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

After a few days in the sun, the rapeseed field gradually regained its energy.

The lowered head was raised again, the buds that had not bloomed bloomed, and bees shuttled back and forth in the field.

There are already three beehives in the beehive, and the hexagonal holes on the beehives are gradually being filled with honey.

It is estimated that the first honey will be harvested in a while.

Mu Xi took out most of the peanuts and put them on a dustpan, then took them to the yard to dry.

There is no need to clean the soil on the peanuts. After drying, the soil gradually turns into powder and can be removed by rubbing it.

Peanut stalks are also taken out from the kitchen and placed in the yard to dry. Once dried, they are good for making fires and smoking meat.

Humidity and heat are not only suitable for weeds and rice, but also for the growth of mushrooms.

Zhao Yeqing took out the glass jars for cultivating the bacteria. Three of the four jars were successful. The wheat inside was covered with thin white mycelium.

To grow oyster mushrooms, it is better to have a special small room to avoid frequent inhalation of spores.

Recently, the water vapor has almost evaporated, and although the weather is hot, there is no such uncomfortable sticky and suffocating feeling.

Mu Xi chopped wood and came back to build a small wooden house specifically for growing oyster mushrooms. Zhao Yeqing waited until the sun went down before going out to pull weeds in the fields.

After the wooden house was built, Zhao Yeqing began to worry about what materials to use to grow oyster mushrooms.

The material must be breathable. Suitable materials at home include rice husk, bran and corncob.

She planned to use them all.

On the left side of the germ room, a long wooden trough was built with wooden boards, in which rice husks and bran were piled. On the right side, corn cobs with corn kernels removed were stacked neatly on the ground.

Place the generated mycelium evenly, and the mycelium placed in the wooden trough must be covered with a layer of rice husk bran.

Spray a little water on both sides to keep them moist for fermentation.

The roof of this mushroom house is removable, so you can open it in the morning when the sun is not so strong and the sunlight is softer, so that the mushrooms inside can bask in the sun for a while.

The sweet pole behind the house is almost ready for harvest.

Last time, Zhao Yeqing chopped off two sticks, chopped them into sections, used a rolling pin to smash out the juice and boiled some sugar to feed the bees.

It only took me a long time to get two of them out. This time I had to upgrade my tools to get the juice out.

The simplest way is to squeeze out the juice from the sweet stem. The sweet stem is somewhat hard, but not as hard as sugar cane.

After all, the extrusion tool must be somewhat hard.

I cut a piece of wood with relatively high hardness and sawed out two cylindrical rollers of the same size. Spiral grooves were opened on the cylinders to facilitate squeezing. The sides were supported and fixed by frames. The gap in the middle was very small. Squeeze the sweet stem to release the juice.

A hand lever is also added to the frame. This is based on the experience gained when making a windmill for processing rice. At that time, just place the sweet pole in the middle of the gap and turn the hand lever.

Now the sweetness of the sweet pole was obviously one level higher. The two of them chose a free afternoon and chopped the sweet pole back.

Since the gap in the middle of the juicer is relatively small so that all the juice can be squeezed out, the front end of the sweet rod must be flattened before putting it in, so that when the hand lever is turned, the sweet rod will be gradually rolled in.

The principle is quite simple, but I didn't expect it to overturn.

The connection between the hand rocker and the cylindrical roller is also made of wood. It was not smooth when polished. The hand rocker got stuck when applying force, so it had to be dismantled and fine-tuned again.

The second time, too much force was used, and the load-bearing wooden shaft in the middle was squeezed and cracked, so it had to be done again.

After revising it two or three times, I finally saw the sweet stick juice dripping from under the drum.

Zhao Yeqing hurriedly picked up a small basin to catch it.

A total of nearly 400 kilograms of sweet stalks were harvested from the field in the backyard. Zhao Yeqing also left a few stalks growing in the ground so that he could cut them down and eat them as fruit when he was hungry.

The two of them also tasted the squeezed sweet stick juice. It was not as sweet as the sugar cane juice. It tasted more refreshing and had a herbal taste.

The weather is too hot, and the sweet stick juice cannot be kept for a long time. It has to be boiled into sugar quickly.

He took out the largest iron pot, poured the sweet stick juice into it and simmered it for several hours before boiling the pot full of sugar water into a thick syrup.

The clear sweet juice oxidizes and turns red after a short while of boiling.

The rest just needs to be cooled down.

While Zhao Yeqing was boiling sugar, Mu Xi pounded a few rice cakes with a small stone, deep-fried them, and then poured fresh brown sugar over them.

The fried rice cakes, crispy on the outside and soft and silky on the inside, are paired with freshly pressed brown sugar, a perfect mixture of sugar and oil.

Zhao Yeqing finished eating the rice cake with squinted eyes. He suddenly remembered that his ulcer was healed and hurriedly asked Mu Xi to fulfill his promise.

"As promised, I want fried chicken and potato chips."

Mu Xi nodded, "Wait."

He turned around and walked towards the chicken pen. A minute later, Zhao Yeqing heard the screams from the chicken pen and swallowed silently.

There’s fried chicken and potato chips, and you can’t live without a burger.

To make burgers, you need to make buns, and you often make steamed buns and steamed buns. The fresh yeast at home is always carefully raised without interruption.

Zhao Yeqing took out the yeast and kneaded the dough for fermentation. Mu Xi had already killed the chicken and saw the dough in the basin in her hand.

"Want some pizza?"

"To eat hamburgers, the hamburger dough needs to be fermented twice, which takes a total of two hours."

Mu Xi looked at the baby chicken in his hand, "This chicken is not big. What kind of meat do you want to use in your burger?"

"Just fried chicken legs and wings, and the chicken breasts are used in burgers."

The chicken breast was lightly pounded and marinated. Zhao Yeqing also picked some lettuce. Unfortunately, the tomatoes were not ripe yet, otherwise adding a few slices of tomatoes and some juice would make it taste better.

It would be better if there was pineapple.

When grilling the hamburger embryos, Zhao Yeqing grilled some more and crushed them later to make bread crumbs.

When dinner started, there were potato chips, French fries, hamburgers and fried chicken on the table, with only two glasses of Coke missing.

It seems that the style of this dinner is very different from the mountain pastoral.

Zhao Yeqing has not eaten a burger for a long time. A burger with meat, vegetables and staple food is very satisfying after one bite.

There is not much chicken, only one burger per person, and one chicken wings and drumsticks per person. The rest are French fries and potato chips. These two have many ingredients and can be eaten directly.

Mu Xi fried two large plates, and Zhao Yeqing drank sweet juice and ate fried chicken and French fries. Coupled with the hot weather, he developed two mouth ulcers the next morning.

I can only live a life of light eating again.

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After the water on the meadow has evaporated, the soybean pods were already full before the rain. After being exposed to the sun for two days, they were completely dry and could be recovered.

The harvested soybeans are still the same as before, with the rods and pods placed in the yard to dry in the sun until they become completely golden.