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

"Isn't it because I didn't have salt on hand that I used tobacco to burn it? I promise I won't do it next time."

Zhao Yeqing snorted coldly and took some alcohol to disinfect him with a serious face.

In the past, Mu Xi would have found herbs from nearby and applied them to the wound, but the weather had just returned to normal and he could not find any suitable herbs, not even the most common airplane grass.

Zhao Yeqing turned to the basement and actually took out an airplane grass.

In their dialect, it is called airplane grass, but the scientific name of this plant should be Xiang Zelan. The leaves are slightly poisonous, and rubbing the skin may cause redness, swelling, and blistering.

But it is a very good Chinese herbal medicine for treating drought leech bites.

In the mountains on their side, this adenophora is very common. This one is a weed growing in the basement. The seeds were brought in by hiding in the leaf mold soil that the two used to improve the planting soil in the basement.

It was too hot before and didn't germinate. Then it came to the basement. After irrigation and fertilization and the suitable temperature in the basement, it has grown right now.

When Mu Xi went out to the citrus garden, she finished the drawing and went to the basement to pull weeds, which happened to be one of the weeds.

Mu Xi thought it was a coincidence, but he wasn't too surprised. Xiangzelan was actually too common in their area.

Zhao Yeqing crushed the leaves and applied them directly to Mu Xi's wound.

After treating the wound, Mu Xi lowered his eyebrows and coaxed her for a while. Seeing that her expression softened slightly, he started to talk about the situation in the citrus orchard.

"The damage to the orchard was much better than expected. Only the open-air area in the middle was severely damaged by the hail, and many of the fruits fell off. The fruit trees shaded by trees on both sides were relatively unscathed."

"Not fucked to death?"

Mu Xi shook his head and nodded, "Yes, but it's not serious. After all, it's not like a meadow, so exposed to the sun without any protection. I don't know what the situation was like before, but after a rain, The fruit trees are still in good spirits."

The weather was erratic, so Zhao Yeqing didn't expect how good the fruit would taste or whether he could eat the fruit. He just hoped that the fruit trees could save themselves and survive first.

After talking about the orchard, Zhao Yeqing mentioned his plan for today, showed the drawing to Mu Xi, pointed at it and said: "Just move the bathroom to the hay house as you said. The hay house can be moved outside, so it can be expanded. "

The previous hay house was not small, but it was relatively small according to the current number of livestock. This time it was moved out and rebuilt, just to expand the area and store more hay.

After the expansion, it was no longer suitable to be placed in the original rabbit pen. The area was not large enough, so we had to move it out and expand the yard.

Mu Xi saw that the drawings were almost the same as his expectations. He nodded and said, "I'm going to dig the red soil and limestone in a few days. Don't follow me while I'm here. Don't you have to prepare for autumn sowing? Wait until I dig the ground again." Go deal with the expansion.”

Zhao Yeqing's original plan was to wait until summer was over before planting some autumn crops, vegetables: white radish, Chinese cabbage, spinach, lettuce and chrysanthemum...

There are also whole-grain red beans, mung beans and corn. Red beans and mung beans are out of stock, but corn is never too much. All the livestock in the family enjoy this.

The pasture also needs to be rearranged.

Zhao Yeqing thought of this and said: "Then when winter comes, we will kill some sheep to reduce the burden of forage."

Mu Xi had no objection. He always did what Zhao Yeqing said. "Then when the weather gets cold, I will kill a few sheep."

In fact, cattle consume the most forage at home. Now that there is an extra calf, even if a few sheep are slaughtered, it can only barely fill the gap in the calf's feed.

Zhao Yeqing: "This summer is so hot. I don't know what will happen when winter comes. This time the cold air will come at a moment's notice, so we still need to prepare another silage cellar."

The area of ​​grass planted by the two of them is enough to fill another silage cellar, but the process of making silage requires a little more effort.

Mu Xi thought for a moment: "The original pasture is a bit far away. How about I reclaim some land nearby?"

Opening up wasteland is very hard, but Mu Xi feels that it is something that can be done once and for all. After doing it this time, whether it is carrying water, fertilizing or moving grass, it will become much easier.

The open space in front of the house has been developed. The nearest one is to the left of the house, and there are still some open spaces in the direction of the forest.

But the two of them have never developed this side because there are slightly more rocks here and it is more difficult to open up wasteland.

There are not so many stones on the right side, but except for the area directly to the right of the house that is ready for expansion, there is no open space elsewhere. Further to the right is a hill, behind the empty space directly in front. It's also a small hill.

It seems like we can only use the land on the left.

Mu Xi said: "Let's go to the left. The excavated stones will just lay the foundation for the new hay house."

Paste the stone and cement together, and as long as they match the shapes slightly, you can still have a lot of red bricks left.

"Okay, then let's open up wasteland."

Now that the sun is out, Mu Xi didn't wait until tomorrow. He took a hoe and rake and went out to the grain field to treat the fields first.

The growth cycle of food is relatively long, so it must be planted quickly. Rebuilding the house can only be regarded as the second most important thing.

It was getting dark now, so Mu Xi turned on the light bulb installed on the top of the small pavilion outside the yard, and started weeding the fields with the light.

After this rain, the ground was more or less full of weeds. We quickly removed the weeds while the land was still relatively moist, and brought the oxen over to plow the land, leaving only the steps of watering and moistening the soil.

The mud is loose, making plowing easier.

Zhao Yeqing picked out all the seeds that would be dried tomorrow, removing the black and shriveled seeds.

In addition to those that were planted before, there are also sesame seeds and unplanted cotton that I want to arrange.

For sesame, half a piece of land is enough, but for cotton, it’s more troublesome. It has a long growth cycle. I don’t know if the weather will cool down too quickly. It’s like the seeds were just planted in spring, and everything will be gone when the temperature suddenly changes.

A batch of cotton seeds had been wasted last time. Zhao Yeqing hesitated for a long time and decided not to plant them yet. After observing this year, we would wait until next spring.

After deciding what to plant, I picked out all the seeds, dried those that needed to be dried, and soaked those that needed to be soaked in water for germination.

When Mu Xi dug up the land and started clearing the land next to it, Zhao Yeqing also went to the ground and started sowing seeds.

First, sesame and corn can be sown directly into the ground. The seeds of mung beans and red beans must be left to dry for a day after being soaked and germinated.

Zhao Yeqing considered whether to continue intercropping and sow red beans and mung beans between the corns.