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

After thinking about it, I decided to forget it. There was not enough time. Intercropping had to wait until the corn was in the seedling stage before sowing red and mung beans. Planting at the same time would rob nutrients and the gain would not be worth the loss.

We are too short on time, so we can only do various things.

It got dark after sowing the corn. Zhao Yeqing planted the mung beans and red beans the next day before starting to sow vegetables.

In this weather, there is no need to limit planting in the basement. The original small vegetable garden can now continue to be used to grow vegetables.

Vegetables that can be stored for a long time should be planted first, with green onions, cabbage, radishes being the main ones, followed by vegetables such as chrysanthemum that can only be eaten for a short period of time.

Zhao Yeqing plowed the land in the vegetable garden again and mixed in manure before starting planting.

After she finished this, Mu Xi also brought back a batch of materials.

After planting vegetables, Zhao Yeqing didn't have much to do, so he continued to help make red bricks.

The original hay room was a wooden structure, built with whole logs, and it should be very stable. However, after years of wind and rain, even though it has been supported, it is still obviously a little skewed.

You can't dismantle the hay room first. If you dismantle the contents, there will be no place to put them. A new room must be built first.

To build a new house, you must first expand the yard.

This is where the benefits of a yard originally built with cement boards come into play. First, remove the entire right wall. Then you can directly lengthen the front and rear walls, and then put the right wall back together. .

Not counting the time it takes to wait for the new cement board to dry, it only takes one day to dig the foundation and install the fence.

After the yard was expanded, there was only a hay room next to the main house on the right. After the expansion, the breeding basement that originally extended to the outdoors was included in the wall.

There are two more large spaces in the front and backyard.

The area behind is dug into a basement, so nothing too heavy can be built above.

When Mu Xi was digging, he considered that it would cause problems if animals walked too much on it. In order to prevent collapse, the top was reinforced and the digging was relatively deep.

As long as it's not a heavy object or building, it's completely fine for daily walking around.

Mu Xi said: "I'll make a small garden for you. Didn't the flowers and the azalea you planted last time not be able to withstand the sun? Plant some more this time."

Zhao Yeqing wanted to say that he would probably die within a few months if he planted it, but it didn't take much to think about it, and he looked in a good mood.

"Then plant it. We don't have many varieties at home. It's best to find plants that suit the climate in the mountains. Let's go to the Yunwu Mountain Peak before. The temperature there is relatively low all year round. The plant varieties we find may be more cold-resistant. "

Mu Xi wiped his sweat and estimated the amount of work. "We can go there in the next two days. Once we find the flowers, we can come back and build again."

Zhao Yeqing was a little puzzled: "Don't you do things first? Flowers come second."

He shook his head, "We can't finish things. What's most important is that you like it. We'll go tomorrow."

Mu Xi made all the red bricks he needed at night.

The weather is no better than when it was more than 50 degrees Celsius before. It takes a day or two for the red bricks to dry before they can be fired.

He laid the red bricks flat in the yard and waited for them to dry when the sun came out tomorrow.

Mu Xi smiled and raised his eyebrows and said, "Don't worry about it now, the progress will not be delayed."

Zhao Yeqing stepped forward and took his hand, putting it into his palm. His heart felt warm. During the meal, he cooked a table full of sweet dishes.

Carrot sweet potatoes, taro, sweet and sour carp, tomatoes mixed with sugar and honey scented tea...

After doing physical work, I consume a lot of energy, and the weather has been cooler recently, so my appetite has improved.

Mu Xi brought a CD to the dishes on the table.

"This taro is good. If we go to the mountains tomorrow, we can prepare it and put it in a box to take with us."

Zhao Yeqing also thinks this taro is good, "Don't think about it, this taro was dug with difficulty. I can't bear to eat the rest. I have to wait for them to grow again, but they can be made into sweet potatoes."

The sweet potatoes and potatoes at home are piled up in the entire small cellar, and there is no need to worry about eating them this year.

It is safer for cattle and sheep to feed grass and corn. Feeding sweet potatoes is not cost-effective. If you accidentally feed a sweet potato with black spots, cattle and sheep will easily get sick and die.

Only the two of them can eat the sweet potatoes in a cellar.

Eating sweet potatoes alone is definitely enough, but Zhao Yeqing also wants to make some sweet potato vermicelli. He has finished the sweet potato vermicelli he made in Meishan before. When winter comes, he will want to eat cabbage and sauerkraut stewed vermicelli, so it is better to prepare some now.

There are not too many sweet potatoes in the cellar, but not enough to make vermicelli, but it is not easy to finish them all.

Zhao Yeqing estimated the amount of remaining sweet potatoes and went to get some sweet potato cubes to raise seedlings. He would wait until the seedlings grew in a few days before planting them.

The two of them did everything they had to do in the evening and set out early the next morning to find flowers.

Zhao Yeqing's idea was that in addition to looking for beautiful flowers, he also wanted to find some wild vegetables and mushrooms for the tooth festival.

There are also those tea trees that Mu Xi and I discovered when we were exploring the road. Logically speaking, they should have grown tea seeds now.

I just don’t know if the heat before will affect its fruiting.

After the high temperature and drought, the woods have not completely returned to their original green. There are dead branches and fallen leaves all over the ground. When you step on them, your feet will sink downwards. Stepping on the soft pine needles is like stepping on a thick bed of cotton. quilt.

The originally dense pine forest now seemed a bit sparse, and the sunlight no longer reflected mottled spots of light, but patches of golden color.

Until they walked out of the pine forest, neither of them found any traces of animals, and there were no sounds of birds.

Outside the pine forest, the dense bushes and weeds that originally bordered the area were now dead branches and leaves. New grass buds had just sprouted, and the tallest ones were only above the ankles.

The dead branches and leaves were also smashed to the ground by the hail, which made the road much easier to walk.

All the way down to the bottom of the mountain, the only plants that were not affected but were still growing faintly were the palm trees.

Two of the trees actually bore fruit, and Zhao Yeqing planned to pick them back and taste them when he returned.

When we got to the bottom of the mountain, the water level of the original river should have dropped a lot, but it rained a few days ago, and it looked almost the same as before, except that the water quality was a little turbid.

After crossing the river and walking a few steps, I saw the tea trees.

As soon as he entered the mountain, a clear chill hit his face. Zhao Yeqing felt that it was a bit magical. The altitude at the foot of the mountain was obviously about the same, but he didn't know why it was cooler than there.

When the environment is comfortable, people will not be impatient, and their pace will slow down unconsciously.

When he walked under the tea tree and took a look, Zhao Yeqing's eyes suddenly brightened up as he originally had no hope.