stream were shrubbery and to the right was open grassland. The hole she saw that day was right on the edge of the grassland.

The weather is getting hotter and the bayberry fruits have fallen off, which should have fattened up a lot of little rabbits.

She went to the bayberry tree and picked a few first, washed them in the stream and stuffed them into her mouth.

This wild bayberry tree also has a bit of history. Her grandparents had eaten the fruit from this tree when they were children. The fruit was five points sweet and five points sour, which made her salivate.

Eating bayberry, she found the small hole she had accidentally glimpsed.

The two fist-sized holes look like rabbit holes, but whether there are rabbits inside is still open to question.

It is possible that the magpie's nest has been occupied by snake doves.

Snakes can't dig holes, they just invade other people's caves.

Zhao Yeqing placed a few fresh cabbage leaves picked from the vegetable garden this morning and wild strawberries picked on the road at the entrance of the cave.

The wild strawberries in this season were already ripe, juicy and high in sugar, but there were not many left, so she saved the few from between her teeth.

Next to the food she wanted to make a trap.

Rabbits can dig holes and cannot make pothole traps. They can only make the kind that step into the trap and are pulled into the air and hung up.

The principle of this kind of trap is simple and is often used by children in the mountains when catching mice. However, catching rabbits requires materials with better load-bearing capacity.

There are some Guanyin bamboos growing by the water. The bamboo poles of this kind of bamboo are relatively thin, only a little thicker than your thumb.

Cut off one and divide it into two sections. The upper section is tough and can be used to tie the rope. The lower section strengthens the base so that the upper section can be stably inserted into the ground.

After tying the upper half of the rope, tie a flexible rope noose at the end of the rope so that the rabbit will be pulled into the air and hoisted as long as it steps on the rope noose.

The animals captured by the rope snare will not be injured. Unless they are fierce-tempered and would rather be broken into pieces than intact, they can generally be brought back intact.

Rabbits have very sensitive senses of smell and hearing. Zhao Yeqing placed the noose and tested it several times with his fingers to make sure it could be snagged, then clapped his hands and left.

Of course, you have to pick a basket of bayberries before leaving.

Caterpillars love to crawl on the bayberry trees. She hates hairy bugs, and she gets goosebumps just thinking about them. There are also snakes that love to crawl up the bayberry trees.

Therefore, Zhao Yeqing never climbs bayberry trees. Every time, he uses a long stick with branches to hook down the nearby bayberry branches and only picks them off after making sure they are safe.

As for the red bayberries on the top of the tree, no matter how delicious they were, she chose to give them up.

The bayberries bought at markets in cities are soft and have a stale smell that has been stored for a long time.

When she was just in school, she went to a first-tier city for the first time and bought this kind of bayberry. She thought she had bought bad ones and was about to throw them away.

My roommate who had lived in the city since she was a child picked her up and said she was a waste. Isn't that what bayberries are all like?

Only then did she realize that many people in the city had never tasted truly fresh and delicious bayberries.

Bayberry should be crisp and sweet. When you bite into the thin pulp, the juice bursts out, instead of being soft and squeezed out when you bite into it.

Zhao Yeqing picked half of the basket and used part of it as snacks and part of it to make iced bayberry soup.

There are some fruit fly larvae in the bayberry pulp, which can be soaked in salt water. When possible, she will be careful and soak them clean before eating.

Add more salt, and after soaking for about an hour, you can see white larvae emerging from the pulp.

Grab two handfuls of bayberries and pickle them with sugar, then boil water in a pot and add rock sugar to melt.

Zhao Yeqing was a little impatient. He didn't wait for the rock sugar to slowly melt in the water. He heated it while stirring with chopsticks to speed up the melting, and then poured the candied bayberry in.

After ten minutes of simmering in the pot, the water inside had turned plum color. Turn off the heat and put it into a bowl.

After the recent sun was relatively strong and there was no need to power the electric saw, the small freezer was reactivated, but it was a little empty. She liked to drink cold drinks these days, so she put some ice cubes in it.